Kate
@notthewhiskey.bsky.social
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Generally bemused.
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Remember kids, the safest data is the kind that never exists.
Taylor Swift could never.
Cover of Dancing with Ophelia by Jeanne Ellen Petrolle
It’s fine that popular fiction is bad.

Oprah single-handedly ruined K-12 English Lit in the US with her book club.
Shoutout to the old lady Irish lady who lived across from my family in the 90’s who refused to talk to and hid from my redhead dad because she swore he was a changeling.

She got me interested in Irish folklore!
I am rewatching Norther Exposure for the first time since I was a kid.

The theme song tickled something in my brain.
* looks at Chicago pope * Come on, 2018 was a while ago.

Just excommunicate like 8 people. Okay, 4 and I’ll be a C and E Catholic again.
This would imply that Jewish people have higher rates of autism.

…This is antisemitic in a new arcane way like some shit you’d read in a eugenics magazine from the early 1900’s.
I just reviewed the NYC ballot measures and I’m voting no on everything except number 5.
I’m just hoping JFK airport holds its shit together for another month.
I want Cher’s coat from Moonstruck.
Cher in a tweed coat looking quizzically off screen. Moonstruck 1987.
Call me when the pope starts excommunicating members of the Supreme Court, members of the Trump admin, and refuses to meet with US officials.

Until then…it’s all ratlines to me.
* looks at Microsoft doing co-pilot shittery*

Damn, I’m gonna have to buy an old ThinkPad and run Linux now.

PopOs thumb drive to the rescue again.
Seems like it’s a bad idea to give the okay to blanket parties then piss off an entire room full of high ranking generals and admirals.
This has to be an aristocrat. Lord Kinbugger is tired of peasant blood in his noble line.
We are all now simultaneously blessed and cursed.
If you pause in exactly the right moment you’ll see a bottle of Astroglide on the shelf in the background. That’s when Eric Adams became Lube Cop to my circle.
That’s what happens when you don’t believe in sunscreen.
Congrats to everyone on Bluesky. We’re un-American apparently.
This has “I was a sex pest at the nudist colony” vibes.
This person has never taken a class about the 18th century novel or read any thing by Samuel Richardson.
If the National Review wrote this about me it’d be the front of my business card.

Really showing their William F. Buckley here.
How to reveal someone as an intellectually dishonest coward in four sentences. Jesus.

Kissinger wasn’t a monster because he came to my book party is why I take no conservative or centrist intellectuals seriously.
I, too, hope the Evangelicals all get raptured.

We can finally have Star Trek style fully automated luxury space communism.

Or just people in charge whose knowledge of science is greater than that of a plague doctor.
Watched a BBC documentary from 1973 about Bishop’s Light and it took me a solid 5 to 8 minutes to nail down the tone because that style of filmmaking has been parodied absolutely everywhere.
Love to get the “oh hey, that expensive piece of equipment you spent a lot money like 4 years ago? We aren’t supporting it anymore. Here’s a 20% discount code. Toodles, bebé” email.