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Geek: spreadsheets, programming languages, cybersecurity. Cats. Rhode Island. Food. Lawyer & economics.
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projomike.bsky.social
Frog & Toad is out with this shirt in the wake of this weekend’s tragedy at Brown, an homage to the Mad Peck & the spirit of Providence.
December 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Sunday zen: Pawtuxet River falls at Pawtuxet Village
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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marie.tech
Today's calm: Salter Grove near Pawtuxet village.
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social
Our hearts go out to Brown and their community during this tragic and devastating time. 🤎
Snow-covered Hope Scholarship Flame outside a brick building during a heavy snowfall.
December 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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klonick.bsky.social
“Most of us live off Hope”

Ever true 💔
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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owillis.bsky.social
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens ...
theonion.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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mksongbird.bsky.social
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I am at Tortilla Flats and wanted you to know.

"Yay Friday!

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Yay Friday!
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December 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social
Good luck on your finals, Anchors! ⚓️ Study hard, get lots of rest and take a stroll around campus to relax.
RIC student studying in a brightly lit glass room. RIC student studying RIC students walking to a final exam RIC students studying in the sunlight. 4 students are sitting around a table.
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
I grew up in the 70s and 80s.

If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.

Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.

Hope that helps.
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
dpp.me
It was a very good read
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10d
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I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense. NVIDIA claims to hav...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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bft.wtf
first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water.
April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All warfilms. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him. first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water. audience shouting with laughter when he sank. then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middleaged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself. all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a childs arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didnt oughter of showed it not in front of kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kids it aint until the police turned her turned her out i dont suppose anything happened to her nobody cares what the proles say typical prole reaction they never—
December 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I am at Tortilla Flats and wanted you to know.

"Friday at the flats. Yay!

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December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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🕯Immigrant's Vigil 🕯
#Providence, #RhodeIsland
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
6pm at our RI Statehouse
see you there ❤️
#Solidarity
December 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84. n.pr/48zf0gD
Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, dies
Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
If fewer people would have their heads shoved up their own assess life would be so much better
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12d
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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phileil.bsky.social
When you've lost Newsmax...
kaivanshroff.bsky.social Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 13d
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”

They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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b0rk.jvns.ca
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...
git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...
github.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.

Useful to Journalists,
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Collections growing at 150TBytes/day

@internetarchive

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November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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rtodkelly.bsky.social
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
dpp.me
Be like @jenstewart4ri.bsky.social and frequent www.mapcenter.com

I got a few holiday gifts there including a map of old New England cemeteries (don’t tell my friend Jennifer)
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM