Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Went to the cfpb "informational picket" this afternoon and the chants were so wholesome ("1 2 3 4 workers are worth fighting for 5 6 7 8 Dodd Frank is pretty great")

look I know it is trivially easy to find footage of Elon Musk and Sam Altman in the same room but nevertheless it is funny to imagine that Sam is what emerges when Elon takes The Substance

Saw a rat moving real slowly and clumsily on the street outside a brownstone. I think it had been poisoned and I felt an obligation to hang out with it a little while as it died. What living thing wants to die alone? Eventually he crawled behind a trash can I guess for privacy and I started crying which is a little embarrassing.

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-111/ this week in sentences: 300mg, physical collapse, space rock, frosting, tooth waiting, mauport, laundry detergent, comedy, smooth silver-gray, to be bombarded, made out of crabs, innovations, to be a beast, que sí

My therapist said I was the calmest client she's seen all week, trying to process this

a petty delight for me: I don't really love Chloe Zhao as a filmmaker BUT we have a terrible toxic ex in common which makes me root for her regardless, so her showrunning the Buffy reboot is very funny for me personally

Hoping I radicalized the woman sitting next to me at yoga class tonight when I told them Lululemon is Canadian and going to get even more expensive

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-110/ this week in sentences: not very bright, orgy of grievances, always reflexive, mecha, lack of seriousness, sad lioness, cloacal superpowers, élan, other research, classically damp

I did get a very sincere apology from this friend after I reached out and it helped so there's that

His person has cancer and surrendered the pup because treatment has made him too weak for caretaking, what a heartbreak and also I would maybe want to figure out staying in touch with the person??

Once again I am struggling with not just going to adopt a good Kitty-coded dog I saw online https://nycacc.app/#/browse/218330

First official night of teaching update: mostly good vibes from the students, I made a lot of dad jokes

"please read it back to me—no no, I told the Senator to 'retire BINCH, b-i-N-c-h', it's important"

all in all my life is probably for the better no longer being part of that org but being rendered disposable by that org really fucked with me in 2018 and contributed to a super-low point in my life where the suicidal ideation got really fucking bad, & seeing this news brought that all back up for me

also: someone who I considered a friend of mine is going to be a fellow doing research for the new initiative and while i don't fault them taking the money/affiliation, it feels shitty to not get a heads up about an org that made me feel disposable is going to announce a big new program in this area! it sucks to find this out via a "thrilled to announce", and makes me feel like I do not matter to you!

i recognize that my former employer is taking climate impacts of tech seriously now mainly b/c 1) it's trendy and 2) the person pushing it in the org has a PhD so they take her more seriously than they ever took me, but it still really stings to see everyone patting themselves on the back about something I couldn't get any traction on w/leadership 9 years ago

like as someone who has also spun the silicon valley superfund yarn before, it's good to keep that history in the discourse AND ALSO if you're not adding anything new please cite the people who did this work already

watched some of a webinar of academics talking about labor and tech history and I know this sort of just demonstrates I've developed some expertise or whatever, but got so annoyed watching a presentation on the Silicon Valley superfund sites that was basically a recap of scholarship done in fucking 2002. you got a dissertation grant for this man? come on.

Exception: Matt Stoller being confused at what's happening, that guy is bad faith all the way down and is owed little to no grace

watching an old video of bill clinton from a 1996 event and i know we do not gotta hand it to him but really disarmed to remember how well he understood the value of talking like a regular fucking person as a politician