Trans folks are more likely to be victims than perpetrators and the horror of Tumbler Ridge does not change that fact. Don’t spread misinformation and don’t demonize people. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

what makes something "vulnerable to AI" is not the capacity of machines but the credulity of management.

Hey. Real talk. If you're old enough to be sad about losing James Van Der Beek and you haven't had your first colonoscopy yet, it's time to get serious. I know it sucks to think about and talk about but colorectal cancer is way worse than the terrible prep. Call your doctor. Get a referral.

I have a brand.

It’s just nice to hear the F1 cars running again, to be honest. Like a faithful old toxic friend you can’t quit.

I hope this message makes it to more pregnant people. Your placenta is a big ol’ vascular organ and if you looked at images of Covid-impacted placentas you would mask up *at least* in pregnancy.

A 51st state joke in a review of a Canadian film in the Hollywood Reporter is why “most of us aren’t like that!” falls on unbelieving ears, America. Centrists finding annexation jokes funny is how it gets normalized. I am not sure how many times you have to learn this lesson at the world’s expense.

We’re gonna screech you all in (look it up), it’s gonna be great.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Beloveds. I know you mean well. I know we live in an age of stunt and spectacle. I know our hearts are looking for comfort and meaning through the fire and chaos. So let me hold your hand when I say this: All Latine children do not look the same. That was not Liam.

“By credulous useful idiots” is the important part of who is asking these questions.

Caring about American sports? In this economy?

I know we’re not supposed to touch the dropper to our faces but y’all I am dropping so much expensive product on my boobs.

Go Fernando Alonso But also George Russell on a championship run is genuinely offensive to me.

Impossible to argue with the facts here.

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Hey, my talk on open education and authoritarianism from #OpenEd25 is up on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ta4...

I started sabbaticast.brennaclarkegray.ca this month as a way to track and report out on my sabbatical in the open, because I think open scholarship helps all of us who spend a lot of time thinking, "Am I doing this right?"

I started sabbaticast.brennaclarkegray.ca this month as a way to track and report out on my sabbatical in the open, because I think open scholarship helps all of us who spend a lot of time thinking, "Am I doing this right?"

Tomorrow on the Pod: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social tackle the complete 8 episode series adaptation of MY LADY JANE, which ups the sex factor from the book *considerably*

I finally caught up on all the crosswords I didn’t finish while I was working on The Big One.

There’s a lot to be said for being a small potatoes academic who would never have any reason to be introduced to rich pedophiles. Got enough run of the mill middle class pervs to ignore, last thing I need is a violent abuser who can fund something or whatever.

Since I know at least one academic who appears in the Epstein files is reading my posts and maybe there are others: You did things you should not have done. All you can do now is take seriously apologizing and making amends to the victims, whose perpetrator(s) you cozied up to.

Truth in advertising would just be a series of pervs harassing people and violating their consent.

Groundhog Day was my dad’s favourite holiday, because he hated gift giving holidays and also winter. It’s still weird, 3.5 years on, to not wake up to a flurry of emails with him forwarding every prediction going. Anyway, Happy Groundhog Day. May your local marmots have an overcast morning.

I know I wouldn’t survive in a non-socialized medicine country because I nearly threw down at the pharmacy when they told me I had to pay $37 for the colonoscopy prep solution. Like I am sorry but how dare you. Between this and the parking I will be out tens of dollars.

For Plug and Play week Thing 1 covered the house in homemade motivational posters.

No YOU let your eight-year-old stay up too late so you could read Rime of the Ancient Mariner together and compare it to the Wings of Fire book where Albatross the Dragon gets killed at a party and then comes back to life to haunt the Seawings.

Just read an absolutely bizarre Bluesky conversation like the window sicko of meme lore where one of the people kept going on and on about how guilty they feel about using AI because they know it tells children to kill themselves and boils the ocean and is built on theft. They really feel guilt!

I wouldn’t touch Dominos before I was a mom but at this stage of my life there is a lot to be said for cheap, consistent, trackable delivery.

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

This is the saddest celebrity death in ages, but this video is a joy.

A new post today about how I see my research area's complicity in the horrors, and how I keep muddling through when it feels like a losing battle.

I really do love this.

Obviously this is a shitty job but also… we’re gonna find out who goes for it. Just. You know. X is pretty leaky. We always find out.

I came for the bread but I stayed for the circuses.

Tomorrow is “dress as a book character” day at the elementary school so if you’re wondering how to make a Cricket from Wings of Fire costume with only 14 gauge gold wire, clearance Christmas ribbon, and a hairband… in about three hours… I can tell you.

When people say they work from an AI first draft I don't know how that works, or if it even can work. That text has been developed without judgment. Information without judgment doesn't make sense to me. "I got this business plan faster because AI" means you got something produced without judgment.

I "know" without having to articulate it to myself that injecting LLMs into the experience of learning to write is bad for learning how to write. It changes writing into something else. Whether this other thing has value or not I can't say and don't think we'll know for a while. I also know that...

Today on HKHS Pod: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social gallop through Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows's My Lady Jane. Our last revisionist text concerns England's nine day queen, Jane Grey, but uses a fantasy metaphor to tackle the real life Prostestant vs Catholic battle

I love doing virtual keynotes for universities all over the place and I feel lucky when I get to talk to people I wouldn't ever get to otherwise but it is very funny how I have never worked with an American institution whose finance people didn't get Big Weird about processing foreign tax forms.

Guys I hired ANOTHER HUMAN to WATCH MY BABY for FOUR WHOLE HOURS. Today and also EVERY MONDAY. She is LOVELY and the baby is VERY CONTENT and now I'm going to DO SOME WORK so if you see me here tell me to GO AWAY.

I put this in our family calendar so I remember to make something we can eat on our laps in front of the TV that night BECAUSE SUCH IS MY COMMITMENT TO THE MUPPETS

For my alternate history fan friends, this is really good fun. (If you’re coming to it from the TV show just be aware there’s 100% less sex.)

Liked this one, even if @brennacgray.bsky.social and I had a few qualms with it

Also yes, I make our house maintain an honest to god paper newspaper subscription just so I can do the crossword once a week.

It's kinda amazing the depth and breadth of the positive reaction to the Carney Davos speech. I get it - Canadians like when int'l people laud us. But Carney said similar things during the election campaign and we've seen how he's governed since. I'm almost stupefied by how naive everyone is being.

It took me an entire month because the baby is a cute little time vampire but I finally finished the full-spread Globe and Mail holiday crossword.

Hey so just a reminder that one way you hurt fascists is by staying alive to irritate them. The stroke numbers are bad thanks to vascular damage from Covid and the incredible stress we live under. If you don’t routinely check your blood pressure, you should. If it’s high, get it treated.

Some interesting critiques of nationalism OnHere primarily from people arguing that the world shouldn’t be mad at America as a construct but at the billionaire class. And yes. Nationalism is bad. And also true is there is only one country on earth where billionaires amass this kind of power.