Erin K. Maher
@erinkmaher.bsky.social
Academic copyeditor, line editor, and indexer in the arts and humanities. PhD in musicology, UNC Chapel Hill (2016). She/her/Dr. It's pronounced "mar."
High school, not really; LiveJournal and message boards I was on in high school, yes.
watching John Green talk about his buddy from high school who is still his friend and I’m curious, is that common for people on here?
February 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
High school, not really; LiveJournal and message boards I was on in high school, yes.
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The arc of history (derogatory)
February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
The arc of history (derogatory)
Okay, I'm going to try the screenshots again...
I love this so much. Here are some Fun Facts from my dissertation research. 🧵
Here it is! 345 pieces by Darius #Milhaud ranked by me. 'Being prolific was how he was. Suggesting he should have been unlike his true self – more perfectionist, more mid-range, more boringly “normal” – fails to acknowledge his essential nature' van-magazine.com/mag/every-pi...
February 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Okay, I'm going to try the screenshots again...
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every time I create a new assignment in our university's LMS (Blackboard) I wonder how many of my colleagues are letting A.I. auto-generate their assignments for them
February 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
every time I create a new assignment in our university's LMS (Blackboard) I wonder how many of my colleagues are letting A.I. auto-generate their assignments for them
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Doubles luge? Oh, you mean seated rivalry?
February 12, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Doubles luge? Oh, you mean seated rivalry?
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People are going to inevitably focus on the headline, but the Reformer story correctly focuses on the reality of what this terror campaign against an American city and its residents has actually consisted of.
February 12, 2026 at 2:53 PM
People are going to inevitably focus on the headline, but the Reformer story correctly focuses on the reality of what this terror campaign against an American city and its residents has actually consisted of.
I love this so much. Here are some Fun Facts from my dissertation research. 🧵
Here it is! 345 pieces by Darius #Milhaud ranked by me. 'Being prolific was how he was. Suggesting he should have been unlike his true self – more perfectionist, more mid-range, more boringly “normal” – fails to acknowledge his essential nature' van-magazine.com/mag/every-pi...
(Almost) Every Piece by Darius Milhaud, Ranked
“The complete Milhaud? Won’t you be holed up in a bunker for six months?” said a friend when I mentioned this project. If people know one thing about Darius Milhaud, it is that he was one of the most ...
van-magazine.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I love this so much. Here are some Fun Facts from my dissertation research. 🧵
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well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
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I’m at the opening of the first Sheetz in Wawa territory and there is exactly one person in line.
There are more tv crews here than customers.
There are more tv crews here than customers.
February 12, 2026 at 12:51 PM
I’m at the opening of the first Sheetz in Wawa territory and there is exactly one person in line.
There are more tv crews here than customers.
There are more tv crews here than customers.
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In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:
Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination
I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:42 AM
In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:
most famous to *me*, Ann Crumb; actual most famous, idk
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
most famous to *me*, Ann Crumb; actual most famous, idk
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when this already exists??
January 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM
when this already exists??
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This thread is really important to read in full, and articulates why fighting unjust detention by ICE is so difficult. It also confirms why I decided not to look for a new job in the US after my layoff and move back to Canada.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
This thread is really important to read in full, and articulates why fighting unjust detention by ICE is so difficult. It also confirms why I decided not to look for a new job in the US after my layoff and move back to Canada.
listen, shut up
Freelancer Loves Being Able To Barely Scrape By Livelihood On Own Schedule https://theonion.com/freelancer-loves-being-able-to-barely-scrape-by-livelih-1819579667/
February 11, 2026 at 8:16 PM
listen, shut up
It's like when my flight home from Manchester soon after the bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in 2017 was delayed by five hours because they shut down the whole terminal to deal with a Suspicious Item in someone's checked bag that turned out to be a jar of sauce wrapped in cables
but, uh, Worse
but, uh, Worse
UPDATE:
February 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
It's like when my flight home from Manchester soon after the bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in 2017 was delayed by five hours because they shut down the whole terminal to deal with a Suspicious Item in someone's checked bag that turned out to be a jar of sauce wrapped in cables
but, uh, Worse
but, uh, Worse
Hiss Golden Messenger at Ardmore Music Hall on November 4! That date sounds *so* fake and I *need* to believe in it. Day after the midterms!!
Buying tickets for stuff far enough in advance that the date sounds fake is one way I've been keeping myself from staring *too* hard into the Future Void, and I'm now up to Weird Al on August 4, 2026. Sounds fake but okay!!
February 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Hiss Golden Messenger at Ardmore Music Hall on November 4! That date sounds *so* fake and I *need* to believe in it. Day after the midterms!!
I am making the biggest 😒 face
I will share this with my Bible and Misinformation class. It is an example of why teaching students what actual research involves is more important than ever, and needs to be coupled with explanation of how chatbots reaffirm the bizarre things users insist on.
New evidence shows that 'Jesus was never crucified' – and AI can prove it
Julian Doyle, a veteran filmmaker behind Monty Python's Life of Brian, says he's spent decades researching and claims the man put to death was not Jesus but someone else entirely
www.dailystar.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
I am making the biggest 😒 face
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In @vanmusicmag.bsky.social on 12 Feb: my ranking/round-up of 345 Darius #Milhaud pieces! Over four months, I listened to or read as many of his 443 opus numbers as I could find. Today and tomorrow I’ll post highlights: as this is Milhaud, it’s going to be a LONG thread 1/
February 11, 2026 at 10:34 AM
In @vanmusicmag.bsky.social on 12 Feb: my ranking/round-up of 345 Darius #Milhaud pieces! Over four months, I listened to or read as many of his 443 opus numbers as I could find. Today and tomorrow I’ll post highlights: as this is Milhaud, it’s going to be a LONG thread 1/
I had an amazing evening Not Online
you can't learn about more gross emails during a Brandi Carlile concert
(but now I'm doomscrolling on the subway, where you can learn about more gross emails 😖)
you can't learn about more gross emails during a Brandi Carlile concert
(but now I'm doomscrolling on the subway, where you can learn about more gross emails 😖)
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I had an amazing evening Not Online
you can't learn about more gross emails during a Brandi Carlile concert
(but now I'm doomscrolling on the subway, where you can learn about more gross emails 😖)
you can't learn about more gross emails during a Brandi Carlile concert
(but now I'm doomscrolling on the subway, where you can learn about more gross emails 😖)
As my career progresses, I love spotting connections between books I've worked on. I just started copyediting a memoir that's like "my grandfather, the writer [x]" and went "omg, that guy from [other client's] book!" 🤯
February 10, 2026 at 11:58 PM
As my career progresses, I love spotting connections between books I've worked on. I just started copyediting a memoir that's like "my grandfather, the writer [x]" and went "omg, that guy from [other client's] book!" 🤯
@teawhilewriting.bsky.social I don't know if you're into I'm With Her, but they just announced a show in Salem on May 30 and I highly recommend it! (Nothing anywhere near me on this tour, alas, but I did get to see them twice last year *and* Sara W. gave me her set list, so I can't complain...)
February 10, 2026 at 4:39 PM
@teawhilewriting.bsky.social I don't know if you're into I'm With Her, but they just announced a show in Salem on May 30 and I highly recommend it! (Nothing anywhere near me on this tour, alas, but I did get to see them twice last year *and* Sara W. gave me her set list, so I can't complain...)
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wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM
wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
that Macarena video 😖
90s-themed rhythm dance making me feel very old this morning
a Dance Dance Revolution–inspired routine by people born in 2003, when I was at the mall watching my friends play Dance Dance Revolution 💀
a Dance Dance Revolution–inspired routine by people born in 2003, when I was at the mall watching my friends play Dance Dance Revolution 💀
February 10, 2026 at 2:08 AM
that Macarena video 😖
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You're all talking about Ilia Malinin being the Quad God because of his quadruple axels which is great but to me the Quad God is Martin Ashwood-Smith because of his quadruple stacks.
February 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
You're all talking about Ilia Malinin being the Quad God because of his quadruple axels which is great but to me the Quad God is Martin Ashwood-Smith because of his quadruple stacks.