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This is a newsletter by Ingrid Burrington. Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Pay what you want, if you can—this newsletter is not exactly part of my work hustle, but the distraction of financial anxiety does often contribute to my own sentences being merely pretty good rather than perfect.
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Perfect Sentences, 153
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Published: November 30, 2025 14:17
I turn in my dissertation manuscript this Friday, which means last week was mostly editing my own sentences. Given the deadline, the I'm aiming for "defensible" sentences in the manuscript more than perfect, so it's not been a very inspired week. Thanks…
Perfect Sentences, 152
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Published: November 23, 2025 14:20
It really is the greatest business plan in the history of capitalism: “We will create God and then ask it for money.” "OpenAI Has a Business Plann", Matt Levine for Bloomberg Submitted by Wesley. Mother Nature doesn't call, doesn't speak to you, although…
Perfect Sentences, 151
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Published: November 16, 2025 14:52
babies are born worshipping unknown gods @reki.gay on Bluesky Submitted by Kelsey. This has been memed as an official Dwarf Fortress bug report comment, but the actual bug report does not use this phrase. All credit to Reki! All that remains today is an…
Perfect Sentences, 150
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Published: November 9, 2025 15:09
I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. "My Life Under Fascism, or Franco Killed My Dog", William Gibson for Space Junk (Light spoiler for those who…
Perfect Sentences, 149
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Published: November 2, 2025 16:09
The good news is I am currently writing the conclusion to my dissertation, which is to say the end is in sight! The bad news is now I must uh, draw conclusions, and the conclusion cannot be "I am so burned out by academia, why must we pretend this matters…
Perfect Sentences, 148
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Published: October 26, 2025 14:24
We simply do not know what our writing does. "There is No Software", Friedrich Kittler There's noise, so much noise, but there's also signal and the signal was that they were here that they were everywhere. "What I Need You To Understand, Notes from…
Perfect Sentences, 147
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Published: October 19, 2025 16:43
We are all communists with our closest friends, and feudal lords when interacting with children. "Debt, Violence, and Impersonal Violence: Polanyian Meditations", David Graeber Gun culture has made it impossible to slap people like Moe Howard so the…
Perfect Sentences, 146
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Published: October 12, 2025 15:14
A correction: last week’s newsletter cited a Substack note sentence that was in fact a quote from Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, not an original statement from the author. We regret the error. Thanks to Saga for bringing this to our attention. what am i to do…
Perfect Sentences, 145
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Published: October 5, 2025 13:20
Submissions are carrying this week as I was finishing revisions on one chapter while writing the last full chapter of the dissertation. I still have to wrap the chapters in an intro/conclusion and add an appendix and give the whole thing an overall edit…
Perfect Sentences, 144
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Published: September 28, 2025 12:21
I have met crows that should be in jail. “walking through los angeles when the crows are screaming and going through your garbage”, Kaleb Horton for his newsletter Submitted by @symbo1ics.bsky.social. I was not all that familiar with Kaleb Horton’s work…