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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think this norm is alien to me particularly because I don’t remember in recent memory having bought a snack on the way to work. I might have some coffee that I made myself at home or with my own beans in the office, yes, but I’m not gonna make an aeropress coffee for like 5 other people.

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

familiar form of argument not just from traditional “family” but also other groups that claim you as “family”

Photo of an ereader book page with text: “ 2. REJECTING COMPULSORY KINSHIP • 18 OF 86
family. He specifically links the silencing of individual needs as part of what it means to be in the Black community in a racist country.
"Because of our history, they [community elders want Black people, no matter what, to stick together," he illuminates,
"even when there's
something really bad happening within a family dynamic." He explains that in his Black community, his elders say,
"We still gotta deal with these -isms and these this and that and the third, so put whatever you're dealing with on the back burner.'"
While Michael
agrees that it is logical to protect the
FAMILIES WE LOSE • 133 OF 703”

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I see we're all having a good time on here

screenshot of bsky 'trending' pane showing the top 5 topics being a spiderman film using ai concept art, mike masnick's comments on ai, trump's announcement of economic warfare on iran, the navy renaming a carrer for trump, and the debate over spreadsheet people

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

funny how that applies to other masculine-coded endeavors

Photo of Sidney Harris cartoon depicting a man telling a woman “I’ll be working on the largest and smallest objects in the universe—superclusters and neutrinos. I’d like you to handle everything in between “

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A bit on the nose that this is the first page of the pamphlet of the history of bakery square (formerly nabisco factory, now tech offices)

Photo of an old ad advertising a “tokens sandwich”: “two dainty biscuit - a creamy filling - raspberry flavored”

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My new workplace has a well equipped bike room (though the racks are not my favorite) and i pass a ludicrous number of supermarkets on my way home.

Photo of spacious bike room with pump and tool stand

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

is there a reason why smoke tends to be denser over the lakes themselves ?

screenshot of air quality index heat map over the great lakes region showing that the lakes are colored more darkly than the terrestial parts

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

US developers put in good windows, challenge near impossible

Screenshot of skeet from bouie showing a picture of redeveloped public housing with horrible sash windows

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

a lot of the conversation around housing is very silly because most people refuse to believe that building new housing under the current policy regime is in fact this expensive. ggwash.org/view/92306/w...

“ TOTAL DEVELOPMENT COSTS: $584,900

You may be thinking: “$585,000 for one three-bedroom apartment is extremely expensive!” And you would be right. Building new housing is always expensive, but the significant increase in construction costs in recent years has made it even more challenging.”

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Not happy about the Brazil result but at least the view on the way home was nice

Photo of sunset over the north hills of Pittsburgh

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The hierarchical structure of economic vibes. From the 2025 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking just released by the Fed. (Credit: Fintech Business Weekly fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/cfsb-hit-w... )

graph from the link showing the percentage of adults saying their own finances are "doing okay" or "living comfortably" constant at 73-78% since 2017. Meanwhile, the percentage saying that the "local economy" is good or excellent tanked 63% --> 43% from 2019 to 2020 and hasn't recovered. The percentage saying the "national economy" is good or excellent tanked 50%-->26% from 2019 to 2020 and hasn't recovered.

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Update: the ratio on this may be the worst I’ve ever witnessed

Screenshot of the same skeet as before showing 1 repost, 89 quotes, 10 likes

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

sorry but it's hard to feel sorry for hoteliers. I have a high credence that this group of people mostly voted for this outcome. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

graph from the linked article showing a majority of hoteliers in every us host city except atlanta agreeing that their world cup bookings are underperforming

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Genuinely curious whether this is a bsky thing or whether it’s widely believed

Screen shot of skeet with text: “ French peasants actually had time & energy to cook. A medieval peasant's workday was shorter & less exhausting than a modern workers.”

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is a good way of understanding what's wrong with the 'polls über alles' stance Source: www.are.na/block/684687

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This point actually has the opposite valence on me than what it intends. 17k cars are sold in the US alone *every day*. partnershiponai.org/wp-content/u...

Screenshot from linked PDF with text: "TRAINING A MODEL
TH AT EMITS TH E
CARB ON OF FIVE CARS
Tr a i n i n g a si n g l e AI mode l l i k e t h e popu l a r
Tr a n s f or m e r de e p l e a r n i n g m ode l ma y e mi t “ mor e
t h a n 6 2 6 , 000 pou n ds of c a r bon di oxi de e qu i va l e n t
— n e a r l y f i ve t i me s t h e l i fe t i me e mi ssi on s of t h e
a ve r a g e Ame r i c a n c a r (a n d t h a t i n c l u de s
ma n u f a c t u r e of t h e c a r i t se l f ), ” a s r e por t e d by M I T
Te c h R e vi e w .
C on si de r i n g t h a t t h e se mode l s a r e t y pi c a l l y
t r a i n e d ma n y t i me s a n d by ma n y r e se a r c h e r s, t h e
e mi ssi on s a dd u p"

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I don't agree with the anti-data center or generic anti-AI sentiments in the post but a number of these scenarios are things I'm also suffering through ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

"An engineer adds 12,000 lines of code affecting your app’s authentication. They ask that it be reviewed and merged same-day. Another engineer enlists a “swarm” of AI agents to review the code. The code merges with no one having read the full set of changes.
A designer is tasked with exploring a new feature. They prompt an AI tool for an interactive prototype. Design crit is spent analyzing visual details in the generated prototype, with minimal discussion of core ideas, goals, or tradeoffs.
One of your pull requests has been open for a few days. You ask other engineers to leave a code review. Minutes later, an engineer pastes a review that was generated by an AI tool. There are no additional thoughts of their own.
You point an engineer to the relevant section of a library’s docs in order to request a feature. They tell you that the feature request is not possible, and send a screenshot of their chat with an AI tool as proof.
Documents and code are being generated faster than team members can review. You get the feeling that most people have stopped reading altogether."

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

sad if this is true. d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/7260767/orig...

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

under our last mayor the city didn't even try to deny that it was in charge of properties that were dangerous due to lack of maintenance, they just wanted an exception from state law that requires conservators to maintain their properties well. bloomfield-garfield.org/wp-content/u...

"The developer in the Garfield cases, Aaron
Chaney, has filed petitions on over 20 City-
owned properties through several companies
he controls, going as far back as 2017. In the
petitions, he contends that the city has failed in
its duty to maintain these properties, causing
their further deterioration, as well as created
an assortment of problems for neighboring
owners. Chaney’s attorneys have argued that
the City, like any private owner, should be
held accountable under the state law.
Under the administration of former Mayor
Ed Gainey, the city Law Department fought
back against Chaney’s petitions, arguing
before various judges at Common Pleas Court
that the state’s conservatorship law shouldn’t
apply to municipalities. "

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

good timing for this game to drop on boardgamearea

screenshot of a new 'watergate' game on boardgamearena

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

become ungovernable d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/44803208/ori...

a photo of a pigeon nesting on a nest built on top of anti-bird spikes, with the text "a pigeon constructed its nest directly on anti pigeon spikes"

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Reminder d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/44747664/ori...

illustration of a godzilla-like creature standing over a photocopier, holding a ream of paper. Above its head is the text "LET'S DO OUR BEST THIS WEEK!" in English and Japanese.

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This is the funniest false positive for my labeller @facelabels.bsky.social so far

Screenshot of labeled skeet containing a photo of pork loin that my labeler labeled as “contains trump’s face”

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I have Questions about the advice in this article on “How to Avoid Being Labeled a “Weeaboo” “ www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Becomi...

Screenshot from link saying “try making Japanese food at home”

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

My friend reminding of the weird coffee shop owner in Utah who painstakingly laid out who were the best (himself) and second best siphon coffee makers in the world

Screenshot of text message with text : “We need to find that person in Japan who is the second best at syphon coffee in the world”

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I think it's instructive that some of the biggest users of LLMs make it a point to write and think in old-fashioned ways. Even before LLMs, I had always found it more productive to brainstorm or plan things on pen-and-paper. And I still do. from www.exponentialview.co/p/where-the-...

Screenshot from linked transcript with text:

"Azeem: De-skilling is real. And what Nita and Eric are drawing attention to is a gap in education. In these early stages, it’s up to us to figure out our own pedagogy for maintaining skills. I spend a lot of time writing with this (fountain pen), computer turned off. Yesterday I had a session with a colleague where we worked on a problem in silence, on paper, no phones, no computers, for a couple of hours. We do that often in my team. Maybe it’s the wrong thing. But it’s our gesture toward understanding de-skilling – this sloppy vibing that has you moving further and further from your own mental capacities."

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Amused that my prima Taste Instant laksa pack calls its noodles “oriental noodles”, given that the kind of person who would pay this much for niche instant noodles is unlikely to be the kind of person who likes or uses the word “oriental”

Photo of laksa pack instructions that tells you to “put oriental noodles into…”

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Did you also have to tackle your tech debt around cable storage/hoarding or did you have a better day than I did

Photo of a rug on which is scattered various cables

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

a majority of people I get annoyed with on here are annoying because they operate on an 'is X uncool?' heuristic but then turn it into a high-handed moralizing. You can basically replace 'AI user' on here with anything else, like 'voter'.

screenshot of a skeet with text "Being an AI user is super embarrassing"

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I love how this graphic is totally unhelpful for determining whether you're going to get 30 inches of snow or half an inch of ice.

screenshot of visualization from a weather site of projected snow and ice quantities. The ranges around 30 inches of snow and 0.5 inches of ice cover the same colors.

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This is about scientific writing but really is true for so many information-centric professions. www.patreon.com/posts/148719...

screenshot from linked interview with text:

"Related to the first point, we can’t isolate writing instruction to a single course and expect developing scientific writers to believe us when we say they will need writing throughout their schooling and careers. Students believe us when they see us use the tools we tell them to use. But, mostly, we don’t embed writing instruction in scientific content courses the way writing is embedded in humanities courses. So, students aren’t learning that writing is thinking and intrinsic to science. They are learning that writing is the rotten task that follows the “real” work of memorizing or doing experiments or field work. "

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critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

gonna have to get mountaineering mittens if we’re gonna protest every week throughout the winter. my 45NRTH gloves are good enough for commuting length rides but not for standing around outside for extended periods

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