Boston chronic illness patient, advocate, blogger, and creator. RA, Sjögren’s, POTS, & more. Opinions are mine. aka Kate the (Almost) Great®️. she/her

Maine woods/Boston, MA
Joined February 2012
As a note, my scheduled content has been moved to other platforms. I will still post a bit here, but if you want my scheduled stuff, you’ll need to go elsewhere. I’m generally known by variations of katethealmostgreat in other places.
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My take on the piracy convo is that feel free to pirate but don’t be mad that the author doesn’t like that you pirated it. Why are you telling authors you pirated their book and why are you expecting them to be happy about it?????
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“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” Okay, and? No one asked Miss Bates anything, and she still told everyone everything.
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“Not proactively LGBT hostile” is about the best you can hope for from a Pope so if you have to dig back to 2012 to find an “alternative lifestyles” quote from Leo XIV that honestly beats the curve.
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“oh he’s homophobic forget it” this is the catholic church everyone! 😭😭😭😭
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As a reminder: - the papacy has generally been behind the average Catholic’s real opinions - someone who is able to climb to be a cardinal is not going to be “woke” by normal people standards. “Woke” by Catholic priest standards, sure. But by average the American? No
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I’m not saying we shouldn’t want more from the pope. But for a man in his 60s, who has been a priest and a cardinal? Sure. If you’re expecting the pope to go “actually throw out everything we’ve done and said in the last 100 years if not longer” you will be disappointed.
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This week’s 911 episode had everything: Eddie and Chris reuniting, Chuck/God from supernatural, Raph from Dropout, the 118 responding to emergencies
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It was truly all my binge watching universes collided
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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis “is the most common type of arthritis in kids and teens”. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AcvSy ID: Understanding common rheumatoid arthritis symptoms & tests, www. kate the almost great .com
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So in 2024, I deleted blocks that didn’t work … from 400 blog posts. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Acspy ID: 30+ strategies for growing your blog in 2025
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When you deal with chronic illness and pain, meeting doctors is a normal part of your life. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Aclkq ID: Advice for Aspiring Doctors: What You Need To Know
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My blogging career is heavily supported by doctors who don’t take their patients seriously or who don’t fight hard enough for them. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AckTM ID: What Doctors Should Know about Patients, www. kate the amost great .com
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But if you do use affiliate links, you can explain more why people should buy a product in a blog post than in a social media post. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AcheU ID: How to use social media effectively for your blog
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Basically, any part of your body can be affected by an autoimmune disease, even if it starts in one specific part of the body. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AcQ1S ID: Blue text box reads "Rheumatoid Arthritis Guide A-Z: Part One"
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Advice for Aspiring Doctors: What You Need To Know ▸ lttr.ai/AcepO ID: What Doctors Should Know about Patients, www. kate the amost great .com
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Some topics can be addressed in a social media post, but some need more fleshing out, which is where blog posts come in. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Acbo7 ID: Blog marketing using social media, www. kate the almost great .com
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How To Use Social Media Effectively for Your Blog: lttr.ai/AcasP ID: A blue text box reads "I’ve talked about this a lot, but as a blogger, social media is both for driving traffic and building an audience."
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Some of the things this course helped me do included finding new-to-me SEO tools and updating 56 blog posts and pages. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AcQ2H ID: 30+ strategies for growing your blog in 2025
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