Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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granted, I do all of that work on a $500 monthly retainer because the show is the passion project of a mostly podcasts-for-brands shop so it doesn't feel like a huge part of my professional output but like, it's a good show and I'm pretty good at doing it
I like how most days I am very demoralized about media and my prospects of getting a job or selling another book or whatever but also for three years I have been the lead researcher, writer, and host of a banger podcast about capitalism and how weird and dumb it is
in honor of today being Dan Snyder's last day as the DC football team owner please enjoy this old episode of RIP Corp where we detailed the time he ran Six Flags into the ground https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/minisode-failing-upward-dan-snyder-and-the-six-flags-of-football-teams
Having a real "18 dollars in my bank account" sort of day
happy announcement of a new Mountain Goats album specifically about a recurring character from the band's lengthy oeuvre, best known from a song about a motorcycle, to all who celebrate https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/jenny-from-thebes
Last night we picked up takeout for dinner and we crossed paths with of my favorite dog and person duos on the street and the dog (a little guy named Gino) started running towards us when he recognized us and there just are few feelings more delightful than a dog being just thrilled to see you
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Hey #Journalism #mastodon, @mongabay is hiring an Indigenous news reporter. Please apply if this if you:
"Recognizing that life experiences and perspectives are critical to report effectively on issues related to Indigenous peoples and communities, Mongabay is seeking candidates who identify as Indigenous or have extensive experience living and working in Indigenous communities."
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Include sex workers in your labor organizing. Sex workers' rights are workers' rights.
That one episode of The Bear
I know we're all supposed to be excited about Ryan Gosling in the Barbie movie but for me personally I am really focused on having an Ebon Moss-Bachrach summer
That one episode of The Bear
looking for the redemption arc that ends with me becoming a suit guy please advise
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computers are pretty cool but its a good thing theyre not real! can you imagine!! it would be a disaster!!!
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I don't post about work much here, but I spent 5+ years working on Vox Media's CMS Chorus. Straight up built my career by growing, refactoring and hacking on it.
Two things I learned:
- All code is dies. Some sooner than later.
- The most rewarding work is anything that reduces pain points for coworkers and customers.
Sad to see Chorus is shutting down. A lot of great engineers and writers worked on and in it, and I'm thinking about them today 💖
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Heads up, @cfaworkers has made a call for public support of their nascent union, which is facing union-busting tactics.
If you think civic tech workers deserve a union, this is the time to voice it to Code for America's leadership—specific instructions at the bottom of the post:
https://cfaworkersunited.com/stories/2023/07/14/cfa-actions-dont-align-with-values.html
one of those "spend two hours writing one email" kind of days
oppenheimer shitpost
Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer looks just enough like David Byrne that I have been trying to rewrite Talking Heads songs accordingly ("Making Bobby Oppy", "Burning Down Japan", "Life During Wartime" just works)
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Having a smartphone is not a luxury anymore, one sex worker in Kolkata said. “It is like having a laptop for an office going person. They need it for work. We also need smartphones for our work, because time is changing, everyone is online”
https://restofworld.org/2023/india-sex-workers-online-safety/
it's very petty of me but one of the comments on my grant proposal was that critiquing the tendency toward Great Man narratives of computer history is "overdrawn and out of date" and I'm sorry, in a world where people think Elon Musk is smart there is definitely still value in critiquing Great Men narratives imo??
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-29/ this week in sentences: gum, a secret opinion, a new name, subsumption by the great enzyme, chatting away to a tortoise
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Also from the same 19th century chemistry lab: beautiful illustrations of the uses of chlorine, hydrogen, nitric acid…early 20th century? any guesses on rough dates?
I started crying tonight because I love my dog so much?? she's fine I just felt overwhelmed by the vulnerability of loving
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