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Assistant Professor of Musicology at UW-Madison. Lover of all things Slavic and sonic (bonus points if they’re noisy or electronic). Views my own. Read some words at www.gabriellecornish.com
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I’m watching a documentary about the Vietnam War and I sure would like to know where Henry Kissinger’s corpse is buried so I can go dig him up and kill him again

I do feel like the members of the Biden administration who covered his ineptitude up should never be able to work a day in Washington again and also that Biden’s narcissism and self-indulgent mythos is a large part of why the US is in its current existential crisis www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b...

Not to gate keep, but if you haven't taught a 200+ person class post-2023 when ChatGPT took off, I don't really know if you should be speaking on how it's the professor's fault for not adapting.

Sitting watch from my second-floor landing, ready to snap into action against any dog, motorcyclist, or Amazon driver who passes by.

Fun fact: one reason to always be diligent about putting quotation marks at appropriate spots in our notes when reading secondary sources is because some day you might accidentally plagiarize the person assigned to peer review your journal article

UMKC is hiring a one-year position in musicology (click here and search "musicology" under "academic positions"). Please get in touch if I can be helpful/answer any general questions about the department, etc. www.umkc.edu/hr/careers/

“Get me to God’s country”

"“Your agency will be broke by July, over two months before the end of the fiscal year” - Sen. Chris Murphy ICE's parent agency is running out of funds. Any delay - say, by organized parents - that costs them man hours helps drive them into political crisis. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

Does the new pope like Wilco

“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

Body of Christ. Blood of Christ.

THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING

The Italians wanted an Italian pope but instead they got an Italian Beef amirite cousin hey hey Chicagoland (is this anything?)

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

The new pope went to Villanova which means we almost certainly have the first pope who follows March Madness and honestly that does feel like a natural progression from Catholic AAU basketball

I do think it’s important to share that this is actually how I found out (from the fake American Girl Doll shitposting instagram account)

A Catholic from Chicago who ISN’T Polish my god do you know how hard you have to work to find that??

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

if anyone makes a t shirt version of this I'll buy it and wear it everywhere

in exchange for losing toys now, you’ll get to toil for low wages in a widget factory. also, the state will effectively own your body!

Every faculty planning meeting recently has been a fun game of make believe where we pretend that we will continue to have funding (or that the country/higher education will continue to exist) next year when we all know how unlikely it is

Our visual analysis shows the remnants of at least three American GBU-39 bombs at the site of the Yemeni migrant detention center that was bombed on Monday. Dozens of migrants died in the strike. From @arijetalajka.bsky.social and me. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Suggesting that the United States was the country that “won World War II” is maybe the closest a sitting president has come to inadvertently starting a war with Russia since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Every desirable city is locked in a battle between 1) people who want to do the obvious right thing and build more housing, and 2) homeowners whose houses have octupled in value since 1995 and are unwilling to budge on any policy that would let in The Poors

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ theonion.com/what-to...

always find the local angle

“Children will be taught not to bully me. Children will be taught that I have a completely normal size and shape of head. Children will be taught not to say I look like if Pinocchio was made by Heinrich Himmler.”

Happy 1st of May. Join a Union!

“Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven, it’s marginal.”

Same vibes

Buddy, my parents straight up gave me fluoride SUPPLEMENTS as a child and now I’m a college professor, so clearly… wait, okay, maybe that is a sign I have brain damage, scrap that…

Former heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

The venn diagram of people who think you should “just do your own research” and the people who think a piece of complicated federal legislation or the form to do your taxes should be no more than one single-sided page is a circle.

Should I send this headline to John Roberts or do you think one of his clerks already took a screenshot?

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

An investigation finds Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was captured while reporting on FSB torture sites, tortured herself & died in a Russian jail with brutal injuries. A war crimes investigation has been opened. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Truly without pause, I read this and thought, “god, I wish I were that snail.”

Having some Timbits and a double double with you Canadians in spirit 🙏

Weather forecasts are calling for up to “baseball-sized hail” later today. I don’t have a garage but I do have an extremely high deductible, so… voila!

He is quite possibly the most useless carbon-based organism in the entire solar system