The U.S. is a rogue state. Literally. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rogue-state I want to see the world take severe action against our officials - individual people like D.T. and Whiskey Pete - who are responsible for kidnapping N. Maduro. Can't say I like Venezuela's president one bit. This doesn't matter. He posed no direct threat to the people of my country. And afaik he posed zero threat whatsoever. #currentEvents #news

One of my biggest wishes for New England this year is more bollards. A driver needs to know that any dangerous or illegal behavior could easily fuck them up. Replace random flex posts with a real bollard. Let’s thoughtfully work to free ourselves from car dependency 🌅 #2026 #BosPoli #MAPoli #transportation #Boston #greaterBoston #MA #NewEngland

Okay Spanish-speaking friends and students, do we have a good resource to learn about moods and tenses? Fir example, my sense is that Spanish speakers will often use the present indicative when it comes to something they *will* do, but this is sooner than the future indicative. Right? (In English we use present indicative for things we do in general or things we do regularly or periodically.) #español #Spanish

Do we know if Linux plans to deal with the keyboard problem soon? This is a big issue. (And I’m not running some obscure distro, but Linux Mint.) Right now a user has to go into the keyboard app EVERY TIME they start up the machine, and modify settings, before getting to work. Why can’t we have a default keyboard layout? This is a big deal because English cannot be assumed in 2026…. #Linux #keyboard

On this Day of Remembrance, let’s keep in mind that transgender people have always been with us. We lived and worked during the American Revolution. We laughed and cried as the pyramids were being built in Giza 🌄 More recently and very much including today, but still reaching back some generations, transgender people face widespread violence. Especially our Black siblings. My heart breaks for every human when I remember those we’ve lost for no good reason. And I celebrate their lives #TDOR

I really like this place - having come from IG where *most* things are suggested content or ads. Thank you all for being your kind, curious, passionate, and weird selves. We have each other #Mastodon

Things can get better - and they may very well if we want it

Why aren’t we grounding *private* flights during the air traffic controller shortage? ✈️ Apparently each of these requires the same staffing as a commercial flight, but will only carry 1-12 rich people. Let this fuel your anger, friends. #USPol #USA

Bike lanes don't cause gentrification. In fact, they provide a very *affordable* transportation option 💡 Bike lanes don't make traffic worse. See the point above, as bike lanes make it so more people can stay off the road 😌 LET'S GO MASSACHUSETTS! New transportation stuff will always require some adjustment, but we deserve freedom from the car brain that has plagued this region for decades. #MAPoli #transportation #Boston

We remember that the "weekend" was a radical leftist idea in 1886. Thank god for the ancestors who have fought on our behalf.

Bay View massacre - Wikipedia

Wisconsin's governor had seven union members killed during what is now referred to as the Bay View Massacre. Thankfully the vast majority of people (some 14,000) went on to live beyond the strike. #history #remember #USA

The first honest American president?

Al Jazeera

The first honest American president

Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.

"Rebuilding an ethical imagination will require more than exposing corruption." Thankfully, I see people doing the work - building relationships, striving to organize and find each other, creating in the midst of hardship. Hang in here 💗

Democratic run State and County Govts contribute 71% of the United States economy, and it's past time they flexed their muscle to protect our humanity

Blue States: It Is Time For Soft Secession

Democratic run State and County Govts contribute 71% of the United States economy, and it's past time they flexed their muscle to protect our humanity

"[We] are far past the time to simply *talk* about soft secession. We must act upon it immediately." Let's go, Massachusetts!!! Time for Karen, Ron, and Governor Healey to get real. #MAPoli #MA #USA

Okay Mastodon, we have to get better at search. I'm sure this can happen while keeping privacy a top value here. For example, I can't even search my own posts? We ought to be able to search like "#(hashtag) @npub1hadd...advy" and find each post that qualifies, but I can't even do it while logged in? This needs to be a feature - and intuitive so people don't need to search forums on the Internet to figure out how.... #fediverse #Mastodon

In my experience, SanDisk sucks for external hard drive back-up. (Gets frozen, etc.) What do yall use?

Hey all! An #introduction to those I haven’t connected with yet - including folks from Bluesky. Welcome! 🫶 From my account you’re likely to see a bunch of current event stuff, appreciation for positive work, dogs and cats, content that I pull in from outside the network, insights from my #Spanish-learning journey, etc. I’m a big fan of hashtags so people can find content on topics of interest. Reach out if you’d like to! I’ve been here for a bit. #currentEvents #español #transportation #Boston

Okay Mastodon, can we STOP reverting hashtag text to all lowercase? People capitalize different characters for important accessibility reasons. Until we address the protocol issue here, we hurt people across the fediverse - disabled and not. I can’t recommend this platform for news, social media, etc. #accessibility #FediTips #Mastodon

No bailout to the AI companies. They deserve to fail and lose that investment money. We have real things to do #USA

Okay #LibreOffice users, what does it mean to change the "theme" of a document or presentation? I've tried this in LibreOffice Impress, but nothing is different. Not the color scheme, not the font.....

Any of you check the news on a *weekly* instead of constant basis? I'm curious to know if there are still any entities curating like a "this week in the news" summary. All I know of right now is Positive News based out of the UK (

Positive News

What went right this week: America’s plunging crime rate, plus more

Crime plummeted in the US, England turned the tide for struggling species, and levitating trains were mooted for a comeback, plus more

which is great, so I'll have to see about their RSS feed for this. Looking for other weekly papers #goodNews #news #positiveNews

“Art should defy injustice, not perpetuate it.” Christopher Nolan invited to address the harm caused by filming in occupied Western Sahara.

Middle East Eye

Christopher Nolan criticised for shooting The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara

Campaigners and filmmakers are angry over the Oscar-winning director's new film using territory occupied by Morocco since 1975

"Any foreign production choosing to shoot in the occupied territory without the consent of the Sahrawi people becomes part of that system of repression, knowingly or not." #art #film #Hollywood #Africa #Morocco #northAfrica #USA