Morgan Foust
@morganfoust.bsky.social
All-purpose animal and Swiss Army knerd. Last photographed hissing from under a rock near the Columbia River.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
Mild hot take: IT shouldn't pressure employees to put in helpdesk tickets. The ticketing system is for IT's benefit. It isn't the user's problem.
If the user didn't put in a ticket, or couldn't, or just plain doesn't want to, then the IT staffer helping that user should fill out the ticket.
If the user didn't put in a ticket, or couldn't, or just plain doesn't want to, then the IT staffer helping that user should fill out the ticket.
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Mild hot take: IT shouldn't pressure employees to put in helpdesk tickets. The ticketing system is for IT's benefit. It isn't the user's problem.
If the user didn't put in a ticket, or couldn't, or just plain doesn't want to, then the IT staffer helping that user should fill out the ticket.
If the user didn't put in a ticket, or couldn't, or just plain doesn't want to, then the IT staffer helping that user should fill out the ticket.
*waking up in the morning* Oh, what a lovely day! I sure hope that I get a bunch of texts from unknown numbers with pictures of random Democrats in them!
October 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
*waking up in the morning* Oh, what a lovely day! I sure hope that I get a bunch of texts from unknown numbers with pictures of random Democrats in them!
"Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers. ... [W]orkslop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being." - Harvard Business Review.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers. ... [W]orkslop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being." - Harvard Business Review.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
I have recently discovered Nikhil Suresh's blog, ludic.mataroa.blog. Professionally he's a data scientist and software developer, but its his writings on the absurdity of corporate culture that resonate with me. Office humor is as old as the Chancery, but today's insanity invites a sharper tongue.
Ludicity
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"While I'm deeply sympathetic, the author should be discussing their issues with a therapist rather than spreading this on the internet."
</blockquote>
I finally rage-quit and started a...
ludic.mataroa.blog
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I have recently discovered Nikhil Suresh's blog, ludic.mataroa.blog. Professionally he's a data scientist and software developer, but its his writings on the absurdity of corporate culture that resonate with me. Office humor is as old as the Chancery, but today's insanity invites a sharper tongue.
Greta Thunberg relates the blatantly fascist treatment she received while incarcerated in Israel.
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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October 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Greta Thunberg relates the blatantly fascist treatment she received while incarcerated in Israel.
@greybunny.bsky.social okay your profile pic - I understand that reference ❤️
July 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
@greybunny.bsky.social okay your profile pic - I understand that reference ❤️
Shower thought: planting lots of native pollinator friendly plants around your house as a defense against weeping angels. Good luck moving when there are countless moths and bees fluttering around, suckers!
June 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Shower thought: planting lots of native pollinator friendly plants around your house as a defense against weeping angels. Good luck moving when there are countless moths and bees fluttering around, suckers!
So Trump's HHS tapped Alex Byrne to write a report on gender-affirming care? This is like Janice Raymond's 1981 Medicare brief all over again.
"Let's ask a nonclinician who published an anti-trans book to advise us on gender-affirming care."
"Let's ask a nonclinician who published an anti-trans book to advise us on gender-affirming care."
June 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
So Trump's HHS tapped Alex Byrne to write a report on gender-affirming care? This is like Janice Raymond's 1981 Medicare brief all over again.
"Let's ask a nonclinician who published an anti-trans book to advise us on gender-affirming care."
"Let's ask a nonclinician who published an anti-trans book to advise us on gender-affirming care."
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The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.
June 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.
What is common knowledge in your field, but. shocks outsiders?
So many. Here's a small list.
Corporate employees should not have admin/root permissions to their own PCs. Ideally, not even tech-savvy employees like IT and software devs.
So many. Here's a small list.
Corporate employees should not have admin/root permissions to their own PCs. Ideally, not even tech-savvy employees like IT and software devs.
June 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
What is common knowledge in your field, but. shocks outsiders?
So many. Here's a small list.
Corporate employees should not have admin/root permissions to their own PCs. Ideally, not even tech-savvy employees like IT and software devs.
So many. Here's a small list.
Corporate employees should not have admin/root permissions to their own PCs. Ideally, not even tech-savvy employees like IT and software devs.
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Women are lagging behind on going bankrupt on DraftKings, drinking themselves to death, and fist-fighting anyone who looks at them funny on the subway but they can catch up.
June 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Women are lagging behind on going bankrupt on DraftKings, drinking themselves to death, and fist-fighting anyone who looks at them funny on the subway but they can catch up.
June 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The eminent Rebecca Solnit on protests and violence.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
June 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The eminent Rebecca Solnit on protests and violence.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
"Those people are fascists, man. Goosesteppers. But you're keeping your cool. You know why? Because you are the pink power ranger. Pink power ranger is saving your life right now, bro."
Los Angeles, CA -
A pink power ranger dances alongside a Mexican flag. Curfew starts in one hour.
A pink power ranger dances alongside a Mexican flag. Curfew starts in one hour.
June 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"Those people are fascists, man. Goosesteppers. But you're keeping your cool. You know why? Because you are the pink power ranger. Pink power ranger is saving your life right now, bro."
Ex-coworker gets upper technical management job at a major corporate chain.
LinkedIn:
LinkedIn:
June 10, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Ex-coworker gets upper technical management job at a major corporate chain.
LinkedIn:
LinkedIn:
@lastpiscean.bsky.social Is the metallic rain in Decade inspired by the Vangelis song of the same name?
May 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
@lastpiscean.bsky.social Is the metallic rain in Decade inspired by the Vangelis song of the same name?
You don't have to be racist, sexist, or right-wing to find corporate DEI & sensitivity trainings insulting. A major underappreciated function of these training programs is largely to lay the responsibility for systemic problems onto low-level workers and divert attention from structural inequities.
I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."
May 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You don't have to be racist, sexist, or right-wing to find corporate DEI & sensitivity trainings insulting. A major underappreciated function of these training programs is largely to lay the responsibility for systemic problems onto low-level workers and divert attention from structural inequities.
The deeper fallacy underlying the notion in my last post is the idea that voting patterns can be explained simply by candidate positions on specific issues - disregarding voter suppression, ballot access, candidate personality, identity, messaging clarity, media saturation, etc.
May 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The deeper fallacy underlying the notion in my last post is the idea that voting patterns can be explained simply by candidate positions on specific issues - disregarding voter suppression, ballot access, candidate personality, identity, messaging clarity, media saturation, etc.
The narrative that Democrats lost over trans rights is bad and dumb in multiple ways, but one of the easiest counterarguments is that most voters consider trans rights & trans panic a very low priority. It consistently ranks very low on lists of things that voters care about.
This is such bullshit. There wasn't a single Dem who made bathrooms and sports significant parts of their campaigns. I'm really getting sick of guys like Cuomo and Rahm Emanuel retconning the 2024 election.
Haven’t seen this reported yet: in a speech to supporters posted to TikTok last week, NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo said he believes that Democrats lost in 2024 because “we’re talking about bathrooms and who’s gonna play in what [sports] team”
May 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The narrative that Democrats lost over trans rights is bad and dumb in multiple ways, but one of the easiest counterarguments is that most voters consider trans rights & trans panic a very low priority. It consistently ranks very low on lists of things that voters care about.
She likes some games more than others. Crab Souls (Another Crab's Treasure) is a fave.
May 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
She likes some games more than others. Crab Souls (Another Crab's Treasure) is a fave.