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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! Getting old comes with rewards.

Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 2h

My nebula palazzo pants were perfect for long flights. Plus pockets!!!! @svahausa.bsky.social Aff link www.svahausa.com?referral=%7C...

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 2h

I eat plain food all the time. But fast food in J is just weird.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 2h

While those around me were served steak or fish, this was my biz class meal on a long haul flight. The bun was rock hard and the veggie burger was cold I don’t like when they don’t plate the item that come in these temporary containers. Yes, privilege. But I paid the same $5000 for this ticket

Plate on a tray table. Burger and five potato slices plus an aluminum container of red sauce.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 2h

So many exciting announcements.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 2h

And I came home to this news. There are six of us in the world so far.

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⭐️DAMÀ®⭐️
INTERNATIONAL

FELLOW
2026

Hi Karen,
On behalf of the Board of Directirs of DAMA International, it is my great honour and privilege to formally notify you that you have been selected as a member of the class of 2026 DAMA
International® Fellows
- the highest professional honour
conferred by DAMA-I.
You have advanced the data management profession for more than three decades through your thought leadership, education, advocacy, mentorship, and sustained service to DAMA®. As a respected practitioner, speaker, educator, and advisor, you champion practical, ethical, and business-focused approaches to data governance, privacy, security, metadata management, and responsible Al. As a longtime Advisor to DAMA International® and Lifetime Advisor Emeritus, you have provided strategic guidance, educated and inspired hundreds of practitioners worldwide, and supported the next generation of leaders through mentorship, community building, and advocacy for diversity in technology.
Your contributions reflect DAMA®'s values of professional

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 2h

There might have been a few more sips on my travel back from #FABCONEurope

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 2h

Finally got a pin for one of my certs. #SQLServer

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Microsoft
GERTIFIED
SQL AI
Developer

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/10/2026

A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own is granted parole after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence.

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Former Dallas officer who shot Black man in apartment that she mistook for hers gets parole

Amber Guyger was convicted of murder in the 2018 killing of Botham Jean, an accountant, who had been eating a bowl of ice cream when Guyger entered his home and shot him.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And I hope your travel is less eventful.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We did get clearance earlier. It looks like I’ll make my connection, but there are plenty of options if I don’t.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One hour delay *at the gate*. At least I could work in some deep stretching. Felt good.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good point! Will look. I hear they might have wine here, too.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my seat on my way to #FABCON in Barcelona. Come talk to me about Microsoft Fabric, data security, data governance, patatas bravas, croquetas, and maybe cava, vermouth, and sangria, too.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m at a Comfort Inn off in the suburbs. It’s 2:25 PM. They tell me tha check-in isn’t until 3PM, so I have to wait until then to get into my room I know this is a common thing to enforce check in times, but I’ve never experienced that at this level of property. And yeah, I have not status here

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That quote is what made me wonder if he had moved on to bragging about his immense AI knowledge.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Has he said yet that he knows more about AI than anyone else in the world?

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have been for a very long time, but I have worked in and visited many federal buildings all over DC. Most are in that same state.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I fear things like these last minute, clearly illegal, processes will happen over the next few weeks and honest courts won’t have enough time to remedy.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If they kill us, who will pay into the tax coffers from which they pillage?

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

‘the addition of the president’s name to the building was critical to the center’s financial health because “Trump attracts money.”’ Not the mission statement of the Center.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And that awful person still 💩 all over them.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

‘the addition of the president’s name to the building was critical to the center’s financial health because “Trump attracts money.”’ The last org I worked with who said this about an awful person ended up bankrupt a year later. It’s a horrible way to sustain a non-profit.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why would he want to pay lawyers to go after a $114 debt? I bet the filing fees were more than that.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I fill it out online, then email it back.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I vote in Indiana. Some states permit it for absentee voting.

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David Giard @davidgiard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Monday on #TechnologyAndFriends: Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) on Vector Search in SQL Databases

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So many people so certain that they are right.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I vote via email. Other states have that was well. Online doesn’t just mean web app.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Check to see if your state allows online voting. Mine does, and it’s a very red state. Skip the whole postal service process if you can.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

youtu.be/nUSFYBfmOiQ Raise your hand if these were the bath towels in your home. 🙋🏼‍♀️ Also if you can remember how rough and scratchy they were.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Are you an American living outside the US? You can still vote in the midterm federal elections. 🇺🇸 Visit www.votefromabroad.org for info. 🇺🇸 Remember you must request a ballot every year. 🇺🇸 My state lets me do all my voting online, so it takes me 1 minute to vote. 🇺🇸

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* ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR US CITIZENS! *
AMERICANS CAN VOTE!
FROM CANADA
* -
votefromabroad.org
Request your ballot now!
Non-partisan voter registration. Overseas voters must request a ballot every calendar year in which you wish to vote.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I didn’t want to come back in! My long run yesterday had to be postponed until today, but it’s going to be thunderstorms all day. I guess now I get to see how they feel on my tread.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The newborn died at birth because mom had measles. She was unvaccinated. Dad was. The other members of the family were sick as well. The coroner is claiming it wasn’t measles that killed the child.

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Karen Lopez 🇨🇦 @datachick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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