Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

God I love living in New York when we all come together to hate the mayor

Just saw an Italian grandpa in my neighborhood in a brat baseball cap

working on this episode of RIP Corp is fucking up my blood pressure so bad

got in an argument with someone about degrowth where I said that living in an era of widening wealth inequality is basically de facto degrowth via a downwardly mobile middle class, why not just degrow billionaires instead

Another year another round of social justice and technology fellowships awarded to a cohort with a significant number of people in tenure track jobs who really don't need the money

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-91/ this week in sentences: PlayStation controller, of course, baja blast, likely stagger on, totally wasted, sinister magnificence, bruise of a story, guilt

Working on some plotter drawings on vintage tracing paper and oh no do I have to make light boxes for these it looks really cool

A friend's baby is arriving today and I haven't had time to fix the world so it looks ok when they get here, fuck

my pretty damn gentrified neighborhood in brooklyn can be a bit much but an ice cream place down the street has been having a live jazz band outside on wednesday nights for...reasons? and it's nice to get to hear live music out my window

was reminded just now that they made a special beanie baby to commemorate when Princess Diana died, the 90s were such a weird time

look i don't want to make this about me here but it really fucking sucks waiting to hear if my Lebanese in-laws are ok (they are) and worrying about how much worse this is all about to get

Philadelphia nerds and some subset of fedi nerds: Anna Tsing (!!) is giving a lecture at Penn tonight (!!) that will also be live streamed (!!) and is about a new body of work she's doing on CONCRETE (!!!!!!!)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/concrete-tickets-969057636477

"Mr. Lochridge, an experienced submersible pilot from Scotland, said he tried to calm his boss down and asked him to hand over the PlayStation controller that was used to pilot the vessel." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/us/titan-submersible-coast-guard-hearing.html

There was a little blue eyed cat meowing plaintively at the top of a stoop on my walk home like he really wanted to get into the building. No one answered the front door so I tried the basement entrance and the lady who came to the door was so relieved--she couldn't hear him downstairs--and took him inside. He immediately chilled out in her arms.

Just a wholesome little neighborly encounter, idk wanted to share

A jukebox musical of Tallahassee but it's performed by Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara in Waiting for Guffman, entirely in character with the same production quality

I am trying to view it as not a total waste of time either way because like, I wrote a cover letter and a teaching statement and made a comprehensive CV, but it is sort of annoying realizing that it might not even get read.

I'm starting to suspect that this job I'm applying for is a front for a hire they already have lined up, like they're poaching someone from another school and need to pretend to be hiring. Either that or they really, really don't have their shit together and don't know what they want.

Had to explain Mister Gotcha to a room full of not extremely online people today

Hot take I'd accept no benches in Penn Station if they brought back the clicky clacky time table

Filling the robots with the worst milk was such a clutch move tbh