Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

googling whether it's possible to move Word doc comments into softwares like Ulysses and Scrivener and finding a @cstross Reddit post like "yeah sorry, Word is hell and literally the part I hate about writing books" feels about right

so I just found out that Alice Dreger is giving a talk at my university and feel like I should say something to my peers who were just forwarded an invitation to her lecture. should I reply in thread to the forward, send a separate email about it, or do something else? Maybe contact the university's LGBTQ student group to see if they're going to take any action?

"making things that aren't prisons into prisons" as the kids say

They're going to make me cut this but I'm having fun

Oh no, it happened: I'm at the part of my thesis where I explain James C. Scott's premise of legibility

Little Lilac Mittens (LLM)

has anyone out there used Library, NYT's app created for documentation sites that basically turns a folder of Google Docs into a wiki?

https://github.com/nytimes/library

I'm looking at frameworksto make a relatively lightweight website for a team project where the team is largely not developers. I don't love the dependence on Google but do like meeting non-technical users where they're at.

getting my period TWICE in February, the rudest and shortest month, seems unreasonable

this week's newsletter has a gentle reminder of ways to give me money which I always feel a little gross about but also I got a bunch of new subscribers via a tweet by a partner at a venture capital firm

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-09/ this week in sentences: NIBBB, geodesy, a growing colony of possums, anyone else at all, 'goblin' stuff, Gerald Ford, musical reproduction

yesterday Julie told us about academic debates around something called the Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation which apparently people call THED and I almost immediately made a "thanks for coming to my THED talk" joke

weird to learn that in some pockets of academia people who make their students read Althusser don't teach their students that Althusser murdered his wife (who was, for the record, a Marxist theorist herself)!

https://www.internethalloffame.org/nominations/ ok but what if we nominate dril

happy new Algiers album release day to all who celebrate

what if I start releasing new zines by making fake Publishers Marketplace screenshots about them

like, oh THAT's structural Marxism, OK thanks

Love that feeling when my advisor tells me to read a bunch of Marxist theory and then instead I find something by David Graeber that explains it perfectly