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χle Ormsby

@motivickyle.bsky.social

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Numbers and shapes at Reed College. Mathematician, parent, spouse, runner, 𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯 enthusiast. He or they.

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 1h

Counterpoint: the fall foliage is — metaphorically — on fire.

Stephen Foskett @stephen.fosketts.net · 22h

No, #Portland is still not burning.

isportlandburning.com/

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Stephen Foskett @stephen.fosketts.net · 22h

No, #Portland is still not burning.

isportlandburning.com/

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 2h

Found the unique item of Pottery Barn Karencore that speaks to me.

χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 4h

Scenes from an autumn run.

χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 17h

*and crown my worst enemy with it.

χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 18h

Such gorgeous fall colors. Perhaps I should make a wreath out of them.

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt engineering? It goes without saying that all engineering should be completed in a timely fashion.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 1d

∇(autumnality)⊥(plaidness)

χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most autumnal one can be without incorporating plaid flannel.

Brown pants, heather gray shirt, navy blue work coat in a mirror selfie.

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Thoreau you would've loved zillow

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought, and I knew their price. I walked over each farmer’s premises, tasted his wild apples, discoursed on husbandry with him, took his farm at his price, at any price, mortgaging it to him in my mind; even put a higher price on it,—took everything but a deed of it,—took his word for his deed, for I dearly love to talk,—cultivated it, and him too to some extent, I trust, and withdrew when I had enjoyed it long enough, leaving him to carry it on. This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends. Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly.

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 1d

'Tis a sweet and unctuous duty to repost A Squeeze of the Hand. etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/mo...

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 1d

Measurement?? You mean COUNTING things?? 🤨

a man in a suit is asking how hard can it be

ALT: a man in a suit is asking how hard can it be

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 1d

Went to a pumpkin patch today with two corn mazes: the Haunted Corn Maze, and the Human Rights Corn Maze. What a dichotomy.

black and white horror image of pig monsters emerging from the corn

corn maze that clearly spells out Human Rights For All

χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 1d

There should still be some pow in February, right?

Kayak screenshot showing flights PDX to Atlanta roundtrip for $258

χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most autumnal one can be without incorporating plaid flannel.

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 1d

2026 ski passes obtained ⛷️ 😎

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations, you're department chair.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 2d

Accreditation report due tomorrow

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Conditionally convergent spectral sequence"

Michael Barany @mbarany.com · 2d

exercise to the reader

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 3d

The Eighth Amendment only prohibits the government from inflicting cruel and unusual punishment.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social
LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 3d

This perfectly captures the PDX protest vibe right now. Not exactly a conflagration.

Photo of cross-legged person in cowboy hat playing some kind of wooden flute next to orange cones and yellow caution tape. The caption reads "Outside the ICE building, which was cordoned off during Noem’s visit."

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 3d

What's the name of the Muppets song about 1-by-1 polyominoes?
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Monomino.

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 3d

"Wood shrimp" with a risk of "strong urine" taste.... I think I'll pass.

χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 3d

If you put the NSF code into Fortnite it unlocks a Sethuraman Panchanathan skin.

χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 3d

modulguy (pronounced like moduli)