From NaNoWriMo: "Within your means, consider making a personal donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds’s official ActBlue page. Contributions made here will be distributed evenly among 83 different local abortion funds across the United States. This contribution page is available to both U.S.-based and non-U.S.-based individuals who are at least 18 years in age."

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This bird wants a try out with the Harlem Globetrotters™️

#CoSoArtHistory

CHRIST OF SAINT JOHN of the Cross is the most famous of Dalí’s controversial postwar paintings. In the 1940s, the artist abandoned the surrealist work for which he was known and touted instead a return to the classical techniques and craftsmanship of the Renaissance.

The Vandal
By Kasra Lang

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-vandal/

lol

#cosophotography

So cute. https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/worlds-smallest-cat

I got to spend my day looking for turtles ❤️ Here are 3 Northern Map Turtles basking in the warm air (no sunshine today!).

Happy birthday to Dutch painter Lou Loeber (1894-1983), born #OnThisDay 128 years ago!
Lou Loeber was a committed Socialist at a very young age. Based on her political convictions, her objective was to ‘available to everyone’ as she herself put it. For this purpose she chose an objective, Cubist idiom with simple, geometrically determined areas of colour in bright tones. To some extent, her work is similar to De Stijl, although she never abandoned visible reality altogether.
#WomenArtists #dutch

Please consider that there are survivors of assault here, and the nonstop avalanche of posts about this can reopen their trauma. That can make this space less safe for them if they can't effectively filter.

Finally, ask yourself if what you are posting is your own thought, or a copy-paste of countless others. Yes, there is need for organizing, but simple repetition is not the way to do it. Remember that engagement on posts doesn't matter here.

Thanks for helping us all get through this.

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Cosonauts:

I understand the raw emotions many of you are all feeling right now. This is heavy stuff.

Please, take care of your mental health and limit your doom scrolling / posting / boosting. All that grinding leads to anxiety and/or depression. Trust me.

I also request that your please tag all political posts #politics , *especially* those related to the leaked SCOTUS draft. This will allow others to filter these posts if they need to do this for *their* mental health.

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If you are looking for a “how to CoSo manual” - search manual in the search bar and it should pop up in someone’s thread. Or click this https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

First sunsets are the rosiest

Spent yesterday morning out hiking. It was a dreary morning, but it did have some bright spots.

Male Yellow Warbler

#photography
#cosophotography
#CoSoBirds
#BirdsOfCoSo
#arts

Petition: Ban alcohol in the Houses of Parliament and all government buildings. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/604101

If you are in the UK please sign, why should MPs get subsidized booze at taxpayer's expense when British citizens starve and freeze? What other workplace would give its employees carte blanche to drink at work?