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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Learning about what a barrier to voting it is for young people not to have a "legally reproducible signature," and so grateful Minnesota doesn't do that in general.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My gods. Am I so glad I do not have to drive in Boston. I'm here for a conference at Tufts and my hotel has free loaner bikes. Everywhere I go is so much faster on bike than by car. Even my stupidly slow Marriott loaner bike. Except when I get lost.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

C'mon Spelling Bee 🐝 HOYDEN is not in your word list?

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exciting news. I work with hundreds of Somali Minnesotan youth each year, and I've learned so much from them. I can't wait for more of their stories to be lifted up.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My papa in his prime cut off half his right index finger in shop and then went on to form the first teachers union in our small town that night in the early 1970s. He could take just about anyone in a fight.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For my first real job at a food safety consulting firm in St Louis, I went to Dillard's and bought business attire. The sales manager added "designated drinker" to my job duties. I went out with her to martini lunches with clients to match them drink for drink so she didn't have to.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today UMN president calls the U's core value "providing an affordable, accessible education and our ongoing commitment to invest in the people who deliver that mission." She has the vision of a community college for the U. Or maybe a hospital administrator substituting "education" for "health care."

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Autonomous cars would be more useful in rural and suburban areas where seniors who should no longer be driving have few options. Keep them out of the urban core. Ban them altogether in many dense areas.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will never let anyone use this word in my presence without comment. I hate it so viscerally.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No accountability for autonomous car companies. They can just program their cars to ignore traffic laws with impunity. No accountability for AI companies and their hacking a government. We are all screwed.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I once had the opposite experience of this thread. Icelandair dumped my child and me in London on our way to Zurich. She's a better narrator than I am.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why is AI allowed to do what search engines were not allowed to do in the 2000s?

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm perplexed by all my MAGA friends and relations sharing this with me today.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My husband laughs because I'm braggy about it, but I can now do 10 pushups and one chin up, after three months of hard, consistent failure and then steady, incremental success.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So, I'm in Lodi, Wisc., celebrating with six of my elementary school friends that we all turn 60 this year. Four of us voted for Trump in 2024. They all hate him now.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: The Bedrock Rockers will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

Cavepeople teens jam on bone and wood percussion and horns. There is also an inexplicable frog.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A few months back I submitted a complaint, with photos, about the Strib printing and how often portions of the paper are almost unreadable. The reply back told me they'd...let my carrier know 🫠

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For the first time in my life, I find myself regretting having not filed an amicus brief. Would it have made a difference? Who knows. But to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the reasoning in the opinion that follows, this order has the potential to be very disruptive, and I didn't even try.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:
1. The petition is granted to the extent it seeks a declaration and order that,
under Minn. Stat. § 201.225, the City of Oak Grove has the authority to determine
whether paper or electronic voter rosters are used at precincts within the City of Oak
Grove’s boundaries, and that the City of Oak Grove has chosen to use paper voter rosters
at precincts within its boundaries for the 2026 general election.
2. So as not to impair the orderly election process, this order is issued with
opinion to follow.
Dated: September 11, 2026

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fields Medalists speak out about the misuse of AI. This reminds me that chiseled on Northrop's walls at the UMN is the statement that we are "Ennobled by Understanding Dedicated to the Advancement of Learning and the Search for Truth" Mathandai.org

We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose. In many fields and activities, years of training have traditionally served not only to produce a final answer or product, but also to develop understanding and the ability to formulate new questions and ideas. However, building on a vast body of previous human work, AI systems are becoming increasingly capable of producing the results of such work directly, and these goals cease to align. The issues the mathematical community faces now are similar to issues that other scientific and creative professions are facing, and indicate issues that all of humanity might face: how to make sure that, as AI changes the way work is done, we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve in the first place

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Minneapolis morning

Pigeons in flight, a surface parking lot, a row of masonry warehouses buildings from the 19th or early 20th centuries, morning light and shadow

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is such an important discussion on the nature of teaching. I am not a formal educator but I mentor hundreds of teens and young adults each year. And adults for that matter. My biggest challenge is teaching the intellectual integrity part. We value when they say they don't know something.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If we invested in people the way society and government currently invest in AI . . .

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you’re in line to see Crop Art, STAY IN LINE

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Bob @actualbob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

📱 | Northern Minnesota (2026) Late August colors and patterns #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer

Two clusters of lily pads float on gently rippling water, anchored amidst strong horizontal bands of light and shadow. The lily pads have subtle hues of deep magenta, olive green, and copper. Smooth, liquid distortion bends blue sky reflections and pale cloud highlights into wavy, abstract ribbons across the surface.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've sat in these distinctive seats many times.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is so funny to me because I have no idea what it means and all the proper nouns have different associations in my life. Pat Murphy is the chief clerk at the MN House and Cooper and Pratt are Minneapolis public schools. Although Cooper has been closed forever. Murphy is so generous with kids.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For any fish you catch, there's a measurable size. But for the one that got away, you can tell any story you want.

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What does this mean for a Minnesotan trying to decide whether to apply to be mailed an absentee ballot? Nothing. If you want a ballot and aren't already on the list to get one, apply for it.

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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🪣 Please share💧 I'm calling on every resident of Saint Paul and Minneapolis to select one or more boulevard trees and to give them a big, slow drink of water today via jars, buckets or hoses. Our trees are in crisis and you can make a huge difference. ❤️👍🌳🌲🍁

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Fun fact: I once house-sat for Judith Butler's daughter, who was then an economist at the St Louis Fed.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Michelle Tafoya has never shoveled her neighbor's sidewalk.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Big week in my family. Primary election on Tuesday, and a math conference on the occasion of my husband's 60th birthday presented by his collaborators and former students from across the globe. cse.umn.edu/math/order-a...

cse.umn.edu

Order and function in complex systems: coherent structures, selection and stability

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Dueling theologians choose epistles at dawn.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

You know, I'd take the $50K over a 50% chance of winning $1 million. Neither would change my life much. More money doesn't give you a better life if you're already financially secure. And the idea that "Of course more money is better and anyone who doesn't think so is a sucker!" is weird to me.

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Jeff @gojeffgo.com · 22/07/2026

I look at this saved screenshot whenever I need a little pick me up

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I got a real letter in the mail today from a friend. It was the best. I now have a goal for the rest of the year to write to all my dear friends.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sad reminder from a friend today that "elastic isn't a forever product." Goodbye 20-year-old swimsuit that finally fits again.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So many people lose sight of this. One of the best things about the work I do is that I am driven to choose my community over "my team" every day.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Best Star Trek captain. Wrong answers only. static.wikia.nocookie.net/branson-univ...

Captain Blau Bär from German TV show Die Sendung mit der Maus

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Steve Timmer 📷🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @stevetimmer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A big part of the Declaration of Independence was a 'bill of particulars' of the usurpations of King George III. Hamline professor David Schultz argues that the Trump presidency has created another one. It's a scholarly read. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

documentcloud.org

A Second Bill of Particulars

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Why is the stadium not full for the US v BIH game?

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Holy hell. We made the mistake of driving downtown to Sushi Train to take the kids out to celebrate Pride. Sushi was nice, but drivers? We saw at least 3 drivers turn right from the leftmost lane. Downtown wasn't dead on a Tuesday night but others might be if this trend stays.

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Serafina @serafinas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Building a sliplane here would be insane.

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