Mary Beth Rudis<p>In other news, my state is considering a bill to adopt an official amphibian and official reptile <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpringPeeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpringPeeper</span></a> <a href="https://maineaudubon.org/news/maine-audubon-supports-bills-to-designate-a-state-amphibian-and-reptile/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">maineaudubon.org/news/maine-au</span><span class="invisible">dubon-supports-bills-to-designate-a-state-amphibian-and-reptile/</span></a><br>Makes me proud to be a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a></p>
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Chang Terhune<p>Greetings from the snowy wastes of Maine. I’m 6’6” or 2m tall. Those snowdrifts are up to my waist. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/snow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>snow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newengland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newengland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Meanwhile, in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>...</p><p> How Concerned Citizens Drove a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoNazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazi</span></a> Out of Rural Maine<br> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristopherPohlhaus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristopherPohlhaus</span></a> wanted to build a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> training compound in America’s whitest state. His neighbors had other plans. </p><p>by Mira Ptacin | The Atavist Magazine | October 31, 2024 </p><p>"The first step in establishing a neo-Nazi compound is to clear and level the land. These sites tend to pop up in rural America, which means that there’s brush to hack down, tree stumps to pull up, and piles of debris to burn. All this work is done to make room for the barracks, kitchens, and meeting halls where modern-day devotees of Adolf Hitler will live, work, and train together.</p><p>"When Christopher Pohlhaus moved to the forested lot where, like other neo-Nazis on other forested lots before him, he planned to start a fascist revolution, he brought two RVs with him. That meant he had somewhere to bunk down at night. But he didn’t have running water. I can’t say how he bathed when he first arrived; as for other matters of hygiene, perhaps he used the woods.</p><p>"Pohlhaus’s parcel of 10.6 acres does not have an address. Technically, it’s in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpringfieldMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpringfieldMaine</span></a>, a hamlet of fewer than 300 people. The closest city, about an hour’s drive away, is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BangorMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BangorMaine</span></a>. That’s where Pohlhaus, a gym rat, eventually joined Planet Fitness. To get home after a session of lifting, showering, and doing whatever else he needed to do, Pohlhaus would take Route 2 north, then turn eastward on Route 6. He would drive to Bottle Lake Road, take a right, and drive about two miles before taking another right on a gravel lane called Moores Road. Eventually, among scattered hunting camps, Trump banners, and 'Support the Blue' signs, he would come to a metal gate situated on a dirt road. Behind the gate sat the land of Pohlhaus’s dreams.</p><p>"Pohlhaus, 37, is a former U.S. marine, an itinerant tattoo artist, and a hardcore white-supremacist influencer. He is loud and hostile, and proud to be both. His voice is pitched surprisingly high, and he has a slight Southern drawl. He has a large body and small bald head; a blue-black tattoo crawls up the right side of his face, from his chin to his forehead. Over the years, Pohlhaus has collected thousands of social media followers, who know him by his nickname: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hammer</span></a>.</p><p>"Hammer had been living in Texas for a few years when, in March 2022, he bought the land in Maine. He told his followers that he was going to use it to build a haven, operational center, and training ground for white supremacists. He invited them to join him. Together, he said, they would plant the seed of a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteEthnostate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteEthnostate</span></a>, and they would engage in violence, if necessary, to nurture it. 'An unarmed man sacrifices his family to the unpredictably [sic] of chaos,' Hammer wrote online in 2021.</p><p>"Hammer packed his bags and headed north, meeting with various white supremacists along the way. He solicited donations for his new compound in the form of cryptocurrency, and later set up a page on GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding site. He raised close to $10,000 before the campaign was shut down earlier this year.</p><p>"Once he’d settled in Maine, Hammer kept his followers abreast of his progress breaking ground, frequently posting photos and uploading videos to Telegram. There was Hammer standing next to a pile of freshly chopped wood, snowshoeing through the forest, holding a beer in front of a bonfire. Followers saw him cradling an AK-47 in his arms. (Caption: 'All this Slavic war training in the Maine woods has me exhausted!') Hammer posted footage from a celebration he held with about eight of his followers, where he claimed they sacrificed a goat. Another clip showed Hammer helping a man in a balaclava slice the palm of his hand as part of an initiation ritual.</p><p>"Hammer appeared excited, optimistic. He was careful—or thought that he was careful—not to reveal his exact location, lest it attract unwanted attention from his enemies, including the media and the FBI. If people wanted to join him at the compound, they could get in touch directly.</p><p>"But unbeknownst to Hammer, he was being followed. A longtime <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a> was determined to wipe the smirk off the neo-Nazi’s face. Indeed, he hoped to run Hammer out of the state for good."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://longreads.com/2024/10/31/how-concerned-citizens-drove-a-neo-nazi-out-of-rural-maine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2024/10/31/how-c</span><span class="invisible">oncerned-citizens-drove-a-neo-nazi-out-of-rural-maine/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckNazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoPlaceForHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoPlaceForHate</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalProjectAgainstHateAndExtremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalProjectAgainstHateAndExtremism</span></a></p>
mary beth ☑️<p>Each state in the USA has been granted the authority to govern its own elections, including primary elections. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> constitution requires any/all candidates to provide a statement with evidence certifying that they are eligible to hold office. Secy <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Bellows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bellows</span></a> was granted the authority by the state legislature to resolve any dispute of that claim by a candidate. Am I happy? No. Do I recognize the tension this causes? Absolutely. But I’ve never been more proud to be a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a></p>
Borghal<p>I think this is some sort of rite of passage. I don't particularly like soda, but I had to try a <a href="https://hda.zone/tags/Moxie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moxie</span></a>. Am I a <a href="https://hda.zone/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a> yet?</p><p><a href="https://hda.zone/tags/MaineThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineThings</span></a></p>
Gerrit Kuilder<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> I am currently listening to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a>'s Blues by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/J" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>J</span></a>.E.Mainer & His <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mountaineers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mountaineers</span></a> from the album 40 Classics: Old Time Mountain Music And More Old Time Mountain Music see <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spotify</span></a> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5iaeAP8VM02W4JRtaP0goI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/track/5iaeAP8</span><span class="invisible">VM02W4JRtaP0goI</span></a></p>
(wryl)<p>I'm a former <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maine</span></a> resident. Born, raised and thrived there for 20 years.</p><p>I don't have words that can adequately describe my feelings.</p><p>All I can say is my heart breaks and my mind races. I can't believe the shooter is still at large. I can't believe something of this scale happened in a state I considered safe ground.</p><p>"I can't believe this is real" is something that my friends have been saying for the last 12 hours.</p><p>For any <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a> out there, if you're hurting or scared, please reach out.</p>
Andrew Abdalian<p><a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>'s governor does not refer a person from Maine as a <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a>, but instead uses the term “Maine people” as the demonym. Does anyone know if there's any significance to this choice, or if it's just dialectal or idiolectal?</p>
@baffled@mstdn.ca<p>Nate</p><p>Portrait of Nate, a Maine lobsterman, mixed media. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/mixedmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mixedmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/portrait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>portrait</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/lobsterman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lobsterman</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>painting</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/filmphotgraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filmphotgraphy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/filmisnotdead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filmisnotdead</span></a></p>
Timothy Jasionowski<p>Say you married a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mainer</span></a> without saying you married someone from <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maine</span></a>.</p>
josh :verified_coffee:<p>Looking to change <a href="https://cunnin.me/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> instances? Like maybe you're a <a href="https://cunnin.me/tags/Mainer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mainer</span></a> and want to be on the Ain't That Cunnin'instance?</p><p>This section of Medium's guide to Mastodon is the most concise I've found:</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@jimpjorps/a-non-computer-persons-guide-to-how-mastodon-instances-work-da6ceac1994a#:~:text=If%20you%20want%20to%20change%20instances&text=In%20Settings%20%3E%20Account%20%3E%20Account%20Settings,redirect%20to%20your%20new%20one" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@jimpjorps/a-non-co</span><span class="invisible">mputer-persons-guide-to-how-mastodon-instances-work-da6ceac1994a#:~:text=If%20you%20want%20to%20change%20instances&text=In%20Settings%20%3E%20Account%20%3E%20Account%20Settings,redirect%20to%20your%20new%20one</span></a>.</p><p>Your posts don't move, but your old account can stay as an archive and redirect to your new one.</p>
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