Jon Lasser is Hanging in there
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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there
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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 […]

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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 […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
October 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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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.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books

@bookstodon
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.
www.humblebundle.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
[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…
September 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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.
September 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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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
September 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
#budosband, live on stage at #bumbershoot. Killing it.
#livemusic #seattle
August 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
If you just can’t believe that you’re cleaning between your teeth effectively, is that imflosster syndrome?
August 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Apparently the things that make me feel alive are live music, Japanese denim, and wristwatches. Know thyself, I guess.
August 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Gonna bring back the expression “same difference.”
August 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Trying to figure out how to disable #Passkey support in #1password for Mac.
August 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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“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 […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
August 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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 […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
July 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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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.
to Jews, on the Gaza famine
an open letter: we have been commanded
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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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
July 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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💀 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 […]
Original post on epistolary.org
epistolary.org
July 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Woody Guthrie

"The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The gravy in Spain is sopped mainly by the plain.
July 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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 […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
June 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Where’s my Apple News button to report “this article is incoherent AI slop?”
June 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
[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.
June 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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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.
June 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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.
June 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Why is everything broken on the home network? Because someone at CenturyLink busted some DNS server somewhere so my DNS forwarder broke. Oh joy.
June 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM