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Kate Ertmann

@katelovesmath.bsky.social
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Researcher, explorer, writer, whisperer, and speaker on #MathIRL 💖 - w/ an occasional sprinkle of nascar & mlb. Long Island’r by birth, Oregonian 4life 🌊🏎️⚾️ #SmashThePatriarchy 🔗 katelovesmath.com

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've been heads-down writing writing w r i t i n g as a Fellow at @the-vcca.bsky.social Artist Residency, and am resurfacing a bit to see what's going on these here socials. Wuz up?
woman with long dark blonde hair and striped blue top is staring at camera, tress and grass in background, carrying books. Taken on the campus of VCCA.a white paved path curves on the left alongside a green grass lawn with  tree in the midground. On the campus of VCCAa gravel road leads down into the background with a brown farm fence on the right, green grass on the right. Farm silos in the far background on left. At the campus of VCCA.inside a studio at the Fellow artist residency at VCCA. brown desk top, desk lamp on right, books on table top. Three windows looking out side to greenery. A printer on the windowsill.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Poppin’ Good!
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Untitled (detail, rotated), by Kazimir Malevich, 1915, 📸 by @adamhagyphoto
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Clsn @clsn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You know how you're reading Lovecraft and you get to the part where they're all like "this text, simply to gaze upon it would drive a mortal mind INTO MADNESS"?
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
yes i know this was 10 or 11 days ago and yes i am a lifelong pledge my allegiance to the yankees fan but i got to go to fenway and score a pretty great game (didn’t love the crowd-chant in the 8th, as noted here ⬇️ but otherwise, #baseball !)
mlb baseball scorecard of the white sox at red sox game on August 4, 2026. Red Sox win, 14 to 2
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I can't unsee this so that means I have to share it
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
wait a minute - the #RedSox are gonna have Chapman pitch the 9th inning tonight, for the “Women’s Celebration Game” ?!? What uninformed/ tone deaf idiot decided that??
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
if you're out at polls today, thank a poll worker, who has shown up in spite of Donald Trump and his fucking threats. www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...
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Republican request for Michigan election worker info denied by Secretary of State
The Michigan Secretary of State denied a GOP request for volunteer poll worker records, saying their private information should not be publicly released.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Why yes, in the mornings I do love to open windows / doors and let the cool breeze come in before it gets hot -- and I will simultaneously have the gas fireplace on. #writingpractice
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
oh nononononono 😖
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
good morning i will be going to fenway park next week and i am So! Excited! ⚾️🏟️✍🏽
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95Sports @95sports.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
😯😟😣
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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Some people call it a one night stand, but we can call it paradise.
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Are you arguing with somebody’s politics, or are you arguing with their anxiety/depression/trauma?
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I stand by my commentary that if you start a sentence to me with the word "Look" and then pause for a half second before continuing (and you're _not _ using the word to point out something I should view with my eyes) my automatic response is going to be 😐 then 🙄 followed by a {sigh}
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
travel day
in foreground, to-go coffee cup with pink and yellow with white kitty and words Stumptown Coffee Roasters. jean covered legs with Black and white adidas sneakers. Out of focus background of people.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This headline is peak pun perfection www.thecut.com/article/pari...
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Paris Is Shvitzing
The crowd at men’s Fashion Week resorted to desperate DIY measures to confront a historic heat wave.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 19/06/2026
161 years ago, enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas learned they were free. Juneteenth reminds us of both the promise of freedom and the responsibility to build a more just nation. Today we celebrate that while recognizing that freedom is still a work in progress.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“None of the successful people profiled in “The Power of Positive Thinking” pay anything back to society or the people around them. It is a version of “social Christianity” that does not feature the poor or working class at all.” Good gravy, the things I learn from @zeblarson.bsky.social 🧐😦👏
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Dacia Grayber @djgrayber.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Electrolytes! It’s what plants crave.
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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Hear me out: Widow's Baywatch. The island needs hot life guards.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
👏👏👏👏🪡🏙️🏀
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 14/06/2026
Jimmy Carter gave up his peanut farm
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Well, the day has come, a day that I never would have predicted 20+ years ago. NPR’s Morning Edition has delivered (inserted?) a Sublime ear worm to me 🫩 {I am shaking my fist at @amartinezla.bsky.social}
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Me when I left the house last weekend. I’m hoping to do it again this weekend, tho currently there is a cat-on-my-lap so, no promises.
Woman with long blonde hair, a grey baseball hat, a black sweatshirt that says MISFIT in yellow letters, and holding a yellow-ish orange-ish mug with coffee. Also, dangling earrings of a blue and white anchor. She stares at the camera.Woman with long blonde hair, a grey baseball hat, a black sweatshirt that says MISFIT in yellow letters, and holding a yellow-ish orange-ish mug with coffee. Also, dangling earrings of a blue and white anchor. She makes a mock expression at the camera.Woman with long blonde hair, a grey baseball hat, a black sweatshirt that says MISFIT in yellow letters, and holding a yellow-ish orange-ish mug with coffee. Also, dangling earrings of a blue and white anchor. She has a fit of giggles.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
IMPORTANT NEWS
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
As millions of soccer fans pack FIFA World Cup venues, public health scientists created a wastewater monitoring network to forecast potential disease threats—from measles to Ebola
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The World Cup could be a petri dish for disease. Wastewater could sound the alarm
As millions of soccer fans pack FIFA World Cup venues, public health scientists created a wastewater monitoring network to forecast potential disease threats—from measles to Ebola
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
My quote of the day Rosalind Franklin
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This pops into my head at least once a month 😑
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is: Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences. Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more. Please cite this as the Carroll report.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
omg 🎯 yeeeessss 😭
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Biggest day in motorsports and I’m just not feeling it this weekend and the weather turned better so am sitting on the beach with friends. Life is too short to sit inside and watch tv vs spending time w the ppl you love, amirite?
sandy beach under a blue sky and beside the Pacific Ocean. Haystack Rock is in the right side of frame. Yellow pole with lifeguard sign and the number 3.
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Justin Logan 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @justinlogan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
My second favorite palindrome is: Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you don’t know anything about NASCAR and are wondering who Kyle was, @jeff-gluck.bsky.social wrote a great piece about him. I had forgotten about that period of time that Kyle answered all reporters questions with, “Everything is Great!” 🥹
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Kyle Busch, from the Mojave Desert to 234 victory lanes, was always larger than life (Gift Article)
Though Busch changed as a person, the single biggest thread, and the one he'd be most proud of, was the same: winning.
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Mark Wilkens @markwilkens.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Coolest photo I’ve taken. RIP Kyle Busch
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live Guided By Voices (5x) Rick Springfield INXS Queens of the Stone Age (3x) Faith No More Future Islands Depeche Mode Junior Brown (4x) Public Image Limited (PIL) Duran Duran (14x)
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 21/05/2026
Correct
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
WORD 👊
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds
Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I love that we’re just calling bribes “donations” these days.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I dropped my Oregon #voter ballot off yesterday. At that point, it was less than 20% turnout!!!! My peeps, there are judges to vote on! There are local commissioners to vote on! THIS IS THE DAY YOU CAN reaaaaalllllly MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH YOUR VOICE!
the state of oregon in blue with the words I Voted in yellow. bottom left corner has a hashtag with the words oregonvotes next to it. GET OUT THE VOTE, y’all!A chart showing Oregon voter turnout history for primary elections. The percentage of voters in a primary are going down every year. WTAF?
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Dear artistically-inclined #pdx peoples: I just love this. You have till June 1 to submit a design. Or three. Do it!
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Portland Bureau of Transportation @pbotinfo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Calling all Multnomah County creatives, your time to shine is here! Bike to Books, the annual design contest from PBOT and @multcolib.bsky.social, where we ask Multnomah County residents to design artwork for a Portland street, is back! www.portland.gov/transportati...
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
When your first poem to ever _be_ published (😭), is in a pub run by humans you deeply respect (@leighherenow.bsky.social & @lidiamiles.bsky.social), it takes weeks to overcome the imposter syndrome and be able to 📣 on the socials. Please enjoy my villanelle. www.corporealkhora.com/issue/51/a-b...
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Kate Ertmann | A Biting Swell — KHÔRA
Ready to swallow once past its teeth,       a tussle between energy and frequency, so strange. It’s never the same underneath…
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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Today, lawyers representing the owner of Portland's ICE facility will argue to appeal the city's Feb. land use violation ruling. Background here:
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Portland upholds land use violation against ICE facility’s landlord
Portland officials will continue to seek penalties against the owner of the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement building for violating a land use agreement.
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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
oh, for fun 🤠
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 04/05/2026
Shout out to everyone who is doing their best these days to shop small when they can, support their public library, and build community 💓 These actions add up, and do not go unnoticed! We are grateful for you!
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