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KatieGeeks
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Grown-up with a car, a job, a library card, an AO3 account, and an increasing number of shelves filled with Kpop albums. I keep my ducks in a row. (She/Her)
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KatieGeeks @katiegeeks.bsky.social · Jan 21
Help me stay sane

1 like gets you one thing I love.
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Decided to get in on the love this year...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Oh, I like this one. 5 animals i've seen in the wild:

1. So many deer
2. Black bears foraging at a landfill
3. Great blue heron
4. A pod of dolphins
5. A very confused gopher who emerged from his burrow in the middle of a John Prine concert in Golden Gate park.
hopeinthenight.bsky.social Gotta have hope darling @hopeinthenight.bsky.social · 22h
5 animals I've seen in the wild (i'm including my garden under wild):
Fox (In garden)
Moose (in garden in front of my windows 🥲)
Squirrel (forest)
Deer (on path in front of my house)
Hedgehog (in garden)
rachelish.bsky.social Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 22h
I don't think I've been to 5 gigs so: 5 animals I've seen in the wild

Raccoons (Toronto)
A chipmunk once (Toronto)
Grey seals (Blakeney)
Red squirrels (Alston and the Highlands)
New Forest Ponies (the New Forest)

Also 5 wild waterfowl I've seen today:

Swans
Grey Heron
Cormorant
Moorhen
Coot
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Thanksgiving with friends: A+++++

Day after Thanksgiving sitting on the couch watching die hard and (eventually) writing: ALSO A+++++
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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WIPWednesday... and my plan for the holiday weekend.
For the third day in a row, Kibum woke up with the vague sense that something was off. He’d slept fitfully again, his bed too hot and too cold at the same time and his dreams full of figures in the edge of his vision that vanished as soon as he turned to look at them. Even barely conscious as he was, the tension sitting at the base of his skull and in the hinge of his jaw warned him that he’d have a headache soon enough. For several minutes, he lay with his eyes closed, trying to deny what was becoming impossible to ignore. He’d been cursed.
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Scrooge - Alistair Sim (1951)
Muppet Family Christmas
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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many, many nights I seed the youtube mix with kpop.

Tonight I seeded the mix with a very, very baby Beegees performance of Blowing in the wind. The results have been FASCINATING.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Listening to Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America (2012)... and let me tell you this section on enron's "fictitious transactions" doesn't resonate with anything going on in today's economy, nope. nothing at all.
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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He's in training... (one of these days i'll catch him in the full extended sprint, but it's hard because he largely runs to get attention, so as soon as I turn to watch him, he stops)
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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TAEMIN GOODIES!!! thank you so much @vixxsofa.bsky.social
Two beaded taemin name charms, several photo cards, and a taemin and koong illustration greeting card.
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Wheeeeeeee! (I think it's going to be about 3k, and it may even be finished over the holiday weekend??? if I don't talk myself out of liking the very, very silly idea)
A google docs word count pop-up showing a word count of exactly 500.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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I haven't had a career path. I've had a career meander.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 18d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Whoops. started a new Google doc tonight. it's a very silly riff on a trope that absolutely cannot be dragged out beyond like mayyyyybe 6k words even if i try to stretch it to its limit. So who knows, there might be a shot of me finishing something. maybe even before the end of the year?
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Ranted about this to my father last night:

As long as there is a chance that I'm going to wind up separated from most of my belongings and sleeping on the floor of the airport, I'm not wearing hard pants. I'll be clean, but by god, I will be comfy.
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 9d
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:

"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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I seriously can't get over how good the David Byrne show was last night. Like, I've known he puts together concerts that are art... but seeing it in person was something else. I was so afraid I was gonna struggle to enjoy the show, because I've been so stressed. It was perfect.
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Mark the date: I have closed the office window and made my first cup of mint tea. Winter (San Francisco version) is here.
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Sad to report that The Amusement Park NOT scratching my brain the right way at the moment. It's not bad, and I will probably return to it some other time, possibly not as audio book, but for now it goes back in circulation for someone else. And I go back to the drawing board.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Ok, a tentative selection has been made.
The Amusement Park: 900 years of thrills and spills and the dreamers and schemers who built them. By Stephen M. Silverman.
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I've been on board for our cephalopod overlords for well over a two decades. Bring it on.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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A library to-read list of 500+ books and a tendency toward decision paralysis is a truly unfortunate combination...
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Every day my decision to avoid "AI tools" as much as possible is validated.
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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So, a boss at a previous job gave me an "oracle" book for Christmas one year. I don't turn to it for actual guidance, but I do occasionally flip it open to a random page and laugh at the platitude. But... today? DON'T FUCKING PATRONIZE ME, YOU HUNK OF CELLULOSE.
An open book. on the left hand page is an "all seeing eye" illustration. On the right hand page is a single sentence in bold, all-caps font, centered vertically and horizontally on the page. It says "EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE JUST FINE."
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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my apologies to which ever staffer get stuck logging the incoherent "do not cede an inch" message i just left my senator. I at least didn't call anybody a useless sack of of shit. (saved that for calling my dad to tell him to call HIS useless sack of shit senator).
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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what if... stick with me now, instead of endlessly scrolling 4-5 social media platforms, I use my Sunday to write? or even to read?

what a fucking novel idea. Might just try it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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visited some friends
Sea lions basking on the floating docks at Fisherman's Wharf
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM