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"

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sup I’m a fox

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

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-...

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.

Nerdy drag king name: Colonel Primitive

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

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

I’m honored, I guess.

Bursting at the seams, feeling fine.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

/facepalm, but clever

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

It really is. 🥰

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

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.

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.

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.

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

@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

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".

I don't have a LinkedIn account anymore because it was forcibly shut down months ago for "failing to pass identity verification", which is shorthand for transphobia.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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-...

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.

Foul-mouthed urban botany. I’m charmed! youtu.be/vvtqKMxZ95s

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

No makeup, no filter. Amazing how happiness beautifies.

Scenes from a day in Victoria: Local butcher: I wish I was like you Butcher: Pretty Butcher: Serving c*nt twenty four seven Local game shop owner, a woman: Your titties are getting huge Owner: I noticed when you came in Owner: They're blowing up For a sleepy government town this place is thirsty.

Succulent bloomed at dawn, by sunset she’ll be gone.

Death Stranding 2 has turned me into a horrible Jawa, wandering the wastes and scavenging other people's vehicles for their meager supply of spare parts.