Judy D
@judyd.bsky.social
Physics/technology professor (retired), grandma, gardener, knitter, procrastinator. No random DMs, it’s creepy. Optics education and outreach at www.pblprojects.org
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The description of this process makes you wonder why there weren’t more fires. Basically, to carbonize filaments for electric light bulbs, the workers connected the filaments to two poles in vulcanized cork placed in the mouth of a small metal can.
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Look we all love a nuns having fun calendar, but @megstampede.bsky.social and I would like to suggest something a little different for next year.
The love notes from nature calendar has animal facts for every month *and* a way to help those animals!
Get em at SquidFacts.net!
The love notes from nature calendar has animal facts for every month *and* a way to help those animals!
Get em at SquidFacts.net!
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Look we all love a nuns having fun calendar, but @megstampede.bsky.social and I would like to suggest something a little different for next year.
The love notes from nature calendar has animal facts for every month *and* a way to help those animals!
Get em at SquidFacts.net!
The love notes from nature calendar has animal facts for every month *and* a way to help those animals!
Get em at SquidFacts.net!
I didn’t think all of them would make little babies.🌱
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I didn’t think all of them would make little babies.🌱
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Yes, we do! The conservative and billionaire class propaganda have half the country brainwashed into believing they don't deserve healthcare, or living wages, or childcare assistance, or better retirement. All while the those classes believe they do deserve it and hoover it all up from all of us.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Yes, we do! The conservative and billionaire class propaganda have half the country brainwashed into believing they don't deserve healthcare, or living wages, or childcare assistance, or better retirement. All while the those classes believe they do deserve it and hoover it all up from all of us.
In Windham, we love our frogs
FRI NOV 28
4:00-5:30 pm Frog Themed Protest
Wear green, frog hats, costumes
Frogs For Freedom---Solidarity with Portland
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
FRI NOV 28
4:00-5:30 pm Frog Themed Protest
Wear green, frog hats, costumes
Frogs For Freedom---Solidarity with Portland
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In Windham, we love our frogs
FRI NOV 28
4:00-5:30 pm Frog Themed Protest
Wear green, frog hats, costumes
Frogs For Freedom---Solidarity with Portland
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
FRI NOV 28
4:00-5:30 pm Frog Themed Protest
Wear green, frog hats, costumes
Frogs For Freedom---Solidarity with Portland
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Aahhh the stupidity
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Aahhh the stupidity
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“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
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We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
Sounds lovely
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sounds lovely
gift article
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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“Trump taking out his adversaries is nothing new. Relatives of Trump Casino executives who died in a rental helicopter crash in New Jersey, will tell you that, as some of them once did to me personally.” Chilling.
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'Lunatic Fringe'
The guy who just last Friday, on his way to yet another golf weekend in Palm Beach, pointed at White House press pool reporter Catherine Lucey and screeched, ‘Quiet, quiet piggy!’ is oddly being laude...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Trump taking out his adversaries is nothing new. Relatives of Trump Casino executives who died in a rental helicopter crash in New Jersey, will tell you that, as some of them once did to me personally.” Chilling.
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The whole administration is a bad movie.
This would be the scene:
[disheveled Rubio walks in, covered in dust, sweaty & tired.]
“What’d I miss? I was busy at the national archive doing my other jobs all day.”
“We translated, announced & are pushing this!” -Steve
<reads 28pt plan>
“Shit.” -Rubio
This would be the scene:
[disheveled Rubio walks in, covered in dust, sweaty & tired.]
“What’d I miss? I was busy at the national archive doing my other jobs all day.”
“We translated, announced & are pushing this!” -Steve
<reads 28pt plan>
“Shit.” -Rubio
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The whole administration is a bad movie.
This would be the scene:
[disheveled Rubio walks in, covered in dust, sweaty & tired.]
“What’d I miss? I was busy at the national archive doing my other jobs all day.”
“We translated, announced & are pushing this!” -Steve
<reads 28pt plan>
“Shit.” -Rubio
This would be the scene:
[disheveled Rubio walks in, covered in dust, sweaty & tired.]
“What’d I miss? I was busy at the national archive doing my other jobs all day.”
“We translated, announced & are pushing this!” -Steve
<reads 28pt plan>
“Shit.” -Rubio
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My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
Five unripe Mara des Bois from the freezing cold greenhouse. Even unripe they’re sweeter than supermarket strawberries. I know because I ate number six.🌱
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Five unripe Mara des Bois from the freezing cold greenhouse. Even unripe they’re sweeter than supermarket strawberries. I know because I ate number six.🌱
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Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
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Every article I see on some legal decision is like "Judge stays ban on overturning the prohibition of temporary stoppage of cloture vote on bill to prevent exclusion of enjoining proscribed veto due to Illegitimi non carborundum."
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Every article I see on some legal decision is like "Judge stays ban on overturning the prohibition of temporary stoppage of cloture vote on bill to prevent exclusion of enjoining proscribed veto due to Illegitimi non carborundum."
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I’m not giving up on ALS and the people it’s hurting. This is Amy’s story. Her fight is our fight.
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I’m not giving up on ALS and the people it’s hurting. This is Amy’s story. Her fight is our fight.
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What the hell: The US accidentally invaded Mexico on Monday, storming a beach and planting DoD “restricted area” signs claiming the land for “the commander,” and triggered a standoff with armed Mexican security forces, all because Trump’s government can’t even identify a border on a map. 🧵 1/
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
What the hell: The US accidentally invaded Mexico on Monday, storming a beach and planting DoD “restricted area” signs claiming the land for “the commander,” and triggered a standoff with armed Mexican security forces, all because Trump’s government can’t even identify a border on a map. 🧵 1/
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Underreported story of the century: NOBODY WANTS TO SHOP FOR THEIR HEALTHCARE. EVER.
Why do Republicans keep thinking the "go shopping" metaphor is a winner? NOBODY WANTS THIS. All anyone wants is to be able to go to the doctor of their choice when they need to and not get robbed in the process.
Why do Republicans keep thinking the "go shopping" metaphor is a winner? NOBODY WANTS THIS. All anyone wants is to be able to go to the doctor of their choice when they need to and not get robbed in the process.
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Underreported story of the century: NOBODY WANTS TO SHOP FOR THEIR HEALTHCARE. EVER.
Why do Republicans keep thinking the "go shopping" metaphor is a winner? NOBODY WANTS THIS. All anyone wants is to be able to go to the doctor of their choice when they need to and not get robbed in the process.
Why do Republicans keep thinking the "go shopping" metaphor is a winner? NOBODY WANTS THIS. All anyone wants is to be able to go to the doctor of their choice when they need to and not get robbed in the process.
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It's Tuesday! That means it's time...for your questions...for the Ask Me Anything part of the Will Bunch Newsletter that drops later today
Things have been happening! Ask me about them!
Things have been happening! Ask me about them!
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
It's Tuesday! That means it's time...for your questions...for the Ask Me Anything part of the Will Bunch Newsletter that drops later today
Things have been happening! Ask me about them!
Things have been happening! Ask me about them!
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You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
" Of 614 people included in a recent court order, just 16 of them — roughly two percent — had a meaningful existing criminal record. "
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
" Of 614 people included in a recent court order, just 16 of them — roughly two percent — had a meaningful existing criminal record. "