SusannaKearsley
writer • time traveller • professional procrastinator • respecter of readers • settler on lands of the Anishinabek Nation • she/her
Joined Oct 2022
This. Always This:
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
- Elie Wiesel, in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1986
SusannaKearsley
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I've been on Twitter since the beginning, and I've watched it turn into a cesspool of hate, propaganda, abuse, and bigotry. They can save it, but their failed leadership refuses to act. So I've looked for lots of alternatives, and counter.social is the first one I'm actually optimistic about. Thank you, @th3j35t3r for building this.
Spent last night watching a KISS documentary and it reminded me a) How much I like Paul Stanley, and b) That the best writing advice often comes from songwriters:
“In pursuing people who don’t like you, you forsake the people who are with you and the other people could care less, so you lose everything.” - Paul Stanley
In other words, write for the readers who love you back, and stop trying to impress the ones for whom you’ll never be enough.
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Everything you post, every interaction you engage in, is a vote and a model for the kind of community you want to be in.
Don't replicate the things that you came here to get away from. Create something new and better.
SusannaKearsley
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Just a friendly note for all the NEW USERS: CoSo isn't based on acquiring followers & getting stats. There's no algorithm pushing popular stuff, or monetizing "influencers" because of ad revenue.
Instead, follow who you want to see, or pin tags/users to your columns so you have topics to enjoy. The ⭐ & 🔁 buttons just tell someone you liked their post, or that you think it has a message that bears repeating.
It's not a performance; it's people. BE YOUR OWN ALGORITHM.
🖖🌿💚
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Hot take incoming:
I feel our society would be an immensely more pleasant place if every single person (if physically / mentally able, of course) was required before age 25 to spend six months working in retail, six months working in customer service, and a full year working in food service.
Not just to gain empathy for the folks working in those fields, but also to gain a fundamental understanding of how those businesses operate and what are and are not reasonable expectations as a consumer.
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Ye's Twitter account appears to be no longer suspended on Friday morning as Elon Musk takes the helm of the company.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-28/ye-s-twitter-account-appears-to-be-no-longer-suspended
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Welcome new folks!
As you get oriented to CoSo, please
Be patient--it takes a while to learn the platform. Lots of helpers with experience to guide you, if you let them.
Be curious--tinkering and trying is a great way to familiarize yourself
Be kind--we are a unique community, not into follower counts or performative cruelty
Be authentic--use the tools to make this good for you
You are SAFE, free from manipulation or tracking--that is a gift.
💛
Me: So, in this next scene you guys are going to put your differences aside and discuss how you're going to work together.
Hero: Got it.
Heroine: Sure.
Me: Because it's going to be a really long road trip, and--
Hero: Totally.
Heroine: Understood.
Me: *Sits down at computer. Opens #wip. Types first line...*
#amwriting #cosowriters
Good morning, everyone! In the user guide, there are "Samples of How Your CoSo Desktop Can Look" that include an option with black text on a white background (and starry blue night sky wallpaper) but I can't figure out how to switch to that. Can anyone help me?
Just another refugee from Twitter. Thanks for making space for us ❤️
SusannaKearsley
writer • time traveller • professional procrastinator • respecter of readers • settler on lands of the Anishinabek Nation • she/her
Joined Oct 2022