Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

starting to think the harder part is making the day after the revolution and all the ongoing maintenance irresistible

Upon reflection the phrase "well we can't put the genie back in the bottle" seems flawed if it's drawing on Aladdin; being tethered to the bottle is the whole thing about the genie, you absolutely can tell the genie to go back to the bottle

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-168/ this week in sentences: preposterous, clothed, sheepskin, particulate, hapless, cool, mottled, sensationalized, metaphor

Just watched a woman sample the wines available at a diner before choosing one, wow

@Aepasek LOL

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

Bless the woman who just walked past me with her two golden doodles saying on a phone call "I actually might be a socialist" like she was admitting to having a high calorie dessert

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-167/ this week in sentences: not ideas, dandelion, handguns, omelette, vapor, powerless, graves, crystal

realizing i'm going to likely cross paths with my PhD advisor at AAG. we haven't meaningfully spoken in almost a year at this point. debating pretending to have no idea who she is as a kind of high-level gaslight

https://www.culturehub.org/re-fest-2026 one of my studiomates does design and comms for CultureHub NYC and aside from these events looking cool and fun I just want everyone to appreciate what a good job they did on the branding here, I love my talented friends

In a more just timeline Polymarket would be a dating app for insufferable board game nerds

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-166/ this week in sentences: chess, industry, bereft, folk horror, terracotta, insurance, Seventies, mirror, shark, malevolent, inky

wow, just learned that Robert Moses died 10 years before the release of the song "Life is a Highway" RIP Robert Moses you would have loved that song

Thinking that I might continue to spread this misinformation because it's very funny

Was explaining the Sweet Valley Twins YA books to an early 20s person and they believed me when I said the series ended in 2003 "because of the Iraq War"

One thing I find so embarrassing about the "agentic AI is so great this changes everything" discourse is while I'm sure Claude is great for various use cases people sound like they're in a commercial and that just is the opposite of cool

@grahamsleight graham i am sorry

I'm something of a supply chain risk myself