Right now is a whirlwind of meetings, brainstorming, and plans coming to focus and fruition. We are all linking arms and jumping into making things happen together I am gung ho, ready to do my part, and also need to breath completely alone all weekend long because introversion is exhausting

Want to know about the history, leadership, and impact of Black women in Providence since 1970? Come to a new documentary premiere this Saturday, 1pm at Providence Public Library and meet some of the women featured in it! Great for a cold day Tickets required at: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

I’m going this weekend! Woonsocket history exhibits have been so dominated by the French Canadian immigrant story that Lao people’s stories there were overlooked until now. I heard the exhibit is really good - the opening last weekend was 100% booked

PVD: Want to do a cool public event or art thing on the former 195 land near the pedestrian bridge? Grants of ~$900 per day to put something cool on are available plus you get the space and PR for free www.195districtpark.com/call-for-cur...

Met an artist at an opening this evening who said, “I’m having an amazing career year because people are turning to my work for joy and soothing because the world is falling apart, but also you know, the world is falling apart, so it’s a confusing time for me”

Plese repost & share: "The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education." www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Love stargazing? Did you know there’s a boat that will take you from Narragansett RI into the ocean away from light pollution at night so you can look up??!!!! I did not know this until today and I am so excited www.stellar-events.org/copy-of-ma-s...

In which yet another friend in RI is absolutely shocked when I mentioned ICE has nabbed people here already. I guess our local news media must be doing a crappy job, because if you’re white and not very online, you may not know

Neither of Rhode Island’s congressmen, Gabe Amo nor Seth Magaziner, are among the 101 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Seth reps a purple area and has strong conservative competitors so this makes sense. Amo reps a blue area who probably assumed he was progressive when they voted

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Bit of a shock. Opened my email to find myself, nearly a decade ago, staring solemnly back with a national award plaque clutched to my chest The red hair’s nearly all white now, no idea what happened to the plaque Best wishes to everyone the email was promoting tickets for this year’s awards to

Example #439 of RI’s a blue state, but still conservative AF, from State Senator Tiara Mack’s newsletter tonight, “It was almost impossible for me to introduce a resolution [against ICE]. Condemning ICE was seen as too controversial and divisive for the Senate floor.” 😱

I am soothing myself with extra-long fanfic rereads You?

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

And Hilton isn’t just Hilton. Other Hilton brands: Waldorf Astoria LXR Conrad Signia Curio DoubleTree Hilton Garden Inn Hampton Tru Spark Motto Tempo LivSmart Embassy Suites Homewood Suites Home2 Canopy by Hilton Tapestry Collection Graduate Hotels NoMad — Do with that information what you will.

I save all the thank you notes and greeting cards people send me. I have a special box in my study for them. I don’t save old paperwork, clothing that no longer fits, abandoned hobbies or other junk. I only save notes of appreciation. They’re worth keeping.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Why do some powerful and successful women avoid encouraging other women’s climb up? Had a revelation today. It’s part ‘there can be only one’ nonsense we’re taught by endless movies where it’s a gang of men plus one (1) woman, and myths about women being unable to share a household 1/

The thing that’s shocked me most in everyday life, besides casual racism and misogyny from liberals, is the anxiety and incomprehension people feel about numbers, budgets and spreadsheets. Educated people. People with PhDs and leadership roles. Mention cash flow analysis and they run screaming

Back in the mid-1990s, you’d submit your new web site to search listing sites and A HUMAN would look at it and add it manually to the list in the category you requested. Now that sites are starting to block bots because AI scraping, how will listing sites 3.0 work and look like???

If you need a job you can do from home, live anywhere and have eager clients, be beloved, be paid, be safe from robots and AI, and have time for your hobbies Nonprofit bookkeeping and accounting

I am urgently searching for a small painting showing 2-3 women who are friends hanging out together. It says something about, well something, that a solid 50% of results are white people with dogs

The owners loved the 1950's Era and would gladly include some decor in the home sale if interested” No, it’s not the midcentury style you’re imagining. I don’t even know what you’re imagining, but it’s not that www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Remembering when Raimundo closed the borders

I’m an early adopter. I won an award for educating US librarians about CD ROMs in 1991; I launched web sites in early 1995; made my living by publishing my own email newsletters in 2000; turned my lawn into a native meadow in 2014. Gen AI is dangerous. We are not ready to put it in public schools.

RI Foundation staff are so excited about wrecking our educational system with AI. They’re patting themselves on the back for making “RI schools the first fully AI schools in America” These are good people who truly care. They’re also absolutely clueless about technology 🤦‍♀️ Please reach out to them!

Do you care about AI and kids minds in Rhode Island? RI Foundation are pulling together an initiative to put advanced AI systems in all our public schools! They seem 100% unaware AI is proven to harm brains and trash our environment Please let them know what you think rifoundation.org/about/team

Marketplace radio interviewed a shop owner. “It was a stressful holiday season. I worked 12 hour days & it was a struggle to find balance,” she said, “but I’m turning 40 soon so that’s something to be excited about!” Millenial women: the first gen to be excited about 40 and that’s so damn awesome

Decorating sigh: So after Trump won in 2016, the market was awash with golden metal decor. Gold faucets, gold cabinet drawer pulls, gold light fixtures. It takes ~10 years for decor trends to fully wane so we were just coming out of it when... and now it's hitting the fucking furniture as well

When you find out your favorite published book author’s own comfort read is also one of your own comfort reads It’s a bit like sharing a fuzzy blanket with a friend

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

Reminder: There’s a data center in the heart of Providence’s west end one block from Ogie’s Even though it’s near hundreds of homes, the street was an industrial strip until very recently, so that’s how they got this heat-creating, heavy electrical usage facility built.

I was curious today so I looked it up: White men make up 8% of the world's population.

Need to protect the strength I gathered in the long holiday break. Diet and exercise matter but as an introvert people-time is also a tight balance So, aside from close companions, I'm limited to 2 important meetings or 4 'in passing' chats per day. If I do more, I crash. If I do none, I break.

Reminder: Dunning-Kruger goes both ways. Men overall tend to think they are way (way, way) smarter than they are, while women often deeply underestimate their own abilities. krtk.elte.hu/en/2025/04/r...

*Only in Rhode Island* My lawyer: Where do you want to meet? We can meet in Providence at your offices, their offices, or their lawyer’s offices Me: Their lawyer’s in Warwick My lawyer: Oh. Well, I won’t go to Warwick, that’s too far. Me: Lol My lawyer: I’m serious

I do not drink so I was not drunk but a piece of art just arrived from the UK that apparently I bought a week or two ago? Do not chillax, after a stressful decade, with a credit card in your hand

Oh yay, Rhode Island among the 8 states most likely to have postalmark delays that will impact our tax filings, vote by mail and holiday thank you notes to cranky relatives www.brookings.edu/articles/whe...

In which RI Senator Jack Reed, a defense expert and veteran, crosses party lines to vote IN FAVOR of confirming a man the CIA dumped because he “definitely poorly handled” his last job, according to Military.com

Joe Shekarchi has not formally declared yet and his opponent must be seething

Congress is about to make a huge push into online ID verification, entrenching the power of big tech and mandating that they collect even MORE data on users. Mass surveillance/censorship laws are being framed as “child safety” but they’re really abt at removing LGBTQ ppl, repro justice info, etc.

Ok I did not know Venezuela has more crude oil reserves than any middle eastern country If we were going to do a war to grab oil, why did we dick around in Iran and Iraq? Why not just go to the top from the start? It’s not like we’ve previously kept our hands clean in Latin America.

Pointing out RI Senator Whitehouse apparently has yet to make any statement whatsoever about Venezuela Reed, Amo and Magaziner all had statements out yesterday afternoon

If you are a fan of artist Cathy Cullis, you will understand my triumph of snatching a tiny painting for myself at precisely 30 seconds after her store opened this afternoon I’d like to thank Apple Pay for this victory - if I’d had to type in shipping, etc, I would have lost it

So my appointment with the color-stylist was super useful. I’m afire to up my style and mood by dressing in colors more suited to me. First step, photographing (the few) things in my wardrobe that aren’t navy blue or muddy green. So far zero photos without Freddie hopping in at the last second

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Toddling out of bed at 9am this morning whilst considering this upcoming week’s multiple 8am meetings. It’s going to feel like daylight savings time spring ahead from hell, isn’t it?