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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

🖤 Boo Radley is gone 🖤🖤🖤

Robert Duvall as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. We knew he was a winner from the start 🖤

Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Going to Xiu Xiu Eraserhead later. I watched the film again last night and to see all this again after everything that followed especially Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series, well there's something inexplicably magical about the coherence & abiding notes of Lynch's language & vibes, exceptional 🖤

Eraserhead: zigzag carpet (cf Twin Peaks, and.... Cocteau's 'Orphée')

Opening sequence of Eraserhead, Henry's head floats sideways across space...

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

A Wake for Samuel Beckett with Harold Pinter (1990) 🖤 youtu.be/YBXgSKG84Zg?...

Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am grateful to him.
He’s not fucking me about, he’s not leading me up any garden path, he’s not slipping me a wink, he’s not flogging me a remedy or a path or a revelation or a basinful of breadcrumbs, he’s not selling me anything I don’t want to buy — he doesn’t give a bollock whether I buy or not — he hasn’t got his hand over his heart. Well, I’ll buy his goods, hook, line and sinker, because he leaves no stone unturned and no maggot lonely. He brings forth a body of beauty.
His work is beautiful.

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Garland Briggs and Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks.

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Bad Faith. A grim but essential watch. The scale and the vehemence are quite staggering, really does make the notion of 'reaching out' for debate or whatever seem tragically laughable.

Poster for the documentary Bad Faith, 2024.

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

And I really like the black and white version. Not re-edited, so the same holes and caveats, but there's an Alphaville/DOA noir cool which suits it very well. And these are certainly the times for it 🖤

Johnny Mnemonic in black and white Blu-ray

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

So worth revisiting TS Eliot's 'The Hollow Men's after this passage brought some lines to mind, oof 🖤

The “hope” (for capital) implicit in LLMs seems to be that if the language deployed is sufficiently frozen, it can have a freezing effect on the people subjected to it — that it will help kill the language in their brain that still is alive, in the sense that the person regards it as a tool for expressing as yet unformulated things — as making possible a kind of craft production with language — rather than a reified product, a commodity that must necessarily be purchased on a market. LLMs perform a kind of taxidermy with words, presenting them in a lifelike fashion that mainly serves to remind you that they are dead. Being compelled to consume LLM-generated content is like being stuffed with that sawdust.

The Hollow Men
Mistah Kurtz-he dead
A penny for the Old Guy

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer-

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose

Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Seeing a lot of May Day folklore posts, and now I'm overthinking whether it's a Good Day to eat these conjoined bananas 🤔 or is the answer Absolutely Not... don't want to get sucked into the Black Lodge or something 😬

Two bananas but the skin is not separate, they will have to be consumed together!

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your method 🙏 I found your post after discovering a similar sized (beginning of) nest and was wondering how best to deal with it. Felt a bit bad, such a lovely little structure, but I'm sure she'll start again elsewhere right away 🤞

A little round wasps nest just beginning, just inside the shed door so not so great in terms of being able to use the shed myself!

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Keep getting sucked into rabbit holes, chewing over the *no motive* point. LLMs have *no skin in the game*, the importance of correctness will never be a matter of life and death for them, (for me, layperson:) fundamental conundrum of "meatspace", embodied knowledge + that Cartesian confabulation 🤔

"...if the body had been easier to
understand, nobody would have thought that we had a
mind." [26 - footnote in next image] Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

NB I am not an academic, just haunted by our way of thinking about the Mind and the Body and everything that proceeds from that...

26 As I trust chapter two has made clear, I do not mean by this that we should not have thought of ourselves as having beliefs and desires, and as seeing, inferring, and so on. But we would not have saddled ourselves with the notions of a "separable active intellect," a Cartesian "immaterial substance," or Lockean ideas. Our concept of mind would have been much closer to Ryle's or Aristotle's than to the Cartesian
concept we presently have. [Page 239]

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

(not discussing Freud's *very particular* take, the earlier Jentsch essay is much more on point.) The Uncanny Valley is well known in robotics and Moravec's paradox is interesting to me when reflecting on which 'part' of us *just knows* when something's not right. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec...

Excerpt from Moravec's paradox Wikipedia article I have linked to

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Not (just) pedantry: yes, ugh, I do indulge in a silly little phone game with, ugh, ads and oh boy Amazon... all that money on AI and well, you're really not selling it 👀 God forbid you should pay one human to put out something even ok at the most basic level 😬 Low grade crud, #enshittification #AI

Amazon ad "Bestseller Beste Price" AI illiterate rubbish with a medieval twang.

"Trusted prices onmillions of products" yup, no space, just pathetic.

"Low prices every day: There is always one what you need" what you what... what?!

"Today's offer The price is super cheap" aargh I am not buying the price (which is low, the item is cheap... just like these idiots!)

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

We miss you. Happy birthday Starman 🖤

David Bowie, Aladdin Sane (eyes open) photo by Duffy

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Crikey, at least let me know how close it is

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

The strengthening wind is giving me the heebie-jeebies tonight. Like in 1987, it's been raining for weeks & I fear a lot of trees may come down 😔 I remember a friend and I went for a walk that night and remarked how weirdly warm the wind was. Now it's always weird. Félix Vallotton, The Wind (1910)

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Likes are definitely there for me 👀🐱

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

New guy in town (I expect he's come to see the Turner Prize), very handsome, hope he stays forever 🖤 Michael Rakowitz, The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

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Cat Ingrams @catingrams.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Pineapple Lily, or Sideshow Bob as she is affectionately known. Apparently not at all attractive to slugs or snails and unphased by neglect. A fun bulb if you want to grow something kind of weird looking 🖤

Pineapple Lily. Floppy leaves, long stem up to tiny flowers topped by a cartoonish mop of leaves.

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