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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 7h

scariest brahms 1 of my life: my g string fully detuned itself between the introduction and the allegro of the first movement, forcing me to try to retune my whole instrument while performing and oh yeah I was on the front desk too

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 12h

Saw this in the wild and immediately thought “clearly hasn’t seen Dancer in the Dark”

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 23h

imagine being a heretic AND getting zero bitches? like pick a struggle

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h

imagine telling the pope “you’re not even an AI influencer” like that’s a sick burn

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

just started rehearsals for a concert cycle with the tchaikovsky piano concerto on the program and I can’t stop thinking about this monty python bit youtu.be/DB_lKSNwZZM?...

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Monty Python: Sviatoslav Richter and Rita

YouTube video by guinfred

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I forgot that the Ruslan & Ludmila Overture is…like that

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Netflix has made a hetero hockey show? I don't think they understand what people like so much about Heated Rivalry. Two white straight people fall in love. Wow groundbreaking. Never seen that on screen before

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

yep, I hope they manage to get their families out of the love hypothesis

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not going to engage directly with this post bcos I actually hate drama but...being generous here, the worry is that TLH normalizes abusive dynamics in academic settings. As someone who has experienced that very thing, fiction is not the same as reality...

Skeets by Katie Mack: Thinking a lot lately about the men I know who are willfully ignorant about power dynamics and how I don’t *know* they’ve done anything specifically worse than be willfully ignorant about power dynamics but also if I had to guess which of my acquaintances had, I’d guess them first.
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Katie Mack
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I'm thinking about this partly because of the Cornell news but also partly because of The Love Hypothesis, which is being pitched as a cute romance but is personally horrifying to read / watch as a woman in STEM. (I know the author is also a woman in STEM and honestly I don't get that at all.)
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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

well this kind of thinking explains a lot: “senators only do evil things if the president asks them to, this is how a representative democracy works”

facebook comment reading: “if you look at myposting history here, I am well aware. They did do us dirty and I don't give a shit what anyone thinks about that. Had they let Bernie go ahead and run he would have beat this orange man and we would be looking at a much different USA right now, a much better, stable, USA. Susan would be fine with someone not a manical dictator, yet we cannot risk having her stay.”

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m also at the airport & through security a full 2 hours before my flight even boards because I am a fundamentally ridiculous person

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one of the many benefits of having a huge italian-american family is that if my flight out of boston gets canceled at least I have several family members near enough to come rescue me

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

HUGE news for me specifically, maybe my two favorite idol soloists

instagram post teasing the single “mind games” from onew featuring yuju

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The catalog description for my popular music course

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you claim to have never heard Crazy Frog’s “Axel F,” it says more about you than it does Mr. Frog. This about virtue signaling that you are better than entire genres of music, that your friends are not in the custom ringtone game.

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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love it when a 4th or 5th-gen k-pop group rolls up with one dude who has a big ballad-y 2nd-gen voice; it’s always such a pleasant surprise. and this track could easily fit on a ca. 2013 shinee album youtu.be/WKWuFQESjj8?...

youtu.be

Midnight - In A Minute | SBS 260920 방송

YouTube video by SBSKPOP X INKIGAYO

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The best moment is a few paragraphs later, where she lists what she doesn't like about Trump and it's his entire policy platform, and then what she doesn't like about Democrats and it's how they make her feel disrespected.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are like 500 of these books and they all exist in an alternate universe where trying to win over white working class voters is a Bold Forbidden Insight rather than the guiding ideology of the entire party.

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smols/rachel @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🦋 B--

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

so I have an app now that just quizzes me relentlessly on korean vocab and not really sure if it’s good or bad that I consistently doze off while doing it

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

made it to portland and it is infuriatingly beautiful outside

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

testing out the new madison to boston direct flight today to go to a wedding in maine that is scheduled for saturday, when supposedly there is going to be a nor’easter. at an outdoor wedding on a rural farm. should be exciting!

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

took nyquil to try to get uninterrupted sleep and knock out a lurking cold but instead of sleeping my brain decided to plot several novels (?) in a semi-conscious fugue state — what fun

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A4 really it’s been teachers — my dad, Tony Gaboury (jazz guitarist & my personal practice coach to this day); my first violin teacher, Betsy Kobayashi; the Portland String Quartet; Sara Ceballos at Lawrence U; and Sally Chisholm & Susan Cook at UW

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

so I was so taken with Kang Ki Young in What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim that I started watching Queen of Divorce, and it’s fascinating to see the way each show styles/presents this (very attractive!) man based on his assigned k-drama archetype. he’s very…angular in QoD

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A2. lol, lmao, even. started undergrad in 2008 intending to be a quartet violist/chamber musician/teach viola in higher ed, succumbed about 8 years ago to my inborn passion for finding things out and then telling other people about them & now I’m a musicologist. #musochat

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A1. Emma Cifrino she/they, Madison WI 85% midcoast Maine 15%, musicologist writing about the “forgotten” women of musical higher ed & listening to all new k-pop idol music since January 2025; also freelance violist & archive mouse #musochat

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Research absolutely bears this out but musical preferences are a social phenomenon. Anyone who thinks that your musical preferences make you a better person than others is delusional.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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🌙MegTan⁷⊙⊝⊜ @sugaswtness.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One paragraph is enough for me to say fuck that guy and anyone like him

In a series of now-deleted posts on X, independent film journalist Jeff Sneider expressed frustration about being "ghosted" by the publicity team
of "Obsession" breakout star Inde Navarrette.
"I plan to write about Inde Navarrette for a long time," Sneider wrote. "I can be a useful friend to her team ... or I can share literally everything I hear about her. The best part is, THEY get to decide. I can forgive being ghosted this summer. I won't forget, but I can forgive ... just not twice."

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All caught up! Honestly it’s pretty fun to listen through — you get a representative sample of two dozen songs in less than 15 minutes AND get to judge my personal musical taste (up to you if you do this for Good or Evil reasons, just don’t say anything mean to my face)

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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K2S0'Hara (hypernarcoleptic) @oharawe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Musicology & theory hivemind of bluesky: Favorite articles/essays/other sources on art song of the past couple of decades? I've had an independent study unexpectedly drop in my lap.

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

okay so May was a really good month, I realized as I made this video youtu.be/hdEUulBRhXE?...

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may 2026 k-pop roundup

YouTube video by Emma Cifrino

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit

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