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Melinda Coleman

@ivycatmom.bsky.social
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Cat mom. Music educator. In school learning how to wave a stick. Texas transplant.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I feel like I’ve been caught in a voter suppression scheme for having the nerve to move across county lines during the year of the midterms www.wfaa.com/article/news...
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GolgariGlenRoss @golgariglenross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other
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Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society.
By Kayla Chadwick, Contributor
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Educator: "All we have to do is teach kids to double-check their generated results." Me: "Did you double check yours?" Educator: ...
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I had to DJ our eighth grade band social from my phone tonight and even though I was using my head director’s endorsed “School Appropriate Playlist” I still felt like I had a live grenade in my pocket
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Paid my credit card bill today. Looked at my Kroger app and took out every household item bundled in with my grocery purchases. $432 in groceries alone for a single person. What is going on?
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Time for the annual “push back the kickoff time of the first home football game” as if it’s a surprise that it’s 100 degrees in Texas in August
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What do you tell your high-school-age cat sitter who’s the daughter of a friend of a friend to call you?
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
First day of school after three weeks of summer band is when you discover what your new commute is REALLY like
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Tried a new Indian place that 1) threw in free dessert with my first takeout order 2) is only 4 minutes from my school and 3) has a lunch buffet during the week!!
Indian takeout containers on a kitchen counter, including paneer tikka masala and white rice, aloo tikki chaat, and jalebi
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Killed the wasp that’s been menacing my apartment for the last 3 days 🫡
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Austin STEM Center @austinstemcenter.org · 06/08/2026
✨ Our new sign is officially up! 🤩 The countdown is on! Join us for the Grand Opening of Austin STEM Center on Saturday, August 22 | 1:00–6:00 PM. 🎟️ Register here: buff.ly/0BROdzc We can't wait to welcome you! 🚀 #AustinSTEMCenter #GrandOpening #STEMEducation #AustinFamilies #ComingSoon
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I know Dungeon Crawler Carl takes place in an absurd fictional universe but I’m on book 5 now and it’s making me emotional about my relationship with MY cat
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
RFK Jr has no training in any scientific field. He's a history major who got a law degree and worked as an environmental advocate but has never spent any meaningful time doing science, or understanding how science is done. This isn't "an alternative scientific view". It's just kooky opinions.
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Love a “10,000 steps before noon” kinda band camp day
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bought three new pairs of athletic shorts for marching season and they all have POCKETS
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I think we’ve made enough lemonade. Can life now please quit it with the lemons.
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There is a little girl at my gate making extremely realistic meowing noises and I have to keep reminding myself that my stoic kitty doesn’t meow when we fly
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
After 10 years of being a DFW north entrance person, I am now officially closer to the south entrance. Time to learn a new route to the airport!
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I haven’t completely decided where to put the couch in the new apartment, but I think Ivy is a fan of against the wall #CatsOfBluesky
A black and white cat sprawled on her side on top of a beige loveseat against a white wall
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m spending the Fourth with my sister and her fiancé so I can see their new place in Madison and doesn’t this just sound like the perfect day?
A screenshot of an iMessage text bubble that says “Okay so house, farmers market/downtown, lunch, finish downtown, Trendy Little Shop Street, Little Treat, home, beer garden?”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026
By the way: if the FBI shows up at your doorstep and is like “I’d just like to ask some questions” they don’t have to read you your Miranda rights. You still have the right to remain silent. You can just say, “no, thank you, I’m not interested in talking to you” and have that be it.
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Conductors Collegium quote of the day: “We’re going to get 10 ‘rock n roll’ speakers and put them right on the contrabassoon”
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Thank goodness for the World Cup overlapping with Conductors Collegium because it means that the food trucks at our post-concert bar are actually open on a Tuesday night
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A prepaid checked bag on American now costs FIFTY dollars if you’re flying basic economy?? Time to cram everything for 9 days into my carryon because my personal item has to be my cat carrier 🫠
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“Also, aside from the “you look like a scammer” angle: Why would I want to do business with someone who can’t even write a single fucking email on their own?”
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I taught four jazz master classes (including one on improv) by myself today and no one died??
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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Whether James Talarico will be Texas’ future senator remains to be seen. But his “faith-forward” campaign reminds us of our state’s religious diversity—and of our shared imperative to guard against religious tyranny. My latest for @texasobserver.org www.texasobserver.org/senate-james...
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'Fake' Christian? Or Faithful?
Though MAGA believers call James Talarico “blasphemous,” he’s squarely within his Mainline Presbyterian tradition. And that's a timely reminder of the diversity of Christianity in Texas and beyond.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"We don't need to be X. It's where people go to be angry at strangers and fight with bots. We don't need to be Reddit. Because Reddit is Reddit. We're Bluesky." There. There's your soundbite.
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish the most recent cat picture on your phone. (feat. the emergency bottled water I bought for the ice storm back in January)
A black-and-white cat, lying on her side underneath an end table, looks at the camera. In the background, a Great Value 42-pack of bottled water; in the foreground, a navy blue lumpy air mattress bag.
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Just converted to DuckDuckGo this week and it is so liberating to not have to add “-ai” at the end of every search query anymore
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
One thing we are blessed with in Texas is a proliferation of drive through coffee chains. Patiently awaiting their slow takeover of Chicagoland so I can continue to partake when I visit my parents
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.
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Jessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Got bored and made 100+ tiny pancakes
Plate full of nickel-sized pancakes
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Okay this one is a Millennial complaint. Identify verification for the online application needs to be completed on your phone, but submitting an apartment application is CLEARLY a computer activity
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
My boomer trait is I don’t want to schedule a self-guided apartment tour by texting with a leasing bot. Why can’t I make a human connection at the place I want to make my new home?
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I wrote about a phenomenon in literary adaptations that I refer to as hot-washing. lithub.com/hollywood-ne...
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Hollywood Needs to Stop Hot-Washing Literary Adaptations
I finally caught the latest film adaptation of Wuthering Heights last week and even though I knew it had been divisive I was still disappointed in a way I hadn’t imagined. I was prepared for the fi…
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Best 30 seconds of your day
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It is 2026, I would pay extra for a graduation gown with an inside pocket. Yes I did willingly and knowingly choose to wear a dress underneath with no pockets.
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Literally at the Apple Store for an appointment and I had to scan a QR code for them to check me in that took me to the “Apple Store” APP
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I follow the clarinets from my high school on Instagram (which was NOT a thing when I was there) and I think they just posted a video of a clarinet choir arrangement I wrote in like 2016??
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 02/05/2026
Previously: Applications for vouchers had been submitted for about 275,000 students as of late March. But just 25% percent were for students currently enrolled in public schools. (That amounts to about 1% of the state’s 5.5 million public school students.)
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School Vouchers Are What We Thought They Were
The nascent "freedom accounts" program is, predictably, burdened by Republicans’ insistence on religious discrimination—and likely set to benefit those already outside the public school system.
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Qichin | Bard Vtuber @qichin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The possibility of AI scraping alt text is not an excuse to throw disabled people under the bus. The goal is to get rid of AI, not to get rid of disabled people.
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Highlight from the last day of Fundamentals of Conducting: someone took the bass drum out of our classroom, so we had to improvise (sound on for Carmina Burana shenanigans)
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Lately I have been struggling with writing “staccato” in feedback to students 🙃
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026
Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Major props to the student in marching methods who attempted to mash up One Life Beautiful and Vesuvius for their arranging project
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Melinda Coleman @ivycatmom.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I turned on the TV with my lunch and she got down from her cat tree and went to nap someplace else #Caturday
A black-and-white cat curled up on a gray bedspread
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