Brenna Clarke Gray

Who cares. These things aren't evil or good, they're transformer-based models that generate what is the most likely thing you want based on what you tell them. This is getting so tired. What am I meant to be excited about here?

me too but it’s from sleeping on a different bed at a cottage

The cover of REAL ONES is a Julie Flett painting on a prairie landscape with the sun high in the sky.

58. Real Ones by Katherena Vermette. Really loved this novel about the ripples through a pair of Métis sisters of the pretendianism of their estranged/deranged white mother, an artist going by the name Raven Bearclaw. It’s funny and moving and speaks to this moment, identity, belongingness.

The cover of A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER is a tie-in to the Netflix series of the same name and shows the protagonist staring into the camera in front of an investigative bulletin board.

57. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. I really enjoyed this, definitely got hooked by the mystery, but boy howdy is this ever an egregious example of cheap, cynical UK-US localization. Why do American publishers think readers need this book to randomly be set in Connecticut?

"I asked Gemini/ChatGPT" is either a really tired joke or an astonishing admission of lack of understanding when uttered by anyone in NLP

#acl2025

Oh god I can truly only imagine

Missed the F1 race today because we’re on a family road trip but I see it brought out all the assholes who hate safety cars and liked F1 better when people died regularly. Blockity block block!

Another day of living inside the reality show called Canada’s Worst Mayor.

We can all tell our children no when they ask to join a Hockey Canada organization and, in age-appropriate ways, we can all tell them why.

We can all recognize that Hockey Canada has a severe culture problem. We can all agree not to trust them with our children to create new rapists and new victims. We can all commit that not one penny of our household budgets goes to Hockey Canada.

We don’t need the courts for that.

Ever since I heard that phrase “you are entitled to a child-free life, not a child-free world” I have felt so much better about these scenarios.

We’re landing now and it’s been fine! Sometimes he babbled real loud! Everyone lived!

Through a series of lucky breaks I had my under-1-year-old baby in a business class pod-style seat today on a cross-country trip and can I just say it was more than worth how annoyed the other passengers were.

One like, one rising sense of obligation and anxiety about posting that leads me to stop opening Bluesky.

I hate all these people and this beach house and the funfair on the boardwalk, I hate you most of all.

"Ziplines is renting the brand equity of regionalized public higher education in the aggregate" but "the evolution of education which companies like Ziplines imagine is not one of mutual flourishing with their university partners, but one in which those partners can be retired and replaced."

I truly believe its primary strength is in writing that isn't meant to be read. All the busy work shit that we'd rather boil the ocean than do away with. Makes me feel *crazy*.

But people will legitimately argue that it is good writing and that's when I feel I am watching the world from underwater.

Like when an administrator brags about all their communications being AI-generated I'm like, yeah, bruh. It's obvious. You write like a clown but this is worse.

Every time someone tells me how well genAI writes I feel a bit less grounded in reality. Other people can read how bad this shit is, right? Do you have to really care about words to notice? It's the prose equivalent of Wonder Bread to me. It might make a nostalgic grilled cheese but it's not *good.*

But also if I am further away than arm's reach we need to scream as if we had been abandoned for dead on the arctic tundra.

We're in our independence era.

Here is a list of things my baby found infuriating today:
1. Me trying to send emails.
2. The cat trying to sleep.
3. Running out of watermelon.
4. Being told not to play in the drawer.
5. Catching his fingers in the same drawer.
6. Being told no (evergreen).
7. Not being allowed to eat a Freezie.

It doesn’t!

Why do you hate joy

I can read OTHER THINGS JOE

Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada' Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as normal and unworthy of sustained coverage.

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

The uwu-ification has spread beyond white men in their twenties to encompass all career politicians.

The cover of DAN IN GREEN GABLES shows a young white man with ginger hair dressed in blue capris and a yellow sleeveless shirt. He is looking over his shoulder at the camera, situated in front of a green-gabled home.

56. Dan in Green Gables by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre. A queer modernization of Anne of Green Gables featuring hi-jinx, standing up for yourself, and preserved peaches. This is a joyful book for sure.

The cover of FELIX EVER AFTER shows one of the self-portraits of protagonist Felix, where he imagines his Black body surrounded by flowers.

55. Felix Ever After by Kaden Callender. This month’s book club pick for @hkhspod.bsky.social is a really delightful transmasc YA romance. I think the best bits of the book give language for confronting TERFs to teen readers. But it’s also just very charming.

The cover of ORIGIN shows a symbol of a snake eating its own tail.

54. Origin by Dan Brown. Summer is for really dumb thrillers that have the benefit of sending you down Wikipedia rabbit holes. I also love that Dan Brown has perfected the “every chapter ends on a cliffhanger” trope. The red herring here was super underdeveloped but it was still a fun read.

Ha! That would be good.