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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 8h

Oops! All Virtuosos 🤩

Sierra Hull and her band on stage, from the balcony.

Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 9h

I am the most "grape juice and grocery store bread and it's not literally Jesus" Baptist, but this whole thing is making me so emotional. 😭

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 9h

I live down a hill from one of those Cute Walkable Towns and would 100% get hit by a car if I tried walking up it. 🫠

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 16h

Vienna Teng

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 18h

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 21h

Here's my essay about how one concert program in the State Historical Society of Iowa—now being dismantled—changed my life: www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t....

The theft of history

Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22h

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 1d

Marian Wilson Kimber: It’s painful to realize the people in charge of Iowa’s history apparently have no idea how history works. If they did, they'd know there is no way to predict what parts of the collection will be of interest 5, 20, or 100 years from now. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t...

The theft of history

Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it doesn't surprise me that a British person said it that way, just that a US dictionary validated it, since I've heard that pronunciation before but (I think?) only from British people...

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 1d

I always thought of that as a US/UK distinction, but even Merriam-Webster has "fāt" as the first pronunciation and "fet" as the second, which surprised me. 🤔

Definition of FETE

festival; a lavish often outdoor entertainment; a large elaborate party… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 1d

new Madison Cunningham very good, but I listened to that this morning

Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing my afternoon of new releases... I had to pause for a bit because I was so distracted by the (I *assume*) unintentional Phantom of the Opera chromatic motif

Winter Shore

YouTube video by The Autumn Defense - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 1d

Rhett Miller's new solo album (out today!) was recorded right before vocal cord surgery (which went great, but, you know, what if it hadn't), so he sort of sounds like he's about to cry the whole time, but it works??

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

irresistible new elder millennial bait just dropped

ATIM Instant Messenger @atim.app · 1d

Sneak peek at a new client for Bluesky that is nearly ready for a beta release. atim.app

A classic 90s-style chat window between two users, Peggy and Joan, discussing getting a drink after work.

A classic 90s-style instant messenger friends window showing users, chats, and timelines.

A snapshot of a user's timeline feed in a 90s style window.

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 1d

SCMS highlights the achievement of Alex Ludwig for the publication of his new book, "Hearing Death at the Movies: Film Music and the Long History of the Dies Irae," from Palgrave Macmillan.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 1d

No Doubt’s “Tragic Kingdom” turns 30 today! Go schedule that colonoscopy

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 2d

My self-employment origin story is that I taught at two universities (40 miles apart) for three semesters and burned out suddenly & *hard* a month into the third one. 🫠 I thought the money was pretty good at the time, but it wasn't.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 2d

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 2d

Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You

((Herschel)) @jaklacroix.bsky.social · 2d

What's a band or musician where you like one album and then nothing else they released?

I'll go first:

Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
New Politics - New Politics

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · Jul 17

*Murderbot voice* triads and augmented triads

Screenshot from SKY Index, where I'm working on revising an index for a music theory textbook: "Roman numerals: for augmented triads. Roman numerals: for triads."

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 2d

I'm With Her - Wild and Clear and Blue with Brandi Carlile 10/08/25 Moore Theater Seattle

YouTube video by King Bee

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 2d

aaaaahh, I hadn't checked YouTube yet, here are the whole songs 😭

I'm With Her - Returning To Myself with Brandi Carlile 10/08/25 Moore Theater Seattle

YouTube video by King Bee

www.youtube.com

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 2d

Brandi Carlile being a special encore guest at last night's I'm With Her concert (which I was not at, I'm on the wrong coast, I'm subsisting on little Instagram clips) is my Marvel Cinematic Universe. Also I'm crying.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 2d

oof

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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