Catherine King
@catherinefking.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, wedding officiant. Based in Los Angeles.
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Saw The Mission (1986) last night, it was good but flawed.
Incredible music.
Incredible music.
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Saw The Mission (1986) last night, it was good but flawed.
Incredible music.
Incredible music.
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I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
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We’d like to share a remembrance for Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, who has passed away. Her life and work helped preserve history, expand whose stories are told, and inspire generations to come.
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
We’d like to share a remembrance for Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, who has passed away. Her life and work helped preserve history, expand whose stories are told, and inspire generations to come.
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A win! Thanks to everyone who spoke out. Following public backlash, Mike Lee backtracked on the National Parks proposal, which would have rescinded legislation protecting national parks and maintaining their boundaries as federal lands.
December 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A win! Thanks to everyone who spoke out. Following public backlash, Mike Lee backtracked on the National Parks proposal, which would have rescinded legislation protecting national parks and maintaining their boundaries as federal lands.
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Happy Winter Solstice. The mists returned to Avalon as we celebrated the return of the light on the shortest day. Tomorrow daylight hours begin to lengthen. It was a beautiful morning on Glastonbury Tor.
December 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Happy Winter Solstice. The mists returned to Avalon as we celebrated the return of the light on the shortest day. Tomorrow daylight hours begin to lengthen. It was a beautiful morning on Glastonbury Tor.
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The truth always comes home to roost.
December 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The truth always comes home to roost.
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Glenn Close em Wake Up Dead Man
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Glenn Close em Wake Up Dead Man
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It's really fairly fucked that Daniel Blumberg's phenomonal music for THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is getting ghosted by AMPAS after he won last year for the big boy movie
For the morning people:
Testament of Ann Lee > The Brutalist
Testament of Ann Lee > The Brutalist
December 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It's really fairly fucked that Daniel Blumberg's phenomonal music for THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is getting ghosted by AMPAS after he won last year for the big boy movie
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From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE.
Tickets are on sale NOW. Select screenings in 70mm beginning on January 16. ✨ 🎞️
#somervillema #somervilletheatre #thetestamentofannlee
Tickets are on sale NOW. Select screenings in 70mm beginning on January 16. ✨ 🎞️
#somervillema #somervilletheatre #thetestamentofannlee
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE.
Tickets are on sale NOW. Select screenings in 70mm beginning on January 16. ✨ 🎞️
#somervillema #somervilletheatre #thetestamentofannlee
Tickets are on sale NOW. Select screenings in 70mm beginning on January 16. ✨ 🎞️
#somervillema #somervilletheatre #thetestamentofannlee
also, it's perfectly possible to assess "wow, the present day economy is kind of sucky" without glamourizing the woes of working-class people of yesteryear
No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
also, it's perfectly possible to assess "wow, the present day economy is kind of sucky" without glamourizing the woes of working-class people of yesteryear
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(The original post was either deleted or the person blocked me.
But for posterity, the claim being responded to here is that American minimum wage workers are actually dramatically poorer than Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol.)
But for posterity, the claim being responded to here is that American minimum wage workers are actually dramatically poorer than Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol.)
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
(The original post was either deleted or the person blocked me.
But for posterity, the claim being responded to here is that American minimum wage workers are actually dramatically poorer than Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol.)
But for posterity, the claim being responded to here is that American minimum wage workers are actually dramatically poorer than Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol.)
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This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').
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So what you have *actually* discovered is that an American family working at minimum wage is *meaningfully better off* in terms of access to real resources than someone on the lower runs of Victorian Britain's educated *urban middle class.*
Quite the opposite of the intended implication!
Quite the opposite of the intended implication!
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
So what you have *actually* discovered is that an American family working at minimum wage is *meaningfully better off* in terms of access to real resources than someone on the lower runs of Victorian Britain's educated *urban middle class.*
Quite the opposite of the intended implication!
Quite the opposite of the intended implication!
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You can see the same sort of redefinition of 'relative' poverty in something like Jane Austen's Bennets, who are 'poor' by the standards of regency gentry, which is to say they are very rich by any normal standard, poor compared only to the even-more-rich.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
You can see the same sort of redefinition of 'relative' poverty in something like Jane Austen's Bennets, who are 'poor' by the standards of regency gentry, which is to say they are very rich by any normal standard, poor compared only to the even-more-rich.
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No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
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And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
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First flower of her house.
December 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
First flower of her house.
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Fights, hunger strikes, censorship, retaliations, tear gassing, no janitorial staff, rare meals, and no medical care. On International Migrant’s Day, a coalition of groups organized a rally outside of Adelanto City Hall to share what’s happening at the privately owned GEO detention center for ICE.
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Fights, hunger strikes, censorship, retaliations, tear gassing, no janitorial staff, rare meals, and no medical care. On International Migrant’s Day, a coalition of groups organized a rally outside of Adelanto City Hall to share what’s happening at the privately owned GEO detention center for ICE.
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And this is why I focus so much on grasses out front.
December 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
And this is why I focus so much on grasses out front.
Fancasting Radiance by @catvalente.bsky.social
Daryl McCormack (seen in the new Knives Out movie) for Erasmo St John
Manny Jacinto as the soul lost in a neon anemone city, Anchises St John
Daryl McCormack (seen in the new Knives Out movie) for Erasmo St John
Manny Jacinto as the soul lost in a neon anemone city, Anchises St John
December 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Fancasting Radiance by @catvalente.bsky.social
Daryl McCormack (seen in the new Knives Out movie) for Erasmo St John
Manny Jacinto as the soul lost in a neon anemone city, Anchises St John
Daryl McCormack (seen in the new Knives Out movie) for Erasmo St John
Manny Jacinto as the soul lost in a neon anemone city, Anchises St John
I want generative AI to die a swift and painful death.
December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I want generative AI to die a swift and painful death.
incidentally the jennifer plotline alone puts guy gavriel kay's fionavar tapestry on THIN. ICE.
December 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
incidentally the jennifer plotline alone puts guy gavriel kay's fionavar tapestry on THIN. ICE.
Currently reading: Radiance by @catvalente.bsky.social
The Wandering Fire by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Aaaaand I mean to start Persuasion by Jane Austen but I haven't quite gotten around to it yet...
#BookSky
The Wandering Fire by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Aaaaand I mean to start Persuasion by Jane Austen but I haven't quite gotten around to it yet...
#BookSky
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Currently reading: Radiance by @catvalente.bsky.social
The Wandering Fire by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Aaaaand I mean to start Persuasion by Jane Austen but I haven't quite gotten around to it yet...
#BookSky
The Wandering Fire by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Aaaaand I mean to start Persuasion by Jane Austen but I haven't quite gotten around to it yet...
#BookSky
If you love The Princess Bride, do yourself a favor and try the book. It's super readable, very funny and smart, and it gets funnier the more classic literature you read.
Let me put it this way: don't you want to see how Rob Reiner adapted the unfilmable screenplay? #BookSky
Let me put it this way: don't you want to see how Rob Reiner adapted the unfilmable screenplay? #BookSky
December 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you love The Princess Bride, do yourself a favor and try the book. It's super readable, very funny and smart, and it gets funnier the more classic literature you read.
Let me put it this way: don't you want to see how Rob Reiner adapted the unfilmable screenplay? #BookSky
Let me put it this way: don't you want to see how Rob Reiner adapted the unfilmable screenplay? #BookSky