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Morgan Foust

@morganfoust.bsky.social
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All-purpose animal and Swiss Army knerd. Last photographed hissing from under a rock near the Columbia River.

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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have you signed up for our new patient portal, YouHealth? Your records are in Thryve. You can chat with your doctor in SimpleDoc. He's literally on FastChart. You can probably get health info on Goodbody. It's literally in Healthable. Log on to Healthable right now. Go to Healthable has it for you.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Raising my hand as somebody who has gotten care from a really good doctor named Abdulrahman.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Nature reclaims. Near Kaimu Beach, HI.
A green, young, healthy plant growing from the bottom of a rusted car.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Why are you installing manually? Just run the docker. It's literally on k8s. It's in a jenkins recipe. It's literally on terraform. Dude it's on ansible. You can git it. It's on npm. You can install it with npm. Run npm right now. Go to npm. Dive into npm. It's on npm. npm has it for you.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
*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!
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"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...
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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...
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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.
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Ludicity
<blockquote> "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...
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
An industrial machine safety sticker that reads, "WARNING. IT IS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THIS BUT NOT UNALTERED."
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Greta Thunberg relates the blatantly fascist treatment she received while incarcerated in Israel.
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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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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
An old Western Union Telegram that reads, in all caps, "FUCK YOU STRONG LETTER TO FOLLOW"
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
@greybunny.bsky.social okay your profile pic - I understand that reference ❤️
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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!
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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."
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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.
some dumb shit head writing bullshit
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@anrova.bsky.social
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The eminent Rebecca Solnit on protests and violence. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"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."
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Ex-coworker gets upper technical management job at a major corporate chain. LinkedIn:
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
@lastpiscean.bsky.social Is the metallic rain in Decade inspired by the Vangelis song of the same name?
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
She likes some games more than others. Crab Souls (Another Crab's Treasure) is a fave.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I'm not remotely a fan of Nathan Robinson, but he was spot-on when he lambasted The Atlantic's (shoddy and lopsided) editorial standards. They keep proving him right.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
youtu.be/6Lxk9NMeWHg This video is succinct, and a bit superficial, but within those limitations it is one of the best explanations of genAI hype I've seen.
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AI Is Not Designed for You
YouTube video by No Boilerplate
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
media.tenor.com
a man is holding a t-shirt with a picture of a girl on it
Alt: A clip of the opening sequence of Satoshi Kon's 'Paprika'.
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Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Not kidding! I watched TERF rhetoric evolve over the years, like this: - Sex is genitals! > changeable - Sex is hormones/brain/etc! > changeable - Chromosomes! > they're quite complicated. So.. 32 sexes? - Gametes! > Can be absent/combined. Four sexes? - Uhhhh... "intended" gametes! > we are here!
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Sometimes I'll post something, realize that adding alt text would be a pain, and just delete it. Do I believe fervently in accessibility? Yes. Am I so very tired? Also yes.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
mastodon.social/@ethanschoon...
Screenshot of the linked Mastodon post.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Chatter is rising again about JD Vance's fondness for the Andrew Jackson quote about defying the Supreme Court. The quote is possibly apocryphal, but Jackson's defiance was real. Let me explicitly point out that Jackon's defiance, that Vance so admiringly evokes, led directly to the Trail of Tears.
Screenshot from Politico of JD Vance quoting Andrew Jackson: "The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it."
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I don't have anything to say about current events that hasn't already been said, so here is a very cozy cat.
A sleepy tabby cat leaning on a fluffy blanket.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Well, Heretic was a fun little romp. letterboxd.com/mfoust/film/...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/03/2025
1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
TLDR: 'We focused on the economy and mobilizing our base.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
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Opinion | How the Economy, Not the Culture Wars, Led to a Surprise Democratic Win in Iowa
A focus on bread-and-butter issues, not the culture wars, helped an Iowa Democrat win in a red area. His playbook is now being used in Pennsylvania.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
TLDR: people will pay all the money they have to keep themselves or their children alive. Yes, the price of goods and services in a market economy are driven by marginal value. But the marginal pecuniary value of "not dying" is incalculable. www.propublica.org/article/zolg...
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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Richard Hanania is yet again popping up on social media. It's time for my periodic reminder that he admitted that he rejects moral arguments for trans rights because he just plain doesn't like gender-nonconforming people. He's not a serious thinker. He's a troglodyte trained to mimic language.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
'Oh, I remember now why I didn't like classic Twitter' as I wade through the deluge of reposts from accounts I don't follow.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The fact that Il Douche and his entourage keep walking decisions back is a sign that political backpressure works. It's a slim silver lining, but we aren't helpless.
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Morgan Foust @morganfoust.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Obligatory cat post.
Male gray tabby cat in a basket.
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