Cates Holderness
@cates.bsky.social
managing editor @garbageday.email, prev at tumblr and buzzfeed. we both just lost The Game. 🌱 (she/her)
Me meal prepping a giant quinoa salad for lunches on Sunday: This is great! I can eat this all week and won’t have to worry! Me 3 days later: I am so fucking sick of this bullshit thing I cannot believe I have like 3 more days of this for goddamn lunch
lmaooo a bunch of people on r/pizzacrimes are Big Mad about people who want vegetables on pizza
Cates Holderness@cates.bsky.social · 4w agofuck you
Ah shit thank you, forgot to add alt text because I was so horrified lmao
Haplo@haplo.bsky.social · 4w agoalt text: open pizza box containing a pizza with most of its toppings & cheese slid off into a corner, revealing saucy crust.
part of my job is being a community moderator and tbh i honestly had a great day modding the @garbageday.email @discord.com server, specifically in regards to a survey i emailed out to paid subscribers. modding a vibrant and active community is honestly so much fun.
hot take: I think clavicular is striving to look like circa ‘97 gavin rossdale
If you know Tozzi, you know this is indeed a splashy hire and I am THRILLED!
Lisa Tozzi@lisatozzi.bsky.social · 2mo agoSuper excited to work with @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social @cates.bsky.social and the rest of the @garbageday.email team! Thanks @status.news for calling me a splashy hire! www.status.news/p/new-york-t...
To recap this weekend: Bought expensive plants cause grief BK Pride Parade!! KNICKS IN FIVE APPARENTLY THE CAROLINA HURRICANES WON THE CUP?? WTF @lisatozzi.surf.social is starting as COO @garbageday.email tomorrow
okay, look. I truly give zero fucks about sports in general, let alone specific teams. I have only vague knowledge. BUT go Knicks
Being the person that I am, I have volunteered to be an unpaid mod for another active online community. lol. lmao even
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Russia has ruled a K-pop omegaverse fic to be illegal, sentencing its author to 18 months in a labor camp. So is it worth reading? Get the link I tracked down in today's @garbageday.email and decide for yourself! www.garbageday.email/p/everything...
I did bar trivia with people from my building earlier this week (we came in 2nd!) and they kinda spent the entire 2 hours slowly drilling into who I am and what my job is after I said I work online for a small digital media journalism company
this piece contains a truly incredible chart (i love charts)
Danielle Kurtzleben@titonka.bsky.social · 3mo agoDo you ever think about how Trump's posting was this wild new thing in 2015 and now it's just background noise in politics? I think about this a lot. So I read all his posts this year and analyzed them because THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING A LOT OF STUFF YOU AREN'T READING. www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...
The mid 90s teen baby queer Fiona Apple to Florence pipeline is insane
thrilled to say that after almost an entire year i made my first Ed. note in @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/what-happe...
![a screenshot of the garbage day newsletter that reads "The pre-Vine animated GIF boom has mostly been memory-holed. [Ed. note: Unless you’re still on Tumblr, where GIFs and GIF-sets still constitute a large percentage of posts.] In the early 2010s, message board users were moving from smaller websites to larger platforms — and getting jobs at digital media companies. And they ended up bringing a lot of shared culture with them. What we used to call “Weird Twitter,” for"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5osxikuplctdgn3messhahas/bafkreifboucaxgffw7jepkua77t6y5jfascx6ao3bjiropzyixbb25dkhi)
Sorry to Genshin on main but I’ve been playing this game for YEARS and I just got my first 36-starred Spiral Abyss and I am GIDDY
Tonight’s @garbageday.email Live show featuring @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @akilahhughes.com was the best show we’ve done IMO. Shout out to bringing weird online stuff to IRL events
To the robin singing his ass off in prospect park and keeping me awake cause it’s nice enough to have my windows open: buddy wyd it’s like 2am she’s not gonna fuck you
I just found my second grey hair and I got really excited tbh, please let me evolve into my silver fox era
Exactly one year ago I got laid off along with like most of the Tumblr staff and I’m extremely lucky to report that working at Garbage Day with @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social has been wildly beneficial to my mental health and I have fun at work again
My OCD got diagnosed legit 30 years ago and is very much under control thanks to 3 decades of therapy but there’s some lingering Brain Is Lying Shit I still deal with, so again this is a win for me. Shoutout to the 5 ice cubes in my kombucha
Cates Holderness@cates.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy therapist is on parental leave but I KNOW they would be so proud of me for consistently using an odd number of ice cubes recently in defiance of my ocd
My therapist is on parental leave but I KNOW they would be so proud of me for consistently using an odd number of ice cubes recently in defiance of my ocd
me, a vegan, begrudgingly: fine, i’ll make a fucking salad using the stupid fucking veggies i bought specifically for making salads that’ll go bad if i don’t eat them
i got, like, deeply into ASMR-like high quality long Japanese train and ferry travel videos with zero dialogue and i'm not embarrassed to admit that i saw this post and was like "oh, that's Mei Time! she's great!"
kottke.org@kottke.org · 5mo agoGorgeous: rural Kyoto in the heavy snow. [youtube.com]
