Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I'm sorry I'm too cynical to believe that the person who ran The Markup into the ground can fix social media

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-107/ this week in sentences: piss bush, cultural homeland, untethered, Diet Coke, real shit, smells of exhaustion, struggling to incorporate cancer, a living insect, constitutionally bitchmade, superego, dead on their feet, waifu capsule, fight a mist, shower drain

Honestly she's delightful but that kind of joie de vivre in this economy?

Resisting the urge to ask this person I met at a friend's birthday whether her parents are rich

https://youtu.be/vM3HKEHdN-k?si=JGXbS4xCTyUQmsTn the vibe today

Trying to make peace with a sinking suspicion my dissertation has to get into the history and political economy of remote sensing

Update: Destroyer's Rubies (2006) still slaps

American imperialism seeking deranged expansionist projects, an Italian assassinating a millionaire, people sincerely debating the merits of pasteurization

2020s really are giving 1890s

It's a minor gripe but I find it so annoying that Jesse Welles is making some of the best anti-capitalist folk ballads of the 21st century and the dude does not sell his music on Bandcamp, man I want to own your MP3s why must we do this

My mom had a cold over the weekend and on Monday her next door neighbor not only shoveled the show from her bit of sidewalk but also shoveled her stoop, knowing she has a bad knee and wasn't feeling well. Unasked!

I'm so glad she has a little community around her to lend a hand as she gets older

my most deranged cope in the face of all the media and platform complying in advance is "maybe I should do a print publication again"

Update: I was so stressed out this evening I actually exercised lol

Ramsey is going back to Lebanon today to see family and for various timing and life reasons I am not coming with. I'm not that worried about shit going down in the next few days/before Trump's inaugurated, but also don't love the uncertainty of it all

My downstairs neighbor made getting back into playing the cello his 2024 resolution and it's so nice on this first 2025 Sunday afternoon to hear him practicing. He's gotten so good!

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-106/ this week in sentences: burning arrows, sharks on cocaine, whatever they distill, stultifying disappointment, cheap willow ware, sultry summer

Feel like the culprit might have worked backwards from the image of a cyber truck on fire outside a Trump hotel

In 2025 I'm going to just start calling ~all this~ World War III, it's time

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2024-corporate-in-memoriam just under the wire please enjoy the annual 2024 Year In Corporate Deaths episode with Tim Hwang