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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if there’s some kind of cultural (or cross-cultural) explanation why kdramas have the most deliciously evil villains…Queen of Divorce and Bon Appetit Your Majesty both have TWO and all four are magnificently hateable

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

so many of these work for musicology too but particularly “England *and* France” and the nuns 💀

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 11h

I really need to get my parents to set up an instagram for them because they have Fans!!!

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

feel this in my soul. also not having college students and getting to be uncensored is messing with me, I accidentally said “I fucked that up” in front of my (18-year-old, to be clear) high school senior violin student the other day 🫣

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

that opening distorted jangly piano lick is perhaps the most me shit in the entire world

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

someday I’ll write an essay about Taste and I’ll discuss how Carly Rae Jepsen lives at the perfect intersection of everything I like in pop music youtu.be/JCKyiDjzlx4?...

youtu.be

Carly Rae Jepsen - Versailles (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

he actually has rocked a full-tails tuxedo in the past! my man likes a bit of Fashion now & then

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

compelling argument that we do in fact live in hell

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

my violin students LOVE the last one of these, the solo passacaglia

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

did someone say tomboy (I’m sorry for hijacking this OP but I couldn’t resist)

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*through a mouthful of road salt* WHUGH???

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

my biggest conflict with my mom right now is trying to get her to stop reading the Atlantic so this is especially relatable

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a millennial with four boomer parents from whom I am not even a little bit estranged, the one little trick that works is that my boomer parents don’t suck 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

right about now, the funk soul brother

check it out now, the funk soul brother

right about now, the funk soul brother

check it out now, the funk soul brother

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

there’s a part of me that wonders if my 98-year-old nana is here just because she wants to see donald trump die, which is a very fair reason tbh

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

take away my Maine card, I misspelled Aroostook twice 💀

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Even better: in Aroostok County terms, Collins is from the “big city” (Caribou, pop. over 7k) whereas Jackson is from a true small town (Allagash, pop. 200)

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, and she always campaigns on the slogan “OUR senator,” implying that she is A Real Mainer because she is from Aroostok County (the rural upper third of the state) — Troy running means that finally someone can actually challenge that nonsense since he’s from there too 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one out there writing in my head at all levels of consciousness

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fuckface "squeaky" from:me @skeet.best · 05/10/2026

one of my all-timers

fuckface "squeaky" from:me
@skeet.best

Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria to his Council of Ministers on 12 November 1866:

TTRPG Class Identifier @bskyttrpg.bsky.social · Jul 8, 2024
italian is not a valid ancestry to choose from

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Slick @dtwiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did this today and nothing else because I think I caught a cold in dubuque and I feel like traaaaash

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

tbh aquarius makes a lot of sense for me, much more than pisces, but that might be because of the AuDHD

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have too many feelings about classical music right now for them but I will at some point!

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m going to end up watching all of Queen of Divorce just because our main character’s ex-husband sucks so much and I NEED to see him get what’s coming to him (preferably a painful end tbh)

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

most basic meal of all time but truly delicious: congee made with miso broth mixed with mashed tofu simmered in tamari

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am going to get up and make congee. I am. Going to do it. Now.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Acknowledge that people are interested not in reading the same thing over and over again, but in exploring one thing from an almost infinity of approaches an angles. Of exploring different facets of the thing itself. Of making a familiar thing new, of using to explore different ideas or realities.

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(to be clear I don’t uncritically endorse RVW’s theory of art but he is very good at making fun of the idea that “originality” is equivalent to novelty and novelty is equivalent to goodness)

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To quote my close personal friend Ralph Vaughan Williams, “It does not matter if this word has been said a thousand times before as long as it is the right thing to say at that moment. If it is not the right thing to say, however unheard of it may be, it is of no artistic value.”

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the real devastating blow for me was going to maine for several days last week and experiencing real fall for the first time in nearly a decade, now I know what I’m missing and I’m livid

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it’s OCTOBER come the fuck onnnnn, anything over 60 degrees is a Sin but the forecast says multiple days over 70 this week !!!

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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president

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🔜 NYCC - Drs. Smite & Evil, Inc. 🧬🦋🧪 @porgs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

went looking for the reason for moots vague posting about tlh negativity & came across a science person doing a cinema sins-esk hate(?) watch good gravy why do people insist on being so damn joyless tv/movies don't portray real jobs well almost ever so chill out & let some whimsy into your life ffs

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

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 · 03/10/2026

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

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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

what’s so good about this is that the opening of the tchaik is the perfect choice for the joke because it’s almost plausible that one could play it while chained inside a burlap sack; and in the sketch the actor actually manages to look like he’s really playing

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