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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...

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 36m

Watched a Jays game in a pub in Paris once with a surprisingly baseball-knowledgeable bartender. It was an excellent night. (I was shocked to find a bar that showed the game.)

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 49m

In a Windsor context (where I'm actually from): Pierre Avenue.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 51m

Rogers Centre. (It's pronounced SkyDome.)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 52m

This story is everything. www.wired.com/story/nobel-...

Scientist Who Was Offline 'Living His Best Life' Stunned by Nobel Prize Win

Fred Ramsdell was on vacation in the Montana wilderness when he and two colleagues received the honor for their breakthroughs in immunology.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1h

🙄

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 1h

True story: I was once fired for advocating for better DEI hiring policies.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 2h

The potato has to go.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks, I hate it.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 2h

Jeezus. This is absurd.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 2h

There's no lineup yet? I need to see that Santander and IKF are on the bench.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 5h

Behold the low morning sun, the red red leaves, and my gorgeous doggo.

Sunlight filtering through bright red-orange autumn leaves with a brindle medium-sized dog in the foreground.

The low morning sun shines through a small tree whose leaves are bright red. A medium-sized brindle dog walks through the light.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 6h

You did? I am amazed!

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 7h

I am intrigued by these dyslexia-friendly books but can't get delivery to Canada, darnit. www.bloomsbury.com/ca/connect/l...

Dyslexia friendly books | Bloomsbury dyslexia friendly books

Bloomsbury is launching 11 new dyslexia-friendly books of some of their bestselling books for adults, including Want by Gillian Anderson, The Wolf Den by Gillian Anderson and Baek Sehee's I Want to Di...

www.bloomsbury.com

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 20h

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

Described in skeet

Described in skeet

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Ehren Ohkneel @ehrenohkneel.bsky.social · 19h

This photo is proof that sometimes life can be good.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19h

Cal Raleigh and the fan

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 19h

Ohmigoodness, this is deflating.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 19h

Listen, I go to bed early. I am getting cranky and emotional. Can you please not toy with my heart like this, Blue Jays?

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 19h

I have lived several lives since this game started and we’re not even halfway through.

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 20h

Fuuuuuuuuuck.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 20h

Duchamp Flies, by Carmen Cicero, 2009, 📸 by Frank Franklin II

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 20h

It’s my fault. I enjoyed that 6-1 lead too much.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20h

SUPERMAN IS IN THE BUILDING

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h

the blue jays are beating on the yankees so hard that i'm out of war of 1812 analogies

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Tony Walsh @tonywalsh.bsky.social · 20h

Vladdy, what is best in baseball?

‘To crush the Yankees, watch them eliminated from the playoffs, and see the tears of their fans.’

Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 20h

Santander did something!!