Brenna Clarke Gray

A toddler, from the back, walks down the road. The toddler is wearing rainbow jammies with a grey sweater over top and a pumpkin hat on his head. He has snow boots on with arctic animals on them.

We are out for an adventure.

How many masks did they have to take off?

I was going to say, how New Zealand is this model on a scale from kiwi the fruit to kiwi the bird.

27 by the time I sent that! Ok putting my phone away.

I am parked at Thing 1’s flute lesson and I don’t have the baby but I do have a hot chocolate and a memoir by one of the Sister Wives. I am about to have a really good 28 minutes.

Why not? It’s the same party.

I do wish we could find a way to attract international talent that doesn't always either further disincentivize hiring Canadian-trained talent, further reduce in-country mobility for existing faculty, or further shrink the already underfunded research pool.

So Schumer never did endorse, huh. Nor Gillibrand. Just irredeemable pieces of shit, the entire NY senate delegation

A BINGO board with the squares Hollow Friendship/Romance, Montage, Sexual Awakening, Dead Body, Queer Secondary Character, The Kids Aren’t Alright, Borrower Time and Good Friendships crossed out

ICYMI: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social wrapped up scary season with a look at #clowninacornfield.

Here’s how it fared at YA BINGO

My general position these days is that isolationism is foolish but anti-Americanism is pretty satisfying and hard to resist.

Lady in London Drugs today was remarking huffily that Coffee Crisp is “prepared in” Canada, not “product of” Canada. I’m as elbows up as the next fella but I’m pretty sure you can’t grow cacao in any part of Canada.

Second verse, same as first. Kids a little more overstimulated, my mood a little bit worse.

Per a conversation w/ @thefallingdream.bsky.social:

"AI Psychosis": ableist, saneist, makes it seem like an individual problem; washed

"AI Ensorcellment": highlights both the truth of the magico-religious commitments underlying all tech *&* the curse-like nature of systemic "AI" impositions; fire

Quote Tweet: The rest of the country bitching when Toronto gives them a rare opportunity to feel desperately alive is the energy of the rest of Canada, for the record Original Tweet: The jays having one good inning and then spending three hours holding everyone hostage while they waste any and all goodwill is the energy Toronto brings to this nation, I just want Americans to know this

Both sides of this petty shit is the energy of the whole fucking country, I regret to confirm.

We’re back! It was about 90 minutes out. But it scuppered watching Ghostbusters tonight with the kids, so 😭

Y’all should try being a Fernando Alonso fan, you want to talk about despair. Sack up.

Wait did you declare that when you moved back

I got the vibe from your posts that you just like baseball more generally BUT I don’t know any players by name so that will skew things

The great thing about a reverse chronological, non-algorithmic feed is that if Dodgers fans do exist, I’ve truly never seen one.

Rude.

Apparently it is location specific whether it works!

Power outage in Upper Sahali. Anyone else in Kamloops in the dark?

And then it makes me a sardine sandwich.

Right now I know my pizza is in the oven AND no one has offered to make my pizza into a podcast using NotebookLM.

The only good piece of educational technology in existence is the Dominos Pizza Tracker; in this essay I will…

Way ahead of you! bsky.app/profile/hkhs...

Me in an edtech sales pitch:

The face of the k-pop demon hunter cat carved from foam, mounted on an ebike, and lit from the inside with LEDs.

Mine aren’t great (or have children in them) but here’s the face in action. I’ll try to nab a better one

The main life advice I have is: definitely marry the guy who will skip sleeping for two nights in a row to make his cargo bike into the cat from K-Pop Demon Hunters to both delight your eight-year-old and make a point about active transportation at the Trunk-or-Treat.

It’s actually wild to me — even in the year 2025, I guess I am still capable of disappointment — how much broader the communist criteria is than the Nazi criteria for access to the US.