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

Oh honey, this is a safe space where no one has to justify their hatred of Iowa

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

One of my Chicago friends says when traveling, Indiana is always between you and where you want to be

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

I once went on a bowl game tour sponsored by my u’s alumni association. It was a great time but I was astounded when they put our buses to the game in the same kind of police escort situation. I hope/assume the tour paid for police time, but how to justify the inconvenience for other drivers?

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All these people who hate/fear other religions and ethnic groups and immigrants, I just wish I could have taken you to one International Night potluck at my son’s high school A table full of a dozen different families’ take on biryani can cure hatred, I just know it

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And I hope people understand that we can’t just optimistically hope that research institutions will step up and find the internal funding to continue defunded work. Maybe they could if it were one thing, but all kinds of programs are being defunded. Too many things need shoring up/support

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can I just add I love when a man wears nail polish.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

…can send the human brain in the wrong direction. We are flawed decision-makers at times. I got to thinking about this because of the onion article joking about political campaigns finding a way to fumble things in October And I’m so glad I don’t work in campaigning.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So I talked about it with my boss, how to walk people through it so they’d not read to much into the data, etc. Endgame: Just stop producing the graph. I balked at this. I was a data person, and now I’m supposed to produce less data? But that was the answer. Even accurately collected data…

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It all came down to one graph, all the numbers were accurate, but it turns out March was when the trend would get wonky. We’d think we could tell what it forecast and it rattled our confidence every time so we’d do a corrective measure that would prove to be the wrong call. It was killing me.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t know if this could apply to politics, but here’s some work lore. Used to be my job to produce weekly reports to help a committee forecast an outcome. Every March, we’d get nervous, change course, and months later we would be cleaning up the mess because we made the wrong call. I realized

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Months ago I sent a text to my husband declaring we were going to eat downtown at least once a week for the rest of summer # of times we have dined downtown since I sent text: 0

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But you forgot something. There’s a person whose job it is to craft little teasers in emails. The blurbs that gets people to click through and read the article. And that person had an idea…. That’s how you awaken to the email “Balloons, Cotton Candy, and Excitement as Circus Comes to Town!”

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And to your satisfaction, this year, your argument prevails. You see the article go up the circus chain for approvals and in every version balloons are not in the headline, balloons are not in the opening paragraphs, you may have finally moved the discourse to other topics.

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Less hateful than my name suggests @kzannarbor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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

They might have been on a trustee scavenger hunt of some kind because in what world do two wrestlers need to take a selfie with me? Whatever their aim, I loved it and it was a really enjoyable event.

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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

Besides which who cared about the Jolly Green Giant, give me Lil Sprout

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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 · 23/09/2026

Every so often I’ll read an opinion suggesting a DOGE-like solution (“fire half the administrators”) and I think the ensuing chaos would be the basis for a wildly funny miniseries. Everyone on campus having the day they voted for, I suppose.

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

Of course this post may feel more predictable than insightful given that I am a member of this much-maligned administrative bloat. I’ll own it. But I’m also engaged as someone who tracks cost containment on my campus—and I’m a college trustee. #HigherEducation

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

I can’t say I 100% agree with their interpretation of post-Covid hiring as “a revealing example” of routine, reflexive snapback after hiring freezes. I remember it as a distinctive period. Staff were exhausted. Students were widely reported to be “different,” with more support needed.

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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 don’t share their view and think they probably have their head in the sand over policies that benefit them. But so much of what govt visibly does must seem remote when you live on a dirt road 20 miles from the library, fire dept, parks, social services, etc

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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 · 20/09/2026

Most of the time I’m the one that feels like I’ve been spied upon by the ad creators, but the ad with TV remote voice-recognition woes is 100% my husband WHY do you keep TRYING when you NEVER get what you want from that thing

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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

Me: write me 10,000 words on Ilya & Shane trying to update the radio in Harris’ Ford truck as a surprise for him but they get so frustrated on the 8th failed attempt they give up and decide to **** about it

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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 · 19/09/2026

Handy to know it can do this because I’ll bet it won’t be able to tell me how fix my persistent SYNC update problems

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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

I guess when I’m a little irritated, I lose my ability to type “a woman’s sports” If they add a grammar book to the silent auction, I’ll be sure to put in a bid

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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 · 15/09/2026

I read it at least a decade later than my peers & regrettably it didn’t wow me like it had my pals who had loved it for years. I surmise it was because his tone and absurdity had been so influential (and therefore imitated a lot) by the time I read it. Today’s kids would be in a similar boat.

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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

someone on social media once shared a unforgettable quote from their grandma on the topic of unsalted butter: “you might as well be cooking with vaseline”

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

At the end of the day I’d rather hang out with people with “low” dress standards than hang out with one dude who thinks he’s such a savant that a single bar experience yields enough info to draw broad conclusions about the values/norms of an entire multistate region

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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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