To put 90,000sf in context, that’s nearly two acres. It will be a big lump of a building, with no natural light able to reach the middle. Basically a two-story box store.

They don’t stamp your card anymore when you get a Covid shot. The pharmacist gave me side eye when I asked as though I were asking after her leeches. I instantly aged a decade.

Today not one but two different neighbors asked to borrow my spear head spades to dig bulbs in, because these shovels make digging plant and bulbs holes so easy, even in densely packed city soil. 100% recommend as a gift for gardeners spearheadspade.com

😲 just learned there were zero (0) wild turkeys in all of New England when I was born because white settlers wiped them out So as we colored turkeys in grammar school, we were celebrating a bird our people destroyed here (Turkeys only came back after being reintroduced from NY in the mid-1970s)

In one of the later years of the Polaris fan convention, when I was helping to run the charity auction, the Canadian penny was being phased out. We placed “Penny Apocalypse” jars all over the place for people to dump their change in. It was great! We raised a lot!

Note: In Providence, Heartleaf Books on Federal Hill is a community-owned co-op and Bubblegum Bookstore (romance-focused) near Trader Joes is solely owner-operated.

A cousin was listing all the things that annoy her about her mother today and I ruined her rant by saying, You know that’s all ADHD right? That’s not because she’s not trying or she’s an awful person. She’s ADHD to hell and back and she’s been going without helpful meds for 79 years now

First vegetarian Thanksgiving meal with no stuffing, potatoes or butter and it was much nicer than expected. Wild rice did some heavy lifting

Inspired by @danmcgowan.bsky.social’s Rhode Map, we offer our Thanksgiving vibe check on Rhode Island’s only community investment fund: ⬆️ 40 investors 💸 $337,500 raised 🫶 100% gratitude 💫 All-in for 2026

Jammed leftover office flowers into a tub and carried them home for the long weekend, splashing all the way

In which various family text that they are coming to my house for Thanksgiving. I dont care how much you say you like my cooking, something is up when you voluntarily go to the home of a low-sugar, low-carb vegetarian for turkey day

Can you tell a man must have made this graphic? (No, 72” or 6 feet is not “average” for an American man. In fact only 14% of US men are 6 feet or taller.)

Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!

The impact on RI-based colleges and universities is roughly estimated to be $44 million in missed revenue www.golocalprov.com/news/Estimat...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Considering leaving your husband & worried the divorce could get ugly because money and/or kids? First, make a list of the toughest divorce lawyers in your area and then have an initial consultation with every single one. Sometimes this costs ~$100 but worth it if you have the cash because 1/

RI housing crisis made real: a reddit poster said they’re sharing a “tiny” attic near Hope St with one bath, no living room nor oven with two strangers for $900 month. PVD used to be a livable city. What happened? The RI housing report stats reveal… housing.ri.gov/sites/g/file...

Only 6% of single family homes in RI have solar panels environmentamerica.org/rhodeisland/...

At the arrival of rosey-fingered dawn, the cat creeps back to my bed trying to pretend like he has been there all night instead of cavorting elsewhere

Literally just blocked someone preaching that romance genre novels don’t require an HEA or HFN

90% of authors are broke and wouldn’t survive without their day job. Yes even those with big-name publishers. When you steal a free book download you are taking bread from their mouths. Want a free book? Use the library, read AO3, etc. Only creeps and losers use unauthorized download sites

In 1993, the 20% of young women not sure if they wanted to get married included lesbians. So mathematically this shift in young women’s disinterest in marriage is even more dramatic than it appears because now way more straight girls are joining in

Reading this marvelous profile of RI’s Arlene Violet who in 1984 became the first woman in the US to be a state attorney general Since she (barely) lost reelection in ‘86, no woman has ever been RI AG again 😲 Kimberly Ahern is running next year, hope she wins! cranstononline.com/stories/arle...

You know what’s slightly annoying? When the car repair guys readjust your driver’s seat settings, just to pop around their parking lot for a micro second, and then you can’t quite ever get them back to that perfect configuration again

occasionally I remember the ancient greeks and romans had no caffeine and I feel very sorry for them

Not sure how I’m just seeing this now — a succinct, smart open letter, so far signed by over 1100 professional educators, which articulates the key rationales of those of us who refuse the unsupported-by-facts pressure to adopt GenAI anywhere in the educational process. Read & consider signing.

One of the most joyful parts of life actually

How do you handle a chill, rainy Saturday? 13-year old Sunny believes in only getting out of her heated bed for quick snacks because what’s the point of getting up without warm sun to bask in?

Frankie’s entertaining and insightful journalism on women’s pro sports is the highlight of each week for me (and I never thought I was interested in sports, but wow) Often she publishes stories commissioned by major media outlets which then wimped out on running them. Try her newsletter out

Feeling bad for “AllyU” who is trying to get back into her long-abandoned Spotify account tonight, but because she typoed and used my gmail address by mistake when she first signed up, there’s no way for her to reset the password

Rhode Island: Both @sethmagaziner.bsky.social and @amo.house.gov voted in FAVOUR of denouncing “socialism” which the bill text ignorantly equates to totalitarian communism, just as a progressive democrat comes to town

Little free food pantry update: peanut butter still moving swiftly but this week’s big hit is jerky! So that’s why I a lifelong vegetarian am now buying all the organic jerky. In PVD, thanks to Seymour Foods for weekly free delivery!

It’s official my day off and I am sitting in a comfy chair with a cat on my lap and idly checking work emails Two steps forward one step back

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

He is so unhappy Power, money, obsequious staff serving his every whim, golfing days, a beautiful partner, children following in his footsteps, his name marked for the ages His discontent shows in every thought, every move.

A small ranch house that sold for $341k eight years ago is now on the market for $845k (😲) and if you’re interested, you’d better hustle because on the east side of Providence nothing lasts long www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Welp, the Globe was the only major city newspaper subscription I had left. Bye bye

What I would really, really like is for the AI stock market bubble not to burst until January please because most charities in the US are relying on year end giving to carry them through the winter.

Sign over the exit of a small pizza-by-the-slice place in Boston. Looked up and saw it this weekend and thought, this is wonderful. We should all do this above our doors so everyone gets a little blessing* as they depart. *not in an organized religioun way though

Just booked a business meeting for January 2026. It was a clean fresh month far in the distance and now it's sullied and coming up fast

One of the questions on my doctor’s annual checkup is, How many times a week are you on the phone with a friend or family? Do I add up all the times we text or chat over the fence or comment on their socials or email? Phone is such an oddly specific selection to measure human contact now

Nothing like a wildly misogynistic advertisement sponsoring a news story about a wildly misogynistic man We can’t get away from it

Famed artist Rachel Ruysch (1664-1850) worked her brains out as her family’s top breadwinner while bearing TEN CHILDREN. The MFA plaque calls this, “a contemplative pose” with her husband and youngest age 4. Contemplative? Pretty sure that’s exhaustion.

5 best movie genres - witty people trading high speed banter while wearing gorgeous clothes - menopausal women, who look their ages, take charge and save the world - a romantic old house in a foreign country - strangers band together into caring community - does not pass the reverse Bechtel test

Hello. Hi. I was the lone person wearing a mask at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts today. It was weird for the past few years being one of only a few masked people. Being the only masked person is breaking me. Why TF am I the only one?!

The American temperance movement was our ‘first wave’ of feminism not because women are prissy but because men were literally drinking their wages and there wasn’t money left to run the household and feed the family. Plus domestic violence. prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/...

What a beautiful day to dig in 800 or so bulbs at a neighborhood park with friends. This is our 4th year and we are talking about buying little pins that look like tulips to wear at our 5th.

My fellow real estate hounds: Zillow just pulled the plug on climate change info on listings because of a law suit. So now if you want to know if a home has flood or fire risk you need a FirstStreet subscription, which most won’t bother with

I mean, so do I

Heirloom chrysanthemums are the hottest flowers on the planet right now. 3 Porch Farms sold out of fresh cut two weeks before they did last year. Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum’s mum exhibit is amazing this year. Floret is raving. Mums are in!