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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there

@disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy
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Writer, Shy Nerd. #ClarionWest 2016 aka #TeamArsenic. Bi. I probably talk a lot about food, music, technology, writing, and my #LungCancer. Codex, SFWA […] [bridged from wandering.shop/@disappearinjon on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025
Obituaries for Jon recompose.life/obituary/jonathan-th… locusmag.com/2025/09/jon-lasser-197… www.clarionwest.org/2025/09/25/in-m…
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Jonathan Thomas Lasser | Obituary | Recompose
November 10, 1975 – September 23, 2025 Jonathan Thomas Lasser passed away on Tuesday September 23rd, less than two months shy of his 50th birthday. The death occurred peacefully, in bed, following a six year battle with stage four lung cancer. Born in New York in 1975, educated in Baltimore, Jon truly found a home ... Read more
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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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viq @viq.social.hackerspace.pl.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025
In case anyone needs reminding, the #Murderbot #book bundle is available for two more days, and you can adjust how much of the money goes to the charity. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-w… @bookstodon
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
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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 · 31/08/2025
#BudosBand, live on stage at #Bumbershoot. Killing it. #LiveMusic #Seattle
Nine folks on stage with guitar, keyboard, drums, and horns.
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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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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
Trying to figure out how to disable #Passkey support in #1Password for Mac.
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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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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025
This whole thread is fun: @sarahtaber mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/1149318…
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Sarah Taber (@sarahtaber@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts. Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible? Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1257
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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 undead @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 · 02/07/2025
The gravy in Spain is sopped mainly by the plain.
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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 · 24/06/2025
@bruces people who think Lazarus Long’s enumerating what a person should be able to do was too short and not specific enough.
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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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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025
@gwensnyder.bsky.social sometimes I discover that apparently I dreamed a fact! And then there’s one incorrect fact my brain won’t let go of, from a lyric by a band performing a cover where they got the original lyric wrong—but my brain is incorrectly convinced that it’s true, because it should be.
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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 · 18/06/2025
@skinnylatte back in the day, on alt.sysadmin.recovery, we distinguished between an fpos and point-of-sale systems. Which was funny because so many POS systems were FPOSes as well.
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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 · 16/06/2025
@NicoleJLeBoeuf Not the first people who confused the confines of slavery with a lack of intellectual or emotional life. But definitely distressing that people are eliding this distinction in 2025.
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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
@xgranade That would be so great but also (alas!) historically unprecedented.
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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025
@claytoncubitt.bsky.social @jwz I feel like they’re *collaborating*, not competing, to maximize evil nerd dipshittery.
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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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CaringBridge
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
Also is plince a thing? Maybe there’s a Clown Plince of Clime, too, if there is.
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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
@bluespruce Read both of those, but absolutely on-the-money suggestions, thanks!
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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025
@icastico Yup. Read it years ago—it’s great!
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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025
@jendefer I liked Infomocracy and its sequels.
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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025
@jendefer Oh! I’ve liked her other books so that’s a great suggestion!
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