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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This is important. Especially that part about COSTS GOING UP BECAUSE TRUMP IS MAKING THEM GO UP NOT BECAUSE OF NATURAL ECONOMIC FACTORS.
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is important. Especially that part about COSTS GOING UP BECAUSE TRUMP IS MAKING THEM GO UP NOT BECAUSE OF NATURAL ECONOMIC FACTORS.
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Astonishing: a flight through 5000 Galaxies found by Webb
Starting 'nearby' and ending with less-developed galaxies in the distant universe
Each second equals travelling 200 million light-years and seeing 200 million years further into the past
(Credit: NASA/STScI, et al.)💫💫💫
Starting 'nearby' and ending with less-developed galaxies in the distant universe
Each second equals travelling 200 million light-years and seeing 200 million years further into the past
(Credit: NASA/STScI, et al.)💫💫💫
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Astonishing: a flight through 5000 Galaxies found by Webb
Starting 'nearby' and ending with less-developed galaxies in the distant universe
Each second equals travelling 200 million light-years and seeing 200 million years further into the past
(Credit: NASA/STScI, et al.)💫💫💫
Starting 'nearby' and ending with less-developed galaxies in the distant universe
Each second equals travelling 200 million light-years and seeing 200 million years further into the past
(Credit: NASA/STScI, et al.)💫💫💫
Not a fan of winter, but not leaving Connecticut.
Lamont pledges $70M for health care after US Senate deadlocks
CT will spend $70 million of the emergency surplus funds it set aside to partly offset the looming loss of millions in ACA subsidies.
ctmirror.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Not a fan of winter, but not leaving Connecticut.
This advent calendar tree dates from 1983 when I made it with my daughters age 2 and 7 while their dad was working on his dissertation. It’s held up well, although sometimes bits of Velcro need to be re-glued. 🎄
December 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This advent calendar tree dates from 1983 when I made it with my daughters age 2 and 7 while their dad was working on his dissertation. It’s held up well, although sometimes bits of Velcro need to be re-glued. 🎄
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Making previously eradicated diseases great again 🙄
“We are faced with ongoing transmission that we anticipate will go on for many more weeks,” Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist, [said]…
Twenty-seven of those cases have been reported since Friday. “That is a significant increase in our cases in a short period of time”
Twenty-seven of those cases have been reported since Friday. “That is a significant increase in our cases in a short period of time”
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Making previously eradicated diseases great again 🙄
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Congratulations to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Box of Miscellaneous USB and Firewire Cables You Started Collecting in 2007
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Congratulations to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Box of Miscellaneous USB and Firewire Cables You Started Collecting in 2007
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@standupforscience.bsky.social is in the thick of it!!!
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@standupforscience.bsky.social is in the thick of it!!!
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I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.
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Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
Time to stop doom scrolling, and write postcards. One at a time, voters will see true facts.
www.informedvotersus.org
www.informedvotersus.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Time to stop doom scrolling, and write postcards. One at a time, voters will see true facts.
www.informedvotersus.org
www.informedvotersus.org
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December 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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today was my first drive through the completed 6–10 interchange traveling west in Providence. It has kind of an MC Escher vibe, no @jeffreymphd.bsky.social ?
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
today was my first drive through the completed 6–10 interchange traveling west in Providence. It has kind of an MC Escher vibe, no @jeffreymphd.bsky.social ?
Birds stopping to rest in Seekonk probably before venturing across Providence. I have to do the same myself. 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Birds stopping to rest in Seekonk probably before venturing across Providence. I have to do the same myself. 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
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A decade of evidence. Dozens of drug companies. Billions in inflated prices.
From 2016 to now, CT has led the charge against generic drug price fixing. Now, a judge has rejected yet another of the drug makers’ attempts to shut down many of our claims, and this case is moving forward.
From 2016 to now, CT has led the charge against generic drug price fixing. Now, a judge has rejected yet another of the drug makers’ attempts to shut down many of our claims, and this case is moving forward.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A decade of evidence. Dozens of drug companies. Billions in inflated prices.
From 2016 to now, CT has led the charge against generic drug price fixing. Now, a judge has rejected yet another of the drug makers’ attempts to shut down many of our claims, and this case is moving forward.
From 2016 to now, CT has led the charge against generic drug price fixing. Now, a judge has rejected yet another of the drug makers’ attempts to shut down many of our claims, and this case is moving forward.
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A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.
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CNN pipe bomber arrest: "CNN has learned the name...and we'll have it for you after a quick break"
Jerry Seinfeld on SNL: "The president has been assassinated. But the president of what?! We'll tell you later in the newscast..."
Jerry Seinfeld on SNL: "The president has been assassinated. But the president of what?! We'll tell you later in the newscast..."
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
CNN pipe bomber arrest: "CNN has learned the name...and we'll have it for you after a quick break"
Jerry Seinfeld on SNL: "The president has been assassinated. But the president of what?! We'll tell you later in the newscast..."
Jerry Seinfeld on SNL: "The president has been assassinated. But the president of what?! We'll tell you later in the newscast..."
Congressional reps from my state are all Ds. If yours are R, please harass them.
BREAKING: All House Democrats have signed our discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits.
That makes 214.
We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.
That makes 214.
We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Congressional reps from my state are all Ds. If yours are R, please harass them.
Text "resist" to 50409 and send this to all your Congressional reps at once.
December 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Text "resist" to 50409 and send this to all your Congressional reps at once.
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these daily oval office things are increasingly looking like family holiday visits to grandpa at the nursing home
Trump: "Can we uhhh, talk about it? Right there is a man. Come here, let me say hello to you."
December 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
these daily oval office things are increasingly looking like family holiday visits to grandpa at the nursing home
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Launching hundreds of thousands of satellites will threaten space research, scientists warn
Ground-based telescopes have already been facing issues with the thousands of satellites already in orbit
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Ground-based telescopes have already been facing issues with the thousands of satellites already in orbit
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Launching hundreds of thousands of satellites will threaten space research, scientists warn | CBC News
We've all come to appreciate the beautiful images space telescopes provide us of galaxies, nebulas and more, but they also provide astronomers with important scientific information about our universe....
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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It’s interesting how many different brands are made by this one manufacturer
1.5M bags of shredded cheese sold at Target, Walmart, Aldi and more being recalled for possible metal fragments
More than 1.5 million bags of shredded cheese are being recalled because they may contain metal fragments, according to the FDA.
www.wfsb.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It’s interesting how many different brands are made by this one manufacturer
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"And the doctor took this little flashlight, a little flashlight with a magnifying glass on it, I guess, and he looked in my ear and he said, with tears in his eyes, he said he could see my big beautiful brain in there, working hard and churning out the smarts, the chimneys smoking and everything"
Trump: "I took my physical. I got all As. Everything. But they said to me, 'would you like to take a cognitive test?' I said, 'Is it hard?' They said, 'yes.' I said, 'Well, I'm a very smart person. Who was the last president to take one?' 'No president has ever agreed to take one' ... I aced it."
December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"And the doctor took this little flashlight, a little flashlight with a magnifying glass on it, I guess, and he looked in my ear and he said, with tears in his eyes, he said he could see my big beautiful brain in there, working hard and churning out the smarts, the chimneys smoking and everything"
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A 19-year-old Babson College student was trying to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Logan Airport and later deported to Honduras. How the Massachusetts college is responding: https://shorturl.at/5CT0p
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A 19-year-old Babson College student was trying to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Logan Airport and later deported to Honduras. How the Massachusetts college is responding: https://shorturl.at/5CT0p
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The GOP has created the word "Wastefraudenabuse" to justify every action they want to take. Deportations, food stamp cuts, Medicaid cuts, health care 'reform', agency budget cuts.
It's all because of Der Wastefraudenabuse.
It's all because of Der Wastefraudenabuse.
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The GOP has created the word "Wastefraudenabuse" to justify every action they want to take. Deportations, food stamp cuts, Medicaid cuts, health care 'reform', agency budget cuts.
It's all because of Der Wastefraudenabuse.
It's all because of Der Wastefraudenabuse.