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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Death toll from earthquake in Turkey and Syria climbs past 3,400 after Turkey updates figures.

@HumorHasIt i am sorry you had that happen. It would have rattled me for sure.

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@KazzyH and I am sorry you had to lose your dad to it as well.

@KazzyH that seems to be a common occurrence. My friend had 6 weeks from diagnosis to death. She used the time amazingly well, but the speed of it takes your breath away.

It's been a rough week. Lots of annoying little (sometimes expensive) things, but the worst part of it was my best friend passed away yesterday morning after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. I knew it was coming and likely this week based on conversations with her earlier in the week, but it still devastated me. All cancer is bad news, but pancreatic cancer is incredibly vicious and swift.

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You think this is bad, wait until these morons, including the folks the media is inexplicably labeling as “moderates,” try and hold the full, faith, and credit of the United States hostage later in this year.

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What we are seeing is the way the fucking INSANE @GOP can't even work with each other.
How on EARTH can they work for America, which is, definitionally, a diverse continuum of political positions?
@GOP is absolutely, irretrievably broken.

@MallyDaKatt you must be in my local area (coastal Pacific northwest). We had our power out for 6 hours yesterday and are bracing for it again today with the high winds forecasted.

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General Staff: Russian forces shell over 65 settlements in on Christmas Day.

Russian troops shelled Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, over 10 times with MLRS and shelled 25 settlements in the region, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Dec. 25.

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"Data of 400 Million Twitter users up for sale. A threat actor is claiming they have obtained data of 400,000,000 Twitter users and is offering it for sale."

I've checked the samples he posted on breached.vc - it looks legit.

securityaffairs.co/wordpress/1

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- Within the last few minutes Twitter is no longer allowing posts that contain links to counter.social in them. And get this - is flagging them as 'potentially harmful' - that's some fucked up shit. Bordering on slanderous misinformation.

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Live happening now: President Biden hosts a ceremony on the South Lawn to sign the Respect for Marriage Act.

youtu.be/sIGAp2GPwCI

Had to do a post office run today (package needed mailing and I needed holiday stamps for Christmas cards). Glad I masked up before going in because they had about 25 of us in a small closed area standing in a line that doubled back and forth and only two of us were masked up - and several people were obviously having respiratory infection problems. Yikes. If the package wasn't going to my BFF who recently was diagnosed with cancer... I probably would have just left.

@th3j35t3r This is actually the ONE place I have been in where I have NOT had a barrage of DMs from creepy men. So, she must have been on a different dimension here than I have been. Now Tribel .... THAT was a bombardment of really creepy contacts. Seriously. It's why I use an avatar of a Stardew Valley character instead of a real picture because it reduces that kind of stuff (doesn't stop it though sadly).

Have spent the day getting to some items on my "be an adult and get these things done" list. Productive day but now I am ready to indulge my inner child for the rest of the day doing stuff that just makes me happy.

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CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.