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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 VCCA

a 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 · 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 · 06/08/2026

unless you got a new job, you are not the idiot in question. Chapman is a horrible person.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Same!!! And then I found this collection a decade or so ago and 😍

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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.

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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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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 · 17/04/2026

I call this: Sunrise on Horror Books

A wall of windows with a bookshelf in the middle separating them. On bookshelf are a number of black-spine paperback books that represent many horror categorized books. Exterior through windows is greenery and blue sky.

A close up of the books on the shelf from prior photo with a flash of sunlight on them. On bookshelf are a number of black-spine paperback books that represent many horror categorized books.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

USA had 3hits and 10 strikeouts 🙃 #WBC

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

that last strike was no strike - that was dirty

scorecard for the wbc semifinal game of usa vs the DR. USA won the game, 2 to 1

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Luckily, this race will end before the WBC semi-final begins; won’t need to out grab a screen.

a wall of books with a large tv screen within it showing the nascar race. in foreground a smaller screen with the oscar’s pre show on it.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

extreme closeup of Paul, the gray cat with white a white snooze and long whiskers and showing one of his hazel eyes in the upper-right corner of frame, as he rubs his face for comfort on the corner of camera phone.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Hannah Arendt’s words are 🎯 (per usual) From “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

A photo of the paragraph at the top of page 144 in the book The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. The paragraph reads, “ The imperialist-minded businessman, whom the stars annoyed because he could not act annex them, realized that power organized for its own sake would beget more power. When the accumulation of capital had reached its natural, national limits, the bourgeoisie understood that only with an“expansion is everything” ideology, and only with a corresponding power accumulating process, would it be possible to set the old motor into motion again. At the same moment, however, when it seemed as though the true principle of perpetual motion had been discovered, the specifically optimistic mood of the progress ideology was shaken. Not that anybody began to doubt the stability of the process itself, but many people began to see what had frightened Cecil Rhoades: that the human condition and the limitations of the globe were a serious obstacle to a process that was unable to stop and to stabilize, and could therefore only begin a series of destructive catastrophes once it had reached these limits.”

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I didn’t notice this till I got home but I’m sure others did as I walked home carrying it 😆

brown paper sack with the word ‘Joker’ handwritten on it in black marker

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

When your to-go # is a Joker card with a pelican on it, you know that your Friday Jr is gonna be good. Thx, Bialy Bird employee. I see you 😉

The Joker card from a playing deck with a sketch of a pelican on it in a clip stand on a table. The backs of two chairs are directly behind that and a white tiled wall with a shelf with bottles on it is behind the chairs.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Is there anything better than a cat snoring in your lap?

A dark gray cat is face-planting asleep , with blu the top of his head exposed, while swathed in a beige , white, and shades of brown and blue blanket.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I woke up and heard the news. Then I decided to think about this Kate Baer poem.

A photo of a page from the book of poetry, WHAT KIND OF WOMAN by Kate Baer, of her poem, “New Year”

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Have I ever posted an #alwayslookup photo essay on here? This one is from last wknd in Seattle.

the ceiling at Cloudburst Brewing in Seattle. Lower right has a close-up of a heated lamp, while the rest of the ceiling is bear wood beams with chipped white paint.

looking up at the ceiling at a Seattle light rail station. Vent lines going diagonal. A light blue light on the upper right side. Beige tiles, looking two floors up while on escalator.

looking up at fluorescent blue markings on the ceiling at the university of Washington light rail station while riding the escalator.

The underside black textured overhang of the outside of the Seattle aquarium

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Share a 90s movie that you think deserves more love🎥🖤

Movie poster for the 1998 Soderbergh film, OUT OF SIGHT, that shows the faces of the film’s stars, Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney, side by side with an image of a revolver on the very left side of frame.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Last scoring of the 2025 MLB season 😔 World Series Game 7 and my tally sheet of the 30 games I scored this year including 2 #milb & just 5 total in-person (#MLBinPDX pls). I scored each team at least once save for Rays or Dbacks. thx @72doubleplay.bsky.social for the perfect scoresheet design!

Analog baseball scoresheet for the MLB World Series Game 7 on November 1, 2025 between Dodgers and Blue Jays. Summary score box in red.

A list of the 30 games I scored over the 2025 season including my notes to self during playoffs to see if I could do at least one scoresheet for every team in the league. Red pen underlined winning team except for last game because I just didn’t have it in me to complete that.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

As I look up the start times of the MLB championship games for today, I remember that last year - when I was in Australia - I learned that some time zones have four letters in them.

A blue background on a TV screen from the 2024 major league baseball national league championship series that has red text that says game five Dodgers at Mets and in white text it says what time the game will be on in the East Coast of Australia, and in New Zealand. These time zones are four letters - AEDT and NZDT instead of the three letters seen in most of the northern hemisphere.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Yesterday I got to go see a performance of Oregon Ballet Theatre’s DRACULA - along with @camikaos.bsky.social & @semaphoria.bsky.social - and it was lovely and gothic and #highlyrecommend www.obt.org/event/dracula/

The characters of Dracula and his bride, Flora. Dracula stands behind Flora with his arms holding Flora’s arms open, the shades of pink and purple showing in the under part of his cape. Flora is on point with one leg extended and wearing a draping short sleeve white effervescent gown. They are both very pale, which makes sense since they are, technically dead, though immortal.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

lolololol price per ticket lolololol

a screenshot of SeatGeek prices for MLB ALCS game three tickets starting at lowest price available at 315 dollars per ticket lololol

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

ummm, does the word “shag” have some baseball term meaning bc I am reallllly hoping it doesn’t. 😘 (excerpt from www.mlb.com/amp/news/ich...)

A Quote from Seattle Mariner’s baseball legend, Ichiro Suzuki, in an mlb dot com article about the Mariners two scrimmage games before they start their playoff run this Saturday. “ i’m still trying to hang in there with them,“ Ichiro said earlier this summer, through longtime interpreter Allen Turner. “I play catch. I run. I hit. I shag. So I hope that I can show them that even at this age, you can still play this game“

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

And so begins the MLB Playoff season aka let’s have some ⚾️ with that ✍🏽👩🏼‍💻

Woman with long blonde hair and black frame glasses sitting in front of laptop. Small screen in background that has the MLB Wild Card playoff game number one between the San Diego Padres and the Chicago Cubs.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

“Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid”

Film poster for the 1973 animated film for E.B White’s book, Charlotte’s Web. Poster is many farm animals led by a smiling pig.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

falling asleep while stretching with your butt in the sun is peak Sunday styling

dark grey cat lying on stomach, facing camera, stretching white paw forward, as he lays on a blue blanket with multicolor stripes. Open window above cat, sunlight streaming in.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Highly rec following @datarescueproject.org & track their #SaveOur#Signs project. 9/12 update from their site: Volunteers submitted these before-and-after pictures of the first documented removal/modification of a sign under the Executive Order and Secretarial Order. 1st photo is 👍 2nd photo is 👎