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An article about how surface trolley cars would be put in a subway under downtown Providence with the plan, including detailed routing under downtown.

Nine years after it was first proposed, Providence was still trying to work out building a 4 line subway. Would have gone to the Red Bridge, North Burial Ground, Olneyville, and Trinity Square.

Imagine the city we would have now if there'd been a will to get it done 103 years ago.

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

For the WNBPA and the NWSLPA, solidarity is an ethos as well as a strategy. I spoke with leaders from both unions to learn more about the organizations' strong relationship:

david graeber would have loved the ICE protest frog

davidgraeber.org/articles/on-...

A screenshot of the Oatmeal comic, featuring a colorful meal on a plate with emojis around it, the text reads: "Someone once told me that art is like emotional nutriton. That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings (accompanied by a smiley face and sad face emoji). And if thats the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam"

"consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam"

The always brilliant The Oatmeal on the emptiness and sadness of AI art

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

the author, a white latine femme, in a polka dot black-and-white dress and tights at some kind of formal event. they have short brown hair and origami earings, and are grabbing one arm. they are smiling and looking into the sunlight.

seattle, 2015 ^_^

it's a bit hard to look back at my writing and game design from that period - and see all of my very enthusiastic narrative-engagement - but there's also survival and nonconformity and seeking queer affiniites and playful embodiment. fuck no conversion therapy. fuck yes trans survival.

I had just come out and moved to Seattle, as part of a very exciting micro-wave of migration among trans people. my years in seattle ended up being somewhat brutal - sexual assault in public, police harassment. that changed me. but so did spending so much time with trans femmes.

Leelah Alcorn - Wikipedia

I participated in #JamforLeelah, which highlighted games to honor Leelah Alcorn. rest in power, leelah. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leelah_...

REPARATIVE by zoewsaldana You're a new hire at Reparative Faith Counseling..

as SCOTUS considers conversion therapy (what! is! there! to! consider!) thought some of you may be interested in this choose-your-own-adventure game I released a decade ago, REPARATIVE. you play a therapist at a conversion therapy clinic:

jamforleelah81.itch.io/reparative

The W.N.B.A. makes more money than the N.B.A. did at the same point in its history ANNUAL REVENUE $500 million Projected revenue the 2026 season W.N.B.A/ 400 N.B.A. 1982-83-season 300 1968-69 season 200/ 100 < 2019 season 23 25 27 29 31 SEASON 33 35 37 Sources: Rodney Fort's Sports Business Data • Note: N.B.A. revenue is in 2025 dollars.

much. ÷96 Players get a tiny cut of the W.N.B.A.'s revenue, even as the league has grown significantly ANNUAL REVENUE How much money - $300 million the W.N.B.A. makes Money the players would 250 mshare, if they were paid like N.B.A. players 200 Möney that W.N.B.A. players actually make 150 mil. 100 mil. 50 mil. 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025| Sources: Bloomberg, Forbes, Sportico, Rodney Fort's Sports Business Data Some of this is educated guesswork. The W.N.B.A. doesn't release official revenue data —

What It Would Look Like to Pay W.N.B.A. Players What They Deserve By David Berri Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Berri is a professor at Southern Utah University who studies sports economics. Oct. 3, 2025 @ Share full article 564 The 2025 W.N.B.A. season has set records for attendance, both in total and per game, even before the playoffs. More than three million fans have flocked to see stars like A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces and Alyssa Thomas of the Phoenix Mercury, whose @ nytimes.com

year. •+95 What the top 10 W.N.B.A. players should have earned this year Players were ranked by how much their box score statistics, like points and rebounds, affected wins. 1 mil. 2 mil. 3 mil. $4 mil A'ja Wilson Alyssa Thomas eronica Burton Chelsea Gray Jackie Young pheesa Collier Aliyah Boston Allisha Gray irtney Williams Skylar Diggins Each player's current salary Source: Original box score stats used in calculations from Basketball Reference What about Caitlin Clark? She missed most of the season with a groin injury. But during her magical rookie season in 2024,

My rage, in graphs: #wnba #nba

“The W.N.B.A. makes more money than the N.B.A. did at the same point in its history”

The second point is that this juxtaposition of imagination and violence reflects a much larger conflict between two principles of political action. One might even say, between two conceptions of political reality. The first—call it a “political ontology of violence”—assumes that the ultimate reality is one of forces, with “force” here largely a euphemism for various technologies of physical coercion. To be a “realist” in international relations, for example, has nothing to do with recognizing material realities—in fact, it is all about attributing “interests” to imaginary entities known as “nations”—but about willingness to accept the realities of violence. Nation-states are real because they can kill you. Violence here really is what defines situations. The other could be described as a political ontology of the imagination. It’s not so much a matter of giving “power to the imagination” as in recognizing that the imagination is the source of power in the first place (and here we might take note of the fact that next to the Situationists, the French theorist one will encounter the most often in anarchist bookstores is Cornelius Castoriadis).[38] This is why imaginative powers are seen as suffused with the sacred. What anarchists regularly try to do is to level a systematic and continual challenge to the right of the police, and the authorities in general, to define the situation. They do it by proposing endless alternative frameworks—or, more precisely, by insisting on the power to switch frameworks whenever they like. Puppets are the very embodiment of this power.

"As many activists have observed, the forces of order in the United States seem to have a profound aversion to giant puppets. Often police strategies aim to destroy or capture them before they can even appear on the streets... Cops hate puppets. Activists are puzzled as to why.

david graeber would have loved the ICE protest frog

davidgraeber.org/articles/on-...

wizard frog is insane

Look at what they have to face

🎶 Say My Name, Say My Name 🎶

🙀🙀🙀

I do wish minny was out there though.. 😿

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

man I loooove this style of ball! kah’s unreal handles and deep bag. all of the football passes and gray finding the momentum turning shot every time. AT steal!!!!

Feeling like this is headed for a 100+ point one possession game 🍿 #wnba

Coming soon: Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot A 78-card potent jewel-coloured tarot deck created with linoprinting. Artwork is complete & project is ready to print.

Lxds there are 145 followers on my kickstarter that launches tomorrow - what the actual fuck - you are all beautiful sparkly angels (apart from the goths: you are dark, twisted, glorious vampires) #tarot #tarotsky
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These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.

then, after the bodyslam: "you're going to stand where i told you to stand, or you're next"

this is pure extrajudicial violence.

an illustration of a long tailed strike hitting onto the glass, which reflects the the sky

-This is not the sky-

😢It is really sad to see adorable birds dying because of the reflection on windows, so I made this illustration for some bird protection organizations to propagandize this situation.

#bird #illustration #animalprotection #originalart #animal #digitalart #animalart #artist

the “yayyyyyy” chorus 😭🫡😭

all of the appeals to “it’s an emotional time! They’re emotional!” were awful (and yeah weirdly misogynist). like youre calling phee overly irrational wHAT

The mouths of fools are their ruin.
-Proverbs 18:7, referring to Cathy Deloitte’s bizarre, infantilizing, sexist, racist pivot from pay equity for the #WNBA to “we painted logos on inner city basketball courts, that’s what matters, so many inspired girls!”

Sports Moments 1

I'm a bit of a sports nut and I wanna share some of that nutness with you. 8 moments in 3 minutes I'd like for you to know about! I may do more of these if y'all like this.