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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 4h

The human body is such a drag!

Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 4h

I love it when I’m lying in bed and my body is like “hey it’s time to be nervous” and my brain is like “…what about?” and my body is like “it’s a secret”

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 4h

Please take me out to pasture and shoot me if I ever say anything like “everyone’s got problems,” good LORD

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 5h

Like girl you have two doctorates in music now, let it go

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 5h

The weird political shit that happens in music training spaces is the most infuriating shit though! I’m still mad about the prof who thought I wrote a mean course eval about her & warned all her colleagues that I was “difficult”…this happened in 2015 🫠

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 5h

Doodle is obsessed with peppermint tea for the same reason; she’ll put her whole head in a mug to get at a used tea bag 😭

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 15h

As someone who genuinely needs to be careful to get enough protein for various reasons…woof.

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 15h

Jesus

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16h

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 20h

Janet Mills has done a wonderful job as Governor. I'm from Maine and she embodies the best kind of Mainer- tough, kind, generous, and neighborly. As much as I like her, she is 77, and needs to enjoy retirement. We need fresh ideas and fresh faces in the Senate, not near Octogenarians.

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever read Tam Lin by Pamela Dean? There’s a scene in that novel that basically posits this 😆

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 1d

PREACH

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

A story isn’t bad if the reader/audience has figured out elements of the ending.

Not everything has to have a mysterious, or shocking twist.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 1d

hahahaha um quick question, what the f

Prior Clara Schumann, there was no clear distinction between the professions of pianist and composer. Professional pianists were expected to present their own compositions during concerts and recitals, and the public demanded something new every time. This was fine if the pianist also happened to be credible as a composer, like Weber or Chopin. But, more often, audiences were subjected to an endless parade of vapid virtuoso showpieces and sentimental salon works.
Clara Schumann had begun her career this way: as a young virtuoso, she composed many salon-style pieces for her recital programs, but over time this left her increasingly dissatisfied. She was sufficiently self-aware to realize she was not a great composer and she found it increasingly difficult to continue to present what she considered to be substandard music to her knowledgeable audiences, especially when so much great music by truly great composers remained unheard.

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah exactly, I am physically incapable of watching anything but Bones for the thousandth time, not in spite of it being a dumb show with rocks in its brain but BECAUSE

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 1d

I think I stopped at 7 or 8 🫣

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 1d

I gotta catch up on the omegaverse BL but my brain is so tired

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 1d

She is one of the most spoiled creatures on earth (and she deserves it!)

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 1d

Of course! She’s gotta have a little support

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 2d

Walked by a guy, hunky, in gym clothes, with his bro, hunky, also in gym clothes, who said, in the most SoCal accent possible, “It’s not a kind of sitch where you normally RSVP but I don’t want to be rude so I’m going to fucking RSVP” & I hope this is a new Jane Austen project.

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 2d

Such a perfect cookies and cream kitten (I think she was a little over a year old here and not fully finished toasting)

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD⁷) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 2d

Hello! Here is a vintage Doodle in her natural habitat: a sink

A tortie point cat curled up in a white porcelain sink looking supremely satisfied

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d

Community Whistle flyer from Rogers Park area in Chicago.

@prisonculture.bsky.social says, "This is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone."

Why It Works
✪ Instant Alert System

✪ Faster Than Social Media

✪ Turns Silence Into Community Action

Analog device that's "Faster Than Social Media"? Lolol.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

Graphic:
FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER

[I will share some pieces of this in a separate post]

ROGERS PARK
WHISTLE PROTOCOLS

WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS

• A SIMPLE TOOL
FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD. •
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO
IGNORE. •
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.

WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE
CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.

WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM

• FASTER THAN
SOCIAL MEDIA

• TURNS SILENCE
INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION

WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE
AROUND YOUR NECK
• TEACH FAMILY &
NEIGHBORS THE
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH
OTHER, ALWAYS

TOGETHER, WE
KEEP OUR
COMMUNITY
SAFE.
FORM A CROWD,
STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
@PROTECTRP_

ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
@ @PILSENARTSCOMMUNITYHOUSE
INFO@PILSENARTSCOMMUNITYHOUSE.ORG

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