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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I just want to be in a room with coworkers for more than 10 minutes without anyone dickriding AI

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

One day where the high temp is less than 95° and suddenly everything's going to be okay

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Local black bear sightings making me scared to leave the house!

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It feels sooo gratifying to make travel plans like I still can't believe I'm just allowed to do this

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Spent the whole day w my girlfriend (took a walk, sat by the water, played Stardew Valley, ate dinner together) and the days are never long enough. There is not enough time in the whole of existence

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This summer I will travel, take morning walks, finish my Master's degree, read The Brothers Karamazov, sit in the sun, make things and have brief wholesome interactions with people I will only ever meet once as well as prolonged wholesome interactions with people I will love forever

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Crafting is so fulfilling. I'm making a skirt for ren faire right now and it's making me feel so happy to create

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

2 weeks today since I got my wisdom teeth taken out and I am still in Pudding Hell. All I want is crunchy foods

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

They're going to miss me forever

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Hearing the crowd noise from The Goo Goo Dolls' Iris Live in Buffalo July 4, 2004 through a wall and getting activated like a sleeper agent

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

My grad school professor has entirely stopped leaving comments on my work ever since I turned in an assignment that stated my support for trans students lmao. Every assignment before that one has a comment. That assignment and all others after do not have comments.

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Did you know I got a mule and her name is Sal and we regularly travel 15 miles on the Erie Canal

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Students just said I was BRINGING LITERACY BACK and had them using vocab words around the house such as "chateau" "dearth" and "parched"

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Obsessed w the phrase "throwing stones from a glass house" and I keep using it in ways only I think are funny, such as "oh there's no way you just threw that stone dude now there's a MASSIVE crack in your glass house"

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Every time we have a professional development, someone comes up with a new horrid idea about how teachers should be using AI to lesson plan/differentiate/create worksheets/etc

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Went to Denver over Thanksgiving break :)

Mel at the Denver Zoo, on a bench with Christmas lights in the background. Their body/clothes has a purple tint from the lights and they are smiling.

Mel in a coffee shop, wearing a hat that says "bagels" and pointing at a bagel on the table in front of them.

Mel at a truck stop that had taxidermied animals for some reason. They are standing underneath a mounted deer head and smiling vacantly.

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Every town w 3k+ people should be required to have a bell tower/carillon that chimes on the hour and occasionally plays songs

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parker 🩷🍲 @parkerforsoup.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

walked into work today and this popped up. should i be worried?

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Life has a purpose actually

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Yesterday I was upset and my gf played Erie Canal by Pete Seeger about it and immediately fixed me

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I can hear a speaker in the kitchen of this bar playing Sugar, We're Goin Down and the main speaker is playing Marvin Gaye. Fascinating dichotomy

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Made heart hands at a snapping turtle

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

got so drunk last night that I made my crush watch Parkour Civilization and Josh Allen highlights

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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 27/06/2025

Now available in paperback: a collection of critical essays, personal reflections, short fiction, drama, and a comic, all inspired by the Mountain Goats’ masterpiece. It’s “Broad Sound Spotlights: The Sunset Tree at 20” a.co/d/7OxVcnF

The cover of “Broad Sound Spotlights: The Sunset Tree at 20.” It features a watercolor painting of a tree at sunset against a tan background

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

If you aren't in love with me then how come bits of my leitmotif keep showing up in yours???????

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

If I could ride a bike 6 miles down the beach every day I think I would be fixed

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Just met a used car salesman named Cliff Battles

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE YOU CAN TALK TO?

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

First time in my life I've had enough of a sense of community that it feels important to stay in one place and ofc it's in fuckass Arkansas UGH

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/05/2025

I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I asked a student if I looked stupid in the video of the fight that happened in my classroom today and he CRINGED AND NODDED 💔💔💔

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I used to be so good at piano, they need to lock me in a basement with only my keyboard and sheet music and no wifi again

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I hate when students' slang is correct because ts DID pmo

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BearhAHHH!!t @fussybabybit.ch · 13/04/2025

Just figured out how to escape my containment cell. Thinking of heading straight for the city’s densely populated downtown area.

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Doing research on another obscure female conductor got me reading about French forms of address and what they reveal about character relationships in La Petite Fadette

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I HAVE THE PRETTIEST BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD IN CASE YOU FORGOT

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

THIS NIGHTMARE WILL BE IN FULL COLOR

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Ignatius Thornycroft @igthornycroft.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"she's not gonna fuck you bro" she will. she will if i display my plumage ostentatiously enough

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

my retirement planning was really based on eventually having an obscenely wealthy woman offer me a huge amount of money to stay away from her son so at this point I’m not sure what to do

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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 25/03/2025

Today on the podcast feed: @bebravebird.bsky.social talks @ethanwarren.bsky.social through the context and majesty of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Listen here on Apple Podcasts or wherever you pod: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Eye of Beholder: Symphonie Fantastique (Hector Berlioz)

Podcast Episode · The Broad Sound Podcast · 03/25/2025 · 58m

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Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Getting home from hanging out with friends and immediately putting on Preacher's Daughter like did you even try to immerse yourself in love and happiness

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