Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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It's fun living with a software engineer who's never touched geospatial stuff and explaining things like the standard file format for spatial data in the industry is actually four files in a zip and watching the will to live drain from his eyes
carbon credits really were the worst idea
seeking examples of website designs that handle footnotes nicely, please share thank you
amazing that of all the things Ronald Reagan totally fucked up and ruined, he couldn't actually pull off privatizing Landsat
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A follow up 🧵 on some of the most useful and powerful new features of Palestine Open Maps #PalOpenMaps relevant to #NakbaDay #Nakba #Nakba75
My previous thread can be found here https://vis.social/@bothness/110356522129732527
(Also, read on for a little treat at the end of the thread!)
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https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-20/ posting it here late but this week in sentences: lupine duel, ambient familiarity, hardening skeleton, your strongest grandmother, Texan teenage
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Try to make sense of this. Try! 🤣 It's not possible...
It is surreal but clarifying. This is how colonialism works.
The fiscal "oversight" board has by default absolute powers. How so? Because it is for some purposes "sovereign" 😂 as part of Puerto Rico. But c'mon now...We all know that Puerto Rico is not sovereign. So the board is in reality accountable to the US Congress alone.
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Today is #MEAwarenessDay - the public needs to learn about the millions of people missing from society, unable to work and life their lives due to this often debilitating illness. For me, Covid triggered ME, in addition to other conditions.
Places I am often or always missing from: community and cultural events, volunteering in the community, restaurants and bars, 20 hours of my working life, parties, travel, the allotment, the outdoors.
With this illness there is a spectrum. I have mild ME, as I am still able to leave the house and do some activity if I pace myself. For example, I worked and had to travel yesterday and today and tomorrow I am on the sofa at home.
But people with severe ME are bedbound and cannot tolerate any stimulus at all (light, sound, touch) and many are fed through tubes. We need help and treatments for them urgently. For decades not enough money was invested in research. This is starting to change but we need to pressure governments for more.
catholic shitpost
papacy, papa do
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I saw a mysterious fiducial marker in the sidewalk near a ridge top in North Seattle and I immediately thought of @ingrid and the visible marks of mostly invisible systems of civic technology.
I think it says "terrane control" and is perhaps about surveying hillslope slippage.
my flight response is kicking in and instead of working on grant applications I'm looking at job postings, maybe I just want to do a normal job for a while instead of writing a book and taking qualifying exams
"Why are the world’s richest people obsessed with preparing for the apocalypse? Because they’re edging us all toward it. It’s as if, Rushkoff writes, they’re trying to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust." https://www.wired.com/story/doug-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest/
I know NPR is pretty terrible but I still feel such a sense of comfort when I hear the "All Things Considered" theme song, it is a sound of childhood
it is wild to me that universities are out here demanding their adjuncts have PhDs
yoga shitpost
you know that the class is going to be absolutely fucking brutal when the teacher is a 70 year old Brazilian man named Edgar
got an email from a producer working on a documentary about Occupy Wall Street and once again I feel about ten thousand years old
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Just reminding you from Nottingham that Robin Hood was madey uppey but the Luddites were real 🔨💥
And it wasn’t the Sheriff of Nottingham who tried to stop them. They sent army units (failure), then hired spy cops and made smashing a frame punishable by death. Lord Byron made his maiden speech in Parliament in opposition to the death penalty for Luddites. You can still see the hole where they installed the gallows to hang Luddites here.
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We’re trying to get to $1000 donated on Bluesky and we’re at $510. Can the Mastodon community beat them? Let me know what you send and I’ll keep track!
with my start - $50/1000
yoga shitpost
If I hear a yoga teacher use the word "abs" I know we're in trouble
"core" is not great either but we'll allow it
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-19/ this week in sentences: macrame owl, hammer brigade, Dan Flavin nightmare, relatively inarticulate, lobotomization, false plateau
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