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Brenna Clarke Gray

@brennacgray.bsky.social

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She/her. Li'l EdTech; big mouth. Settler. Feminist. Reader, writer, teacher, scholar, doozer. Podcasts too much: creator of Community of Praxis; co-host of @hkhspod.bsky.social. Opinions yours.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · Jan 22

Ok so over on Instagram I used to track my reading and always had nice chats with people about books so I’m going to move that over here now that I’ve deleted my Insta. (I’m also on StoryGraph as mittenstrings.)

I try to read 100 books a year. I fail as often as I succeed.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 4h

By my count this is every high risk OB in the city — incredible, competent professionals — saying enough is enough.

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes people think of these professionals in the abstract but their work has no doubt saved my life.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 4h

The doctors listed here performed my potentially septic D&C, my difficult-to-schedule HSG procedure, my emergency fetal monitoring, and my high risk C-section. Their work is critical to the lives of folks seeking reproductive care and we are in trouble that it has come to this.

Nancy Bepple @nancybepple.bsky.social · 4h

The maternity care at RIH has been precarious for months if not years. Things came to an impasse today. Interior Health needs to take action now to ensure services. #kamloops
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

Seven OB/GYNs at B.C. hospital resign, citing unsafe workloads, lack of support

Years of challenges have made the situation untenable, doctors say in letter obtained by The Globe

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Podcast @hkhspod.bsky.social · 17h

Oh my gosh, we get it: YOU LIKE SKAM!

@brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social have *never* gotten as much listener mail as we did for episodes 1-2 of Skam S01.

Plus: Dec’s final Book Club pick!

Mailbag 46: Skam Follow-Up & Dec Book Club Announcement

Podcast Episode · Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr · Ep46 Bonus · 14m

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 17h

Oh wow this is such a good way of getting at the inherent incongruity, Liz — thanks for expressing it this way. It’s so baffling. But then there’s a political ideology that does not value coherence…

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 1d

I am genuinely excited about this. Their Christmas album is a favourite around here.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve started adding “be right” to all my prompts and now the LLM is always right, it’s the most amazing thing.

Thats Not How This Works Thats Not How Any Of This Works GIF

Alt: The famous Thats Not How This Works Thats Not How Any Of This Works GIF, where a lady says the above text while gesturing to two other ladies.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 1d

I want everyone to be clear that this is the equivalent of saying a little prayer.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 2d

I gotta do the Coquihalla on a cannonball run with the baby on Tuesday, gonna need everyone to pray for dry.

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I understand, I am just more sympathetic to dumbasses since becoming one

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 2d

Ok but in fairness I couldn’t find anything I needed at the grocery store yesterday because I’ve been doing delivery since the baby was born and they reorganized the store on me (they didn’t, my brain just broke).

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 5d

I always learn so much from you!

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 5d

My favourite thing about this project has been learning about education from folks in the trenches of K-12. Those of us working in higher ed have much to take on board! And any time I get to talk to @edifiedlistener.bsky.social is a good day. I hope you all enjoy Episode 2.

Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · 5d

In this episode of Community of Praxis Brenna interviews Sherri Spelic about her book Care at the Core and what reciprocal learning can happen between post-secondary and K-12 educators. @brennacgray.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social
On your favourite platform or at www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

An image of a Black woman with short hair holding a microphone within the Community of Praxis multicoloured abstract image. The text reads New Episode! Care at the Core with guest Sherri Spelic, found and publishing editor of Identity, Education, and Power

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 7d

Potatoes have eyes and I owned a Mr Potato Head doll, eating potatoes is eugenics, I am very smart.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 7d

Oh you hate wasps? Well what if instead of wasps you said Anne Frank? Pretty fucked up if you think about it!

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Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Podcast @hkhspod.bsky.social · 7d

Today on HKHS: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social kick off scary season with DARK HARVEST.

The book isn't exactly YA, but it mostly works as a Vietnam war allegory.

The film has elements of camp and great practical FX, though its incredibly grim ending doesn't entirely satisfy.

Dark Harvest

Podcast Episode · Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr · 2025-10-07 · 48m

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 7d

This is a very stupid and bad take and we do not have to nod sagely and pretend it’s not very stupid and very bad.

Anthropomorphizing an algorithm does not, in fact, make it a human being. You actually cannot do a eugenics to a computer!

“What even is a real person” oh not a computer, hth.

hailey@hailey.at

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 8d

He was such a champion eater for months so I’m confident he’ll get back to it when this developmental stage is under his belt but WHEW in the meantime.

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 8d

This thread was prompted by me sitting here realizing the area around my lips is mid-winter dry and tingly

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 8d

At three am today I asked him if it was just skim milk powder coming out

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 8d

I mostly love being an old mom, it’s really easy to be chill and even handed with your children when you’re this proximate to death, but I think there’s a reason most 42-year-olds aren’t breastfeeding.

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 8d

It works for him and I don’t need advice I just want people to commiserate with me because I am a 42-year-old profoundly sleep deprived, hungry, and dehydrated husk of a woman.

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