Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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Kitty has a best friend she sees at the dog park sometimes named Casey, and Casey's people invited us to their baby shower this weekend which is very nice of them but also I keep playing out having to tell strangers "oh, our dogs are friends" when asked how I know them
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I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.
They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.
Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.
Pedro Pascal shaking his head ruefully like 'all the maps are wrong'
gonna get into writing prestige TV just so GIS classes can show other clips of fictional characters talking about maps
literally illegal for a GIS class to not show that one West Wing clip about Mercator
logging on to my online class from the Amtrak lounge
stupid web dev joke
telling me you're going to have a SPA day and that actually means using ten thousand javascript libraries to make a web page instead of snoozing in a sauna and maybe putting some lil cucumbers on your eyes? no thanks
stupid web dev joke
feel like referring to a web site as a "SPA" when the web site is not relaxing in any way is a bit of false advertising
listening to Kimya Dawson like it's 2004, still good
this week in perfect sentences: geolinguists, pebble-smooth, the incident of the owl https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-07/
no one told me that the whole point of these books was that spies suck lol
I'm sorry it took me this long to read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
my mom mailed me a tin of Berger cookies, feeling very Baltimore nostalgic now
has anyone asked ChatGPT when the legs are coming
I'm something of an uneasy confluence myself, etc
saw a multidisciplinary artist bio where they described the work as "at the uneasy confluence of" xyz things and I appreciate this immensely after many years of "intersection of" tropes
I'm pretty sure more than half of those stories don't hold up/weren't even that great when they were published, but it's nice that some people still get something out of them!
every now and then someone will email me out of nowhere to be like "hey I read one of your 2015 Atlantic stories on internet infrastructure and here's my related anecdote gleaned from spending decades working on some niche aspect of industry, take care!" and it is a real treat
it's becoming very apparent to me that this class is largely stuff I already know but I'm kind of fine with that insofar as I just want to keep from getting rusty and I have to focus on my thesis this term so I'd really prefer any other coursework to be relatively rote
Feels about right that it took almost the entirety of this hour-and-fifteen minute class on geospatial data science for my computer to download and install QGIS again
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