Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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Found this web page about Jonathan the tortoise, the world's longest living land animal, and it is a delight http://sainthelenaisland.info/jonathan.htm
Related, feel like we should be talking more about the fact Ron Perlman's IG handle is "perlmutations"
My favorite part of academia is spending a lot of time developing comprehensive and detailed grant proposals that demonstrate I'm doing groundbreaking work but also the grant cannot pay me a stipend of more than thirty thousand dollars
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someone online once described Tommy Wiseau as a Belgian cyborg
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Tiny Awards is a new effort to celebrate the best of the "small, playful, and heartfelt web” made in the last year. As part of the selection committee, I helped narrow the ~300 nominees down to 16 finalists, and now you decide who wins. I wrote a little about each site here— voting’s open until July 20! https://waxy.org/2023/07/vote-on-the-tiny-awards/
For years we thought Kitty was afraid of/physically unable to get into the bathtub and last night during the thunderstorm she just got into the tub like it was no big deal??
Decentralization discourse
Feel like an important but often unsaid aspect of critiques of decentralized protocol stuff is that centralization better facilitates celebrity/visibility and that some people want that. I say this as someone who achieved niche visibility on Twitter for a specialization and benefitted, I appreciate why people want it--often I want it! But there's shame about admitting to wanting celebrity that makes people go in circles w arguments against decentralization.
Thrown out of brunch for calling marriage "a throuple with the state"
Ramsey just said that Ron Perlman is "nightmare Anthony Bourdain"
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Thank God I found an 82 year old neighbor invited to the party who told me about starting one of the first co-op buildings in Brooklyn
Thank God this is a book release party because I can literally hide in the back with a book
"oh fuck, right, I have social anxiety" --me five minutes before I show up to a party, every time
ph, work
Have to keep reminding myself that I was coughing up blood like, a week ago and even if I'm feeling much better I can't overdo it
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How metallurgists of West African origin in Jamaica (free, enslaved, Maroon) helped spark the industrial revolution. Their innovation to reuse iron was ripped off and patented by an embezzling Briton: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-briton
The original article by Jenny Bulstrode (UCL) is quite a read, deep historical and cultural detail at each point of the Atlantic triangle https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07341512.2023.2220991
#STS #Jamaica #History #Africa #colonialism #copyright #innovation
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1186550169/cellphone-exhibit ahhh I've been hearing about the development of this exhibit for years, so excited it's opened!!
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My friend Emily Drabinski is the incoming president of the American Library Association. She has been named by the Montana State Library Commission as the reason they are withdrawing Montana from the American Library Association. This is bullshit.
The ALA issued a statement about this which is all about ALA. Emily deserves our support. Please join me in signing this letter in solidarity with her and her work. Thank you.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgz9ITvekfCCtVspicgbaCM0Go2YzkaSrYGtR6s9lHo/edit?usp=sharing
not great watching deep sea mining discourse get louder and the tone basically being "perhaps this is the less harmful option because obviously we can't not make ten trillion cars"
today I read the Vice bankruptcy documents and there is some weird stuff in there
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