Interstate-40 connecting Tennessee and North Carolina through the Smokey Mountains is out. Major damage to the road swept away and bridges damaged from a dam in Newport failing.

🚨 #cosofundraiser 🚨

We are down to 2 double knot Harris-Walz friendship bracelets.

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Don't miss your chance to help CoSo get closer to meeting its costs this month.

Contact me by DM with a receipt dated today for a donation of $20 (OR MORE, HAHA) TO CoSo and I will mail you one.

@p3R1n01D

#BanditMama 's 3 babies are the ones that are really fast growers. The on on the right is "Bottom" and "Double Trouble" is in the middle... and the dark one slipping off I call "Shadow".

They're not full sized yet, but they are gonna be big boyz.

This song/video by Stevie Nicks needs to be EVERYWHERE. We will not go back.
https://youtu.be/lJDCYh5iWQs
(Thanks for bringing it to CoSo, @Zevon ❤️🙏❤️)

#Tech
#Sec

NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
Proposed guidelines aim to inject badly needed common sense into password hygiene.

Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types) for passwords and
Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT require users to change passwords periodically. However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/nist-proposes-barring-some-of-the-most-nonsensical-password-rules/

#CoSoWildlife #possums

The bottom frame was taken a month and a half ago. The top pix are from today. You can tell how much they've grown by comparing them to the bowls.

Either these possums have gotten BIGGER or the bowls have shrunk!

These are the kids that will sneak up in early morning and even mid-day to check for kibble.

They are also out at night patrolling my yard and raised beds. Wonderful friends for gardeners.

#CoSoWildlife #BanditMama #raccoons

This is one of Bandit Mama's 3 babies. There are two that look alike- both mischievous- but one was faster. I called him Double Trouble. This one was "Trouble" but I call him "Bottom" bc he always parks himself, and plops down on his bottom. Lazy boy! But a sweetheart, and very fast gobbler of kibble.

50 States?!? Who would have thought? #politics

DNC will send funding to all state parties to support down-ballot races

The nearly $2.5 million investment — shared first with POLITICO — aims to help break Republican supermajorities in deep-red states and strengthen voter engagement efforts across the U.S. It’s part of a broader push for increased local support by the DNC, which says it’s increased state party funding by 25 percent during Jaime Harrison’s tenure as chair.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/27/dnc-state-party-legislative-races-00181312

@th3j35t3r @COSOCOM

Tangential, but if you have pets and need to evacuate, write your name and cell on their belly in Sharpie in case you get separated.

Helene weakens to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, National Hurricane Center says. https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-carolina-e5769b56dea81e40fae2161ad1b4e75d

I was sittin' here, mindin' my own business and then this happened!

#NatureIsHilarious
(Open it)

@Agatha Hurricane Helene Changed Everything….

#CatsOfCoSo #ItsNotJustCoastalANYMORE

My son is on the SE Georgia coast, and his county is at 70% without power. He's over 100 miles from the eye. Nasty giant wind field. #HurricaneHelene

Those of us old enough, of course.
😱

#Humour

#helene
Turned left of tally, no longer on the dirty side. Prayin for Perry, and all of GA rn. If anyone is near there, be safe, stay out of the water babes. And if you're in a floodzone, and have to Evac, for the love of everything holy, turn off the gas first. So many fires already.

this aged well 🙃

🖤🖤

Link to #Kamala's
82 page Policy Book for
Opportunity #Economy

#politics

https://kamalaharris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Policy_Book_Economic-Opportunity.pdf