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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

When I joined Mastodon and mindly.social in November 2022, a US-based server felt right. But political times have changed, and a non-US-based server seems like a better idea. I used mastodon.help/instances to search since it allows me to search on server size (I want a medium-sized […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Back at the Kahala Theater, now to see Sentimental Value, the last Best Picture nominee I need to see. It's from Norway, and is also nominated for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and five more nominations. I just finished watching the director's Oslo trilogy yesterday […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

At the Kahala Theater to see The Secret Agent, one of two Best Picture nominees I haven't seen yet. It's from Brazil, and is also nominated for Best Actor, the new Best Casting award, and of course Best International Feature. #cinemastodon #movies #KahalaTheater #TheSecretAgent

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

At the Kahala Theater to see Marty Supreme. Of the likely Best Picture nominees, there will be three more (the foreign language ones, which are harder or more expensive to see) remaining after this. I'll find a way before the Oscar ceremony. #cinemastodon #movies #MartySupremeMovie

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

At the Kahala Theater to see Hamnet, getting an earlier start than usual on the likely Best Picture nominees. Also hoping this theater doesn't have as many advertisements and previews as the Dole Cannery. #cinemastodon #movies #hamnet

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

At the Dole Cannery theater to see One Battle After Another, after missing it when it had its earlier run. This is also an experiment with open captions in a movie theater for a movie in English. I use captions on TV/streaming very frequently, so I'm expecting it to feel normal, but we'll see […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

I cancelled my last Substack subscription (Serious Trouble) and then deleted my Substack account today #DumpSubstack #BoycottSubstack #SubstackIsANaziBar

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

I closed my Threads account recently, and just today closed my Instagram account. It felt both good and slightly weird, though I never used either all that much. I have also stopped following anyone on Bluesky, in preparation for closing that too. Facebook will probably not go away for a long […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

At the Dole Cannery theater to see Wicked: For Good in #IMAX (I think the only IMAX screen in the state). #cinemastodon #movies #wickedforgood

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

I was making some charitable donations on this #Thanksgiving day. When I got to the #NatureConservancy I remembered that they knuckled under to the administration's renaming of the #GulfOfMexico, so 1) I reduced my amount a little from last year, and 2) I made my donation "In Memory Of The Gulf […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

Today is #MyMastodonAnniversary, joining three years ago. And yesterday I deleted most of my non-people connections (likes and groups) and profile data (places, schools, jobs) on Facebook, since I've been minimizing my time there and their privacy policies keep getting worse. #Mastodon #anniversary

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

Back to the #Kahala theater, this time to see #Begonia. There's still 8 minutes to go, and before noon on a weekday, but so far I'm alone #movies #cinemastodon

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

I celebrate neither Dick Cheney's death nor his life. That Kamala Harris did the latter is deeply sad to me. As someone who attended her campaign launch event in Oakland in 2019, who still has as I write this a Harris/Walz bumper sticker on my car, I've been a fan for a long time. It's going to […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

I got a political donation request email today (an extremely frequent event), from a politician I am actually a big fan of. After scanning the social media links at the bottom of it and seeing only giant corporations, and not even Bluesky or Threads, I just deleted it. Association matters.

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

At the #Kahala Theater to see a #Japanese #movie at #HIFF (Hawaii International Film Festival), called Tokyo Taxi. I saw a movie called Twilight Samurai by the same director at HIFF way back in 2003. #filmfestival #cinemastodon

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

At the #Kahala Theater to see a #Scottish #movie at #HIFF (Hawaii International Film Festival), called The Golden Spurtle. It's about porridge.

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

How have I gotten this far not hearing of #startrekday (apparently September 8)? It's already over in some parts of the world, and Paramount+ just sent me email about it under 2 hours ago. #startrekday2025

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

Let me know if this is paywalled by the New Yorker, but I liked this cartoon included in today's humor email: www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a4891 Of course I have liked the late Edward Koren's work for many years, including his iconic "Well, there's your problem." #humor #cartoon […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

One hour in and we are off to a great start in the Mastodon for #FreeDC campaign! Learn more at mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115….

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

I just saw a post about #CPB and my first thought was Central Pacific Bank. Because I live in #Hawaii and that's where I bank. Note: This does not indicate that I think what's happening with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is in any way okay.

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025

Amazingly good climate news, probably pay walled (though the New Yorker is worth supporting, if you can). Also it doesn't apply as much to residents of the US (including me, though at least I live in a very blue state) […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2025

[U.S. Politics] I gather that the Social Security trust fund is expected to be gone around 2034, absent congressional action (an oxymoron these days). The "easiest" solution is to raise the maximum amount of income that would be taxed (currently $176.1K), but that approach is still regressive […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2025

This was the #nokings #protest in Honolulu, just after noon local time. I was on the side of the street where the state capitol is, looking towards the far side of the street. It seemed somewhat bigger than the #handsoff protest in April.

Honolulu Hawaii street with protesters, just after noon

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

@FediTips Lately I've noticed that sometimes I see posts in my Home feed that seem out of order. Now, I've always seen boosted posts out of order, since they are sorted by the boost time, but this is different. Maybe this is always bridged posts from Threads or Bluesky users that could be sorted […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025

Last week, Rep. #MikeFlood (R-NB) admitted during a town hall in his district that he did not know that the bill would limit #judges’ #power to hold people in #contempt for violating court orders. He would not have voted for the measure, he said, if he had realized. And as lawmakers returned to […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

I just washed my #GoldenStateWarriors Hawaiian shirt and put it away until next season. Sadly I haven't found such a shirt for the #GoldenStateValkyries, but I did just order a couple of non-Hawaiian shirts. One of them is even a tech short I may be able to run in! #GSV #Basketball

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2025

I'm getting old, which isn't a surprise. I've noticed more and more often the comments on Facebook memories posts are from people who have since died. #mortality #Ageing #NoOneGetsOutOfHereAlive

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2025

It's halftime at the first ever regular season #goldenstatevalkyries game, and now that the #GoldenStateWarriors season is over, this isn't a bad substitute. #wnba #Basketball #GSV #valkyries

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

Two hidden Mickeys from the Disneyland hotel room my wife and I stayed at last week, the first being much more obvious...

Small stool under hotel room sinks, presumably for children, with a Mickey Mouse shaped cutout

Bathroom wallpaper with larger segmented circles and smaller circles between them. One of the smaller circles has "ears," so that it looks like Mickey Mouse (there are more such Mickeys, but not in the scope of this photo).

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025

I think this might be my sign for tomorrow's Hands Off event at the state (Hawaii) capital. I guess I'm not following the "avoid public online planning" suggestion... #HandsOff #MakeAmericaKindAgain #MAKA #Indivisible #IndivisibleHawaii

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

US stock markets see worst day since Covid pandemic after investors shaken by Trump tariffs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/ap… #resist #tariffs2025 #somuchwinning

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Laffy @gottalaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

It’s Miller Time: Musk’s Takeover Is Being Aided by Trumpworld Power Couple Stephen and Katie Miller—he's “the prime minister,” she’s DOGE’s comms guru—liaise between WH & #Musk, & are centrally involved as he tears govt apart. Her relationship w Musk is central to DOGE’s interactions w rest […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

I was reading a Wired article, which I should finish, which referred to Musk as a centibillionaire, and thought that's wrong, since centi means 1/100, like a centimeter is 1/100th of a meter. And then I suddenly realized the Centigrade is named that since there are 100 degrees C between […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2025

I just did a web search for "my last car was a Tesla license plate frame", and surprisingly (to me) I didn't get any useful results. I want it for whatever replaces my Model 3, which would have happened already if the local Volvo dealership wasn't horrible (I'm now waiting for a Kona Electric […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2025

#GiftArticle By ret Lt Col Frank Kendall fmr secy of the #AirForce “…#Trump’s decision to fire snr #military leaders w/o cause is foolish & a disgrace. It politicizes our professional military in a dangerous & debilitating way. What frightens me even more is the removal of 3 judge advocates […]

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2025

I don't spend much time on Facebook, but suddenly I'm seeing a lot of advertising for capybara-related products there. I'm not sure what triggered that, though the capybara in the animated movie Flow was pretty great. #capybara

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2025

One Facebook feature I like is memories. I posted the picture below there 5 years ago today. It seems a lot more recent than that. #hawaii #resident #memory

Part of a State of Hawai'i form for people flying there. Question 1 indicates it covers 1 person. Question 2 indicates that person is an intended resident moving to Hawai'i for at least one year.

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@mweston has moved @mweston.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2025

I'm at the Kahala theater to see I'm Still Here, the last of the Best Picture nominees for me this year. #kahala #imstillhere #CinemaMastodon

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