Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater)
@catvincent.bsky.social
Word spiv, cunning-man, queer cyborg crip. REALLY Not for the Jesus-Man. No fash, no terfs, No Pasaran.
Pinned
Since I have no intention of giving an American Red State my ID data to use fucking DM's here because of a puritanical and short-sighted British law change, if any of you want to keep in touch, I am on Signal as Cat Vincent (catvincent444.23).
NB I have a higher standard of conduct there.
NB I have a higher standard of conduct there.
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these fucking guys
November 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
these fucking guys
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How I'm trying to be as this wretched year winds down.
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
How I'm trying to be as this wretched year winds down.
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Him and Eli Roth should be on your 100%-will-not-watch list. They're not just Zionists they're bloodthirsty zionists during a genocide
It’s wild to me people don’t at least know the shit Brett has been saying because it’s so bloodthirsty and insane.
November 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Him and Eli Roth should be on your 100%-will-not-watch list. They're not just Zionists they're bloodthirsty zionists during a genocide
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i fucking _hate_ how this language makes it sound as though these fuckwits all had something done to them, as opposed to "they were shitty human beings and have had to pay a mild amount of social embarrassment for it."
“Cancellation limbo”: when you’re definitely not cancelled but not as celebrated as you used to be. This is one reason why “cancel culture” discourse is so tiresome: a lot of people are using it to mean “my life was affected in some negative way by my actions”
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i fucking _hate_ how this language makes it sound as though these fuckwits all had something done to them, as opposed to "they were shitty human beings and have had to pay a mild amount of social embarrassment for it."
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while I cannot top @sbisson.com 's response of 'not mush room in here', the depiction of mushroom Jesus, Mary and Joseph taking shelter in the hollowed out corpse of another mushroom is very 'giving up your life for others/crucifixion' and also 'cannibalism/transubstantiation' foreshadowing...
ALL HAIL MUSHROOM JESUS
HE FRUITED FOR YOUR SINS
MAY HIS SPORES BLESS AND KEEP YOU
HE FRUITED FOR YOUR SINS
MAY HIS SPORES BLESS AND KEEP YOU
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
while I cannot top @sbisson.com 's response of 'not mush room in here', the depiction of mushroom Jesus, Mary and Joseph taking shelter in the hollowed out corpse of another mushroom is very 'giving up your life for others/crucifixion' and also 'cannibalism/transubstantiation' foreshadowing...
Oh no, Julia.
Prequel to Dune where you’re in tactical gear behind a ridge sighting in the scope on your plasma rifle as your commanders Bong Joon Ho and Celine Song and Guillermo Del Toro prepare to launch the atomics against the Butlerian data centers deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho Jokes Wants To Organize Military Squad To “Destroy AI’ As Jenna Ortega Says “We’ve Opened Up A Pandora’s Box” – Marrakech
Bong Joon Ho Jokes Wants To Organize Military Squad To “Destroy AI’ As Celine Song, Jenna Ortega Address AI Fears- Marrakech
deadline.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Oh no, Julia.
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these comemierdas
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
Native American actress gave ICE agents her tribal ID. They called it 'fake,' she says
www.seattletimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
these comemierdas
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Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway.
Rosencrantz: What?
Guildenstern: England.
Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Rosencrantz: What?
Guildenstern: England.
Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway.
Rosencrantz: What?
Guildenstern: England.
Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Rosencrantz: What?
Guildenstern: England.
Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is on YouTube.
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
YouTube video by Rolo Tomasi
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is on YouTube.
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
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Kate makes an excellent argument here.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Kate makes an excellent argument here.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
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Sad news. He was a bit of a reactionary crank at times, but what a writer..
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Sad news. He was a bit of a reactionary crank at times, but what a writer..
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there’s this accompanying fantasy, too, that if we can just remove Trump then everything people imagine the rule of law consists of will be a) repaired b) normal c) fine or all of the above
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
there’s this accompanying fantasy, too, that if we can just remove Trump then everything people imagine the rule of law consists of will be a) repaired b) normal c) fine or all of the above
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…Oh. Oh no. Oh no nonono. …And yet: of course.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
…Oh. Oh no. Oh no nonono. …And yet: of course.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
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I blame Bill Hicks. Loved his work at the time (much of it has dated *astonishingly* badly) but *by God* the "he wasn't a comedian, he was a Preacher" stuff in every documentary about him did serious damage.
I don't remember any more when we started to take, or were supposed to start taking, comedians so seriously? 20 years ago-ish? There was always reverence for Carlin, Pryor etc, but mostly within comedy world, not popular culture at large.
I wonder if Maron and WTF popularizing digging into the pain and such of so many comedians had a role here
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I blame Bill Hicks. Loved his work at the time (much of it has dated *astonishingly* badly) but *by God* the "he wasn't a comedian, he was a Preacher" stuff in every documentary about him did serious damage.
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The head of George W Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel Professor Jack Goldsmith: “I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported.
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The head of George W Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel Professor Jack Goldsmith: “I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported.
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
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Noddy Holder was an underrated Doctor
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Noddy Holder was an underrated Doctor
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not to get *all* doomerist, but having seen this & another thread on how COVID has essentially fucked over an entire generation of people (cognitively speaking), I've also started to notice similar phenomena happening at HÍ.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
not to get *all* doomerist, but having seen this & another thread on how COVID has essentially fucked over an entire generation of people (cognitively speaking), I've also started to notice similar phenomena happening at HÍ.
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I know it’s just random bad luck, but I feel like I'm trapped in a reality where nothing fucking works. Every new app or update errors out and websites glitch into uselessness. Services are just broken, but when I try to sort anything out, I get stymied by chatbot loops or Not My Problem cunts.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I know it’s just random bad luck, but I feel like I'm trapped in a reality where nothing fucking works. Every new app or update errors out and websites glitch into uselessness. Services are just broken, but when I try to sort anything out, I get stymied by chatbot loops or Not My Problem cunts.
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Grok is fully deranged. Here it is offering to explain my own post to me. Fuck off, Grok.
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Grok is fully deranged. Here it is offering to explain my own post to me. Fuck off, Grok.
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it's hard to process how “AI girlfriends” that engage in full-on porn are now normalised and readily available in app stores
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's hard to process how “AI girlfriends” that engage in full-on porn are now normalised and readily available in app stores
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It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
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Yes, thank you. Nobody wants to talk about the fact that Europe is bowing to Trump in all aspects, not just tech policies
The Trump administration’s pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures. wrd.cm/3XibTVd
Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy
The Trump administration’s pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures.
wrd.cm
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Yes, thank you. Nobody wants to talk about the fact that Europe is bowing to Trump in all aspects, not just tech policies
Can't wait for him to be found in a cupboard with an orange stuffed in his mouth, self-strangled by a lanyard.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Can't wait for him to be found in a cupboard with an orange stuffed in his mouth, self-strangled by a lanyard.
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❤️❤️❤️❤️
*laughs and laughs*
Years ago I saw a really fabulous, expensive, 1940s style women's bomber jacket that I LOVED. I posted about it, & @leahmoore.bsky.social also loved it, & the following very silly conversation ensued:
Leah: That is just gorgeous. I would marry that jacket. (1/?)
Years ago I saw a really fabulous, expensive, 1940s style women's bomber jacket that I LOVED. I posted about it, & @leahmoore.bsky.social also loved it, & the following very silly conversation ensued:
Leah: That is just gorgeous. I would marry that jacket. (1/?)
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
❤️❤️❤️❤️
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