Mary Anna Ball
@verymaryanna.bsky.social
There [s]he was, devoid of any talent whatsoever, a mediocre teacher, a worthless scholar, a glum repulsive fat old invert…
ballet, baking, cats, and classics (in no particular order). grad student at Bryn Mawr College, soloist at the Charleston Ballet.
ballet, baking, cats, and classics (in no particular order). grad student at Bryn Mawr College, soloist at the Charleston Ballet.
the sirens just have to be birds… if they are mermaids we will have problems… Christopher Nolan please just the sirens have to be birds
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
the sirens just have to be birds… if they are mermaids we will have problems… Christopher Nolan please just the sirens have to be birds
the EXCITEMENT at seeing the dead rise from the hole in the Nolan Odyssey trailer!!!!!!!
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
the EXCITEMENT at seeing the dead rise from the hole in the Nolan Odyssey trailer!!!!!!!
went to the local thai place yesterday and when Matt and I went up to order, a lady was chitchatting with/admiring the labubu collection they have at the order counter and goes "oh you all go ahead"
I order my usual (pad see yew, tofu, thai spicy), lady at counter asks if I eat egg & I say yes
I order my usual (pad see yew, tofu, thai spicy), lady at counter asks if I eat egg & I say yes
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
went to the local thai place yesterday and when Matt and I went up to order, a lady was chitchatting with/admiring the labubu collection they have at the order counter and goes "oh you all go ahead"
I order my usual (pad see yew, tofu, thai spicy), lady at counter asks if I eat egg & I say yes
I order my usual (pad see yew, tofu, thai spicy), lady at counter asks if I eat egg & I say yes
someone wrote a letter my mom's school saying that she (early 60s) and two other teachers (also in their 50s/60s) are too old and need to retire to make way for new teachers. INSANITY. who does that?????
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
someone wrote a letter my mom's school saying that she (early 60s) and two other teachers (also in their 50s/60s) are too old and need to retire to make way for new teachers. INSANITY. who does that?????
ah yes, the music of the 90s
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
ah yes, the music of the 90s
j-archive… when will my son return from war…
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
j-archive… when will my son return from war…
Calling all Humanities and Humanities-adjacent graduate students! The Bryn Mawr Grad Group is hosting our biannual graduate symposium next March and we would love your submission for Consumption: From Cannibalism to Capitalism! You can submit abstracts here by 11/30: forms.gle/1ZrQfKgBUgkT...
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Calling all Humanities and Humanities-adjacent graduate students! The Bryn Mawr Grad Group is hosting our biannual graduate symposium next March and we would love your submission for Consumption: From Cannibalism to Capitalism! You can submit abstracts here by 11/30: forms.gle/1ZrQfKgBUgkT...
these big ballet companies (NYCB, ENB, etc) pairing up with children's clothing companies (Gymboree, Boden, etc) to make Nutcracker collab lines… you have to understand the ballet freak adults would also like a cute Nutcracker sweater
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
these big ballet companies (NYCB, ENB, etc) pairing up with children's clothing companies (Gymboree, Boden, etc) to make Nutcracker collab lines… you have to understand the ballet freak adults would also like a cute Nutcracker sweater
writing about body horror in Vergil and Lucan while listening to Christmas music :)
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
writing about body horror in Vergil and Lucan while listening to Christmas music :)
Hey Jeopardy… bring back Bevin for the postseason please. I miss her joy on stage.
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Hey Jeopardy… bring back Bevin for the postseason please. I miss her joy on stage.
AI images/ads are sick enough, and maybe I am taking it personally, but I think there is something especially perverted when a ballet company uses AI to promote itself. You have people you pay! Use their photo! What is this! This makes me hate you!
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
AI images/ads are sick enough, and maybe I am taking it personally, but I think there is something especially perverted when a ballet company uses AI to promote itself. You have people you pay! Use their photo! What is this! This makes me hate you!
last night i had a dream they were remaking soylent green and kevin hart was the lead
October 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
last night i had a dream they were remaking soylent green and kevin hart was the lead
living in the dumbest McCarthyism possible
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
living in the dumbest McCarthyism possible
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Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
how is Alessandra Ferri like the most beautiful person in the world???
August 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
how is Alessandra Ferri like the most beautiful person in the world???
I don't know who knows someone at the Poptart corporation that is involved with the football game, but I would be such a good Poptart mascot. Genuinely.
August 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I don't know who knows someone at the Poptart corporation that is involved with the football game, but I would be such a good Poptart mascot. Genuinely.
I guess I accidentally put a killing of a sacred deer-style curse on Jeopardy at the end of matt's run. fortnight of the single day champions.
(this is a joke)
(this is a joke)
June 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I guess I accidentally put a killing of a sacred deer-style curse on Jeopardy at the end of matt's run. fortnight of the single day champions.
(this is a joke)
(this is a joke)
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Six people were arrested Wednesday afternoon at West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s office in Charleston as they attempted to protest proposed federal cuts to food assistance and health care programs, reports @lorikerseywv.bsky.social.
Six arrested while protesting cuts to Medicaid, SNAP outside Capito’s Charleston office • West Virginia Watch
Six people were arrested at West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s office in Charleston, West Virginia, as they attempted to protest.
westvirginiawatch.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Six people were arrested Wednesday afternoon at West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s office in Charleston as they attempted to protest proposed federal cuts to food assistance and health care programs, reports @lorikerseywv.bsky.social.
the page about the Matewan Massacre is off the national parks website :/
June 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
the page about the Matewan Massacre is off the national parks website :/
speech that made my stomach turn. what have we done.
June 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
speech that made my stomach turn. what have we done.
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They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
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Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice
June 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice
I did not realize how insane J! fans can be online until I started checking in for reactions to his run/the week prior to him. While people were mostly nice about him online (with one exception), nearly everything I have seen about Bevin has been so cruel. She seems nice!
June 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I did not realize how insane J! fans can be online until I started checking in for reactions to his run/the week prior to him. While people were mostly nice about him online (with one exception), nearly everything I have seen about Bevin has been so cruel. She seems nice!
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Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country
Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
trib.al
June 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.