I ❤️ everything about this image.

Voting is compulsory here, and the polling places are usually public school or church halls, so they seize on the opportunity to make a few $ by selling 'Democracy Sausages' to the voters.

These kids are being introduced to democracy in precisely the right way: an overcooked sausage on a single slice of the cheapest white bread - because that maximises the profits for the school P&C - served on a bit of paper towel.

Makes me proud to be Australian 😊

#Vote

It's been a long time since 1987, but this is still one of the most outstanding posters ever made.

#CoSoGuitar

On my way to do my democratic duty and vote in the local council election.

Even though this is just about the lowest stakes election an election can be since the Liberal Party - which is, confusingly, the conservative one here - forgot to register any candidates 😂, I love voting.

Every time I walk to the polling place, I can’t help thinking about all the people who bled so I have the right to vote. I owe them.

#Vote

Oh really? Really?!?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/world/europe/pope-us-election-abortion-immigration.html

Well, I reckon that dude should back all the way up and mind his own friggin business for a change. He's got a lot of utterly despicable stuff going on in his own house. For example:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/03/ireland-to-set-up-inquiry-into-sexual-abuse-at-schools-run-by-religious-orders

Smashing Pumpkins : Bullet with butterfly wings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDz8DLMWOM

#CosoMusic

BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs"
Live 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6SGoN6dA

#CosoMusic

X-Pensive Winos - Take It So Hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqyq6_lNu3o

#CosoMusic

X Pensive Winos - Happy
(Live 1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crvYuMMJcOk

#CosoMusic

Rolling Stones - Salt Of The Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06f6et66NQ

#CosoMusic

Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwtyn-L-2gQ

#CosoMusic

Beck - Loser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE

#CosoMusic

👏 🙌 👏

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/sep/12/mikel-arteta-agrees-new-contract-as-arsenal-manager-to-2027

#Football ⚽ #Gooners

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/12/ig-nobel-prize-goes-to-team-who-found-mammals-can-breathe-through-anuses

Meryl is so good on this.

Lions For Lambs

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0891527/

This is much more important film than I thought it’d be.

Not least the politics.

But the scenes in which Meryl Streep plays against Tom Cruise. And the gravitas of Robert Redford.

#CosoMovies

Same, TBH.