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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 · 15d

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1h

Yes

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 8h

My hot take is that drag kings should get as much positive attention as drag queens instead of being largely overlooked

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

Bracing myself for yet another Halloween when I’ll have to smile kindly at children whose idiot (at best) parents allow them to wear HP costumes

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 1d

The disturbing amount of Harry Potter cosplay here at Baltimore Comic Con definitely drives home how many people either don’t know or don’t care about JK’s transphobia, and why it’s important to keep beating the drum about how feeding her money directly harms people.

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to live in an America where if you have extra money, you can explore building restorative spaces for your community, instead of desperately getting funds to people for food, rent and abortions.

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 1d

I will be going to these while on sabbatical next year. www.stayfolio.com/en/findstay/...

of.onebookstay

The time for just a book and I, after the busy days

www.stayfolio.com

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this piece during a US federal government shutdown in 2013 and everything I said then is just as true today, except I’m even more furious at the people who don’t understand the value of collective systems and universal provision.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If we want a civilised society, charities can't fill the void left by government | Debbie Chachra

Debbie Chachra: I gave to a local food bank because women with infants are going hungry thanks to the shutdown. But it fills me with fury

www.theguardian.com

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not on WPRI’s homepage either. The only local news I can find that really covered it (vs a quick item) besides Steve Alquist was GoLocal, which is saying something…

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re looking out the window at this beautiful Sunday weather and thinking, I should clean up my yard, NO YOU’RE NOT. ‘Messy’ gardens and yards help insects and thus birds overwinter.

Go out and plant some bulbs instead at the edges for spring bloom.

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

Making polite chatter, I turned and asked the older gentleman in a bow tie next to me what was the last protest he’d attended.

“Ban the bomb in the 1960s”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Mikaila!

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

I saw plenty of RI state reps and senators today, but our federal team, Whitehouse, Reed, Amos and Magaziner, were not there to my knowledge

Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

Reminded today of a book review I wrote years ago about a fantasy story in which four 25 year old white men lead a resistance march against oligarchs.

The bulk of people marching today, as always, were women many grey and white haired. Few marchers and no speakers were young cis white men.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 3d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

Block them and move on

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

www.yahoo.com

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 2d

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

I have now had to explain to two different male managers on the construction team, we are paying a great deal of money to, that they can’t use the term “girls” to refer to the adult women on our team.

That’s two times too many and my forehead hurts from the vein popping

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 2d

Ordered a print copy of this from Bookshop.org
so fast my finger got a blister

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

I loathe it when people use the term “strong women” to describe women of achievement. It implies all other women are weak which is sexist AF and contains obnoxious #notlikeothergirls energy

Maybe stop saying “strong women” unless you are talking about weight lifters

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

Good catch!!

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

If you work for or on the board of a nonprofit, and they use Salesforce, it’s time for to push for a conscious decision about whether to dump it.

Get the decision on the record. Because they support ICE bigly

www.linkedin.com/pulse/goodby...

Goodbye, Salesforce: A Farewell and a Warning

This is very hard for me to write, and it’s not what I would have written had we been living in a different reality from the one we currently are. But, I need to clear my own conscience as much as I n...

www.linkedin.com

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

My life is divided into people going to No Kings, people going to Head of the Charles and people planting bulbs tomorrow

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

Jill has also raised more money locally for her canpaign than any of the other candidates. (Matt McDermott has raised 10% more total but has big out if state donors.)

Noting it’s maybe unusual for a woman candidate to raise more than all the men. That said, her day job is in nonprofit development

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, ok. Former PVD city councilor Helen Anthony who had declined to endorse anyone in the hotly contested battle to replace her, has now come out in favor of Jill Davidson

Plus Jill nabbed Sam Zurier’s endorsement as well

Sam zurier, an older white guy, and Helen Anthony, a blonde white woman, flank Jill Davidson a shorter white woman with an enormous red scarf, in front of a historic home on the east side of Providence. Everyone is smiling for the camera

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 3d

The RIDP doesn’t even have the decency to use the term ‘gun control’