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buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: too much evidence, baroque architecture, through a computer, consistency of a milkshake, candle purchasing, rasps, clover, bright shrapnel, distinct flavour, threats

To be clear I would not trade this, the sitting on a couch crying with my dog, for anything in the world, I can't believe my luck getting to have this dog

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Being normal on a Friday night and crying about how much I love my dog while petting my dog

Remake all the Marx Brothers movies with the Skarsgård brothers, you cowards

(to the tune of "Secret Tunnel" from ATLA) sludge filled tunnel / burning your skin / sludge filled tunnel / toxic toxic sludge filled tunnel bloomberg.com/news/features/20

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: a crystal without faces, where there is dirt, expensive, one's hammer, mistaking a melancholy, something forgotten, another problem

"Psyllium Husk sounds like someone who owes Kit Fisto money"

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The vet told us to start giving Kitty psyllium husk to get more fiber in her diet and Ramsey correctly observed that "Psyllium Husk" sounds like a Star Wars character

other social networks 

linkedin is made extra uncanny and cringe for me by the fact that most of my endorsements are joke endorsements from a kind of normcore ex-boyfriend circa 2013, also he's blocked me everywhere except linkedin which is embarrassing

Nex Benedict's death in Oklahoma is a story of the hate that has been unleashed in recent years. Following ongoing bullying because they were nonbinary, Nex was severely injured in a fight at school on Feb. 7 and died a day later. This story, and their life, matters. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nex-benedict-dead-oklahoma-b2499332.html

dog health stuff 

the vet confirmed something I'd been worried about which is that Kitty is showing signs of degenerative myelopathy, which means she's slowly losing mobility in her hind legs and there's kind of no way to stop or slow it down. she's not in pain, and she's in early stages, but it's a reminder that we're probably not going to have more than 1-2 more years with her.

an undergrad emailed me asking me about good outlets for submitting weirdo freelance pitches and i feel bad telling them that I don't really know who's left anymore but also...yeah I don't know who's left anymore

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: apprehension, anthropocenic geology, the decency to unscrew, wither, withdrawn, an avoidable duck, Antarctica

I just published a letter in @washingtonpost on the CDC's potential change in COVID isolation guidelines.

"COVID isn’t over, and we shouldn’t act like it is"

Link: https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/16/covid-isnt-over-we-shouldnt-act-like-it-is/

Went to a talk by Eyal Weizman and he basically just riffed for an hour and a half--brilliantly, amazingly, poetically--without slides and then went "ok now I'll show you some forensic architecture" and showed us some evidence of war crimes and THEN after the talk said "no questions, for I have no answers--please rambling comments only"

Incredible, no notes

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.