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KatM

@KatM@mastodon.social

#Seattle based #writer. #Designer. #Photographer. #Kayaker. #Runner. #Humanitarian. Lover of all animals.

Owner of a successful #marketing and #communications company.

#CareerCoach #Entrepreneurship #Coach and #Startup Advisor

Certified Technical Communications Professional
Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE)

Former #nonprofit executive and fundraiser. Current nonprofit board member and Chair. Former executive recruiter.

Member of the Intl Coaching Federation and Nat’l Writers Union

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KatM, to Canada
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Ugh. I can smell the smoke from and it's not even June yet. 😢

I'm sorry, Canada.

KatM,
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@thepoliticalcat Yeah, Cali has had some terrible fires. We bought 3 HEPA filters (2 sm LaVoit, 1 lg BluAir) after the first BC and NE Washington wildfires we experienced here. The air was unbreathable. Thank heaven we had a heat pump. It was so hot, but you couldn’t open your windows! We could at least cool our house down.

I’m sure @PandaChronicle remembers the 2021 fires.

KatM,
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@thepoliticalcat Oh no! I bet that experience makes you anxious every summer now. 🥺@PandaChronicle

KatM,
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@thepoliticalcat That’s terrifying! Lahaina, Maui, same thing… none of the Emergency Alert Systems were working. Last summer we had a fire break out across the valley from us. We had 200 firefighters sleeping on vacant lots to put it out. Luckily, they had it extinguished in 4 days. We had GO bags in our car. This is the new normal. 🙁

@PandaChronicle

KatM, (edited )
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@thepoliticalcat I had to update my post on smelling the wildfire smoke because I was wrong. I panicked when I smelled some fool burning green wood in his fire pit. Then later heard firetrucks. It's hard not to be on edge - you even more than me!

@PandaChronicle

KatM,
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@thepoliticalcat :yikes:

@PandaChronicle

KatM,
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@PandaChronicle So sad. I think about Paradise all the time because of where we live. I met someone recently who lost their home in Paradise. They lost a lot.

It's so strange to have grown up in a state I never imagined on fire because they were so rare and it was so wet... and now we have to worry every summer.

@thepoliticalcat

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KatM,
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@indivisibleteam I have a hefty RSS feed full of journals, newspapers, and other sources - plus Mastodon posters I trust and occasionally TV news.

KatM, to random
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Darwin didn't account for human stupidity being allowed to run wild.

KatM, to random
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I just read the top line of an unsolicited sales email sent via LinkedIn, “Hey Kat, let’s cut through the bs and get right to the point…”

That’s all I read before blocking and deleting.

Free marketing advice: Don’t make assumptions about your recipient’s sense of humor, especially in a sales email.

I wrote a sales letter for a national recruiting agency 20 years ago that they still use today. It opens with, “Your top competitor [brand name] just hired us.” Only used when true, but it works!

KatM, to random
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See, even when Biden agrees to debate Orange Mussolini the media dunks on him.

He should not have agreed to legitimize this criminal candidate by sharing a debate stage with him.

Say what you want. I stand by my position as a former PR manager and antifascist voter.

https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/112445956871274705

jeffjarvis, to random
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Chuck Todd is on MSNBC right now positioning Biden's debate challenge as the Biden campaign losing. Oh, I do not miss him.

KatM,
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@jeffjarvis 😂 No kidding! Retire already, Andrea.

KatM, to random
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I have a story idea…

An international criminal with deep financial ties to hostile foreign governments decides to run for US president and wins. He knows his opponents will come after him for his crimes, so he places lots of new judges loyal to him on federal and Supreme Court benches. Then when he gets dragged into court by state attorneys general, those judges circumvent the cases against him. He runs for president again, silencing the a-political DOJ, and wins again!

Sound too far fetched?🤨

KatM,
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@Lizette603_23 Haha! I know. Harebrained idea. ;-)

KatM, to random
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We’re learning quickly that our nation of laws is pretty much DOA in 2024, given these judges put in place by Trump and their slow-walking any accountability for him or his cronies.

And don’t get me started on Garland the Silent. 🤐

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Elections matter. This judge…🤦🏻‍♀️

Via Scott MacFarlane:

The clock keeps ticking

Federal judge Carl Nichols is giving Steve thru Monday to respond to Justice Dept request that Bannon begin serving his four month prison term for Contempt of Congress

(Nichols had paused the sentence during Bannon’s appeal, which failed)

KatM,
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@GottaLaff Another Trump appointed judge y’all.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Lol, now CNN is saying corporate greed may not be a leading cause of inflation.

Yeah the network is far far gone. Complete corporate sycophants and nothing more.

KatM,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 So, a corporate media platform demurs on corporate price gouging that our government ignores while our Federal Reserve Chairman toys with the idea of raising interest rates again to quell the inflation brought on by corporate price gouging? 🔃

@KimPerales

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Germany now calls the United States the land of forbidden books. Think about that for ten seconds, please.

KatM,
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@jeffjarvis Germany would know.

@SRDas

GottaLaff, to random
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Emptywheel:

Tommy Tuberville says he went to Gotham to help an accused felon threaten a judge's family.

Via David Lurie:

Tuberville is a bad co-conspirator.

Aaron Rupar:

Tommy Tuberville admits on Newsmax that "one of the reasons he went" to NYC yesterday was to "overcome this gag order"

KatM,
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@GottaLaff They seem to be lining up for the gig to show their loyalty. So gross. How humiliating that must be to have to lick the boots of a guy knee deep in his own shit. 🤢

@thepoliticalcat

KatM,
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@GottaLaff Yes, and Tuberville doesn’t care. Look how long he held up military appointments. He’s all in for the next coup.

@thepoliticalcat

KatM,
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@GottaLaff No doubt! Anyone who’s stuck around this long is in it til the end. People like Tuberville, Blackburn, Gaetz, Stephanik, and Crazy Marge are especially happy to do whatever is asked. This is them living their best lives.

@thepoliticalcat

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These mothafuckas out there straight up plotting to blow up power stations to destroy this country.

https://mastodon.social/@w7voa@journa.host/112441239457707341

White supremacist fuckas will hand it over to Russia with a bow on it. And no matter how white you may be, you will NEVER be white ENOUGH.

KatM,
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@thepoliticalcat Their jail sentences need to be long and painful. This is domestic terrorism.

KatM, to random
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Tech bros:
Let’s…
put everything online and make it easily searchable!
scrape everything people share and sell what we scrape!
IoT everything and sell that data too!
get into healthcare, education, security, and finance and sell that data to insurance companies, banks, and police!
create a new currency we control and get out while it’s high!
sell digital arts stored on our servers until the fools figure out it’s a scam!
AI everything from our scraping and sell that back to people!

Next…?

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Today's IncelCamino photo for your endless enjoyment.

https://mastodon.social/@Lana@beige.party/112438210228420621

$100K for a car that you can't wash in the sun, rusts in the rain, can't drive on snow or sand, gets stuck on hills, can't charge when it's cold, and sometimes blows up, killing occupants. Wow. Chinese vehicles are cheap, you can probably buy FIVE of them for the same price, and they do what you need without killing you or anyone else.

KatM,
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@_ @thepoliticalcat I have no problem with tariffs on Chinese made goods.

KatM,
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@_ If Americans want to buy slave labor goods, they should at least be expensive. I’d rather we not import slave labor goods.

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