Kate McNeely
@fromawildkate.bsky.social
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Nonprofit & philanthropy, cats/dogs/plants, equity, community, and words. She/her primary pronouns; she/they rising. Opinions here are my own, obv.
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Times when MARTA is most delightful:

- Labor Day weekend with Black Pride Weekend, Dragon Con, and a bunch of sports fans

- Before a protest

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Today's read about the criminalization of poverty, how for-profit companies benefit, and the conditions in Georgia that make the system particularly hard to escape.

From @thesoutherncenter.bsky.social
Criminalizing Poverty through the "Market in Incarcerated People"
How the Legal System Profits Off Those Who Can Least Afford It
thesoutherncenter.substack.com
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The Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network launched a similar effort to virtually attend and monitor hearings at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.

GAIN is looking for volunteers for it's virtual court watch program.
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Happy Pride y'all
so @fromawildkate.bsky.social and I went to vote after work today, and as we go through the checkin process:
checkin volunteer: "Are you two related?"
me: "We're married!"
vol: "Oh! I thought you might be sisters, you look a little alike!"
me: "Nope! That would've made the wedding pretty awkward."
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perils of the double nonprofit household: I mentioned today that there is a particular lyric in Charli xcx's Von Dutch that scans oddly so it always sounds to me like "LYBUNT," and now @fromawildkate.bsky.social can't unhear it either
I had the honor of working locally under Cecile's national leadership and planning a gala with her as the honoree. She was brilliant and somehow managed to also take the time to be kind. Her passing is a great loss.
@vcbrannen.bsky.social, working on a project in the bathroom: "I mean, we are wildly inconsistent with the metals in this room."

Me: sees this for the first time ever and agrees

VCB, looking at me with heart eyes anyway: "it's because I let you pick."