Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷)
@mainewitch.bsky.social
double doctor & music studies lecturer; freelance violist; in my k-pop era; reylo sleeper agent; free palestine 🇵🇸
I have a blog: mainewitchonpop.com
I have a blog: mainewitchonpop.com
You think everything is terrible (headache) but then there’s this creature and also you found a deeply cute Spider-Man AU for your favorite rarepair
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 AM
You think everything is terrible (headache) but then there’s this creature and also you found a deeply cute Spider-Man AU for your favorite rarepair
Woke up because I felt weird. Had some water, shuffled around some blankets. Then it happened. I looked at the pill pod on the bedside table, and I realized.
I took the morning pills instead of the night pills.
I took the morning pills instead of the night pills.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Woke up because I felt weird. Had some water, shuffled around some blankets. Then it happened. I looked at the pill pod on the bedside table, and I realized.
I took the morning pills instead of the night pills.
I took the morning pills instead of the night pills.
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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“Political prescription isn’t the point; teasing out the humanity of these people is.”
An incredible critique by @angelicabastien.bsky.social’s via @vulture.com that looks at the faults of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER without negating the agency of its Black actresses.
An incredible critique by @angelicabastien.bsky.social’s via @vulture.com that looks at the faults of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER without negating the agency of its Black actresses.
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“Political prescription isn’t the point; teasing out the humanity of these people is.”
An incredible critique by @angelicabastien.bsky.social’s via @vulture.com that looks at the faults of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER without negating the agency of its Black actresses.
An incredible critique by @angelicabastien.bsky.social’s via @vulture.com that looks at the faults of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER without negating the agency of its Black actresses.
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I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
Hello from my baaaaaby
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Hello from my baaaaaby
a movie that takes place where I’m from
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
a movie that takes place where I’m from
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Americans need to eat fewer ultra-processed foods and more dubious powders
And yes, the swag bags. Attendees received MAHA-branded tote bags with:
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Americans need to eat fewer ultra-processed foods and more dubious powders
The airplane legroom situation is getting so dire that even I, at 5’5 on a very good day, am noticing it
November 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The airplane legroom situation is getting so dire that even I, at 5’5 on a very good day, am noticing it
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One of my fave posts from the other site
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
One of my fave posts from the other site
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bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital
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Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
It never really registered that I could do anything but music, honestly. My dad is a professional musician so I knew it was possible, which arguably really screwed me, lol.
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It never really registered that I could do anything but music, honestly. My dad is a professional musician so I knew it was possible, which arguably really screwed me, lol.
Sometimes dudes rock!
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Sometimes dudes rock!
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Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon
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House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks
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The lesson today of course is that anyone can roll Trump with half a second of planning, which leads us to consider why Congressional Democrats seem unable to do so.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The lesson today of course is that anyone can roll Trump with half a second of planning, which leads us to consider why Congressional Democrats seem unable to do so.
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Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
I once again renew my plaint: let millennials just take the cybersecurity test instead of making us do these godawful trainings
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I once again renew my plaint: let millennials just take the cybersecurity test instead of making us do these godawful trainings
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Breaking: Donald Trump has recited the Shahada
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Breaking: Donald Trump has recited the Shahada
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he's sort of like if sean penn's character in one battle after another survived both murder attempts
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
he's sort of like if sean penn's character in one battle after another survived both murder attempts
These are all way too good for the New Yorker
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
These are all way too good for the New Yorker
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Anyone: How are you?
Me, waking up every day in 2025:
Me, waking up every day in 2025:
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Anyone: How are you?
Me, waking up every day in 2025:
Me, waking up every day in 2025:
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we did it joe www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why a Musicology Society’s Members Are in Revolt
The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands.
www.chronicle.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
we did it joe www.chronicle.com/article/why-...