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#OTD (July 11)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#AlbanyNY #TampaFL #YoungstownOH #Chicago #Pittsburgh #NewEngland #ProvidenceRI #Bronx #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#RhodeIsland - Warming Centers | Emergency Management Agency

"Below is a list of warming centers throughout the state. If you do not see your community listed or to verify times and center locations, contact your local municipalities for more information. If you need additional assistance, call 2-1-1.

All details and information are subject to change at any time. Individuals seeking resources are encouraged to call ahead before visiting."

Pets:
Pets needing sheltering may be taken to the Potter League for Animals, located at 87 Oliphant Ln, Middletown, RI. The potter league closes at 5:00 PM daily. If emergency pet sheltering is needed call (401) 846-8276 during and after normal work hours.

#BarringtonRI
#BristolRI
#BurrillvilleRI
#CentralFallsRI
#CharlestownRI
#CoventryRI
#CranstonRI
#CumberlandRI
#EastGreenwichRI
#EastProvidence
#ExeterRI
#GlocesterRI
#HarmonyRI
#HopkintonRI
#JamestownRI
#JohnstonRI
#LincolnRI
#LittleComptonRI
#MiddletownRI
#NewportRI
#NorthKingstownRI
#NorthProvidenceRI
#NorthSmithfieldRI
#PawtucketRI
#PortsmouthRI
#ProvidenceRI
#SouthProvidenceRI
#SmithfieldRI
#TivertonRI
#WarrenRI
#WarwickRI
#WesterlyRI
#WestGreenwichRI
#WestWarwickRI
#WoonsocketRI

FMI - https://riema.ri.gov/warming-centers

For an extended and detailed list of resources provided by Executive Office of Housing for Rhode Islanders experiencing homelessness, please visit, click below.
https://housing.ri.gov/resources/individuals-experiencing-homelessness

@newsbot

#WarmingCenters #WarmingShelters #LibrariesRule #Unhoused #Houseless
#PolarVortex #ArcticBlast #Homeless #WarmingCenterRhodeIsland #EmergencyShelters

#OTD (Dec 16) in 1930, with the arraignment of Raymond L.S. #Patriarca in #ProvidenceRI, federal agents announce they have broken up a human trafficking ring operating on the coasts of #RhodeIsland and #Connecticut.

#MafiaHistory
#Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Oct 27) in 1981, a judge rules that #ProvidenceRI crime boss Raymond #Patriarca is too ill to stand trial for the February 1965 murder of Raymond 'Baby' #Curcio.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

Extended Profile

Synopsis:

• a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time
• social media girlboss
• actually 3 LLMs in the emperor's new trenchcoat
• time-traveler from the past... oh FFS, what have you kids been up to??
• Unfrozen Cavegirl Coder: your modern client-side paradigms frighten and confuse me...

Truisms:

• Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.
• I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.
• That which didn't kill me just really messed me up for a long time and I was lucky to ever get myself back together again. (It also made me stranger.)

Personal sites:

• creative: https://woozalia.com
• technical: https://wooz.dev

I also run https://issuepedia.org and https://htyp.org but nobody knows why.

Details

My legal name is:
Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon
(...but you can call me Woozle, which is short for Woozalia and is also what my parents called me from the time I was about a week old.)

I met @Harena online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.

We both live in #DurhamNC, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).

I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in #ProvidenceRI working at #BrownU Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at #DukeU (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in #AthensGA (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.

Things I sometimes do:

• post original music
• write about #JennyHypertwin
• escalate the War on Bullshit
• write lots of unfinished software
• administer TootCat
• complain about tech (mainly software)
• feel inadequate
• take photos of clouds

(If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)

I was on #GPlus when the walls fell.

I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).

Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.

I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.

I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.

(I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)

My ideas are my children. (Wait, I guess I'd better explain that... I helped Harena raise her 3 youngers, and I have a biological daughter from the aforementioned marriage who is awesome and doing well for herself in Atlanta -- but I very much never wanted kids, and neither did H. It was always other people who did.)

(* exited from Windows)