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August 2019 — 160 tweets

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  1. Wow. Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory https://lithub.com/dear-internet-the-little-mermaid-also-happens-to-be-queer-allegory/… /via @sundress
  2. Woah how did you do that I think i still feel unwell from the one I had two days ago 😭
  3. ✨ never doubted it, always believed in you, see how you pay it forward continually 🖤
  4. Is dis 🦝 or is dis 🦚 ? https://instagram.com/p/B0nEdJKHAZe/?igshid=1qhj33xtwisq6…
  5. Omg people are DMing me their answers and it’s everything 🖤
  6. Its Friiiiiiiiiiiiiday and the start of a long weekend in 🇮🇪!!
  7. 🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa-6/…
  8. Work from home problems: my house is too nice and I never want to leave it. Also I have no local friends.
  9. Silver spoons omg 🥄
  10. Excited to be speaking at @fullstackfest
  11. The best thing you can do for your career is learn to be more coachable https://cate.blog/2019/07/31/the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-career-is-learn-to-be-more-coachable/…
  12. 😍🇭🇰 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%98%8d%f0%9f%87%ad%f0%9f%87%b0/…
  13. Lmao I wish
  14. Long term, that is the goal.
  15. Yeah when I get lonely I just go to places where I have more friends but long term I think this is just compounding the problem.
  16. Haha I love it 🖤
  17. One of my usual lunchtime haunts has pride flags and this is cheering me up, also, importantly PRIDE CUPCAKES 🧁🏳️‍🌈
  18. The Great Struggle of Advanced Planning 🙃
  19. Although not to brag but @nikolayb
  20. I’m in London so ofc I’m taking someone who lives here to the V&A to see the (sold out, members only now) Dior exhibit.
  21. My three favourite things about living in Ireland: - Irish people - living in Euros 💶 - the prospect of having a proper passport again some day
  22. Omg i have the perfect mini to wear them with 😍
  23. 🍦 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%8d%a6-2/…
  24. America: where vaccines are up for debate but banning video games will prevent gun violence 🤯
  25. “After women, flowers are the most divine of creations.”
  26. @roidrage
  27. About to watch everyone’s talking about Jamie with @ScribblingOn
  28. This is my favourite room, it’s just the designs sewn up in cotton, no color.
  29. I think they lose many dollar bills from your bottom line.
  30. Let’s go to a ball 👗
  31. At the AI exhibit and just found something that is around 80% confident I am a person. I’ll take the validation, machine.
  32. Giving the new! (space raccoon) talk this morning 🙈 wish me luck! 🦝
  33. Hahaha I only take my own teapot on long trips for short ones I just complain.
  34. The firm with 900 staff and no office https://cate.blog/2019/08/07/the-firm-with-900-staff-and-no-office/…
  35. Some of my other faves 🖤 the grey remains #1
  36. ~6 a year, including cohosting.
  37. I love the strapless styles, probably because I am way too curvy to ever wear one 💔😭
  38. Thank you 🖤🖤🖤
  39. Maybe she already has her own suitcase 😏🙈
  40. Omg that was beautiful I’m crying 😭
  41. Thank fuck it’s Friday because my emotional energy for the week is entirely gone.
  42. Omg adorbz !
  43. Today’s taxi driver was THE MOST IRISH, telling that too much travel ruins your life. He said, “when you meet him, throw the suitcase away” 🙈 at least he thinks I still have time meet a nice man?! Are there nice men? 😆
  44. the hat really adds a certain je ne sais quoi to this one
  45. 🌸 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%8c%b8-3/…
  46. “Peter as a service” needs to be 404’d
  47. Home 🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/home-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa-2/…
  48. Crying and talking about moving to Australia @Geek_Manager
  49. Learned a new term today, "fuck up fairy" or "fuff" for short. I love it.
  50. “Everything created by human hands expresses something - above all the personality of the creator. The same thing is true with a dress. But since so many people are working on it, the real job is to get all the hands that cut, sew, try on & embroider to express all I have felt.”
  51. I wish past Cate was more diligent in creating calendar events. Yet again, I have boarded a flight and I don’t know where I am staying on the other side...
  52. This confirms my fear: I am neutral evil. https://x.com/juliarburnham//juliarburnham/status/1159901209378951168…
  53. This is how unafraid of going after what I deserve I am at this point in my life 🎯
  54. OH: I have no context on being unemployable
  55. I don’t know who else needs to see this today. https://instagram.com/p/B07EfWilBjB/?igshid=1g7k5eyyty6by…
  56. Pre talk selfie 🤳🏼
  57. Help I am being forced to watch lip sync battles by @Geek_Manager
  58. Your hair is fab!!
  59. My fave bit was when he told me his wife left him when he was working away, I was like “I’m sorry” and he says “sure don’t be sorry! It’d be worse if I had cancer! That’s life.”
  60. Aww a friend once asked me to hold her baby and came back to find me holding her at arm's length. I thought she just needed to put the baby somewhere? Apparently I was supposed to cuddle her 🤷‍♀️
  61. 🌷 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%8c%b7-5/…
  62. This is a @nullr0ute
  63. Berlin friends, yesterday I was shown a picture of a RACCOON sighted in Berlin. Is this normal? Are there actually RACCOONS in Berlin? Why did no one tell me when I was living there?!? If not normal there is a RACCOON that may need rescued and sheltered. Would make a good pet.
  64. Last year I decided to buy "nicer" sweatpants, now I wonder if that was a mistake although at least stopped me working in pjs. I sit on an exercise ball though so jeans are a bit annoying... I guess I have reached a point where I feel I don't get dressed enough but have no plan.
  65. 🖤 congratulations!!
  66. I asked for a teapot and the guy was like, “no teapot, you can drink tea out of a cup” so that’s me told. These cups are so smallllllllllll I need more tea 😭
  67. I am this cat https://x.com/pale_greenpants/status/1150814885174894592?s=19…
  68. In an unprecedented act of Advanced Planning I just bought tickets for a show next May?!? Two tickets?!? Hopefully someone will come with me but who knows we could all be dead by then.
  69. That is a cat unfortunately
  70. Apparently Irish residency requirements changed and you can’t leave the country AT ALL for a YEAR before you apply so I guess I am never going to be Irish 😭
  71. 😭
  72. I would like to see this one in purple.
  73. This is great - All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people https://buff.ly/2Nadqdd /via @koke
  74. I gave a wombat my heart but it’s okay i don’t need it anyway.
  75. I think like ~6 years ago @ErinLouise
  76. Here's the link. I don't totally know I recommend it... but I can never regret reading it. Stunning. https://amzn.to/2NbVS08
  77. 🌹 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%8c%b9-3/…
  78. London 🇬🇧 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/london-%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%a7-2/…
  79. These hats are amazing, my favourite is the aviator one - cats in hats (made from their shed fur) https://buff.ly/2Z5XEq3 /via @leapingwoman
  80. Yes you should blog
  81. The memorial dress 🏳️‍🌈
  82. Omg!! If only you were more hospitable 😭
  83. The love language of almost all raccoons is gifts. An excellent raccoon gift is a snack. They like grapes. They also like water.
  84. art is the highest form of hope https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/art-is-the-highest-form-of-hope/…
  85. Things I have been this week: Coach, teammate, authoritarian, friend, advocate, emotional punching bag, therapist, manager, leader, closer, advisor, mentor, cheerleader... nervous wreck. Things to be this weekend: ? Cate? Who even is she anyway?
  86. I’m getting recognized at the doctors so clearly my life is going awesome 👌😭
  87. Aww 🥰 thank you so much!
  88. Having a little adventure to Cobh today, which is the last port the Titanic docked at 🚢 But first! Taking a boat to Spike island, Ireland’s Alcatraz 🇮🇪
  89. Also from the farmers market, not sure they are a great match for my bedroom, but 1) I love them and 2) they will look great in my office where I will move them to on Monday 💐 (also! New sheets! Bedroom look 3).
  90. Same 🖤
  91. 🏔 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%8f%94/…
  92. Internet I’ve been feeling pretty hellish for the last ~week, please validate me.
  93. “Giving ipads to middleschoolers doesn’t threaten the status quo in the short term. Actually redesigning a corporate structure to sincerely recruit, support, and retain a more diverse engineering workforce does.” https://buff.ly/2Kveqpf /via @triketora
  94. Sydney 😍 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/sydney-%f0%9f%98%8d/…
  95. Cobh 🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/cobh-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa/…
  96. As I was leaving the doctors I mentioned I am a software engineer and he was like “sit back down I have questions” 😆
  97. That section of reddit is so much “things women have been socialized to put up with from men” and it’s terrifying
  98. Quite a story - both about accessibility, but also about organizational buy in (or lack thereof) for accessibility work - https://buff.ly/30NzIWs /by @juter
  99. “Most companies design jobs and then slot people into them. Our best managers sometimes do the opposite: When they find talented people, they’re open to creating jobs around them.” https://buff.ly/30gSc0S
  100. My latest in @qz
  101. I know 😭 but for straight women the choice is often between abuse and dying alone, and they are told nothing is worse than dying alone. So.
  102. The slippery slope of Domestic Objects continues. Today I ordered a colander.
  103. I think this is one of my best arrangements yet 💐 three colors of miniature roses, works beautifully with the sunset colorscheme of my kitchen.
  104. Also the bookstore failed us so I ordered them online and we are having breakfast on Friday 😎
  105. I am on a boat! 🚤
  106. One of my favourite things about working @automattic
  107. Cloudy night ☁️ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/cloudy-night-%e2%98%81%ef%b8%8f/…
  108. I mean you’re right. Things are terrible.
  109. I’m trying a new foundation, an Armani one. I think it’s the one I sampled like 4 years ago with @krusk
  110. I got these at the farmers market yesterday, so pretty, work nicely in the dusk colorscheme of my living room - but would not look right in the kitchen.
  111. 😆 @elibud
  112. He wants to learn to code!!
  113. Yeah, they would help me pick through the overwhelm and decide what I actually wanted to focus on.
  114. 💯 same
  115. How to build—and manage—a self-improving team https://cate.blog/2019/08/21/how-to-build-and-manage-a-self-improving-team/…
  116. Breakfast place determined this morning by my occasional need to be cooed over by a cute and charming Italian... 😆🥰
  117. Ooh a thing I recorded months ago is coming out this week! Exciting!
  118. This is a _great_ article on why you need to graduate from mentoring to sponsoring. The incremental steps in between are not widely understood, but are KEY - https://buff.ly/2Z4ONFF /via @melchoyce
  119. I felt like I was failing in every aspect of my life so I recommitted to working out twice a day and now all I feel is hungry.
  120. Relatable 😭“I feel like I live in the constant fight to be what people think I am… To me, I am still a failure, not so much professionally but personally. I feel like if only I could be what some people think I am then I will be happy…” https://buff.ly/2MmshkU /by @NikkitaFTW
  121. This threat is epic and truth and something that I really needed right now. Thank you 🖤
  122. 🔲 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%94%b2/…
  123. Hey! @AutomatticEng
  124. Isn’t that just a sign you are living your most organized life?
  125. Love this, on how great managers prioritize employee motivation - https://buff.ly/2ZjW8AQ /by @inowland
  126. 😭 you’re so kind 🖤
  127. "We don’t find soulmates, like some fantastic shell on the beach. We become them. And as we do, the other person becomes ours. One of us is the waves and the other is the sand, and together we make the beach, changing the shape and passage of the other..." https://buff.ly/2L1DPXO
  128. Playing with Gutenberg in the WordPress mobile apps so ofc I have sent @elibud
  129. Is this radical candour?!? 🙈😭
  130. Saying goodbye to my British drivers license. Thanks, Brexit.
  131. :) I will think about how to adjust the wording.
  132. Excited to be attending and speaking at @FullStackFest
  133. Yeah that’s definitely not our view, the main thing was we framed the call inclusively and didn’t fully consider the implications, and I think all the people who responded identified as women, and talked about themselves as such.
  134. Incredibly excited to share the results of extensive research we did around women & nb people's experience looking for their next job. Truly *fascinating* & has significantly impacted our process. Sharing the Data: How Technical Women Navigate Their Career https://buff.ly/348jby3
  135. Yeah I love that idea.
  136. Me: I need to wear less black Also me: goes to Brown Thomas, spends €1K on clothes, all black aside from one grey sweater.
  137. Fear. https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/fear/
  138. thank you! that post is great, but i haven't re-read it recently. will take a pass through that when I'm back at work on friday. have spent so long looking at this thing I can't see it clearly anymore!!
  139. Should I worry about how much I identify with Grace in Grace and Frankie...?
  140. “Your path is at your feet whether you realize it or not. That is the most important thing that I will say but I will not enlarge upon it.” ~Agnes Martin
  141. I focus on the writing itself and not the routine, the idea I want to share. Tell myself it matters more that I do it than whether or not it’s good.
  142. We went back and forth a bunch on the wording and I’m not happy with it, but had no other ideas, so very open to specific suggestions there.
  143. 😱 Cut off my hair!!
  144. Met a trainee pilot today!! She says she can take me on some of her training flights!! SO COOL 😎
  145. Racooooooooooooon 🦝
  146. We are hiring @AutomatticEng
  147. Me: “I really want to go to this burning fire pit in the middle of a desert.” Her: “that sounds awesome, let’s go immediately” 😍 omg clearly we are going to be bffs
  148. Is trauma anniversary a thing?
  149. My dad has apparently been giving presentations on how his company will be dealing with Brexit, so it seems he’s more prepared than the British government.
  150. In my defence three things have lighter colored writing on them...
  151. Yesterday’s topic in therapy was people eliminated from my life and the difficulty of encountering them again. This morning I put away something I shouldn’t be keeping in plain sight, and I’m the notebook I put it in... I found a €50 note. Seemed apt.
  152. * deeply sarcastic, it’s never nice actually
  153. I'm 100% sure I am in love with @Lizzo 🔥🔥#VMAs
  154. Oh good question we could clarify that wording! But really what it meant was they were looking for not having it, or for suggesting it only applied to women (red flags) rather than looking for a “good” policy.
  155. 🌅 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/08/%f0%9f%8c%85-7/…