Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@ranjit @kissane (also, second this, the sissyfight forums were amazing)

@ranjit @kissane wait ranjit you were there too????

sometimes I'll get follow requests on IG from people who I'm pretty sure are interested in my work and I think I need to change my bio to be clear that the locked account is 99.8% pictures of my dog

update: the Atlantic and Court Walgreens put cash on the card for me!

I'm something of a rapid unscheduled disassembly myself

@misc whoa that's wild though

fuck, guys, I need to interview Gloria Minsky (Marvin's widow)? she may be the only person who attended even parts of that workshop who's still alive? how do I pull this off

the number of times a day that the video game Hatris (a sequel to Tetris, but with hats) comes up in my household seems unusually high

@c_9 it's a really good article!

do I feel good or bad that my website is ranked higher than the website of someone I don't like very much, this is hard

@writerethink I'm excited to see this become a clout thing ("is your website even in the C4 dataset?")

@nev I can't decide if this will become a clout metric or just determine how many pennies get parceled out to us in the class action settlement

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

excited to see everyone search for themselves in this lookup of sites that went into Google's C4 dataset (my website is ranked 5,681,776)

remembering every person who has ever tried to persuade me that progress is the de facto state of humanity as I learn that Iowa legislators voted to make it easier for companies to use child labor

@TeamMidwest my friend Ellie is co-editing this!

love that the NYC inspector general's office solicits tips with the tagline "Help DOI get worms out of the Big Apple"

"What’s more, during the yearslong squabble over which of us lady writers would become the next Joan Didion, no one had tried to claim the title of David Foster Wallace for girls; his reputation as both a misogynist and an author beloved by misogynists meant it was just sitting right there this whole time, waiting for anyone with grammatical flexibility and the courage to try." https://harpers.org/archive/2023/05/goop-cruise-gwyneth-paltrow-goop-at-sea/ Lauren Oyler gives off mean girl, but she is unfortunately sometimes a correct mean girl