Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@darius the faster I write the bad sentences the sooner I can do the good sentences

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Google's news algo loves to show me small town and county news web site articles about local perspectives on data center development and they're really interesting so I started saving them in an Are.na channel, if you're into that sort of thing: https://www.are.na/ingrid-burrington/data-center-real-estate-things

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https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/what-happens-when-wealthy-people-die I forgot we scheduled this yesterday, new RIP Corp on dead billionaires and all the unfortunately entirely legal ways they avoid having their wealth resdistributed

OK to be completely transparent it's 6998 words

OK I'm on day 3 of Actually Writing and at 7000 words (of which I'll probably end up ripping out a bunch but better to get those garbage words done sooner than later?)

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/ get their asses, Ethan

@jarkman I'm pretty sure it's tongue in cheek

Incredible 2004 speaker bio: "She is also an acclaimed software critic whose opinions are eagerly anticipated on several important mailing-lists."

@cowboy_oh_gee I think that is a piece of the whole yes

lmao this escaped containment

"You say you are an anarchist yet you keep building state machines, interesting"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-139/ this week in sentences: in fairness, brain cells lost, dachsund, doorbell, cherish, goofyfication, away in the night, wolves, visible headline, the moon, even the trees, cube-based, mouse bones, coma, graying, erection pathway

Today for the fourth time in my life a stranger asked me if anyone's ever told me I look like Tilda Swinton, which is to say I have met four people who are very nice but clearly unaware of how tall Tilda Swinton is

niche "working on a geospatial software dissertation" joke: dying every time the transcription software calls the primary open source geo conference "Phosphor G" which I imagine is Bill Nye's rapper persona

Thinking about making a pamphlet titled "advice for the habitually suicidal living in fascist times" as a way to force myself to cope

@thisisaaronland thank you for this niche content

Hard to distinguish between depression for regular selfish personal life reasons and world historical event reasons but really struggling to remember good things that have happened since my dog died in October 2024