Ingrid Burrington

She's so good!

Borders are fake and also seeing Lebanon's get re-drawn in real time still feels fucked up and sad

"He Thinks He'll Keep Her" having such a grip on me when I was like nine years old is in retrospect a real tell

Put the Message in the Box / Migrations, by Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats 2 track album

themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/put-th... Mountain Goats/Mary Chapin Carpenter collab is a great "how to get my mom into my special interests" moment for me, thanks John

AI ‘Man Camps’ Offer Golf, Free Steaks to Lure Workers in Texas As data centers boom, developers are rushing to build housing and amenities in remote locales

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... they're building data center construction company towns, cool, normal

The Mountain Goats song "Going To Maine" is also allowed

I only want to know Maine through Stephen King novels, no more!!

I would prefer for the great state of Maine to continue to be none of my business and resent that its Senate primary has become something I have opinions on

Are you or have you ever been an ominous bird story?

Blue Owl Has £36 Million Exposure to Collapsed UK Lender to Rich Blue Owl Capital Inc. has a £36 million ($48 million) exposure to Century Capital Partners Ltd., a London-based property lender that filed for administration last month.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... something something Blue Owl as actually canary in the private credit coal mine something avian wordplay

Israel's Digital Occupation — The Dial Lebanon has become a laboratory for a new age of warfare.

www.thedial.world/articles/new... - new from the always-excellent @justinsalhani.bsky.social

a little thing they like to call ~practicing mindfulness~

as it pertains to current discourse

Also to be clear: the real world analogue are Labubus

a perfect baby

Are there not Ewoks in Godfather Part 3, I haven't actually seen it

and it's really the Godfather Part 3 of world wars, what with the nepos and bad writing and Ewoks

love having a psychiatrist who doesn't even blink at "yeah I've been having some anxiety but it's mostly about being alive during world war 3"

Once again at least I have my old friend Four Advil at my side

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

Is being driven insane by AI discourse without actually interacting with a chatbot a subset of AI psychosis

There it is again that funny feeling

www.culturehub.org/re-fest-2026 one of my studiomates does design and comms for CultureHub NYC and aside from these events looking cool and fun I just want everyone to appreciate what a good job they did on the branding here, I love my talented friends

Bezos and Gates-backed firm fights for DRC’s mineral data in exchange for more investments The dispute between the US mining firm, Kobold Metals, backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, and Belgiums AfricaMuseum over the digitization of colonial-era maps of what is now the Democra...

africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifest... look you don't have to hand it to the Belgians but also: lol, lmao

Also like, Venezuela is still happening

Laying the groundwork to be the only country left standing?

So are we calling it World War 3 or what

You're right, grateful to be listening and learning

Shout out to the people wearing shorts today in NYC because of the high of 48 F, your commitment to winter ending is the stuff of epic poems

This is illegal.

It also counter-productive. It’s literally what caused Hezbollah to form. This might work in the short-term but Israel can’t sustain this over time. And the blowback, which high may be years in the making will come. And it will be bad.