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Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

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✨ essayist | critic | full-time bisexual✨ I used to write about movies. now I make podcasts and write about movies. publisher: faint praise* member: @dorianawards, @aafca, @theoaffc, @lapressclub, 🍅 verified

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 22/01/2026

COOGLER IS FOR THE GIRLSSSSSS

screenshot of a tweet: Ruth E. Carter ("Sinners") earned her fifth Oscar nomination for best costume design, which now makes her the most-nominated Black woman in Oscars history.

tweet is accompanied by a photo of costume designer Ruth E. Carter. overlaid on the image is the text: Sinners costume designer Ruth E. Carter becomes most nominated black woman in Oscar history.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 20/12/2025

saw this post on LinkedIn and decided to try it. this this the photo I chose. it's already working wonders. every time I pick up my phone I practically gag. I knew I didn't like the man but my body's response is visceral omg.

post from a LinkedIn user suggesting setting your phone screen to a photo of Mark Zuckerberg or other billionaire asshole as a deterrent from picking up your phone as often.

a screen grab of my lock screen. it is a photo of Mark Zuckerberg looking like a fucking dweeb.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025

just got in after a full day of travel, and open my luggage to find this. so much for being safe if you're leaving the country.

a flyer from the TSA, notifying that a baggage inspection was conducted on my luggage in transit.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 24/11/2025

I am extremely biased in the other direction lol, but I'm actually very interested in why you make that distinction. because for me it's more true for those two not less, which is why they're my fave of his films.

framed posters of the Christopher Nolan films Interstellar and Tenet on the poster's living room wall

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 15/10/2025

we won. bittersweet :)

a graphic with a yellow and red background and the key art for the podcast Lemme Say This. it reads: Signal Awards, 4th ANNUAL SIGNAL AWARD Winner, Wondery, Lemme Say This.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 22/09/2025

I just wanna boop all the people talking about the midterms on the nose. boop! medium.com/@carmitage/i...

Another tough pill to swallow? Violence works. For them. Fascists use violence while claiming to be victims. They create chaos that “requires” their authoritarian solution. Then they purge anyone who opposes them. Meanwhile, democrats keep insisting on following rules that fascists completely ignore. They file lawsuits. They write editorials. They vote on resolutions. And fascists just laugh and keep consolidating power.

The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero. Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: zero. Most were removed by war or military coups, and tens of millions died in the process.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 21/09/2025

to wit:

screenshot of a caption from @attorneycrump on Instagram:

A Texas family is demanding answers after 34 year old Jessie Mobley Jr. collapsed while dining at KFFO Afro Steakhouse in Houston.

Instead of calling 911, staff allegedly carried his unconscious body outside and left him propped against a wall, assuming he was homeless.

His body was discovered the next morning by a cosmetology student arriving for class. Mobley's family says he could have been saved if staff had acted and are calling for accountability as outrage grows over the restaurant's silence.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 05/08/2025

"This isn't really about the intent or any condemnation. It's just a matter of critically engaging with something we admire. Sadly, we are in a climate where thoughtful interrogation is now a forbidden idea. Even now, I know that people are going to see the headline and say, "Oh, no, not another think piece."

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 15/05/2025

feel like this is not quite the endorsement they think it is.

screenshot reading "Netflix members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they so the shows and movies themselves," Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 29/04/2025

Grace's decision to let the vampires in mirrors the actions of the Asian legal orgs who got affirmative action repealed. in this essay I will...

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 13/03/2025

went looking for some old tweets. sent these straight to my therapist. everything I said would happen did, and we're still going. I told him I was intimately familiar with the mistakes y'all like to make. I want him to say I was right TO MY FACE link in tweet: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

two tweets from Cate Young:

1. I keep saying it and it's more obvious every day, but we are in for a *massive* shift in geopolitical power over the next few years. 5 November 2023

2. well... I'm starting to feel a lot less hysterical for thinking we're in for a massive shift in geopolitical power over the next few years. this country is not going to survive the next election, and when that happens, it'll be a free for all. more wars are coming 😵‍💫 13 October 2023

a bound book with the title "Times I was right and no ody listened."

tweet from Priscilla Alvarez:

NEW: The Trump admin is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority, known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to speed up deportations of certain immigrants in the coming days. It is expected to come in the form of a presidential proclamation.

quote tweet from Tanvi:

For context; This was the law used to justify Japanese internment.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 27/02/2025

more of this please

But Schriver was adamant at the start of his news conference that there is support in Michigan for his resolution, adding without evidence that same-sex marriage has hurt Michigan's family structures.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025

everyone loves us, we're so amazing.

a graphic for the best entertainment podcast nominations at the Ambie awards. the nominees are Infamous, Lemme Say This, Rattled and Shook, Scamfluencers, Kid Nation, The Road to Joni and The Wonder of Stevie.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 14/01/2025

obsessed with this headline about out coat of arms changing.

headline for Loop News: Coloniser ships to go: Bill to put steel pan on T&T Coat of Arms

The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts said the National Emblea of Trinidad and Tobago...

the rest of the sentence is cut off.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 02/01/2025

ah, so the Dems hate us too! noted. never thought building the life I want would make me an "indentured servant" but I guess that's my punishment for immigrating "the right way" like they've always been whining about. and naturally, the entire debate is happening without us, our voices or our input.

a screenshot of a tweet from Senator Bernie Sanders:

Elon Musk is wrong. The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire "the best and the brightest" but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labour they hire, the more money the billionaires make.

attached is a bulletin announcing a need for Major reforms to the H1B program.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 13/12/2024

drowning in screeners

recent activity on user's letterboxd account: A Real Pain, Babygirl, The Substance and The People's Joker

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024

your girl made a best new show of 2024. (it's Lemme Say This)

a screenshot of Spotify's best new shows of 2024 list, featuring the podcast Lemme Say This which I produce.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024

so anyway my zombie Christmas tree is up

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