Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

just noticed that the guy sitting across from me in the NARA reading room has a sticker on his laptop that says "Socialism Sucks" and one that just says "Capitalism"

Hope he doesn't notice my antifa "Live Laugh Love" sticker oops

very small breakthrough finds in research yesterday:

- Prior to WWII there were exactly two industrial tantalum powder and products manufacturers, one in the USA and one in Germany and most of it came from Australia

- By the end of the war, the supply chain had almost entirely shifted to Belgian Congo and the govt had built that one US manufacturer a $4.71 million facility to expand their production

- As of 1942, all of GE's fused quartz feedstock came from Brazil

thinking about which numbers are funny and why. not the numbers that are funny signifiers like 69 or 420 but like why is 22 funny and 20 isn't funny. is it a prime number adjacency thing or something else

today's dumbest embarrassment was probably me explaining the character actor Richard Kind to a stranger at the dog park

I'm having a lot of fun with the new newsletter but wow, Buttondown sure is buggy huh

This week's perfect sentences are from @kissane, a 2013 undergraduate thesis, Leslie Marmon Silko, The Mountain Goats, and a World War II veteran: https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-02/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-07/elon-musk-cuts-more-twitter-staff-overseeing-content-moderation reminded of the blog post I saw early in twitter exodus cautioning that mastodon lacked a trust and safety team as a reason it was Not The Thing and like...at this point, pretty soon Twitter won't have one either

It's a-me, Gramsci

I'm so excited about the sentences I get to send out tomorrow for the newsletter!!

I'm finally going through my National Archives materials from my first trip so I did a little blog about a particularly prickly letter that I found: https://rocks.guide/quartz-part-1/

I also had to explain what Howl's castle looked like so that probably didn't help as the teacher also had no reference for baba yaga??

today the yoga teacher told us to envision ourselves as "a castle" and I immediately visualized uh Howl's moving one. got a very "I love that for you" response when I told the teacher this after class

Is there an application process, how do I become Dad destroyer of worlds

also while I'm pretty sure I don't want to have children and I didn't land in a situation where I'm financially stable even though no one is entirely sure what I do, I feel like I should be allowed to be an Internet Dad at this point?

was talking to a friend today about being at a point in his career where he no longer has to be "shiny" (ie constantly hustling) and I now wonder if I should be referring to this current time in my life as my matte era

Update on the only-triangles website

at the end of the meditation we were supposed to become one with the angel self so I'm feeling pretty spooky today