Every year AO3 blasts way past their member fundraising goals, it gives me such a kick because yay Reading and Writing!

One week ago, we put out a call for aid. And so far more than 100 of you have signed up to help your favourite museum of growlers, gashes and g-spots in a very tight spot. Will you join the multitudes of eager beavers who make the Vagina Museum happen?

my hobbies include clicking “not now” on every update until my laptop catches fire

The new male, insurance rep was incredibly patronizing about renewing my fine art rider. Can I prove I own that much? Am I sure? Do I have receipts? Am I really sure? So, I'm switching agents, gave them my list of art and, embarrassingly, I HAD gotten get the number wrong. It's more than double.

Got a pre-announcement that a small house (3 beds, 1,600 sf) near me is about to hit the market for $965k. I remember when ‘Million Dollar Listing’ was a glamorous TV show in LA and NYC. Now it’s an everyday house around the corner from the cheaper Indian restaurant in Providence.

Ok who knows enough about textiles made in India to tell me WTF my little new rug is really made of?

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Referrals needed: My home & car insurance rep just left and was replaced by the most patronizing man on the planet. So, I need a new insurance rep serving RI. Suggestions?

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

I’m on dozens of art gallery mailing lists, and aside from formulaic monthly show announcements, only two actually aggressively market to me. Both mainly sell to decorators but their prices are in line with mid-range fine art. Why’s fine art ashamed of marketing? Artists gotta eat!

Welcome to dyslexia: In which I get all tangled as per usual in the back parking lots of downtown and wind up out of breath, racing five minutes late into the building for my meeting only to find I added it to the calendar incorrectly and it’s next monday at 9am instead.

Good news for Substack publishers who are uncomfortable with its Nazi owners - Out of Your League, a sports newsletter about women and gender expansive athletes, just released their $ data after moving off Substack and they GAINED net revenues! www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/seven-mont...

Thrilling day: I attended a speech by Gabriele Zybarth, President of the New England Dahlia Society! I’ve ineptly grown dahlias for nearly 20 years and boy did Gabriele’s practical advice impress me. Some top points: Plant tubers mid-late May with a teaspoon of Osmocote smart release plant food

PSA: This free and easy-to-search and filter database shows past tax returns for all nonprofits in America (except the absolute tiniest) Incredibly useful to search BEFORE you donate to, do business with, join the board of, or send your kids to school projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/s...

It’s National Library Week, so support your fucking libraries people. Use them, fight for their funding, fight for your librarians. Don’t let your most reliable third space go to waste.

Triumph! #takeyourwinswhereyoucanfindthem

And the Croft School building just hit the market - available for lease as of July 2026 $39 sf is a high price for that size ‘office space’ in Providence though www.loopnet.com/Listing/144-...

Spotted the Bluebell Troll of Ashridge today :) // #pareidolia #bluebells #Ashridge #CanonR5markii

Looking out the window at grey, depressing sky: Today’s challenge is to gather enough executive function to propel myself outside to spread compost over 45 rose bushes, because tomorrow it will rain all day

Holy shit, #metoo part II is happening on Threads right this instant. Inspired by that rape training site, women of all ages are naming their childhood rapists Name after name after name, hundreds, maybe thousands www.instagram.com/p/DXQsbOUFYpt/

Who's up for a bibliophillic adventure? 1. Pick up a passport at Charter Books in Newport or Books on the Square and Providence 2. Visit all 20 RI indie bookstores and get stamped 3. Turn it in for 20% off at all participating stores! One lucky winner will get a $25 gift certificate for EACH STORE!

people so often bring an assumption of “successful marriages last forever, therefore the goal of every married couple is to make the marriage last as long as possible” to these conversations that imo comes from lingering beliefs about marriage being a covenant under god

I have received my official, authorized @weatherishappening.com hat. It is labled ‘santa hat’ but designed to fit a child santa because I could only barely squeeze it onto my small adult head. Will put aside for snowman use next winter

In which my kid sister pseudo-casually texts the family chat that Hugh Grant was eating lunch at her neighborhood cafe in the south of France today but she’s not too impressed because she used to run into him in her old neighborhood in London and we are GIVING HER GRIEF unremittingly

free give away: 8 solid metal restaurant table bases, suitable for indoor or outdoor use, now available in PVD. Ping me via Craig's List and I will respond later this evening providence.craigslist.org/zip/d/provid...

Bibliophile alert! The estate of Martin Hutner, board member the Grolier Club & Houghton Library curator, is being auctioned next Thursday April 23 and if you're crazy for books, the history of printing and typography this is the auction catalogue to browse auctions.nyshowplace.com/auctions/4-J...

Inspired by the moon: Look at this beautiful paper art by Antonin Anzil files.constantcontact.com/a4f125ca001/... He's repped by Muriel Guepin Gallery

Driving to work, was so distracted by the Absolute Beauty of huge old cherry trees billowing with pink bloom between clipped yew hedges and the red brick Ladd Observatory behind them, that I nearly sailed through a red light into oncoming traffic Pulled over, shaking. 1/

Talking with people in the decor world these days and most everyone had a brief fling with browns over the winter but want to absolutely surround themselves with pink and gold now. It feels like a thing, like maybe a half-decade’s obsession coming up on us

I just blew $50 at House of Marbles online. If you love to collect *beautiful* things and love something to roll in your hand as you chat on the phone, marbles are awesome - and individually cheap! They have hand blown, carved stone & planetary ones! www.houseofmarbles.us/product-cate...

There’s Elmgrove, Elmhurst and Elmwood but because I am not a Providence native I continually mix the names up and appall and confuse people fairly routinely

that thing where someone slightly younger than you retires and you read about it on LinkedIn from your office

Water is just old rain that’s been through a lot

Thing number 127 that no one tells you about post-menopause: Your body scent will change. For me, it’s my scalp especially. It’s not bad or good - just different. If I’d seen it coming, or been taught to associate it with benefits of aging (wisdom, perspective and ease in one’s own skin) …

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It is telling that my calendar, which is controlled by the ops manager, is nearly empty when she's OOO. Not because she couldn't have pre-loaded it, but because, despite literal signs, buzzers and alerts, she knows I will hyper-focus, forget time exists and miss all my meetings without her here.

Today I had to force myself to address the fact that I have a decorative pillow addiction. I am vastly embarrassing my teenage self. I thought I was going to adult way cooler than that. I am not.

Did the math and I am having 6 cubic feet of compost delivered to my house today in order to (a) sprain my back spreading it and (b) provide the wild rabbit population with a more splendid bounty of greens all summer long.

PLEASE DEAR GOD RHODE ISLAND DO THIS TOO

Does it seem like there’s more internet outages in the US than normal? www.thousandeyes.com/outages/

ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Swalwell’s campaign. Pass it on.

Hey, am I the only one creeped by the fact that Patriot Subaru of Attleboro Mass has been renamed Imperial Subaru? (In Mass, using Patriot in your company name is incredibly common because it’s where the American Revolution to overthrow the king began. It was the patriots versus the redcoats.)

“Fertility rates don’t decrease when women are active in the economy and public life; they decrease when women are required to do all the caretaking and domestic labor in addition to holding down jobs.” www.patreon.com/posts/one-si...

Woke up with my Dad’s subscription to the New Yorker on my mind. He first subscribed as a teen in the early 1940s when his dream was to manage a jazz band and this seemed like useful professional planning. To my knowledge he never went to New York, nor managed a band of any kind, but 1/

When you’re battling your way through distracting ad banners and videos in order to find the weather data your tax dollars paid to gather

Women will be like, “I’m not sure I am qualified enough to run for office” Men will be like, “Yeah, I’m a rapist and everyone around me knows it, but I’m sure I can win” www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

Clipped 45 rose bushes down to 18”, scratched in Rose Tone around their roots, and planted blue and purple pansies in the long window boxes. Fucking great day

Can you imagine if they made a Jesus Christ chatbot that was actually based in the closest thing to historical reality we can get? And it wasn’t allowed to go off script to approve user nonsense. And then forced evangelicals to use it. Still not worth boiling the ocean for but …

A Freidrich St Florian-designed home is for sale in Providence and the furnishings look like a quintessential movie set for a boomer RISD art professor’s home - all quirky antiques and modern pieces Back when professors made enough to live nicely on www.compass.com/homedetails/...