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Katemonkey (In Most Places)
@katemonkey.com
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Transplanted Southern Californian in the land of medieval hoodlums.
Likes bad pop culture and the Internet.
Yep.
She/Her/They/Them.
Find me at https://www.katebolin.com
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Holy smokes, I was not expecting such a fast turnaround on my @mayakern.com skirt. Ordered on Thursday, received this morning (didn't open it until now).
BEHOLD! COELACANTH SKIRT!
A section of a large circle skirt in black, with coelacanth illustrations on it, as well as siphonophores.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This is where I skeet from
David Lynch is sitting on a sand dune. It is 1983. He is filming Dune. He doesn't know that it'll be one of my favourite movies. He just knows it's very hot and everyone is interfering.
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I like self-service checkout machines, because it means the staff can sit and gossip to themselves while getting paid, and not judge me for buying "Bluey" stickers.
(I put @sachajudd.com's sticker with my stack of Bluey stickers because this is all about my love. Of shiny metallic sad Bingo.)
A small stack of Bluey stickers, with a metallic sticker of Bingo looking sad on the top, is on top of the Panini envelope that gave you six sticker packs and a colouring sheet. There is also the sticker from Sacha Judd that says "What you love matters".
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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You ridiculous beast.
The seagull is on top of the building, grooming himself.
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Enjoying Royal Sussex Hospital's Urgent Treatment Centre. There is the BIGGEST seagull outside looking very threatening to anyone who comes nearby. I can only assume he's representing the resident doctors.
Fight the power, buddy!
A photo through a door window. There is a parking barrier and to the right of it is a large grumpy seagull. This is his carpark. How dare you.
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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ME ME ME ME ME
Shlubby nerd with green glasses and a shirt covered in sushi.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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When I bought "House Flipper 2", I didn't think I'd reach a point in the game where I'm obsessing about kerning.
But here we are.
Screenshot of a scene in House Flipper 2, where there's a stage background in the shot (purple with orange spiderwebs). The letters on the background say "Halloween Festival". The kerning is bad. There is also a microphone in the right foreground, showing that it is a stage, and a gloved hand next to the phrase "Precise placement". The placement, based on the letters, is not precise.
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Also look what I found in a nearby "vapes and sweets" shop. The taste of my childhood.
I'm holding a can of Cactus Cooler, an orange and pineapple soda that is rare to find outside of California.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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S P O O K Y T I M E S
A bunch of plastic animal skeletons are on various small steps. There is a sign that says "Spooky Petting Zoo". There's a buzzard, a rat, a jackalope, a sheep, a cat, a piranha, two crows, and a monkey. A carved turnip, a plastic cat skeleton, a carved jack-o-lantern, a large plastic skeleton, a scary baby doll with a plastic hand, a lantern, and a skull with candy in it. A carved pumpkin and a carved turnip. Me wearing green faceprint, a long scraggly black wig, and a veil with roses and a skull on it. I look mysterious and spoooooooky.
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I feel like everyone could use a boost.
Here is a very dapper coelacanth that is here to tell you how fantastic you are.
A coelacanth is swimming up from a crevice. They are wearing a top hat and a monocle, because style matters, even in the ocean.
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Also, there is this weird stain at the top of one of the columns in the council building and I could NOT stop looking at it.
An ornately painted faux Greco-Roman column in a fancy council room, with a weird brown splat stain up towards the capital.
October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Today, I got a certificate and a fancy coin to show off when I go to protests, harangue my MP, and be annoying at any local events.

Yep, look out everyone, I have representation to go with my taxation.
A dour looking gentleman wearing a poppy (because England) is standing next to a fabulous looking person with teal hair, a teal cardigan, a teal dress with a mid-century-style illustration of New Orleans, and big black boots with blue shoelaces. The person, a physical embodiment of "blue hair and pronouns", is holding up a British Citizenship certificate. A challenge coin, cheaply made and wrapped in plastic, with text that reads, if you read it from top to bottom: "British City of Nottingham Citizen".
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Oh you know it's bad when the Weekly World News is speaking truth.
An image from the Weekly World News showing an illustration of a face made from digital effects. The headline reads "A.I. announces it would like some money" and there's a quote to the side of the head that says "How much you got on you? -A.I."
October 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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I am so freakin' good at colouring.
A printed out exercise for kids, matching up dental products, like a toothbrush and mouthwash, to kids, very well coloured. There is also a drawing of a person in a brown hat, with only two teeth, saying "Brush yer dang teeth! Don't end up like me!"
October 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Goddamn, those actually look ridiculously comfy.
But I cannot justify $749, not even in Canadian dollars.
Screenshot of an Instagram post from Fluevog, showing off the Starfleet Academy boots they're making in a tie-in with Star Trek. They are long, black, leather, and look very comfy. Kerrice Brooks is shown wearing them while in her Starfleet uniform. The text is about how Fluevog is doing a preorder sale from October 9th to October 12th.
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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What, you're not supposed to spend part of your Disneyland holiday lying in bed with Haunted Mansion Ambiance playing on the TV? What's the point, then?
A very fancy wall in the Disneyland Paris Hotel, in a Castle Club room. There is a large mirror in the centre, with a television in the middle. The television shows an artistic rendering of the Anaheim Disneyland Haunted Mansion, with fireflies floating around. There are two lines of captioning. One says "music playing", and the other says "crickets chirping".
October 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I don't care what everyone says - Rex is still the best pilot.
REX, the original Star Tours pilot, stands in a crate, reduced to scrap.
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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We are so good at colouring.
A toy lemur is sitting on top of a piece of paper, a green crayon in its hand. On the paper is an illustration of two tigers, one the classic orange (simulated by mixing red and yellow crayons) and one all white and black. Around them is drawn what looks like a stage, with a blue floor and yellow stars on the wall. There is bright red on the tigers' muzzles and front paws and near the orange one, in green crayon, it says "We ate Siegfried and Roy". Siegfried is misspelled as "Sigfried".
September 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Today I acquired this particularly kitsch little cat, which is very neon and bedazzled and opens up in the back to hold... yeah, not gonna lie, I think glow-in-the-dark acrylic miniatures might need to go there.
A small white ceramic cat, with neon green and neon pink paint, gold trim, and tiny fake diamonds. And a crown.
September 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I also watched "Your Dustbin Is Beating Hitler" which I recorded off of @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social but it's not on @letterboxd.social and my energy levels are too shot to add it myself.
But oh my god. YOUR DUSTBIN IS BEATING HITLER. It's on TPTV Encore. Enjoy it: tptvencore.co.uk/product/tpmo...
A title screen that says British Paramount News Your Dustbin Is Beating Hitler
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I bought a Tiny TV from Tiny Circuits and everything is automatically better.
September 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I'm at East Coast Pride in Skegness, and somehow, this bag had to join me. It is a mystery as to why.
A large black plastic handbag in the shape of an owl sits in style concrete steps. She is also wearing a black trilby that has four badges on it. From left to right: a circular badge with a rainbow background that says "Skeg-gay", a circular badge with a shark that says "trans rights", and a circular badge with a trans flag background and a cartoon of mothman that says "hate everyone equally". Above them is a heart in genderqueer colours with a small frog there.
September 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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HELL YEAH SHARK MOVIE AT THE BROADWAY
Kate is inside a giant cardboard shark. Oh no, the teeth are sharp and they are dead. The cinema screen is lit in blue and has "Jaws 50 anniversary" projected on the curtain.
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Me: "This is perfectly organised. Myra is the adopted daughter of Wren. Myra marries Addison. They have a son named Leroy."
Graphviz: "Sure thing! But he's.....over there. Like, waaaaaay over there. Dakota's in the way. Yeah."
Me: "...What."
A bit of Graphviz code, showing that Myra, Dakota, Derby, Addison, and the marriage between Myra and Addison have the same rank. Then it has the connection between Myra and Addison, and how their marriage produces their son, Leroy. The graph Graphviz produces. Yes, Myra, Addison, and their marriage are ranked the same, but they are both very far apart and Dakota is in-between them, despite Dakota not having anything to do with the marriage or Myra's lineage. Myra is on the far left, Dakota is in the middle, Addison is on the right, and below Addison is Leroy.
August 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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THE BOX HAS FALLING SAND.
also, THE COMIC
Paul Atreides from the comic, all blue-on-blue eyes and ridiculous chin. He is thinking "Sound...as a weapon. If only you could see them, Father." Paul Atreides from the comic, standing in the sand, shouting "The sleeper has awakened!"
August 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM