Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

This book I'm supposed to be reviewing is really attached to framing stuff as what "we" take for granted or "our" way of life and I am having flashbacks to teaching industrial designers with @sparks bc we used to drive the students insane by insisting they be specific w/r/t the "we" language

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-32/ this week in sentences: all over my arms, the earth owns them forever, hacking edges, a wholly owned subsidiary

IMO sand is NOT humble though, have you ever been to a beach sand loves to get into EVERYONE'S business and also clothes

Etymology suggests that humble as a word traces back to "lowly" as in literally "on the ground" (the same origin as the word humus), so it may have begun as an explicit statement of how materials like sand and salt are literally "of the earth"

@tim thank you!

@fgregg oooh that's an interesting possibility!

one of those questions that on 2009-2015 twitter probably would have rustled up an expert: what is the history of referring to certain materials as "humble"? reading a book on commodities where the ~humility~ of various minerals gets invoked a lot, curious when/how that language became commonplace. Is it a Bible thing? Feels like maybe a Bible thing

Her job...it's just snooze

@phil Phil he is doing a musical based on The Warriors and now I am the Joker

Lin-Manuelanguage Model

@aredridel it is a powerful feeling and I am not a fan of it!! But it has hands!!

Always struggle with the "no time for despair" framing and the way it implies there's an indulgence to sorrow, as though one is losing in the fight of one's life simply out of laziness or not trying hard enough. I would love to feel other feelings!!

@aworkinglibrary @beep just keep your two hander at the ready

@aworkinglibrary @beep mosquitos are tiny heralds

On the one hand I agree with the observation from Rebecca Solnit that despair is a valid feeling but it's not an analysis

On the other, I *feel* pretty strongly like I want to die sometimes and sometimes the feeling is too intense to really *analyze* it

@yehoak obscene!!

@ivan @nasser oh no Freddy! Lots of love to him and hope for a speedy recovery