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Jasper Corydon
@JasperCorydon@mastoart.social
mastodon 4.7.3For what are we born if not to aid one another?
- Ernest Hemingway
He/Him
Spouse/parent
WI->NYC
SWE->DevSecOps
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Joined November 25, 2025
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Cover art for my upcoming novel, Anglers—blue on green silhouette tilted back with a white fish for a brain
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Finger lake, near the Adirondacks
Base camp from last week.
#WritersCoffeeClub July 18. Talk about how a work progressed from its initial inspiration. How different was it in the end?
In early 2025, I felt anxiety over whether they'd start rounding up all of us lefties. So I did what any self-respecting cybersecurity expert would do: I filled my journal with threat models and mitigations. What if it's no longer safe in our home? City? Country?
The first half of ANGLERS was based on my very real escape plans. It still is. The questions haven't changed
Underwater Basket-Weaving
Please enjoy these toe-beans, free of charge
Nursery Rime of the Ancient Mariner
#WordWeavers July 18. What is your MC’s favourite family tradition?
Fishing! This is how Hank bonds with his dad and brother. It's what he misses most when they're apart.
It shows up in the title, ANGLERS, and in the cover (my avatar and pinned post).
Jane Eyre Guitar
What a Swan-derful World
Toot Uncommon
The Squarrel can square any number in the blink of an eye
Jane Does can also turn into tractors
Pledge of Tomorrow
Top Glue Gun
Barns & Nobles
Replying to
@oz@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
In the US, your best bet to pay off those medical bills is to hit it big on polymarket.
Mallard Day's Night
Replying to
@BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden
People link success<=>suffering, in other areas, too.
I suspect it's because great effort is often exerted in pursuit of success. But great effort can also cause suffering in the form of exhaustion. So...
Effort -> success
...and also...
Effort -> suffering
But there's no reason the opposite is true. That is...
Suffering !-> effort -> success
Therefore, suffering does not cause success, and that's a mathematical fact.
Q.E.D.
Replying to
@RickiTarr@beige.party This one got me :/
I mean, if they're so bad then why are they promoted by NordVPN?
Uh oh.
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@dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz
Two shakes of a clam's tail.
... or something. Idk, I'm not a marine biologist.