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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 12h

soooooooo, this is where a deep knowledge of Civil Defense efforts & contemporary disaster comms & prep work intersects I’d offer?

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 3d

Anyways, a lot of people react to fear with violence and aggression, and maybe the nuke community should take that into consideration before we try to scare the shit out of the public to raise "awareness."

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 12h

Good night Bluesky.

Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows.

We must destroy ICE & smash fascism.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 13h

I made substantially more than my 500 words in #DissertationWriting today & will have draft chapter off to advisor tomorrow or wed.

a young boy in a blue shirt is talking into a microphone with the caption how is phd going great

Alt: a young boy in a blue shirt with brown hair is asked by a white woman with a microphone a question & boy smiles rhen covers face & cries. White text at top says “how is phd going?” & at bottom “Great!”

media.tenor.com

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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 14h

Wow, what a place of honor! Highly esteemed deeds must be commemorated here! And there are probably valuables...

Federal Disposal Field HZ-21 from the videogame Fallout 76

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 13h

But the answer to both is hard “no”

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 13h

“I don't think most people are asking the question, is this action in this particular video consistent or inconsistent with the Fourth Amendment?" Stoughton says… “I think what they're asking is, is this a socially and democratically legitimate police action? And that's a very different question”

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

www.npr.org

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Apr 20

Project SUNSHINE is closer to the original tooth fairy

In 1955 the Atomic Energy Commission stole 1,500 dead infants and children, cremated them, then tested the bone dust for radio-isotopes.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

Project SUNSHINE - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 23h

Today is Indigenous People’s Day.

Columbus was a piece of shit, his contemporaries thought so, and the USA is continuing its founding settler-colonial genocide against Indigenous peoples.

Amy Lonetree (2012, Decolonizing Museums) argues that we must contextualize

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17h

I wrote about this back when "The Verge" came out for Defector. Loved writing this essay. defector.com/christopher-...

Christopher Columbus And The Replacement-Level Historical Figure | Defector

It’s easy to tell Columbus’s story as one of a determined innovator, triumphing over the backwardness and ignorance of medieval Europe to usher in a new era of global exploration, trade, colonization,...

defector.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 21h

“show me your papers!” (Usually in an accent) is an intensely valenced & widely circulating trope in American culture for ostensibly un-American totalitarianism, oppression, & control.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 21h

DELICIOUS!

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 21h

the ability of motivated thinking and reasoning is really extremely astonishing even for the good faith.

🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22h

It’s SOOOOOOOOO good. And even more filling than normal oatmeal.

Recent events have really undercut my interest in certain forms of delayed gratification/restraint.

Because, you know.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22h

Oh my yes this is decadent and delicious and chock full of fibre!

I added some dried, sweetened cranberries & cut back on added granular sugar to get some acid/tartness in with the sweet and savory.

In other news, today is a continuation of weepiness from the last 5 days or so which is annoying.

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 22h

“Our message today is simple: Minnesotans will continue to have the freedom to receive their vaccines,” Gov. Tim Walz said.

via @minnesotareformer.com

Walz gets vaccinated, CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccine

Gov. Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen Walz, received COVID and flu vaccines last week, and the CDC released new guidance that anyone over 6 months can receive the COVID-19 shot after consulting with a…

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 23h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah the nice thing about Columbus is he neatly sidesteps debates about historical relativism by just being bad relative to every time. Superbad, but in the analytic philosophy way not the cool way.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22h

:D

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 8d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22h

I didn’t mention it but I almost always add butter.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22h

I am going to make myself chocolate oatmeal for my first meal of the day at 11am.

As in I will make oatmeal with milk then add some heavy cream and dutch processed cocoa powder and sugar.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 22h

Saw the text before the link and for a moment parsed this as screaming résumés.

experience: decades of screaming
skills: loud screaming, sustained screaming, python
currently: screaming

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22h

special skills:
benzodiazepine tolerance, high suffering threshold, impulse control, extended scream repertoire, and semiotically informed discourse analysis.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22h

In any case, here’s a “fun” document by his contemporaries of what a fucker Columbus was:

Lost document reveals Columbus as tyrant of the Caribbean

Christopher Columbus, the man credited with discovering the Americas, was a greedy and vindictive tyrant who saved some of his most violent punishments for his own followers, according to a document u...

www.theguardian.com

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