Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

It's not that I expect most nonprofit arts orgs of NYC to be taking a stand for Palestine right now but feels gross seeing one that I am an alum of (Eyebeam) post fundraising slide shows talking about "art in times of crisis" in end of year fundraising w/o ever speaking to the crisis of genocide?

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-51/ this week in sentences: constant betrayal, peat, lidless, tumbleweed, his interpretive perspicacity, aloof austerity, just a head crawling, sometimes the world, inert matter

Got a new tattoo because this year has been a lot but I am still alive

It's based on a drawing of a quartz crystal I found in the National Archives when I was researching high purity quartz mining in Brazil during WWII

why do the residents of Omelas think the economy is bad when the data shows

@darius thank you friend!!

@Wolven !!! Thank you friend that means a lot from a smarty like you

GPU themed diss track that rhymes "Nvidia" and "chlamydia"

So this episode is also pretty weird to release now because an uptick in militia fighting in DRC has drawn media attention back to the issue of "conflict minerals"—I've seen campaigns where people are quitting vaping in solidarity w/people of the Congo? Which, IDK. I hope this deeper dive into the longer history of tantalum mining in DRC is helpful for ppl just now learning about it.

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2500-and-a-dream-fansteel-and-the-history-of-tantalum new RIP Corp and it is a doozy of an episode!! Tantalum, labor strikes, colonialism, war, a million things. I am nervous about it because there's so much packed in here and also it's based on some of my master's thesis research so it feels kind of precious to me.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185645731429?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28 or if you want a different piece of a submarine cable? Here is one on eBay

Oh no this is very expensive but very cool https://www.ericaweiner.com/products/victorian-transatlantic-telegraph-souvenir-locket

Grateful that my friend Ethan and I stay in touch almost exclusively via sending each other pictures of vanity plates when we spot them on the street

please understand that every time I say "oh my god" I am doing an impression of H. Jon Benjamin on Bob's Burgers