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Laura Brady

@laurab7.bsky.social

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Making books, reading books, yelling about baseball (she/her)

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · Mar 12

I often get technical questions — on social media or otherwise — and I am happy to help when I can. In an effort to make it easier to get support, I am opening up (paid) office hours on Friday afternoons. #eprdctn laurabrady.ca/work/training

Training — Laura Brady

Book one-on-one sessions with an ebook expert. Training and tutoring on creating EPUB from InDesign, editing HTML and CSS, understanding accessibility metadata, the digital publishing supply chain, wr...

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 7h

Autumn light.

The low morning sun filtered through the changing fall leaves and shining down on a mediu-sized brindle dog standing in a patch of orange leaves.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 3h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

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C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 6h

There is an excellent @ologies.bsky.social episode about haunted waterways. www.alieward.com/ologies/haun...

Haunted Hydrology (SPOOKY LAKES) with Geo Rutherford — alie ward

Mudbank bones. River wrecks. Salty seas. Pink ponds. Poison dust devils. Steamy streams.. It’s Haunted Hydrology with your favorite Spooky Lakes ambassador, the artist and author Geo Rutherford who is...

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 7h

Autumn light.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 10h

To build on this, the interiors trend of putting books facing backwards so they become purely aesthetic mystery objects rather than things you intend to interact with should be criminalized

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 10h

Gorgeous shot!

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 13h

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 22h

The Blue Jays celebrating a Thanksgiving tradition: inviting your neighbours over to feast on taters

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 22h

Gulp. The Mariners are the real deal. Fart.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 23h

Thank goodness I don’t have to hear it!

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 23h

Put on the Canada Day jersey in an attempt to spark some vibes.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 23h

Disheartening.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t doubt it. He is always trying to get everyone to stand up, or start the wave, or being a ham. He is very annoying.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1d

What a hero.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing loads of people complaining about John Smolz and feeling extra grateful this Thanksgiving Day for Buck and Dan and Hazel and the Sportsnet broadcast.

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1d

Regretably, yes. He's just a doofus who wants to be the main character.

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1d

He's an idiot. We all disavow him.

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1d

Pretend it's a Yankee on the mound, Vladdy.

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1d

When is it José Bautista’s turn?! 🫤

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1d

Hard agree.

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 1d

EXCITING NEWS: Accessibility Standards Canada's Plain Language Standard is now out, just in time for #InternationalPlainLanguageDay!

Since 2020, I've been on the technical committee that developed this standard, so it's great to see it out in the world.

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Accessibility Standards Canada publishes Canada’s first Plain Language Standard - Accessibility Standards Canada

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been reviewing a lot of EPUBs for publishers lately and have noticed some themes. If making digital content is part of what you do, maybe you’ll find it useful. #a11y #eprdctn laurabrady.ca/blog/ebook-a...

Ebook Accessibility: What You Might Be Missing — Laura Brady

Ebook accessibility is top of mind for so many publishers these days, partly because of the European Accessibility Act, partly as a sign of a maturing digital publishing landscape. Here are some tips ...

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly. Schneider has a blind spot about Little.

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