Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://rocks.guide/national-archives-notes-ii/ new NARA bloggé out, this time with weird photos

Thinking once again about the cold open of that one episode of the second season of The Purge TV show where the people who make Purge masks are pitching new designs for the next Purge and someone suggests LGBT Pride themed Purge masks

Can't stop telling people I'm so excited about my friend's book but also my friend's book is a very serious history of the Oakland Police so it's weird to be happy about it https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform

I guess no one would make a sticker that said "Communism" or "Anarchism" because those have cool symbols already? Weird of capitalism of all the ideologies to not really have a logo I guess

Katie Porter's comms team sending me so many emails right after I learned from a Congressional staffer gossip IG about what an awful boss she is has been a bit much, how do I make it stop

honestly still amazed that someone is out there making stickers that just say "Capitalism" in the Coca-Cola font and that sticker has an audience

just noticed that the guy sitting across from me in the NARA reading room has a sticker on his laptop that says "Socialism Sucks" and one that just says "Capitalism"

Hope he doesn't notice my antifa "Live Laugh Love" sticker oops

very small breakthrough finds in research yesterday:

- Prior to WWII there were exactly two industrial tantalum powder and products manufacturers, one in the USA and one in Germany and most of it came from Australia

- By the end of the war, the supply chain had almost entirely shifted to Belgian Congo and the govt had built that one US manufacturer a $4.71 million facility to expand their production

- As of 1942, all of GE's fused quartz feedstock came from Brazil

thinking about which numbers are funny and why. not the numbers that are funny signifiers like 69 or 420 but like why is 22 funny and 20 isn't funny. is it a prime number adjacency thing or something else

today's dumbest embarrassment was probably me explaining the character actor Richard Kind to a stranger at the dog park

I'm having a lot of fun with the new newsletter but wow, Buttondown sure is buggy huh

This week's perfect sentences are from @kissane, a 2013 undergraduate thesis, Leslie Marmon Silko, The Mountain Goats, and a World War II veteran: https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-02/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-07/elon-musk-cuts-more-twitter-staff-overseeing-content-moderation reminded of the blog post I saw early in twitter exodus cautioning that mastodon lacked a trust and safety team as a reason it was Not The Thing and like...at this point, pretty soon Twitter won't have one either

It's a-me, Gramsci

I'm so excited about the sentences I get to send out tomorrow for the newsletter!!

I'm finally going through my National Archives materials from my first trip so I did a little blog about a particularly prickly letter that I found: https://rocks.guide/quartz-part-1/