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Caters Gonna Cate

@cateismilesaway.bsky.social

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She/her. Bookseller, for now. Occasionally a writer. TERFs unwelcome here. Racists can fuck right off. Misogynists can die. Living on Three Fires land: Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi.

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Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 3h

My favorite part of this is that they didn’t just bring chainsaws, but they rolled up with them ON SCOOTERS. I can’t imagine anything more European.

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 3h

The whole time, I was thinking of Dr. Manhattan and how he just fucked off to Mars, but my boyfriend was missing that crucial context.

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 3h

Last night, I woke up from a nap but was struggling to say what I was thinking, so imagine my boyfriend’s surprise when I said, “The human urge to retreat to another planet.”

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 3h

I would ask if he’s 12 years old, but I remember being 12 and didn’t know anyone this immature.

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for this excellent contribution.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

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Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly. Although who hasn’t been there before, amirite?

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 12h

In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote (by about 3 million) but won the election because of the electoral college, so that one wasn’t on the voters. In 2024, he won the popular vote (by about 2 million) and also the electoral college. That WAS on the voters. It’s totally unacceptable.

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 12h

Direct action. You love to see it.

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 22h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 12h

- No one:
- Absolutely no one:
- Me: paux fas

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Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 18h

Couldn’t be there because of work, but I’m glad to hear that I’m not seeing any reports of major issues!

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 18h

How about YOU grow up and let people enjoy things, especially right now.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 20h

It's bad enough that Christmas takes up all of December and some of November if you are a really sad case. However, now it appears that some people want to celebrate Halloween for the whole of October. Grow the fuck up.

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Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 21h

Couldn’t protest today because of work, but no kings and all that.

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 21h

I honestly forget that Edward exists. That’s how normal he is. No sex scandals! No divorces! Edward who?

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Kristen Wixx @kristenwixx.bsky.social · 1d

Save the planet.

Stop buying plastic skeletons for Halloween; they're terrible for the environment. Locally sourced, all-natural skeletons are much more environmentally friendly. They take a bit of prep work, but so worth it. Reuse, repurpose, recycle.

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💙Mad About Books💙 she/her @madaboutbooks.bsky.social · 2d

💙📚 #BookSky

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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, God, my parents are spilling more family tea and I can’t take it.

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 1d

Many thanks to Grandpa for that.

Caters Gonna Cate @cateismilesaway.bsky.social · 1d

Dad told me that he was thinking of dropping out of college during the Vietnam era to join the military. Apparently his dad, a WWII vet, told Dad that he would fuck him up enough that the military would never have him. In Grandpa’s words: “When I was in, it was for a reason. This is just bullshit.”