Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@cowboy_oh_gee I think that is a piece of the whole yes

lmao this escaped containment

"You say you are an anarchist yet you keep building state machines, interesting"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-139/ this week in sentences: in fairness, brain cells lost, dachsund, doorbell, cherish, goofyfication, away in the night, wolves, visible headline, the moon, even the trees, cube-based, mouse bones, coma, graying, erection pathway

Today for the fourth time in my life a stranger asked me if anyone's ever told me I look like Tilda Swinton, which is to say I have met four people who are very nice but clearly unaware of how tall Tilda Swinton is

niche "working on a geospatial software dissertation" joke: dying every time the transcription software calls the primary open source geo conference "Phosphor G" which I imagine is Bill Nye's rapper persona

Thinking about making a pamphlet titled "advice for the habitually suicidal living in fascist times" as a way to force myself to cope

@thisisaaronland thank you for this niche content

Hard to distinguish between depression for regular selfish personal life reasons and world historical event reasons but really struggling to remember good things that have happened since my dog died in October 2024

Did an unpleasant thing I didn't want to do and didn't act out or actively sabotage it, please clap

today I learned about Georges Sorel and I guess it's good to know that "engineer turned intellectually incoherent philosopher who acts as a gateway to fascism" is just a type of guy and not like, an anomaly of our times

Not a fan of it!!

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-138/ this week in sentences: England, monopoly men, microwave, sea of rats, inevitably, still not, the earth owns, ego death, all of your rights, passionately, aftertaste of spite, rubber duckers, cargo shorts, tetanus, synthetic corpse scent

our neighborhood friends whose dog was best friends with Kitty are moving away and we hung out with them tonight and I got so sad when they left because their dog is one of our connections back to Kitty and now we won't get to see him as much and everything in my life has gotten so much worse without her

https://www.canibefrank.nyc/ NYC, I just saw this show and it was terrific, go see it!!

for accountability purposes I blogged some dissertation updates: https://placing.technology/a-fun-little-mapinfo-update-and-working-through-the-dissertation-outline includes some fun vintage MapInfo advertising at least

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-fatigue found the academic journal about me and my problems

more specifically: the lineage of routing/nav in operations research and the transfer of these methods to industry are the story that's less legible to me