Kate Violette

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25 June

Hello friends near and far 💜 I've reached the end of my savings, frustratingly, just as we've solved the root mystery of my illness (it's Lyme) and are seeing continued success with treatment. I'm asking for your help in bridging the gap between now and when I can hopefully work full-time again.

29 July

this is a whole freakin mood

Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com

I feel like I'm going crazy, but no, it is the world which is experiencing a mass psychosis event

man one of the things I love most in this world is taking some time to go deep on the work of a musician I love today's deep dive is Oscar Peterson, *easily* in my top 3 fav jazz artists I never get tired of hearing him play; any album with him on it is no skips for me

I could listen to "Tin Tin Deo" all day long

Who will think of the label readers once again?! (I'm saying this dramatically for a funny effect but I'm also kind of actually mad about it.) I'm tired of being required to make everything from scratch because companies keep bastardizing their products. I'm too sick to make my own replacements!

Kate Violette@kateviolette.com

So many food products are geared towards your baby-est consumer who never reads labels and demands everything always taste perfect I miss the very early days of Vega nutrition drinks (like ~2010 ish) because it was super good for nutrition (esp for athletes), and unapologetically tasted like trash

PS: To be clear, I'm not a total buzzkill on unnecessary ingredients. Will I eat something like artificial food coloring on a birthday cake now and then? You bet I will. Because that's an every once in a while thing and not something I'm relying on for daily nutritional intake.

(But if I'm making the cake myself, you can sure as heck bet I'm reaching for the natural food coloring at the store. Even if I'm making the cake for someone else. Food choices, like everything, are political.)

Kate Violette@kateviolette.com

So before it was a choice but now it's an actual accessibility issue When you shove a bunch of unnecessary ingredients into a food item, fewer people can buy it! And usually it's the very people who most need help figuring out low-effort eating (= sick folks with restrictions) who now can't eat it.

I just wish more people gave a damn about what they were putting into their bodies bc: 1. It would benefit their own bodies and health! 2. It would make it possible at all for sick people to be able to buy more pre-made stuff at the store!

Kate Violette@kateviolette.com

Gums are often high histamine, making most GF items at the grocery store unavailable to me. To be fair though, I avoided most gummy GF products even before becoming big sick. It's just not necessary. Why would I put something unnecessary like that into my body?

Why not just deal with slightly less than optimal texture? (Which again, doesn't even have to be the case, but too many food companies care more about swindling you out of your dollars with perfected products for the lowest production cost, than providing you something that's actually nutritious.)

Kate Violette@kateviolette.com

I'm in the middle of reading a book on gluten-free baking, and one of this book's big things is: you don't need gums in gluten-free baking! Like 90-95% of things you can make just as well if not even better without added gums.

(yes, and) These fucking surveys have *got* to stop separating out "Christian" vs "Catholic" like this Did they mean "Protestant" vs "Catholic"? Or are they actually counting Catholics twice: once as a standalone group, and a second time correctly counted under "Christianity"?

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.

for real, this is partly why I'm either going to find my future spouse while I'm still sick, or not at all I want a marriage that can survive the bad stuff. I want a marriage where, when we're unable to do all the "active" stuff we used to, that there is still plenty of fun and love left!

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social

a pal showed me this r/covidlonghaulers post and it broke my heart not only because it’s such a tale as old as time for chronic illness in a lot of ways, but also because i’ve heard more stories like this from consistently cautious people this year than in the past, despite the erosion of the state.

I would only ever marry someone on my goddamn level, and I'm not entirely sure how to test for that without, well, actually testing for it if someone can find the fun with me while I'm sick, I'll trust they would stick through whatever else life threw at our marraige

there's a bunch of typos in those posts and I am too tired to fix them, forgive me sleep time for me

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social

I don't want to get health again, travel and hike and do all such things, meet someone, only for them to be like "well this sucks, I'm outie" as soon as something prevents me from being as active--whether that's disability again or old age because I sure as fuck wouldn't leave someone like that

UGH I got a grand jury summons and I would actually be thrilled to do my civic duty (ok I am a curious cat and am very interested why there's a grand jury case happening), but I'm too sick to do so, so I'm gonna have to get an excusal :(

It's almost like society could run better if we gave a shit about having a working medical system that didn't just tell people serious illnesses were "all in their heads" for years and years and years--

www.kptv.com/2026/07/24/m...

--and treated said illnesses when they're not yet bad, instead of condemning people to unnecessary extreme sickness

Kate Violette reposted

Meghan Moyer

@multcomoyer.bsky.social

24 July

kptv.comMultnomah County delays vote on Moda Center renovation funding without proof of benefitsMultnomah County commissioners voted Tuesday to delay a decision on whether the county will contribute to Moda Center renovations the NBA has deemed necessary to keep the Portland Trail Blazers in the...

Meghan Moyer@multcomoyer.bsky.social

#ModaCenter #MultCoD1

queerliberationlibrary.orgVolunteer Opportunities — Queer Liberation Library

24 July

I'm with @acidlich.bsky.social in that my first thought was an artistic event Make mine the premier performance of "Rhapsody in Blue" please 🥹

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social

You can briefly time travel to any time and place to witness any historical event. You can't affect the course of history; you can just witness it. Where do you go/what do you see?

Kate Violette reposted

jessamyn

@librarian.bsky.social

24 July

The Queer Liberation Library is looking for a Collections Volunteer to do reader's advisory in the QLL discord. Sound up your alley? Apply here. www.queerliberationlibrary.org/volunteer-op...

everything I have to say about the Jimothy discourse is probably only fit for fellow disabled people's ears, everyone else would just get pissy at me for what I have to say

I forget who said this, but when people tell her (I think this was a her!) "you're so inspiring!" regarding her disability, she asks "oh thank you! what is it I inspire you to do?" 😂 and there's crickets, every time

anyway next time you hear someone call Jimothy "inspiring", ask what he's inspired them to do

everything I have to say about the Jimothy discourse is probably only fit for fellow disabled people's ears, everyone else would just get pissy at me for what I have to say

adult humans have generally figured out there are things we need to do that aren't fun: dentist appointments, paying the electric bill, etc it's disappointing that that understanding has not yet extended to "survival is a shared burden" and greater support + inclusion of disabled people in society

(also the truth is that actually a lot of disabled people are still fun and funny as hell, it just looks different than what you're used to)

everything I have to say about the Jimothy discourse is probably only fit for fellow disabled people's ears, everyone else would just get pissy at me for what I have to say