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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

I'm sad to write that Jon Lasser passed away on September 23, 2025 after six years living with cancer. I'm writing as his partner of 21 years, and wanted to make sure that I posted in the places he specified in his wishes. His colleagues are working on an anthology of his stories, and he still […]

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

[Death, Ha Ha Only Serious] Having feelings about the fact that I’m gonna die before completing my personal USB-C transition. I won’t even for a moment experience that glorious single-connector world…

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

I’m now the proud renter of fixed and portable oxygen concentrators. Nobody told me that in the future I’d need to become my own specialist in cable management.

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Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

Now that California, Oregon, and Washington have a vaccine alliance, let's take it farther. Le'ts create a universal health care alliance. Let's build a high-speed rail corridor from Bellingham to San Diego. #Pacifica

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

If you just can’t believe that you’re cleaning between your teeth effectively, is that imflosster syndrome?

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

Apparently the things that make me feel alive are live music, Japanese denim, and wristwatches. Know thyself, I guess.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025

Gonna bring back the expression “same difference.”

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The Icarian @theicarian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025

“Because anyone who is perceived as Latino or African, wherever they are at a Home Depot, at a court hearing, out gardening, picking up their kids or at a restaurant in suburban Johnson County can be set upon by armed thugs, armed gunmen in masks, dragged into a van and disappeared. My friends […]

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

Seattle Worldcon 2025 Plans I'm very excited to say that I'm scheduled to be a panelist at Worldcon 2025 here in Seattle in just a few weeks. I don't recall for certain, but I believe it's the first Worldcon where I'll be on programming. (Alas, given my health, it may also be the last such […]

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

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to Jews, on the Gaza famine

an open letter: we have been commanded

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

And just keep in mind, when immuno-compromised folks talk about their strategies for avoiding infection... are literally talking about how they are ALREADY shut out of the public sphere. And these asshole whiners are mad to have to READ that on THE INTERNET

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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

💀 Everything you need to know about cyber charter schools can be summed up in this lede. Extractive venture capital meets grade school and children are LITERALLY DYING without the social supports we take for granted from having trusted non-parent adults in their lives. Spotlight PA: "HARRISBURG […]

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

So this might be too niche, or the answer may just be no, but it occurred to me: a lot of metal walking canes with designs on them are essentially printed wraps applied at the factory. My searching hasn’t turned up anyone who will print up a custom wrap design for canes. Is this a thing, or […]

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2025

Where’s my Apple News button to report “this article is incoherent AI slop?”

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2025

[Poop Humor] Me: Ah, [child] sounds like they’re done in the bathroom. Before he goes back, guess I’ll slide into my BMs. … Me: I regret saying that.

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Jennifer 🍄 @jenyetagain.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

do not under any circumstances give a librarian your true name, accept a gift from it (especially food or drink) and for god's sake never stray from the path in a library.

a placard on a library counter reads "your true name can be correct on your library card"

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

When are Certain People going to justify their right to drive enormous honking trucks using the Second Amendment? Because after all, they are deadly weapons.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

Why is everything broken on the home network? Because someone at CenturyLink busted some DNS server somewhere so my DNS forwarder broke. Oh joy.

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skry @skry.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

“Perhaps most harrowing…was the footage filmed by an assembly line worker who wore a hidden camera…chatting up colleagues, virtually all of whom said they would never allow their family members to fly one of the planes [#Boeing] was producing... "she had asked a boss if he would let his […]

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

Reveling in the absolute privilege that, given my cancer-riddled flesh has dropped several inches from my waistline, I was able to shop locally and buy a pair of very well-fitting Japanese denim jeans in a summer weight. It’s stupid, but quality jeans fitting right make me happy.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

My Blu-Ray drive doesn't want to rip Murder She Wrote season 9, and in fact spits out the discs while attempting to find a filesystem on them or whatever. Wondered if my MakeMKV version is out of date but their site is down. Frustrating as this show is the best at helping me fall asleep.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2025

Friend came over to help review art to be framed. Haven’t seen many of these pieces since we purchased them years ago. Relieved to confirm that we had good taste even back then.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025

I’m a bit sad that “Wrench Attack” has supplanted “Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis” as the term of art, but such is the power of XKCD.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025

I should be too mature to find it funny that Apple is rumored to be announcing something called ”HomeOS” during pride month. Gonna blame the pain meds.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025

When I was in school, I was taught that one of the most important research techniques is to follow the citations and backtrack toward the original work. Now, apparently, it's also one of the best AI detectors.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025

Cancer update is at www.caringbridge.org/site/b72d474c-… -- long story short we're hoping for new study drugs, and there's a couple of other rocks to look under, but things are not looking up.

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Help ensure no one goes through a health journey alone.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025

Business I might patronize on the name alone, if it existed: Food Lover’s Warehouse.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

We all know The Joker is the Clown Prince of Crime, but which oil exec is the Clown Prince of Clime?

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

Absolutely adoring Ken Liu’s translation of the Tao Te Ching. Trying to limit myself to small sips. My days collecting hard copies of books are mostly over, I suspect, but I might need this one.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

40 Years ago today, the Philadelphia Police Department used a helicopter to firebomb the headquarters of MOVE, a radical collective that was being evicted for what amounted to building code violations. Eleven people died (including five children). The fire eventually spread and completely burned […]

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Since I don't miss a chance to tell you how great A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is, I'll not ethe most recent main episode again mentioned that first, as far as we know recorded use of the word “woke” is its now-embarrassing context came from Huddie Ledbetter. 500songs.com/podcast/song...

[Excerpt: Huddie Ledbetter, “The Scottsboro Boys”]

That recording incidentally includes the clip I posted at the end of episode two of this miniseries, which is as far as anyone is aware the first recorded use of the word “woke” in the modern African-American Vernacular English sense where it means “aware of systemic racism”

[Excerpt: Huddie Ledbetter, “The Scottsboro Boys”]

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

My reader brain is liking Becky Chambers (Spacefarers and Monk&Robot), Arkady Martine, Marina Lostetter (Noumenon series). What else should I try soon? #books #SciFi #SpaceOpera #HardSF

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

The overlap between what I want to eat and what gets delivered in god condition is not great. Nor the overlap between my brain’s insistence on pre-pandemic pricing and actual prices.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2025

With yesterday’s probably-shitty cancer news I suppose I’m allowed to lie about all day today. Finding it hard to do anything.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

I hear there’s gonna be an improv show set in the Star Wars universe. It’s called “Yes, Andor.”

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025

New Story Day: The Other River I've waited so long to say this, but The Other River is now available to read for free at Lightspeed. There's also an author spotlight, though since that interview I've left my job to focus on my health. Almost anything else I have to say about the story is in […]

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

Slate changed their CSS and now article text is all bold in Safari. This is absolutely obnoxious and they should fix it.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

Maybe this point on my health journey is not an auspicious moment to try switching text editors. Or learning another programming language.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2025

The Wall Street Journal reports that tech company employees relocating to Texas and environs are learning to dress cowboy. Which is great, because if anyone can sour Americans on sexist, racist cowboy cosplay (and the attendant oversized trucks), these bros can. For once, “everything they […]

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025

Hanging out on that hairy edge between “treatment not working, I’m gonna die soon” and “but the next experimental treatment might work. Or maybe one after that.”

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025

Did fuck-all today. After yesterday’s health news I’m allowed a day or even three to mope. But I did teach the 10-year-old how to play Lode Runner.

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025

[CW: Cancer Update] Latest chemo/immunotherapy drugs clearly not working. Next step is a clinical trial drug that shows improvements in roughly 40% of the early phase 1 patients. Getting our ducks in a row for that.

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Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: @vees.epistolary.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025

It is May 11, 2005. You power on your temporal quantum computer. C-SPAN is playing in the background as the REAL ID act is signed into law. The harmonic matrix hums as it picks up the audio and the CRT lights up with the inexplicable string "REAL ID Act will begin enforcement in the second […]

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