Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Just met a thirteen year old scruffy little dog named "Mister" so perhaps I will live another day

The animal rescue we adopted Kitty from has an annual block party with reunions of pups from the same litter and they put us on an email thread to connect us with people who adopted Kitty's puppies so now I'm crying??

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-121/ this week in sentences: enjoy, construction site, a bonk, chormble, not smooth, gravity well, tote bags, pirated

Just got mad because a dumb content farm site had a headline about tech investments in "rare metals" but the article was mostly about a copper mine, I hate that I am like this

Don't like em, don't want em, this sucks

a ruthless criticism of *everything* existing, in this economy??

Thinking about how John Yoo got to have a fancy job at Berkeley and Alberto Gonzales gets brought in as an NPR talking head sometimes and how there's a direct line from these facts to CECOT today

Did u know Tele Atlas data collectors were given company cars and the company car was a silver Chevy Malibu

Did a preliminary interview with a former Tele Atlas data collector about her years driving around the United States logging detailed info on road networks to build out maps for the consumer nav tech and she had so many good weird stories!!

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-120/ this week in sentences: culinary weapons, heresy, bricks, pillaging, groveling, Beaver Derivative, microwave, typo, doing historical materialism, detectable hazard, throes of hagiography, waterpark, Nevada-style

Feels like most mental health modalities I've tried have really failed to acknowledge that maybe it's the living in a dying empire and all the fascism that's contributing to my suicidal ideation

Pretty sure I will not make it through this year, not loving this for me

Just trying to live long enough to get to read Alecto the Ninth

The Warby Parker sales person asked if I wanted an "anti fatigue" lens thing on my new glasses and I said "no thanks I'll just do drugs" and I don't even really do drugs besides caffeine but I wanted to break up the monotony of the day for him

@tripleman this works! Thank you

"When an oracle foresees your future based on eye gunk that's reading the rheum"

part of me worries that my students must think i have so many guest speakers because i'm really desperate to convince a bunch of 20 year olds that I have friends

A durational performance piece where some rocks weather down and mingle with microbes and plant matter and become soil

To be performed for some other rocks

Have to go to a fancy wedding in a few months and feeling a little called out by how much guidance I'm getting from r/lesbianfashionadvice