catehstn’s Twitter Archive

October 2019 — 118 tweets

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1. Oil 🎨 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/oil-%f0%9f%8e%a8/…
   Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 1 Mood +1 🙂
2. Read this whole thread, I cried. This situation in the UK is a fucking disgrace, so grateful to those - like mermaids - who keep pushing forward even as a toxic minority try to push things back 🖤 I just donated £100, If ten of you also donate £10+, I’ll donate another £100. https://x.com/mermaids_gende/mermaids_gender/status/1180823692458242048…
   Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 1 Mood 0
3. Love this comic on the mental load of household work - You should’ve asked https://buff.ly/2qOC1Jc
   Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 2 Mood +4 🙂
4. A curse on the past Cate who grouped so much suffering into this week for “efficiency”… present Cate is probably going to die at the dentist. IS THIS “EFFICIENT” PAST CATE?! WHY DO YOU DO THESE THINGS?!? 😭💔⚰️
   Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 2 Mood -6 🙁
5. Admittedly I have only played the video game and not watched the (multiple?) Jurassic Park movies but... WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING WHAT POSSESSED THEM TO BREED DINOSAURS?!? Did people go back to VISIT the dinosaurs? WHY?!? 🦕🦖
   Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 2 Mood 0
6. Two of my Brit trans friends literally _moved overseas_ because it is _so bad_ there right now. Not everyone has that option, and no one should feel like they have to move to another country to live their fucking lives.
   Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 3 Mood -6 🙁
7. Me: goes to 🏥, does nothing for a week feels guilty Therapist: “how often do you do nothing though?” 24h later: raging fever, uncontrollable shivering, splitting headache Inner monologue: “ah the terrible side effects of doing nothing 🤒 this is why you don’t stop”
   Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 3 Mood -9 🙁
8. I KNOW Zelda is on the switch and maybe I would like it but I ONLY play LEGO games I need to smash things okay
   Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 3 Mood +2 🙂
9. Co-sign. The “hiring bar” is a weapon used against candidates, particularly underindexed folk. Dispose of it, never use it again; have actual meaningful evaluation factors instead (and differentiate between those crucial for success and nice to have but easily trainable). https://x.com/ericajoy/statu/ericajoy/status/1179506780516151297…
   Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 4 Mood +7 🙂
10. 📷 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/%f0%9f%93%b7/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 4 Mood +2 🙂
11. We missed national raccoon appreciation day yesterday well y’all did because for me EVERY DAY is raccoon appreciation day 🥰🦝🖤
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 5 Mood +2 🙂
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13. Every time I run out of LEGO games to play I wonder if it was an act of stupidity or an act of self preservation that caused me to buy a switch instead of a PS4.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 6 Mood -3 🙁
14. River and clouds 🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/river-and-clouds-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 6 Mood 0
15. Nintendo switch: crashes Me: “relatable”
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 6 Mood 0
16. 🚢🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/09/%f0%9f%9a%a2%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 6 Mood 0
17. I've been so sick I could barely stand up since ~30 minutes after I finished work on Friday and this weekend sucked I want a do-over without the raging fever and crushing exhaustion 😭
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 6 Mood -5 🙁
18. Omg such beautiful 💐 from @twostraws
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 6 Mood +6 🙂
19. Instagram has given me a new life goal. I want to give a raccoon a piggy back.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 7 Mood +1 🙂
20. Why does this exist how can I unsee it 😱🙈
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 7 Mood 0
21. Aww 🖤
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 9 Mood 0
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23. Aww you are awesome and they will love you! How could they not?!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 9 Mood +7 🙂
24. Looking for recommended alternatives to tinyletter. What are y’all using? How do you like it?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 11 Mood +4 🙂
25. My friend: “I stalked your twitter and ‘good friend’” 😆
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 11 Mood +3 🙂
26. Cork 🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/cork-%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa-3/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 11 Mood 0
27. Hearing about trainee pilots (all men, fwiw) who voted for brexit and then switched to an Irish license because GUESS WHAT pilot licenses is another thing brexit is fucking up. I cannot.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 11 Mood -4 🙁
28. Old is left right is new
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 11 Mood 0
29. 🕰 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/%f0%9f%95%b0/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 12 Mood 0
30. One thing that sustains me is by making my physio awkward, for example like the other day when I nearly fainted. But usually I’m just like “I expect you to hurt me” and “it’s okay if you make me cry” and he’s like “errrrrrr”.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 12 Mood +2 🙂
31. Aww you are awesome and they will love you! How could they not?!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 12 Mood +7 🙂
32. This was interesting, thought-provoking. A forty year career. https://buff.ly/33f6Rul /by @Lethain
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 12 Mood +2 🙂
33. TIL about the "help rejecting complainer" - Dear Therapist: My Sister Constantly Complains, but Won’t Do Anything to Change https://buff.ly/2IwqDJX
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 12 Mood +1 🙂
34. My favourite lipgloss has been discontinued stockpiling and questioning everything 😭
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 12 Mood 0
35. Like this look: https://instagram.com/p/B3ic-Tkg7uZ/?igshid=1uaciv3c1ljrr… You have to have things to look forward to, especially when working through the misery of shoulder rehab.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 12 Mood 0
36. THERE IS NO CONSTANT IN THIS WORLD NOT EVEN THE PERFECT LIPGLOSS 💄
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 13 Mood +4 🙂
37. Introduced my friend to LEGO games and after brunch and the farmers market... we played the rest of the day; taking joy in the comfort of the possibility of 100% completion and working out our angst by smashing things. Is this being a good friend or a terrible one? 😆
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 13 Mood +9 🙂
38. Rock spiral https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/rock-spiral/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 13 Mood 0
39. Me processing any trauma: “but that is so inefficient!”
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 13 Mood -5 🙁
40. Interesting articulation of a phenomenon I think many women in tech are familiar with - Why Tech’s Approach to Fixing Its Gender Inequality Isn’t Working https://s.hbr.org/2OOyjLR
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 15 Mood +2 🙂
41. @emckean
    Permalink On twitter.com Mention 2019 Oct 16 Mood 0
42. 🦉 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/%f0%9f%a6%89-3/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood 0
43. I've run a number of Flowstorming workshops over the past year (focused on project processes) and find them super helpful for surfacing areas of improvement and facilitating discussion. Thanks @Folletto
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 17 Mood +11 🙂
44. I saw this photo used as an illustration of narcissism and I'm like... 👀🤯☑️ (Lines We Live By: Photo Distortions by Frances Berry) https://images.app.goo.gl/aQpby6D7AadWC6W59…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 17 Mood 0
45. TIL that a group of raccoons is called a “gaze” and HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS it’s very important must text all word nerd friends.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 17 Mood +2 🙂
46. Tasmanian devil 🇦🇺 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/tasmanian-devil-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 17 Mood 0
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48. I guess I’ve had a fever for 13 days? At one point do you just die?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 18 Mood -5 🙁
49. Yep!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 19 Mood 0
50. Okay day 2 of antibiotics and I already feel 50% less like I am actually a reanimated corpse. #progress
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 19 Mood +3 🙂
51. The less I use Facebook the less it reflects my life and the more bizarre the notifications become.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 19 Mood -2 🙁
52. Facebook: “you’re celebrating thirteen years of friendship with someone you haven’t spoken to in ten years” ... I am?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 19 Mood +5 🙂
53. Sydney 🇦🇺 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/sydney-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 19 Mood 0
54. This interview is not the most coherent, but there’s a lot in it about what happiness is and how we experience the world http://gretchenrubin.com/2019/10/steven-hayes-author-interview/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 19 Mood +3 🙂
55. If you love mobile build systems, OSS, and releasing at scale and volume you might also love working @automattic
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 19 Mood +6 🙂
56. You have a card?! How do I get a card?!
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 20 Mood 0
57. 💯
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 20 Mood 0
58. Marco I fucking love you. Please never change 🖤
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 20 Mood 0
59. This is really good (both as a strategy and piece of writing) - Building a First Team Mindset - https://buff.ly/2KHKJQD /by @attackgecko
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 21 Mood +3 🙂
60. We are matching! 🖤 @duretti
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 21 Mood 0
61. OH “Like their servers they are very much a black box”
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 21 Mood 0
62. "Your relationship with @Geek_Manager
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 21 Mood 0
63. omg so precious - Photographer Catches Squirrel Stopping to Smell a Flower https://buff.ly/2BI2ITY 📷🐿 /via @MikejNorman
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 21 Mood -1 🙁
64. :( yeah 100% I think not being American is part of why I find that advice so jarring?
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 22 Mood +1 🙂
65. Both of them are heartbroken, one learns an important lesson about boundaries, the other about digital security and she never goes without 2FA on anything ever again.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 22 Mood -1 🙁
66. For years I had bought into some version of needing to “project” something that looked like confidence (or at least: a lot of fucking work) - something that fits the superficial advice that gets dispensed. Actually meaningfully changing my beliefs was wildly different.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 22 Mood 0
67. YES exactly
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood +1 🙂
68. Novel idea: benevolent hacker, having made $$$ in tech, decides to pay it forward by using her skills to hack into the accounts of stressed out millenials and improve their lives. She falls in love with one of them, but when they discover the truth it ends.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood +7 🙂
69. Me talking about my friends: they are brilliant and amazing and wonderful. They add so much to my life I would be lost without them. Me tweeting things my friends say to me: only the snarky and slightly insulting things for purposes of amusement.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood +10 🙂
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71. Oooh they bumped me up to biz everything is fine 😎
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood +4 🙂
72. “friendzone” is a problematic concept because it frames friendship as lesser rather than a beautiful in it’s own right. It’s a product of toxic masculinity that denies men close relationships; frankly also noticeable that it’s most often used by people who have very few friends.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood +2 🙂
73. I blame the socialization of compulsory hetrosexuality
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood -2 🙁
74. "[People who stayed] found their work enjoyable 31% more often, used their strengths 33% more often, and expressed 37% more confidence that they were gaining the skills and experiences they need to develop their careers." https://hbr.org/2018/01/why-people-really-quit-their-jobs…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood +8 🙂
75. 🌅 Seattle 🌊 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/%f0%9f%8c%85-seattle-%f0%9f%8c%8a/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood +3 🙂
76. Chihuly!! 😍
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood +3 🙂
77. This is a beautiful story and highlights conversational dynamics - How Dad Lost His Voice — And Finally Learned to Listen https://narratively.com/dad-lost-voice-finally-learned-listen/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood 0
78. Unclear, could be a complement.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 23 Mood -1 🙁
79. Anyway a lot of people I adore could stand to think more of themselves and I wish they did. I could too. But negating the origins of it and over simplifying the solution is not helpful.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 24 Mood +3 🙂
80. This is a profound read about what we really gain from the convenience of the gig economy - and at what cost https://annehelen.substack.com/p/what-great-inconvenience… /via @steveklabnik
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 24 Mood +2 🙂
81. BFFs 🖤 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/bffs-%f0%9f%96%a4/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 24 Mood 0
82. 😭 they won’t let me check in for my connecting flight and before they wouldn’t let me pay to pick a seat.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 24 Mood -2 🙁
83. 🌃🇮🇪 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/%f0%9f%8c%83%f0%9f%87%ae%f0%9f%87%aa-2/…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 26 Mood 0
84. The most wild thing was how threatening actual confidence was to some people, particularly those with abusive tendencies. I think this is because some level of self worth is a boundary that they can’t break.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 26 Mood -1 🙁
85. Hanging out with @duretti
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 26 Mood 0
86. Got to hang out with @bugKrusha
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 26 Mood 0
87. 😆 I am the most delightful two phone Cate 📱📱
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 26 Mood +5 🙂
88. I mean “lifetime” equates to what 7-8 months? Which would feel like a lifetime...
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 26 Mood +2 🙂
89. Good advice in general for how to grow and advance - How to Get Noticed by Your Boss’s Boss https://s.hbr.org/2MFeJPf
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood +3 🙂
90. People telling women to be more confident like you can just decide one day to let go of years of socialization and being devalued and just decide that actually you’re awesome no matter what anyone says 🙄
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood +8 🙂
91. "our strategy is to have a strategy" oh okay then, I'm sure everything will be fine 🙄
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood +2 🙂
92. So excited! The Pilot and I are going to see @amandapalmer
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood +3 🙂
93. Late in this process to switch my airline alligience to @British_Airways
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood 0
94. Omg meri too real 😭
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood -1 🙁
95. "Your heart doesn't work." @duretti
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood 0
96. I got a cheque and apology for "complaints made about mail forwarding", and an email from my health insurance saying they paid a claim I made... I did neither of these things, but now I have a dream that someone steals my identity in order to sort out my life.
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood -4 🙁
97. 1) overconfidence might be one of the biggest sources of societal problems right now why do we want to expand that 2) faking confidence without having a grounded idea of self worth can lead to a bunch of harmful or even abusive behaviors to prop up the desired self image
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood -2 🙁
98. Getting another job. https://x.com/endocrimes/sta/endocrimes/status/1186731070844260353…
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 27 Mood 0
99. “How are you all doing? I’m sorry I’m talking a lot.” @nickgernert
    Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 28 Mood -1 🙁
100. I’m about to watch a panel on parenting and entrepreneurship which like watching a Star Wars is the kind of thing I will only do with @danshapiro
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 28 Mood +4 🙂
101. 🌊🌅 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/%f0%9f%8c%8a%f0%9f%8c%85/…
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 28 Mood 0
102. Happiness bars! 🖤 #wcus
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 28 Mood +3 🙂
103. We're hiring another person to join our delightful recruiting team @automattic
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 28 Mood +4 🙂
104. I guess past Cate didn’t know how many days there are in October so I’m getting to St. Louis a day early...
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 28 Mood 0
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106. 🌸 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/11/%f0%9f%8c%b8-4/…
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 29 Mood +3 🙂
107. “It seems like a terribly unusual thing for _someone_ to do, it doesn’t seem like an unusual thing for _you_ to do.” I feel a bit too seen by @mdawaffe
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 29 Mood +1 🙂
108. Got to see @helenhousandi
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood 0
109. I complained about a couple of things with this hotel on checkout and the woman was like “you should say sooner” and all I guess she doesn’t understand how much introverts hate talking to people and how much British people love to suffer for maximum complaining.
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood -4 🙁
110. Oh good.
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood +3 🙂
111. Got to take @danshapiro
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood 0
112. ✨ https://photo.cate.blog/2019/11/%e2%9c%a8-2/…
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood +1 🙂
113. 🛥️🌅 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/10/%f0%9f%9b%a5%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%8c%85/…
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood 0
114. You are the most fabulous 🖤
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood +4 🙂
115. Witnessing a bunch of Americans being instructed in how to ceilidh and I may need to be... less sober... in order to maximally appreciate this situation.
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood +2 🙂
116. 🎡
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood +1 🙂
117. “Open source is closer to communism but I wouldn’t advise applying that. But also democracy doesn’t work.” #wcus
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 30 Mood 0
118. View from the 🎡 https://photo.cate.blog/2019/11/view-from-the-%f0%9f%8e%a1-2/…
     Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 31 Mood +1 🙂