Tess Quadra

Master of Fine Arts🎨Metalsmith🔨Sculptor 🔨🧑‍🏭 Scuba Diver 🤿 I'm 73 & already have a boyfriend,much cuter than you🤍

[Tess Quadra @TessQuadra]

@nmwj_nicolas @Kon_tessa No it is not active.

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

The entire country watching Katie Zacharia’s first press briefing like…

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@nmwj_nicolas

[Emma 🇺🇸 @Emmaiid11]

🚨FAFO: They saw a 77-year-old woman alone at an ATM in Bromborough, England and thought she was an easy target.

Winifred Peel was withdrawing her money when three teenagers closed in.

One shoved her out of the way. Another lunged for the cash. They were expecting a helpless victim.

They picked the wrong woman.

Winifred grabbed 19-year-old Felix Stoica by the collar and smashed his head into the ATM not once, but THREE times. He was left bloodied, and that blood plus the CCTV sealed the fate of the whole gang.

Within days, all three were in handcuffs. Felix Stoica, Florin Geblescu and Piper Dumitru admitted to the robbery and were sent to prison.

Later, Winifred said her time in the gym is what gave her the strength to fight back. She admitted the attack rattled her, but she was never going to let them walk away with her money.

They thought her age made her weak.

They learned the hard way that courage doesn't fade with age and you should never underestimate a 77-year-old woman.

[Emma 🇺🇸 @Emmaiid11]

🚨FAFO: They saw a 77-year-old woman alone at an ATM in Bromborough, England and thought she was an easy target.

Winifred Peel was withdrawing her money when three teenagers closed in.

One shoved her out of the way. Another lunged for the cash. They were expecting a helpless victim.

They picked the wrong woman.

Winifred grabbed 19-year-old Felix Stoica by the collar and smashed his head into the ATM not once, but THREE times. He was left bloodied, and that blood plus the CCTV sealed the fate of the whole gang.

Within days, all three were in handcuffs. Felix Stoica, Florin Geblescu and Piper Dumitru admitted to the robbery and were sent to prison.

Later, Winifred said her time in the gym is what gave her the strength to fight back. She admitted the attack rattled her, but she was never going to let them walk away with her money.

They thought her age made her weak.

They learned the hard way that courage doesn't fade with age and you should never underestimate a 77-year-old woman.

[Trump Girl @TrumpGirlLove]

They called her the most beautiful woman in the world, and for years that was the only story anyone bothered to tell.

In 1933 a young Austrian actress named Hedwig Kiesler appeared in a film called Ecstasy that showed her nude and, more shockingly for the time, in the throes of pleasure.

The scandal followed her across borders. When she reached Hollywood she became Hedy Lamarr, and the industry’s most powerful men lined up to put her on screen beside Clark Gable and James Stewart.

Audiences came for her face. What almost no one noticed was the mind behind it.

She had grown up in Vienna as the daughter of a banker, raised around mathematics, physics, and the idea that systems could be understood and improved.

After she married Friedrich Mandl, one of Europe’s richest arms manufacturers, she found herself at dinner tables where military men spoke freely about radio-controlled weapons and the weaknesses of wireless signals. They treated her as decoration. She listened.

The marriage became a gilded prison. In 1937 she left it, slipping away dressed as her own maid and carrying little more than what she could conceal. In Hollywood the public continued to see only the star.

Lamarr, however, kept turning over the conversations she had overheard. Allied ships were being lost because enemies could locate and jam the single frequencies used to guide torpedoes.

A signal fixed on one channel was easy to find and easy to block. What if the signal jumped rapidly among many frequencies according to a pattern known only to the sender and receiver? Even if one frequency were jammed, the message would continue on another.

The remaining problem was synchronization: how two machines could stay perfectly in step while constantly changing channels.

She found an unexpected collaborator in the avant-garde composer George Antheil, who had once synchronized a battery of player pianos. His timing mechanism supplied the missing piece. On August 11, 1942, they received U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387 for a “Secret Communication System.”

The Navy reviewed the idea and set it aside. Too complicated, they said; an actress and a musician could not have solved a military problem. The patent was filed and forgotten.

Years later, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, engineers rediscovering old patents recognized its value. Frequency hopping worked. In the decades that followed, the underlying principle became foundational to the spread-spectrum techniques that power Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS.

Lamarr lived long enough to receive the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award in 1997. Fourteen years after her death she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

The public had spent most of her life looking at her face. The technology she helped invent now sits, invisible and indispensable, inside the devices we carry every day. 🌹

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Ted Lieu is correct!

[Tess Quadra @TessQuadra]

@JerryWillResist Can't believe,she had to read this and not very well at that!

[Jerry_Saiyan @JerryWillResist]

😂😂😂

[BluByU @Udntnonutn]

It’s fun to watch karma catch up every now and then.

Remember when Elon Musk doxxed FEMA CFO Mary Comans and accused her of illegally sending millions of dollars to New York City hotels housing migrants?

He got her fired.

Well, a federal judge just fully cleared her name, and holy shit, the ruling is delicious.

Turns out, Comans didn’t even have the authority to approve those payments herself.

You wanna know who did?

DOGE did.

DOGE personnel had actually approved the continued funding.

The judge found that Musk, Kristi Noem, and other senior officials were part of a coordinated campaign to spread accusations about Comans that they knew were false.

THAT THEY KNEW WERE FALSE.

He described Musk’s conduct as “state sanctioned intimidation.”

But this part of the ruling really stuck with me.

“For reasons unfathomable to this Court, officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service.”

“an impeccable record of public service”

A woman who spent 21 years serving the federal government was publicly accused of criminal wrongdoing, fired, and had her reputation dragged through the mud.

All over payments she didn’t authorize, and that DOGE actually approved.

Who’s being held accountable for what happened to that poor woman?

[BLACK-MEDIA-HUB✊🏿 @BmediaHQ]

At 18, Shirley Ann Jackson arrived at MIT in 1964 as one of only two Black women in a freshman class of roughly 900 students. She had graduated as valedictorian of Roosevelt High School in Washington, D.C., and entered MIT determined to study physics. Instead, she encountered classmates who avoided sitting beside her, professors who underestimated her, and an isolation that made even studying with other students difficult.
Jackson later recalled approaching a group of classmates working on physics problems and being told to go away. She returned to her room, cried, and continued working. The rejection did not change what she knew she could do. She kept pursuing physics even when the people around her made it clear they did not expect a Black woman to belong there.
After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Jackson decided to remain at MIT rather than leave for another university. She became involved in organizing Black students and helped push the Institute to improve recruitment, financial aid and support for minority students. She also participated in Project Interphase, which prepared incoming minority students for the demands of MIT.
Jackson earned her bachelor's degree in physics in 1968 and completed a doctorate in theoretical elementary particle physics in 1973. She became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT and one of the earliest Black women in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.
Her career eventually extended far beyond the laboratory. She conducted research at Fermilab and CERN, spent years at Bell Laboratories, and in 1995 became the first Black person appointed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She later became its first Black chair and first woman chair.
In 1999, Jackson became president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a position she held for more than two decades.
The significance of her story is not simply the number of barriers she overcame. Jackson also worked to make those barriers less difficult for the students who came after her. The teenager who was once told to leave a study group eventually helped create more room at the table for others.

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@nmwj_nicolas Je suis enivré par le son de sa voix🎶

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@barry_lorrie Morning Lorrie 🙋🔆☕💫

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@studentoflife It's worst today,but tomorrow I need to go to the bank & pay my bills,sick or not. I'll wear a mask to keep my germs to myself🤧

[Tess Quadra @TessQuadra]

#RoseWednesday
Fighting the flu today but finding some comfort in the climbing rose. It may look fragile but it's vines have strong anchor through storms. Reminding myself that healing takes time & even the most weathered branches bloom again 🌹❇️

[Tess Quadra @TessQuadra]

@jlVickers47
Morning Lee🔆🙋

[Lee @jlVickers47]

#PinkFriday #FlowersOnFriday Cheers to a peaceful weekend! 💕💗

[Lee @jlVickers47]

#SundayYellow

[Tess Quadra @TessQuadra]

@studentoflife 🤗🧡

[studentoflife @studentoflife]

Have a magnificent Wednesday!🤗🌸🎶🦋🦮🍅🦌🐝☕️🐇📖🙏❤️

[Tess Quadra @TessQuadra]

@ilanel2 So now I'm on my bad luck side,sick and about to be evicted from home😔

[Ilanel @ilanel2]

"Good luck and bad luck are inseparable...
They go together...
They are the two sides of our existence..." 🙏🤔🎲🍀
(B.M.) ✍️