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Casey Peel
@gairdeachas@mastodon.social
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I’m a gay nerdy tech guy living with my husband Daniel (@datasaurus@mastodon.social) in Seattle, WA.
I enjoy #lifting, #running, throwing #pottery, #baking, and reading #SFF.
I'm the defacto lead dev and a sysadmin at Distributed Proofreaders (pgdp.net), the largest contributor of public domain ebooks to Project Gutenberg. Currently doing contract work for PG.
I post about random tech stuff, queer stuff, books, and CW'd post-workout flex pics under #gairdyFlex.
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Joined October 28, 2022
At the bus stop with @datasaurus@mastodon.social on the way to the airport.
As they say*: we're going on an adventure!
* Which should strike fear into anyone who has read Children of Ruin.
Drinks in the gayborhood!
Sweet baby jeebus we made it. I've been up for 20h and I'm dying. Siesta time.
Who wore it better at Park Güell?
@jonobie@social.coop in 2014 or @datasaurus@mastodon.social in 2026?
The answer is that the throne looks great on both queens 💅
Big travel coming up so I've made sure my emergency documents are up-to-date and my emergency contacts have access to them.
And now that I'm over-prepared everything will be Just Fine with the trip.
Old laptop battery has been taken to the household hazardous waste drop off.
Ballots dropped off in the neighborhood ballot box (at the library, of course).
Last load of laundry has been done.
Aquarium filter has been cleaned (yesterday) and water change completed (today).
I'm getting ever closer to being ready for the trip.
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Happy Pride from @datasaurus@mastodon.social and RainBro Brite!
#Pride
Post-workout pic
One way to weather a heat advisory day is to spend it with @ibwatson@mstdn.party at the gay nude beach.
Time to remind all #Seattle and #KingCounty book lovers that the two library systems have a reciprocity agreement and you can check out books from *both* libraries if you live in either service area!
In addition, both SPL and KCLS have reciprocity agreements with other regional libraries, including Sno-Isle, Tacoma, and many more.
https://www.spl.org/using-the-library/get-started/get-started-in-english/en-get-started-with-a-library-card/en-library-card-application/reciprocal-agreements
https://kcls.org/interlocal-agreements/
If you are in WA but outside of the Seattle Library's area, they also offer a 1-year paid membership.
#libraries
Last workout before Spain. And a great one to end it on as everything felt good and I got a really solid lift in.
Now you all get a break from #gairdyFlex posts for a while.
With apologies to the one person who said no on the poll, here's Twink Casey from June 2011 vs Now Casey. Amazing what 15 years will do.
Goddess I miss that luscious head of hair, but I wouldn't trade who I am today for it. It's funny how much I hated my body back then -- brains are so stupid.
The number of times I've said "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest*" to myself while bussing through downtown is incalculable.
* This is a mnemonic device to remember the order of the streets in downtown Seattle, south to north, which start with these letters.
Made it downtown to coffee with a friend via bus and managed to tap back on the return bus within the 2h transfer window thereby saving a whole $3.
Please don't follow me for more ways to save money.
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Hey Fedi, in the spirit of "be the algorithm you want to see in the world", I've started a new project to show you hot men on the Fediverse: @HotMenOfMasto@mastodon.social
This new account is consensually boosting -- not posting -- SFW selfies of masc-presenting, real users here on the Fedi. It's a curated account by me, not a bot, and I have a delightfully broad definition of what I find hot as a gay man.
Slowly adding new pics as I get consent. (Some of my mutuals need to check their DMs 😉)
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Thank you all for this huge list of suggested gay male artists singing songs with lyrics about men!
I've already found several new favorites and downloaded albums from a handful of artists for exploring on the plane ride.
Will me creating this to-do list increase or decrease my stress? 🤷♂️
Sure gonna feel good to mark them off though.
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@TallestJJ@infosec.exchange @otfrom@functional.cafe @jvschrag@hachyderm.io
For some definition of "cozy" here are my best queer cozy SFF picks from my #queerBooksForPride lists:
Legends & Latte - Travis Baldree
Teller of Small Fortunes – Julie Leong
The Keeper of Magical Things – Julie Leong
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street – Natasha Pulley
Murder by Memory – Olivia Waite
The Cybernetic Tea Shop – Meredith Katz
A Pslam for the Wild Built – Becky Chambers
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
My new chest routine is kicking my butt and I LOVE IT. Not yet managing to hit all my reps for all sets at the weight I want but I can tell I'm getting closer every workout.
Now to hone in on that whole eating thing...
If you're a gay man on IG, it's good at showing you hot men -- for some definition of hot. On the fedi that's much harder and I would argue is one of the real but stupid reasons it's harder to get the gays off IG.
Following tags is not practical because many tags have been taken over by the NFSW "content curators" who are posting other people's content -- which is why I don't use any in my selfies.
But there's a way to do curation: dedicated boost accounts.
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For inside air quality on the cheap + quiet, @datasaurus@mastodon.social and I highly recommend the units from https://www.cleanairkits.com/
We have several of their 5-fan luggables and they are always running and dead quiet. They use off-the-shelf filters you can buy at any US hardware store -- you just replace them once or twice a year. The DIY kits are very easy to assemble.
I know this is too little too late for some of y'all dealing with #wildfire #smoke but hopefully it will help someone!
Last night I went to underwear night at CCs Seattle for the first time. It felt like a much younger crowd than Lumberyard. Only saw a couple of guys that I knew -- collectively we were probably the oldest people there. Which, fine, I'll be the older furry muscle daddy if I must.
Probably not going again as it just wasn't quite the vibe I was looking for coupled with the location being more effort to get to than I want.
No regrets going though -- I'll never know until I try!
Tried to increase the weight on barbell squats a bit too much too soon but ramped it back down and finished my full workout so I'm going to call that good. Increased the weight on my travelling lunges to 100lbs -- 110 is clearly achievable next session.
Overall a really good leg day.
Goddess I hate shield surfing.
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@otfrom@functional.cafe
If you'd like a short list of cozy queer SFF I can probably drum up a set pretty easily from my queer books for Pride lists (but maybe not a very long set of cozy queer SF to be fair).
@jvschrag@hachyderm.io
I've also been using Kagi for my search engine for over a year and have found it has been absolutely worth paying for.
I get relevant search results without ads or AI bullshit. Even better, I'm able to customize what sites I want results prioritized from (ie: Wikipedia, the small web) and what sites to never show me (Meta-owned properties, pinterest, etc).
The old adage applies here: if you aren't paying for something, you are the product.
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This is the fourth year I've done this and I do not repeat books so you can find 90 other queer books on my blog under https://kence.org/tag/queerbooksforpride/ -- this year's will be there starting in July.
In the past year I've also read a handful of queer books that weren't for me and didn't make my list -- but they might be for you! I'll have one follow-up post in July that includes those too.
You can find many of these great books in your public library!
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈
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Queer books for pride update by the numbers:
25 post drafts already written
3 books need posts written about them
2 books need to be found and read
The book I just started may or may not make the cut. I can't decide if the protagonist getting a blowjob in the first chapter is a good or bad sign 😂
Post-workout flex pic
>Let's say you suddenly come into ownership of a teleportation device. You can be anywhere at any time.
> Where do you spend _most_ of your time?
Someplace sunny with blue skies as I manage another overcast day here in Seattle. Probably at various points on the Mediterranean. The food, and the men, are sublime in Greece and Italy and Spain, for instance.
Core workout today was really solid. Bonus: no one nonconsensually filmed me and told me about it.
No pic because it's just a furry torso with some obliques. I love eating and carbs way too much to have visible abs.
ZMODEM is _only_ 40 years old? OMG, I didn't realize it was so new when I started using it.
What, next you're going to tell me that Kermit is only 45 years old?
... WAIT ...
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> What's your favorite dessert flavor?
Oh, um, is "sweet" a flavor? I enjoy most all of the typical dessert flavors -- chocolate, cinnamon, coconut, nutella, etc -- and not sure I have a favorite.
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@DriftlessRoots@toot.community @jvschrag@hachyderm.io @TallestJJ@infosec.exchange @otfrom@functional.cafe
You're welcome! You can find a whole lot more queer SFF books at https://kence.org/tag/queerbooksforpride/ (most are SFF, but not all of them) -- I post a book-a-day for Pride in recent years and collect them there.
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@ytetic@4bear.com That may be, but BS can die in a fire for all I care for corp-owned social media.
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@jonobie@social.coop
I'm a big Agatha Christie fan and quite enjoyed her Mysterious Affair at Styles.
Ditto The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Both available from @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
I realize this is tech privilege, but OpenVPN + basic VM in Hetzner = cheap VPN under your control, right?
It's been a hot minute since I set up OpenVPN but IIRC it was easy.
Guess I'll test this theory out on Monday.
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@ramiro@xoxo.zone You're looking great! I can see the work in your delts, bis, and tris!
Sorry to hear you've been dealing with anxiety and in a poor head-space. I've been in a not-great-headspace for about a week now and hate it. I hope yours get better soon!
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@aphyr@woof.group OMFG I didn't even know this option _existed_ -- and for 5 years!? 🤯
/me slams that feature on so hard the trackball shudders
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@profounddark@dice.camp it's equally possible Daddy Bear Casey is in my future at some point!
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@ramiro@xoxo.zone BF% down to 15% is amazing - congratulations! 🤯
My bathroom scale is, shall we say, not very accurate for BF% but mine is nowhere near yours. I keep meaning to get a dexa scan to get an accurate measure as a datapoint.