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   Tilton Raccoon (tilton@furry.engineer)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 06:58:17 JST Tilton Raccoon

   Imagine a parallel universe where you come from a culture that has never heard of Halloween, you have absolutely no concept of it, and then you see this

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 06:58:16 JST kaia

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     all very logical. please have a look at my article 'Veneration of the Death in Human Earth Culture' in Proceedings in Human Studies (PiHS 2023-09, First published: 23 September 2023)
     
     ... This clearly points to ancestor reverence with religious practices, e.g. putting up fake skeletons of deceased relatives, wearing death masks and death-related costumes. The candy given to children to remind them that their life force was given by the elder...
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:54:31 JST iced depresso

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     @tilton :blobcatgendou: wonderful a necromancy supply store
     
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     Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 17:44:45 JST Paul_IPv6

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     @tilton

     if they put this at the checkout stand, i'd just assume it meant they understaffed registers, like usual. ;)