Tom Stoppard may not have known about the difference his words made on this specific a scientific level, he was well aware how much words matter, how they can change minds if not lives. RIP Sir, you live on in your work, and in health care!

“In another, there he was, cock tail in hand.” I imagined the man with a rooster’s tail “…at some fancy city watering hole…” Why a cock tail? Read again, “…cocktail in hand.”

What Perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

In Seattle, that is.

Seriously though, as helpful, soul-nurturing and absorbing as a workshop in my view is reading. Just reading widely and for discovery. I loved the Booker prize winner's speech last night (Flesh) and his emphasis on risk taking. Applies to reading too! #kidlitchat

Yay! Our team of 5 women screenwriters made the quarter finals with our TV comedy pilot script! Only 2 of our names are listed (not mine), but we’re all stoked!

Eric Swalwell has endorsed @ammarcampanajjar.bsky.social, the "poster boy" for #Prop50 in California! Ammar is running for Congress in #CA48 to beat #MAGA Rep. Darell Issa! We need to bring in tons of small dollar donations! Chip in $5, $10, $25, or more now: secure.actblue.com/donate/a-b-sky

"Electroboy" is my memoir about my battle with bipolar disorder and which is being made into a feature film with Timothee Chalamet. The book is out of print - I have h/c and p/b copies which I inscribe to you and ship overnight to you. The cost is $30 for a h/c and $20 for a p/c - send me a DM!

Trump clearly decided that rapid identification of public health threats to the U.S. is something that only Democrats want. Public health largely began in the military because once upon a time, leaders understood that disease is the greatest threat to militarily readiness. That’s over.

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

The power of imagination

Fulfilling childhood dream. Each day I come home with my pockets filled with apples picked (stolen) from a nearby tree. The glee! The owner lets them drop and Roy, so there you have it, win-win.

The Trump administration says that Democrats' demands would provide health care to undocumented immigrants. That's not true. Undocumented immigrants can receive emergency care because of the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA), signed by Reagan. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

It’s midnight, which means Trump’s government just ran out of money. Our entire government is shut down because Republicans in power refuse to lower health care costs.

Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.

Breaking News: ABC said that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return on Tuesday, ending an impasse that began last week. nyti.ms/3KAl4Np

Eerste ‘stablecoin’ ter wereld werd 416 jaar geleden uitgevonden in Amsterdam historiek.net/amsterdamsch...

That’s how we bathed after my parents decided to leave Amsterdam and live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, return to nature.

Sunday morning blooms #SundayYellow #OrangeSun #desert #Stunday #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Flowers #Gardening #FloralPhoto #FlowerHour #photography #nature #photographersofbluesky

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

A new study shows wildfires are causing more than 40,000 premature deaths per year — and that rising temperatures will lead to even more.

I wanted to attend the #IHRA info webinar at 6 AM/PDT, but before I could get up, my guy told me his dream. We were back in The Netherlands, meeting up with friends of mine he hadn't met before. One said she loved Judith, but couldn't face seeing her (me) after our tragedy (losing our baby at birth)

Since I'm not at the NY Art Book Fair for the first time in a decade, I'm using my weekend to make another publication. Shocking! It will combine almost a year of my Bluesky posts about self-publishing, some studio photos, and the text from Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? I think this is the cover:

Wind blows from up north, dim Parasol ash-dusted, acrid smelling air. #badhaiku #JudithSVP

Word of the Day #Eugenicist

Our profile of Yuki Tsunoda and his Tokyo Culinary Guide from Issue 02 of @essesmag.com are now live on line. This dude knows how to eat... www.essesmag.com/articles/yuk...

"The word "encourage" literally means to instill courage; we can do that or its opposite with how we speak, with what we say, with how we show up. It's not the only work we can do during this emergency, but it's an important part of it."

What might make your trauma memoir stand out? @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/d... #writingcommunity #memoir #authorlife #writinglife #skywriters

Brought this baby home from the street, slept in till 8 AM. So happy with this reading nook addition, it rocks!

On Social Security's 90th anniversary, President Trump repeated a series of lies about the program from the Oval Office. Let's set the record straight. 🧵

RFK Jr. doesn’t like that a study of every child born in Denmark from 1997-2018 showed no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 adverse health outcomes. This study included more than a million kids. RFK Jr. wants the study retracted. The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 summit.actor-insider.com

Judith’s FAB (fig, apple, berry) jam is back!

Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled. Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.

Remember when you could tell right away what you were doing in a certain year? That's less so for me now, but I know I was an #architectural tour guide at Seattle Central Public Library 2004-2013. In June 2012, I posted for the last time on the since-dormant blog omafanseattle.blogspot.com

5 juli 1882, grote scheepsramp voor de kust van Scheveningen. Het zinken van het kleine oorlogsschip Adder was destijds de grootste scheepsramp in de geschiedenis van de Koninklijke Marine. Alle 65 opvarenden kwamen om het leven.1)

Nieuwe verkiezingen in de zomer? Op 5 juli 1922 waren die er voor de Tweede Kamer. Voor de eerste maal mochten die dag ook de Nederlandse vrouwen stemmen. Koningin-moeder Emma ging in Den Haag stemmen in het stemlokaal in de Meisjes-HBS aan het Bleijenburg.

Drawing on our unique family collections, our online #HolocaustLetters exhibition traces what Jewish letter writers knew, how they communicated the extraordinary as part of the ordinary, and how their letters survived. Explore the full curation now: buff.ly/1aw2MxD

4th of July fireworks in the neighborhood (on playground across from our home, and beyond) kept us up past usual bed time. Pooch, unwilling to go outside, relatively calm under my jacket on the sofa.

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

It’s Canada Day, let us celebrate with the fierce whimsy of these two tiny @louellalester.bsky.social prose poems templeinacity.com/2-prose-poem...

COVER REVEAL!!! - It is surreal and joyful and likely a single moment among many time to come but this is my first book so you will all be suffering all of my giddy self promotion for the next 8 months!! Thanks to @guernicaeditions.bsky.social anotherstory.ca/item/AS48k97...

It's that magic time, novelists + novella-ists! You've got 2mos to send our beloved + well-practiced novel/novella reading team your >100pg books: call it a novella, call it a novel, but we hope you call it READY TO SEND before Sept 1 because we want to read it! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

Documentaire van Danny Akker over de vooroorlogse ‘Verdwenen Buurt’ op tv. Een film over de Joodse buurt van Den Haag, de buurt tussen Spui en Wagenstraat. Over de geschiedenis van de Joodse buurt vertel ik in de documentaire. www.joodserfgoeddenhaag.nl/documentaire...

Zo vierde Amsterdam 100 jaar geleden het 650-jarig bestaan van de stad. Heerlijk uit eten bij restaurant Trianon. Dat zag er toen zo uit: archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/de... #foodhistory #menu #gastronomy #Amsterdam

Op 27 juni 1296 werd graaf Floris V bij Muiderberg doodgeslagen. De graaf geldt als de stichter van de Ridderzaal en bouwer van het grafelijke kasteel rond het Binnenhof. 1)

In fact, TODAY there is a story about how St Mary's County Libraries (MD) are cutting hoopla because they don't have funds for it anymore. thebaynet.com/st-marys-cou...

Ah, since my local Rite-Aid is closing I can just pick up my prescriptions at the nearest Rite-Aid 4 hours away. That's handy. Every step of the opioid crisis has been a war on rural America. The crisis itself and all the fallout.