Pretty Sure the dumbest thing I ever did was think anonymous was cool. Yeah had some fun and some laughs but probably could have used my skills in a better way. Live and Learn. 👻

Matt Gaetz facing 'wave of indictments' in sex trafficking case: legal expert.
#Politics
https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-child-trafficking-2658258161/

Everything must go! That includes the chairs, the desks, and wait...even the coffee maker?

It seems that Twitter's San Francisco HQ is having a liquidation sale and is auctioning everything. According to a posting on the Heritage Global Partners website

https://bid.hgpauction.com/auctions/8421/herita10194

there's been a lot of fat shaming of santa in the feed tonight.

listen up, peeps. santa is chubby & jolly. & we like him just fine that way.

think about it. an anemic santa. a stick santa. a svelte santa would just not fill out the suit like we expect. there would be no softness to lean into when we're giving him hugs & asking for gifts.

nopity nope nope.

he's fat by design. he's fat b/c we like him that way.

stop w/ the fat shaming already. he's lovable just as he is, thank you very much.

Have some Tom Waits.

https://youtu.be/hvFyt2kmrZk

New Yorkers protesting Steve bannon tonight as he arrived in NYC

Just deactivated my Twitter account. I’ll miss the various accounts that I followed for various types of news, but Musk has turned the platform into a POS and I’m not even talking about the toxic shit.

@jenebene
One day last summer, I was walking home, very pooped and I saw something that perked me up. This guy was out walking his tortoise. Leisurely stroll. He just hung out while the tortoise munched on the grass before moving on… about 6 inches. Made my day.

@DyDave Hooray! Welcome back to society 😀

@kwarizmi
Ah. I know how that feels. I dodged it until MY BIRTHDAY last July when my fabulous life partner brought it home. He pick it up the virus at a Negotiations workshop with a bunch of lawyers. My birthday party was canceled 😞

#Caturday #CatsofCoSo Tooey says Hi!

#News

At the root of the big ‘Twitter files’ hype from Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk is… a Steve Bannon disinformation op. Check out and share this must-read investigation from
Mother Jones reporter
dfriedman33

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/hunter-biden-laptop-bannon-guo-musk/

Just wondering… how many regular users are on CoSo these days? What’s the growth rate? Sorry. I’m curious and I like stats 😊

@holon42 Great! Thanks!

I was at an academic conference a while back and a very confident gentleman in the audience asked a question of the presenter. The presenter was a smallish woman, big glasses, she researched and wrote on sociology of science. I thought she was brilliant. The guy asked, very forcefully, "But what was your METHODOLOGY??" She responded, "Reading. And thinking."

@jenebene I saw the guy one time after that. Apparently, he was fairly well known in the neighborhood. Lovely turtle, too.

@grapho Related: I found an article on the origins of Great Replacement "theory" that may interest you: https://www.resetdoc.org/story/the-poisonous-roots-of-the-great-replacement-theory/

New research looks at the effects of repeated Covid infections and finds pretty much what you would expect: you not only do not get any kind of superimmunity, you increase your risk of long-term consequences, hospitalization and death.

The worse news is that this holds true regardless of vaccination status.

COVID IS NOT OVER

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #RepeatInfection #WearAMask #MaskUp

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3

@Tattoomonkey29 that is so hard. Sending light and live to surround you both. Right now. 💕

https://youtu.be/EuVVvEig2ic