Shirtless Jay

I'm Jay. I'm gay. I'm shirtless every day.

I work in and around #tech and play with #geek-y #gadgets

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Location: 🌞 Diego

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2025-04-04 19:00:21 UTC

I work with someone who, where us goofy Americans would probably use the phrase "you guys" or "you all," instead uses the phrase "you people." And while that's perfectly fine and obvs more inclusive than "you guys," it always sounds vaguely threatening when he says something like "you people are going to do this..." But he's like the least threatening person you could know, so it's like COMICALLY threatening when he says it 😄

2025-04-02 04:37:13 UTC

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I see you got some other recommendations for RØDE, and I am also a fan of their mics. While I don't have this particular model myself, I would look at their NT-USB+ mic that can plug directly into a phone for recording as long as your phone has a USB C port. If you have an older iPhone with Lightning, you'll need a different cable than what's included. The RØDE brand cable is model SC19.

2025-04-01 22:46:09 UTC

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It's ridiculous and amazing and ahead of its time. Probably because Ryan Murphy tried to do every idea in one show, lol. It ended too soon after only 2 seasons ☹️

2025-04-01 16:58:54 UTC

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Takes one to know one.

2025-04-01 16:42:57 UTC

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Himbo.

2025-03-31 23:18:28 UTC

My Jeep was hit while I was driving to work last July by a commercial box truck (his fault) and it entirely ripped off my passenger side rear fender flare and inner fender liner, plus cracked the side of the tail light (in addition to some body damage to the rear, but nothing that impacts any functionality). Anyway, I am just now getting around to ordering parts to fix shit so I won't be driving around with a missing fender flare if that tells you how life has been going, lol.

2025-03-31 19:53:04 UTC

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Eli will be along shortly to have your head

2025-03-31 19:24:43 UTC

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How long do you wait for it to cool because @npub18zh…jkrf makes us wait, I swear, a week*
* +/- 6 days

2025-03-31 02:08:52 UTC

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Eh, just the usual throwing of panties at guys over on the skeet site.

2025-03-31 02:07:44 UTC

I see y'all talking about the inaccuracy of the size of plane that would be flying into Palm Springs, but @npub18zh…jkrf over here just recovered from a minor stroke after them having the same persimmons sitting on the dining room table for seven episodes.

2025-03-31 01:58:16 UTC

As a self-proclaimed basic white gay, it still amazes me how much other white gays will absolutely lose their shit for the most basic ever of the basic white gays.

2025-03-31 00:56:46 UTC

I don't remember hearing/seeing "disappeared" being used as a transitive verb until the last, I dunno, few years or so? Maybe it's been a bit longer because our timeline hasn't really seemed since pre-2016. But even though I know it's not incorrect, it still just short circuits my brain a little ("they disappeared her...").

2025-03-29 23:36:19 UTC

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2025-03-29 18:31:28 UTC

Sigh... It bothers me that these X-Sense smoke detectors that seem like they would be a good fit for what I want are neither UL listed or ETL approved, so they haven't been tested by an independent third party. I would much rather spend more $$ to go with a brand that is ETL approved, so I guess I'm going to pre-order one of the First Alert Nest Protect replacements and see how that works. My current Nest Protects start expiring in August, the last of the five I have in use going out in October.

2025-03-29 14:42:45 UTC

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I don't see anything here about pancakes or waffles so I assume you must be against both.

2025-03-29 00:15:06 UTC

I know given the current state of things getting worse throughout the world that we are all riddled with anxiety and generally on edge, but fuck... the fedi has just felt extra condescending, dismissive and/or insulting lately.

2025-03-28 23:47:10 UTC

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I have seen those, but have not found them for sale in the US. I'm not sure if they are approved here?

2025-03-28 22:03:13 UTC

Ugh. I don't want WiFi smoke detectors. I don't want smoke detectors that require a separate hub. I want Zigbee or Z-Wave smoke detectors that can talk to each other and that also don't false alarm or generally act stupid as fuck. Such a thing does not seem to exist. So am I going to be stuck with these new First Alert overpriced WiFi ones, or the cheaper X-Sense that do WiFi but through their own hub? Each of which will require me to have another app on my phone. So stupid.

2025-03-28 15:05:15 UTC

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You'll end us all.

2025-03-26 01:44:50 UTC

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2025-03-26 01:23:35 UTC

There's an "accent challenge" going around Bluesky, I'm sure this is being used to train an AI somewhere on impersonating my voice. But I used to do a podcast and my voice is prob also everywhere from random videos so whatevs 😁
Aunt, route, wash, oil, theater, iron, salmon, caramel, fire, water, sure, data, ruin, crayon, toilet, New Orleans, pecan, both, again, probably, spitting image, Alabama, lawyer, coupon, mayonnaise, syrup, pajamas, caught.
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2025-03-25 21:51:04 UTC

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I can play washboard (abs)

2025-03-25 18:33:18 UTC

From bsky: "A himbo wearing glasses is called artificial intelligence."
Me: <checks notes> Accurate.
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2025-03-24 19:24:31 UTC

So many selfies to take, so little time.

2025-03-21 19:33:58 UTC

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah I have loved Chris Gorham since I first saw him in Ryan Murphy's first show Popular, and also how did I not know that Becky Newton is married to Chris Diamantopoulos who played my favorite character on Silcon Valley?!?!
https://youtu.be/CkGsUXa1zTc?si=bOc6ulBAL3aAWbTe

2025-03-19 02:55:21 UTC

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I love you to hate me

2025-03-19 02:23:13 UTC

When your 🧠 has just given up, but, protein, so this is dinner
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2025-03-19 01:29:14 UTC

Oh, shit, right... #TittyTuesday
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2025-03-14 01:28:36 UTC

Okay I'll stop now and just take off my pants or something.

2025-03-11 17:56:42 UTC

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Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyou errrr, I mean, sounds delicious but I'm totally fine over here with my tasty carbless protein shakes and air.

2025-03-11 01:48:41 UTC

Everyone likes a good 🍄, right?
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2025-03-03 19:02:35 UTC

Ffs I am so sick of the words "falsehood" and "gaslighting"

2025-03-03 18:04:09 UTC

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Yeah, so she is whomst, then? @npub1dwy…wjdu

2025-02-28 18:47:34 UTC

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You still get points for correctly referring to it as an initialism and not an acronym 😁

2025-02-27 19:36:06 UTC

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Lol, yeah, the first pair I looked at that were $6 I said to Eli "yeah, except my prescription prob won't fit in these" and sure as shit they would not. I just need a cheap af pair to wear mainly when I'm at my computer at home and the contacts are giving me a headache from switching eyes going between sides of my huge monitor, and then the smaller ones. I do monovision contacts, left eye for near, right for distance. Can be headache-inducing when at my multitude of screens.

2025-02-27 19:23:46 UTC

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Wow, really? I legit found a $6 pair of frames there that I like, but with my -4.25/-5.75 single-vision, basic, no-add-ons lenses, they are $115.95. There was a $20 off coupon, plus $7 shipping, so still a little pricier than Warby Parker's flat $95.

2025-02-27 18:55:46 UTC

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The was actually the first site I was looking at.

2025-02-27 16:52:32 UTC

Me in glasses for reference 🤓
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2025-02-27 16:36:15 UTC

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I mean, they're *all* fucking Luxottica at this point, right?

2025-02-27 16:35:13 UTC

Where do you all buy glasses from online? As much as I love my eye doc, the last time I bought glasses from his shop, the optician who so politely told me I had selected a pair of frames from a "more economical line" still ended up having me walk out of there spending over $800. I just need cheap and fast, really, since I'm majority contact lens wearer.

2025-02-25 21:21:12 UTC

I got one of these. I have no idea what I'm going to use it for. But it seemed like a nifty idea at the time when I clicked the buy button 😁
It's open source and you can host your own server to run it from, so there's that. For now I guess it'll show my Google calendar. Or grayscale dick pics. Ya know, whichever.
https://usetrmnl.com/

2025-02-23 18:25:52 UTC

I haven't shopped at Target in months and don't have any plans to, but I haven't bothered closing my Target card account, and I just got this fascinating email that says...
"The Target Circle™ Card account management system will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance period from March 11 at 11:00pm CT to March 18 at 12:00am CT."
They are taking the website down for an ENTIRE WEEK lol lolololol. Like what in the actual fuck?? And "you can call us for critical things but expect to wait..."

2025-02-23 18:11:06 UTC

Beat the absolute everfucking shit out of my chest and abs to where there's not even anything left to take a pic of.

2025-02-18 22:23:25 UTC

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write smaller

2025-02-17 16:57:34 UTC

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hmmmm, stuff's still working, guess I better try harder next time.
Have to regenerate my DigitalOcean Spaces storage access keys. I was looking at them and trying to understand why I would have created keys for each of my fediverse apps, but then given all the keys access to all of the storage buckets instead of just their own bucket. Until I just found out that DigitalOcean didn't allow per bucket access keys until last month, lol. And you can't just edit existing keys that have all access.

2025-02-17 16:50:22 UTC

brb, gotta go break some stuff

2025-02-15 18:21:30 UTC

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Only if @npub18zh…jkrf accompanies on the piano. And does the singing 🤣

2025-02-15 18:17:25 UTC

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(be glad I didn't sing this in a video like I was originally going to)

2025-02-15 16:54:01 UTC

Ugh, treadmill stomper just arrived at the gym.

2025-02-15 02:43:18 UTC

People on Reddit losing their shit 'cause Navy Fed was having issues this afternoon and when they called they were told "we are doing a system update" and they think a system update should have been better planned and kids... I have news for you: it's NEVER a "system update." That's always customer service speak for "our shit's down and we don't know why or when or even if it will be fixed."

2025-02-13 23:17:28 UTC

I bought this duct fan with a WiFi controller to help with a solution for us to get outside air circulating thru our place, and I plugged in the controller and was like WTF is the "AI" looking indicator in the corner, and then realized, oh it's probably just for "AC Infinity," the brand of this thing.
And then I realized this is actually an upgraded controller from what was pictured in what I ordered, and found out that the "AI" looking thing actually DOES mean "AI" and I can't even anymore...
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2025-02-11 05:10:35 UTC

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No, just our phalluses.

2025-02-08 22:40:19 UTC

Did you miss me?

2025-02-08 13:29:18 UTC

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Thanks for sharing. Yeah, I've actually been running WordPress with activitypub for a couple of years now, not that I'm really actively using it. WordPress--which I've used off and on for stuff for, ya know, ever--has always felt overkill and kinda bloated for what I probably need. And Matt Mullenweg at Automattic has seemingly gone off the deep end, which has left kind of a bad taste. So I've been thinking about another option, hopefully to get myself to use it more 😁

2025-02-08 02:21:39 UTC

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd now I'm down the rabbit hole of just moving our Mastodon instance from DigitalOcean to my own locally hosted box...

2025-02-07 23:00:07 UTC

I want to try out Ghost CMS but I'm struggling to see if they actually have any ActivityPub integration right now. It seems like it's still not a released thing? But maybe my search abilities are failing me.
Or maybe it doesn't even matter and I should just post links to blog posts here and not worry about a separate fediverse/activitypub address for the blog?
I'm looking to simplify/consolidate what I'm hosting for my "social media" / web presence. Ghost seems maybe better than WordPress.

2025-02-07 21:38:52 UTC

Every time I see a mention of Abracadabra, this gets stuck in my head...
https://youtu.be/tY8B0uQpwZs?si=vOahurMNzv6GGTbi

2025-02-07 20:23:27 UTC

We need a much bigger selection of WiFi-connected analog clocks in the world.

2025-01-26 20:17:37 UTC

Anyway, I mention this really only as a PSA to anyone else who might think they can still keep their same pricing if they are getting a workplace discount.
https://shirtless.gay/@jay/113896348989657846

2025-01-25 01:30:32 UTC

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The ones I think are really stupid are the ones that come across as mildly threatening like "Look, Jay, we need to make this meeting happen. What's stopping you from taking action now? You don't want this to be my last email."

2025-01-20 00:54:28 UTC

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Ooooooof. Here's hoping you're feeling better soon

2025-01-19 23:46:43 UTC

I have no idea what's going on anymore.
I mean, not that I ever really did, but still.
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2025-01-19 19:10:21 UTC

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Apparently. Eli's the TTer here, I only open it when he sends me something. So, ya know 60 or 70 times a day 😁

2025-01-19 18:32:46 UTC

Sooooo, TikTok is already back, eh?

2025-01-16 18:42:55 UTC

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Who's throwing themselves on my casket first?

2025-01-16 18:41:43 UTC

Literal tears streaming down my face from a combined sneezing/coughing fit is this it is this the end??

2025-01-15 22:57:47 UTC

I've never been a Proton user, but I know they are ("were" now?) very popular and recommended by a lot of folks. This is just nuts.
https://mstdn.social/@stux/113834592064665249

2025-01-15 18:08:51 UTC

Somewhere in there is a scruffy face, but all I get to see is the "GIVE ME BELLY RUBS" leg twitching.
https://shirtlessgay001.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/833/701/684/252/675/original/e66b631a937fc409.mp4

2025-01-15 15:59:36 UTC

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tbh you're probably better off

2025-01-03 19:05:34 UTC

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Also this sounds about how my day is going I just almost threw a paper towel on the counter and a bowl into the trash.

2024-12-02 21:46:41 UTC

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Wonder if I can get them in ones that say FUCK YOU tho... 🤔

2024-12-02 21:26:04 UTC

I, errrr, ummmm, might need these socks for, uhhhh, reasons.
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2024-12-02 19:54:57 UTC

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He was just trying to get your 🍆 to defy gravity, I say this is in bounds.

2024-11-30 20:07:08 UTC

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In other news, my Pixel 9 Pro XL arrived at Best Buy yesterday (a few days early) so I guess I should go pick that up today because I'm a glutton for punishment.

2024-11-30 20:05:40 UTC

It's just hilariously funny how it's been a month since Google fucked up something in the Google-owned Fitbit app that affects Google-branded Pixel phones on the updated version of the Google-developed Android OS.

2024-11-27 04:37:40 UTC

Me, to anyone who tries to ask me for anything at work tomorrow.
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2024-11-26 21:47:21 UTC

An advent calendar but behind each door is one of these
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2024-11-26 19:11:44 UTC

When you've had an old computer that you need to recycle in storage for so long...
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2024-11-26 18:57:17 UTC

Feel like I need to go outside and touch grass except this is San Diego and there is no grass. Also that would mean going outside and ewwwww people.

2024-11-26 18:40:38 UTC

Chatting with someone about how I only had 5 TV channels as a kid because we didn't have cable and now thinking back on that compared to the 327 different streaming services you have to subscribe to today I wonder if back then wasn't the better option.

2024-11-26 02:31:23 UTC

Just saw a local guy on Bluesky who I knew I recognized and he was someone who was an IG follower long ago but he got weird up in my DMs and that's all I can really remember and I REALLY need to start keeping a file of who I hate and why on a floppy disk or something.

2024-11-26 01:09:41 UTC

Ah, yes, the ripe old age of 46 where you're excited for your delivery of rechargeable batteries.

2024-11-24 21:57:37 UTC

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I'm curious to try Tenergy because they are higher capacity than the Eneloops and I have a couple of things that use C batteries that I'm using AA with adapters in and would like them to last a little longer if possible. I might just need to buy some Tenergy and see how they compare.

2024-11-24 21:23:09 UTC

Does anyone have a favorite brand of AA/AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries these days? Used to be Eneloop was the best, and the original Amazon brand seemed the same as Eneloop. Then Amazon changed manufacturers and sucks now. Then IKEA LADDA were maybe as good as Eneloop, but now I'm reading that Tenergy might be the best overall in terms of highest capacity and also retaining their charge. Amazon batteries seem awful in actually retaining a charge these days.

2024-11-21 03:24:23 UTC

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Oh wait forgot I work from home Fridays so here's the dress code
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2024-11-21 03:19:59 UTC

New casual Friday look just arrived
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2024-11-19 02:03:52 UTC

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What, no spare laptop to use as an umbrella?

2024-11-18 22:26:33 UTC

Was up at 4am and went to the gym so I could be back and showered before a 7am meeting that got canceled 6 minutes before, which honestly I fully expected, but now it's not even 2:30 and I'm feelin a hot mess.

2024-11-04 23:55:46 UTC

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for real though, might have to dress him up in a whole ensemble
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2024-10-15 01:37:08 UTC

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If only.... It's for a work thing.

2024-09-16 21:31:38 UTC

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Of course OBS is always an option, but also seems like a lot for just trying to record video.

2024-09-16 21:30:47 UTC

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I used some basic-ass website to do this recording and it kinda made the audio sound like shit but whatevs. Still need to figure out a "permanent" solution for recording with the webcam on Windows. The Camera app that ships with 11 always resets my Razer Kiyo Pro Ultra's settings to default when it opens, which is super fucking annoying and makes it useless. I could use Wirecast, but that seems overkill for basic video recording and I use that on Eli's piano PC and only have 1 license...

2024-09-16 20:56:15 UTC

Still playing with the Elgato Prompter software to see if it will work as a replacement for Promptsmart. And what's the point in playing if I don't share?
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2024-09-12 18:47:09 UTC

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Well, the solution to not sinning your pants is to just not wear pants, of course

2024-09-12 18:19:10 UTC

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I have looked at those and they are *really* nice. I'm trying to decide what my priorities even are for a smartwatch anymore.

2024-09-12 18:10:44 UTC

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Fitbit just keeps getting worse and I don't even know if I care about having that app in my life anymore. Maybe Samsung Health is good enough, or I could just use MyFitnessPal. Samsung is kinda stupid though in that you need like three separate apps on your phone to work with their watches. But it IS pretty!

2024-09-12 18:09:05 UTC

I have always been a fan of big, chunky, metal watches (small wrists be damned!), and really hate the Pixel watch design. The only reason I switched from a Samsung Galaxy Watch Classic to Pixel Watch was because I could stop double-wristing with a Fitbit on my right hand. Also, being able to use data from my Google Fi plan on the LTE models and not having a separate line with T-Mo was a bonus. But I can do that with newer Samsung Watches now. And I like how the new Galaxy Watch Ultra looks...

2024-09-12 17:55:02 UTC

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The "norm" back then in the early 2000s in middle america, land of whitebread gays was still very anti-body hair. You never saw any gay who had more than a slight wafting of chest hair shirtless. So many more shaved and waxed and chests back then compared to now.

2024-09-12 17:40:29 UTC

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In my 20s I once had a stranger walk up to me in a crowded gay club and say "If you want someone to eat your ass, first you have to shave your ass" and walk away. And while I was, of course, shirtless, I was not pantsless so they had no idea what the current state of my ass hair situation was.

2024-09-09 21:24:14 UTC

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It's funny because I HATE getting text messages. I would rather get an email, so I have disabled any kind of text notifications wherever possible. Anyone I need to communicate with we use WhatsApp, generally. It's just my family who texts, really