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   Black Aziz Anansi :vm: (blackazizanansi@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 11:50:28 JST Black Aziz Anansi :vm:

   Drop one of your family secrets.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 11:50:28 JST Tim Chambers

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     @BlackAzizAnansi One of my great great great uncles was a drunken murderer - "desperado" in the old West and was rounded up and killed by a town posse in a somewhat fiery shootout. It was dramatic enough an ending for my Uncle that it made the papers in New York which my family genology work later discovered.

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     Lee Fife (colo_lee@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 01:06:33 JST Lee Fife

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     @BlackAzizAnansi My father's older sister, Aunt Jo, who lived with us all thru my childhood was actually my grandmother and his mother, as well as being his sister.

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     Spike :donor: (spike@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 01:07:55 JST Spike :donor:

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     @BlackAzizAnansi my mother had a sister, older than her, who ran away from home at age 18. Nobody had seen or heard from her since. My generation often wondered about her, but then we found out that she was extremely abusive towards her siblings, a bit of a sadist, and the reason nobody talked about her was that she was so reviled everyone was relieved when she finally ran away.

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     Holly A. Gultiano (axoaxonic@synapse.cafe)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 01:09:58 JST Holly A. Gultiano

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     @BlackAzizAnansi Not really a secret just sad and nobody talks about it. My aunt kidnapped my grandma who was in late stage dementia, to manipulate her into leaving her inheritance to my aunt. Nobody knew where they were hiding until someone in the family hired a PI. When they were tracked down, the PI was met at the edge of the property by someone brandishing a gun, and the investigation ended there. My mom didn't know her mom had passed away until years after it happened

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 01:55:26 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @BlackAzizAnansi My grandpa was in jail because he helped someone get an abortion before they were legalized

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:15:57 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @Jaden3 @BlackAzizAnansi It was in the 60s, East Germany legalized it in 1972 (by legislation, not by Supreme Court decision like in the US in 1973).

     The US is going back in time so hard right now …

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     Jaden (jaden3@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 02:16:00 JST Jaden

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     @GreenSkyOverMe @BlackAzizAnansi this country is fkd when yall get jailed for that!

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     Fits of Pique (fitsofpique@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 06:46:28 JST Fits of Pique

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     @Peternimmo @StillIRise1963 @katmckatniss @BlackAzizAnansi Or it might just be sold to a police department or insurance company...

     Commercial DNA tests are a textbook example of data value disparities. For the purchaser (subject) they solve - at best - curiosity. For the owners of the data, they provide a non-fungible, exploitable, profitable data source - for generations of your family. Your progeny don't ever get to consent to have their DNA used against them.

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     Peter Nimmo (peternimmo@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 06:46:29 JST Peter Nimmo

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     • StillIRise1963

     @StillIRise1963 @katmckatniss @BlackAzizAnansi quite right. It might leak

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 06:46:31 JST StillIRise1963

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     @katmckatniss I want to, but I'm not giving my DNA to a corporation.
     @BlackAzizAnansi

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     Kat (katmckatniss@glammr.us)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 06:46:32 JST Kat

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     @StillIRise1963 @BlackAzizAnansi I wonder if you did an ancestry test if it would narrow it down.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 06:46:34 JST StillIRise1963

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     @BlackAzizAnansi My great grandmother wouldn't tell her son, my grandfather, who his dad was. He asked her on her deathbed, and she wouldn't tell him. She then died. So, I don't know what my real last name is.🤷🏾♀️

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 06:47:36 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Fits of Pique

     @FitsofPique @Peternimmo @StillIRise1963 @katmckatniss @BlackAzizAnansi In my TL earlier today, from @paul_ipv6, who is not going nearly as far out on a limb here as people might think:
     https://infosec.exchange/@paul_ipv6/111694324924183546

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 06:55:36 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Fits of Pique

     @StillIRise1963 @FitsofPique @Peternimmo @katmckatniss @BlackAzizAnansi @paul_ipv6 Absolutely not. And it’s worth pointing out that race is a cultural invention, and doesn’t even exist in genetics — but I have zero confidence that there isn’t somebody stupid and/or monstrous enough to try it anyway if given the chance.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 06:55:38 JST StillIRise1963

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     @inthehands At this stage of the game, nothing is going far out on a limb.
     @FitsofPique @Peternimmo @katmckatniss @BlackAzizAnansi @paul_ipv6

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 07:07:50 JST Madeleine Morris

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     @inthehands @StillIRise1963 @FitsofPique @Peternimmo @katmckatniss @BlackAzizAnansi @paul_ipv6 I think we have arrived at a point in history where it is wise to assume abuse and cruelty from corporations other power brokers.

     That race is a cultural construction doesn't stop it from being a political tool used to target and other a convenient scapegoat in pursuit of power.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 07:09:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @Remittancegirl
     Magnificently said.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 07:32:02 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Madeleine Morris

     @Remittancegirl Maybe, but I’m also honest! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 07:32:03 JST Madeleine Morris

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands you’re very kind.

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     Ether Diver (etherdiver@ravenation.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 22:15:03 JST Ether Diver

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     @BlackAzizAnansi my uncle got friend of his pregnant. Didn't want a child, so he just told her it was her problem. She had the baby, *stayed friends with my uncle* and everyone just decided to not say anything. This girl grew up knowing *nothing* about her dad... Even though she knew him very well as a friend of her mother's.

     Obviously she found out, but not until she was a whole ass adult. And, in a completely unsurprising turn of events, she was righteously and royally fucking pissed off.

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     Ether Diver (etherdiver@ravenation.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 22:16:24 JST Ether Diver

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     @BlackAzizAnansi When my dad is feeling talkative, which is not often, he'll casually mention his involvement in a handful of war crimes...