Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

GPU themed diss track that rhymes "Nvidia" and "chlamydia"

So this episode is also pretty weird to release now because an uptick in militia fighting in DRC has drawn media attention back to the issue of "conflict minerals"—I've seen campaigns where people are quitting vaping in solidarity w/people of the Congo? Which, IDK. I hope this deeper dive into the longer history of tantalum mining in DRC is helpful for ppl just now learning about it.

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2500-and-a-dream-fansteel-and-the-history-of-tantalum new RIP Corp and it is a doozy of an episode!! Tantalum, labor strikes, colonialism, war, a million things. I am nervous about it because there's so much packed in here and also it's based on some of my master's thesis research so it feels kind of precious to me.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185645731429?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28 or if you want a different piece of a submarine cable? Here is one on eBay

Oh no this is very expensive but very cool https://www.ericaweiner.com/products/victorian-transatlantic-telegraph-souvenir-locket

Grateful that my friend Ethan and I stay in touch almost exclusively via sending each other pictures of vanity plates when we spot them on the street

please understand that every time I say "oh my god" I am doing an impression of H. Jon Benjamin on Bob's Burgers

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-50/ this week in sentences: distinguished imaginary, autograph about it, tennis bracelet diamonds, tannins and funkiness, except shyly, sawgrass and tule, decorated with kelp, impossible aspirations

Tomorrow I will have been sober for ten years

well the internet also has concert bootlegs of The Pixies so who's to say if it's good or bad

Me: things are bad and I want to die
Partner: let this radicalize you
Me: it's radicalized me to want to die
Partner: suicide isn't radical
Me: what if my dying words are "cowabunga cruel world"
Partner: ...fuck

Love the reviews of Wonka that are basically "it's good but it's not Paddington 2 good", cinema reached its apex with that little bear going to jail

My therapist asked me what's helped me get through my last bout of suicidal ideation and I gave some dumb answer about rest and self care but in all honesty Kissinger dying last week helped a lot

https://tinysubversions.com/notes/ford-diif-grant/ aieeee so happy for you @kissane @tinysubversions!!!

https://www.nfb.ca/film/data_for_decision/ obsessed with this educational film about the Canada Geographic Information System which features a special map scanner built by IBM for the Canadian government

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-49/ this week in sentences: terrors of indeterminacy, Bad Guys, the earthworms, perhaps disappointingly, intellectual potatoes