'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This' by Omar El Akkad: markstoneman.com

I took this photo before cleaning off the car and moving it for the snowplow last Wednesday.

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…

Capped off a dark, cold day with whole wheat blueberry pancakes and applesauce. Made an octogenarian happy.

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 […]

It’s snowing.

Windy day. Went most of it without internet, except for what my phone could muster.

According to ATESH (Military Movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars) on Telegram: "The occupiers are using a meat processing plant in the rear area to store the bodies of Russian soldiers from the Pokrovsk direction. ATESH agents from among the Russian Armed Forces report that the Russian […]

I forgot to mention that a short edition of Stoneman’s Corner went out on Nov. 19th: Newsletter: Snapshots, Great Depression, Siege Humor.

@help Are Bluesky replies supposed to show up in my Microblog Timeline now? According to my settings, they should only be going to the Mentions. Just a heads up.

A new Kyiv Independent documentary, “The War They Play” (65 min), looks at Russia’s criminal reeducation and militarization of children in occupied Ukraine. According to Igor Vorobyov, head of the Warrior Center (for children) in Volgograd Oblast, “If you want to defeat the enemy, raise their […]

Robin DeRosa has words for a state whose investments in higher education are the lowest per student in the country. "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 […]

The Saturday protest in Conway brought some 1,200 people out, according to the organizers (via The Conway Daily Sun).

Newsletter: Snapshots, Great Depression, Siege Humor, https://stoneman.page/2025/10/19/newsletter-snapshots-great-depression-siege.html

@manton @help I uninstalled the custom footer plugin, but the custom footer template still appears in my template files. I tried to remove it there and ended up ruining the main template too. Now I have no footer. Could you please help me, i.e., could you please restore the original footer for […]

Newsletter: Snapshots, Great Depression, Siege Humor: stoneman.page

A Few Snapshots from the Protest: markstoneman.com

You get repeated turnouts like this in rural New Hampshire, and you know authoritarianism’s foundations are wobbly.

Just saw a Maine lobster at the protest—along with many dogs, two dinosaurs, and many hundreds of humans of all ages, from babies to humans powering their own rollators. There is a group all in yellow, too.

I just started using Libby with my local library and discovered that the state subscribes to a bundle of magazines that don’t have waiting lists. The first thing I read is a doozy, a short essay by Mitchell S. Jackson in the Oct/Nov 2025 issue of Esquire that asks, “Is Ice a Terrorist […]

@manton FYI blog.joinloops.org/loops-joi…

> "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. > > – Milan Kundera, quoted by A. Karn"

As relevant today as when it was published: “The Danger of MAGA History” by Alexander Karn for The Progressive Magazine, Jan. 30, 2025.

@help @manton Load times for my stie at the European server when even a small image is involved are slow. Been that way all day. markstoneman.com

“Sarajevo siege humour, winter of 1992-1993: creamy leather gun holster displayed as a hot fashion item in the window of an erstwhile shoe shop.” Photo and caption by Christian Maréchal, 1993, Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY 3.0.

@help FYI, individual posts and images on markstoneman.com are loading very slowly this morning.

Shared Notes Protonmail and SMTP: markstoneman.com

I’ve been adding posts from a short-lived blog called On My Mac. While doing this, I sometimes hit send before I’ve added a title or set the right date (2007, not 2025). I can fix these errors on my blog right away, but they might still carry over on the blog’s Fediverse feed. Sorry about that.

@mtt I tried out `microhook-after-header.html`, but its contents did not line up with the header or the page contents. Instead it is falls all the way on the left (screenshot). I assume this is not the intended behavior.

Photograph of Young Man on Relief in 1940: markstoneman.com ‘‘Not having a job is bad enough, but you keep goin’ down and purty soon you’re here and the spirit is gone.’

This edition of Silicon Curtain with Pekka Kallioniemi is both worthwhile and unsettling: “The Golden Age of Populism Brings with it Division, Chaos and Conflict” (YouTube).

I’ve now got this blog posting directly to the Fediverse and Bluesky within certain limits set by my host, Micro.blog. Whether or not this makes my life easier remains to be seen, but it is pretty cool.