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."
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.
everyone on here seeing their second small brown child
February 9, 2026 at 3:38 PM
everyone on here seeing their second small brown child
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
Bonny Light Horseman stage banter from a 2022 show that's on archive dot org:
February 9, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Bonny Light Horseman stage banter from a 2022 show that's on archive dot org:
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Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.
February 8, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.
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This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.
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I am hitting a “music may not be a universal language” portion of my research (don’t ask) and I haven’t seen her cited yet, but I hope people never forget the contributions of Linda Shaver-Gleason, whose scholarly contributions did not stop in the face of her oncoming death. May we always remember.
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I am hitting a “music may not be a universal language” portion of my research (don’t ask) and I haven’t seen her cited yet, but I hope people never forget the contributions of Linda Shaver-Gleason, whose scholarly contributions did not stop in the face of her oncoming death. May we always remember.
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This headline in The Chronicle makes it sound like most adjuncts are independently wealthy when the reality is they have to hold second and third jobs just to make ends meet.
February 8, 2026 at 4:44 PM
This headline in The Chronicle makes it sound like most adjuncts are independently wealthy when the reality is they have to hold second and third jobs just to make ends meet.
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Gates McFadden told a great story at a Star Trek convention I went to as a kid about Kermit goofing around with her props on a break between takes during her scene in “Muppets Take Manhattan” and finally she goes “KERMIT, STOP THAT!”, like straight to the frog, and the whole crew lost their shit
This is entirely correct / back in the day I was picked to ask Kermit a question at a Thing (all the questions were scripted but askers were allowed to embellish a little) and in the moment I was absolutely talking to Kermit, who is real.
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
February 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Gates McFadden told a great story at a Star Trek convention I went to as a kid about Kermit goofing around with her props on a break between takes during her scene in “Muppets Take Manhattan” and finally she goes “KERMIT, STOP THAT!”, like straight to the frog, and the whole crew lost their shit
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Plot point: the muppets mistake Zizek for a muppet they’ve never met before
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Plot point: the muppets mistake Zizek for a muppet they’ve never met before
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Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics