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Mary Anna Ball

@verymaryanna.bsky.social

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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.

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Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · 9h

As much as I would like to I cannot fit into children's size 12 anymore! Those days are long gone!

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · 9h

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

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · 6d

writing about body horror in Vergil and Lucan while listening to Christmas music :)

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · 6d

Hey Jeopardy… bring back Bevin for the postseason please. I miss her joy on stage.

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · 12d

but NOTHING as bad as a fairly established company like ACB and this. Just.......... do they hate their dancers? Because that is how it comes across to me if a ballet company uses AI in its marketing

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · 12d

This is not the only instance; I've seen exploitative companies do the same (touring ones like "ballet with lights" that offer no real artistic value and probably are not treating dancers well) to newly-formed companies using AI for their logo and all non-human graphics (that still look really bad)

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · 12d

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!

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · 20d

last night i had a dream they were remaking soylent green and kevin hart was the lead

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Sep 18

living in the dumbest McCarthyism possible

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

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Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Aug 25

how is Alessandra Ferri like the most beautiful person in the world???

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Jun 27

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)

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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · Jun 25

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.

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Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Jun 25

the page about the Matewan Massacre is off the national parks website :/

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Jun 22

speech that made my stomach turn. what have we done.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Jun 22

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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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · Jun 21

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

Tweet from @tomgara

Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognise the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak

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Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'm sure there are a lot of reasons for a big gap between potential applicants, but it wouldn't surprise me if being intimidated by the potential reaction online to how you look, sound, or fidget on stage would stop someone. It's supposed to be a fun show; if crew didn't stop them, it's no biggie

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Jun 21

So many people have complained there are not more woman or POC champions (there is a gap in the qualifying test by these demographics, so fewer people to audition) but whenever they're on for multiple games or they have a certain quirk in one, they are ripped to shreds by couch quarterbacks.

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Jun 21

These are normal people who get a neat experience doing something they've always wanted to do. Would you want to see someone saying things like that about you? Think honestly to yourself about how it would make you feel.

Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Jun 21

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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 19

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.

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What is...? A Jeopardy! Podcast @jeopardypodcast.bsky.social · Jun 19

Week of June 9: Blubbering Up the Pups w/ @louispeitzman.bsky.social. Louis is back to fill in for a vacationing John and him and Emily discuss Matt Massie's enjoyable run, Jejson Jennings, and one of the more insane clues in recent memory.

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Week of June 9: Blubbering Up the Pups w/ Louis Peitzman

Podcast Episode · What Is...? A Jeopardy! Podcast · 06/17/2025 · 1h 37m

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Mary Anna Ball @verymaryanna.bsky.social · Jun 19

But to say West Virginia was founded as a free state and on these principles of freedom and liberty is gross historical revisionism for politics. It wasn't. You are trying to "all lives matter" Juneteenth.