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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 · 4d

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

www.helpherrun.org

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 7h

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."

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

Thank you!

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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!

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

That balustrade!

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

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

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

😂😂😂

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

I had a man explain the entire plot of a book which I was selling at my own yard sale.

I said, yes I read it, it’s my book. He kept on going.

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

I had a man, newly under my supervision, explain that my leadership style was “far too hostile” when I sent him an assignment with a due date.

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

I had a male finance officer explain (quite patiently) that he had failed to pay my business’s pandemic insurance because we were in a pandemic so we needed to save every penny

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

I had a man explain I was too old to understand a field I had won pretty much every award in, because at the time I was in my 50s so I was “too old to get it”

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve had a man explain my conference keynote speech to me as I was stepping away from the podium afterwards

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

Mansplaining Monday: Ladies, what have you had a man explain to you?

I had a man explain how to spell my name, and then when I said that isn’t right, he argued with me

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never played a video game

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

Due to a dental thing, I have now been living on mashed potatoes, apple sauce and yogurt for a month now

Let me tell you, a month of mashed potatoes is not a wasted month

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

Even his fake approval rating is way below that of the Mexican president’s true and sustained 80% approval rating.

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

Re-upping for the Sunday crowd in RI:

Dozens of women running for local office next year will need campaign managers - but only a few exist.This 9-hour training course will give you the tools and connections you need to save the day!

It’s only $65 and scholarships are available. Check it out:

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

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

www.helpherrun.org

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

BTW: People of any gender can take the campaign manager training.

We only ask that you help a woman or gender expansive person run for office in RI next year

🙌

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

Up to 100 women may run for local office in Rhode Island next year - they ALL need campaign managers who know what they are doing.

Want to help? My friends and I invented Help Her Run 3 years ago to make a difference. It’s not-for-profit.

Join us today www.helpherrun.org

www.helpherrun.org

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

Also, (shhh!) Delia has invited several successful women candidates to guest star and reveal what worked for their own campaigns for office in Rhode Island

Names aren’t announced yet, but prepare to be psyched

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 4d

Help Her Run’s course instructor this year is Delia Rodriguez-Masjoan

Delia has been mentoring and building community between women growing into their leadership powers in RI for many years.