Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

one of my students texted me to let me know they're not feeling well (giving them my number was probably a mistake) but also on my offhand recommendation they looked into actor network theory and deemed it "cool stuff"

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-71/ this week in sentences: lest this become, things simply happen, drop everything, just the crimes, a sudden mineralization, confection prevails, petulantly trivial, David Cross, a palpable quality

we're reading Vibrant Matter in my grad seminar and I just sent everyone a clip of Julio Torres' My Favorite Shapes as "a related lecture"

I don't know if this is anything

been wanting to make some plotter drawings to raise money for all the gaza gofundmes in my timelines so I started trying out the DEM-to-SVG approach with sentinel-1 data estimates of destroyed areas. Gaza's pretty flat so as terrain it doesn't quite have the same effect but the gaps are still a lot. This is a screenshot from a corner of Khan Younis.

https://wares.lifewinning.com/ Once again I have to pay the monthly Shopify fee which means I am reminding everyone that I sell plotter drawings on Shopify, perhaps today you would like to buy a plotter drawing? There's a new one available also https://wares.lifewinning.com/products/musoni-mine-topography-drawing

Still thinking about the zoom chat screenshot a friend sent me of someone mad about Palestinian flags at some UD space saying that to be inclusive they should have other flags, "an Israeli flag or an American flag or an Italian flag"

Ma'am

Why are you bringing the Italianx community into this

new odious discourse category: "the college students who want divestment don't understand how complicated stonks and investment portfolios are, this making divestment impossible"

idk man maybe the complexity rendering lots of people and institutions complicit in a genocide is the problem

told my students about how my DBT therapist encourages the mindset of assuming that everyone's trying their best and they vociferously disagreed, not sure how my therapist is going to take this

One of my students did their final project for CS Ethics on decarbonizing the power grid and made a working model of a utility pole as part of their presentation, like the transformer worked and everything. I love teaching engineers

Thinking about how in Monkey Man the entire training montage is Dev Patel punching a bag of rice but somehow this also made him really good at situational awareness and dodging punches in all the subsequent fight scenes

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-70/ this week in sentences: this thing called an economy, long game, abide a chicken, nocturnal gelato, embarrassing about it, overdetermined, 100%

Oh my God I am the RIP Corp

Should I pivot to working in oil and gas next because it seems like by the time I show up to an industry it starts getting murdered

Me in 2020: well, seems like journalism is not panning out for me maybe I'll go lie low in academia for a little while to figure out next moves

Me in 2024: lol, lmao

So annoyed that I had to get on a group check in call today that I had to low key help coordinate at someone else's request and then that person didn't even come to the call??? It at least was brief and efficient but what the heck