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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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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 · 15/08/2026

I went about… 8yrs ago, and what I remember is that we stayed at a Marriott nearby and their pint glasses were branded with the race logo so we stole about 4 of them.

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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

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 · 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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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 · 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

good morning i will be going to fenway park next week and i am So! Excited! ⚾️🏟️✍🏽

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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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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.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

IMPORTANT NEWS

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm not positive that these are all open for subs right now, but I'll suggest: The Drift, Longreads, LitMag, The Point, and everyone's fave Canadian pub ;) , Grain.

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Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

May I assume you’re only interested in paid options?

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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 · 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 · 24/05/2026

I went last year and tho I’m glad I get to check that race off my motorsports list, never will I ever go to it again 😵‍💫 complete sensory overload

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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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