Katie
@looktogod.bsky.social
Story addict since childhood. Thinker of many & uncommon thoughts. Challenger of perceptions. Independent. Hopeful. LDS ish. Different than many suppose.
Complex spoonie. Homebound frustrated by wanderlust. LOVES colors. And plants.
Complex spoonie. Homebound frustrated by wanderlust. LOVES colors. And plants.
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Katie
@looktogod.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Pinning all my pinned posts here in an ongoing thread, from books & autism, to silver boots, to whatever else should make the list.
I'm an organizer. It's cleaner this way.
I'm an organizer. It's cleaner this way.
We're none of them paying attention to the many TV eps across many series addressing this very question? A computer program trained to mimic human responses based on the patterns taken from vast quantities of human interactions is still just a computer program. Not a sentient living intelligence.
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We're none of them paying attention to the many TV eps across many series addressing this very question? A computer program trained to mimic human responses based on the patterns taken from vast quantities of human interactions is still just a computer program. Not a sentient living intelligence.
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This is a point that needs repeating. It’s fiscally conservative to house the homeless, it’s also the right thing to do.
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is a point that needs repeating. It’s fiscally conservative to house the homeless, it’s also the right thing to do.
@chronicillness.bsky.social
The spoonie life hack of buying comfortable clothes that work for day or night so no one knows either way.
The spoonie life hack of buying comfortable clothes that work for day or night so no one knows either way.
Gemma Correll, contemporary British cartoonist who currently lives and works in the US #WomensArt #Tuesday
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
@chronicillness.bsky.social
The spoonie life hack of buying comfortable clothes that work for day or night so no one knows either way.
The spoonie life hack of buying comfortable clothes that work for day or night so no one knows either way.
It's been about 2 weeks since I stopped taking the super B complex after finally noticing the weakness/beyond tired spell I get after taking it. (I'd known it happened in the afternoon, but not that this was the cause.)
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It's been about 2 weeks since I stopped taking the super B complex after finally noticing the weakness/beyond tired spell I get after taking it. (I'd known it happened in the afternoon, but not that this was the cause.)
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This and this and this and this and this and this.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This and this and this and this and this and this.
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If you've heard about RFK Jr's "wellness farms," have I got a story for you.
I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues.
So I'd love to tell you all the various ways those farms made us all worse!
youtu.be/pDNoVqiGb_c
I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues.
So I'd love to tell you all the various ways those farms made us all worse!
youtu.be/pDNoVqiGb_c
RFK Jr's Plan To Put Americans On Farms
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If you've heard about RFK Jr's "wellness farms," have I got a story for you.
I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues.
So I'd love to tell you all the various ways those farms made us all worse!
youtu.be/pDNoVqiGb_c
I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues.
So I'd love to tell you all the various ways those farms made us all worse!
youtu.be/pDNoVqiGb_c
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ICYMI, the Utah State Legislature will consider a bill that will force data centers to disclose how much water they use: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
ICYMI, the Utah State Legislature will consider a bill that will force data centers to disclose how much water they use: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah
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As always, wise words and excellent examples.
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
As always, wise words and excellent examples.
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This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Finally! Good news from Houston, TX: Autistic teen held for almost 48 days in federal custody Emanuel Gonzalez Garcia is home where he belongs.-CG youtu.be/4_Xpcht3PQM
Houston mother gets son back after weeks-long battle with federal authorities
YouTube video by KHOU 11
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Finally! Good news from Houston, TX: Autistic teen held for almost 48 days in federal custody Emanuel Gonzalez Garcia is home where he belongs.-CG youtu.be/4_Xpcht3PQM
I had no idea this was something taught for trauma recovery. I found my way to it on my own. It started with the idea of a tower, like Rapunzel (long before Tangled), where no one could get to me without my allowing it. That meant safety. It was very much an active tool to deal with it all.
Safe space imagery is more involved than just "picture a safe space." If that's all it was, it'd be pretty weak sauce. What it actually involves is developing the recovery tool of sensory mental focus to the point we can literally change our brainwaves & nervous system "levers."
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I had no idea this was something taught for trauma recovery. I found my way to it on my own. It started with the idea of a tower, like Rapunzel (long before Tangled), where no one could get to me without my allowing it. That meant safety. It was very much an active tool to deal with it all.
Every single time I see someone talking about kratom, my brain instantly thinks it's about carob - that chocolate substitute. I'm remembering what it isn't faster, now, but it has been very confusing.
I think maybe that's never going to change.
I think maybe that's never going to change.
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Every single time I see someone talking about kratom, my brain instantly thinks it's about carob - that chocolate substitute. I'm remembering what it isn't faster, now, but it has been very confusing.
I think maybe that's never going to change.
I think maybe that's never going to change.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It doesn't stop.
Every tiny possible gain just starts the whole cycle over again.
Oh, this thing I was doing thinking it helped was actually making things worse? Let's see how much better I am now!
Nope, still broken in all the other ways.
Why was I so hopeful for a huge reversal?
Every tiny possible gain just starts the whole cycle over again.
Oh, this thing I was doing thinking it helped was actually making things worse? Let's see how much better I am now!
Nope, still broken in all the other ways.
Why was I so hopeful for a huge reversal?
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It doesn't stop.
Every tiny possible gain just starts the whole cycle over again.
Oh, this thing I was doing thinking it helped was actually making things worse? Let's see how much better I am now!
Nope, still broken in all the other ways.
Why was I so hopeful for a huge reversal?
Every tiny possible gain just starts the whole cycle over again.
Oh, this thing I was doing thinking it helped was actually making things worse? Let's see how much better I am now!
Nope, still broken in all the other ways.
Why was I so hopeful for a huge reversal?
This whole thing reminds me of how I worked out my critical theory frustrations by putting many theorists together in a room that ends up as that high conflict daytime confrontation talk show (I never watched it and forget the name, but it was basically a by word for such situations).
del Toro: see the thing about frankenstein is
del Toro: he got his name
del Toro: from his father
King:
Poe:
Koontz:
Lovecraft:
Barker:
Barker: yeah that's how it usually works
Shelley: don't interrupt the man
Shelley: I WILL stab you
del Toro: he got his name
del Toro: from his father
King:
Poe:
Koontz:
Lovecraft:
Barker:
Barker: yeah that's how it usually works
Shelley: don't interrupt the man
Shelley: I WILL stab you
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This whole thing reminds me of how I worked out my critical theory frustrations by putting many theorists together in a room that ends up as that high conflict daytime confrontation talk show (I never watched it and forget the name, but it was basically a by word for such situations).
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The maga base has spent more than a decade building trump up in their collective conscious to be something far more that even he can live up to. They have mythologized this man into something he’s just not. So when he steps out of line with that myth they lose their fucking minds.
Truth Social users are not happy with Trump on this one.
“A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind?????”
“A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind?????”
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The maga base has spent more than a decade building trump up in their collective conscious to be something far more that even he can live up to. They have mythologized this man into something he’s just not. So when he steps out of line with that myth they lose their fucking minds.
I couldn't find it on my phone until I specifically chose my email account instead of just general settings.
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I couldn't find it on my phone until I specifically chose my email account instead of just general settings.
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"Fox News Channel legal analyst Andy McCarthy promptly wrote: 'There is no insurrection or sedition without the use of force. Disobeying a lawful order is insubordination, not insurrection or sedition. Disobeying an unlawful order is required. That is all.'”
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"Fox News Channel legal analyst Andy McCarthy promptly wrote: 'There is no insurrection or sedition without the use of force. Disobeying a lawful order is insubordination, not insurrection or sedition. Disobeying an unlawful order is required. That is all.'”
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Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.
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NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Some of the bad actors are staying to be identified and legally held responsible. This is in a thread regarding one of them.
It seems to me that ICE and the related agencies are attracting exactly the type of men who are already entitled to thinking this allows them free rein.
It seems to me that ICE and the related agencies are attracting exactly the type of men who are already entitled to thinking this allows them free rein.
Donahue can be seen in a number of other videos from October questioning people about their citizenship and detaining them.
One person stopped by him and questioned in Albany Park told us, "you could just tell he thought he could do whatever he wanted."
One person stopped by him and questioned in Albany Park told us, "you could just tell he thought he could do whatever he wanted."
At some point today amidst threatening rapid responders, detaining a citizen and abducting people, red beard here changed his clothes.
Blue hoodie in Edgewater. BP uniform in Albany Park.
Blue hoodie in Edgewater. BP uniform in Albany Park.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Some of the bad actors are staying to be identified and legally held responsible. This is in a thread regarding one of them.
It seems to me that ICE and the related agencies are attracting exactly the type of men who are already entitled to thinking this allows them free rein.
It seems to me that ICE and the related agencies are attracting exactly the type of men who are already entitled to thinking this allows them free rein.
It's foolish of us to assume it was an accident. That may be fun for jokes, but it leaves us unprepared for malicious intentions (by our government) when these patterns are pushed further, as they always are.
Wisdom says look deeper and broader for what this was a precursor for.
Wisdom says look deeper and broader for what this was a precursor for.
What the hell: The US accidentally invaded Mexico on Monday, storming a beach and planting DoD “restricted area” signs claiming the land for “the commander,” and triggered a standoff with armed Mexican security forces, all because Trump’s government can’t even identify a border on a map. 🧵 1/
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It's foolish of us to assume it was an accident. That may be fun for jokes, but it leaves us unprepared for malicious intentions (by our government) when these patterns are pushed further, as they always are.
Wisdom says look deeper and broader for what this was a precursor for.
Wisdom says look deeper and broader for what this was a precursor for.