Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-17/ the week in sentences: the blood of cream cheese, america's biggest export, the celestial hierarchy, a moral lecture, grammatical flexibility

@ranjit @kissane also I learned how to do pixel art from those message boards

@ranjit @kissane ok thanks for a very fun flash game and also for message boards where as a teenager I was taken seriously by adults in a way that really meant a lot at a tender age

me, having been awake since 5:30am and gone to Delaware and back in a day: why am I so sleepy

@ranjit @kissane (also, second this, the sissyfight forums were amazing)

@ranjit @kissane wait ranjit you were there too????

sometimes I'll get follow requests on IG from people who I'm pretty sure are interested in my work and I think I need to change my bio to be clear that the locked account is 99.8% pictures of my dog

update: the Atlantic and Court Walgreens put cash on the card for me!

I'm something of a rapid unscheduled disassembly myself

@misc whoa that's wild though

fuck, guys, I need to interview Gloria Minsky (Marvin's widow)? she may be the only person who attended even parts of that workshop who's still alive? how do I pull this off

the number of times a day that the video game Hatris (a sequel to Tetris, but with hats) comes up in my household seems unusually high

@c_9 it's a really good article!

do I feel good or bad that my website is ranked higher than the website of someone I don't like very much, this is hard

@writerethink I'm excited to see this become a clout thing ("is your website even in the C4 dataset?")

@nev I can't decide if this will become a clout metric or just determine how many pennies get parceled out to us in the class action settlement

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

excited to see everyone search for themselves in this lookup of sites that went into Google's C4 dataset (my website is ranked 5,681,776)

remembering every person who has ever tried to persuade me that progress is the de facto state of humanity as I learn that Iowa legislators voted to make it easier for companies to use child labor