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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 14h

First Big XII win for Jimmy Rogers, and it's all thanks to Aiden Flora #bluecy

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 16h

Turns out the answer was just "Make Aiden Flora" do everything

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Shawn @shawndillon.bsky.social · 16h

ISU just scored with a running back throwing to a wide open receiver streaking downfield. They’ll never take us alive. #bluecy

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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 16h

Why don’t the build the whole plane out of Aiden Flora #BlueCy

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 19h

Cannot ask for better weather or a better day for a homecoming football game in Ames today. #bluecy

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 21h

Last skeet about the guys who left, but just think. All those players who went to Penn State could have been celebrating an absolutely beautiful homecoming at Iowa State, surrounded by family. Instead this is what they get. Oh well.

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Abbott Elementary: Barbara Howard's Tragic Moment

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Taylor Mouser going to be lucky not to get left on the tarmac in Chicago, Campbell will need a sacrificial lamb sooner than later at this rate.

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ace @aceanbender.com · 03/10/2026

forming a theory that if rocco becht uses the same release angle twice in a game his arm explodes like the bus from speed

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This Penn State game is turning into an ass-whooping and I am enjoying it.

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Raccoon Clapping

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just a visceral reaction every time they mention a former Iowa State player for the first time during this Penn State-Northwestern game.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i've never played minecraft but my hunch is that the frustrations of terraforming and city planning with a playstation controller are not unlike trying to go 10-7 with kenny pickett

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Republican at the Rob Sand Town Hall claiming that the quality of public schools have gone down because they no longer teach "math, English, history." Lots of murmurs from crowd on that assertion. Rob gently pushes back, points out his own kids attend IA public schools.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Currently waiting in a long line for the Rob Sand event in Des Moines tonight. Seemingly a big turnout despite all the rain

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Living here is like living in a chemical bomb," said Schroeder, the patient at Cass Health. "Our Iowa government doesn't seem to want to protect us, and the chemical companies have been given pass after pass. It's a travesty." www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

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Iowa's cancer rates are rising as the nation's fall. Families want answers.

Nearly half of Iowa counties now have cancer rates higher than Louisiana's Cancer Alley as residents search for answers.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"F*CK YOU, SUCK IT, YEAH"

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The problem with Raynor is that he cannot throw the ball and he is not particularly accurate #bluecy

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Intimate Toilette (A Woman Urinating), by François Boucher, 1760s

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Where is Connor Moberly? Is he lost? Feeling under the weather? Seems like we should see him by now. (Yes I am a little drunk.) #bluecy

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The problem is I don't know that Jaylen Raynor can actually throw the ball #bluecy

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The problem is I don't know that Jaylen Raynor can actually throw the ball #bluecy

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Katy @heykatydid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

WHAT UP 🌪🌪🌪 w/ @thewazisu.bsky.social

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I did my part this morning and donated to various Iowa Dems. It feels like spitting in the ocean considering how much money is flowing in against them, but hopefully it's better than nothing.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reposting this because one of the many interesting things about the list were the categories voters chose, or didn't. No children's TV. Relatively little reality/documentary. Some comedy/variety, but not late night (say, The Colbert Report). I do not know why. But I have theories!

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

every generation gets the Horse_ebooks it deserves

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some baffling music choices during swim lessons tonight. Was browsing my phone only to realize that "My Heart Will Go On" was playing over the speakers.

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Celine Dion Sings My Heart Will Go On

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The GOP hates women.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I did indeed

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Moberly needs to be getting some reps in the second half, he needs the experience #bluecy

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a historian of meat and meat safety, I'll second this: "The notion that any profession or industry can self-regulate sufficiently to prevent population health harms is NOT CREDIBLE. Self-regulation is an abject failure in this regard." Ask me about lumpy jaw.

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tried to have a conversation with someone about Rob Sand's bad answer on trans people and explained that I still plan to vote for him and ended up getting blocked. Nuance, discourse, it's all here!

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Jorge Escalante @escalante.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve been trying to put things into words here for both of these things. Then adding in the Texas fans celebrating getting racism thrown at them. Then the Noel Devine thing too. Vibes are really bad. There’s a really shitty culture that has to be rooted out from the top to bottom and fully rebuilt.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15/09/2026

kennedy is trying his best to throw patel a lifeline here and patel just absolutely won’t take it. i hate these people, but i have to admit that this is a hilariously farcical exchange

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Katelyn @thewazisu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do not know how young women do it day after day, surrounded by the pieces of shit that they are on college campuses. That's not to say guys were better when I was in college, but at least they didn't have social media to egg each other on and share stuff.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There is, to me, an unsettling sense of connection between gambling and misogyny that is making some (*some*) young men into angry, cynical, no-fun sports “fans.” Everything becomes about gain, dominance, and the exclusion of the unwelcome; there is no pleasure in the game itself.

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