Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I knew Nabiha would be bad news for the org but damn

Passed my quals, I am the riddle master now

putting together a little guest geospatial data tutorial for a friend where i'm going to do an intro to mapshaper and once again blown away by how good mapshaper is

Saw someone reading Chappell Roan's new song on SNL as a stealthy Kamala endorsement ("she gets the job done" chorus) and I don't totally know how anyone could hear that song as being about anything other than the fact lesbians are better at fucking, ie the premise of most Chappell Roan songs

I still think doing my quals oral exam tomorrow morning was the right call over waiting until after the election is called but man, what weird vibes

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-ozempic-novo-nordisk-gefion-ai-supercomputer-bed48309 "what if we kissed at the Ozempic-funded Danish supercomputer" is this anything

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-97/ this week in sentences: the limits of assemblage, whole situation, eyebrow-forward mode, haymakers into infinity, inflatable planetarium, lucidity, more various, forgettable

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat was extraordinary!! Highly recommend. It's at Film Forum if you're in NYC https://my.filmforum.org/events/soundtrack-to-a-coup

the Wicked movie looks great and I am excited to watch it

you gotta understand I am a former theater kid who grew up reading the super fucked up b-side Oz books that my dad had when he was a kid

also the novel the musical is based on!! is fun!! i will enjoy a lil spectacle as a treat sorry

like the audience for this will probably be ux designers or something and i just don't have it in me to tell them to like use standard fonts and make less js-heavy websites to do their part

working on a "internet infrastructure, what is it" talk for the first time in a while and really tempted to just turn it into a call for butlerian jihad

An eight foot tall skeleton tipping his top hat and belting out "laws are vibes", hello-my-ragtime-gal style

People keep asking me about my "The Future is TK" sweatshirt and it's always sort of awkward explaining a dumb media joke so from now on I'm just going to say it's short for Ted Kaczynski

who knew the nervous system was such a big deal

In the "gotta do things but the grief is paralyzing" stage of things, mix of guilt for letting people down and confusion as to how I can continue existing at all

lmao posted on bluesky about how nonprofit newsrooms are also separately dependent on billionaires and a former board member of the markup concurred, buddy u are not in a position to take the moral high ground!!

Grief is so exhausting

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-96/ this week in sentences: fervency, polygons, history embarrasses, direct contact, a hundred times more, braggadocio, we can't stop trying, probably been overcompensated, apple time machine