#introductions. Hello from California!

Jester's waking up this morning and looking at CoSo Status....

Some advice for new users:

There isn't "Trending" But follow the firehose.

There aren't trolls, because they aren't tolerated.

Don't treat this as if it were twitter - it's not for news gathering/dissemination. It's for conversations. It's more a town square than a newspaper.

There are only 2 bots - Alfred (kind of a WIP Siri) and DeepFakeDetector

There's 2 repeaters - @BreakingNews and @MyRadar

oh, and have fun - we are serious, silly, fun, intellectual, helpful, and most of all civil.

Welcome to all of the new folks. 👋

Here’s a document with tips to help you navigate.

https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

Hope you'll enjoy CoSo as much as we do!

@MrGoat @engineer @NanaWithSoul @Sekhapada @killagator

Today is looking pretty nasty:

"Numerous severe thunderstorms are expected today across the Mid-South and lower/middle Mississippi Valley and Midwest.
Tornadoes, some of which will be strong, widespread and potentially significant damaging thunderstorm winds, and large hail are likely especially within the Moderate and Enhanced Risk areas."

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html

#CoSoWeather

NEW: A Tornado Watch has been issued for portions of Arkansas,Louisiana and Texas until 5 PM EDT!

Along with the risk of tornadoes, hail up to tennis ball size likely and damaging wind gusts up to 75 MPH possible. #txwx #lawx #arwx

https://twitter.com/NWStornado/status/1514265777796308992

“OK, ‘Curse of the Mummy’ in 1,2,3,4…”

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For anyone thinking of hacking Russian systems in support of Ukraine, Cisco's Talos Security found hacking tools being marketed to Ukrainian sympathizers that are actually malware that will steal the user's credentials and cryptocurrency info.

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2022/03/threat-advisory-cybercriminals.html

@evistre meow

Look at that. 2nd and 3rd in line to the presidency are women. Took long enough.

#bokeh

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Alright starting this day over again. I am alive, breathing, and safe. Everything else is just a matter of minor inconvenience.

Unconfirmed — but this picture of the Ukrainian border guard fleeing from Kalanchak outpost at the edge of occupied Crimea before the security cameras switch off might be the first photo of the invasion.

#infosec Lots of Moscow pings - ukraine is dead silent a blip here and there /offline/

Russia deploys mobile crematoriums to follow its troops into battle.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/23/russia-deploys-mobile-crematorium-follow-troops-battle/

The Department of Homeland Security is warning that Russia could mount cyberattacks against U.S. organizations.