Aíne Norris
@ainenorris.bsky.social
PhD candidate • Researcher of the unusual ✨🌱🔮
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Aíne Norris
@ainenorris.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Twitter transition vibes.
(Photo: Elizabeth Montgomery, The Twilight Zone)
(Photo: Elizabeth Montgomery, The Twilight Zone)
Knowing my proclivities, a lot of folks have sent me messages this week excitedly relaying that Jessica Lange is back for the next season of American Horror Story. But how can she ever top this banger of a line? 🖤😂
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Knowing my proclivities, a lot of folks have sent me messages this week excitedly relaying that Jessica Lange is back for the next season of American Horror Story. But how can she ever top this banger of a line? 🖤😂
Theory, sneaking into new parts of the diss.
October 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Theory, sneaking into new parts of the diss.
Big thanks to the amazing folks at @c19podcast.bsky.social for letting me babble about Appalachian witchcraft and math. 🖤🖤🖤 It’s an honor to do this work.
New episode out now! Join Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University) in searching the archives for records of “Sally Friddly” of Potts Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia, who was accused of enchanting a milk pail to steal cream from her neighbors.
S09 E04 | Sally Fridley’s Bewildering Press: Investigating Accusations of Appalachian Witchcraft
On this episode, Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University), guides us through one story of an age-old accusation levied against women throughout colonial and early American history: witchcraft.
In 1891,
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October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Big thanks to the amazing folks at @c19podcast.bsky.social for letting me babble about Appalachian witchcraft and math. 🖤🖤🖤 It’s an honor to do this work.
Presented my Appalachian witchcraft / stylometry work at a history symposium early this month and just received an email from an attendee with the subject line “Witchcraft Math.” 🖤🖤🖤🖤
a black and white drawing of two witches and a devil on a broom
ALT: a black and white drawing of two witches and a devil on a broom
media.tenor.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Presented my Appalachian witchcraft / stylometry work at a history symposium early this month and just received an email from an attendee with the subject line “Witchcraft Math.” 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Friends in academia: do you have a copyeditor you love? Looking to hire one for a manuscript, and would much rather go off recommendations. Thank you!
July 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Friends in academia: do you have a copyeditor you love? Looking to hire one for a manuscript, and would much rather go off recommendations. Thank you!
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
Happy 28th anniversary to one of my favorite lines in television history. 😆
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "I Robot, You Jane" S.1.E.8, 1997)
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "I Robot, You Jane" S.1.E.8, 1997)
April 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Happy 28th anniversary to one of my favorite lines in television history. 😆
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "I Robot, You Jane" S.1.E.8, 1997)
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "I Robot, You Jane" S.1.E.8, 1997)
February 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Excellent incentives to empty my to do list this week. 🦉🥧☕️ #TwinPeaks
cc: @scottryanfmp.bsky.social
cc: @scottryanfmp.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Excellent incentives to empty my to do list this week. 🦉🥧☕️ #TwinPeaks
cc: @scottryanfmp.bsky.social
cc: @scottryanfmp.bsky.social
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Hey, y'all - there are going to be lots of ugly propaganda pieces circulating now that Trump is president again. KKK flyers, etc.
Just a note to say that best practices are that you deface the image somehow before sharing it so that it cannot be distributed further as-is.
Just a note to say that best practices are that you deface the image somehow before sharing it so that it cannot be distributed further as-is.
January 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Hey, y'all - there are going to be lots of ugly propaganda pieces circulating now that Trump is president again. KKK flyers, etc.
Just a note to say that best practices are that you deface the image somehow before sharing it so that it cannot be distributed further as-is.
Just a note to say that best practices are that you deface the image somehow before sharing it so that it cannot be distributed further as-is.
Thankful for water returning to our house in #Richmond. It’s been out completely since early Monday afternoon.
Now conserving and being mindful of the boil notice. Hope the city will work diligently to improve the infrastructure after this event.
#RVA #rvaWaterCrisis
Now conserving and being mindful of the boil notice. Hope the city will work diligently to improve the infrastructure after this event.
#RVA #rvaWaterCrisis
January 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thankful for water returning to our house in #Richmond. It’s been out completely since early Monday afternoon.
Now conserving and being mindful of the boil notice. Hope the city will work diligently to improve the infrastructure after this event.
#RVA #rvaWaterCrisis
Now conserving and being mindful of the boil notice. Hope the city will work diligently to improve the infrastructure after this event.
#RVA #rvaWaterCrisis
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
New tree topper 😍
December 3, 2024 at 11:17 PM
New tree topper 😍
Yet another #Buffy rewatch.
The excitement of Graduation Day: Part II so quickly dissipates upon remembering it means the dreaded Riley episodes are forthcoming. 😫
The excitement of Graduation Day: Part II so quickly dissipates upon remembering it means the dreaded Riley episodes are forthcoming. 😫
a woman without a shirt is looking at the camera .
ALT: a woman without a shirt is looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Yet another #Buffy rewatch.
The excitement of Graduation Day: Part II so quickly dissipates upon remembering it means the dreaded Riley episodes are forthcoming. 😫
The excitement of Graduation Day: Part II so quickly dissipates upon remembering it means the dreaded Riley episodes are forthcoming. 😫
“The Bells”
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
November 26, 2024 at 3:42 PM
“The Bells”
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
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November 18, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Looking to re-build this space with my people!
- #CulturalStudies
- #ArchivalStudies
- #PopCulture
- #Circus
- #Witchcraft
- #Appalachia
- #RVA
- #TwinPeaks
- #Horror
- #Oddities
- #Weird
- #DarkTourism
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
- #CulturalStudies
- #ArchivalStudies
- #PopCulture
- #Circus
- #Witchcraft
- #Appalachia
- #RVA
- #TwinPeaks
- #Horror
- #Oddities
- #Weird
- #DarkTourism
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
November 12, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Looking to re-build this space with my people!
- #CulturalStudies
- #ArchivalStudies
- #PopCulture
- #Circus
- #Witchcraft
- #Appalachia
- #RVA
- #TwinPeaks
- #Horror
- #Oddities
- #Weird
- #DarkTourism
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
- #CulturalStudies
- #ArchivalStudies
- #PopCulture
- #Circus
- #Witchcraft
- #Appalachia
- #RVA
- #TwinPeaks
- #Horror
- #Oddities
- #Weird
- #DarkTourism
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Twitter transition vibes.
(Photo: Elizabeth Montgomery, The Twilight Zone)
(Photo: Elizabeth Montgomery, The Twilight Zone)
November 12, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Twitter transition vibes.
(Photo: Elizabeth Montgomery, The Twilight Zone)
(Photo: Elizabeth Montgomery, The Twilight Zone)