Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I just want to be in a room with coworkers for more than 10 minutes without anyone dickriding AI 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It doesn't sound like you did anything wrong, but also I think part of getting to know someone is having to initiate conversations a lot of different times even when it feels awkward to. So even if they never respond, be willing to reach out later abt something different 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 02/08/2026One day where the high temp is less than 95° and suddenly everything's going to be okay 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 17/07/2026What the fuck. The 60k spent on this could have been better put to literally anything in a school district known for being economically disadvantaged 120
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Local black bear sightings making me scared to leave the house! 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 05/06/2026It feels sooo gratifying to make travel plans like I still can't believe I'm just allowed to do this 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 05/06/2026There's two of mine that I swear are fighting and making up every other day 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Is it stressful?? I was thinking of watching bc I keep seeing posts but if it's a lot I don't want to 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Going to bed at 8:00 does not help but it is what we have been reduced to (via work) 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Spent 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 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This 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 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Crafting is so fulfilling. I'm making a skirt for ren faire right now and it's making me feel so happy to create 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 07/04/20262 weeks today since I got my wisdom teeth taken out and I am still in Pudding Hell. All I want is crunchy foods 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Even when I was making a new account it took like 4 tries to set it up w my Gmail 120
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Hearing 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 120
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 16/02/2026the politicization of basic rights/respect. I'm bringing woke to Arkansas State University online grad school 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 16/02/2026"...has asked you to lead a task force gathering community support from your conservative town." and I wrote "As a nonbinary educator, I do not have any 'reservations' in the way the scenario seems to suggest I should." I also included several purposely inflammatory statements about... 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Still have a 99% though so fuck that guy. For context the assignment was a scenario we had to respond to where we came back from a break and our school had instituted a policy allowing trans students to use whatever bathrooms they wanted. The scenario said "Although you have reservations, admin..." 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 16/02/2026My 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. 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Omg that makes so much sense I thought it was a kpop song called 720 or something like that 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Getting in line like people do at Black Friday sales for this 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Did you know I got a mule and her name is Sal and we regularly travel 15 miles on the Erie Canal 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Students just said I was BRINGING LITERACY BACK and had them using vocab words around the house such as "chateau" "dearth" and "parched" 020
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Obsessed 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" 120
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 12/01/2026You are a bigger pokemon fan than me so it would only be fair 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 08/01/2026How do you as a teacher morally look a student in the eye and go "yes I used AI to create this assignment. No you may not use AI to complete this assignment" 010
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Every 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 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Conducting a spell rn to divert all customers from the store for the rest of your shift 110
Mel @bebravebird.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Every town w 3k+ people should be required to have a bell tower/carillon that chimes on the hour and occasionally plays songs 010
