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Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app
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writer, film + culture critic, producer, full-time bisexual ✨ I used to write about movies. now I make podcasts and write about movies.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
launch day! very excited to share what I've been working on for the last few months. you should subscribe, but if you'd like a teaser of what you're getting, here's my feature piece on "Wuthering Heights." cateyoung.beehiiv.com/p/wuthering-...
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Everyone Is Wrong About Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights"
The controversial director's latest movie wasn't very well-received. But it's an exciting, ambitious film that deserves a lot more respect than it's getting.
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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
launch on tuesdaaaaaaaay cateyoung.beehiiv.com
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Home | faint praise*
cultural criticism from a curiously addled mind
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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
put it in escrow
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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
welcome to faint praise*. coming 9/1. pop culture is an ongoing anthropological mirror of the stories we tell ourselves and each other about who we are. all we do is tell each other stories, and I think learning the language of cinema is crucial to understanding that. cateyoung.beehiiv.com
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Home | Faint Praise
cultural criticism from a curiously addled mind
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 03/08/2026
There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
chart showing 280k pr specialists to 40k 'news analysts, reporters, and journalists'
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
NEW — Belfast-based writer @hleehurley.com talks about the racist pogroms that have terrorized his city, how existing tensions in Northern Ireland (and *not* Elon Musk) primed local factions to turn violent, and how Minnesota’s response to ICE inspired their community to care for one another:
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Elon Musk alone isn’t responsible for Belfast's racist pogrom
The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.
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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 16/06/2026
how is everything Biden's fault y'all have completely captured executive power for over a year! so either you're lying or you're pitifully bad at your jobs. which is it?
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The third bracket stepped up to the plate on ##DragRaceAllStars but the format is incredibly tired at this point. Thankfully, this is the shadiest bracket yet, which made the episode fun. Our recap: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/06/rupa...
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RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS: ATHLETIC SUPPORTER DESIGN CHALLENGE - Tom + Lorenzo
The third shift came in all sassy and shady, which was good for us for two reasons: First, because of the time-wasting format, where each bracket gets ten
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/06/2026
Obviously, this is great to see, but it isn’t a surprise. The fascists were able to go on their racist rampage not because their community broadly wanted it, but because a small minority called “police” allowed it.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/06/2026
Two of the lawyers were barred from appearing before the court for two years; all lawyers received a fine of between $1,000 and $3,500. www.404media.co/judge-learns...
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Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 13/06/2026
I would give everything I have for one swing of a sledgehammer
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The gods of metaphor have been putting in OT lately.
Photo of an MMA fighter.

Headline below: UFC White House fighter throws up at weigh-in: "So what? I was drinking."
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Jason's Mom Has Got It Going On 🎃 @sailorsoapbox.com · 14/06/2026
We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Evel Knievel, but in the service of actual evil
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 13/06/2026
😍 Now THIS is how you advocate for universal child care.
Screenshot showing an excerpt from the page linked in the original post by ISAIAH. I have highlighted the bullet-point line that reads, "Pays early educators wages on par with K-12 teachers."

The full text of the excerpt is copied below the line.
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That means a system that...
• Is free or low cost for every family
• Covers children from birth to age 5
• Pays early educators wages on par with K-12 teachers
• Expands access so every family can find a spot that meets their needs
• Is high quality for all kids
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
New: I wrote about everyone intently watching the long process of removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and how it revealed our insatiable thirst for accountability — and for his humiliation.
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The night the letters came down
A marathon livestream of Trump's name being removed from the Kennedy Center was a rare moment of monoculture.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The 1991 documentary on New York City drag queen ball culture and their houses "Paris is Burning" is available on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7r...
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Paris Is Burning | FULL MOVIE | New York Drag Ball Classic LGBTQ Documentary
YouTube video by Shout! Studios
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
For this week's Bitter Kitten Movie Club, we're diving into director Gabriel Axel's Oscar-winning gustatory classic BABETTE'S FEAST. Is it about food? Death? Jesus? Maybe! But also no. tomandlorenzo.com/2026/06/the-...
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The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: BABETTE'S FEAST (1987) - Tom + Lorenzo
Babette's Feast (1987) Director: Gabriel Axel Starring: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nice democracy we have here
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I just want to point out to any game three Knicks ticket holders that “JEFF-REY EP-STEIN” reads out beautifully to a classic five clap crowd chant
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“You don’t even have to be interviewed by a real journalist anymore. If you want to be on the cover of Vogue, chances are, if you’re a big enough star, they’ll let a friend interview you or they’ll let you write an essay yourself.” - @mattbelloni.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/how-...
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How does access work now?
Journalists, podcasters, and news influencers on the erosion of access—what it’s worth, and what it isn’t.
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may 👑 @fawndly.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
is it because all the republicans left
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It makes me feel ashamed of my emotional immaturity sometimes, this failure to accept the fact of her absence. Death is the great, looming fact, wholly indifferent to our objections. The men who seek to overcome it are fish-faced zillionaire oligarchs who think mortality is for the little people.
There’s no wrong way to grieve. Over and over, they tell us this. It’s true, I guess, in the sense that no central grief regulatory body is going to sanction me for how I’m going about it. No poster will go up bearing my face and the words “DO NOT ALLOW THIS MAN TO GRIEVE.” (Where would they even put it?) But in another sense, there’s no right way to grieve, if we understand grief as a primal scream to the heavens of “Where did you go? Why aren’t you here?” There isn’t a way to scream that so loudly it will result in a reply, and it’s so hard to grapple with that ice-cold fact and not wonder on some level what the point of any of it is.

It makes me feel ashamed of my emotional immaturity sometimes, this failure to accept the fact of her absence. Death is the great, looming fact, wholly indifferent to our objections. The men who seek to overcome it are embarrassing freaks, fish-faced zillionaire oligarchs who think mortality is for the little people. Is there any way to cry skyward that I want my friend back without throwing in my lot with their worldview? Are these questions without answers all just part of the bargaining stage? Because if I’m still there a decade in, the depression stage is going to be a mother.
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stefan @stefanthinks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I was driving through a neighborhood and saw a sign that said “caution: children” but it was too late, I was swarmed by a pack of feral kids and I could hear their tiny little hands pulling the metal off the car piece by piece as they giggled
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 06/06/2026
I Believe That NYC Can Kill A Man If They Boo Hard Enough
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 27/05/2026
It feels like everyone not only has lost their goddamned minds, but has just reached in and voluntarily scooped them out.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
(Now go to the website listed for fun!)
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Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else
AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.
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34oz Mango Butter 🥭🧈 @shonnasaidso.blacksky.app · 28/05/2026
If it’s not medical, leave it be.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/05/2026
there's always a little shit trying his best to make integrity passé because he has none
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/05/2026
I don't use any of this shit. the guys who insist everyone's doing it are merely telling on themselves. I also did not cheat/take shortcuts on schoolwork and I know how to use a library. It's infuriating to be freelancing while laziness is rewarded with salary and healthcare.
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/05/2026
Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud
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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 28/05/2026
I've literally never even googled "ChatGPT." the closest I've come is turning Gemini off on all my devices. I genuinely have no interest. I haven't even used chatbots. It's 2026 and I'm not on TikTok. I have no problem holding out.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Like any high status-relatively low pay white collar knowledge based profession, writers and academics over-extrapolate from a small subset of performative power pros. The movers and shakers, the group chat frequent posters, etc. Every writer is not using AI. Not even the majority, I’d wager.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I LOVE BOOSTERS star Keke Palmer came to Watch What Happens Live to demonstrate a simple style rule: When your hair looks this amazing, you don't need to overthink the outfit tomandlorenzo.com/2026/05/i-lo...
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I LOVE BOOSTERS Star Keke Palmer on WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE WITH ANDY COHEN - Tom + Lorenzo
I Love Boosters star Keke Palmer has a message for all of her fellow celebrity girlies who keep showing up to talk show sets in elaborate gowns or outfits
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Gonna tap this fucking sign every single time we see a "tech journalist" put in charge of real news, like CBS just did. Cooked, cooked, I say
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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 26/05/2026
the thing I remember most about Elliott Page coming out is how freaking HAPPY he looked in the photo he posted in his announcement. he was just BEAMING. it was so heartwarming to see.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Maybe it's time to find out what sort of movies East Anderson would make
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century
The black-and-white photo A Great Day in Harlem shows 57 musicians gathered around the steps of a Harlem brownstone, while some kids sit on the curb. The photo was originally shot for an August 1958 issue of Esquire Magazine.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I cannot imagine a more on-the-nose metaphor than tech companies filling their offices with free drugs that supposedly enhance your productivity but are more addictive than heroin. fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...
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Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity | Fortune
Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Every day I hate Spencer Pratt a little more. Praying LA does not elect this reactionary, callous fool
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.
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David Raikow @david.raikow.online · 26/05/2026
This is also profoundly deceptive. Some machine learning applications emulate simple neural networks, but LLMs like Anthropic’s products do not. At all. They’re complex probability calculators, with some pseudo-randomness thrown in. That’s all. They do not resemble organic brains even a little.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 14/05/2026
Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions being overturned by his buddies is yet another data point for the revanchist slide back to no one except white men having rights, and the main right is getting to treat everyone else like property
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ah, the four classic TV professions: cop, doctor, firefighter, tracker.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/05/2026
So, Timothy Chalamet, if no one cares about ballet anymore, why is *every* channel on my TV showing Swan Lake right now?
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/05/2026
The single largest voting bloc in the United States is cishet white people. There are more cis white women voters than Asian, Black, Jewish, Muslim, and trans people in the United States COMBINED. Please stop blaming marginalized people for their own oppression.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this
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