Wordless Wednesday: October 19th, 2022
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I wanted to write a longer post here, but…
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I have had an ear infection for a few days now (that I continue to get as an adult for… some reason, more than likely owing to how small my Eustachian tubes continue to be), and it has not gotten any better, so I feel like going to urgent care is not only the preferable thing to do but the necessary thing to do in this case. I haven’t been able to hear out of my left ear for a few days now because of how “clogged” and “stuffed” it feels, and this is usually something that quickly improves. It is not doing so in this case. There is also pain to be had with this ear, and since that pain is not only not going away but is causing me to need to take pain medication for it, I think it needs to be seen. I don’t want to be put on oral steroids for this unless there is absolutely no way around that, because my body can no longer tolerate prednisone like it used to and the side effects — more like adverse effects in this case — have become absolutely unbearable. (For instance, I frequently get full-blown fevers from “therapeutic” prednisone usage, and I do not like this at all. Not a bit.)
Maybe when I’m feeling better I’ll begin writing those posts that I’d intended to begun writing about sooner.
Before I forget to post in more detail about this…
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I’ve been tinkering around in GEDmatch because I’ve heard a lot of good things about using the website, even if it’s not always the easiest to understand. It is technical, so I’m going to need to break it down here.
In addition, I’ve been tinkering around with Genomelink, and I’m really interested with the results that they’ve given my 23andMe and Ancestry files (I always use the Ancestry ones for this sort of thing so that the same set of DNA is measured and quantified). I’ll post that picture in a bit, and some of the more detailed pictures describing my European heritage… I just don’t want to saturate my blog with a whole lot of screenshots and posts about those screenshots, but I do want to incorporate my findings in some way. Almost all of it corroborates what I’ve learned from previous tests, but certain trace DNA is more consistently coming up on these tests that was not and probably would not come up on Ancestry and 23andMe because those testing companies have become some of the least accurate that I have had the… pleasure of doing business with. As much as I like their family-finding features, their ethnicity estimates have not been accurate when it comes to me at all, and they become increasingly less accurate with each subsequent update and I hate it.
I’ve been tinkering around some in GEDmatch!
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This has confirmed some things for me, and it’s revealed some others that… aren’t too surprising given what I know about my ethnicity and family history. I’ll be extrapolating more on those in subsequent posts as I have the time to do so. I’ve gotten better at reading the results that most of these tests give me by doing research that I hope to share here, even though most of this is still a work in progress (and might always be).
What you see is exactly what you get here.
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I got a few pictures of Bub snuggling his blanket on the couch watching one of his favorite channels.
White supremacists in my state are unhinged.
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Someone began to lose it at me leaving comments on my governor’s Facebook page, claiming that you “can be racist against white people” when this is historically not possible due to the power that white people have held over decades. They also began screaming at me when they found out that I’m just not that attracted to white men, making it increasingly clearer with each comment they left how racist they are and how unhinged they are. Sadly, this is a common enough occurrence when attempting to participate in any political discourse regarding my state. We have a lot of gang members (over 100,000 at last “census”, and this isn’t frequently studied because elected officials would just as soon pretend that this has never been a problem than actually deal with it), and we have a lot of racists as well as white supremacists. Most of the Republicans in this state are actually white supremacists, even though elected officials would try as hard as they could to prevent people from talking about that if they think they can pick up enough minority votes to win an election. One day, I’d like to leave this state, costly as that might become… but I think we will all be the better for it. I won’t have to worry about politicians aggressively attempting to legislate a religion into law that I don’t agree with and will not raise my children to abide by, and we’ll be exposed to a lot less racism in just about every other state. Of those states, I like some of them more than others, but… come on.