katre
@katre.henchmonkey.org
Software engineer and bassist (one of these pays, one of these is fun). Lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He/him.
Formerly @katre on the birdsite, currently also on Mastodon as @[email protected]
Formerly @katre on the birdsite, currently also on Mastodon as @[email protected]
Where can I get a hoop skirt with eight foot diameter petticoats, please?
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Where can I get a hoop skirt with eight foot diameter petticoats, please?
I'm about to fly from JFK to Atlanta in a few days, how exciting for me.
For those curious on the full list.
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'm about to fly from JFK to Atlanta in a few days, how exciting for me.
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Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
docs.google.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
There is a large-for-Brooklyn grocery store a block from my house and I treat it like an extension of my pantry: oh, I want to bake something with currants? Off to the store, be back in ten minutes.
It's called a "store" because the way cities used to work is that they stored the stuff you needed and you walked or biked or took the bus there as needed to get stuff. But then we zoned corner stores out of existence and forced everyone to do big box shopping that only makes sense with a car
"do you honestly expect me to ride the bus to get food"
yes
yes
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
There is a large-for-Brooklyn grocery store a block from my house and I treat it like an extension of my pantry: oh, I want to bake something with currants? Off to the store, be back in ten minutes.
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one thing I’ve learned over the years is that 80% of people don’t understand how percentages work and the other 30% don’t care
October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
one thing I’ve learned over the years is that 80% of people don’t understand how percentages work and the other 30% don’t care
I just started laughing so loudly that my kid in the other room called to ask if I was okay.
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I just started laughing so loudly that my kid in the other room called to ask if I was okay.
As a Muslim living in NYC, this is so moving. Thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, for being the person you are.
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As a Muslim living in NYC, this is so moving. Thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, for being the person you are.
This is very readable and specific. Thanks for interrupting bathtime to write this for us to read, @davecolon.bsky.social!
I took a bath in my too-small tub, read the Charter Revision Commission report and came up with this explainer on the ballot referendum questions about housing policy nygroove.nyc/housing-refe...
What do the housing ballot referendums mean and how should I vote on them?
Understand the big proposals that claim to streamline new affordable housing
nygroove.nyc
October 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is very readable and specific. Thanks for interrupting bathtime to write this for us to read, @davecolon.bsky.social!
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As is always the case with this nostalgia crap, "what they took from you" was the feeling of being 12, not any actual thing in the past.
(Also, those 1960s, 1970s cars were deathtraps compared to modern vehicles)
(Also, those 1960s, 1970s cars were deathtraps compared to modern vehicles)
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As is always the case with this nostalgia crap, "what they took from you" was the feeling of being 12, not any actual thing in the past.
(Also, those 1960s, 1970s cars were deathtraps compared to modern vehicles)
(Also, those 1960s, 1970s cars were deathtraps compared to modern vehicles)
The slightly bewildered look on my children's faces when I point out that it's one in the afternoon and they should have lunch: "I have to eat food ... again?"
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The slightly bewildered look on my children's faces when I point out that it's one in the afternoon and they should have lunch: "I have to eat food ... again?"
While cleaning up our Little Free Library I found a book explaining that COVID was an intentional lab leak by the Chinese government.
It went in the trash, under some very disgusting used rags, just to be safe.
It went in the trash, under some very disgusting used rags, just to be safe.
If a book really sucks, it's ok to throw it in the recycle bin instead of donating it
People are probably gonna yell at me for this one but I don't care--there's some truly shoddy stuff out there that should be vigilante taken out of circulation bit by bit
People are probably gonna yell at me for this one but I don't care--there's some truly shoddy stuff out there that should be vigilante taken out of circulation bit by bit
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
While cleaning up our Little Free Library I found a book explaining that COVID was an intentional lab leak by the Chinese government.
It went in the trash, under some very disgusting used rags, just to be safe.
It went in the trash, under some very disgusting used rags, just to be safe.
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AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
I'll buy anything that @tkingfisher.com, @marthawells.com, or Bujold publish. (You don't even have to tell me the title, I've already hit the "Buy" button.)
Why do I have to find out about new books from Bluesky? Why isn't there a way for me to just get a "Time to spend money now!" email?
Why do I have to find out about new books from Bluesky? Why isn't there a way for me to just get a "Time to spend money now!" email?
October 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'll buy anything that @tkingfisher.com, @marthawells.com, or Bujold publish. (You don't even have to tell me the title, I've already hit the "Buy" button.)
Why do I have to find out about new books from Bluesky? Why isn't there a way for me to just get a "Time to spend money now!" email?
Why do I have to find out about new books from Bluesky? Why isn't there a way for me to just get a "Time to spend money now!" email?
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#DnD advice: If your players are gravitating towards a specific aspect of the campaign, don't be afraid to give it more of the spotlight. My campaign is now officially The Adventures of Goblin with a Cool Hat and his Player Character Friends.
September 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
#DnD advice: If your players are gravitating towards a specific aspect of the campaign, don't be afraid to give it more of the spotlight. My campaign is now officially The Adventures of Goblin with a Cool Hat and his Player Character Friends.
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They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter
September 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter
I am currently in Boston (hi Boston!), and I love the city but I don't understand why people here love Dunkin coffee so much.
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I am currently in Boston (hi Boston!), and I love the city but I don't understand why people here love Dunkin coffee so much.
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Just heard on Irish radio someone saying about Kirk, "he has been given a huge amount of empathy in death that he denied huge amounts of people in life".
September 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Just heard on Irish radio someone saying about Kirk, "he has been given a huge amount of empathy in death that he denied huge amounts of people in life".
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I just think they're neat
May 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I just think they're neat
Slightly diminish a band:
Eight Inch Nails
Eight Inch Nails
Slightly diminish a band:
Blue Oyster Social Club
Blue Oyster Social Club
Slightly diminish a band:
Big Attack
Big Attack
August 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Slightly diminish a band:
Eight Inch Nails
Eight Inch Nails
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But these AI fucks don't want to do any of that: they don't want to go through the process of learning, of developing skills, of cultivating the ability to see what is in light of what can be. They think this process is archaic, outmoded, something that can be replaced with a tool.
August 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
But these AI fucks don't want to do any of that: they don't want to go through the process of learning, of developing skills, of cultivating the ability to see what is in light of what can be. They think this process is archaic, outmoded, something that can be replaced with a tool.
Hey @granades.com, check out what the Pizza Rat is up to!
A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested by Tallahassee officers for credit card fraud
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
July 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Hey @granades.com, check out what the Pizza Rat is up to!
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ME: (became the dalai lama through a looney tunes-esque series of events) you truly cannot stop a bitch who loves a soft cheese
THE PANCHEN LAMA: (loading a revolver) ah. so true bestie
THE PANCHEN LAMA: (loading a revolver) ah. so true bestie
July 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
ME: (became the dalai lama through a looney tunes-esque series of events) you truly cannot stop a bitch who loves a soft cheese
THE PANCHEN LAMA: (loading a revolver) ah. so true bestie
THE PANCHEN LAMA: (loading a revolver) ah. so true bestie
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We spent eight years giving the best centrist, moderate argument the Democratic Party could make the best chance possible.
And that gave us Trump.
So it's time for something different.
Time, and past time.
And that gave us Trump.
So it's time for something different.
Time, and past time.
June 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We spent eight years giving the best centrist, moderate argument the Democratic Party could make the best chance possible.
And that gave us Trump.
So it's time for something different.
Time, and past time.
And that gave us Trump.
So it's time for something different.
Time, and past time.
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NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
June 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot