Mark R. Stoneman
@markstoneman.org
Historian, editor, and translator for hire (🇩🇪 to 🇺🇸) · this 🦣 bridges to 🦋 @markstoneman.org · my main 🦋 is @markstoneman.com · he/him · longtime resident of […]
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"Real #community involves #negotiation. It involves showing up for one another, navigating disagreement, and giving time and care even when it is not convenient. Platforms strip away these dimensions because #friction interrupts #Engagement. The result is an experience that looks like connection […]
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mato.social
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"Real #community involves #negotiation. It involves showing up for one another, navigating disagreement, and giving time and care even when it is not convenient. Platforms strip away these dimensions because #friction interrupts #Engagement. The result is an experience that looks like connection […]
Seasonal affective disorder, your days are numbered. The winter solstice is only two days away. 😎
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Seasonal affective disorder, your days are numbered. The winter solstice is only two days away. 😎
Kyiv Independent video: One night with a Kyiv family amid Russia’s mass attack (29 min) https://youtu.be/vGEIBDYHfW4
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Kyiv Independent video: One night with a Kyiv family amid Russia’s mass attack (29 min) https://youtu.be/vGEIBDYHfW4
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Finished reading Andrey Kurkov’s _Diary of an Invasion_ (Mountain Leopard Press, 2022) and _Our Daily War_ (Open Borders Press, 2024). Lots of observations and vignettes about life in Ukraine during war, but also before.
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Finished reading Andrey Kurkov’s _Diary of an Invasion_ (Mountain Leopard Press, 2022) and _Our Daily War_ (Open Borders Press, 2024). Lots of observations and vignettes about life in Ukraine during war, but also before.
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I feel sick every time I hear the U.S. president conflating Ukraine’s gradual loss of land with its overall strategic position. Is his team really so ignorant? Or is this yet another instance of their favoring the interests and nihilism of the few over the interests and values of the many?
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I feel sick every time I hear the U.S. president conflating Ukraine’s gradual loss of land with its overall strategic position. Is his team really so ignorant? Or is this yet another instance of their favoring the interests and nihilism of the few over the interests and values of the many?
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December 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I've blogged my brief take on Omar El Akkad's book _One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This_ at https://markstoneman.com/2025/12/07/one-day-everyone-will-have.html.
'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This' by Omar El Akkad: markstoneman.com
markstoneman.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've blogged my brief take on Omar El Akkad's book _One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This_ at https://markstoneman.com/2025/12/07/one-day-everyone-will-have.html.
I took this photo before cleaning off the car and moving it for the snowplow last Wednesday.
Crosspost from https://markstoneman.com/2025/12/07/i-took-this-photo-before.html
Crosspost from https://markstoneman.com/2025/12/07/i-took-this-photo-before.html
December 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I took this photo before cleaning off the car and moving it for the snowplow last Wednesday.
Crosspost from https://markstoneman.com/2025/12/07/i-took-this-photo-before.html
Crosspost from https://markstoneman.com/2025/12/07/i-took-this-photo-before.html
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https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd “The result is a mass surveillance network with a particularly American focus: cars.” #uspolitics #privacy #surveillance #travel #HumanRights
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd “The result is a mass surveillance network with a particularly American focus: cars.” #uspolitics #privacy #surveillance #travel #HumanRights
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Your spam filter sucks and you need a better one. No one paid me to say this, but I’d just thought I’d let you know that SpamSieve is on sale right now. @spamsieve
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Your spam filter sucks and you need a better one. No one paid me to say this, but I’d just thought I’d let you know that SpamSieve is on sale right now. @spamsieve
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I think the American public has the right to see the secret protocols of the Witkoff-Dmitriev pact. What business deals have been agreed?
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I think the American public has the right to see the secret protocols of the Witkoff-Dmitriev pact. What business deals have been agreed?
@ia Unless I'm missing something, your Mac app doesn't seem to care about how good a person's vision is. Yes, I can set the font size in the editor, but the file browser uses a much smaller font than I have set for my Mac. For an app as mature as yours, I'm rather surprised. Accessibility not a […]
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zirk.us
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
@ia Unless I'm missing something, your Mac app doesn't seem to care about how good a person's vision is. Yes, I can set the font size in the editor, but the file browser uses a much smaller font than I have set for my Mac. For an app as mature as yours, I'm rather surprised. Accessibility not a […]
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November 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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Learned about an interesting org today, MORE IN COMMON, whose mission is to understand and combat the forces driving social fragmentation and political polarization.
I'm especially interested in the work they've done on history education (i.e.. using history to build bridges and mediate […]
I'm especially interested in the work they've done on history education (i.e.. using history to build bridges and mediate […]
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mastodon.online
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Learned about an interesting org today, MORE IN COMMON, whose mission is to understand and combat the forces driving social fragmentation and political polarization.
I'm especially interested in the work they've done on history education (i.e.. using history to build bridges and mediate […]
I'm especially interested in the work they've done on history education (i.e.. using history to build bridges and mediate […]
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Reposted by Mark R. Stoneman
I signed up for Proton Mail for the email. It was never very good, but lately it’s been getting in my way and even undoing my work. Worse, the company shows no signs of trying to improve the experience. Instead they add things I neither want or need: AI, a crypto wallet, documents…
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I signed up for Proton Mail for the email. It was never very good, but lately it’s been getting in my way and even undoing my work. Worse, the company shows no signs of trying to improve the experience. Instead they add things I neither want or need: AI, a crypto wallet, documents…
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Capped off a dark, cold day with whole wheat blueberry pancakes and applesauce. Made an octogenarian happy.
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Capped off a dark, cold day with whole wheat blueberry pancakes and applesauce. Made an octogenarian happy.
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Canadian denied entry into the U.S. to visit grandparents
https://share.google/AlWdQZ4J971UmanVg
#uspol #canada
https://share.google/AlWdQZ4J971UmanVg
#uspol #canada
‘Felt like a bit of abuse of power’: Canadian denied entry into U.S.
A 20-year-old Canadian booked to fly south to visit her grandparents was recently refused entry into the United States by American customs officers, at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Canadian denied entry into the U.S. to visit grandparents
https://share.google/AlWdQZ4J971UmanVg
#uspol #canada
https://share.google/AlWdQZ4J971UmanVg
#uspol #canada
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My take for #silentsunday . Seen yesterday from the summit that I was #hiking to. I had to zoom in quite a bit to capture this distant scene.
Whenever I see a trailrunner passing me with his ultralight / small backpack, I'm wondering why I'm carrying that […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Whenever I see a trailrunner passing me with his ultralight / small backpack, I'm wondering why I'm carrying that […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My take for #silentsunday . Seen yesterday from the summit that I was #hiking to. I had to zoom in quite a bit to capture this distant scene.
Whenever I see a trailrunner passing me with his ultralight / small backpack, I'm wondering why I'm carrying that […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Whenever I see a trailrunner passing me with his ultralight / small backpack, I'm wondering why I'm carrying that […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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"UK activist group #mediarevolution has launched Mo-Me, a new #fediverseclient, in collaboration with the #newsmast Foundation. The launch coincides with the group’s “Media Liberation Day” campaign targeting billionaire media ownership. The pitch of #mome is editorially curated channels, rather […]
Original post on mato.social
mato.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"UK activist group #mediarevolution has launched Mo-Me, a new #fediverseclient, in collaboration with the #newsmast Foundation. The launch coincides with the group’s “Media Liberation Day” campaign targeting billionaire media ownership. The pitch of #mome is editorially curated channels, rather […]
Thoughts on designing social web spaces by Mark Bernstein: https://alistapart.com/article/design-for-amiability-lessons-from-vienna/ #socialweb
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Thoughts on designing social web spaces by Mark Bernstein: https://alistapart.com/article/design-for-amiability-lessons-from-vienna/ #socialweb