Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

also: 12,416 words of this silly little thesis written, hope they like extensive detours into the shady correspondence of a commodity broker

does it stress out anyone else how close the word "tuple" is to "tulpa"

update: this keeps being a delight

at the stage of writing the thesis where I just lay out all my archival receipts like a little facts gremlin jumping around screeching "look at my treasures"

listening to the audiobook of Wizard of Earthsea and it's narrated by Harlan Ellison?? And he's great??

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-democratic-duo-ritchie-torres-and-dan-goldman-trying-to-bully-george-santos-out-of-congress

some other fun context for this story from someone in Dan Goldman's district: he was absolutely the most boring of all the candidates and won partly because of progressives splitting the vote and partly by expanding his name recognition by using his heir-to-the-Levi Strauss-fortune money to buy visibility. Dunking on Santos looks good on a national stage, and that's arguably more important to him than constituent services etc.

uh oh thinking about dropping out lol

more like south by south why are we still doing this, am I right

what does that even mean you might say, EXACTLY

ok but actually what I think I should be going for is to be the Nathan Fielder of geography

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-10/ this week in sentences: Phil Collins, red pompoms, unsightly chaff, jauntily, dumb switches, one might even say a faith

just saw a business news headline call silicon carbide a "rare-earth metal" and no this is NOT a niche complaint this is a NORMAL thing to be mad about silicon carbide is NOT even CLOSE to a lanthanide I am very normal and cool

technically this wasn't procrastination I think https://rocks.guide/complaining-about-theory/

I know it's a lot cheaper than previous costs but but $35 for insulin still seems a bit high

Lovelorn Lorax Movie (LLM)

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?