@robesmit

'Trampling underfoot wasteful freeways and needless suburbs.' Reporter for @ecoRInews.

 Rhode Island, USA
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Joined June 2018
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Blind Mike
@BlindMike_Oct 19
RIP Richard Riehle. This is probably my favorite scene in Office Space
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William Goodman@goodmanwOct 19
I’m feeling seen.
WIRED
@WIREDOct 19
Would you lie to this man? EXCLUSIVE: Nathan Fielder, codirector of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything,’ sat down with WIRED for an extended interview—the first he’s given to discuss the film. 🔗 wired.com/story/nathan-field…
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HEY, RI VOTERS: Working on a story about Question 4, the $50 million bond proposal for a new State History Center and historic preservation grants. Hmu if you have thoughts (good, bad, or otherwise) about it.
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me, counting in the cloves of garlic I'm adding to the recipe
🦦@mathziastriOct 14
I have a question about americans. Is their garlic smh different from garlic in europe because whenever i use american recipes they put enough garlic in to kill every vampire on earth. Like ill put half the amount in and its still garlicy ASF how
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Circe
@vocalcryOct 12
My theory on books is that they will find you when it is time for you to read them. If a book has sat on your shelf unread for 15 years, the time has not yet come for you to read it.
clara@clarafablesOct 11
it’s funny how sometimes you buy a book, then read it in two days, and sometimes you buy a book and it lives on your bookshelf for 15 years.
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One of the wilder stories I’ve worked on lately, w/@kmulvane providencejournal.com/story/…

Women test men-only traditions at Cranston Italian society

Segregation between the sexes is the norm at the Santa Maria di Prata Society, an Italian social club founded in the 1980s for Roman Catholic men.

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Kimberlee Kruesi@kkruesiOct 8
Just to pile on - just because it's boring doesn't mean it's not important. We want people to show up for the boring stuff! I once rolled my eyes at a chicken ordinance proposal at a city council and it turned into an amazing deep dive on urban farming
Andrew Henderson@andrwfhendersonOct 8
Quote tweets full of journos in DC/NYC/LA/other metros trying to grandstand, "journalism is never boring, how dare you!" Get a grip! Quit making journalism some holier than thou thing! As someone who also once ran a county paper I can attest it can get pretty boring at times!
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The budget meeting in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN is an A+++ for Guys Used to Look Like This:
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I wrote about John McPhee's nature writing. And about slowness, detail, and a kind of literary journalism that is disappearing along with the natural world it describes. thebaffler.com/latest/up-a-c…

Up a Creek | David Schurman Wallace

The Library of America completes John McPhee’s canonization as this country’s most important nature writer.

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A great piece @by_ColinHogan and a great example of the value of long-form journalism. “We went deep with David Morales on governing. Here's what he said “| Exclusive providencejournal.com/story/…

We went deep with David Morales on governing. Here's what he said | Exclusive

We sat down with David Morales to drill into how he would run Providence, from pensions, canceling Flock cameras and whether he would raise taxes.

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Laura Miers
@LauraMiersOct 1
“Operating the generators ‘results in very high levels of air pollution’ and the fleet’s potential emissions are ‘well over the regulatory threshold for a new major source.’” theguardian.com/environment/…

US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits

Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in

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It’s a very billionaire mentality to think the thing the average person wants more than anything is a personal assistant.
Guillermo Flor
@guilleflorvsSep 27
BREAKING: Zuckerberg just described the near-future of computing, and it has nothing to do with screens. His call: within 5 years, every person on Earth has a personal AI that knows their life, understands their goals, and does the work for them. Not a chatbot. Not a search box. An agent that is deeply, intimately embedded in how you live. When the person building the social layer for 3 billion people says this is where we're going, it's not a prediction. It's a roadmap. Is the personal AI agent the most valuable product anyone can build right now?
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Joe
@JoePostinggSep 28
Mass market novels are so much worse than they used to be. Dean Koontz and Dan Brown are high literature compared to Carl the Dungeon Crawler.
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also MAD MEN is not just quite clearly the best tv show of the 21st century, it's the great american novel. lol
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Deadline
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‘The Rehearsal’s Nathan Fielder Just Helped A Pilots’ Mental Health Bill Become Law deadline.com/2026/09/nathan-…

Nathan Fielder Just Helped A Pilots’ Mental Health Bill Become Law

Fielder's campaign has now been successful after the Senate just passed the John A. Hauser Mental Health in Aviation Act.

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Ian Donnis@IanDonnisSep 24
Radio excerpt of my wide-ranging One on One interview with @RIPTA_RI CEO Christopher Durand: funding public transit, bus hub, Kennedy Plaza, car culture and more. Full interview drops later this week oceanstatemedia.org/one-on-o…

‘We need to be responsive to our riders’: RIPTA CEO on the future of public transit in Rhode Island

Christopher Durand says the state’s public transit agency needs long-term financial support to provide reliable service

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Ian Donnis@IanDonnisSep 23
Inbox: "Portsmouth Town Council to Hold Press Conference [6 pm Thursday] Regarding Litigation Challenging State Housing Laws on Constitutional Home Rule Grounds"
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A lot of people will incorrectly diagnose the Covid conscious lesbian bar drama as a woke problem. True heads understand it as a Massachusetts crank problem. These local cranks exist as part of a sacred fabric of obstinate resistance bostonglobe.com/2026/09/17/m…

A Concord man believes he’s a victim of government tyranny. Town Hall says he’s the tyrant. - The...

The core of the dispute is about one point of access to the Estabrook Woods — a pristine thousand acres of forest, much of which is privately owned, that can be reached by a trail that passes by...

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Jazz is easily one of the greatest cultural products from this country.
Melodies & Masterpieces
@SVG__CollectionSep 21
67 years ago today, ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck Quartet was released as a single. It went on to become the best-selling jazz single of the 20th century.
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Every two years the voters in Narragansett throw their elected leaders out for (a) Allowing too much housing or (b) blocking too much housing Looks like this was an "A" year providencejournal.com/story/…

How a housing debate is fueling a political shake-up in Narragansett

Only three of five incumbents survived the primary, with those moving on finishing in the bottom slots.

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