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source: mastodon
date: 2024-07-12 16:26:30.19 +00
title: "Mastodon post from July 12, 2024, 112774453015211568"
post_uri: https://mastodon.social/users/gravely/statuses/112774453015211568
post_id: 112774453015211568
tags:
  - mastodon
---
would honestly prefer to give whoever needs it (this morning, an optometry office) a social security number equivalent and my public-persona handle rather than 1) the name I go by (which happens to be my middle name) and 2) my last name-including-how-to-spell-it, and then 3) disambiguating that from my full legal name, which has a different first name as well as a suffix

the full ritual as we perform it is too close to a cultural conflict and wildly inefficient. let me give you a guid