Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

yikes yikes yikes I just sent my official "here's the steps to join my little Ghost site-in-progress" message to my Patreon patrons, time to lose a lot of income!!

In case anyone needs it I've updated my Mercury Retrograde google calendar to reflect 2023 dates https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=dGdkNXJsbDMzcmJ2aW03a2UybDlhMjZwbDRAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ

*to the tune of Elton John's "Benny and the Jets"* BENE GESSERIT

cross posting from bird: something I am thinking a lot about is how discourse around mining in DRC frequently invokes complicity in terms of consumer products or non-carbon energy tech but rarely addresses the massive demands of foreign militaries and oil and gas for these metals.

today I got coffee with my most outrageously stereotypical raised-in-Manhattan friend and he was using a Zabar's receipt as a bookmark which felt like a bit much

"Repent, Harlan Ellison!" Said the Tik Tok Man

—Headline for whenever a Tik Tok influencer posts about how Harlan Ellison is Problematic

My favorite part of the Wikipedia entry for the Harlan Ellison short story "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktock Man" is the sentence "Stylistically, the story deliberately ignores many "rules of good writing", including a paragraph about jelly beans which is almost entirely one run-on sentence" insofar as it implies jelly beans break a rule of good writing

His owners I think go with "Tort" a lot which is fine but also makes me think of lawsuits which is the opposite of dog vibes

Still think about the dog in our neighborhood named Tortellini and how calling to him must be such a pain

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences

this newsletter is mostly for fun and also to help me be a more attentive reader; it's pay what you want and very low stakes/volume. First newsletter will be out on January 1.

Ugh The Power Broker really is a masterpiece

More or less since 2018 my main Christmas activity has just been to go hard on cleaning the apartment and honestly I'm really looking forward to it

I'm listening to the audiobook of The Power Broker and it's narrated by the same guy who did the audiobook of William Gibson's Zero History. He's a good reader, but I keep wondering when Milgrim is gonna show up.

a feature @sam and I have been talking about adding to horse town is custom css so people on the instance can deck our their profile pages, this feels more important to me than The Discourse

"no quadrilaterals on my website" will definitely make people subscribe to my newsletters lol

designing a new website for ecommerce/newsletter stuff and fighting the urge to make incredibly unhinged design decisions like "what if the page slowly disintegrates if you leave it alone for too long" or "what if everything is tilted at a 3-degree angle"