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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Welcome to my actual childhood. As someone pointed out in the comments on the original post: every “tiger mom” or dad already knows this. The guy ain’t “cracked” shit, but he’s articulated something parents will pay for. The downside? Being called a “gutless wonder” by Dad when, at 12 …

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Don’t mistake me for too much of a cinephile, the other one I wish there was a good GIF for is “2010” … not a fair-comparison sequel to “2001” but in other respects a minor classic IMHO. I suspect such an opinion is niche at best.

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a black and white photo of a man smoking a cigarette .

Alt: a black and white photo of a man smoking a cigarette .

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

“You just died. The sixth photo in your phone gallery is what killed you.” What, sixth from the beginning, or the end? HA! Either way they’re both selfies because I am Extremely Self-Involved. Guess I’ll be the death of me yet!

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This time last year I was dealing with back pain and heading for even worse, so let's hear it for 'discovering that walking helped keep the lower back limber while I slowly strengthened back up'. Today my left leg is VERY unhappy with how much walking I've done this week, so ...

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Merry Solstice! The Eight Magi (one King, two Saints, three bears, a Russian hooker, and a Duck) are pleased to visit the Baby Worf. They bring gold-pressed latinum, frankincense, and gagh. The Yule Bush looks on approvingly.

Various figurines cluster in a secular pop-culture echo of the visit of the three wise men to Bethlehem.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I’m feeling nostalgic for “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” with Vanessa Williams as the titular aging-pop-star. Her Marley was Marley Jacobs, played by Chilli, as a deceased member of the girl group she started in. Her Christmas Future was a “Behind The Music“ episode noting her sad death. 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣 Brill!

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I don’t think that anyone has ever deliberately paid me to waste time before getting down to business. Therefore, it’s not procrastination. It’s amateur AF, and I hate that for myself. I have put down the keyboard and am on my way to CVS for those scripts. Don’t @ me, dictating this while I walk.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I have a prescription to pick up later this morning and I already know I am going to peruse the holiday aisle AGAIN, tempting myself with Ghirardelli chocolates and with the idea of buying one of the white Santa dolls and one of the black ones and setting them up as bear boyfriends.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’m sloooowly lifting heavier again, but honey … let me also tell you who has hugely improved her single-leg balance and coordination this past year. It’s me. I am her. I like making improvements. Even small ones. Whole body strength say what?

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’ll say it again: there was absolutely nothing wrong with Brandy, it’s just that the sailor she fell for, like his pals who said her eyes could steal a sailor from the sea, was gay. They were all building her up, so when she finally fell for a straight sailor, she wouldn’t take any shit.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Pictures of the twinkly lights are a bit clearer once it’s also after dawn (though cloudy). I’m in a comfy chair … someone strike me with the soft pillows!

Bearded man in comfy chair with cloudy dawn light coming through a window, and tiny white lights framing said window.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

That thing where: A) You’re experienced/old/wise/broken enough to know that “maxing out” means your first rep with poor form and struggle, NOT “could rep more with bad form and injury risk.” B) You remember to set up for each rep to maintain decent form. C) You know not to check recent workouts

Bearded man smiling from his weight bench because things are going well.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

One time I was in bed with this really hot guy and he was doing Dom stuff and tying me up and I was giving “yes Sir” eagerly and whatnot … … and after 20-30 minutes of this being The Hottest Thing Ever, I heard myself and him and just started inwardly chuckling at us REALLY loudly. But inwardly …

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Oh Snap! Cold snap! Today’s weather in Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

There should be a drag queen named Voilà Davis. Preferably a beautiful Afro-French queen.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The 1970s were complicated. Queer liberation was gathering steam, but honesty carried high prices. When a popular cartoon actor came out, he lost his gig as the spokestoon for a brand of children’s breakfast cereal. Fortunately he was a multi-talented performer and pivoted to success in … 🧵

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

There’s vests one puts on in hopes of finding someone to engage in mock-punishment with. Then there are the vests which, in themselves, constitute mild punishment.

Man standing in home gym wearing a weighted vest.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If you see this, I IMPLODE you to post a photo from whatever device you’re using without explanation

Photo of various swag from a local coffee shop.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Insert a movie into another movie: “How Green Was My Valley Of The Dolls”

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My top artists streamed this year: Haydn Voyager VOLA Caligula’s Horse Ihlo Vulkan Leprous Devin Townsend Kyros Djinn and Miskatonic Baroque metalhead? I used to be solidly synthpop/post-punk/alternative. 😇

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We need a club: Gay Cassandras who TOLD YOU this would happen but did you listen? No you did not. (Actually being gay not required, just a brain to see trouble a light year off, a mouth willing to speak, and the resilience to be told “it’s so gay/stupid/whatever of you to worry about this” …

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A tough read if this was an era you lived through yourself, but also a loving one.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I couldn’t love this any more. I love it 3000.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Smacking demons, as long as they're behind me.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I am a stranger in this space I will remember and erase You

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I have an acquaintance from fitness stuff who is married to a woman and monogamous. He ALSO came out as pansexual a few years back. The kind of guy who went to late-night Rocky Horror events for years dressing as Rocky and eventually realized "Hey wait: I mean it." His OF content got dissed as ...

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

We have two “step stools” in the kitchen. One is that formed-plastic kind that you can roll around. One is an old thrifted thing from probably the 1960s. Neither has very large steps and the old one is currently home to one of Mrs Hubby’s many potted plants wintering inside …

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

“Having a ‘trigger’ but not giving into it.” Example: Ten years ago a friend died in a house fire because the candles she and her beau had going torched the drapes. Today: OF stud with latest in series of ”here’s me with candles all around and flammable bedding”. Me: ugh, but not time to rant.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Good test of our new siding and insulation: temperature got below freezing last night, bedroom was chilly when I woke up … someone had accidentally set the thermostat VERY low. In fact we had only cooled down a little overnight. (My room is not directly heated).

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

My three-week interlude in Seattle and Tacoma during and after my brother's death featured an unsurprising amount of undesired weight gain. I got myself to the gym every couple of days, but even a good unfamiliar gym can throw off a routine, and I wasn't going to be strict about diet. 🧵

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I’ve wished my brother and his family a happy holiday. I’m trying not to think too much about what it’s like the first year without Uncle Steve. At least me not being there is normal. I’m sorry I keep talking about this. Sometimes it’s just hard. I lay down for a nap and I’m crying.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Oops I’m still banging on about food. When I was in the service one time, my mother visited and it happened to be a weekend my unit had a weekend picnic. My mother chuckled quietly to me about the “fruit salad” that was fruit from a can, jello, and marshmellows. I wasn’t yet the snarkmeister

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This is a perfect introduction to the next thing I wanted to say about weird cultural foods and holiday traditions. Listen: a LOT of terrible American food was generated in the mid-20th century for the specific purpose of reducing women's kitchen labor. I expect that was true elsewhere as well.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Here’s my opinion about bizarre cuisines from around the world: if you grew up on them and associate them with family, friends, and good times, there’s probably a reason you like them. And it’s rather daft to get in someone else’s face about how awful they are. Story time ….

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

One of the most typical-bro things about me is probably how much I enjoy the sight of a nice pair of tits in a top that reveals a bit of cleavage. Including my own. 🤣

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Thanksgiving Week in the US is just when Decorative Gourd Season yield to Decorative Evergreen Season, more or less gracefully, the transition mediated by the blood sacrifice of a large usually-flight-averse bird or some hogs, amid copious starches and sweets. Sports TV and family rows optional.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Aesthetic-Minded English Man, circa 1740: "I'm reading Richardson's epistolary series for the beautiful words." Others at the party: "Bro, novels are for girls with nothing on their minds." "Nobody reads that except to find out if the employer ever nails the servant girl. What're you smoking?"

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Just before waking this morning, I dreamed I was in a high school or college course where we were doing a collaborative project to list all the things one might need to do to prepare a garden for growing things. We started off well, but after a couple of insights each, my two teammates slacked. 🧵

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Seems as if fantasy goes through phases where certain styles of title get really popular. “The Noun of Placename” was big for a long time. Sword/Shannara, Mists/Avalon. Etc. Lately it’s “A Noun of Nouns” or ”A Noun of Nouns And Nouns”. Game/Thrones, Song/Ice/Fire and many Spinoffs and Knockoffs.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Falling asleep some nights I remember holding his hand as he paused between breaths trying to get enough to keep speaking. His hand gripping mine back. Seeing his fingers and toes going blue. The last time I kissed him, on his forehead, as we left the hospital.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

And you just don’t get it You keep it copacetic And you learn to accept it You know it’s so pathetic youtu.be/E2Oe5YKhzCE?...

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Trash can bags with scent. I appreciate the idea, but I’m too sensitive to these kinds of smells. Always have been.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Marley: “You will be visited by three spirits …” Me: Weird four-way, but all right.

Kevin Matchstick, Duck Dodgers, Worf.
Figurines on a shelf.

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Pete. That's it. Mostly. @grampafitness.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Udo Lady Miss Kier Dullea Gone Tomorrow. My brain been repeating that since last night. Soz. RIP to a beloved actor regardless.

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