Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This isn’t just a technological advancement—It’s a paradigm shift. Three things we can all look forward to: • Smarter skies • Safer journeys • Unprecedented opportunities for unexpected outcomes 1151
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Job going in Auckland at the Embassy of the United States of America "countering adversarial propaganda and anti-American narratives." 144926
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I am very suspicious of this ad I keep getting served. No brand attached. No political disclosure. So dodgy. 251
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026My parents are coming to stay and I am in full trolling mood. 2340
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The New Zealand government needs to watch this before they do any more AI-replacing-humans decisions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbh8...youtube.comCompanies Put AI In Charge. Now They’re Paying For ItYouTube video by House of El - AI 162
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I am a cis woman because when I was a baby, a healthcare worker examined my genitals and they looked like a girl. Have I had chromosomes tested? No. Do I know my testosterone levels? No. Do I know if I have internal testes? No. (Although none have been found in scans so I figure I'd probably know.) 1160
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025This family lived a couple doors down from me. I walked past the car while his wife's body was in the boot. He murdered her and abandoned his toddler alone in a foreign country as he fled. Fuck this guy for the rest of his life. 080
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Who on earth is treating February like it is summer break? (Other than lawyers and politicians) 7445
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 16/08/2025At the NZFF screening of Prime Minister and these sad sacks are protesting #nzpol #nzff 6352
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025If being a goth rollerblading sausage goblin is your vibe, get out there and be the best goth rollerblading sausage goblin that ever lived, thus sayeth the Lord. 0151
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025We exist in the same liminal space as someone like Pedro Pascal. Be an adorable hot mess. If he can, you can. 0241
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Girls and boys and theys and unsures, keep killing it. You matter, even if no one has told you that today, if ever. I hold space for you, you have got this, even if you don't feel it or believe it. Do something new tomorrow, pursue curiosity, look for the healing place, crawl there if you have to. 0191
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I also have a spoon I hate but would never throw away. 240
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I'm not even drunk or doing a political stabbing and I'm posting on Bluesky. Who is she? 060
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025My red flag is that every time I'm at a mall that's playing K'Lee's music I literally record it and sent to it her, and now I'm telling all of you so you know I'm cool because I personally know New Zealand's 90s teen idol pop star. There's no point to this zoot or blottle or whatever we call these. 3110
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025I regret to inform you I did not win lotto this weekend. 3210
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Holy. Hell. I screenshot this myself, just now. It's real. 7222
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I'm told this involves asbestos and lithium iron batteries, so that's nice. 2152
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I'm writing a novel and one of my friends asked to be written into it. Best decision ever, it's like a cheat code. 1201
Reposted by Cate OwenMeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 22/04/2025We could have had hate speech laws and legal protections for rainbow people but now we get winnie’s fanny police. #nzpol 18021
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025If you actually wanted to protect women you'd be spending zero energy trying to define us and one thousand energy trying to eradicate intimate partner violence. #nzpol 236777
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025I just saw Six the musical as part of the Auckland Arts Fest and it was SO GOOD 5310
Reposted by Cate OwenAliya D @alinasu33.bsky.social · 28/02/2025 🚨ONLY 9 HOURS LEFT for submission public consultaton on a proposed rewrite of Arms Act !🚨 If you haven’t submitted yet, I urge you in my personal capacity to do so now. This is an initial consultation—let’s stop it in its tracks before we waste more money and risk more lives. 🧵(1/6) 109345
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025In Paeroa... who knew it has so many anti-vax signs up?! They still have anti-Jacinda signs up at cash registers. I went to buy a coffee, saw a "we do not discriminate based on vaccine status" and I loudly said to my companion "ew, they're anti-vax, I'm not eating here" and we left. Gross. 7583
Reposted by Cate OwenOli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025You gotta do this one! 043
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I just got an email saying my power bill is going up by about 15% so that's nice. 8120
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Also I got this from the Geek out with Pride market at Te Atatu library this weekend. The artist, Lily, made it for a art competition she didn't place at so just wanted it gone, but I ADORE it. 1190
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I am going to protest Destiny Church and ManUp's protests. You don't come to my local library and fuck up my librarians with your homophobic bullshit. I'm gonna go full Karen. Full white lady having a menopausal hot flush on them. When are they being assholes in public next? 5920
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Do you want to build a snowman it doesn't have to be a snowman it can be a snowlady or a snowgenderneutral 150
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025He resigned in January 2023, in time for his first court appearance. 2306
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Lately, occassionally I've been feeling, like, ants walking on me and I've gone to slap them off and there's been no ants. Weird, but ok. Then today I went to the doctor and she took me through a list of symptoms for perimenopause and GUESS WHAT THE FUCK IS A SYMPTOM. 23690
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I was sitting in the newsroom when they came in. My spirit told me to leave so I did. 1281
Reposted by Cate OwenHayley @writagal.bsky.social · 12/12/2024The full quote via the Guardian explaining Australia’s reasoning for denying Candace Owens a visa, and link below. Their article contains a great deal of detail not reported in the Herald. amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... 37135
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Reading the comments on Ben Shapiro's YouTube video about the healthcare CEO titled "The EVIL Revolutionary Left Cheers Murder!" is so freaking cathartic. 1141
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I'm that annoying morning person that turns up to work at 5am to terrorise and punish. Not sorry. 070
Reposted by Cate OwenAliya D @alinasu33.bsky.social · 05/12/2024🧵1/3 I bet you didn’t know… Alongside all the advocacy we do at IWCNZ, we’re also busy developing leaders. By mentoring 40 Muslim women in the last 18 months, we’ve helped them grow in their careers and local communities, breaking barriers to reach their goals. #UnbreakableTogether 1116
Reposted by Cate OwenStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Korea Expert here. I’ll explain what’s going on over there because the Orient can be confusing to Westerners. In Korea, there is a concept known as “the law.” (법) This is a set of rules which are enforced to encourage prosocial behavior and ensure stability which leaders aren’t allowed to break. 17391422226
Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Are any of you weirdos still using Twitter / x / nazi watering hole? 14100
![The US conservative influencer and podcast host, who has advanced conspiracy theories and antisemitic rhetoric including minimising Nazi medical experiments in concentration camps, will be blocked from coming to Australia after the federal government voiced alarm about her record.
“From downplaying the impact of the Holocaust with comments about [notorious Nazi doctor Josef] Mengele through to claims that Muslims started slavery, Candace Owens has the capacity to incite discord in almost every direction,” Burke said on Sunday.
“Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uftfptmc5ugvwqldt6lbbf2h/bafkreieblvkxp26kffrzx33wmk4bvtzknwxvkp7ewfgy6to72zd2hnsckm)
