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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈

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Quondam physicist (PhD: experimental physics), interlocutor at "Read Science!", author, musician, cookbook collector, crocheter of doilies, and partisan of the Oxford comma. My photos here: https://flickr.com/jnshaumeyer/albums

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 6h

Frogs unite for American Democracy!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 6h

Go frogs!

(I am not ambivalent about amphibians.)

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 11h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Anything that leads us to other interesting things to hear is good.

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 2d

My mailing address is Bowie, Maryland. "Bow" has about 27 pronunciations and folks can't decide which one to use. (Locals: it's just like David's last name: Boo-ee.)

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 2d

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... meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.” '

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Heather Richardson, in the attached letter, wrote of Warren G. Harding:

'... he was such a terrible speaker that one man commented that his speeches “leave the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea; sometimes those ... /1

October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 3d

We'll, I'm from Kansas City, which probably says all that needs to be said.

(Except: I enjoyed NC barbecue when I lived there, too.)

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 3d

I was half dozing when I got this randomly from my music database. For maybe the first minute, I was convinced it was by Michael Nyman! But--no!--Henry Purcell; just off by 300 years.

Still, it's a strange but beautiful aria, beautifully performed by my favorite countertenor.

#Music #CaughtMyEar

Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3: What Power art thou?

YouTube video by Andreas Scholl - Topic

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 3d

Valid point. I/we are working on it as quickly as we can; with the biggest ones it can take lots of flushing.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 3d

The bamboo backdrop really gives a nice Highland flavor.

BTW, I like bagpipes; I'm the only person I know who does.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 4d

Ooooh. Ooooh aaaah.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, but next time you see one, I feel certain this is exactly what you'll do. Thus being collections. (I saw on in Rome, and one in ... Milwaukee, I think. Maybe I should see where they can be fond and make that a tour!)

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 4d

I understand. I'm from Kansas, never developed much longing for water. Lived in Colorado for a year and imprinted on mountains. So, I much prefer the hilly or mountainous vs coastal--although prairie-flatness from Kansas is also in my vocabulary, but I only want to *visit* the southern Delmarva.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 5d

I agree. And the US is currently on a destructive fast track to find out just how much immigrants contribute to our society and GDP.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 5d

Hooray! I do this too, although I've only come across 2 of these in my travels, so only two YKB-selfies--so far!

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 5d

How to build functioning government of blue states:

"The solution doesn’t require leaving the union or violence. The anti-commandeering principle, upheld repeatedly by the Supreme Court in cases like Printz v. United States and Murphy v. NCAA, means states cannot be forced to enforce federal law."

We Need to Talk About Soft Secession

Is it legal? Is it possible? And can we afford to wait and find out?

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 6d

Cool! I hope I got the location right. I live on the western shore but enjoy a day trip across the bay sometimes. We've driven by the campus but never stopped to look; need to remedy that. I know a few younger people who went there and they seemed to prosper.

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 6d

We live outside DC, but I do like to visit the western mountains when we can.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 6d

I should have recognized this immediately as one of yours, Bill, but all I thought about was how much I liked it and all the subtexts swirling around it.

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 6d

Final example (3/3) of still water = #Relax. This is a dock in Chestertown, Maryland [USA], on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

10 November 2012

#BlueskyArtShow #Photo

A small boat with two empty masts is moored at a dock; the boat and cloud above, and the pier at left are all beautifully reflected in the very still water of this inlet of the Chesapeake Bay.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 6d

More in the still water = #Relax for me (example 2/3): this pond is the source for the C&O Canal, in Cumberland, Maryland [USA], in the western mountains of the state.

#BlueskyArtShow #photo

A very still pond in the foreground reflects a small brick building on a very green, grassy rise, with a small, trussed foot-bridge at left.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 6d

I guess there's something about smooth-water reflections that says #Relax to me (example 1/3). This is Loy's Station Bridge, in Thurmont, Maryland [USA] (one of 5 covered bridges in Frederick County, MD). 16 July 2017

#BlueskyArtShow

In a wooded area, this is a covered bridge, painted red, reflected in a lightly rippled stream.

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 7d

#CommonplaceBook

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 7d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 7d

Just so: so tired I blink and many seconds later, startled to realize I neglected to re-open my eyelids.

Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 7d

Provincial I guess, but I really enjoyed the unique parts of the collection I got to see, especially the wealth of "Group of 7" works and learning about them. It was a very nice place to be in for awhile.