Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Katie Porter's comms team sending me so many emails right after I learned from a Congressional staffer gossip IG about what an awful boss she is has been a bit much, how do I make it stop

honestly still amazed that someone is out there making stickers that just say "Capitalism" in the Coca-Cola font and that sticker has an audience

just noticed that the guy sitting across from me in the NARA reading room has a sticker on his laptop that says "Socialism Sucks" and one that just says "Capitalism"

Hope he doesn't notice my antifa "Live Laugh Love" sticker oops

very small breakthrough finds in research yesterday:

- Prior to WWII there were exactly two industrial tantalum powder and products manufacturers, one in the USA and one in Germany and most of it came from Australia

- By the end of the war, the supply chain had almost entirely shifted to Belgian Congo and the govt had built that one US manufacturer a $4.71 million facility to expand their production

- As of 1942, all of GE's fused quartz feedstock came from Brazil

@rowmyboat lots of love to you and trashpanda and oh goodness the dog

@Cathy_McM what a lovely video! thank you for sharing it

thinking about which numbers are funny and why. not the numbers that are funny signifiers like 69 or 420 but like why is 22 funny and 20 isn't funny. is it a prime number adjacency thing or something else

today's dumbest embarrassment was probably me explaining the character actor Richard Kind to a stranger at the dog park

@kissane I did figure out how to do a pay what you want setting btw: https://unraveling.systems/pwyw/

I'm having a lot of fun with the new newsletter but wow, Buttondown sure is buggy huh

@kissane Erin I can't deny perfection sorry

@kissane perfect sentences are separate from unraveling.systems mostly bc Ghost's multi-newsletter support isn't great but I can also just manually add you if you want

This week's perfect sentences are from @kissane, a 2013 undergraduate thesis, Leslie Marmon Silko, The Mountain Goats, and a World War II veteran: https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-02/

@jonty Nas Ultra

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-07/elon-musk-cuts-more-twitter-staff-overseeing-content-moderation reminded of the blog post I saw early in twitter exodus cautioning that mastodon lacked a trust and safety team as a reason it was Not The Thing and like...at this point, pretty soon Twitter won't have one either

It's a-me, Gramsci