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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Just finished watching The Testament of Ann Lee and I’m left with one nagging question: Since the majority of the music is based on Shaker hymns, is this technically kind of possibly a sort of jukebox musical?

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Ask a Manager @askamanager.org · 08/04/2026

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Teachers/parents of 3rd-5th graders! I’m teaching a small group vocal class & I’ve picked some music already but I’m looking for additional recommendations. What are 8-10 year olds listening to these days?? So far, it seems I need to watch KPop Demon Hunters & brush up on my early Taylor Swift.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

If you need anything from me anytime soon, don’t. I’m busy marveling.

Photo of a large monstera leaf with many splits, freshly unfurled from a new petiole.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

One unexpected perk of moving halfway across the country again is my new library card, which decreases the amount of time I have to wait for Libby holds because I can place holds on the same book in multiple library systems and just borrow the first copy that becomes available.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

And just to be clear as this moves outside our usual circles: when we say we're looking for contingent scholars, we mean any trained scholars working off the tenure track, even if they aren't affiliated with a university in any way.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Ads when I stream Person of Interest: - gambling - alcohol - home security systems Ads when I stream Downton Abbey: - cat food - cat litter - pheromone sprays for cat anxiety - medications for human anxiety - Chewy ads featuring cats

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

My sister is binge-watching Guy’s Grocery Games but instead of going strictly chronologically, she’s watching the first episode of every season in order, then the second episode of every season, then the third, etc. and it’s the most unhinged way to watch a television show I’ve ever encountered.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Halfway through the first episode of Echo on Disney+. Why is the ASL interpreter literally interpreting from the shadows every time we’ve seen them so far? What a weird, impractical lighting choice.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Oh absolutely the fuck not. Solidarity forever, L&B.

Email from Lunds and Byerlys Employee Experience. Subject: Temporary Store Support.

Dear Former L&B Team Member,

We hope this message finds you well. As you may be aware, we are currently in contract negotiations with UFCW Local 663. We are in the process of preparing for a potential three-day strike at 23 of our stores, anticipated for Thursday April 17- Saturday April 19.

As we prepare to continue providing exceptional service to customers at these stores, we are reaching out to see if you would consider working at one of our stores if a strike were to occur.

We understand the decision to cross the picket line is a personal one, and we deeply respect your decision.

To provide you with a bit of context with the state of contract negotiations, the union's economic proposals total $43 million in cost additions. Lunds & Byerlys is proud to continue offering industry leading wages like the wages we have proposed, which will allow us to continue charting a path through these tough economic times. We remain committed to doing the right thing for our employees, and our proposals demonstrate our deep commitment to further strengthening our status as a Top Workplace.

Should you choose to help us serve our customers, we are offering a pay rate $24/hr. Any assistance you would be willing to offer would be greatly appreciated.

If you are interested, please visit the job posting https://www.applicantpro.com/openings/lundsandbyerlys/jobs/3709046-335931 where you can find more information and apply for this temporary position.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Appreciatively, Lunds & Byerlys

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Oh man. Jonathan Sterne passed away. He was so generous with his time when I approached him after a talk at the University of Minnesota a few years ago, and his writings remain a foundation of my work on sonic accessibility. What a loss.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Minneapolis-St. Paul folks! Tomorrow is the annual Disability Day of Mourning to honor disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. I coordinate the Twin Cities vigil every year; this year we’ll be meeting at the Guthrie Theater at 10:30am. Hope to see you there!

Sponsored by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the Minnesota Autistic Alliance, and Twin Cities Pride. Disability Day of Mourning 2025 vigil. March 1st at 10:30am. In person or online via Zoom. Disabled people are twice as likely as non-disabled people to be victims of violent crime. Too often, the media coverage focuses on sympathy for the murderer, because they had to live with or care for a disabled person. The message to the public is that our lives — not our deaths — are the tragedy. Join us in honoring disabled people who lost their lives at the hands of family members or caregivers. We will gather to remember those we have lost and remind the world that their lives had value. Transcripts and ASL interpretation available. Masks required for the in-person vigil. Visit tiny u r l dot com slash m n d d o m 2025 to check out our event page. Contact d d o m twin cities at gmail dot com for more!

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My Masters diploma arrived today, after a year and a half of fighting to get the piece of paper and finding out that multiple people in 3 separate offices have been incorrectly filing or altogether failing to file the degree completion paperwork I’ve been giving them since as far back as Nov 2018.

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IATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE! Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My psychiatrist: How are your OCD symptoms since I last saw you? The gremlins that live in my brain: WHY ARE EGGS NOT PASTEURIZED HOW TO PASTEURIZE EGGS PASTEURIZE HOW IMMEDIATELY EGG AHHHHHHHH DEATH Me: Mostly manageable at the moment, thanks! No major changes.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Two packs of party balloons have spontaneously appeared at the front of a shelf in our main closet. I do not recall buying balloons. My partner does not recall buying balloons. No one else lives here.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Since I missed my chance to make a surprising confession before Tiktok went dark for like 30 seconds, I do so here and now: I stopped updating Twitter when Musk bought it so I still have the bird app on my phone. (And it still works just fine!)

Screenshot of an iPhone home screen. A folder of social media apps includes the blue Twitter app icon in the bottom right corner of the 8-app collection.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Dear colleagues who are teaching medieval music/history: are you working this week’s mad dash to download TikToks for offline viewing into your lessons on why The Dark Ages refers to a lack of surviving sources rather than a lack of stuff happening, yes or no?

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In better news, I got an email from the registrar confirming that they’ve finally awarded me my MA that I earned back in May! Once I get the diploma in the mail, I will treat you all to the story of how and why it was delayed (it’s a doozy).

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Mom: How’s job hunting going? Me: Like this

Screenshot of a post in the Facebook group Minnesota Queers Do Work. The post reads “Is anywhere hiring or is it all ghost jobs and sadness?”

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Okay, who has arranged a piano rendition of Somebody’s Getting Married from The Muppets Take Manhattan? My sweetheart has agreed to have it as our wedding recessional music and I can’t find any sheet music online. Surely this exists somewhere.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Started my second video game ever last night and holy cabooses, Chants of Sennaar is just *gorgeous*

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I scootered to work in 15°F weather today because I thought ‘eh, that’s what coats are for, and the roads are fine.’ Am I a real Minnesotan yet?

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My partner is an Eagles fan and thanks to my brain fog/anomic aphasia, Jalen Hurts will now exclusively be referred to as the “first chair Eagle” in this household.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I was thoroughly unprepared for not just one, but TWO ethnomusicologist jokes in Inside Out 2.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Holy cabooses, hello everyone! Such an honor to be includes in @imanimosley.bsky.social’s starter pack. If you don’t know me, I’m a recent PhD dropout who ran screaming from academia and now works in arts administration (for now). My musicology MA research was on accessible sound design in museums.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Got my Student Rating of Teaching report today and I am simultaneously the best, most supportive, well-prepared educator to ever step in front of a classroom and the worst, cruelest, least helpful person who should have been fired ages ago. At least no one commented on my attractiveness this time!

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Good news: today I gave my final presentation of my grad school career and it went really well! Bad news: I decided to clean my glasses right before I walked out the door to go give said presentation and my glasses SNAPPED IN HALF

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

One of my students just watched my card get declined because I didn’t have enough money in checking to buy a bagel and I hope they remember that if they ever think about going to grad school 💀

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Now that I’ve had some time to process, I’m honestly thrilled to announce that I QUIT! I’m mastering out of the PhD program I began in Fall 2018. So long and thanks for all the ableism.

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Casey (she/her), M.A. @velckology.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

It is the eve of my return to coursework at my grad program (following a lengthy leave of absence), so obviously I’m wondering if today is the day to finally drop out instead of giving one more second of my life to this place.

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