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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 2h

A little post-travel observation: I have always loved the ubiquitousness of the white rocking chairs throughout Charlotte’s airport, but holy cats some of them are in desperate need of cleaning

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

when I tell you this Bojangles biscuit at CLT is life-changing

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As a trustee it can be challenging to connect with students, who seem to wonder why these weird old people are clogging the lunch flow the dining hall. Last night we attended a social with student leaders, and I don’t know what the President told them but they were all over us. So fun.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It would be so wild if a generous billionaire giving a 10-figure gift to a big university simultaneously dropped an 8-figure gift on an unsuspecting small college on a lark. MacKenzie Scott makes it look super fun, fellas. Contact me for small college ideas, my DMs are open

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This has been a good game to multitask through.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t have a problem taking a hard look at how many staff a campus has added. But how much faculty time is appropriate to allocate to the work that people want to continue? Outreach, disability navigation, critical incident management, holistic admissions, etc. Giving it up is a culture shift.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My kid has started saying “good night Mary Ellen” to me and I of course whip back “good night John Boy” like nobody’s business, but he doesn’t know where he picked it up. Of course it had to be online but who or what in his online sphere would know about or reference the Waltons?

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This isn’t that weird unless you know what a picky eater I was, but I cheerfully ate braunschweiger sandwiches (with Miracle whip, mmmm). Honestly I’m not sure I could eat it now.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know people are snarky about the Texas rancher saying this is the first time in his life an issue came up that he thought really affected him. But honestly, people who farm/ranch in remote areas are people I can forgive for their disengagement and preference for small government.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I stared SO pointedly at my husband after watching the latest “homeowners turning into their parents” commercial

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s Saturday, none of us in this household work today, UM game’s not until 3:30, and yet we’re all up before the sun. Guess it’s time to go to Coney.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m emailing out a ton of stuff w/out the benefit of my admin‘s streamlined systems. When he gets back from reserve duty, my joy is gonna be like those videos of dogs greeting soldiers after months after deployment He’s only been gone 2 weeks, but it’s the start of the academic year & I am DYING

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The spouse and I are going to a fundraiser for a woman’s sports this weekend and they’ve just posted the silent auction items. Every item except one of them is memorabilia signed by a man

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last night some song came over the restaurant PA and I was like “Oh is this Tame Impala?” Unsure but just vaguely wondering. The look of annoyance that came across my son’s face before he suppressed it (and said “no” politely) was so pure.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At a restaurant tonight one of the waitstaff met my eye, smiled, and waved in cheerful recognition. I don’t know her but gave a little flummoxed wave back. Then it hit me: we had this same exchange last time I came in two months back. No idea what other patron she thinks I am.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A new sub-variation on my "cats reading books" #illustration— a #cat drinking #coffee, commissioned by @codeknitter.bsky.social for their PFP/avatar. ____ more: www.behance.net/gallery/2291...

a round illustration of a tuxedo cat cradling a green cup of coffee, extending its tongue into the coffee as if to lap it up. It is black coffee because milk gives cats diarrhea.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Buckeyes have my support tonight. This has an expiration date, of course

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had to sit a moment and marvel at the truth of this

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh fun, another negative UM news story for my in-laws to ask me to explain & discuss

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m all for civic duty, but not knowing until the weekend before whether or not I actually have jury duty is a pain. All my meeting prep for next week has to have contingencies in case I’m not gonna be in the room. I can’t wait until the weekend to tell people they have to present for me.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It is occasionally helpful when your nephew’s weekend job is college football referee because then you can ask him stuff like he’s got the big book of rules because he DOES in fact have the big book of rules.

Picture of someone off-camera from an intelligent, attractive family (trust me on this one) holding the manual for their job, which is the NCAA football rules book

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Spouse is on the phone with his buddy from grad school and they got so into dissecting last night’s football game I had to tune it out 30 minutes later, tuning back in: wait, are they taking about CASON? I guess when you’re on this much of a roll you just move on to last year’s hoops games

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know everybody feels bad for WMU but other tragedies occurred: I’m trying to level up in a mobile game I play so I raced out in the dark at halftime to continue my required 7-day streak of walking a specific route… but I forgot to click on the flag that logged completion, so I’m back to day one

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I didn’t notice who posted this and I read the first nine bullets thinking “this is EXACTLY my mindset when I wrote the last half of my dissertation”

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Well, at least I’ve got a big container of Tillamook ice cream in the freezer

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My family disapproves of my prediction of a 17-14 score but if UM scores double that, I’ll be thrilled about how stupid I look

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I live in a bubble so it was a surprise to turn on TV and learn they’ve still got McAfee on Gameday.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I attended a woman’s college, but I really had not delved much into feminism—neither academic theory or activism or anything. I think I just wandered around mildly grateful for the progress. When I, at the ripe ol’ age of 46, got to hear Gloria Steinem speak in person? She kinda rocked my world.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Colleges and universities are not above scrutiny or criticism. But it’s also the case that they make a convenient target. Powerful and influential people can and do actively sow distrust with dubious claims about higher ed because it’s easy for folks to pile onto and it’s a great distraction.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I learned today that if you go to the paint store early in the morning, you can watch the staff flirt with all the pro painters

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think I just found a monarch caterpillar in our garden and I’m completely losing my mind over it

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh God, I just did that thing where I bought my plane tickets and right as I hit confirm I thought “wait oh hey is that month right?” And too late realized I bought them for the wrong dates. Luckily, I was able to change without penalty, but that momentary feeling of horror….

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I believe that new pancreatic cancer drug was developed by a company founded over a decade ago by faculty researchers at U of Illinois and UCSF. It’s had tons of private investment along the way but this started with the kind of academic research this administration is slowing down

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I kept a respectful lid on it all weekend but now that we are checking out of the hotel and leaving Columbus the flag is gonna (subtly) fly

My backpack sitting on our hotel bed with a ballcap clipped onto the zipper. The cap is maize (aka an arrogant shade of yellow) with a blue block M

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

They stand with everyone… …. except anyone who roots for a team that starts with M (and ends in “ichigan”) I lowkey respect the hate

A poster declaring the hotel welcomes everyone but someone with red tape did the thing where you put a red x over the letter M in “welcome” because damnit we all know people from Michigan ARE THE WORST

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We took a tour of Ohio Stadium today which was cool to see — and the best part was that the tour guide did NOT ask “so where’s everyone from?” because I do not need that hostility radiating towards me while on vacation

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I just want a tour of Ohio Stadium, but I can’t access the tickets we bought through Ticketmaster w/out adding the Ohio State athletics app on my phone. Please don’t make me do this. I already get regular emails from their foundation because I donated to a friend’s kid’s danceathon effort

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Bridge, I love you, but you seriously list LSA grade covering as a top issue for the next President. Just because 1 million armchair experts wanted to weigh in on it does not elevate it to something you remove from faculty governance.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Museums pro tip: Want to know if there's a bat flying around your galleries? Simply listen to all the visitors saying "there is a bat flying around the galleries."

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I was excited to find this flavor and it turns out these don’t have shards of glass in them so win-win

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Trying to clean up my home office yesterday and I ran across some handwritten notes from a meeting on March 20, 2020. Man, the stuff we didn’t know and were trying to muddle our way through! No inkling of how the rest of the year was gonna go.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

While on the hunt for a new rug I discovered that Home Goods is selling Halloween decor in the form of spooky subject matter paintings. I snagged a witch-themed painting and have decided that is staying up YEAR ROUND

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some stranger has called my university number 3x to leave voicemails for their painter about a project. She left a number for callback so I reached out by text (from my own phone, different number) to let them know they had the wrong number. She apologized, said she’d delete. Now I’m getting texts

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I like the song “Photograph” by Nickelback. I did when it came out and I still do.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My cruel friend got me addicted to these sandwich rolls from a bakery in Buffalo and I don’t know what I’m gonna do when the small supply I laid in runs out I GOTTA GET MY FIX MAN

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm looking for friends with benefits relationship, and by that, I mean someone who owns a bitchin' taco truck.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Time to eat humble pie, this bar had a taxidermied beast on the wall which my husband called a reindeer and I corrected him that it’s a caribou. Turns out it’s both I had no idea So that’s like the second time in our marriage I’ve been wrong this year* *calendar not fiscal

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I can’t answer this post, so a Quotepost instead. When we were there, the Momentary had an exhibit of photos of pets and visitors were allowed to bring their pets into the gallery. It made my day to see a guy lounging in a gallery couch with his super chill dog looking at everything

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