Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

today in yoga class the teacher had us do a guided meditation where we envisioned our "angel self" and I immediately went with a Biblically accurate glowing creature covered in eyes

sent out my first newsletter of best sentences I read last week: https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-01/ featuring Gramsci, Claire Vaye Watkins, horse_ebooks, Malcolm Harris, and Robert Caro

is this anything

get in loser, we're using Caslon on a website

update: realizing basically what I want in terms of typography and layout is a grimoire as a website

so @courtney made the very fair point that "everyone is doing blobby websites" these days so maybe it's time to go all out and finally make my website where everything is in a triangle

1) holy shit I implemented a pay what you want plan on Ghost
2) my current design strategy is "what if add blobs to minimalist template" and it's a little too Memphis probably but I'm having fun

website itself is very much Under Construction but for those who might be so inclined it's https://unraveling.systems

yikes yikes yikes I just sent my official "here's the steps to join my little Ghost site-in-progress" message to my Patreon patrons, time to lose a lot of income!!

In case anyone needs it I've updated my Mercury Retrograde google calendar to reflect 2023 dates https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=dGdkNXJsbDMzcmJ2aW03a2UybDlhMjZwbDRAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ

*to the tune of Elton John's "Benny and the Jets"* BENE GESSERIT

cross posting from bird: something I am thinking a lot about is how discourse around mining in DRC frequently invokes complicity in terms of consumer products or non-carbon energy tech but rarely addresses the massive demands of foreign militaries and oil and gas for these metals.

today I got coffee with my most outrageously stereotypical raised-in-Manhattan friend and he was using a Zabar's receipt as a bookmark which felt like a bit much

"Repent, Harlan Ellison!" Said the Tik Tok Man

—Headline for whenever a Tik Tok influencer posts about how Harlan Ellison is Problematic

My favorite part of the Wikipedia entry for the Harlan Ellison short story "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktock Man" is the sentence "Stylistically, the story deliberately ignores many "rules of good writing", including a paragraph about jelly beans which is almost entirely one run-on sentence" insofar as it implies jelly beans break a rule of good writing