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Rhode PVD

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Lover of flower gardens, libraries, history, buildings and feminism. In Providence. She/her/ma’am https://linktr.ee/rhodepvd

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 7d

Want to make a difference in Rhode Island?

Help Her Run - low cost, practical campaign manager training for people helping local women candidates - is accepting applicants for fall sessions now!

If you want to help an RI woman’s campaign next year, grab this training now

www.helpherrun.org

Help Her Run

www.helpherrun.org

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 25m

Thank you for posting about it!

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1h

I HAVE ACQUIRED A COPY - one of the original 400. Thanks be to the Internet.

Anyone who wants to see it, it will be on display in the women of achievement biographical library at GatherRI.org in Providence from Jan 10th on!

Gather RI

GatherRI.org

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1h

Oh my god I had no idea this existed! So wonderful. Am now looking to add a copy to a local nonprofit’s library of women in design!

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1h

"Why did our emasculated spineless male journos remain in room?"

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 5h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anger after female journalists excluded from Afghan embassy event in India

Female reporters were excluded from an event at the Taliban government's embassy in New Delhi.

www.bbc.com

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2h

I hope you are able to take some of the course materials, which no doubt you worked hard on, and share them with eager students in other platforms or venues

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

In 2019, when ICE raids were ratcheted up in RI, you could sign up with a Latinx community group to offer your guest room to people who feared they were being targeted at their own homes.

I know of several people who did that then, but haven’t heard about it this time around. Anyone??

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

And yet wherever you are in Colorado and whatever the weather is there at this moment, you probably need to put some more chapstick on

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

Garlic bagel with chive cream cheese and slices of red onion. Add tomato jam only if it’s made in-house.

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact, autism isn’t for humans only. How do I know? Meet Freddie my neurodivergent cat. He was officially diagnosed by a specialist vet.

He hates being touched by human hands, it feels icky! So we pet him lightly with a whisk broom instead

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

PDF it even if you do own or control the site.

I’ve lost millions of words to hacks, outages, and corporate sales

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

Says the woman living in a place where you cannot nap on the floor or on your lawn because common, giant stinging centipedes

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently today is Thursday

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 3d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

Its the kind of dark rainy day where your light-sensor outdoor lights go on at 9:30am to make your house visible

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

Do you love antiquarian books? An Edinburgh auction house is displaying a collector’s library of science, math and travel and wow it’s so fun to surf www.invaluable.com/catalog/FO0X...

A yellowing page from an antique travel guide illustrates the rhino as described by ancients (a rhino wearing human-made armor looking depressed) vs the rhino drawn from today (a jauntier rhino in just its own skin)

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

I just bought a gift reading for a loved one from you. Can you send an email, explaining how to get it, to the address I gave and then I will print it out and put it in her birthday card?

Thank you!

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

That balustrade!

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

As a New Englander this was a bummer because their logo is Cracker Barrel-cute western.

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

In my years of business, we learned to never ever have accounts with Wells Fargo because it seems like they will screw you in ways other banks haven’t even thought of

Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 4d

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 4d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry but you gotta wait for a breakthrough incident- they drop something, someone slips on a banana, a cute dog greets you both - to be able to acknowledge you exist in proximity. Thereafter, you must switch to midwestern hellos.

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

Cleaning lady texted she’s coming a day early so me and the cats are frantically racing around trying to make the house dirty enough to be worthy of her attention

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 5d

😂😂😂