Mark Stoneman

Independent Historian / Freelance Editor and Translator

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  • It’s almost as if the Washington Post was trolling a certain someone when it referred to a “message on the platform formerly known as Twitter.” Or is this the best the paper can do now that the iconic bird has been replaced with xit, has been xed out, or however…

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  • Two steps forward and one step backward for email subscriptions. My image captions do not show up in the emails that MailPoet generates, and apparently this is a known issue. On top of that, some servers reject emails with a lot of images, which my last post had. So maybe…

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  • Photograph of snow-covered trees with the moon behind them in Center Conway, NH, on the evening of January 6, 2023.

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    Snowy Trees
  • Many conservatives and liberals share an ableist worldview that says getting COVID is now a matter of individual responsibility. Entering society to earn a living, visiting loved ones, buying food, and seeing the doctor are all optional activities, our free choice. We can choose to move about a society that…

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  • The press conference this afternoon reminds me of what a disaster we averted by showing the orange blob the door after one term. I get frustrated by the slow pace of our response to the invasion (and the horrible laissez-faire federal response to the pandemic nowadays), but oh how much…

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  • The Supreme court is no guarantor of our democracy.

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  • WordPress no longer supported the blog theme I was using, so I decided to start from scratch with a minimalist block theme (Livro) that allows full site editing. I’ve got most of the kinks ironed out now, though it still needs tweaking on mobile phones, in particular. More news and…

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  • Photograph of a tree with vibrant blossoms.

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    Springtime in Glover Park, Washington, DC