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Good morning CoSo 💛

Happy Birthday to this amazing place and wonderful community!

So grateful to be here with you ☕️🌻🫖

#CoSoBirthday

Just in case anyone is obtuse enough to be 'both-sides'-ing or treating this whole business as if it's even vaguely normal, here's T****'s nominee to lead the most powerful military in world history in all his neo-Christofascist glory.

#ThisIsNotADrill

DO IT

Tell the journalists about CoSo ❤️

#democracy2024 #journalism #CoSoRocks

Tell us: have you migrated between social media platforms recently?

We would like to hear from people who have recently switched social media platforms about their reasons why

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/tell-us-have-you-migrated-between-social-media-platforms-recently

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden winter light show! Simply delightful! Tomight was free for those of us who volunteer there. 😊

#politics

For anyone who wants to say that the Rs want to drag us back to the Nineteenth Century, let's remember that smallpox vaccinations started in 1796, so...

Do you know why you won't find a 'DO NOT SELL MY INFORMATION' option anywhere here on COSO?

Because that's our default state. And you can't opt out of it.

https://counter.social/privacy.html

Co-creator of BASIC programming language died at 96 today. #CosoTech
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/technology/thomas-kurtz-dead.html

I donated... to the #CoSoFamily
Can you?

Sources say due to mail in & provisional ballots just counted in the past 24 hours one Harris County, Texas judicial race will flip: Now Democrat Perdue will win 133rd district court by 774 votes over GOP Landrum. #Houston

The article below goes on to state that originally 10 judicial races looked as though they flipped to the GOP, but that the revised count dwindles that to 9. https://thetexan.news/judicial/harris-county-judicial-race-flips-back-to-democrat-after-last-minute-overseas-and-provisional-ballots/article_1831970a-a38a-11ef-b2a2-0b935b48e9b3.html

#Art

Jeffrey Gibson Opens a Portal in Two-Spirit Tribute at MASS MoCA

Andy Battaglia

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/jeffrey-gibson-mass-moca-two-spirit-1234724018/

#politics

"Senate leader John Thune said today that there are not enough votes to pass a recess, which would have allowed Trump's appointments to take their post without a hearing.

So Gaetz, and the others will have to go in front of committees and be grilled."

GOOD!

One of these things is not like the other 🤔

@Pat_Walrond

This my goto for that

@disk4mat @CinnamonGirlE

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

"While pundits have busied themselves over the past 10 days nitpicking Kamala Harris’s campaign, one thing is abundantly clear: She was held to the highest standards of leadership while Trump was held to no standard at all."

A beautiful Full Moon. Perfect for a simple rite. Unfortunately one of the photos posted on its side.

Appropriate.

#politics This is what we live with. This is why the voters want anti-establishment/outsider candidates. This is why the Dems, perceived/labeled as insider elites lost, in spite of all the good that the Biden administration achieved. Now, the GOP somehow operating simultaneously as flunkies of the oligarchs yet positioning themselves as outsiders is a psy-op that would have made any KGB or CIA spook jealous.

Over the years, in my “welcome new folks” posts, I have often referred to CoSo as an oasis in the soc med desert.

It’s not hyperbole or an exaggeration—the beauty, importance and value grows as the malignant shadows of politics creep wider.

Even if you’re not into the “woo-woo” of community and #CoSoLove this platform exceeds all others when it comes to overall integrity, features, & user safety.

I’m so grateful for J’s hard work and all the people who show up to make this home.

#gratitude

#Truth

not politics. at all.