junho @junho@witches.town

#tricking friends
#proselytize
#convert friends
#relationship help
How do I convince my gaming group that we should buy Twilight Imperium and spend a day playing it?

@guerrillarain YES. My partner's wife and I sometimes watch bad old movies for laughs and one night were were watching one of the original 70s "aliens built the pyramids" documentary. We were having fun mocking it for not being able to tell a flower from a rocket ship when suddenly it says that the aliens were perfect nordic white people from space, that white people on Earth are their descendants and superior to native earth humans. We were so disgusted we just shut up and turned off the movie.

actually the thing about mastodon that keeps hitting me is that it's a return to the governance model of the internet of the 90s, which is the "local dictator", with a single admin or a small mod team who are the sole owners and operators of a site. and like, oh right, anybody who's only used, say, twitter and facebook and youtube and tumblr and myspace and so forth and so on would have had absolutely no exposure to, because all major social media platforms online for the past ten years or so have been huge corporate monoliths (or wannabe huge corporate monoliths). getting mad at brad on livejournal was a very different thing than getting mad at jack on twitter or david karp on tumblr, because lj was brad's site in a way that was very different from jack being CEO of twitter

This may be an unpopular opinion, idk, but blaming technology and accomplishments of ancient cultures on aliens is... kinda sorta hella racist.

Me: #Pokemon metagaming is toxic and frustrating. People should be able to enjoy the game without obsessing over poorly explained game mechanics.

Also me: Look at this horrible Pokemon. It doesn't even have a metagame niche or a gimmick moveset, how pitiful. *Rides away on my perfect IV Mega Altaria*

The means of memorisation must be seized and distributed.
#periodicalreminder

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Going to write about this. Already got a working title. "Her Name is Natalie".

Yesterday, I attended a funeral of a trans girl in my circles who committed suicide. Little did we know that we were walking into a setup.

Beforehand, my friends (that I made on Mastodon) were assured that the ceremony would be respectful and they would respect Natalie's wishes of having a funeral with her name and image intact.

Obviously, that wasn't the case. She was placed in her casket not only wearing a suit, but also her face wearing makeup to make her more masculine. She was also wearing a hat that covered her hair.

We were absolutely livid. We wanted to get to the bottom of this, so all of us went to the funeral home director and started to speak with him, at first he started to say that it was the parents who wanted to it done that way, but something didn't add up as he went on about the laws about a woman living and dying in Washington with a legal name change, but how their hands were tied in California.

BULL FUCKING SHIT!

You see, the ordinary person would not know of what loopholes to exploit to say that California law would have the next of kin decide how to have the funeral done, but at the same time, ignore the 2014 California law that mandates that any funeral of a trans person in California must be used using the names and pronoun the deceased has used. The funeral home is complicit with not only disrespecting Natalie, but also desecrating her body. We are planning to fight this loophole in court. We have made contact with Lambda Legal and the whole transgender community is behind us 100% to make sure that this must not happen again.

@bunnylyn yeah...
I was expecting that at the very least we could all kinda group together at the funeral and remember her together even if we were the only ones that really knew her as Natalie.

But they didn't even hold a funeral for the woman I knew. They tried to pretend the last few years never even happened.

Hey does anybody recognize this pin?
It was natalie's and I'd like to know where its from.

*gathers everyone up and offers hugs and coffee* ​ ​

I hope you were able to find a way to have Natalie's memory respected more than what her parents have offered her.

You know, the thing I can't help but notice is that the funeral director was aware of us. Prepared for it. Was ready for us.
He was less sympathetic than any other official we talked to about the subject. Her parents pushed hard to get her deadname on the death certificate. We were lied to about the name.

They went to a transphobic funeral home. Deliberately. With malice.

And that weasel of an asshole was happy to help her.

@Ulfra_Wolfe I do not say this lightly;

People like this? They do not deserve closure for their child's death.

Not until they fucking own up to being a part of it, then to pissing on their memory afterwards, ripping apart everything that person fought so hard to achieve.

I cannot 'forgive' people who not only don't make amends, but retreat /even further/ in the direction of hate & bigotry.

The deaths that result *should* gnaw at them at night.

They're burying Natalie under her dead name