Justretired2025
@almostretired2025.bsky.social
Midwest Physics Teacher. Retiring in May 2025 after 34 years in education. #StillMasking
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These election results are giving me so much hope! Inject that stuff straight into my veins!!🎉🔥🔥
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
These election results are giving me so much hope! Inject that stuff straight into my veins!!🎉🔥🔥
Costco in Loves Park IL has Novavax! Got my booster today. Thought I’d let my peeps know if you are looking. 😁
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Costco in Loves Park IL has Novavax! Got my booster today. Thought I’d let my peeps know if you are looking. 😁
Yesterday one of my tires blew. I was helped by a kind man who had much better tools than I.
Suggestion: evaluate your tire tools. $55 got me a 2 ton Jack and better lug nut wrench. I learned to use the jack & used the labeler to add instructions for my future self. Now I am much better prepared.
Suggestion: evaluate your tire tools. $55 got me a 2 ton Jack and better lug nut wrench. I learned to use the jack & used the labeler to add instructions for my future self. Now I am much better prepared.
September 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Yesterday one of my tires blew. I was helped by a kind man who had much better tools than I.
Suggestion: evaluate your tire tools. $55 got me a 2 ton Jack and better lug nut wrench. I learned to use the jack & used the labeler to add instructions for my future self. Now I am much better prepared.
Suggestion: evaluate your tire tools. $55 got me a 2 ton Jack and better lug nut wrench. I learned to use the jack & used the labeler to add instructions for my future self. Now I am much better prepared.
I’m officially retired!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
May 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I’m officially retired!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Reposted by Justretired2025
A brilliant essay on the relationships of: the COVID pandemic, climate change, the disabled community and the maddening indifference to it all.
Written by Violet Affleck: someone who sees the big picture and is making a difference.
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
Written by Violet Affleck: someone who sees the big picture and is making a difference.
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
yaleglobalhealthreview.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A brilliant essay on the relationships of: the COVID pandemic, climate change, the disabled community and the maddening indifference to it all.
Written by Violet Affleck: someone who sees the big picture and is making a difference.
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
Written by Violet Affleck: someone who sees the big picture and is making a difference.
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
Reposted by Justretired2025
Live in Illinois? Please sign a witness slip as a proponent for clean air for healthy equitable schools.
Select SB2193 (it rhymes)
Today’s my 45th birthday. Please share! I’ve been fighting for this locally for 5 years.
Select SB2193 (it rhymes)
Today’s my 45th birthday. Please share! I’ve been fighting for this locally for 5 years.
ACTION ITEM! From IL? Our Clean Air for Healthy Equitable Schools bill (SB2193) will have a subject matter hearing in the Senate’s Appropriations-Education Committee TOMORROW (5/13) at 3:30. Pls complete a witness slip as a PROPONENT. Also, pls repost this!
my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/...
my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/...
May 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Live in Illinois? Please sign a witness slip as a proponent for clean air for healthy equitable schools.
Select SB2193 (it rhymes)
Today’s my 45th birthday. Please share! I’ve been fighting for this locally for 5 years.
Select SB2193 (it rhymes)
Today’s my 45th birthday. Please share! I’ve been fighting for this locally for 5 years.
I am pledging to print out this graphic, write the word “Coward” in all caps and snail mail 10 copies to each Dem Senator who voted yes. Anyone else with me???
March 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I am pledging to print out this graphic, write the word “Coward” in all caps and snail mail 10 copies to each Dem Senator who voted yes. Anyone else with me???
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
substack.com/@samanthabee...
I agree 100% w/Sam Bee. We need a single voice as leader& I’m not alone saying I think it should be you.
Signed, a mom/teacher/person trying her best to resist and organize my peeps (who only has 5 peeps for the postcard writing this week)
substack.com/@samanthabee...
I agree 100% w/Sam Bee. We need a single voice as leader& I’m not alone saying I think it should be you.
Signed, a mom/teacher/person trying her best to resist and organize my peeps (who only has 5 peeps for the postcard writing this week)
O Captain! Any Captain?
Tell me, tell me, tell me...who?
substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
substack.com/@samanthabee...
I agree 100% w/Sam Bee. We need a single voice as leader& I’m not alone saying I think it should be you.
Signed, a mom/teacher/person trying her best to resist and organize my peeps (who only has 5 peeps for the postcard writing this week)
substack.com/@samanthabee...
I agree 100% w/Sam Bee. We need a single voice as leader& I’m not alone saying I think it should be you.
Signed, a mom/teacher/person trying her best to resist and organize my peeps (who only has 5 peeps for the postcard writing this week)
Got up to some good trouble tonight - submitted a tip to the Dept of Ed about some rogue DEI hire named Elon at Comrade K's Academy....
March 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Got up to some good trouble tonight - submitted a tip to the Dept of Ed about some rogue DEI hire named Elon at Comrade K's Academy....
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Is anyone else wondering- where are
The Obamas
The Clintons
The Bidens
The Harrises
And the Bushes?
The Obamas
The Clintons
The Bidens
The Harrises
And the Bushes?
February 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Is anyone else wondering- where are
The Obamas
The Clintons
The Bidens
The Harrises
And the Bushes?
The Obamas
The Clintons
The Bidens
The Harrises
And the Bushes?
Reposted by Justretired2025
“I don’t consider myself COVID cautious. I consider myself COVID competent,” Zebrowski said. “Cautious would imply that I have an unreasonable fear of something. I do not have an unreasonable fear of this disease.”
Nailed it 🔥
Nailed it 🔥
Meet the Americans who still take COVID-19 precautions seriously
People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic.
apnews.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“I don’t consider myself COVID cautious. I consider myself COVID competent,” Zebrowski said. “Cautious would imply that I have an unreasonable fear of something. I do not have an unreasonable fear of this disease.”
Nailed it 🔥
Nailed it 🔥
Whiskey is NOT amused at this whole “sweatshirt” idea to go play in the snow. It’s, quite frankly, the angriest I’ve ever seen her look. 😂#dogsofbluesky
December 24, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Whiskey is NOT amused at this whole “sweatshirt” idea to go play in the snow. It’s, quite frankly, the angriest I’ve ever seen her look. 😂#dogsofbluesky
Sitting in the dark, complete silence. A candle and twinkle lights illuminate my takeout dinner. A glass of Malbec. I’m finally feeling some of the end of semester stress temporarily leave my body. Only 87 more school days to go. #fridaynightteacherlife #iteachphysics
December 14, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Sitting in the dark, complete silence. A candle and twinkle lights illuminate my takeout dinner. A glass of Malbec. I’m finally feeling some of the end of semester stress temporarily leave my body. Only 87 more school days to go. #fridaynightteacherlife #iteachphysics
Found out today that a colleague’s 6year old has had a series of strokes. This is so sad, and used to be practically unheard of before the-virus-that-shall-not-be-named.
Sigh.
Sigh.
December 10, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Found out today that a colleague’s 6year old has had a series of strokes. This is so sad, and used to be practically unheard of before the-virus-that-shall-not-be-named.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Ideas needed! Someone tried to scam me via email for 💵 last night. I have an email and a PayPal account. I know authorities won’t do anything. Anyone know of creative ways to use this info to make the sender wish they hadn’t contacted me?
December 5, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Ideas needed! Someone tried to scam me via email for 💵 last night. I have an email and a PayPal account. I know authorities won’t do anything. Anyone know of creative ways to use this info to make the sender wish they hadn’t contacted me?
Just finished watching the Netflix documentary “Martha” w/my daughters. This was all of us when we learned that it was James Comey who brought those BS charges against Martha Stewart. And then we all said…that tracks. 🙄
a woman with a serious look on her face is wearing a sheer top
ALT: a woman with a serious look on her face is wearing a sheer top
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December 1, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Just finished watching the Netflix documentary “Martha” w/my daughters. This was all of us when we learned that it was James Comey who brought those BS charges against Martha Stewart. And then we all said…that tracks. 🙄
I am officially at the stage of life where I am terrified driving in the car with my adult daughter bc I think she drives like a maniac but cannot say anything for fear of her wrath… 😳😬🤢
November 30, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I am officially at the stage of life where I am terrified driving in the car with my adult daughter bc I think she drives like a maniac but cannot say anything for fear of her wrath… 😳😬🤢
Blue and Whiskey would like to wish everyone a good Monday. #dogsofbluesky
November 25, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Blue and Whiskey would like to wish everyone a good Monday. #dogsofbluesky
So- it def the Friday before Thanksgiving for teachers y’all.
Thought I grabbed a vacuum sealed bag of frozen soup for lunch today. Opened my lunchbox to discover it is really uncooked ground pork. 🤢 🤦🏼♀️ Damn.
#letsgothanksgivingbreak #iteachphysics
Thought I grabbed a vacuum sealed bag of frozen soup for lunch today. Opened my lunchbox to discover it is really uncooked ground pork. 🤢 🤦🏼♀️ Damn.
#letsgothanksgivingbreak #iteachphysics
November 22, 2024 at 2:21 PM
So- it def the Friday before Thanksgiving for teachers y’all.
Thought I grabbed a vacuum sealed bag of frozen soup for lunch today. Opened my lunchbox to discover it is really uncooked ground pork. 🤢 🤦🏼♀️ Damn.
#letsgothanksgivingbreak #iteachphysics
Thought I grabbed a vacuum sealed bag of frozen soup for lunch today. Opened my lunchbox to discover it is really uncooked ground pork. 🤢 🤦🏼♀️ Damn.
#letsgothanksgivingbreak #iteachphysics
Cannot recommend enough reading stories about dogs to help detox the brain after this election. James Herriott’s Dog Stories are my new bedtime stories. 🥰🐕🦺
November 19, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Cannot recommend enough reading stories about dogs to help detox the brain after this election. James Herriott’s Dog Stories are my new bedtime stories. 🥰🐕🦺
Today Ss start their 2nd car crash lab. We have a lovely incline for the accelerating car and the c. Velocity car will cross at the bottom of the hill. 1st up is video analysis to find acceleration! Will be a fun 2 days. #iteachphysics
November 19, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Today Ss start their 2nd car crash lab. We have a lovely incline for the accelerating car and the c. Velocity car will cross at the bottom of the hill. 1st up is video analysis to find acceleration! Will be a fun 2 days. #iteachphysics
Lordy my APC is struggling. I’m trying to teach them FRQ structure and the feedback I’m getting is just so disheartening. I hate to say they are unmotivated, but let’s simply say their intellectual curiosity and stamina needs improvement. Not really looking for advice- just needed a quick vent.
November 15, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Lordy my APC is struggling. I’m trying to teach them FRQ structure and the feedback I’m getting is just so disheartening. I hate to say they are unmotivated, but let’s simply say their intellectual curiosity and stamina needs improvement. Not really looking for advice- just needed a quick vent.
I’m officially done with X. Whew!
a man in a suit and bow tie holds his hand to his forehead in front of a chalkboard that says subject
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November 15, 2024 at 2:48 AM
I’m officially done with X. Whew!