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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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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
View of snow on the ground from inside the car (driver's seat) with the door open. There is 8 to 12 inches (20 to 25 centimeters).
December 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Thoughts on designing social web spaces by Mark Bernstein: https://alistapart.com/article/design-for-amiability-lessons-from-vienna/ #socialweb
Text Shot: People thinking about how to create web spaces for more productive and meaningful interactions might profit from a recent post by Mark Bernstein that draws inspiration from interwar Vienna’s coffee houses. See “Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna,” A List Apart, Oct. 15, 2025. It is also relevant to people interested in online sociability more generally.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I forgot to mention that a short edition of Stoneman's Corner went out on Nov. 19th:
Newsletter: Snapshots, Great Depression, Siege Humor, https://stoneman.page/2025/10/19/newsletter-snapshots-great-depression-siege.html
A lobster and her spouse at the No Kings protest in Conway NH.
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Robin DeRosa has words for a state whose investments in higher education are the lowest per student in the country. See "I Lost My Job" (Oct. 19, 2025), https://robinderosa.net/higher-ed/i-lost-my-job/
#nh #highered
Text Shot: This winter, close to thirty tenured faculty at my regional public university in New Hampshire will “voluntarily” leave their positions… I am gutted for New Hampshire, and particularly for the North Country, the rural area that my regional college serves. Many of the Pell-eligible, first-generation college students that attend my university are students who, data shows, likely would not go to college at all without our university close to home. Because we “live [tax-free] or die” here in the Granite State, students pay exorbitant costs already to access higher education. And now the budget situation means the closing of many, many majors; the reduction of choice in what careers and passions our students can pursue; the possible consolidation or closure of campuses; and the reduction of student support and library services.
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Stamford, CT via https://bsky.app/profile/cath71813.bsky.social/post/3m3izhc7aqk2y
A sign in Stamford, CT, today: Super Callous Fascist Racist Sexist Braggadocious
October 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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By Paul Noth @paulnoth@bsky.social
Cartoon: Doctor to patient in a hospital bed: 'You no longer have medicaid, so expect a big beautiful bill.'
October 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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This image stems from a federal food aid program during the Great Depression. For me, the quoted recipient of aid represents a familiar story about pride, dignity, shame, and fear that the self-righteous who reject the provision of such aid fail to grasp. 1/2
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Text Shot: Hayward, California [1940]. Youth on Relief. Looking in his pocket for his surplus commodities card. 'Not having a job is bad enough, but you keep goin' down and purty soon you're here and the spirit is gone. I turn my face when somebody I know real well comes along the sidewalk. It takes the spirit when you're in here and then you haven't anything left.' Black and white photograph of three men and one woman at the front of a food bank line. The man at the very front is looking in his pocket. One arm and one shoe of a man behind the desk is visible, also a small box of some kind and some forms and ink stamps.
October 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM