aj strauman-scott

@straw-man-aj.bsky.social

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she/ella. Data Scientist 📊 & Steadicam operator 🎥 I contain multitudes.

The Story Graph book review app screen showing a 5 out of 5 star rating for Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia. Review tags include: challenging, hopeful, informative, inspiring. The written review reads: “I want to spike this book and do a victory lap. Someone articulated all the bullshit connections at once, and why they are all capitalism and why everything is the same everywhere you go. It is all one connected problem and we can throw the whole damn thing out and build something else.”
A reading tracker displaying May 2026 reads from straw_man_aj’s account. Six book covers are arranged in a grid with star ratings: “Hope in the Dark” by Rebecca Solnit (4.0 stars), “Elite Capture” by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (2.5 stars), “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin (3.0 stars), “Chain-Gang All-Stars” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (4.5 stars), “The Killing Fields of East New York” by Stacy Horn (2.0 stars), and “The Edge of Space-Time” by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (4.0 stars).
The book review app StoryGraph screen showing a 4 out of 5 star rating for The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. The written review reads: “Dr Prescot-Weinstein’s second book is the more ‘pure science’ book of the two. My TBR grew significantly as excellent quotes were referenced throughout. I love physics, and honestly I finished Space-Time wishing for more science. More string theory! More loops! What does it all mean that the universe works this way? Maybe I’ll take Chanda’s encouragement and discover the answer myself.”
A highlighted passage on a Kindle e-reader from The Killing Fields of East New York. The highlighted text reads: “In Queens, she’d hunted for victims at church social gatherings and she was completely without remorse about swindling the elderly. ‘It’s not my fault,’ she would say whenever she got into trouble. ‘But it was,’ a lawyer who knew her would later say.”
Screenshot from Qobuz app of band MUNA's latest album cover for "Dancing on the Wall"
A book review app screen showing a 4.5 out of 5 star rating for Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
Screenshot of Chain-Gang All-Stars on StoryGraph, 21% complete with 88 of 411 pages read.
StoryGraph reading log showing Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit, marked Finished on 4 May 2026, 188 pages.
A screenshot of my profile on UpScrolled. It has the same banner, which says "Reinvest!" And my profile picture. My handle is @ straw_man_aj, the same as BlueSky.
A hardcover copy of the book "The Catch" by Yrsa Daley-Ward against a grey background.
An orange cat sleeps on my chest
A refrigerator shelf full of canned pickles in assorted reused and recycled jars.
Small bush beans growing on the plant, dried flower blossoms still attached