Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

spent most of today doing tedious organizing of my class syllabus in Microsoft Teams for Education, which is somehow more annoying than Canvas? Yikes

Madsutake Mikkelson

A movie of The Mushroom at the End of The World but it's a globetrotting action movie starring Jason Statham as The Mushroom Hunter

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-54/ this week in sentences: precision itself, soak his powers in urine, frozen lake, pixel-patterns, beaver-seeking, military secret, scurrying, hot lead

Do we think Puss in Boots from Shrek would have fought with the Spanish anarchists or no

Jesus Christ I get it mastodon, Murderbot doesn't do gender and I'm a bad audiobook listener please get over yourselves

I think it might just be because of Kevin Free reading the audiobook but I really did not picture Murderbot as white? Hence the following picks:

- Idris Elba (if we insist on making Murderbot jacked which, not sure it's necessary)
- Honestly, jacked Kumail Nanjani could maybe pull it off, again assuming we need Murderbot to be jacked
- Justice Smith (so good at deeply awkward)
- Jeffrey Wright (see also: Westworld)

it's not even that I think a) arts orgs are some kind of tipping point that will change the trajectory or b) I even believe that this org has a ton to offer but they've been fundraising using POC and specifically Arab Muslim (and an antizionist Israeli who has been putting himself on the line a lot!) alums as evidence of their social justice bona fides and it just feels really gross! and I was mad!

might have burned a bridge today (called the ED of an arts org I hold near and dear to my heart "a coward" after he hemmed and hawed about the org's non-position on the genocide in Gaza while not actually using the word "Palestine" for about an hour) but apparently after I left the call it got a lot more productive so maybe I just took one for the team

Told an acquaintance that I am teaching CS Ethics this semester and they were very excited to tell me they had recently decided to quit their tech job because it was giving them night terrors, honestly made my day I love when people quit jobs they hate it's so affirming

@migurski it was like a pokemon move, super effective

Just remembering how in 2020 people actually took the position "is it ok to deck Richard Spencer on camera?? Doesn't this make YOU the Nazi???" and meanwhile Chris Rufo is just getting to live a life not getting punched

Fun fact, the "ok so you're a rocket scientist" line in Shania Twain's "That Don't Impress Me Much" is about Werner von Braun

any recommendations for a nice mail client for Mac if I really liked Tempo? Because I really liked Tempo and have been using the now-unsupported version since they shut down but it's been increasingly laggy for me and I'm a little worried it's going to stop working soon.

always forget until it's actually new year's eve that new year's eve is also the day my grandma died. a fun joke to tell people disarmed by this is "yeah between that and my dad dying on christmas my family is so fucking dramatic, ugh"

love to sysadmin on new year's eve