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Progressive girl. No politics allowed on my page except dismantling the patriarchy, jail for fascists, protecting trans kids, and the liberal agenda. (Posts are my personal opinions only.)

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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We only get one spin on this Ferris Wheel. Do today what you'll regret not having done tomorrow.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
#Spring is in the air! #WashingtonDC #NoVa #DelMarVa
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social 👉🎯
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
#Retirement redefined
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
DC fandom agrees, Elliot Pave perfectly fits as Robin in James Gunn DCU
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"Hate will not stop hate; only love will do that." #MLK

However, love vs hate isn't the accruate framing for what's happening in America. It's narcissism vs sanity. You can't love people into healing from that. All we can do is outvote them.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Call your Senators. Stop the #SAVEact
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I’ve been stressed lately and Marshmallow is concerned for me.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
If you've never had a Supreme Court case decide if you have the same rights as others, you have Privilege.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
oops
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The last time we started a war on false info about weapons of mass destruction, up to 200,000 people died. This is not a game.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Tulsi Gabbard, in her role as Director of National 

Intelligence, testified before Congress in March 

2025 that the US Intel Community "continues to

assess that Iran is not building a nuclear␋weapon

and Supreme Leader Khamenei has ␋not authorized

the nuclear weapons program ␋that he suspended

in 2003."
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"Forward", he cried from the rear and the front rank died.
The dictator sat and the lines on the map moved from side to side.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I called one friend a Trump supporter 
and she said,  "I voted for Trump 
but I don't support him." 

Me: "Your vote is all the support he wants." 

So now, I call them all Trump voters.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Schrödinger's
Immigrant
Lazily
collecting
all the
welfare
but also
somehow
taking all
the jobs
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@realDonaldTrump
Remember that I predicted a long time ago that
President Obama will attack Iran because of his
inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!
9:55 PM 11/10/13
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Trump does not look well. I hope and pray that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in charge of his medical care.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you can convince the lowest white voter 
they're better than the best black,
gay, Latino, Asian, Jewish, Irish, Italian, 
transgender, or woman candidate, 
they won't notice you're picking their pockets. 
Hell, give them somebody to look down on, 
and they'll empty their pockets for you.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
TaxFairness
Americans For Tax Fairness
@4TaxFairness
BREAKING: CBO has released its
final numbers on the plan House
Republicans are pushing through
Congress.
If this passes:
-$3.7 trillion in revenue LOST
-$2.4 trillion added to the debt
-10.9 million people will lose
insurance by 2034
All to give tax breaks to the rich.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

[Image Description: A two-panel illustration by @WomanhoodLooks.
On the left, a smiling parent holds a baby near their face. Baby is wearing a green gingham one-piece outfit. Dialogue text from the parent says: I named you because you didn't have a voice.
On the right, the same duo, years later. The parent hugs the child, who is resting their head against the parent's chest in a comforting embrace. Kiddo is wearing a sleeveless shirt with thick horizontal stripes of soft blue, pink, and white.
Dialogue text from the parent says: Now that you found your voice, it's for you to tell the world who you are.
Text at the bottom says: Accept your kids for who they really are, not for who you want them to be!! End ID].
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Brokecouch Mountain
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Ahmed All
@MrAhmednurAli
Capitalism needs homelessness
for it to function. The fear of being
unhoused is a policy choice, used
as a threat to exploit workers.
Imagine how society would be
if we had basic income and
housing was seen as a right, not a
privilege.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Cruelty is specifically the demonization of particular groups in order to deny them rights or exclude them from the polity. It's one thing to say that we're not going to allow in people on the basis of religion. It's another thing entirely to say that we are going to shatter families deliberately because we want to dissuade people from trying to come to the United States for a better life.

We're always going to have disagreements in a democracy. That's what democracy is for. It's for reconciling disagreements. But what is not necessary is a politics where one side is trying to disenfranchise or exclude the other party's voters in order to maintain a grip on power. "

-- Adam Serwer on NPR (6/27/2021) on his book "The Cruelty is the Point"
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Women know this. We pick a few friends to share our live location data and tell them to watch. They'll wait for a call when we're back home. Men .. did you know this?
@mala_munoz
Men before a date: "what if she doesn't
offer to pay half the bill?"
Women before a date: *sends location
of date, picture and description of man
to several friends just in case we go
missing due to date and they need to
find our bodies.*
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Trump denigrated Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit. Zelenskyy wore his military uniform to remind us that his country is still under attack from an authoritarian regime and his duty doesn't take a day off.

Fun fact: One hallmark of narcissism is denigrating someone else for arbitrary or trivial reasons in order to boost one's ego and gaslight others into thinking they don't have to respect the victim.

#postapocalyptocamerica
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The Grey Man @Intel Operator
The Trump administration is expected
to begin paying $14.5 billion to
farmers by the end of August to make
up for income lost in the trade war.

Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson
Behold, socialism.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
If "Antifa" is Anti-Fascist,
that makes MAGA "Profa".
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Biden serves a taco.


Or would you prefer a Hamberder?
#LetsGoTaco 

#postapocalypticanerica
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Harriet Tubman holding out her hand to help someone on board the Underground Railroad.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Under The Desk News
@vitusspehar
Y'all know the majority of gender
affirming surgery is done on Cisgender
bodies right? Breast augmentation,
genioplasty, gynecomastia,
rhinoplasty, HRT for menopause,
Testosterone shots for sperm
production - leave trans kids alone.
#ProtectTransKids
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Sorry to be the one
to break it to you,
but --
you're actually
SUPPOSED to care
about other
people, all the time.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Isn't it bizarre? That every woman you
know has been followed to her car,
has been stalked, has felt fear at the
presence of an unknown man(often
because they pressured their way
into her space). How it seems like
not a single man can admit to having
been this person. Yet if we try to talk
about it, almost every man will sit the
conversation out. Or worse, outright
attack the person saying it.

Kalen Dion @Kalendionpoetry
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I gotta admit that I kinda miss the quiet old man who steered the economy out of a raging dumpster fire without turning every day into a circus train to hell.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
#Goodfellas at #TheOffice
"So the layoffs are necessary, but let's be sure we
keep the people who worked late, showed loyalty,
and were really good at their jobs."
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I was ~15 when they gave a name to the mysterious illness killing gay men: HIV/AIDS. I watched Reagan & Bush vilify the victims and suppress govt investment in research, treatments, and cures. 
Then, when a boy called Ryan White was publicly supported, many of us realized what the conservatives were doing. By the time I was 18, I knew I could never vote for the GOP ever. And I have not.
They've only become worse in the decades since.
🎀
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Wondering why you should help cover someone’s student loans if you didn’t go to college? Fair question. Now ask why you’re paying for billionaire tax cuts while clocking in at a blue-collar job.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Seven Traits of Narcissistic People

1. Always have to be right
2. Think they are superior to others
3. Hate to be challenged
4. Think they have a right to be hurtful
5. Don't care what you have to say
6. Won't listen to anything they don't want to hear
7. Believe they are special

- Dr. David B. Hawkins
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
@middleageriot
My dog is so obsessed with where other dogs go to the bathroom, she could be the governor of Florida.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
MTP
@tsengputterman
It's wild how so many Americans
view the outsourcing of domestic
manufacturing to China over the
past 25 years as some devious
Chinese plan for domination rather
than a strategy by which the
American ruling class exploded its
profit margin by exploiting global
inequality
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"Be the change you wish to see" is insufficient.
At some point you have to stand up to bullies & fascists.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Over the last 5y, I've been test driving various #retirement and #financialplanning sites. See alt-text in the image for more.
Over the last 5y, I've been test driving various #retirement and #financialplanning sites. Apparently no one makes anything I can download and run locally. I had been mainly relying on spreadsheets, because I can control, tweak, and understand everything.

I shied away from online sites, because I don't like my sensitive data out of my hands. This is from Boldin. I'm using a nom de plume and email not associated with anything else.

All the planners put my chance of success at 90-93% through the age of 94. My former financial planner said that was well beyond enough of a comfort zone. However, it eats at me that it's not 99-100%. What if I live to 110?  lol.
Also, those estimates are models like Monte Carlo, which rely on many assumptions and trailing statistics, so we don't really know how reliable those are. 

Anyway, everyone tells me there are many changes I can make to my strategy as the years go on. Choices today are important, but don't lock me out of future options. Good to know.

Opinions?
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I was just singing in the shower and then I get a copyright strike?! Well, I wish you weren't here!
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A Narcissist will gaslight you into believing his words, not his actions.
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"To be lost is to learn the way."
-- A Swahili Proverb
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"To be called 'woke' in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult." -- Pope Leo XIV
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Koset (she/her) อุ๊บ @koset.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I'm so old, I remember when everything on the Internet was true and there was no security .. http, pop, and ftp for everything.
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