Catholic Kate
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Catholic Kate
@catholic_kate
Catholic. Texan. Love to read.
Katılım Ocak 2026
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Go watch The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill And Came Down a Mountain.
It’s time to 90s-British-Costume-Drama-Max
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@catholicbirder Gotcha… good question.
I have always liked to know what’s going on in the world, in our country. I think that’s important and it influences my prayers. But it increasing feels fake and like nothing changes so it makes me want to give up on paying attention to it.
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@catholic_kate Because I don't know what you mean by "know" so I put "knowledge" like that to basically let you define it. You could mean genuine useful knowledge or you could mean knowledge of vain things that aren't useful, in this digital context.
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Increasingly feeling like ditching the digital world and just reading literature and playing the piano and going to adoration and creating beautiful things.
But then there’s a part of me that wants to know even if it all feels fake.
The modern dilemma….
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@catholic_kate wdym about wanting to know even if it all feels fake? like u want to be online so that you gain more "knowledge" ?
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Putting on some Chopin and locking into AutoCAD instead. 😩
Catholic Kate@catholic_kate
Increasingly feeling like ditching the digital world and just reading literature and playing the piano and going to adoration and creating beautiful things. But then there’s a part of me that wants to know even if it all feels fake. The modern dilemma….
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@MJTruthUltra Lovely of him to say but he let it happen. And gave Fauci an award. He could have stopped it.
This is just theatrical performance.
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Many more people died of Covid under the Biden Administration than under the Trump Administration.
“Operation Warp Speed” was a SPECTACULAR SUCCESS, in fact, many say, one of the most successful things ever done by an American President.
I overrode Fauci on this. His ideas were CRAZY! Also, I said from the beginning that the Virus came from the Wuhan Laboratory in China.
Fauci strongly disagreed, always trying to protect China. I Inherited Fauci, who was there since the 1980’s, but with each passing day, relied less and less on him.
He made too many bad calls, like on MASKS. Remember at the beginning he was an anti-masker. He then switched to a super-masker.
In any event I didn’t let him shut the Country down, although he wanted to. I went the Federalist way, and let the governors decide.
The Republican governors did a much better job than the Dumocrats. Fauci was largely taken out of play, and then along came Sleepy Joe Biden, who made Fauci a “King!”
I called Biden to tell him Fauci was no good, either didn’t have a clue, or was dishonest. The call was well received, but sadly,
not acted on. Biden went on to give Fauci vast destructive power. The rest is history! President DJT
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Kudos to this guy for being able to say this.
Many can’t. Even when faced with the evidence.
Tim Young@TimRunsHisMouth
John Fetterman is in a suit today… so you know how serious this is. He says he regrets believing the lies Fauci pushed.
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Ummmmm alcohol and cigars are the stuff of life (so is stake, eggs, butter but also sourdough, fruit, olives, perfectly cook hericot verts, etc)
Love life in all is joy and variety and avoid the junk. Honor the Triune God. Pray and don’t worry.
Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙@AlpacaAurelius
shoutout to everyone rawdogging life. no alcohol, no weed, no psychedelics, no seed oils, no vapes, no peptides just steak, sunlight, water and the earth. you're a rare breed
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@alancornett Mine is:
Catholic -general plus prophecy, spiritual warfare, Saint bios, history, growing the encyclical section now…
Gardening (design and how-to)
Food/wine
Classic Lit
Some travel and history
Culture (Like the Preppy Handbook, Bombshell Manual of Style, art, fashion, manners)
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You can't buy every book to preserve it. Find an obscure niche or two from some particular interest and deep dive into arcana a normie couldn't imagine. Then the challenge: find someone younger than you who would care enough to take them from you.
Charlie D. Becker@charliedbecker
I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to. Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious. When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it. That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required. Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain. (I am open to being corrected.) Full writeup: open.substack.com/pub/charliebec…
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@catholicbirder Can you share your research? I’d be curious to know more.
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@catholic_kate Definitely should collect books, but I did research this issue and apparently the claim about them being rare books is false. it's mostly mass market stuff with tons of copies. They don't just go find rare, priceless books and shred them.
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This is why I refuse to use AI and why I collect books I don’t plan on reading.
Jane Clark Scharl@JcScharl
This is horrifying. Go to your local used bookstore. Find the old, one-off books and buy them. Give them space in your home. It's a service to civilization!
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@bradrcarson We are willingly repeating the burning of Alexandria’s library.
Turns out we are the barbarians.
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So AI labs are buying old books by the pallet, slicing them apart, scanning the pages, and pulping what's left. The orders are keyed to ISBNs and blind to scarcity. Nobody in the pipeline checks whether the book being shredded is one of the last copies on earth. Some of them probably are. 1/6
Hedgie@HedgieMarkets
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗
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@jeffreytucker @USCCB helped - we should have never tolerated this.
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Fauci's taciturn recounting of the lockdown day, the day he ended the Bill of Rights, free enterprise, freedom of association, sports, arts, religion, took away education, and wrecked millions of businesses, in the name of science. Banality of evil.
paul.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
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I’m not crying… you’re crying 🥲
What a lovely video!
Joey Swoll@TheJoeySwoll
This is what the gym community is all about. Sometimes, it’s more than building muscle or losing weight. Great job young man. 🙏🏼❤️
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I had the most amazing baguette today. With butter. And a Kir Royale. *chef’s kiss*
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🚨NEW CATHEDRAL🚨: designs released for the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Christchurch 🇳🇿
What do you think?
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@ScholasticEmo It’s biblical for a woman to be strong ! 😎 Psalm 31 woman… Jael….
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@catholic_kate Why are you so defensive bro I was joking 😭 and you’re a woman so you shouldn’t be heavy lifting anyway.
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Dudes at the gym slamming their weights down and making the whole building shake. 😩
Every time my trainer hears that happen he tells me: “don’t do that”.
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@ScholasticEmo Dang … emotional much?!?! 😂 high school coaches … one of mine gave me advice that destroyed one of my knees.
Going to trust my trainer, etc on this one.
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@catholic_kate I play football and base ball and that’s not what our coaches tell us to do gay gym, MAAM! lol
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