Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Little Lilac Mittens (LLM)

has anyone out there used Library, NYT's app created for documentation sites that basically turns a folder of Google Docs into a wiki?

https://github.com/nytimes/library

I'm looking at frameworksto make a relatively lightweight website for a team project where the team is largely not developers. I don't love the dependence on Google but do like meeting non-technical users where they're at.

getting my period TWICE in February, the rudest and shortest month, seems unreasonable

this week's newsletter has a gentle reminder of ways to give me money which I always feel a little gross about but also I got a bunch of new subscribers via a tweet by a partner at a venture capital firm

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-09/ this week in sentences: NIBBB, geodesy, a growing colony of possums, anyone else at all, 'goblin' stuff, Gerald Ford, musical reproduction

yesterday Julie told us about academic debates around something called the Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation which apparently people call THED and I almost immediately made a "thanks for coming to my THED talk" joke

weird to learn that in some pockets of academia people who make their students read Althusser don't teach their students that Althusser murdered his wife (who was, for the record, a Marxist theorist herself)!

https://www.internethalloffame.org/nominations/ ok but what if we nominate dril

happy new Algiers album release day to all who celebrate

what if I start releasing new zines by making fake Publishers Marketplace screenshots about them

like, oh THAT's structural Marxism, OK thanks

Love that feeling when my advisor tells me to read a bunch of Marxist theory and then instead I find something by David Graeber that explains it perfectly

a warm horse welcome to @binx!!

The Bandcamp app can do playlists now!!!

getting thrown out of the cartography conference for insisting that the path to liberation is using the most fucked up projections

I know it's just an academic journal URL but the proximity of "culanth" to "cthulhu" is too close, and I'm tired of pretending it's not

blogged after a long hiatus https://rocks.guide/on-writing-vs-writing-like-an-academic/