CounterSocial officially turns SIX YEARS OLD on November 17th.

No need to get us a gift. Instead, give yourself the gift of going Pro. It comes with a bunch of great features and is what keeps the servers running. #CoSoTips

San Francisco, want something fun to do during the Halloween season? Check out my friend Kat Robichaud's Misfit Cabaret Monster Bash!!! If you've never seen a Misfit Cabaret show, they're awesome. Tickets available at https://www.krmisfitcabaret.com/

World events got you down? CounterSocial has the fix for that too. You can add FILTERS to omit certain terms, and you can set those FILTERS to automatically EXPIRE at a set interval, from 30 minutes to one week to eternity.

There's no limit to the number of filters that you can create.

We consider this to be a healthy part of curating your own experience here. Use FILTERS liberally to make your experience yours! #CoSoTips

https://counter.social/filters

Private health insurers are systematically taking advantage of Medicare while denying care to seniors, a new report shows. https://www.levernews.com/insurers-are-gaming-medicare-to-the-tune-of-140-billion/

More gross changes afoot at #Reddit, this time #privacy related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/ nosanitize

Hugs to you @Museek and all CoSo folks nursing sick loved ones tonight; definitely a lot going around. Here’s a 3hr cozy cabin rain 3D to have on in the background somewhere❤️🙏❤️
https://youtu.be/TG042Ugg5H8

To All The New Folks.

Wellcome Home !

#CoSoTips

Lurking here on CoSo is a wonderful thing. If you are one who seldom posts, but enjoys reading, you are wanted and welcome. Posting is not required. You don't need to explain, nor in anyway feel less than, for lurking. In fact let's get rid of that word, and just say you are a reader.

All writers need readers. Reading is semi-miraculous act. And respect is due.

🙏

Hey hi hello! Are you uninsured or underinsured, on Medicare, Medicaid, or get healthcare from the VA?

You probably qualify for this free COVID program that's running through April 2024.

They'll mail you 6 free tests, and if you test positive, they'll provide telehealth services (including antiviral meds if your provider thinks you need them).

Details on the site. Registration is open currently. I signed up. :)

https://www.test2treat.org/

#covid #healthcare

Teenager Coco Gauff defeats Aryna Sabalenka to become the youngest American women's US Open winner since Serena Williams in 1999. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/09/tennis/us-open-final-coco-gauff-aryna-sabalenka-spt-intl/index.html

HOW It STARTED 🎾
HOW It IS Now🎾

#CoSoTennis
#CoCoGauff

Good morning, CoSo!

Today, like every day, is a day of transformation: a day that you enter as one person but will leave as a changed, at least slightly different person.

Your choice is whether you want just to be a witness to that transformation or a guide and director of it.

The floor routine that secured Simone Biles' 8th national all-around title, a feat that no American gymnast in history has done before. #XfinityChamps

some Rachel Carson for today:
Dr. Laurel Stanley; @[email protected]
toot link: <https://mstdn.social/@LaurelStandley/110891236479212328>

Rachel Carson's words from seventy years ago still resonate mightily.

"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself."

- Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, Revised edition(1961), page xii