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July 2019 — 202 tweets

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  1. 🖤🖤🖤 too many times, I’m sorry babe 🖤🖤🖤
  2. My friends keep it real 😆🤓 https://x.com/pilky/status/1/pilky/status/1145689468860534784…
  3. Why am I unmedicated at a doctors appointment 😭 just quietly panicking in the waiting room. My appointment was supposed to start 8 minutes ago so presumably this means when they finally see me something terrible will happen 🙈
  4. What's the best external D&I page you've seen? Bonus question for devs: does it matter to you whether you see some focus on D&I specifically in engineering?
  5. Cranes in the harbour 🏗 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/cranes-in-the-harbour-%f0%9f%8f%97/…
  6. I was panicking about talk prep but now @VPoltrack and I are talking about PINK and RACCOONS for the slide aesthetic and that inspires confidence that it will be okay 😍🖤🦝
  7. I spent around 3 hours angsting about and preparing for a media interview that took around 10 minutes. Is that ratio right? 🙈
  8. #sorrynotsorry 💅🏼
  9. This superhuman thing finally vindicates my security strategy of never opening email 🤓
  10. Your campaign slogan is your last name + ":" + the last text you sent. Mine is "Dranger: yeah not everyone drives on Sunset Blvd"
  11. Doctor: “you might have anemia from stomach bleeding caused by all those painkillers, we can do a blood test.” Therapist: “repressing your anger can make you exhausted, can you find a way to express it.” Me: omg blood and emotion maybe I should just take a nap.
  12. Why a good boss likes it when people complain https://cate.blog/2019/07/03/why-a-good-boss-likes-it-when-people-complain/…
  13. “I have a blog post draft with the title “Today I leave the Tech Industry”. I’ve had it for years, and all it needs is a date.” - The luxury of not “being X in tech” – http://wunder.schoenaberselten.com/2019/07/02/the-luxury-of-not-being-x-in-tech/… /by @lrnrd
  14. Botanical gardens 🇨🇭 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/botanical-gardens-%f0%9f%87%a8%f0%9f%87%ad/…
  15. I like this post on feedback, and conditions that cause people to stop giving it - https://buff.ly/2uX14dG /by @royrapoport
  16. Met another one of my neighbors this morning - he’s a cabbie and he took me to the airport 😂
  17. Bridgetena Smyth (1840-1898) inherited her husband's grocery store after his death and promptly turned it into a drug store where she dispensed contraceptives and educated women on their sexual health. She was one of few women suffragettes who supported birth control.
  18. I spent around 3 hours angsting about and preparing for a media interview that took around 10 minutes. Is that ratio right? 🙈
  19. I love this 🖤🔭🌌 Meet the Women in Charge of NASA’s Science Divisions | NASA https://nasa.gov/feature/meet-the-women-in-charge-of-nasa-s-science-divisions…
  20. I’d love to read about what you included in the day - any chance there is or will be a blog post maybe?
  21. This superhuman thing finally vindicates my security strategy of never opening email 🤓
  22. I love this 🖤🔭🌌 Meet the Women in Charge of NASA’s Science Divisions | NASA https://nasa.gov/feature/meet-the-women-in-charge-of-nasa-s-science-divisions…
  23. "Saying no allows you to say yes to what is important to you. It allows you to be a better person because when you say yes, it comes from a good place, not from resentment or fear. It creates space for what matters most to you" https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/02/want-to-improve-your-life-just-say-no…
  24. I mean I am asking @annashipman
  25. So excited!! There’s a Calder exhibit!! 🥰
  26. My friends keep it real 😆🤓 https://x.com/pilky/status/1/pilky/status/1145689468860534784…
  27. Botanical gardens 🇨🇭 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/botanical-gardens-%f0%9f%87%a8%f0%9f%87%ad/…
  28. Meri are you asking other people for blog posts 🤔
  29. He also made Domestic Objects! This is a TOASTER 🍞
  30. This is a BELT BUCKLE omg, made for Teeny Matisse, a sculptor who married Pierre (son of Henri) Matisse.
  31. The 🕷 and the fly
  32. 🎪
  33. 3D line drawings, with wire.
  34. The flying trapeze (this is so eclectic I love it)
  35. 3D line drawings, with wire.
  36. “Devil fish” 😈🐟
  37. 😍
  38. This exhibition is filling me with such joy I have no snark only love. It’s so amazing to find a solo exhibition of one of my fave artists when I just went out for a walk!
  39. feeling cute today 🤓
  40. This exhibition is filling me with such joy I have no snark only love. It’s so amazing to find a solo exhibition of one of my fave artists when I just went out for a walk!
  41. 🐔
  42. 🖤🖤🖤 too many times, I’m sorry babe 🖤🖤🖤
  43. 🖤🖤🖤 too many times, I’m sorry babe 🖤🖤🖤
  44. Okay I just saw a sign for an exhibition titled "wayward women" and obviously I must see it 😍
  45. Calder https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/calder/
  46. “Various confectionary sucked to the smallest structural point” ~Charlie Sofo
  47. Why a good boss likes it when people complain https://cate.blog/2019/07/03/why-a-good-boss-likes-it-when-people-complain/…
  48. 😱 I have a copy of this book but I think I am enjoying your live tweets of reading it much more than I would *actually* reading it…
  49. Helpful from @roidrage
  50. “I have a blog post draft with the title “Today I leave the Tech Industry”. I’ve had it for years, and all it needs is a date.” - The luxury of not “being X in tech” – http://wunder.schoenaberselten.com/2019/07/02/the-luxury-of-not-being-x-in-tech/… /by @lrnrd
  51. At the wayward women exhibition with @coryannj! Super excited! Snippets to follow in thread 🧵
  52. This is good, on what actually makes us happy... and the things we think will make us happy. You Accomplished Something Great. So Now What? - https://nytimes.com/2019/05/28/smarter-living/you-accomplished-something-great-so-now-what.html…
  53. This exhibition is filling me with such joy I have no snark only love. It’s so amazing to find a solo exhibition of one of my fave artists when I just went out for a walk!
  54. 🐔
  55. Olga Radalyski, convicted for the murder of Mabel Ambrose - a back-yard abortion gone wrong. Olga offered "medical electrical treatments" designed to cause miscarriages. Abortion was possible from 1890s, but illegal, so instead women used things like ergot, and electricity.
  56. “Various confectionary sucked to the smallest structural point” ~Charlie Sofo
  57. Helpful from @roidrage
  58. What's the best external D&I page you've seen? Bonus question for devs: does it matter to you whether you see some focus on D&I specifically in engineering?
  59. Eye doctor time 🙈 soooooooo anxious omg 😭
  60. Brutalizing literature for an upcoming talk, “Happy teams are all alike; every unhappy team is different in their own way.” Also: “it’s a truth universally acknowledged that a team in possession of a mission must be in want of a strategy.” Please share your suggestions 🖤
  61. Do I know anyone in Melbourne? Is anyone in Melbourne and wants to be my friend? I’m have the weekend to eat brunch and explore!! 🇦🇺
  62. At the wayward women exhibition with @coryannj! Super excited! Snippets to follow in thread 🧵
  63. I was panicking about talk prep but now @VPoltrack and I are talking about PINK and RACCOONS for the slide aesthetic and that inspires confidence that it will be okay 😍🖤🦝
  64. This is the archibald prize at the gallery of New South Wales :)
  65. I thought writing code was a vacation activity tho
  66. Me booking this hotel: ah a nice familiar part of town Me arriving here: oh I'm one block from his apartment all the better to contemplate why I only seem to fall for people who treat me badly.
  67. This is described as “wry humour” and not “blatant objectification” and… I cannot actually.
  68. My friend made me two bath bombs and now I have two brown paper bags of bath powder 😂🤷🏻‍♀️
  69. Depends what you're solving for...
  70. silent contemplation https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/silent-contemplation/…
  71. “The deliberate use of irreverent, playful imagery over the serious speaks to the ways we engage with and feel our way through information, whether tragic or just seemingly insurmountable, that we sense is beyond us - as if we’re feeling everything ever all at once.”
  72. Pls say hi I'm worried if I get too lonely I will text my ex 😆
  73. Last time I tried to use it, my credit card got flagged for fraud Today it let me order an app to a random place far away, persistently did not show me where I was when I tapped the button, failed to make phone calls, and then charged me $10 for the whole experience. Awesome.
  74. This is too real.
  75. This is epic.
  76. “The interior for me also involves the psychological state of people’s minds, and in this work possibly the state of mind of the pet cat.” 🐈
  77. Obvi my adored @skamille
  78. “There was a whiteboarding incident.” ~@coryannj
  79. Vacation 2075 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/vacation-2075/…
  80. Naomi Campbell at the airport is EVERYTHING I love this so much 😍 https://youtu.be/b-U_jT9qWvs /via @nikolayb
  81. In conversations about inclusion one must ask, do I want to be the person who says "I had to repay my student loan debt, and therefore others must too" or "I had to repay my student loan debt, and I want better for those who are repaying their student loan debt now"
  82. I am not an A++ houseguest since I arrived late at night and extremely pathetic, but @sundress
  83. This is good! So nice to see actual data on this - What do the best interviewers have in common? http://blog.interviewing.io/what-do-the-best-interviewers-have-in-common-we-looked-at-thousands-of-real-interviews-to-find-out/…
  84. Melbourne 🇦🇺 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/melbourne-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba/…
  85. “She was too small to jump up into the seat, sonsue wrapped it around her chest like a parachute harness and flew through the air with pure joy.”
  86. Yarra River, Melbourne 🇦🇺 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/yarra-river-melbourne-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba/…
  87. “Painting the field and remote mountain with but marks, combined with the magnolia trees, makes the whole painting active and powerful.”
  88. 🖤
  89. “As the woman cycles through space in five stages of movement, she loses her clothes until she is naked apart from her hat. Duchamp based this treatement of the male gaze and sexual desire on a fantasy scenario about an attractive woman he saw walking in his neighbourhood.”
  90. I am, however, fascinated to learn that Duchamp had a female alter ego called Rrose Selavy. Pronounced “Eros c’est la vie”.
  91. “While it’s possible to scroll through an almost endless feed of poodle images in the internet, I have painted this particular image over and over again.”
  92. Sydney friends, I'm in town until Thursday and would love to hang out 🖤
  93. Tasmania 🇦🇺 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/tasmania-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba/…
  94. A ROOM OF MACHINE OIL
  95. Look everyone isn't @VPoltrack the BEST THE BEST THE BEST I love her and also raccoons 🖤🦝
  96. Feeling low and discouraged today, internet friends do any of you have a pep talk going?
  97. You’re lovely your brain is wrong on this one 🖤
  98. Specifically I am working on prepping a talk and in my Usual Spiral about that. I miss @dontgetcaught
  99. One of my friends sent me a voice memo of her singing to me to cheer me up and omg it’s everything 🖤
  100. 😭 mekka 🖤 thank you
  101. Argh I wish I had this. Email, scheduling, expense reports... all of this is such a disaster 🤷🏻‍♀️🙈
  102. 😍🥰
  103. we came whirling out of nothingness scattering stars like dust turning and turning it sunders all attachment every atom turns bewildered beggars circle tables dogs circle carrion the lover circles his own heart ~Rumi Hossein Valamanesh
  104. 8pm has become a p regular Friday night bedtime for me 🙈
  105. The butterfly
  106. Hobart is so wonderful I have had a magical weekend of art and wombat and the food is pretty good too WHERE ELSE DO YOU FIND A LIFE LIKE THIS 😭🇦🇺🐨🌏
  107. ⛵ Sydney 🇦🇺 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/%e2%9b%b5-sydney-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba/…
  108. 📱 How to test push notifications in your iOS production app https://buff.ly/2Lw7drF
  109. Aww thank you 🖤 I appreciate all your help and support (with that and everything!)
  110. “It’s not that we want others to fail, but we need to know that our sorrows have echoes in other people’s lives. That’s what connects us. Strength may be impressive, but its vulnerability that builds friendships.”
  111. GOING TO MEET A WOMBAT TODAY 🇦🇺
  112. THE RACCOONS ARE GOING TO SPACE, Y'ALL 🚀
  113. THIS IS THE WOMBAT!! she so cute she run so fast 😍
  114. I feel like such a tourist I bought a pair of UGGs.
  115. “The fear & bleak reality of being boring and dying having never connected with anyone is _vastly underestimated_” From the book “I am sorry I’m late I didn’t want to come”. It’s good! Motivated me to chat to a stranger on a boat already & we spent the rest of the day together.
  116. DON'T MIND ME my worst breakup was with the most beautiful city in the world and I'm just here remembering everything I loved and breaking my heart all over again 😭💔
  117. I LOVE THE WOMBAT AND THE WOMBAT LOVES ME 🖤
  118. 🌅🛳️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/%f0%9f%8c%85%f0%9f%9b%b3%ef%b8%8f/…
  119. Omg ilu boo 🖤 crying
  120. Can we cry instead
  121. I love this 🖤 at the Museum of Old and New Art aka the best thing in Hobart. #monamuseum
  122. We are about to meet the wombat and I am anxious she will reject me.
  123. Woah!! Mine has zero utility to me, would love to help another woman who wants it have that experience 🖤
  124. For me Sydney is like the ex you thought was "The One" (even though you know that concept is bollocks), the kind where it was everything and almost right and yet not and you can never really emotionally accept that it wasn't even though you intellectually know you had to move on.
  125. Fascinating - “High in fluid intelligence, low in experience, not terribly conscientious, open to potential distraction—this is not the classic profile of a winning job candidate. But what if it is the profile of the winning job candidate of the future? ” https://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/future-of-work-expertise-navy/590647/…
  126. I don’t know when I will see a wombat again and I feel so alone and empty 😭
  127. "I'm sorry I'm late I didn't want to come"
  128. Shit it's dark in Hobart. I guess I'm at the edge of the world, hey?
  129. I lost my padlock 😭 my dad gave it me and I always carried it when I travelled. So I texted him and told him I needed him to send me his current padlock and buy himself a new one and he was like “okay I’ll mail it tomorrow” 🖤🥰
  130. “It’s not that we want others to fail, but we need to know that our sorrows have echoes in other people’s lives. That’s what connects us. Strength may be impressive, but its vulnerability that builds friendships.”
  131. I will!!
  132. As part of this experience I have now acquired silver spoons from Harry Winston. Pics to follow. Also: ideas as to what the fuck I do with silver spoons?
  133. Omg omg omg second l’orangerie, the murals will take your breath away. How did I forget?!
  134. #styleicon
  135. I am riding in a Tesla and off to the swanky hotel is this my best life?
  136. If you do pls buy it near cork I need more friends
  137. Everything is terrible but oh look an milkshake arriving in a unicorn 🦄
  138. Go to a Tsui Wah and have milk tea and condensed milk on toast. pics of some of my favorite food in hkg: https://flickr.com/photos/turbogrrl/albums/72157626920508277…
  139. Omg omg omg they upgraded me to a SUITE I put a story on insta it’s AMAZING the view of the city is FANTASTIC!!
  140. I HAVE TEA
  141. It’s happening!!!
  142. I recognize this is a diva problem but hello I am a diva 💁🏻‍♀️
  143. I am here and in a queue 🤔
  144. Aww surely the people you think are great are on to SOMETHING, right? They like you!
  145. 🇭🇰 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/%f0%9f%87%ad%f0%9f%87%b0-2/…
  146. FOOD
  147. I tell you what though! I feel so recharged! Amazing how sometimes a perfect 3 day break can be more refreshing than an ~okay two week one.
  148. "But self-confidence doesn't find us: we have to push ourselves to do something hard and live through it, and then confidence will eventually flow. I'd faked confidence, and by doing so, created it. It really did feel like a feat of wizardry."
  149. 🌸🌸🌸
  150. Omg the string quartet are playing “eternal flame” I fucking love this, this is everything!
  151. Nice!!
  152. Hong Kong Harbor 🇭🇰🛳️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/hong-kong-harbor-%f0%9f%87%ad%f0%9f%87%b0%f0%9f%9b%b3%ef%b8%8f/…
  153. So helpful - 5 Key Investments That Every Tech Lead Should Make https://blog.coleadership.com/5-key-investments-that-every-tech-lead-should-make/… /by @edmondlau
  154. Just applied for a dream job. Feeling a little like I'm gonna barf. Wish me luck.
  155. I packed four pairs of pants for this trip and I have destroyed three of them through walking so much so I guess it's time to go home.
  156. what other things i am inexplicably afraid of are fine, actually?
  157. So helpful - 5 Key Investments That Every Tech Lead Should Make https://blog.coleadership.com/5-key-investments-that-every-tech-lead-should-make/… /by @edmondlau
  158. I am living my best life 😎🛳️
  159. 727
  160. Okay internet you have spoken and I love you so... I will do it. Afternoon tea at the peninsula!! It’s ON!!
  161. And a documentary on the unfinished anime six heart princess. Pretty fascinating as a cultural artifact. A wild departure from my usual viewing.
  162. This sculpture was 12 years in the making.
  163. 🌸
  164. Hungry sugar glider 🖤 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/hungry-sugar-glider-%f0%9f%96%a4/…
  165. 14 hour flight tomorrow sooooo I must make sure I have at least 10 books, three full TV seasons and a list of at least five blog posts to write? Check check check!!!
  166. I don't think I have ever seen a wild raccoon in North America!! I did see one in Costa Rica once, sitting in a tree and being adorable.
  167. Ready for the light show (and dinner) 🌃
  168. Therapist: “why are these people in your life? What do they add to it?” Me: “they validate my crushingly low self esteem which is obviously very important. So.”
  169. The book is by @JessicaLPan, it's so good!! You should read it too!
  170. 🇭🇰 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/%f0%9f%87%ad%f0%9f%87%b0/…
  171. Today, lead iOS engineer.
  172. I miss @skamille
  173. Oh and this view.
  174. The Hong Kong skyline is the best. THE BEST 😍🇭🇰🌃
  175. Emails about jobs I am apparently “well qualified for” make me deeply question how I am presenting myself online...
  176. Aww surely the people you think are great are on to SOMETHING, right? They like you!
  177. Oh and this view.
  178. 🖤🇭🇰 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/07/%f0%9f%96%a4%f0%9f%87%ad%f0%9f%87%b0/…
  179. So high! 🇭🇰
  180. 🥰
  181. I lost my padlock 😭 my dad gave it me and I always carried it when I travelled. So I texted him and told him I needed him to send me his current padlock and buy himself a new one and he was like “okay I’ll mail it tomorrow” 🖤🥰
  182. Lay day in Hong Kong 💔
  183. I think part of compulsory heterosexuality of women is the strong suggestion to put many things in life on hold until you have someone willing to do those things with you.
  184. Yayyyy you!!!
  185. Me leaving Hong Kong: I have so much energy and drive to improve my life. Me arriving home to Cork: I guess I should buy food but what if I just lay down and played video games.
  186. Why is Microsoft losing all the cool people they hired I'm betting it's culture
  187. SNOW WOMBATS https://instagram.com/p/B0lCPGfIoZN/?igshid=9dua1eis22br…
  188. Me, panicking, "I think the raccoons need more activities!" @VPoltrack:
  189. Misty morning 🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/misty-morning-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa/…
  190. Let’s end the week with a little celebration! Tell me... - What did you survive? - What was good personally? - What was good professionally? DMs open if you don’t want to share publicly 🖤
  191. Good personally… - I sent a girlfriend a gift and she loved it 🥰 - therapy - got a massage and my shoulder is doing way better - did scary things to try and make more local friends - Spoke to builder about finishing the small annoying things - good progress on LEGO Ninjago 🎮
  192. Me: 🥰 I like to think the raccoon is explaining how the fluffy tail can be used as a propeller in space.
  193. I survived... - having an mri on my brain and eyes. Felt like I was a sentient hard drive being wiped by a magnet but I’m okay now - working out with my trainer for only the second time since I had surgery - going out for a drink with a stranger 😱
  194. Okay, maybe I’m a *little* demanding... 🦝
  195. 🌃🇭🇰 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%8c%83%f0%9f%87%ad%f0%9f%87%b0-2/…
  196. #sorrynotsorry
  197. Omw to have a panic attack in a small box with the soundtrack of a Terrible Noise how is your day going