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Lindsay Katai
@lindsaykatai.bsky.social
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TV Writer (Infinity Train, Wolfboy and the Everything Factory, Max and the Midknights. Showrunner on Fairly OddParents: A New Wish). Podcasting @teencreepspod.bsky.social. Opinions my own. 🔞
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Screenshot of Facebook post. “My name is Tucker May. In April I married the love of my life, Barbara Marques. Right now I fear for her life. A week and a half ago she was taken by ICE at our properly scheduled green card meeting at the Federal Building downtown. At the end of what we were told was a successful meeting, the officer used the excuse of a broken copier to trick her into walking away from our lawyer. Once separated from her legal counsel, she was arrested. The reason for her detention was a missed court date from 2019 which my wife was never notified about. We have been working with lawyers since that time to correct the situation. The Adelanto detention center has actively been keeping my wife from correspondence with her lawyer by delaying in givina her documents that were mailed to the facility.” “Last night, she was taken from the Adelanto facility to an undisclosed destination despite our lawyer having filed a temporary restraining order to stop this from happening. They could be sending her anywhere in the world and we have no way of knowing. I'm asking for help in bringing to the attention of media and authorities these multiple lapses in due process and proper procedure through the unwarranted deportation of a woman whose legal marriage has been duly recognized as legitimate by immigration through the 1130 petition process. Please, if you have any contacts who could help, send them this information.” Accompanying photo of couple is of a, presumably, white man with a beard smiling and holding a not-white woman (not knowing them I hesitate to speculate her ethnicity) also smiling. An ocean and pier are in the background, with a parking lot and building.
September 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Screenshot of email I sent. “Hello. Thank you for taking down the AI art you used for your block party today from your website. I know it may seem like a small thing to some members of your staff, but I ask that you remember these generative programs are threatening the livelihoods of those in the community you aim to serve, as well as being soulless and derivative by their very nature. I work in animation as a writer and we are beset everywhere by changes to our industry. I was unemployed for two years and many, many people I know remain unemployed; the last thing we need is to see these generative AI programs in use when we’re out with our families for the very purpose of celebrating the art and contributions of actual human beings. A culture without the artistic contributions of real people is no culture at all. The Autry *a cultural museum* should be upholding that value, not choosing the easy path of using technological money pits that are destroying our environment and economy. And its staff shouldn’t be dismissive of anyone expressing this concern. Thank you, Lindsay Katai”
September 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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You will just be a normal, innocent parent going about their day, reading over some books to determine whether to buy them for your kid and then BAM!! FUCK YOU!!! EMOTIONAL APOCALYPSE!! Now you’re ugly crying in a Barnes and Noble.
Cover of LOVE YOU FOREVER WRITTEN BY ROBERT MUNSCH ILLUSTRATED BY SHEILA McGRAW. Illustration of a white toddler boy in a shirt and diaper wrecking havoc in a bathroom, but the real havoc will be on your fucking heart when you get to the end where now he’s a grown man holding his dying ass mom and singing her the song she sang him as a boy and then the mom is dead and he’s singing it to his baby and fucking your ass up. Cover of Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton illustrated by Ann Grifalconi. Illustration is a young Black boy with literally the most heart wrenching sadness in his eyes you’ve ever seen in your goddamn life because HIS DAD IS DEAD and ALL HE WANTS IS HIS GODDAMN DAD WHY DO PEOPLE DIE???
September 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Boooooooooooo.
Screenshot of email: DMV Customer: We are emailing you about your Clean Air Vehicle (CAV) decal. What you need to know: Your CAV decal will be invalid as of October 1 due to a change in policy by the federal government. This means vehicles with a CAV decal will no longer be eligible to pay reduced tolls or travel in carpool High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes with a single occupant. You may receive a citation if you violate HOV-lane laws or do not pay tolls. What you need to do: Follow posted vehicle occupancy requirements and pay all required tolls. Why this is happening: The federal government is ending the CAV decal program in all states. For more information, check out the FAQs on our website. Thank you.
September 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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The author is actually pretty dismissive of the argument he’s summarizing here from Guy Debourd in 1967, but uhhh, this book was published in 2015 and I wonder if my man Mario ever ended up seeing a Stanley cup accessorizing video on TikTok and connecting that to the state of American politics.
“The obsessive acquisition of manufactured products, which keeps commodity production actively increasing, brings about the ‘reification’ of individuals, turns them into objects. Men and women become active consumers of objects – many of which are useless or superfluous – that fashion and advertising impose on them, emptying them of social, spiritual or even human concerns, isolating them and destroying their consciousness of others, of their class and of themselves to such an extent that, for example, the proletariat, ‘deproletarianized’ by alienation, is no longer a danger, or even a form of opposition, to the dominant class.” - From Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa
June 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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I found it eventually! It was the Calpet station at Wilshire and New Hampshire.
June 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I’m sorry, does Business Insider think Lilo & Stitch live action was made in the two months since Snow White live action premiered?
Screenshot of BUSINESS INSIDER HEADLINE: 'Lilo & Stitch' box office proves Disney learned from 'Snow White' debacle Jason Guerrasio May 27, 2025 | 5:30 PM ET
May 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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My two-and-half-year-old’s favorite Bluey character is Mackenzie, but she can’t articulate why and I am desperate to know.
Image of Mackenzie, a black-and-white border collie. He’s smiling and waving.
February 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Graphic depicting a hand holding a pen. Text reads, “Urgently Needed: a job. Put me in your writers room. Have me develop a TV show or film. I am smart and fun. lindsaykatai@duck.com. lindsaykatai.com. Resume on LinkedIn.”
February 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Kiana Bot clone: Glad to hear from you e, I'm doing great as well, hanging in here as usual, very busy but with good things. I don't think you heard about the good news yet? Me: Uh... about Jesus?
November 28, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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Thank you @ktlaweekendam.bsky.social for having me and Ashleigh Hairston on yesterday to talk about ‘Fairly OddParents: A New Wish’ premiering on Netflix. Everyone was so nice and we were so grateful for the opportunity to promote our show. 10/10 would go on local news again. 🩷💚✨🪄
Ashleigh taking a selfie of the two of us in the KTLA Photo Booth. Ashleigh and I on the KTLA set with the anchors. Entertainment reporter Doug Kolk and Ashleigh laughing during the interview as I look on, presumably also smiling but you can’t see my face. Ashleigh and I on the KTLA set with the anchors and producer Lauren Lewis, who made it all happen.
November 17, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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‘Fairly OddParents: A New Wish’ is #1 in Kids U.S. and #8 in TV overall on Netflix! Thanks so much for watching, everyone! Keep spreading the word! 🩷💚✨
Screenshot of Fairly OddParents: A New Wish in the #1 spot in Top 10 TV Shows in the U.S. Today. Screenshot of Fairly OddParents: A New Wish with the caption #8 in TV Shows Today and a Top 10 icon.
November 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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The first half of Fairly OddParents: A New Wish will be available to stream on Netflix tomorrow! Please watch. My crew would very much like their jobs back.
Promotional poster for The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish coming to Netflix November 14. Features characters Cosmo, Wanda, and Hazel and a very large magic wand in the background.
November 13, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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November 1, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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East Coast cable subscribers (and those who have opted to receive the East Coast feed so they can’t get scooped by East Coast social media posts): ‘Fairly OddParents: A New Wish’ is on in about 20 minutes! Give it a watch!
Title card for Fairly OddParents: A New Wish. Graphic of Hazel as the Statue of Liberty holding a big stopwatch and a partially eaten bagel, with a city skyline in the background and the episode title “1500 Minutes of Fame” in an all-caps art deco font.
May 29, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Looking for work!
Lindsay Katai. Animation writer. Experience: Bachelor of Arts in Drama, Seasoned improv and sketch performer, Kids programming 6-11 and 7+, Freelance, Staff Writer, Development, Story Editor, Co-Executive Producer. Strengths: Making audiences laugh and cry, ruining fun things you heard about on the internet, contrary to what the above suggests: being fun in a room, Not graphic design obviously (I did a whole bit about the Canva clip art I used looking like me, but there's a cat in it and I don't own a cat, so I said pretend the cat is a dog, and then I said better yet, pretend the cat is a baby, I own a baby). Contact lindsay@lindsaykatai.com. Job opportunities only please!
April 6, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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I hope the mother who posted this Amazon review of toddler hair ties is doing well.
I recently brought a little daughter into this world. While daughters were never my aspiration, female offspring tend to scare me, I am oddly in love with my little darling. Within weeks, however, one of my all-time fears when considering the creation of a daughter occurred. I found myself in dire need of controlling the haphazard thing on her head that’s commonly referred to as “hair.” My entire life, I’ve never known what to do with my own hair, let alone an infant’s. My son was easy. Chop it off. But now I found myself looking into the soulful eyes of a baby girl, while upon her tiny head appeared to be a defiant monster, with fine tentacles that refused to be tamed.
March 8, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

(Granted I’m only halfway through episode 1, but I have the sense I’m staying kidnapped or ending up dead.)
A rotoscoped Bob Odenkirk and Rosa Salazar from “Undone.”
January 13, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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Reading this paragraph is enough to convince me we should just shut the entire internet down. Not worth it! open.substack.com/pub/garbaged...
Remilia started as a Twitter DM group of edgy shitposters that wanted to court the attention of reactionary bloggers like technofeudalist Curtis Yarvin, who was building a crypto-friendly operating system called Urbit. And Urbit was getting funding from Peter Thiel, which Yarvin was then using to bankroll a lot of the fascist digital “art” coming out of New York’s Downtown Scene in the years immediately following the pandemic. Remilia’s whole schtick was reinventing “schizoposting” for Gen Z. Schizoposting is a 4chan trend where users pretend to — or actually have, I guess — a mental breakdown via memes. It’s been linked to at least one mass shooting, but it’s not always political.
November 24, 2023 at 8:46 PM
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Like what is this??
November 9, 2023 at 12:08 AM
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Lol. May I just say no thank you? Please make the movie about Blade? I’m so tired of every story being didactic. I say this as a woman and a TV writer who wrote on a show that was entirely about characters learning lessons in order to get off a mystical train. variety.com/2023/film/fe...
Screenshot from linked Variety article about Marvel’s woes: “As public criticism mounts, Feige is pulling the plug on scripts and projects that aren’t working. Case in point: the “Blade” reboot. With Mahershala Ali signed on for the eponymous role of a vampire, things looked promising for a 2023 release date. But the project has gone through at least five writers, two directors and one shutdown six weeks before production. One person familiar with the script permutations says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons. Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board.”
November 1, 2023 at 7:34 PM
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Greetings from the level 2 Family Lounge of the Las Vegas Sphere, where I am pumping and dumping before the U2 concert.
October 12, 2023 at 3:31 AM
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Kept reading this as, “A gift for a budding 8-year-old gynecologist.”
Screenshot of deal email that shows a rock tumbler with the heading “A gift for a budding 8-year-old gemologist.”
October 10, 2023 at 11:59 PM