Melinda Coleman
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Cat mom. Music educator. In school learning how to wave a stick. Texas transplant.
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 âApple Storeâ APP
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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
5 days ago
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 stateâs 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 Republicansâ insistence on religious discriminationâand likely set to benefit those already outside the public school system.
https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
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Qichin | Bard Vtuber
4 days ago
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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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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Lately I have been struggling with writing âstaccatoâ in feedback to students đ
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9 days ago
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)
17 days ago
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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Abstruse Springsteen
17 days ago
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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Major props to the student in marching methods who attempted to mash up One Life Beautiful and Vesuvius for their arranging project
16 days ago
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I turned on the TV with my lunch and she got down from her cat tree and went to nap someplace else
#Caturday
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David Roberts
19 days ago
Love the Pitt, love reading articles about the Pitt, and have two very strong takes on the Pitt: 1) The bravest thing the show has done is to allow Robby to be a genuine asshole. Trauma does not make people saints! 2) The worst thing the show runners & writers could do is listen to fans.
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âRobby Has Never Been Your Daddyâ
On the set of The Pitt finale, the acclaimed series zooms in on its main character.
https://www.vulture.com/article/the-pitt-season-2-finale-birth-robby-behind-the-scenes-noah-wyle.html?ueid=f84e5ac04f021896598d9107641bfee0
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Student teaching during the last semester of undergrad had me spoiled. Itâs 3 weeks until graduation and I cannot understate how little I care about these mini papers for my form analysis class
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gwen howerton
22 days ago
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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The downside of learning how to correctly use en dashes and em dashes is that not every text input feature (read: job apps) likes them đ
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đč sharon su
24 days ago
Increasingly I keep being told by normies that they would âlove to go to the symphony somedayâ and itâs starting to drive me crazy because if you want to go, you can just go! Itâs not a once-in-a-lifetime thing! Itâs not expensive! You donât have to know anything! Just buy a ticket and go!
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Rediscovered this gem this weekend and 6:17 gets me every time đ„ And then 30 seconds later Daugherty is like, you thought that that was the coda? SURPRISE and the celeste starts all over again
m.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Qa...
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24 days ago
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Dawn
25 days ago
itâs about that time: - if youâve done your return and canât pay, file anyway because failure to file and failure to pay are two separate penalties and failure to file is much bigger - if you havenât done your return an extension will avoid the failure to file penalty -payment plans are a thing
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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice
26 days ago
This is long but Captain Awkward is excellent at describing social dynamics and rape culture in action. If you're a man? READ THIS. Don't participate in supporting and excusing creepy predator men. Thanks
@captainawkward.bsky.social
captainawkward.com/2012/08/07/3...
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#322 & #323 âMy friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?â
Here is Letter #322. It and the other letter are below the jump because itâs fucking creepy in there. Edited to Add: Itâs frankly depressing that this post has struck a chord with so maâŠ
https://captainawkward.com/2012/08/07/322-323-my-friend-group-has-a-case-of-the-creepy-dude-how-do-we-clear-that-up/
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Hunter Walker
26 days ago
I recently tried to buy a product from a company that clearly uses a lot of AI. The experience included them not sending my order, randomly sending extra orders, and then falsely trying to lock me into a subscription I didn't request. It was a disaster.
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The HBO Max subscription that comes with the FAMILY cell phone plan that I PAY INTO is cutting down on account sharing
28 days ago
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Katie Mack
about 1 month ago
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
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Paolo Bacigalupi
about 1 month ago
Using AI would defeat the entire purpose and pleasure of writing. I have no more interest in using AI to write than I have interest in letting another person run a marathon for me. The arrival isn't the point, nor the beauty of it.
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Mark Jacob
about 1 month ago
The NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of âhitting a numberâ and asks if No Kings will be âa primal scream that fades into a whimper.â F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)
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A Challenge for âNo Kingsâ Protests, the Third Time Around
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/us/politics/no-kings-protests-trump-organizers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.FT9a.OyB7EiR9b2sS&smid=url-share
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
about 1 month ago
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Decided not to make a bracket this year and have instead taken on the role of screenshotting funny takes from Bluesky and putting them in the group chat
about 2 months ago
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Jason D. Salvagni
about 2 months ago
You religion is not my religion. Your religion is not our laws.
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Sam Bergman
about 2 months ago
Hmmm
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Justice Democrats
about 2 months ago
It's ELECTION DAY in IL! We can elect two fighters for everyday people â
@junaidforus.bsky.social
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@katmabu.bsky.social
â against $13 million from AIPAC, Crypto & AI in
#IL08
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. They're scared of what two political outsiders can deliver for the working class. Let's win & show them.
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I want AI to do useful things like figure out that when I search Pinterest for âgraduation outfit black gown,â I am not looking for black clothing
about 2 months ago
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Claire Willett
about 2 months ago
we all want you to make corporations pay their fare share, but the reason for that is because TAXES ARE GOOD and helping people understand why they matter is part of living in a society!!! I give you twenty extra cents a year or whatever in exchange for which we all get to have parks and libraries
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Reading Dukeâs Intelligent Music Teaching for the third time as I study for my oral exams and wow, this thing is full of gold every time
2 months ago
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Collecting birthdates from the pep band for hypothetical tournament travel and experiencing a jarring reminder that current undergraduates were born in 2007
2 months ago
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Brit Williams, Ph.D.
2 months ago
If I get one more email about Claude or whomever the fuck. 1. I wanna read my own shit. 2. I wanna write my own shit. 3. I wanna pay an editor to talk me through my own shit. 4. I donât want that AI bullshit. If you donât use it, you lose it. And I want to hold my brain as long as possible.
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Idk if this is actually an advantage but Iâve been thinking a lot about time management. Not the âorganizing your lifeâ kindâthe âdeliver a 50-minute talk without screwing up the pacingâ kind
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Municipal Corporation
2 months ago
"I can't get the announcements to work so you're stuck with my voice." It's about to be a great ride
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I thought Wind Orch was going to do the Hindemith Symphony but instead Lincolnshire Posy will be played on campus for the third year in a row đ„Č
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Almost every time I feel unhappy with myself as a teacher, it is when I am policing my studentsâ behavior
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The spring semester feeling that you deserve a Little Treat every day
2 months ago
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Ken Burnside
3 months ago
Voter ID (as opposed to proof of residency, which we already have) gives the government a pretext to deny certain classes of people the ballot. Even if we make it free and "hassle-free" to get them. I want an Australian style mandatory voting law: Don't show up to vote, your taxes are $50 higher.
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Discovered that I need to find time to vote early during this 2 weeks of hell but fortunately the on-campus early voting location is the same building where weâre hosting our conference next week!
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So far, I have received 3 recommendation requests for marching band leadership⊠1 via email, 1 via Slack, and 1 via Instagram DM
3 months ago
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Kasey Gifford
3 months ago
A pre-cooked rotisserie chicken from Safeway is $9.99. If I bought one every day for a year, that's $3,646.35. The average price of a house in the United States is $400,000. It would cost about 109 years of daily rotisserie chickens to buy that house.
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Jessica in the Kitchen
3 months ago
These no bake carrot cake energy bites pack all the cozy, warmly spiced flavours of classic carrot cake into an easy, grab-and-go snack. You only need 7 ingredients for this naturally vegan and gluten-free treat!
jessicainthekitchen.com/carrot-cake-...
#veganprotein
#energybites
#veganrecipe
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Rob Deemer
3 months ago
Post a banger that isn't in English.
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Mina Kimes
3 months ago
Keep seeing the misinformation that this was Liam on here--has been reported that it was not
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Arin Arcady
3 months ago
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
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My online music theory class is annoyingly difficult without access to a printer
3 months ago
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This is how I discovered that my favorite cartoonist of my childhood is on Bluesky
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3 months ago
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Rep. Ana-MarĂa RodrĂguez Ramos
3 months ago
Today, voters are voting in the runoffs for Texas Congressional District 18 and State Senate District 9. Democrats have a chance to flip a State Senate seat by electing Taylor Rehmet! Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM. If you are in line, stay in line!
#VOTE
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Canât believe I have to leave her and actually go to work today
#CatsOfBluesky
3 months ago
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