Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈
@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social
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
https://flickr.com/jnshaumeyer/albums
I am waiting to hear an announcement from the White House that Trump is cooperating fully with DOJ prosecutors on the Epstein case in exchange for immunity.
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am waiting to hear an announcement from the White House that Trump is cooperating fully with DOJ prosecutors on the Epstein case in exchange for immunity.
"Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. "
--President DJTrump, 10 November 2025
I so rarely get to say this: I have a degree in physics, and I actually DO know what a magnet is.
#CommonplaceBook
--President DJTrump, 10 November 2025
I so rarely get to say this: I have a degree in physics, and I actually DO know what a magnet is.
#CommonplaceBook
Trump: "Nobody Knows What A Magnet Is" [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
“President Xi was willing to do the railroad things—that’s magnets. Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car. You don’t make a computer, you don’t make, er,...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. "
--President DJTrump, 10 November 2025
I so rarely get to say this: I have a degree in physics, and I actually DO know what a magnet is.
#CommonplaceBook
--President DJTrump, 10 November 2025
I so rarely get to say this: I have a degree in physics, and I actually DO know what a magnet is.
#CommonplaceBook
Finding "new" [ #Classical ] music.
For some years now, American classical-music radio--even those I can stream online--have seemed very tepid, very "Top 40 classics" to me, when what I really crave is hearing unfamiliar music from unfamiliar composers that is interesting and worthy...
#Music
For some years now, American classical-music radio--even those I can stream online--have seemed very tepid, very "Top 40 classics" to me, when what I really crave is hearing unfamiliar music from unfamiliar composers that is interesting and worthy...
#Music
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Finding "new" [ #Classical ] music.
For some years now, American classical-music radio--even those I can stream online--have seemed very tepid, very "Top 40 classics" to me, when what I really crave is hearing unfamiliar music from unfamiliar composers that is interesting and worthy...
#Music
For some years now, American classical-music radio--even those I can stream online--have seemed very tepid, very "Top 40 classics" to me, when what I really crave is hearing unfamiliar music from unfamiliar composers that is interesting and worthy...
#Music
#Evening just closing in on the streets of downtown #Toronto [CA]. Sunlight was obscured by the valley of buildings, but warmly lighting the #BellTower of the #OldCityHall at the end of the valley. I was standing in a busy intersection of traffic, but it was worth it! 20221027
#BlueSkyArtShow
#BlueSkyArtShow
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#Evening just closing in on the streets of downtown #Toronto [CA]. Sunlight was obscured by the valley of buildings, but warmly lighting the #BellTower of the #OldCityHall at the end of the valley. I was standing in a busy intersection of traffic, but it was worth it! 20221027
#BlueSkyArtShow
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Evening --now night has set in--in Rome: a flower merchant's stand somewhere not far from the Spanish Steps. 20171024
#BlueSkyArtShow #Rome #Flowers
#BlueSkyArtShow #Rome #Flowers
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
#Evening --now night has set in--in Rome: a flower merchant's stand somewhere not far from the Spanish Steps. 20171024
#BlueSkyArtShow #Rome #Flowers
#BlueSkyArtShow #Rome #Flowers
#Evening on the National Mall, Washington, DC [USA], where a large stage was being set up for an event. We were walking to our parked car after a visit to the National Gallery, so: near the Capitol [East] end of the Mall, looking West. 20141109
#BlueSkyArtShow
#BlueSkyArtShow
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#Evening on the National Mall, Washington, DC [USA], where a large stage was being set up for an event. We were walking to our parked car after a visit to the National Gallery, so: near the Capitol [East] end of the Mall, looking West. 20141109
#BlueSkyArtShow
#BlueSkyArtShow
This is probably the oldest #Evening photo I ever took. It was during the winter of my first year in college (Cornell College, Mt Vernon, IA), probably January 1975. It could get really, really cold there on the Hilltop!
#BlueSkyArtShow #CornellCollege #Winter
#BlueSkyArtShow #CornellCollege #Winter
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is probably the oldest #Evening photo I ever took. It was during the winter of my first year in college (Cornell College, Mt Vernon, IA), probably January 1975. It could get really, really cold there on the Hilltop!
#BlueSkyArtShow #CornellCollege #Winter
#BlueSkyArtShow #CornellCollege #Winter
IDk, but this sounds to me like the President has finally recognized the money-sucking nature of US health-insurance companies and is ready to scrap the entire system in favor of direct-to-user single-payer govt-financed system: Medicare for All!
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
IDk, but this sounds to me like the President has finally recognized the money-sucking nature of US health-insurance companies and is ready to scrap the entire system in favor of direct-to-user single-payer govt-financed system: Medicare for All!
For #FoodOnFriday, my photo of this "Sushi Triptych", by Washington DC [USA] area artist Lily DiBenigno (16 years old at the time), at "Artomatic 2017" (Crystal City, VA). 15 April 2017
#SushiTriptych #Art #Sushi #Painting #Artomatic
#SushiTriptych #Art #Sushi #Painting #Artomatic
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For #FoodOnFriday, my photo of this "Sushi Triptych", by Washington DC [USA] area artist Lily DiBenigno (16 years old at the time), at "Artomatic 2017" (Crystal City, VA). 15 April 2017
#SushiTriptych #Art #Sushi #Painting #Artomatic
#SushiTriptych #Art #Sushi #Painting #Artomatic
Doing my bit to make the good things viral.
I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
Change my mind.
Change my mind.
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Doing my bit to make the good things viral.
"[W]e won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do."
--Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-Elect of New York City, 4 Nov 2025
#CommonplaceBook
--Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-Elect of New York City, 4 Nov 2025
#CommonplaceBook
Zohran Mamdani's victory speech in full
Mamdani was speaking after winning the New York City mayoral election with the highest turnout in more than 50 years
www.newsweek.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"[W]e won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do."
--Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-Elect of New York City, 4 Nov 2025
#CommonplaceBook
--Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-Elect of New York City, 4 Nov 2025
#CommonplaceBook
Frogs + Foot-longs = Resistance
An unexpected but welcome equation.
An unexpected but welcome equation.
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Frogs + Foot-longs = Resistance
An unexpected but welcome equation.
An unexpected but welcome equation.
To my rep @hoyer.house.gov and colleagues: do you really think the President is well and capable of fulfilling his presidential duties?
When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
To my rep @hoyer.house.gov and colleagues: do you really think the President is well and capable of fulfilling his presidential duties?
Here in Dublin, two blocks from our hotel, is the art-work/memorial known as "The Spire", 400-feet high (the tip has a light), erected as a millennium project (replacing the previous monument to Lord Nelson), here shown in two parts because it IS very #Vertical.
#BlueskyArtShow
#BlueskyArtShow
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Here in Dublin, two blocks from our hotel, is the art-work/memorial known as "The Spire", 400-feet high (the tip has a light), erected as a millennium project (replacing the previous monument to Lord Nelson), here shown in two parts because it IS very #Vertical.
#BlueskyArtShow
#BlueskyArtShow
Did I mention that the lobby of our hotel in Dublin has an art installation in the ceiling? This is it. 18 Oct 2025
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Did I mention that the lobby of our hotel in Dublin has an art installation in the ceiling? This is it. 18 Oct 2025
Today we're on the coach tour (that lost our reservation yesterday).
Our first stop: Kilkenny. This is its castle.
17 Oct 2025
Our first stop: Kilkenny. This is its castle.
17 Oct 2025
October 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Today we're on the coach tour (that lost our reservation yesterday).
Our first stop: Kilkenny. This is its castle.
17 Oct 2025
Our first stop: Kilkenny. This is its castle.
17 Oct 2025
Today, I sat for a spell in the "Grand Gallery" of the National Gallery of Ireland (Gailearaí Náisiúntana héireann), Dublin, Ireland. 15 Oct 2025
October 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Today, I sat for a spell in the "Grand Gallery" of the National Gallery of Ireland (Gailearaí Náisiúntana héireann), Dublin, Ireland. 15 Oct 2025
We're visiting Dublin this week. For no evident reason our hotel has this horse-lamp in the lobby.
It may just be a fun sculpture here for the selfies/photo-ops, so here you go.
It may just be a fun sculpture here for the selfies/photo-ops, so here you go.
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We're visiting Dublin this week. For no evident reason our hotel has this horse-lamp in the lobby.
It may just be a fun sculpture here for the selfies/photo-ops, so here you go.
It may just be a fun sculpture here for the selfies/photo-ops, so here you go.
Not Without an Insurrection Like J6
' Yesterday a second Republican governor, Phil Scott of Vermont, opposed the administration’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago and to Portland, Oregon. “I don’t think our guard should be used against our own people. ...
#CmmonplaceBook
' Yesterday a second Republican governor, Phil Scott of Vermont, opposed the administration’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago and to Portland, Oregon. “I don’t think our guard should be used against our own people. ...
#CmmonplaceBook
October 10, 2025
All of President Donald J.
substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Not Without an Insurrection Like J6
' Yesterday a second Republican governor, Phil Scott of Vermont, opposed the administration’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago and to Portland, Oregon. “I don’t think our guard should be used against our own people. ...
#CmmonplaceBook
' Yesterday a second Republican governor, Phil Scott of Vermont, opposed the administration’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago and to Portland, Oregon. “I don’t think our guard should be used against our own people. ...
#CmmonplaceBook
Frogs unite for American Democracy!
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Frogs unite for American Democracy!
Go frogs!
(I am not ambivalent about amphibians.)
(I am not ambivalent about amphibians.)
October 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Go frogs!
(I am not ambivalent about amphibians.)
(I am not ambivalent about amphibians.)
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
'... 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.
substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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
'... 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
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
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
youtu.be
October 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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
Still, it's a strange but beautiful aria, beautifully performed by my favorite countertenor.
#Music #CaughtMyEar
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.
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.
October 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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.
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."
"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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October 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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."
"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."