Post AqpFCC9upe1IEIMUSG by firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net
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 (DIR) Post #Aql4GH3mfwiqSbOe9Y by CaffeinatedBookDragon@nerdculture.de
       2025-02-02T16:02:58Z
       
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       @sterophonick When my dad passed, we didn't have a service, but a loose gathering where folks could drop in and leave if they had work or say a few words at the mic. He wasn't religious (indifferent to it at best) and I was agnostic, so getting some preacher who never met him to try and say a few words about him in a service was just not happening.Some of his work buddies from back in the day (and even some who barely knew him) were there using the funeral as an excuse to skip work (he would've approved because it was hot as hell in July and he'd climbed phone poles and dug ditches in that same heat for decades--hee hee).I just had them put The Dark Side of the Moon album on in the background on repeat til it was over, his fave album. Some solemnity & crying but the mood lightened over time. It was better than other funerals I'd been to that were so strict & solemn. Guess it was more of a memorial than a true funeral, but it worked out fine. He wasn't sentimental, anyway.
       
 (DIR) Post #AqpFCA0yntgRa0AKFU by hober@mastodon.social
       2025-02-04T20:32:20Z
       
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       @sterophonick @divya I wish Dan wasn’t such a transphobic piece of shit, though. https://xtramagazine.com/power/dan-savage-trans-twitter-signal-197375
       
 (DIR) Post #AqpFCC9upe1IEIMUSG by firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net
       2025-02-05T11:00:18Z
       
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       @hober @sterophonick @divya Thanks for calling out his transphobia.