“LiNcOLn WaS a rEpUbLiCaN” I can't imagine that this video will ever come in handy. https://youtube.com/shorts/ua30t5k6hMw?si=7zoJ7avnaTVyQxs8 #lincoln #Politics #Democracy #Republicans #halfheartedfanatic

Useful cancellation instructions: HT mstdn @indivisibleteam Disney+: https://help.disneyplus.com/article/disneyplus-cancel ESPN+: https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40377589107476-How-do-I-cancel-my-ESPN-subscription Hulu: https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-can #freespeech […]

"How much more clearly can you say 'I am a fascist' than by declaring anti-fascists as the enemy?" https://youtu.be/e9NnQt_eQ0I #FreeSpeech #JimmyKimmel #ResistanceHistory #Fascism #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Authoritarian #Project2025 #HumanRights #CivlRights #CivilLiberties #politics#civilliberties#civlrights…]

The Palimpsest Kid. I was taking a photo of the layered children's art on the tin panel, and this charmer walked into the frame. #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Ambatobe #Malagasy #Art #Africa #Photography #OriginalPhoto #halfheartedfanatic

"We cannot let the actions of one dipshit with a gun bring about the end of all that we hold dear." –Trae Crowder https://youtu.be/O7i5tBD6cGo #HumanRights #CivlRights #CivilLiberties #Politics #Democracy #Justice #halfheartedfanatic

Arizona voters overseas from Congressional District 7! You have a special election on September 23rd and you can register, request, and return your ballot electronically. Act now in order to vote! For all details, go to https://VoteAbroad.org/SocMediaVFA […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A Top-5 Reason to have a folding bike: Multimodality Picking up my kid: Ride bike to school, hail a taxi, fold bike and put in taxi, take photo of license plate (in case driver decides to steal my bike), get kid, and go home. Bonus: Folding the bike entertains taxi […] [Original post on mas.to]

A curtain of bike parts and accessories dangling in front of a roadside bike shop #Bike #Cycling #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Analamahitsy #Malagasy #CyclingLife #CommuteByBike #NotJustBikes #Photography #OriginalPhoto #Africa #halfheartedfanatic

A roadside bike shop that offers welding services. #Bike #Cycling #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Analamahitsy #Malagasy #CyclingLife #CommuteByBike #NotJustBikes #Photography #OriginalPhoto #Africa #halfheartedfanatic

The Democratic Party doesn't have a "Project 2029." Got it? Seriously: Got it? Via Bsky @tadstoermer.bsky.social https://youtube.com/shorts/fS2AE57knLs?si=SDgM81xCXcZylSkl #Project2029 #ResistanceHistory #Democrats #Democrat #Politics #Democracy #Justice #halfheartedfanatic

"The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/ #charliekirk #Christofascism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Racism #Racist #antiracism#racist#racism…]

On this edition of Dirty Jobs, a historian who studies how mainstream historians and racists whitewash slavery in America. via bsky @tadstoermer.bsky.social https://youtu.be/oe-fesxHhMI #History #ResistanceHistory #ThomasJefferson #Slavery #Racism #Racist #Antiracism #halfheartedfanatic

Enlightened Centrism by mstdn @oatmeal #EnlightenedCentrism #Politics #Democracy #Justice #halfheartedfanatic

Razor wire means nothing to the moon. My neighborhood, before I knew there would be a lunar eclipse later than night. #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Ambatobe #Malagasy #Photography #OriginalPhoto #Science #Astronomy #halfheartedfanatic

The Epstein Files Transparency Act blocked by Every Republican on the House Rules Committee Virginia Foxx (North Carolina), Michelle Fischbach (Minnesota), Ralph Norman (South Carolina), Chip Roy (Texas), Nicholas Langworthy (New York), Austin Scott (Georgia), H […] [Original post on mas.to]

Not that I'm planning on traveling to the USA anytime soon, but I've been thinking about how to hand the TSA goons an empty digital vessel. https://boingboing.net/2025/09/04/travel-under-trump-2-0-dont-cross-a-u-s-border-without-a-perfect-burner-phone.html #Privacy #Autocracy #authoritarian#autocracy#privacy…]

Messor ibericus queen ants produce individuals from two different species: their own species, and clones of another species. HT mstdn @404mediaco https://youtu.be/H-Y6-j8FlIQ #Ants #Cloning #Science #Biology #WTF #halfheartedfanatic

With A-Paul-ogies... https://youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U #RFK #kakistocracy #science #halfheartedfanatic

A few minutes before the full eclipse tonight — and just before my point-and-shoot camera could no longer determine what I was pointing at. #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Moon #LunarEclipse #Photography #OriginalPhoto #Science #Astronomy #halfheartedfanatic

During a parents' orientation meeting. Thinking about my kid's future, and also how to play a C# diminished chord on a piano. #Photography #OriginalPhoto #Sketches #Sketching #Marginalia #Doodle #Doodles #Parenting #halfheartedfanatic

Democrats passed the Infrastructure and Jobs Act with barely any help from Republicans after Trump asked them to oppose it, but Republicans are happy to be able to credit for the jobs and progress the Democrats' efforts have brought about.

I don’t have a problem with functional democracies, I just don’t want it shoved in my face.

Hey, Americans! Want some rage bait? Listen to a civil, intelligent head of state of a healthy and stable democracy for an hour: Jonas Gahr Støre, Prime Minister of Norway. https://youtu.be/F3MEtCAeG8w #Norway #HumanRights #Politics #Democracy #Justice #halfheartedfanatic

I have pretty good feelings about the new school my kid will be attending starting on Monday. #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Malagasy #Photography #OriginalPhoto #Science #Parenting #halfheartedfanatic

The judge won't allow ICE Barbie to send people to conditions so dangerous "that even the State Department advises against travel to their home countries.” HT mstdn @democratsabroad […]

Spotted in a Malagasy municipal office — obviously not the space program — an Olivetti Linea 98 wide carriage typewriter, still actively used. #Typewriter #Olivetti #AZERTY #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Malagasy #Photography #OriginalPhoto #halfheartedfanatic

Magpie inspecting the cat’s butt. Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea, France 14th century. Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 808, fol. 88v. #medieval #medievalart

I love Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_rocks #Geology #Rocks #Wikipedia #CreativeCommons #halfheartedfanatic

No sidewalk. Because 5 percent of the population owns a private car. #TransportationJustice #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Africa #Malagasy #Carbrain #Motonomativity #Fuckcars #CarsRuinCities #Walkability #WalkableCities #PeopleOverCars #PedestrianFriendly #SafeStreets […] [Original post on mas.to]

The percentage of kids who live one mile or less away from their school hasn’t drastically changed. What’s changed is that we've built our communities around cars, making walking and biking feel inconvenient... or deadly by reddit u/newsocks1382 YT @justine-underhill […]

CloseMove is an app for aspiring YIMBYs – find the neighborhood to buy or rent with the public transport and other human-friendly amenities you want. https://closemove.com/ #YIMBY #Carbrain #Motonomativity #Fuckcars #Carfree #LowCar #15MinuteCity #CarsDestroyedOurCities #carsruincities#carsdestroyedourcities#15MinuteCity…]

Who most likely said “I don’t do math 👎"? Take a guess. MAGA or not? NEW BLOG POST A harmless social post about math turned out to be a litmus test. Participate in my social experiment. attn xitter @hawntedIG @AlbertBarclay69 https://tinyurl.com/2xzfzr6j #Trump #Math #AntiTrump #antigop#antitrump#math…]

Africa can electrify without dismantling entrenched ICE infrastructure and culture. Small vehicles and informal networks are the leverage point. In East and West Africa, electrification can focus on boda-bodas, okadas, tuk-tuks, and minibuses not private cars. via xitter @cleantechnica […]

Is this weird? I'm administering (1) MS 356 from (2) Chrome on a 9-year-old Dell laptop Running (3) Libuntu. Or the fact that I consult ChatGPT constantly to figure out how? #Linux #Ubuntu #OpenSource #Consulting #halfheartedfanatic

Peeking through the gate of a vacant lot in my neighborhood. A cat looks back at me like, "Do you mind?" #Cats #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Photography #OriginalPhoto #Africa #halfheartedfanatic

Another water logistics worker in my neighborhood. #SustainableTransport #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Ambatobe #Malagasy #Photography #OriginalPhoto #halfheartedfanatic

These carts are made to transport heavy water jugs for people without running water in their homes. But all work and no play... See that kid coming up behind? I'll post a photo of him next. #SustainableTransport #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Ambatobe #Malagasy […] [Original post on mas.to]

Another beautiful Malagasy workaday bike. #Bike #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Malagasy #Cycling #CyclingLife #CommuteByBike #NotJustBikes #Photography #OriginalPhoto #halfheartedfanatic

HT mstdn @democratsabroad #WhatBullshit #GavinNewsom #Autocracy #Authoritarian #Project2025 #Trump #NoMandate #AntiTrump #AntiGOP #AntiMAGA #Republicans #halfheartedfanatic

So many ways to go backwards! As far back as you like! Back to 1800s-style political patronage! Or farther back than that! via substack @markfiore https://vimeo.com/1107483443 #Autocracy #Authoritarian #Project2025 #Trump #NoMandate #AntiTrump #AntiGOP #AntiMAGA #Republicans #halfheartedfanatic

The State Department’s new reports whitewash the records of some of the world’s most notorious nations and targets Trump’s enemies. https://theintercept.com/2025/08/14/state-department-human-rights-reports/ #HumanRights #Authoritarian #Trump #NoMandate #AntiTrump #AntiGOP #antimaga#antigop#antitrump…]

"Alefa Madagascar" is a compilation of songs from 1974–1984; Malagasy musicians fusing foreign pop sounds with indigenous sensibilities. Think of it like the UK in the 1960s, when British musicians were eating up American R&B, blues, and soul and echoing back their takes. from mstdn @blogamf […]

Slightly encouraging: "A stunning number of US troops know they can defy Trump's orders" They know they can, but what would they do? via xitter @AlterNet https://www.alternet.org/disobey-his-orders-trump/ #Fascism #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Authoritarian #Project2025 #Trump #NoMandate#Trump#project2025…]

Hohles Gehirn HT Reddit u/Thanos_6point0 #Hamburg #Art #Fascism #Dictatorship #ElonMusk #HerrPlugs #halfheartedfanatic

""Trump is promising that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is now the Ministry of Truth." via xitter @alternet_rss_bot https://www.alternet.org/trump-sinister-move/ #Orwell #Authoritarian #Project2025 #Trump #NoMandate #AntiTrump #AntiGOP #AntiMAGA #Republicans #halfheartedfanatic

As a lifelong user of em dashes and en dashes, I can never forgive ChatGPT for the cloud of suspicion it has hung over me... I hesitate to use them — and it breaks my heart. https://xkcd.com/3126/ #xkdc #ChatGPT #punctuation #halfheartedfanatic

If fire risk is the standard, shouldn't fossil-fuel vehicles be the first to be banned? Not e-bikes on trains? Lithium battery fires are rare. Victoria’s proposed e-bike and e-scooter train ban punishes clean mobility, ignoring the far greater fire and safety hazards of petrol-powered transport […]

A mechanical zebu in Antananarivo. #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Photography #OriginalPhoto #WTF #halfheartedfanatic

The mysogynist theocratic apple doesn't fall far from the Biggs family tree. Via Bsky @phoenixnewtimes.com https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/female-arizona-senate-candidate-women-shouldnt-hold-office-22263834 #Arizona #theocracy #patriarchy #AndyBiggs #halfheartedfanatic

Shocker: Meta collected data from a period-tracker app without user consent. Via mstdn @arstechnica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/jury-finds-meta-broke-wiretap-law-by-collecting-data-from-period-tracker-app/ #SocialMedia #Enshittification #SurveillanceCapitalism #deletefacebook#surveillancecapitalism#enshittification…]