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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The new Terminator movie comes out this year. It’s a documentary

Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

And lo! it came to pass with the Epstein files. The Liar’s Dividend playing out before our eyes. BRB changing my name to Cassandra.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Your daily reminder that if billionaires truly wanted everyone to have universal basic income, we’d already have it. What they want would be better characterised as universal basic serfdom.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

My absolute disinterest in new Gabaldon spin-off Blood of my Blood reveals that I’m less an Outlander fan, and more a Sam Heughan in a ginger wig fan. Do I need to renounce my Scottishness now?

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

Sam Altman tweet reads

“someday soon something smarter than the smartest person you know will be running on a device in your pocket, helping you with whatever you want.
this is a very remarkable thing.”

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My new personal KPI for any future piece of writing is how many men DM me to explain that they’re not the problem.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Any recommendations for films you can watch with a seven and eleven year old without wanting to claw your own face off?

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

At the risk of being all old man shouts at cloud about this, when did we collectively decide headphones weren’t mandatory for watching videos on the train, and could we please reconsider?

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I’ve started a new Substack (because the world needs more people writing about AI on Substack…): first post, mostly satirical: l1m1nal.substack.com/p/ai-is-my-b...

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AI is my boyfriend*

PartnerOS: anticipatory care, zero sulkware

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

“I picked my head up and I loved the world that I knew wouldn’t always be mine.” A beautiful essay: The Poet Who Advocated Radical Tenderness www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...

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Opinion | The Poet Who Advocated Radical Tenderness

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

“And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don’t already have one.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect

A Black and tan kelpie stands on the beach looking up at the photographer. He has a sandy snout and looks relaxed and happy

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A (brief) moment of school holiday crafting calm. Monty cares not a jot that he’s being immortalised through the medium of collage. How absurdly, disproportionately fortunate we are, and what an obscenity that all children don’t have this basic safety.

A large black-and-tan kelpie dog lies on a patterned rug surrounded by scattered colourful paper swatches and art supplies. A child’s hands are visible assembling a collage in a sketchbook, with a glue stick and a decorated cardboard box nearby.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This is a great thread. Thank you for the opportunity to learn and the amazing storytelling @swingingstorm.bsky.social (Think I need “AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP” on a t-shirt, as a British person living on stolen land.)

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Haven’t been here in a hot minute but now @firebirdasusual.bsky.social is here, the vibes are guaranteed to improve. Genocides and polycrises notwithstanding, how’s everyone?

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Crackpot theory du jour: genAI was invented at the behest of scumbag billionaires with serious misdeeds and skeletons in closets to give them plausible deniability when evidence of their crimes get leaked.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Did Pantone just ship literal shit and hope no one would notice? Truly we are living in a simulation.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I really didn’t expect “are Nazis bad?” to be the polarising topic of 2025. Can someone please do a hard reset for the year please, before things get any worse?

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

At my local independent cinema to watch We Live In Time, in part because a scheduled cry is in order.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I like my cars like I like my (wo)men: well travelled and filthy. Just back from an awfully big adventure in Kosciuszko national park, the lands of the Wiradjuri, Wolgalu, Ngunnawal and Monaro Ngarigo people. Extraordinary beauty in wild country. Hiking, swimming, stargazing. HNY friends.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

If you are in greater LA and have N95 masks or better, please consider distributing some to the unhoused. The air quality is horrific and only sixty hotel vouchers have been available so far.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I used to despise emojis. Thought they were a lazy and trivial form of communication. Now, so often, so very often, the atrocities of the world leave me levelled and wordless; left only with this 💔

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Just risked life and limb by clambering onto my roof to get rid of piles of leaves and flammable debris ahead of next week’s heatwave & likely bushfires. It turns out I will chance death rather than do my overdue tax return. So maybe only one thing is inevitable, Mr Franklin.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Listening to the audiobook of Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus, published earlier this year. There have been references to “Aborigines.” Harari, with his meticulous research habits, should surely know better. And pretty appalling that Penguin’s editors, in 2024, are letting that term go to print.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 13/12/2024

Never Too Late Award for a writer over 60 from The Bridport Prize. Please share.

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NEW! Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

How you feel about the death of the United Healthcare CEO ought to be a Hinge prompt. It tells you everything you need to know about a person right out of the gate.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Good morning from Allagai Bay, shrouded in mist today.

Copacabana headland partially concealed by sea mist

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 03/12/2024

The South Korean timeline of events: 10P: Martial law declared 12A: Protestors show up 12:10A: Assembly votes to lift martial law 1A: Assembly refuses to leave 4A: President promises to comply 4:15A: President complies With swift action, South Koreans saved their democracy. Take note, Americans.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Australians of Bluesky, share your best Aussie starter packs, particularly First Nations and queer folks. My feed is full of entropic Americans, and it’s bringing me down.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

“Pokémon Go Will Power The Murderous AI System Of The Future” Headline of the year @garbageday.bsky.social Also dystopian AF (story towards the end of the newsletter) www.garbageday.email/p/right-wing...

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Right-wing social networks don't work

Read to the end for Rebecca

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Some on the right seem to be confusing the phrase "a room without Nazis" with "echo chamber."

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is Monty in his happiest place. Just in case you needed it in your feed (I did).

A kelpie stands on a golden sandy beach, sand on his snout and a relaxed happy face, looking at the photographer.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Instagram just served me an ad for a fashion house selling a beanie for six hundred bucks. There’s that rapier-sharp audience targeting in full effect…

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Listening to If Books Could Kill in between writing the first draft of new non-fic, considering myself put on notice. It’s a spine straightner for any non-fiction writer. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

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Malcolm Gladwell's

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 10/11/2022 · 50m

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 15/11/2024

I want to create an incubator that funds atproto/bluesky experimental projects to the tune of $5k-$10k dev grants. I am sorely tempted to call it “Chemtrails”, because it seeds the ATmosphere Hit me with your best ideas!

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Do I get some sort of award for not having needed the election of a rapist to be motivated to get off Twitter?

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

@hedgewytch.bsky.social It’s so lovely to see your handle pop up. Think you were one of my OG Twitter friends. *puffs pipe, leans back on rocking chair, pulls tartan rug over knees* fair takes me back, lass…

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The owners of the block next door are building a house. Constant din: power tools, commercial radio & swearing. Today my irritation dissipated after hearing two extremely blokey Australian tradies break into a close harmony duet to the Crowded House classic Fall at Your Feet. Lovely work boys.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I suppose one bright thought in this hellscape of an era is that it’s nice to connect with old Twitter friends here. Hello again!

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

I wonder if the reason for the popularity of banning teen social media here in Aus is that it’s much more palatable than “economic pressures make being a connected & present parent supported by community, almost impossible”- which is perhaps the underlying cause of teen anxiety /disconnection.

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social Absolutely love the ep on Haidt. Hard Fork had a great series of interviews with kids and teachers re. the phone ban. Super anecdotal obv, but interesting context.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/03/2024

Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true

Image of a tweet reading “I have been at conferences with many tools who will offer real time feedback”

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Cat McGinn @acatinatree.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

I swerved to avoid running over a snake today, and almost hit a Tesla. This feels somehow portentous.

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