Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

obligatory "ChatGPT does not actually provide a correct answer for a question concerning my particular niche field of inquiry" screenshot

@selfsame implies the boys could be back in town

really not handling the coexistence of a Baby Gronk and a Baby Groot well

re-reading The Overstory because I realized that if I am trying to write from the perspective of minerals that it is probably the thing I'll get compared to the most and GODDAMN there are so many bangers in that novel!!

*to the tune of boygenius' "Not Strong Enough"

I don't know why I am / the way I am / ten thousand tiny spiders, man

@vruba @robinsonmeyer @urschrei perfect sentence, charlie

A year late to this but I'm so sad that the mayor reorganized and rebranded the NYC office of IT stuff from Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications ("DoITT") to the "Office of Technology and Innovation", DoITT was such a cute acronym and vibe

@shashashasha and yet kissinger lives

live in such a way that the NY Post will make a stupid pun headline about your death

looks like cormac mccarthy reached the end of...the road

@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