Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@jonhendry I saw! it is a huge relief, though still annoyed by the principle of the situation with my insurer

Me: I will continue to be a graduate student because health insurance

University Health Insurance: why would we pay for a covid booster, it's not like a college campus is a perfect place for a virus to multiply lol

well the good news is Kitty might not be in renal failure but instead she might have spleen cancer? more tests to follow. would love if things weren't constantly happening at once over here.

(belatedly bc the instance crashed yesterday)

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-38/ this week in sentences: grasping, a $500 minivan, larvae, a debauched ghost, the kind of academic, actually existing, mutually contradictory

@pettter while I respect the guy and like a lot of his work I've been burned enough by high profile tech critic types who are lowkey much more interested in ripping people off for their own gain than building stuff up that I'm wary

I'm so annoyed that I used this term in an article on a now-shuittered publication before him (which he probably didn't see, to be fair, bc he'd have a better analysis if he had) and he's more famous than me so everyone is gonna run with his framing, lol

respectfully: Cory Doctorow's definition of "means of computation" is too focused on software and thereby an incomplete approach to addressing the challenges he outlines

"Like from Call Me By Your Name?" I ask the owner of a pug named Elio

@quaad yeah more of a five-year plan than a get-out-of-this-building plan, but still a worthy thing to pursue imo!

(my landlord is selling our building, I am heartbroken, and my denial stage is basically pursuing an unhinged collective organizing project)

vacillating between "it's delulu to be trying to start a housing co-op with your friends" and "this is literally the only way any of us will be able to stay in this stupid town we love until we die"

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/rip-docs-the-vice-bankruptcy new spicy little RIP Corp! in which Katie Way (of the much-loved Hell Gate) and i talked about some of the weird details and unsolved mysteries within Vice's bankruptcy documents.

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-37/ this week in sentences: treating fences, backwards baseball cap, a number of people, the situation, but mostly, the hardest thing she'd ever do

@phil thanks it is good to be reminded I'm not as much of a fuckup as I think I am

@divya apparently the third one was secret until recently?? I don't understand how one hides a baby

@phil given the choice between "doing nothing with my life" and the something with my life being children with Elon Musk??? I embrace the nothing

Most days these days I feel like a fuckup but you know it helps to remember that Grimes and I are pretty close in age and I made it to my late 30s without having three children with undoubtedly The Worst Guy, so there's that