Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-152/ this week in sentences: money, glacier, sphere, scooter, cabinets, surely, always too many, purple, brainworms, grooved, chocolate chip cookie, canned tomato soup, slender means, actuality

revised conclusion in, now time for the full manuscript review

word count for total MS: 62,257

once again I am annoyed at being asked to provide some gestures of hope or "fixes" for my dissertation topic BUT this one of the last times I will have to feel this because I am revising the conclusion!! finding the silver lining as best I can

The past me of a few hours ago who thought a cold brew was a good idea has a lot to answer for

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-151/ this week in sentences: unknown gods, creature, monopolist, instead, punch, stone-green, hat, mouthfeel, succumb, anti-rat, whales, lighted panels, perverse

Introduction revisions in and we're at 57,285 words without the conclusion, assuming I'm not adding too much more to the conclusion we're looking at 61-62K total which is technically on the shorter side for a dissertation but I'm fine with shorter because that's easier to repurpose for journal articles.

Not proud that my first thought hearing a song lyric about turning trees into "toothpicks and twenty dollar bills" was "American currency is a cotton rag paper blend"

Karl Marx failed to predict brain worms

I don't really have it in me to explain dhh to academics but wow, Rails is an amazing example of how corporate adoption/absorption of FOSS is so much messier than simplistic enclosure metaphors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-10/ai-s-5-trillion-data-center-boom-will-dip-into-every-debt-market-jpmorgan-says it's giving "don't worry they're triple A mortgages"

Bummer that the closest anyone gets to a prize for posting is something as diminutive-sounding as a "Webby"

"Sage grouse" is such a good name for a bird and also how I imagine being described by others, wise but also complaining pettily now and then

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-150/ this week in sentences: stray dogs, shining, mustard, bovine noises, salt, faith, ghosts, marrow, objectively, adversaries, private life, subjective, riled up

Never understand the news headline structure of "X is quietly doing Y", I mean they're not doing it quietly anymore if you're posting about it like that

I think encouraging more museum heists would solve the male loneliness crisis

Conclusion submitted!! It is very short (3975 words) because I am running out of brain cells and also one of my committee members said that 3-5K was totally fine

Still waiting on comments from my advisor on the introduction but like...almost all of the pieces exist in some form, ahhhhh!!

We are dogsitting for the week and overhearing Ramsey talking to the dog reminds me how much I miss having one

Guy at the corner store said he sold out of the "Red Apple" NY Post in an hour, people are obsessed