Katherine Senzee
@ksenzee.bsky.social
Principal software engineer at Smartsheet, previously at Acquia, working primarily on Drupal. Studied Spanish and French at BYU but more Episcopalian than Mormon these days. Seattle-ish. No, you can't have my em dashes. Or en dashes, either.
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For all y'all getting in the Advent spirit, my parish's choir just released an album of carols, featuring some interstitial music composed by our extremely talented music director. Check it out! ⚓ open.spotify.com/album/4QmDSq...
Evermore & Evermore: Carols from St. Mary the Virgin, San Francisco
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
For all y'all getting in the Advent spirit, my parish's choir just released an album of carols, featuring some interstitial music composed by our extremely talented music director. Check it out! ⚓ open.spotify.com/album/4QmDSq...
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It looks like voters are angry with Republicans. They will consider voting for Democrats or won't vote. It would be a shame not to nominate a Democrat for every open position.
The Democratic Party has the power to reduce qualification fees for first time candidates. Do it and fundraise on it.
The Democratic Party has the power to reduce qualification fees for first time candidates. Do it and fundraise on it.
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
It looks like voters are angry with Republicans. They will consider voting for Democrats or won't vote. It would be a shame not to nominate a Democrat for every open position.
The Democratic Party has the power to reduce qualification fees for first time candidates. Do it and fundraise on it.
The Democratic Party has the power to reduce qualification fees for first time candidates. Do it and fundraise on it.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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1. DNS lookups for both URLs to see if they resolve to the same IP
2. If either DNS lookup fails, do a case-insensitive textual comparison of the URLs
3. If that fails, check if they're both null
4. If that fails, then they're not equal.
2. If either DNS lookup fails, do a case-insensitive textual comparison of the URLs
3. If that fails, check if they're both null
4. If that fails, then they're not equal.
If you want a real laugh, look at how Java checks urls for equality.
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
1. DNS lookups for both URLs to see if they resolve to the same IP
2. If either DNS lookup fails, do a case-insensitive textual comparison of the URLs
3. If that fails, check if they're both null
4. If that fails, then they're not equal.
2. If either DNS lookup fails, do a case-insensitive textual comparison of the URLs
3. If that fails, check if they're both null
4. If that fails, then they're not equal.
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Does anyone know a doctor anywhere in North America who could assess someone with severe GI damage from multiple infections, worsened by Rituximab/prolonged oral prednisone, malnutrition (including severe Thiamine deficiency), and autoimmune neuropathy?
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Does anyone know a doctor anywhere in North America who could assess someone with severe GI damage from multiple infections, worsened by Rituximab/prolonged oral prednisone, malnutrition (including severe Thiamine deficiency), and autoimmune neuropathy?
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I love being in trans-inclusive spaces even as a regrettably cis person
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I love being in trans-inclusive spaces even as a regrettably cis person
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They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
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On this #NationalComingOutDay:
we’re glad we can say that there is a place in the Episcopal Church for us to be our whole selves, wondrously made as we are. For history, connection, and resources, this page is a good place to start: www.episcopalchurch.org/organization...
⚓️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
we’re glad we can say that there is a place in the Episcopal Church for us to be our whole selves, wondrously made as we are. For history, connection, and resources, this page is a good place to start: www.episcopalchurch.org/organization...
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LGBTQ+
Trouble viewing? Click to view stream mirror. ON THIS PAGE For decades, LGBTQ+ Episcopalians and allies have worked to make The Episcopal Church a place of belonging and inclusion. We have prayed, stu...
www.episcopalchurch.org
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
On this #NationalComingOutDay:
we’re glad we can say that there is a place in the Episcopal Church for us to be our whole selves, wondrously made as we are. For history, connection, and resources, this page is a good place to start: www.episcopalchurch.org/organization...
⚓️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
we’re glad we can say that there is a place in the Episcopal Church for us to be our whole selves, wondrously made as we are. For history, connection, and resources, this page is a good place to start: www.episcopalchurch.org/organization...
⚓️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Anyway, my only actual comment on Charlie Kirk's death is the same as my comment on today's school mass shooting is the same as my comment on the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband is the same as my comment on--
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CG4Y...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CG4Y...
If It Were Up to Me
YouTube video by Cheryl Wheeler - Topic
m.youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Anyway, my only actual comment on Charlie Kirk's death is the same as my comment on today's school mass shooting is the same as my comment on the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband is the same as my comment on--
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CG4Y...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CG4Y...
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EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS infuriating, deplorable account of what one trans woman in the U.K. has gone through as a result of the country's shifting laws (particularly as they have moved toward explicit hatred this year).
Just read it. My God.
Just read it. My God.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS infuriating, deplorable account of what one trans woman in the U.K. has gone through as a result of the country's shifting laws (particularly as they have moved toward explicit hatred this year).
Just read it. My God.
Just read it. My God.
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My kid, whose cégep campus (Vanier) abuts that of a Francophone cégep, St.-Laurent: "You can tell where the border is between the two, because the flyers advocating communist revolution switch from French to English."
August 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My kid, whose cégep campus (Vanier) abuts that of a Francophone cégep, St.-Laurent: "You can tell where the border is between the two, because the flyers advocating communist revolution switch from French to English."
what I tell you three times is true
I have now said this to you three times. Stop evangelizing your one neat trick for fungal infection, completely random dosages of completely random chemicals, injecting bleach and powdered insects, and lead poisoning (to use a small sampling of what the people I know have found).
August 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
what I tell you three times is true
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AI is really good at faking empathy and since that’s often a part of therapy, people might think it’s working. But if it tells you what you want to hear, it enforces a false reality and can make you literally psychotic. A good tip is if a therapist (AI or human) never challenges you, get a new one.
How about this:
It isn’t empathy if it isn’t between living creatures.
It isn’t empathy if it isn’t between living creatures.
"Empathy without accountability isn’t therapy."
August 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
AI is really good at faking empathy and since that’s often a part of therapy, people might think it’s working. But if it tells you what you want to hear, it enforces a false reality and can make you literally psychotic. A good tip is if a therapist (AI or human) never challenges you, get a new one.
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if your balance sheet does not dictate that you hold an entire Omelas child in reserve, you may elect to hold tokenized fractional Omelas children instead
August 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
if your balance sheet does not dictate that you hold an entire Omelas child in reserve, you may elect to hold tokenized fractional Omelas children instead
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You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.
July 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.
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People of the PNW: it is time to take stock of your spider ranch.
Is yours fruitful and fulfilling, like mine?
Or does it need further tending, like appropriate sized insects, or some light misting?
Is yours fruitful and fulfilling, like mine?
Or does it need further tending, like appropriate sized insects, or some light misting?
July 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
People of the PNW: it is time to take stock of your spider ranch.
Is yours fruitful and fulfilling, like mine?
Or does it need further tending, like appropriate sized insects, or some light misting?
Is yours fruitful and fulfilling, like mine?
Or does it need further tending, like appropriate sized insects, or some light misting?
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We can't let Foone down. We would regret it.
July 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
We can't let Foone down. We would regret it.
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official DHS account posting fourteen word long tweets with the H's randomly capitalized
groyper occupied government
groyper occupied government
July 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
official DHS account posting fourteen word long tweets with the H's randomly capitalized
groyper occupied government
groyper occupied government
What a good way of putting this. I feel similarly about The Sparrow. All that violence I will never be able to un-imagine.
I watch violent movies, but this one had violence of a type I can’t bear well, throughout.
but mostly I will never again be able to get back a mind free of the scene with the murder/stillbirth and its aftermath. and i do resent that.
but mostly I will never again be able to get back a mind free of the scene with the murder/stillbirth and its aftermath. and i do resent that.
July 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
What a good way of putting this. I feel similarly about The Sparrow. All that violence I will never be able to un-imagine.
Yes! Not only are they not recognizably Christian, they're claiming the demonym for themselves alone, and insisting none of the rest of us are real Christians. And a lot of regular people believe them.
YES!! EXACTLY! THIS!!
They are literally not Christian in any way that is recognizable, in belief or practice, to the rest of Christianity over the past two millennia and around the rest of the world.
And they are rejecting us much harder than we're rejecting them.
They are literally not Christian in any way that is recognizable, in belief or practice, to the rest of Christianity over the past two millennia and around the rest of the world.
And they are rejecting us much harder than we're rejecting them.
July 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Yes! Not only are they not recognizably Christian, they're claiming the demonym for themselves alone, and insisting none of the rest of us are real Christians. And a lot of regular people believe them.
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If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
July 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
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As an Episcopalian whose church is suing this administration, I do not feel protected one bit by the Trump gang. Everything they have done from cutting funds for food & health care to kidnapping my neighbors and sending them to prison camps and gulags, is the opposite of our teachings. ⚓️
Trump, speaking at a WH Faith Office event right now, says he's "once again protecting religious freedom instead of destroying it" and insists he "stopped the Biden administration's persecution of Christians."
The Trump admin is currently being sued by dozens of religious orgs and denominations.
The Trump admin is currently being sued by dozens of religious orgs and denominations.
July 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
As an Episcopalian whose church is suing this administration, I do not feel protected one bit by the Trump gang. Everything they have done from cutting funds for food & health care to kidnapping my neighbors and sending them to prison camps and gulags, is the opposite of our teachings. ⚓️
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If you’re going to be at the Worldcon in person, right now is a good time to get a COVID booster because four weeks from now will be your peak immunity.
(We just got ours.)
(We just got ours.)
July 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If you’re going to be at the Worldcon in person, right now is a good time to get a COVID booster because four weeks from now will be your peak immunity.
(We just got ours.)
(We just got ours.)