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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 5h

Hm. I don’t know if pokémon go is blocked by the great firewall.

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 10h

Nice! Thank you, I will search it up!

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone runs faster than me.

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 10h

Oh lovely! Did you hire it, or do you know a person with a boat? (I will be up there in a few weeks and am looking for things to keep the kids from losing it.)

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 10h

Long legs. She’s pretty tall.

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 10h

Meek and wishy washy, that’s @naomikritzer.bsky.social . Who knows where I live and runs faster than me so I will stop giving her a hard time now.

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 13h

How did I live before I had cats?

A fat white woman with only her face visible because she has two brown tabbies lying on her chest.

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Ceej @stellaphilia.bsky.social · 14h

Lemme help y'all out with this since I see folks struggling with this concept in the comments:

Not liking Zionists =/= antisemitic

Equating all American Jews with Zionists and vandalizing their place of worship = antisemitic

Hope this helps!

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 18h

Temple Israel in Minneapolis, the state’s largest Jewish house of worship, was tagged with antisemitic graffiti, Mayor Jacob Frey said Wednesday. Islamophobic graffiti was also spotted yesterday in Northeast Minneapolis, Council Member Elliot Payne said.

Temple Israel in Minneapolis tagged with antisemitic graffiti, Mayor Jacob Frey says

One message referred to the attack two years ago on Israel by Hamas terrorists.

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 14h

What reporter is that? Because jfc what a question.

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah. I have three and might be able to do four, if two of mine weren’t already having trouble getting along.

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 18h

She’s beautiful. I am full up, unfortunately. Two of mine are brown tabbies; I never thought I’d like tabbies until I fostered these two and discovered I couldn’t give them up.

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 19h

As someone who is spoiler and spoiler, like spoiler, I find this delightful and inspiring. :)

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Genevieve Kanter @profgenkanter.bsky.social · 1d

Consolidation in the EHR market -- where there are 2 dominant vendors -- is creating a big risk of a catastrophic cybersecurity event.

@ajh.bsky.social, @natea.bsky.social, and I ponder the possibility of a "single-point-of-failure" risk in the EHR market in this Health Affairs Scholar commentary

Electronic health record market consolidation and implications for cybersecurity

Abstract. Over the past decade, the electronic health record (EHR) market has become increasingly consolidated, with the majority of care delivery organiza

academic.oup.com

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 19h

Slow Down

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batsy 🦇🦇 @kalmn.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a pancake, I take it?

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cognitively accessible math @geonz.bsky.social · 1d

If you're at a protest and need to fix a bicycle tire, you can use one of these on a keychain : www.walmart.com/ip/Tire-Valv...

Robot or human?

www.walmart.com

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Emma Molls @emmamolls.bsky.social · 1d

The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

Front Page - Data Curation Network

The Data Curation Network (DCN) is a membership organization of institutional and non-profit data repositories whose vision is to advance open research by making data more ethical, reusable, and under...

datacuration.network

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.”

We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 1d

Two longtime @wiscon.bsky.social and @otherwiseaward.org volunteers, powerhouse bi organizer Lou Hoffman and poet and quilter Terry Garey, passed away yesterday. Our sympathies to their loved ones and communities. 😢