Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The @garbageday.email @discord.com is focused on movies but my friends asked for the games version so here we are 061
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Feels insane to say, but I absolutely adore moderating the @garbageday.email / @panicworld.com discord. Over 3k members but it’s actually…fun, for the most part?it’s a thriving community and is wildly positive, and I genuinely enjoy most of the super active poasters 2211
Reposted by Cates HoldernessUS Inequality Watch @usinequalitywatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The cost of living in the United States keeps getting worse over time, and with rent skyrocketing and the price of a new home doubling, it’s spiraled well beyond where it was even a generation ago. This is not your parent’s economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxdo... 011
Reposted by Cates HoldernessLisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How we spent our summer @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/an-update-...garbageday.emailAn update from your friendly neighborhood garbage manRead to the end for a really good video about garlic bread 272
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Practical Magic 2 is the hottest Lee Pace has ever been 570
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I’ve spent the last two weeks aggressively offline, can’t wait to log in to work tomorrow ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ 1120
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Me meal prepping a giant quinoa salad for lunches on Sunday: This is great! I can eat this all week and won’t have to worry! Me 3 days later: I am so fucking sick of this bullshit thing I cannot believe I have like 3 more days of this for goddamn lunch 1240
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 10/07/2026lmaooo a bunch of people on r/pizzacrimes are Big Mad about people who want vegetables on pizza 3191
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Ah shit thank you, forgot to add alt text because I was so horrified lmao 081
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 02/07/2026part of my job is being a community moderator and tbh i honestly had a great day modding the @garbageday.email @discord.com server, specifically in regards to a survey i emailed out to paid subscribers. modding a vibrant and active community is honestly so much fun. 1130
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 19/06/2026hot take: I think clavicular is striving to look like circa ‘97 gavin rossdale 140
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 15/06/2026If you know Tozzi, you know this is indeed a splashy hire and I am THRILLED! 071
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 15/06/2026To recap this weekend: Bought expensive plants cause grief BK Pride Parade!! KNICKS IN FIVE APPARENTLY THE CAROLINA HURRICANES WON THE CUP?? WTF @lisatozzi.surf.social is starting as COO @garbageday.email tomorrow 1100
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 06/06/2026okay, look. I truly give zero fucks about sports in general, let alone specific teams. I have only vague knowledge. BUT go Knicks 0110
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Wake up babes, new sleep shirt just dropped (love you and happy to support y’all, @wnyc.org) 021
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Being the person that I am, I have volunteered to be an unpaid mod for another active online community. lol. lmao even 3190
Reposted by Cates HoldernessDave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Starting today, you can subscribe to Local Garbage Fire, a bundle that includes - Our Local News International membership. - @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social’s Garbage Day newsletter - @kattenbarge.bsky.social’s Spitfire News It’s 50% off for a month! Subscribe here: trustfnd.com/davejorgenso... 312620
Reposted by Cates HoldernessAdam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Russia has ruled a K-pop omegaverse fic to be illegal, sentencing its author to 18 months in a labor camp. So is it worth reading? Get the link I tracked down in today's @garbageday.email and decide for yourself! www.garbageday.email/p/everything... 0397
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I did bar trivia with people from my building earlier this week (we came in 2nd!) and they kinda spent the entire 2 hours slowly drilling into who I am and what my job is after I said I work online for a small digital media journalism company 2210
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 08/05/2026this piece contains a truly incredible chart (i love charts) 030
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 25/04/2026The mid 90s teen baby queer Fiona Apple to Florence pipeline is insane 090
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 21/04/2026thrilled to say that after almost an entire year i made my first Ed. note in @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/what-happe... 0192
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 19/04/2026making art is cool and fun and you should try it! 0171
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Sorry to Genshin on main but I’ve been playing this game for YEARS and I just got my first 36-starred Spiral Abyss and I am GIDDY 020
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Tonight’s @garbageday.email Live show featuring @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @akilahhughes.com was the best show we’ve done IMO. Shout out to bringing weird online stuff to IRL events 181
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 04/04/2026To the robin singing his ass off in prospect park and keeping me awake cause it’s nice enough to have my windows open: buddy wyd it’s like 2am she’s not gonna fuck you 1191
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I just found my second grey hair and I got really excited tbh, please let me evolve into my silver fox era 0180
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Exactly one year ago I got laid off along with like most of the Tumblr staff and I’m extremely lucky to report that working at Garbage Day with @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social has been wildly beneficial to my mental health and I have fun at work again 3391
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 23/03/2026My OCD got diagnosed legit 30 years ago and is very much under control thanks to 3 decades of therapy but there’s some lingering Brain Is Lying Shit I still deal with, so again this is a win for me. Shoutout to the 5 ice cubes in my kombucha 1160
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 23/03/2026My therapist is on parental leave but I KNOW they would be so proud of me for consistently using an odd number of ice cubes recently in defiance of my ocd 4181
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 18/03/2026me, a vegan, begrudgingly: fine, i’ll make a fucking salad using the stupid fucking veggies i bought specifically for making salads that’ll go bad if i don’t eat them 1230
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 16/03/2026i got, like, deeply into ASMR-like high quality long Japanese train and ferry travel videos with zero dialogue and i'm not embarrassed to admit that i saw this post and was like "oh, that's Mei Time! she's great!" 2101
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I got to email 100k people today that my boss fried his laptop at a live show so he couldn’t send out a newsletter 3230
Reposted by Cates HoldernessRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Garbage Day Live is coming back to Brooklyn next week. Baby's All Right in Williamsburg. Doors at 6:30pm. Special guest @katienotopoulos.bsky.social! It's going to be very very very fun. We only have a few tickets left, so grab 'em while you can!!! www.eventim.us/wafform.aspx... 3388
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I’ll figure out a better way to articulate this soon but: we don’t have social media any more, we just have platforms people we know are on. There’s nothing social about them. 2394
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Wild to be a part of the micro generation and niche community who experienced the birth of online social media as well as the mainstream death of it. 2324
Reposted by Cates HoldernessLong Lead @longlead.com · 26/02/2026When considering what went so wrong with the internet, former @buzzfeed.com editor Cates Holderness (@cates.bsky.social) shared with LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET host Garrett Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social), "I think a whole lot went wrong. The internet we have in 2025 is fractured." 122
Reposted by Cates HoldernessRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Basically, the right-wing wants you to think that being racist is the most dangerous (and cool) thing you can do right now. Films like The People's Joker and Nirvanna The Band The Movie prove the most dangerous thing for algorithmic streaming platforms is actually copyright infringement. 9893152
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 12/02/2026hit low power mode while reading fanfic, love to be single in my 40s 170
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 10/02/2026this is the best thread I have seen on bsky to date!! 091
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 03/02/2026look I know I’m not In Corporate anymore but I will never be able to suppress my desire for More Data like fuck off gimme those indicators lemme make a spreadsheet 160
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Watching Ryan write this piece directly in the CMS was a weird experience. I know he Does That but every edit and new graf made me nauseous. It’s a stellar piece and excellent reporting. 1114
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Very, very proud to work with a team that stands for our beliefs and isn’t beholden to corporate bullshit. 0141
Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 21/01/2026sorry to go vegan on main but everyone losing their minds about Veronica the cow using Cow Tools like go vegan just eat beans instead of cows if you think she’s amazing 171
Reposted by Cates HoldernessRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-... 9162212137