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Just Mel

@melthemartian.bsky.social

UX designer by day. Running festivals and writing weird fiction by moonlight. https://melthemartian.com

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Andrew Middleton@mapcenter.com · 20h ago

Did you know that The Map Center is the only map store in the country that is directly above a brewery? Tomorrow at 6:30 at Discipline Brewing, Robert Isenberg talks about his new book about bike-packing Canada for Lonely Planet. So if you like beer, bikes, travel or beer, you should join us.

Philip Eil@phileil.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reporter’s query: I’m working on a story about the widely-followed, and yet anonymously-run, social media account “What’s Going On In Rhode Island.” Do you know anything about it, or who runs it? Let’s chat! philip [dot] edward [dot] eil [at] gmail [dot] com

Just Mel@melthemartian.bsky.social · 4d ago

Accidentally merged my “girl bangers” playlist to my holiday playlist and now there’s songs in there called Hot Goblin and Last Night I Turned Into A Ghost. This could make family gatherings really interesting.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4d ago

One of the (many) reasons I think people are so anti-AI is that it’s a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. The average person’s life is difficult, expensive, and getting any kind of loan sucks - unless you’re raising billions of dollars to build an AI data center.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 5d ago

Was awesome to join Bloomberg to talk about the lie of AI - everyone's buying into the mag7 believing CapEx is going towards diverse AI demand, when all it's really doing is supporting the circular cloud revenues of two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcZ...

Providence Streets Coalition@pvdstreets.org · 5d ago

🏖️🚌 TOMORROW: Join us for our annual Transit Oriented Beach Day! Roll up on the beach in the people’s limousine! @ripta.com 😎 ⏰Sat. Aug. 1st 📍Kennedy Plaza Stop X 🚌Bus departs at 9:30 🏖️Arrives South County Beaches at 10:30 🚌Departs South County Beaches at 3:05 ↩️ Bus returns to Providence at 4:30pm

Graphic featuring a beach with illustrated water splashing against a sand colored background with sea creatures, an umbrella, sunglasses and a transit bus scattered about. Trangit Oriented BEACH DAY! Sat Aug 1 @providencestreetsGraphic featuring a beach with illustrated water splashing against a sand colored background with sea creatures, an umbrella, sunglasses and a transit bus scattered about. 4th Annual Trangit Oriented BEACH DAY! Sat. Aug. 1 9:30A - DEPART KENNEDY PLAZA (STOP X - EXCHANGE TERR.) 10:30A - ARRIVES. COUNTY BEACHES 3:05P - DEPART BEACH 4:19P - ARRIVE KENNEDY PLAZA
Just Mel@melthemartian.bsky.social · 6d ago

Without spoiling things too much: I keep thinking about this one part of book 5 of Dungeon Crawler Carl and it hurts so much. I know there’s harder things to come, but this stuck with me.

Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social · 6d ago

Might I interest you in some ORIGINAL ART? GURANTEED included in the first 100 ICC store pre-orders of the new, all-color Banned Book Club!

Iron Circus Comics@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 6d ago

UP FOR PRE-ORDER NOW! BANNED BOOK CLUB by @ryanestrada.com returns with the first 100 preorders including ORIGINAL ART within! Our very own title with notoriety, now in color! Request a copy for yourself, or perhaps for a library near you! They can't stop you! 📚 store.ironcircus.com/products/ban...

Our very own title banned in certain areas makes a COLOR RELEASE! BANNED BOOK CLUB is up for PRE-ORDER! A highly sought title for libraries is coming back in stock in a beautiful, bright color edition! Click the link above to add yourself to the list of those who want to have theirs sent as soon as it arrives to us! When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family’s restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life- or-death stakes she never could have imagined. This was during South Korea's Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protestors In this charged political climate, with Molotov cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Scarlet Letter. Instead she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club. And as Hyun Sook soon discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence as the walls close in.
Steve Ahlquist@steveahlquist.bsky.social · 7d ago

Postal Worker Union President visits as part of the National Call to Protect Our Public Postal Service “We are hardworking Americans who take pride in what we do. This is not about saving our jobs. This is about protecting America’s Postal Service. We don’t want you to miss it after it’s gone...”

Postal Worker Union President visits as part of the National Call to Protect Our Public Postal Service

"We are hardworking Americans who take pride in what we do. This is not about saving our jobs. This is about protecting America's Postal Service. We don't want you to miss it after it's gone...”

steveahlquist.substack.com

Kenny Uong@kennyuong.bsky.social · last wk.

Some important dates for the upcoming primary election in Rhode Island! 🗳️⚓️ 13 days left to register to vote: Mon., 8/10/26 22 days left to apply for a mail ballot: Wed., 8/19/26 23 days until early voting begins: Thu., 8/20/26 43 days until Primary Election Day: Wed., 9/9/26 vote.sos.ri.gov

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Kenny Uong@kennyuong.bsky.social · last wk.

Good morning Providence! @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social's campaign is hosting a remote phonebanking session this evening 5:30-8 pm EDT! Join us! 📱🏙️🗳️⚓ volunteer.davidmoralespvd.com/phonebanking...