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Kate Ertmann
@katelovesmath.bsky.social
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Researcher, explorer, writer, whisperer, and speaker on #MathIRL 💖 - w/ an occasional sprinkle of nascar & mlb.
Long Island’r by birth, Oregonian 4life 🌊🏎️⚾️ #SmashThePatriarchy
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Last scoring of the 2025 MLB season 😔 World Series Game 7 and my tally sheet of the 30 games I scored this year including 2 #milb & just 5 total in-person (#MLBinPDX pls).

I scored each team at least once save for Rays or Dbacks.

thx @72doubleplay.bsky.social for the perfect scoresheet design!
Analog baseball scoresheet for the MLB World Series Game 7 on November 1, 2025 between Dodgers and Blue Jays. Summary score box in red. A list of the 30 games I scored over the 2025 season including my notes to self during playoffs to see if I could do at least one scoresheet for every team in the league. Red pen underlined winning team except for last game because I just didn’t have it in me to complete that.
November 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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the big orange and yellow plastic speak and spell “game” from the 1980s
October 28, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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As I look up the start times of the MLB championship games for today, I remember that last year - when I was in Australia - I learned that some time zones have four letters in them.
A blue background on a TV screen from the 2024 major league baseball national league championship series that has red text that says game five Dodgers at Mets and in white text it says what time the game will be on in the East Coast of Australia, and in New Zealand. These time zones are four letters - AEDT and NZDT instead of the three letters seen in most of the northern hemisphere.
October 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Yesterday I got to go see a performance of Oregon Ballet Theatre’s DRACULA - along with @camikaos.bsky.social & @semaphoria.bsky.social - and
it was lovely and gothic and #highlyrecommend

www.obt.org/event/dracula/
The characters of Dracula and his bride, Flora. Dracula stands behind Flora with his arms holding Flora’s arms open, the shades of pink and purple showing in the under part of his cape. Flora is on point with one leg extended and wearing a draping short sleeve white effervescent gown. They are both very pale, which makes sense since they are, technically dead, though immortal.
October 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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lolololol price per ticket lolololol
a screenshot of SeatGeek prices for MLB ALCS game three tickets starting at lowest price available at 315 dollars per ticket lololol
October 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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ummm, does the word “shag” have some baseball term meaning bc I am reallllly hoping it doesn’t. 😘

(excerpt from www.mlb.com/amp/news/ich...)
A Quote from Seattle Mariner’s baseball legend, Ichiro Suzuki, in an mlb dot com article about the Mariners two scrimmage games before they start their playoff run this Saturday. “ i’m still trying to hang in there with them,“ Ichiro said earlier this summer, through longtime interpreter Allen Turner. “I play catch. I run. I hit. I shag. So I hope that I can show them that even at this age, you can still play this game“
October 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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And so begins the MLB Playoff season aka let’s have some ⚾️ with that ✍🏽👩🏼‍💻
Woman with long blonde hair and black frame glasses sitting in front of laptop. Small screen in background that has the MLB Wild Card playoff game number one between the San Diego Padres and the Chicago Cubs.
September 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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“Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid”
Film poster for the 1973 animated film for E.B White’s book, Charlotte’s Web. Poster is many farm animals led by a smiling pig.
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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falling asleep while stretching with your butt in the sun is peak Sunday styling
dark grey cat lying on stomach, facing camera, stretching white paw forward, as he lays on a blue blanket with multicolor stripes. Open window above cat, sunlight streaming in.
September 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Snippet from New York Times at 327pm Pacific on September 25, 2025 from White House Reporter, Maggie Haberman. “Trump spoke of Portland, Oregon, which he has often focused on since the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020. Trump said the federal government was “gonna do a pretty big number“ on some factions in Portland. “
September 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Highly rec following @datarescueproject.org & track their #SaveOur#Signs project. 9/12 update from their site:
Volunteers submitted these before-and-after pictures of the first documented removal/modification of a sign under the Executive Order and Secretarial Order.

1st photo is 👍 2nd photo is 👎
"Saving Muir Woods" sign at Muir Woods National Monument. Photo taken in March 2025. Right side near top is a sticker by the US Department of Interior which states, "Everything on the sign is accurate, but incomplete." and everything in yellow on the sign are additional facts that refer to a more complete historical facts regarding racist ideology and the impact the women's movement had in attempting to give All the facts, not just the nice nice facts. "Saving Muir Woods" sign at Muir Woods National Monument. Photo taken in September 2025. This is just partial facts, the nice-nice facts, that omit anything about race ideology or the impact that the women's movement had on preserving the whole of the history.
September 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The lady elks have been out and about and very vocal this past week
wideshot young light brown female elk entering my backyard . Big green hedge to the right that she will soon chew on. Partial view of another elk in background eating neighbors foliage closeup of young light brown female elk in my backyard this morning
September 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I very rarely go on FB but when I do 🤨
A notification from facebook that claims that handsome actor Jon Hamm, known for the series Mad Man, liked my comment (which said “this [the release date] is fantastic news as far as the awards season” ) which I made in response to Lidia Yuknavitch’s post about the movie that’s been made based on her memoir and which was directed by Kristin Stewart.
September 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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tonight at bristol
September 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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FLASHBACK: I give you the 8/27/11 Bristol night race, the one time I got to go to this track.
The view from the stands at the NASCAR race at Bristol Motor Speedway on August 27, 2011
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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We have reached 3 screen sports watchin’. Welcome to a weekend in September.
Watching sports on three separate screens. From left to right: college football Utah v Wyoming, college football Vanderbilt v South Carolina, NASCAR Bristol night race. Large screen surrounded by many book shelves of color-coordinated books.
September 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Husband sent me this pic he just took for me as an #alwayslookup and 😍 - so pleasing.
A corner of a room’s ceiling and partial wall and a bit of a beam of multiple shiny gold interior designed lines converging together. oh look, a tiny electrical outlet is on the ceiling overhang, too!
September 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Facing west, 3 blocks from Pacific, the moon’s fullness is still quite
bright this morning.
Approaching 0700 hrs, the full moon is seen in upper left of frame with some whispery cirrus clouds. Much greenery of bushes and trees in mid-foreground. Deck railing in immediate foreground with small solar light on railing, right-side.
September 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
extreme close up of a grey cat’s ear that is out of focus. This cat’s name is Paul.
September 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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lol 🏎️
My stream of skeets filled with variations of the same reaction to a big crash at Daytona Superspeedway waaaay early in the race during stage 1
August 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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why is @lawnmowerpranks.bsky.social on my beer
A close-up of a beer can from Old Town Brewing that shows a barefoot bearded-baby, with tattoos and a ball cap with a leaping stag. Said baby is looking indignant and sorta ready to fight. Beer lives in refrigerator case at New Seasons Market in Portland, OR
August 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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If I find out that you own a hand chair, I’m immediately judging you.
a chair shaped like a human hand in cement a chair shaped like a human hand in dark grey plastic a chair shaped like a human hand in fluorescent pink
August 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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but can you still do the thing where you can push two buttons on the cable box and get the playboy station?
1980s cable channel box with faux wood covering and surrounding the row of buttons and the three level switch on the side.
August 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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My Gen-X’ness really displays itself when I say that every single time I see this guy’s face I think of him on Real World. I can’t shake it. 😖
Cabinet secretary sean duffy, about 30yrs ago, dressed in a fire fighter uniform (?) , in the opening credits of Mtv’s The Real World. Yes, he’s holding an axe on his shoulder.
August 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Meanwhile, I took Dale to the beach today and I think he enjoyed it.
Blonde gal with a blue Indy 500 hat and a Dale Earnhardt shirt on a beach in Oregon
August 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM