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Hosting a community reading of Pope Leo's encyclical at my house. You are all invited!

Community Reading: Pope Leo’s Encyclical on AI – Local Return

This Friday, I'm attending CNU (Congress for New Urbanism) New England's annual summit. I'll be sitting on a panel focused on Innovative Approaches to Funding, trying my best to reflect the work of @localreturn.bsky.social, alongside 3 incredibly impressive people. If you're there, say hi!

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 21h

Rebecca Solnit's writing is always stirring, but today's essay is particularly so. "It's just an account of where trouble found me or I found trouble a week ago. You don't need to feel good to do the work, just that it's worth doing, and the tragedies, the destruction, makes it only the more so."

meditationsinanemergency.com

To Starve a Whale: Letter from a Hot Planet

I've gotten tough or resilient or case-hardened to the ugly things I read up on daily as part of my writing and civic life. Some of them, the amoral destructiveness of the tech industry and the Trump ...

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not great seeing a Newport shipyard leading off this article on Blackstone buying up "scarce waterfront infrastructure." Blackstone "went from owning zero marinas in 2024 to roughly 200 marinas today — more than anyone in the world."

sanjuandailystar.com

With boats getting bigger, money is flowing into marinas

By MURRAY CARPENTERTanned and tousled after a sailing regatta on Narragansett Bay, more than a thousand people gathered last month at a large marina in Newport, Rhode Island, for three days of competi...

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I thought we were going to get the kind of robots we saw in The Jetsons. Where is Rosie the housekeeper/cleaner? All we got was a roomba.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Life goal: to host all my press conferences in front of the Rhode Island trolls.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What is the word for "things turns out to be unnecessarily harder than they need to be because of technology"?

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Birthday, Bruce Springsteen. When I think of heroes, you're at the top of my list. Thanks for standing up for what's right.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No worse feeling than dealing with the consequences of my own mistakes!

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Local Return @localreturn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You're not going to want to miss our next book discussion. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer is both a beautiful meditation on reciprocity and an urgent judgment on our current economy. Pick it up at your favorite local bookstore or library today. localreturn.org/event/book-c...

localreturn.org

Book Club: The Serviceberry – Local Return

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Elise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New data alert 🚨 - CEO pay surged in 2025, rising 14% to an average $27.9 million - CEOs are paid 325 times as much as the typical worker in their industry - Between 1978 and 2025, top CEO pay rose 1,316% compared to only a 28% increase for typical workers www.epi.org/blog/ceo-pay... #EconSky

epi.org

CEO pay surged in 2025: CEOs are paid 325 times as much as the typical worker

Key findings: CEO pay at the top 350 U.S. firms rose 14.0% in 2025 to an average of $27.9 million. CEOs made 325 times as much as the typical worker in 2025. It hasn’t always been this way. In 1965, C...

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am so moved and inspired by the quiet, non-flashy work of community care that happens at our public libraries. Here are a few things I saw in my visit (to talk about AI and misinformation) at the Northborough, MA Free Library last night.

A flier that reads:

"Social Worker Drop-In
Hours
Meet Northborough's social worker, Caitlin Mitchell.
Connect with community resources, access mental health supports and counseling services, and more.
DATE
TIME
Every Tuesday
3 - 5 PM (1St, 3r
, & 5th
Tuesday)
5 - 7 PM (2nd & 4*h Tuesday)
LOCATION
TAP Room
REGISTRATION
None"

A flier that reads: "NAMI Massachusetts
Local Mental Health
Resources, Support and Education."

A box filled with paper bags that reads: "PERIOD PRODUCT DRIVE. Accepting wrapped pads, tampons, cups, liners."

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does anyone have a contact at the St. Ann's cultural center in Woonsocket? I've tried various methods (email, phone, online form) and have not had much luck.

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A Sword for Stars

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Gradon @gradontripp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rhode Island! Want to be part of fixing our local housing crisis? Interested in getting involved in incremental development? Want to know what the heck I mean by "incremental development"? Now's your chance!

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ecoRI News @ecorinews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Learn how to reduce the carbon on your plate at our next Low Carbon Academy workshop with @dadekian.bsky.social and @robesmit.bsky.social. Register for free at bit.ly/4AfFRLL

bit.ly

Low Carbon Academy: Eat It

A workshop series to help you reduce your carbon footprint, live lighter on the planet, and create positive change

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When people show you who they are...

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Powerful communities sustain powerful infrastructure.” I’ve been committed to that since I first heard Alicia Bell say it in 2020. Powerful community infrastructure doesn’t just happen within organizations or titles. So much of it is in the spaces in between. We’re not set up to sustain that.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"We ask innovators to transform systems while requiring their revenues to fit the purchasing arrangements those systems already recognise."

indyjohar.substack.com

The investment cycle is turning inside out.

An economy can be desperate for transformation and structurally unable to commission it.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This book captures in a historical narrative so much of what I think about on a daily basis. What are we responsible for? Who are we accountable to? How do we manage the distance between producer and consumer in a modern economy? How do we reunite the economic and ethical?

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is wonderful. I am so in awe of Jordan and the work he does in the world.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What do we owe each other? This is what we must attend to.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I will be ordering myself a DEALT WITH stamp.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A really great reason to buy from local merchants who source their meat directly from local farmers, or straight from the farm.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat?

On second thought, I’m not that hungry.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This article offers an overview of much that is wrong with Amazon. As just one example: fees for merchants who sell on their site "have grown so high that the company now takes around half of every dollar a seller earns on the site."

prospect.org

Amazon’s Monopoly Problem Is Growing - The American Prospect

Three years after Amazon caught a federal monopoly lawsuit, sellers say the company’s fees and policies are even worse.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

THIS. "And while my middle-aged self is less brave than the average kindergartener, I too decided who I was and am trying to do it on purpose, which means that I am now professionally sappy and earnest and forever reaching my hand out wondering if anybody will respond in kind..." 1/2

thewhitepages.net

You don’t have to wait for their funeral to notice their outstretched hand

On when we anoint and when we ignore

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So, I know there's an election next week, but @localreturn.bsky.social also has three really great opportunities for people who care about building a strong local economy and community wealth.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Teatro ECAS, Rhode Island's Spanish-language theater, is hosting an open house this Saturday at 4 p.m. Come check out the beautiful theater and upcoming season!

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Had an *oh, I’m the problem here* moment today. Hold me.

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some days I'm reminded that it can be just plain old hard putting your precious creations out there and asking for others to love them.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry

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Jessica David @jdinri.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I love this thought. People do indeed have joy factors! I have never thought of it that way before.

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