Boston chronic illness patient, advocate, blogger, and creator. RA, Sjögren’s, POTS, & more. Opinions are mine. aka Kate the (Almost) Great®️. she/her
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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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“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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While a big reason I use social media is to get blog traffic, it’s important that I don’t share the exact same content everywhere.
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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis “is the most common type of arthritis in kids and teens”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Advice for Aspiring Doctors: What You Need To Know
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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.
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How To Use Social Media Effectively for Your Blog: lttr.ai/AcasP
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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.
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I have 3 types of newsletters: monthly round-ups of my content across the blog and social media; conversational types with discounts, freebies, updates, etc.
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ID: How to grow your blog audience in 2025, www. kate the almost great .com
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30 Strategies for Growing Your Blog in 2025
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