Brenna McLaughlin
@thebmcg.bsky.social
Abandoned the same handle at the once-bird site in October 2022. My posting style is desultory bullshitting.
I need to start today over again. Is that possible?
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I need to start today over again. Is that possible?
Truly, NYT, we can only hope so.
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Truly, NYT, we can only hope so.
Between the marathon pics on Sunday and last night's jubilant street party from blocks away, the wave of homesickness I feel for my old 4th ave apartment is overwhelming, bittersweet!
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Between the marathon pics on Sunday and last night's jubilant street party from blocks away, the wave of homesickness I feel for my old 4th ave apartment is overwhelming, bittersweet!
UNC news today reminds me that by the time I finished my marathon 8+year MSIS, my diploma came from the "College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity." Where else you gonna learn about rare books and retention policies?
Got a challenge coin from those folks even.
Got a challenge coin from those folks even.
October 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
UNC news today reminds me that by the time I finished my marathon 8+year MSIS, my diploma came from the "College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity." Where else you gonna learn about rare books and retention policies?
Got a challenge coin from those folks even.
Got a challenge coin from those folks even.
It appears that only mild anaesthesia in the early afternoon will help me to unbroken and more than 5-6ish hours of sleep in a night. Doesn't seem like a feasible solution, though.
October 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
It appears that only mild anaesthesia in the early afternoon will help me to unbroken and more than 5-6ish hours of sleep in a night. Doesn't seem like a feasible solution, though.
Sometimes having 3 other astute readers review a letter is more than you need; and sometimes you need to be staring at it yourself, sleep-deprived, for the 17th time before you catch the obvious homonym problem y'all missed the first 19 reads.
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Sometimes having 3 other astute readers review a letter is more than you need; and sometimes you need to be staring at it yourself, sleep-deprived, for the 17th time before you catch the obvious homonym problem y'all missed the first 19 reads.
I am gonna be the bigger person, I am gonna be the bigger person, I am gonna be the bigger person.
September 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I am gonna be the bigger person, I am gonna be the bigger person, I am gonna be the bigger person.
Well, fuck me. Knew bat remediation would mean lot of interruptions/noise from one direction, but wasn't expecting "several people crawling around outside both office windows and the bathroom."
Do want m'little bat friends to find their way back to the barn though.
Do want m'little bat friends to find their way back to the barn though.
September 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Well, fuck me. Knew bat remediation would mean lot of interruptions/noise from one direction, but wasn't expecting "several people crawling around outside both office windows and the bathroom."
Do want m'little bat friends to find their way back to the barn though.
Do want m'little bat friends to find their way back to the barn though.
Very sad to learn of Maru's death, the epitome of cat video cats, one of the internet's saving graces. The kiddo is going to be heartbroken. people.com/maru-the-vir...
Maru the Box-Loving Cat, Once the Most Viewed Animal on YouTube, Dies at 18
Maru the cat, a Scottish Fold feline, died at the age of 18 following a decline in health and a cancer diagnosis. The feline is famous for squeezing into boxes, antics that were documented in popular ...
people.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Very sad to learn of Maru's death, the epitome of cat video cats, one of the internet's saving graces. The kiddo is going to be heartbroken. people.com/maru-the-vir...
Informed this AM that I am "a classic mom, in many ways."
On further interrogation, this seems to mean I am "annoying" which further translates to "you have too many boundaries [on YT videos, I understand], and are always asking me to clean things."
So, basically, "classic (complimentary)" yeah?
On further interrogation, this seems to mean I am "annoying" which further translates to "you have too many boundaries [on YT videos, I understand], and are always asking me to clean things."
So, basically, "classic (complimentary)" yeah?
July 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Informed this AM that I am "a classic mom, in many ways."
On further interrogation, this seems to mean I am "annoying" which further translates to "you have too many boundaries [on YT videos, I understand], and are always asking me to clean things."
So, basically, "classic (complimentary)" yeah?
On further interrogation, this seems to mean I am "annoying" which further translates to "you have too many boundaries [on YT videos, I understand], and are always asking me to clean things."
So, basically, "classic (complimentary)" yeah?
I've become very curious about the history of the term "viewshed" which comes up a lot recently in local planning conversations. On first read it comes adorned with ALL the red flags.
On holiday, I notice that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda, which very much makes me think that residents with a view of some incredibly mid Cotswold or other can put a sock in it.
July 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I've become very curious about the history of the term "viewshed" which comes up a lot recently in local planning conversations. On first read it comes adorned with ALL the red flags.
idk, when someone says "my calendar is flexible in the AM on these days" does it make sense to immediately send them a calendar invite for 12:00 PM? because the general flexibility somehow discounts the specific limit?
July 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
idk, when someone says "my calendar is flexible in the AM on these days" does it make sense to immediately send them a calendar invite for 12:00 PM? because the general flexibility somehow discounts the specific limit?
Oh. Well. Yeah.
"can you feel this?"
"...yes...?!?"
"huh."
"can you feel this?"
"...yes...?!?"
"huh."
Significant pain during a C-section can’t be something that 100,000 women experience each year. Can it? When the reporter Susan Burton set out in search of answers, she heard shocking stories from women who “felt everything” during their C-sections. https://trib.al/pRjBedH
July 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh. Well. Yeah.
"can you feel this?"
"...yes...?!?"
"huh."
"can you feel this?"
"...yes...?!?"
"huh."
Usually take an earlier train... experiencing Amtrak w/o quiet car is a real lesson in how "inside voice" is interpreted.
June 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Usually take an earlier train... experiencing Amtrak w/o quiet car is a real lesson in how "inside voice" is interpreted.
Reposted by Brenna McLaughlin
(5/5)
🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
www.standupforscience.net
June 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
(5/5)
🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.
NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.
📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social
Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
I'll be damned if my face gets to keep THIS nose.
(Stubbornly refusing to get out the space heater in May while my fingers slowly numb.)
(Stubbornly refusing to get out the space heater in May while my fingers slowly numb.)
May 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'll be damned if my face gets to keep THIS nose.
(Stubbornly refusing to get out the space heater in May while my fingers slowly numb.)
(Stubbornly refusing to get out the space heater in May while my fingers slowly numb.)
What if, instead of being passed back and forth between tech reps and sales reps and AI agents before being pointed to irrelevant support docs and 4-hour training modules, we just had a mimeo, maybe some CC paper, and a working postal system?
April 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What if, instead of being passed back and forth between tech reps and sales reps and AI agents before being pointed to irrelevant support docs and 4-hour training modules, we just had a mimeo, maybe some CC paper, and a working postal system?
My favorite feat of human ingenuity and will? The subway.
March 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
My favorite feat of human ingenuity and will? The subway.
Reposted by Brenna McLaughlin
Suppressing LGBTQIA+ voices robs scholars, readers & future generations of vital insights; creates a precedent for silencing dissident voices; & undermines the dignity of people everywhere.
full statement here: https://bit.ly/4hUL8yb
2/2
full statement here: https://bit.ly/4hUL8yb
2/2
AUPresses Decries Executive Order on Gender - Association of University Presses
We join with publishers, authors, booksellers, and librarians to affirm that the White House executive order recognizing only two sexes constitutes censorship and has no place in a free society.
bit.ly
February 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Suppressing LGBTQIA+ voices robs scholars, readers & future generations of vital insights; creates a precedent for silencing dissident voices; & undermines the dignity of people everywhere.
full statement here: https://bit.ly/4hUL8yb
2/2
full statement here: https://bit.ly/4hUL8yb
2/2
Reposted by Brenna McLaughlin
Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled.
For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️
For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️
Academic Freedom and Open Discourse - UNC Press Blog
For over 100 years UNC Press has championed the principles of academic freedom, open discourse, and the free exchange of ideas—values essential to a democratic society and the pursuit of knowledge. R...
uncpressblog.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled.
For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️
For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️
Deleted Fbk today. I've long felt uncomfortable with it and rarely log in, so while I feel sad to have, essentially, severed a connection to friends and family who still use it, it's not like they could contact me there or I could ever find recent news in the ever-more-terrible interface.
January 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Deleted Fbk today. I've long felt uncomfortable with it and rarely log in, so while I feel sad to have, essentially, severed a connection to friends and family who still use it, it's not like they could contact me there or I could ever find recent news in the ever-more-terrible interface.
Had the office heater perfectly positioned for warmth distribution but the cats felt differently.
January 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Had the office heater perfectly positioned for warmth distribution but the cats felt differently.
Software as a mysteriously unknowable "service" is increasingly less desirable than software as a stable tool.
Bring me my CD-ROMs and snail-mailed license codes!
Or, at least, some thoroughly tested features and intelligible documentation. Please?
Bring me my CD-ROMs and snail-mailed license codes!
Or, at least, some thoroughly tested features and intelligible documentation. Please?
January 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Software as a mysteriously unknowable "service" is increasingly less desirable than software as a stable tool.
Bring me my CD-ROMs and snail-mailed license codes!
Or, at least, some thoroughly tested features and intelligible documentation. Please?
Bring me my CD-ROMs and snail-mailed license codes!
Or, at least, some thoroughly tested features and intelligible documentation. Please?
I cannot believe how much weird googling it took to reassure me that, yes, I am not hallucinating, in the 2000s I DID read a slim magic realist-like novel titled Conclave which was Nothing Like an Airport Thriller.
Unreliable memory recommends it? Roberto Pazzi author.
Unreliable memory recommends it? Roberto Pazzi author.
January 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I cannot believe how much weird googling it took to reassure me that, yes, I am not hallucinating, in the 2000s I DID read a slim magic realist-like novel titled Conclave which was Nothing Like an Airport Thriller.
Unreliable memory recommends it? Roberto Pazzi author.
Unreliable memory recommends it? Roberto Pazzi author.
Accidentally causing an email autoreply loop feels so comfortingly retro.
December 31, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Accidentally causing an email autoreply loop feels so comfortingly retro.