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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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 1d

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 · 20h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

The baby is going through one of those feeding regressions where he quits solid food to go All Boob All The Time and the thing is he is also now walking so he needs SO MANY CALORIES and he’s too busy to eat during the day so instead he is just waking me up 400 times a night.

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

It’s a scary season tradition: I tell @joelipsett.bsky.social I don’t like scary things, he hand-picks a text that I will find value in, I act surprised that I liked something scary, lather rinse repeat.

I enjoyed this one EXCEPT for the creature’s head. Tune in to find out why.

Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Podcast @hkhspod.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow on the Pod: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social kick off scary season with a look at DARK HARVEST, both the book by Norman Partridge and the film by David Slade

DARK HARVEST | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

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

They hate him so much! And if they would just embrace that they would have more fun. But they’re all like “no hate here I would just be happier if Lando Norris broke both legs.”

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

It’s VERY fun.

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

The “there is no negativity in Oscar Piastri’s camp” is my favourite one, it makes me laugh every single time, you guys are so cute.

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

Oscar Piastri fans are fun because they believe themselves to be somehow objectively correct in their race analysis when they are just as delusionally biased and obsessively cracked as everyone else in this sport.

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

In general I think it’s probably a bad idea to have an emotional support millionaire.

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CursèdZebra @cursedzebra.bsky.social · 3d

#f1

The Obama giving himself a medal meme, but instead it's Fernando Alonso giving himself a medal

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Stef @stef.net · 3d

The people’s princess

DRIVER OF THEDAY
WINNER
Fernando
Alonso
14 Aston Martin

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Jordyn "Squidoku" Pi 🔜 New InkLAN @squidoku.bsky.social · 3d

truly, he was,

#F1 #SingaporeGP

Alonso Driver of the Day edited to say "The Hero of Race"

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The Daftest Lap (4-1) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @thedaftestlap.bsky.social · 3d

Fernando Alonso's radio message: "Trophy for hero of race"

Fernando Alonso, Driver of the Day, Hero of Race

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 3d

We did it!

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 3d

Get in, losers, Fernando Alonso is within a breath of winning Driver of the Day.

Driver of the Day voting box text:

Fernando Alonso
14 | Aston Martin

Are you sure you want to vote for this driver? You cannot change your vote once you have voted.

No
Yes (highlighted)

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 3d

Get in, losers, Fernando Alonso is within a breath of winning Driver of the Day.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 3d

Is Max Verstappen capable of allowing Lando Norris a clean pass without straight up driving into the side of him? Let’s watch.

Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 3d

I so appreciated Lando saying “ooh I’m struggling in the dirty air!” from less than two seconds back

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 3d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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