Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

look i don't want to make this about me here but it really fucking sucks waiting to hear if my Lebanese in-laws are ok (they are) and worrying about how much worse this is all about to get

Philadelphia nerds and some subset of fedi nerds: Anna Tsing (!!) is giving a lecture at Penn tonight (!!) that will also be live streamed (!!) and is about a new body of work she's doing on CONCRETE (!!!!!!!)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/concrete-tickets-969057636477

"Mr. Lochridge, an experienced submersible pilot from Scotland, said he tried to calm his boss down and asked him to hand over the PlayStation controller that was used to pilot the vessel." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/us/titan-submersible-coast-guard-hearing.html

There was a little blue eyed cat meowing plaintively at the top of a stoop on my walk home like he really wanted to get into the building. No one answered the front door so I tried the basement entrance and the lady who came to the door was so relieved--she couldn't hear him downstairs--and took him inside. He immediately chilled out in her arms.

Just a wholesome little neighborly encounter, idk wanted to share

A jukebox musical of Tallahassee but it's performed by Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara in Waiting for Guffman, entirely in character with the same production quality

I am trying to view it as not a total waste of time either way because like, I wrote a cover letter and a teaching statement and made a comprehensive CV, but it is sort of annoying realizing that it might not even get read.

I'm starting to suspect that this job I'm applying for is a front for a hire they already have lined up, like they're poaching someone from another school and need to pretend to be hiring. Either that or they really, really don't have their shit together and don't know what they want.

Had to explain Mister Gotcha to a room full of not extremely online people today

Hot take I'd accept no benches in Penn Station if they brought back the clicky clacky time table

Filling the robots with the worst milk was such a clutch move tbh

The buildup to Harry Dean Stanton's death is so fuckin gorgeously shot

Update we're watching original recipe Alien and god it slaps

I thought Ramsey wanted to rewatch Alien but he torrented Romulus and said he had made a gcal invite titled "alien baja blast" which he assumed I would understand

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2024/09/12/massive-microsoft-data-center-will-require-huge-amounts-of-power-water/74778971007/ my friend Lindsay did a big long piece for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the impact of local data center development and I'm so proud of her!! Regional coverage is very important for this topic!!

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-90/ this week in sentences: dreadful innocence, End of Pants, malaise and satisfaction, leitmotif, cufflinks, squalid and ferocious, luxurious Hamburger Helper, notably

So is Henri Lefebvre's whole thing just making getting annoyed at a figure of speech his entire personality or is there more here

Struggling to distinguish if this is a new category of existential dread or if it's just I got the covid booster and flu shot yesterday and feel like shit, could be both?

sometimes i feel like i am a real fuckup w/r/t living but for those five minutes of golden hour when the weather is actually decent in brooklyn and i get to watch some dogs play around with abandon? ok fine living, u got me

got emotional at the dog park watching a little puppy playing w/a smaller dog because my senior dog doesn't get to the dog park like she used to, & generally doesn't play or chase anymore, & wow every day with animal companions really is a treasure and should be treated as such

Going to xoxo tanked my credit score, no regrets but yikes