Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@collopy also man, Rockefeller Foundation was just everywhere in the history of science and technology in the 20th century!!

@collopy that's super interesting!

@collopy say more!

https://www.britannica.com/video/185632/formation-sand-quartz-role-processes-weathering-grains highlights of this weird video on how quartz becomes sand:

- the "everyday examples" of using sand are making sand castles (sure), keeping time with an hourglass (I guess if you're literally Jafar), and fracking (???)

- comparing quartz chemical bonds (strong) to orthoclase and olivine (weaker): "kind of like how a relationship forged in the heat of passion might not be as stable as deep bond developed over time" did...did something happen to this narrator?

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-24/ this week in sentences: uncanny allure, the big news, expectations, not insane, all that math, phosphorescent steel

help I'm being haunted by the ghosts of cringemas past present and future

@beep and yet we preserve it lol

@Wolven found a page in...2018?...where I just wrote "corn cobs" in all caps and nothing else, what the hell

going through old diaries and vacillating between "destroy these, they are so cringe" and "future generations need to understand that keeping a diary is incredibly cringe"

@aggietoppins@typo.social LIVE FOR NEW YEARS EVE

4 years ago today I brought home Kitty and what a gift to live with this gentle giant. Here's one of the first pictures I took of her from that day.

@Wolven always good to know when there's a new type of worst guy out there

@Wolven thanks for letting me know that this type of person exists, I don't like it

sometimes when I'm reading about the fucked up historical origins of now-commonplace digital technologies I think of the "I used to be a piece of shit" sketch from I Think You Should Leave

the fact the nonbinary flag is Wario's color palette remains incredible