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Amy McNally
@infamousfiddler.bsky.social
Fiddle-playing hedonistic madwoman. I play the fiddle with The Tooles, Seanan McGuire, Jack o’the Dust, and other folks! https://linktr.ee/infamousfiddler

No Nazi bullshit please.
Pinned
As a result of an iron deficiency, I have injured my bowarm and am cutting back on performance for the next six months. I am keeping all already-scheduled gigs, I am just not adding any to my calendar until March 2026 or later.

Thank you for your patience.
www.facebook.com/events/72897... Tomorrow in Janesville, WI at 7pm in the cozy O'Riley and Conway's Irish Pub, you'll look at us and remember:

In Cork We Always Drink Murphy's.

Because it's painted on the wall behind the band.
February Shenanigans
Event in Janesville, WI by The Tooles on Saturday, February 7 2026
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February 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
LET THE VIOLINIST PLAY
#IHaveBiases
“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight because some people might disagree,” geography professor Kate Derickson
Faculty, students push University of Minnesota to denounce ICE and killing of alumnus Alex Pretti
It illustrates the complex balancing act for colleges and universities in responding to ICE actions.
www.startribune.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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At the event, some faculty members were upset about how Stephanie Arado, a U violin professor, was treated after she wore a black tunic with “The Evil Must End Now” on the front and “ICE Out” on the back...Then U police officers told Arado that she had to leave Northrop
“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight because some people might disagree,” geography professor Kate Derickson
Faculty, students push University of Minnesota to denounce ICE and killing of alumnus Alex Pretti
It illustrates the complex balancing act for colleges and universities in responding to ICE actions.
www.startribune.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Okay! It's time for Unconventional Tips For surviving grief.

Any grief.

Join in with your own! Tip or grief.

First one is from my sister.

It's shower pizza.
February 5, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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The reality is, we cannot wait until trauma ceases or we're unequivocally safe in order to develop tools & work our recovery. We'll be waiting forever. We have to develop tools & strategy & start working now, even if & when the sh*t is still happening. I don't believe in waiting.
February 4, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Okay!

*cracks knuckles*

Time for a big day of staring at my computer screen in frozen dread and waiting for things to get Less Awful Somehow!

I keep trying to do things to help. I keep trying to do things to rest.

None of those things feel like they're working.
February 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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I gotta write. But how write when doomscroll never stop
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 PM
In less than an hour, Jack o'the Dust live at @mbcbrews.bsky.social's Madison Taproom on East Washington Avenue! Stringed instruments! Pleasant sounds! Beverages! All the typical things live human music events have. You will remain alive and totally uncooked. Singing along is very normal.
January 30, 2026 at 12:11 AM
On a day like today, with my career teetering on the resilience of my bowarm and 2 fresh ER bills coming my way and a nationwide strike tomorrow what with folks getting killed in the streets a state over, I ask myself a question:

Do I have 2 minutes + 24 seconds? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
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January 29, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Pull your hands away from your electronics.

Put one hand on your chest and one hand on your head, close your eyes, and breathe slowly.

Your heart and lungs and brain are here for you, under your hands. They're working for you, pulling oxygen and pushing blood, doing their best every second.
August 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In case you missed it, there's still plenty of necks to go around.
"'Come up, O warriors! come up, O brothers!
Tribesmen and herdsmen, maidens and mothers;
The bondman's son and the bondman's daughter,
The hewer of wood and the drawer of water,
He that carries and he that brings,
And set your foot on the neck of kings.'"
January 29, 2026 at 9:21 PM
TONIGHT, at the @mbcbrews.bsky.social taproom! My band Jack o'the Dust! 7pm!

Come buy me a beer!

Then drink it for me, too!
January 29, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Bumps Along The Road To St. Patrick's Season: www.patreon.com/posts/149192...
The Road To March | Amy McNally
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January 26, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Thursday! www.facebook.com/events/11789... Jack o'the Dust at Minocqua Brewing Company taproom!
Jack O' the Dust
Event in Madison, WI by Minocqua Brewing Company and Jack o' the Dust on Thursday, January 29 2026
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January 26, 2026 at 2:17 AM
My 2025 budget says I spent >2X as much last year on bills than 2024 due to medical problems, and last Friday, a New Related Problem began to surface. Today, I ask doctors about it!

My health impacts my ability to work.

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Help? #music #fiddle #celtic #indie #support
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creating Fiddle Music
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January 13, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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You telling me a Snicker doodled this?
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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What's that? A FRESHLY-COMPOSED FIDDLE TUNE?!

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December Song Post! | Amy McNally
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December 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I am gonna make it through this year if it kills Smee
December 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
What's that? A FRESHLY-COMPOSED FIDDLE TUNE?!

www.patreon.com/posts/146958...
December Song Post! | Amy McNally
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December 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Dear clothing stores, I don't know who does y'all's categorization, but:

Jumpsuits. Are not. Dresses.

When I click on "Dresses," I don't want a jumpsuit. I don't want a romper. I don't want a flight suit. I don't want a onesie.

I WANT AN UNBIFURCATED GARMENT.

Signed, fat girl w/ short legs.
December 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the
December 24, 2023 at 6:07 PM
So. @aleph3.bsky.social and I have been talking, and we decided that if we had to find a rallying battle cry from popular music when we were teenagers, for him (gen x-leaning), he would select:

"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!"

from RATM's "Killing In The Name."
December 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM