Remembered I’m a doctor and prescribed myself two episodes of Coronation Street in the bath.

Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee

The amount the baby hates having his nose suctioned out is inversely proportionate to the amount that I, an adult, wish there was an adult-sized nose-sucking procedure when I am sick.

We should treat the things built with our parents’ tax dollars as our true birthright, but we do not. And it is impoverishing to our lives.

This is such a cool project!

The only reason Canada Post has to break even is because very stupid people think the government is a business and/or the national budget works like a home ledger.

Please join me in observing this, the most sacred day in the Brenna calendar.

Today is the release of the first of the "companion" episodes of Community of Praxis. Here @davidnwright.bsky.social and I talk through my conversation with @cjdenial.bsky.social. It's like listening in on a coffee chat after a great conference keynote -- come think alongside us about Cate's work!

I find the idea of anyone who is not a billionaire being “anti-union” deeply, profoundly embarrassing but this is a new low even for truly some of the most pathetic bootlickers on the planet.

A weird thing about 2025 is how much I hate an ostrich farmer I have never met.

This film is so quietly moving. It’s worth your time for sure.

Oh my goodness, I am excited.

Had a cold call on my personal number today from a tech company in Arizona who heard I was “big into” AI. I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS

If it makes anyone feel less like reality is falling away, the baby has a cold this week and I've given him an appropriate dose of Tylenol at bedtime every night to ensure he sleeps well and isn't roused by fever. If he has a fever at waking, I give it to him then, too.

Tomorrow on the pod: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social wrap up summer with a narrative about a terminally-ill girl who organizes a perfect day with friends in LAST SWIM.

I don’t want anyone to shelve the important conversations about eugenics and this American administration but I really can’t explain to you how much the point of this is women suffering more in pregnancy.

If everyone who believes the rapture is tomorrow gets raptured tomorrow there’s a chance we could finally build a decent society once they’re gone. So I’m hoping for rapture. Also if anyone who believes the rapture is tomorrow recently bought a Nintendo Switch 2, DM me your address.

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

Wow. I guess they really are honoring CK the way he lived: hatefilled grift.

Editors.

Looking in from the outside, it has seemed obvious since at least Bush II that if America doesn’t come to grips that this is exactly how America is, there is no fixing things. I know the comforting narrative is MAGA and Trump as like this wild outlier, but when you’re not swimming in the water…

Resisting the urge to dunk post but there’s a whole slew of “you’re being oppressed wrong” posts this morning from well-meaning white guys — no doomerism! be positive! — and I wonder if any of the ivy leagues teach a class in reading the fucking room.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

I wonder if the established media classes are still feeling good about this administration or nah. We’ve known for a while they don’t care about boring shit like dead kids and rendition and genocide, but might the risk of losing a paycheque finally move the respectable centrist journalist?

It has always been bad, but if you’ve been on the fence, this is a great reason to delete your academia.edu account.

I just saw a picture of Trump and King Charles together and I gotta say, those are the two least alive looking people I have ever seen being up and around and being alive.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Big news: Thing 2 can walk!

The best essayist of this generation unsurprisingly has the best, most complete take on Charlie Kirk.

I hope it skibbidis your rizz, fellow kids.

Whoa Rainn Wilson, who has made a empire of loosey-goosey inclusive “faith” to cynically cater to the emergent theocracy and a brand of just “being positive” in the face of a fascist march to power, is a milquetoast centrist who praises Charlie Kirk? This is shocking information.

Tomorrow on the Pod: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social finally check out the first few episodes of SKAM.

As ADOLESCENCE picks up Emmys tonight, why not revisit @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social’s discussion of the series?

Being a woman who talks about feminism in pop culture (comics, specifically) during the Gamergate++ era taught me so much about humanity and a lot of it was bad.

Sometimes I go on these little binges of buying the kids tickets to stuff — today it’s season’s tickets for the kid-friendly symphony performances and seats for the Christmas musical — and without fail my brain goes, “Well at least they’ll have some nice memories before the end times.”

Tuesday on #HKHS: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social dig into the first few episodes of Norweigan series #skam

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

I am not saying it’s a perfect rule but I do think there seems to be an inverse correlation between your willingness to be civil about what happened yesterday and your proximity to gender nonconformity in yourself or the people you love.

Reposting for the afternoon/afterwork/other side of the clock folks. I really loved this chat with Cate and especially the part about how care is NOT the inverse of rigour.

The reporters doing this aren’t being bullied. They are bad at their jobs and find the status quo exceedingly comfortable.

In this episode of Community of Praxis, Brenna Clarke Gray interviews Cate Denial about her essay-turned-book, A Pedagogy of Kindness. Listen on our website or your favourite podcast provider. www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

Ezra Klein liked and admired Charlie Kirk, who hated my trans child, so I'm going to view this as a display of true Ezra's character. You can apply this to every single centrist/liberal pundit or publication celebrating him. Got it. Message received.

The first feature-length episode of Community of Praxis is out! I got to have a long chat with @cjdenial.bsky.social about kindness, ungrading, and the radical act of actually trying to assess learning. Please listen and share! www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Scholarly-Po...

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

so perfect that his final words were exactly the kind of racist dog whistle that he’d built his hateful, opportunistic career on

The concept of an open-carry campus is just... completely insane to any country without an extremely out of hand gun fetish.

I’m sort of fascinated by the assertion that political violence has no place in America. I’m not exactly a student of history but I am not sure the claim holds up.

Every time I see a grown adult like Josie Cox here charmed by the sycophancy of a chatbot I simply want to die of second-hand embarrassment.

feminist analysis requires that you understand power relations and harms to marginalized communities, and fight to destroy those forces. to use AI is one of the most anti-feminist things you can do on many levels, and that’s why tech bros and AI boosters love it.

See, American publishers? No one wants your ham-fisted localizations!