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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 03/06/2026

It is 1996. I am hand coding HTML for a class. It is 2006. I am hand coding HTML for a job handling legacy material. It is 2016. I am hand coding HTML as a workaround for limitations of newer markup languages. It is 2026. I am hand coding HTML because it is the best tool for the job.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 15/02/2026

Why bother reading docs no one bothered to write?

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 30/01/2026

This absolute banger of a comment: "You can tell it's an anti-trans study because it's a study about trans people that's actually still funded"

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 02/01/2026

Hi, I'm pertussis, and these are my good friends, pneumonia and medical incompetence.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 25/12/2025

I finished knitting the sweater that’s been my project for the past two months. I was between sizes so chose to go up, with the end result being a comfy, slouchy sweater.

A chest detail of a sweater i knitted. The main color is a salt and pepper wool, with contrasting bands in gradients of purple.

I’m smiling because I’m happy at having knitting the sweater I’m wearing. The main color is a salt and pepper wool, with contrasting bands in gradients of purple.

I added thumb holes into the cuffs so I can pull the sleeves down over my hands to help keep them warm.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 05/12/2025

I think about LJ from time to time, how much I miss it, how sadly it ended.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 01/12/2025

Next up in my reading queue: Find Me, by André Aciman. I read it twice when it came out but haven't touched it since. I'm curious to see how it reads from a much different place in life.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 23/11/2025

I've been out of work for two months. I've interviewed and been passed over. I've applied to jobs thoughtfully and by volume, tapped my networks, and pumped my contacts. I've renewed certifications, gained new ones, and thrown myself head first into AI. Nothing. It's hard not to feel like a relic.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 12/11/2025

Fellow holders of Canada PR and US citizenship, where are we risk-wise on crossing the border into the US these days? Is it still OK if you enter via a method with pre-clearance? Is it just a flat no-go? I'm weighing whether to visit my family for US Thanksgiving and would appreciate good knowledge.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 27/10/2025

I've got enough of a novel put together that I think it's worth talking to agents. I'm pretty sure I don't know any agents socially. Fellow writers with agents, do you have anyone you recommend for first time authors? @writerebony.bsky.social @leemandelo.bsky.social @ellenkushner.bsky.social

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 18/10/2025

I did my first AI-driven interview last week. It was also my last. The market is brutal, but I will not sell any more pieces of my soul. www.thecut.com/article/job-...

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The Job Search Has Become a Humiliation Ritual

“It feels like I’m trying to make my robots talk to their robots.”

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 16/10/2025

I do developers docs in cloud native spaces, and I'm looking for work. If you need better docs for your project, let's chat.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 15/10/2025

Nerdy drag king name: Colonel Primitive

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 13/10/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

A white woman wearing a purple dress with pearl earrings and a necklace of pearls and amethysts looks into the camera. She wears makeup and her blue eyes are bright.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 09/10/2025

I'm finally able to access my LinkedIn account, so please feel free to connect with me. www.linkedin.com/in/scorleissen

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 12/09/2025

Bursting at the seams, feeling fine.

A white woman with graying blonde hair and blue eyes leans forward into the lamplight and brushes her hair back over one ear. Her blush pink dress shows some cleavage, and she leans past a cushion with a burst seam, revealing the pillow within.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 11/09/2025

It is once again time to cherish this BlueSky feature: Settings > Moderation > Muted words & tags > <that name> + duration to not see <that name>

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 06/09/2025

Went on a morning walk with my back-fence neighbour, picked up mail and gossip from the post office gal, flirted with the butcher, ate lunch at my local, waved hello and chatted with my downstairs neighbours while out and about. I love living in a village.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 02/09/2025

Summer Sons is one of the most unsettling books I've read in the past decade. I don't think I can say enough about how powerfully or how deeply it affected me. It's not perfect. The pacing bogs down in the middle, and you don't have to squint to see the bad guys coming a mile away. Read it anyway.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 29/08/2025

This remains as true as it was when I wrote it.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 28/08/2025

No thank you; I'm misunderstood in enough of them, already.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 21/08/2025

Maybe don’t live in such a way that when you die, people act like Ewoks when the second Death Star explodes.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 20/08/2025

Cleaning up to move on, found this in my "wins" folder. You were welcome. Thanks for saying so.

A tweet from 9:07 AM, August 21, 2024 from an account called "your friendly cloud native gopher" that reads: "Huge props to the folks who do docs at isovalent/cilium"

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 17/08/2025

The last five minutes of Shine episode 2 have me in paroxysms. I could watch this scene again and again, it's so delicious.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 12/08/2025

If I had read Nnedi Okorafor or NK Jemisin earlier, it would have transformed me for the better so much sooner.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 12/08/2025

He’s like the Adam Rippon of mayoral campaigns, serving perfection while swanning around looking effortless and vaguely pleasant while also catty enough to cut glass.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 11/08/2025

Just got official confirmation—as of today, I’m a permanent resident of Canada. I know it doesn’t always mean this for everyone, but for me… …for me, it means I’m safe.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 09/08/2025

You can tell I'm advancing my technical skill with K8s and Cilium by the way I'm now confused by a completely different set of things.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 06/08/2025

As of this moment I hereby exempt myself from all CI linters and spellchecks that do not parse the will of god. NO RAGRETS

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 04/08/2025

@leemandelo.bsky.social Just listened to this song and it plunged me back into the melancholy of Summer Sons. These lyrics, for Eddie: Lover indeed they have covered with weeds My body but my soul remains So play louder, and faster, and stronger, Make this soil, make it break youtu.be/7YD0M66yA7A

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The Graveyard Song

YouTube video by PigPen Theatre Co. - Topic

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 02/08/2025

Celebrating the hottest day of the year so far by cooking creamy mashed potatoes and a version of Julia Child's beef bourgignon recipe shared by @lookitup.baby. This is not an unwise decision and I resent any implication that cooking/eating heavy beef stew in peak summer heat is "questionable".

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 30/07/2025

This is the sort of book review that causes my entire being to emit a supernal, euphonious hum. www.reddit.com/r/MM_Romance...

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From the MM_RomanceBooks community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the MM_RomanceBooks community

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 29/07/2025

About ten years ago I permanently forewent the practice of attending concerts or shows without strictly assigned seating. There are still acts I’d like to see, but without my own personal (portable?) opera box it’s a hard pass for the bare facts that the canaille repulses me, and also autism.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 28/07/2025

This is Allan, who lives downstairs and is also the ambassador for the street. My orange-flavored nephew visits occasionally as part of his diplomatic rounds.

A domestic shorthair cat with a mix of white and orange tabby fur sits on a coffee table, ears attentively forward and facing away from the camera. His tail is relaxed and curled slightly at the tip. He wears a rainbow collar to make him easier for birds to spot, as well as a locator tag.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 27/07/2025

This morning I had a Belgian waffle delivered for breakfast. It came with a side salad??? Anyway, I looked at the little container of maple syrup that came with the waffle and thought, "That's some odd looking syrup," as I poured. "Maybe a honey blend?" Curious, I cut and bit. It was vinaigrette.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 27/07/2025

Aw man, Tom Lehrer croaked at 97. (sing rickety-tickety-tin) I admired him tremendously: a dashing, wickedly intelligent, blue-blooded elitist with a scalpel-sharp wit and humor dark and cool enough to store wine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDE... /1

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Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 27/07/2025

I’m not really a part of American life anymore. But right now I would love few things more than to see the Black Panthers make a resurgence everywhere.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 27/07/2025

Total banger from a Cornell law/tech professor. 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

"I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice."

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 23/07/2025

Gad Beck is one of my personal heroes. His interview in the documentary film Paragraph 175 show a deeply human, powerfully alive man who kept hold of his joy. thenib.com/the-life-of-...

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The Life of Gad Beck: Gay. Jewish. Nazi Fighter. | The Nib

Gad was just ten when the Nazis seized power, and spent the war providing for Jews living underground in Berlin.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 22/07/2025

Having strong emotional reactions to a hyperlocal broken social compact seems out of scale to The Horrors™️, but it’s a set of events at a scale I can understand and act on.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 19/07/2025

“Listen here my good bitch” is going in the lexicon.

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