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Cates Holderness

@cates.bsky.social
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managing editor @garbageday.email, prev at tumblr and buzzfeed. we both just lost The Game. 🌱 (she/her)

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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The @garbageday.email @discord.com is focused on movies but my friends asked for the games version so here we are
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Feels 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
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US Inequality Watch @usinequalitywatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The 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...
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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How we spent our summer @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/an-update-...
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An update from your friendly neighborhood garbage man
Read to the end for a really good video about garlic bread
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Practical Magic 2 is the hottest Lee Pace has ever been
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’ve spent the last two weeks aggressively offline, can’t wait to log in to work tomorrow ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Me 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
lmaooo a bunch of people on r/pizzacrimes are Big Mad about people who want vegetables on pizza
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ah shit thank you, forgot to add alt text because I was so horrified lmao
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
fuck you
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
part 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.
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
hot take: I think clavicular is striving to look like circa ‘97 gavin rossdale
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
no thanks
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If you know Tozzi, you know this is indeed a splashy hire and I am THRILLED!
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
To 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
okay, look. I truly give zero fucks about sports in general, let alone specific teams. I have only vague knowledge. BUT go Knicks
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wake up babes, new sleep shirt just dropped (love you and happy to support y’all, @wnyc.org)
A photo of a green tee shirt with a 40s era van labeled WNYC with a loudspeaker saying “FACTS, COMMUNITY, RESILIENCE TRUTH” and a cityscape in the background
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Being the person that I am, I have volunteered to be an unpaid mod for another active online community. lol. lmao even
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Starting 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...
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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Russia 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...
On May 8th, a Russian woman named Alexandra Kuzyk was sentenced to 18 months in a labor camp for posting gay fan fiction. Even though the fanfic was free, it was found by a court in Yekaterinburg to be illegal pornography. Ever since 2023, when Russia declared the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group to be an extremist organization, they’ve made multiple efforts to criminalize anything gay on the internet.

Naturally, the biggest question on my mind was, “can I read this criminally gay fanfic?”
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
this piece contains a truly incredible chart (i love charts)
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I miss Florence
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The mid 90s teen baby queer Fiona Apple to Florence pipeline is insane
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
thrilled to say that after almost an entire year i made my first Ed. note in @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/what-happe...
a screenshot of the garbage day newsletter that reads "The pre-Vine animated GIF boom has mostly been memory-holed. [Ed. note: Unless you’re still on Tumblr, where GIFs and GIF-sets still constitute a large percentage of posts.] In the early 2010s, message board users were moving from smaller websites to larger platforms — and getting jobs at digital media companies. And they ended up bringing a lot of shared culture with them. What we used to call “Weird Twitter,” for"
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
making art is cool and fun and you should try it!
A rectangular amateur painting of an ocean scene. The lower quarter is the ocean with shades of blue and green. The upper 3/4 is a light blue sky with layers of blue clouds with white and light purple highlights on the bottom of the clouds
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sorry 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Grief is wild and unpredictable
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Tonight’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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
To 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I just found my second grey hair and I got really excited tbh, please let me evolve into my silver fox era
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Exactly 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
me, 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
i 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!"
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I got to email 100k people today that my boss fried his laptop at a live show so he couldn’t send out a newsletter
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Garbage 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...
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I’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.
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Wild 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.
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“I was there when it was written” etc etc
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Long Lead @longlead.com · 26/02/2026
When 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."
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Basically, 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.
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
hit low power mode while reading fanfic, love to be single in my 40s
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
this is the best thread I have seen on bsky to date!!
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
look 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
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Watching 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.
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very, very proud to work with a team that stands for our beliefs and isn’t beholden to corporate bullshit.
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
sorry 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
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)
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