Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@jonkeegan yeah I've also been using it for rocks.guide!

website itself is very much Under Construction but for those who might be so inclined it's https://unraveling.systems

yikes yikes yikes I just sent my official "here's the steps to join my little Ghost site-in-progress" message to my Patreon patrons, time to lose a lot of income!!

In case anyone needs it I've updated my Mercury Retrograde google calendar to reflect 2023 dates https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=dGdkNXJsbDMzcmJ2aW03a2UybDlhMjZwbDRAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ

*to the tune of Elton John's "Benny and the Jets"* BENE GESSERIT

@selfsame have the dwarves considered trying probiotics

cross posting from bird: something I am thinking a lot about is how discourse around mining in DRC frequently invokes complicity in terms of consumer products or non-carbon energy tech but rarely addresses the massive demands of foreign militaries and oil and gas for these metals.

today I got coffee with my most outrageously stereotypical raised-in-Manhattan friend and he was using a Zabar's receipt as a bookmark which felt like a bit much

@meetar same peter

@selfsame

"Repent, Harlan Ellison!" Said the Tik Tok Man

—Headline for whenever a Tik Tok influencer posts about how Harlan Ellison is Problematic

My favorite part of the Wikipedia entry for the Harlan Ellison short story "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktock Man" is the sentence "Stylistically, the story deliberately ignores many "rules of good writing", including a paragraph about jelly beans which is almost entirely one run-on sentence" insofar as it implies jelly beans break a rule of good writing

@shengokai ty for the Avasarala GIF

His owners I think go with "Tort" a lot which is fine but also makes me think of lawsuits which is the opposite of dog vibes

Still think about the dog in our neighborhood named Tortellini and how calling to him must be such a pain