It's Saturday, Mainers! Cloudy > sunny, high near 60, & breezy! #WhenWeVoteWeWin & we have lots of work to do! =============== MAINE RESISTANCE SAT, NOV 8, 2025 =============== #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #RESIST REPOST & SHARE! Updated NOV 8, 4:45AM #Maine #MEpolitics p1/4

Though the number of reasons to get off all META platforms are numerous, this alone should persuade you. An astonishing 10% of their revenue, they admit––$16 BILLION of $160 BILLION––is earned by running advertising for scams and banned goods. Good god, folks, leave META for good. #BoycottMETA

Black on blue. #caturday

The 2025 Cruise Season is now over. Peace. Casco Bay Portland Maine

I see too many people here and everywhere who think the whole earth should be their personal valet, caterer, and comforter, demanding unreasonable things from complete strangers or lashing out at them for not tuning in on The One Person Who Matters to Them.

#VeniceGiftGuide Venetian history, charming anecdotes, authentic recipes, maps, & a listing by neighborhood of favorite bacari ~ the essential book for the educated tourist in #Venice Andar per Bacari by @monicacesarato.bsky.social To learn more: ytali.com/2023/09/13/i... #VeniceBooks

NEW in #VeniceBooks VENICE TALES translated by @scribedoll.bsky.social The first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. Spanning work from the Middle Ages to modern. US: bookshop.org/a/7154/97801... UK: uk.bookshop.org/a/1498/97801... #Venice #Venezia

“He gave me the time to realize just one click, on film. This picture is once in lifetime, the man with the tricorn hat disappeared into nothingness. Maybe he has been drowned into time, I’ve never seen him again.” —Pietro De Albertis ytali.com/2019/06/15/p... #Venice #Venezia #interview

The problem with a new book from @davidhewson.com is that you basically put everything else in your life on hold while you devour his captivating romp through Venice. #VeniceBooks

Come for the norovirus, stay for the Legionnaires Disease…. #cruiseships

For lovers of Venice, my latest co-translation with Howard Curtis: global.oup.com/academic/pro...:

I’ve been taking #vogaveneta (Venetian-style #rowing, standing up) lessons for over a year now and it’s not getting any easier… #Venice #Venezia

A temporary footbridge allows the devout, and the merely curious, to approach Andrea Palladio’s sublime edifice. It is a time for “long evenings spent outdoors in a jolly mood, eating, drinking and waiting for midnight fireworks to light up the lagoon. The water turns glassy. It really is magical.”

Seems like a crime to take the color out of #Burano but guilty as charged in the pursuit of shadows... 🕶️🔦 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows #venezia #italy #photography #travel #monochrome #blackandwhite #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono

It's Thursday, Mainers! Sunny, high 47º, breezy, gusts up to 35mph. Good day to get out and resist - lots of work to do! =============== MAINE RESISTANCE THUR, NOV 6, 2025 =============== #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #RESIST REPOST & SHARE! Updated NOV 6, 8:50AM #Maine #MEpolitics p2/2

It's Thursday, Mainers! Sunny, high 47º, breezy, gusts up to 35mph. Good day to get out and resist - lots of work to do! =============== MAINE RESISTANCE THUR, NOV 6, 2025 =============== #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #RESIST REPOST & SHARE! Updated NOV 6, 8:50AM #Maine #MEpolitics p1/2

As the shipping industry faces mounting pressure to reduce emissions, one of the most misleading compromises has been the use of exhaust gas cleaning systems-–commonly known as scrubbers @soenkediesener.bsky.social @nabu.de #cruiseships #banscrubbers #Portland #Maine

“Motherhood is new to me” says Sinù Fogarizzu “but the question of inheritance - what we pass down, and what we don’t - has been with me all my life.” In the autumn of 2021, she launched DASH OF PROSECCO, an online newsletter devoted to the foodways and culture of Venice and the wider Veneto region.

Once she moved to #Venice, things felt “completely different – a tidal wave of music, people and energy that swept over the entire historic center. There were some focal points...But really,every campo and every calle was full of life with dancing, singing, and yes, drinking a lot”.

Welcome to the world of cruise passengers……

Two more cruise ships before we regain the serenity of Casco Bay. If you are concerned about the environmental & human impacts of cruise ships in Portland, join us at Portland Cruise Control: portlandcruisecontrolmaine.org/about #Portland #Maine #banscrubbers #cruiseships #cruiseMaine

We try to educate people to the devastating environmental harm that cruise ships inflict on our air and ocean. The residents in port communities have no choice but to be subjected to horrible air pollution, while their local waters are also negatively impacted by scrubbers. foe.org/blog/cruise-...

Come for the norovirus, stay for the Legionnaires Disease…. #cruiseships

One of my favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints wry cats @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🐱

Maine politicos, do you know about this helpful account where Angus King consistently shines as a Trump-normalizing surrender monkey? #MEpolitics

If you thought catching norovirus was bad….. Guests sailing on Norwegian Epic, as well as those who recently sailed, are being warned that a former passenger has contracted Legionnaires’ disease. #cruiseships

A colourful copepod nauplius from yesterday’s plankton sample. #marineplankton 🦑

Listen to Richard Armitage read an extract from the audiobook of The Four Deadly Seasons, out from WF Howes on November 20. davidhewson.com/richard-armi...

Zorhan Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

===================== WED, NOV 5, 5:00-6:30PM ZOOM on CRUISE CONTROL ===================== Join Portland Cruise Control to discuss concerns about growth in cruise tourism, cruise ship pollution, and work on solutions like a scrubber wash ban. FMI: [email protected] #Maine

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

This is a beautiful copepod. Copepods are integral to the marine food web. Scrubber wash discharge from cruise ships is lethal to copepods. Destroy the food web, you destroy the ocean. Now do you get it? Remarkable photo @elizabethbeston.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

This person took this when they called the race

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Concerned about the unlimited growth of cruise tourism in Portland? Worried about cruise ship pollution & spread of infectious disease? Join us tonight on zoom to discuss the 2025 cruise season & work on solutions like a scrubber wash ban #Portland #Maine #Cruiseships #banscrubbers #CruiseMaine

Congratulations to Councilor Ali for winning his reelection! We look forward to working with him on a Scrubber Wash Discharge Ban for Portland ⚓️⚓️⚓️ #Maine #Banscrubbers #Portland #cruiseships #CruiseMaine

A new dawn. Casco Bay Portland Maine

🍷✨ Cicchetti time! Join me on a walk through the real Venice — where every bite tells a story and every glass is a toast to "la vita veneziana". We will taste, laugh, and discover the city one bacaro at a time. 📍Venice | 🥂 Book your Cicchetti Tour 📩 [email protected] #VeniceFoodTour

Zohran Mamdani (D) has been elected Mayor of New York City.

BDN says it's over. www.bangordailynews.com #MEpolitics

BREAKING: Former Maine college student wins New York City mayoral race.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

lol. lmao.

Looking good Portland!

VOTE!

IT IS VOTING DAY, Mainers! Sunny, high 53, gusts up to 45mph. Time to get out, VOTE, and #VoteNoOn1! =============== MAINE RESISTANCE TUES, NOV 4, 2025 =============== #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #RESIST REPOST & SHARE! Updated NOV 4, 6:15AM #NoOn1 #Maine #MEpolitics