dfjdejulio.bsky.social
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Well, if your cats are like our cats, beards can give an unfair advantage in these situations.
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(I'm usually better than that. I totally buy into the whole intersectional idea.)
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(Sorry. I should rather say it only works for people who inherit a Y chromosome, of which "cis male" is the most common but not only example.)
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That said, even without having kids, I do enjoy being six uncles (his uncle and her uncle and...), and my wife enjoys being six aunties.
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Our current cats:
bsky.app/profile/dfjd...
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Alas, it only really works properly for guys.
(And my wife and I have cats instead of kids.)
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A little later, I fulfilled my *dad's* dying wish (reconciling with my sister). I half-joke that I've fulfilled the dying wishes of two parents already, and I'm only half way through the set. If you don't laugh, you'll cry.
(Cancer in both cases, and now I've been battling two different cancers.)
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We became friends. I regret that I didn't get to know her until I found out she had cancer. Wanted to let her know giving me up gave me a good life while there was still time. We didn't have much time knowing each other, but I actually fulfilled her dying wish.
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Stopped calling my birth mother my X chromosome donor once we got in contact. She was actually really, really cool. Told me stories about doing clinic escorts and really getting under the skin of the conservative protestors.
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You're reminding me that sometimes people refer to some guy who I never knew as my "real" father, and it's always made me see red. No. I *know* my REAL father.
When I was a teenager I started calling the other fellow my Y chromosome donor.
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And I gotta say, the way my parents taught me about everything, I couldn't even *imagine* shame. Like, hey you kids who *weren't* adopted, you cannot actually know your parents wanted you. You can't trust that. It was impossible for me to have *any* doubt. I felt *superior*. At, like, seven!
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I know a bunch because I was an early adopter for DNA testing, because I was sick of answering "any family history of heart disease?" with "damned if I know!".
Through accidents and coincidences, this eventually put me in contact with my birth mother. Learned a ton.
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(*Mine* run off a small box in my basement that pull data from spinning oxidized metal, mind you, but I concede that many out there do.)
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Sure are!
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I'll admit that I'm curious what music a hippie chick and a med student might have been listening to in 1967...
It's bizarre. I was conceived before the Loving decision, but born after it. I have no idea if it would have applied... I'm half hispanic (Cuban), half random white lady.
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I've got to try photoshopping that cutie mark into a hammer and sickle.
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😃
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Wasn't this cut from @scalzi.com's recent novel?
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I would absolutely wear that shirt, if my wife wasn't constantly making me even more flamboyant ones.
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I'm guessing not, but if you want to suggest *how* I'm wrong, go ahead.
But before you do, I might mention that I have an actual old-school 80s-style machine room in my basement, and buisness-class fiber.
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I bet it's not exactly the same thing, but I've known I was adopted since I could talk, and I've been telling everyone around me the details for as long as I can remember.
(Did eventually find and become friends with my birth-mother briefly. Still don't even know my Y chromosome donor's name.)
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Huh. Maybe I should finally break down and give the original a try.
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...and yes, I fully understand that this is basically the modern version of one of those insufferable "I don't even own a TV" assholes. I'm still amused.
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I'm amused that I don't typically use a single thing shown in that picture.
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(If you see photos of me in *extremely* loud collared shirts, that's the fault of @lizardincrimson.bsky.social.)
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Fair.
My grandparents lived through the depression with small children, and this got *deeply* ingrained on my "silent gen" dad, and some of it rubbed off on me. So there are times when I penny pinch.
(On top of that my wife has a degree in essentially textile design, so, homemade clothing…)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOR...
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Hm... I'm not sure I know any LGBTQ+ folks who *don't* follow politics at this moment in time. (Of course, there may be some who aren't out to me.)
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Half Cuban / Spanish descent by blood here! (Found out when I got in touch with my birth mother.)
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Is that the exact opposite of an OF model?
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Oh my god, my wife and I have eaten way too many bundt cakes since the local grubhub started delivering them.
We always polish them off in one sitting. (To be fair, though, they're small single-serving cakes. To be unfair, we typically order four at a time.)
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the thyroid they had to take out of me wasn't encrusted with sugar. They biopsied it, and I even have a photograph of it that I asked the surgeon to take for me. Lumpy grossly asymmetrical tumorous meat, no sugar.
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Damn you for getting a Beach Boys song stuck in my head.
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I have my suspicions that Pinky and Billy ended up having pretty decent lives.
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I'll bring the whale oil and spackle.
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Yeah, I grew up in NYC, and I get it.
But hey, at least it's not Texas or the south.
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It's like one step towards "This Alien Shore" in a way.
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Oh my god, that's fucking awesome.
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Had to lube it up to stick his own head in there *somehow*...
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On that one, I'd say it *is* slightly higher up on the list when it's your own instead of someone else's.
(We have cats.)
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In all seriousness, we're fond of aluminum little-league sized baseball bats for home defense.
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We bought a pair of similar things like a decade ago from "woot". Haven't regretted it.