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Dr. Taylor Loy
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Virginia Tech Postdoc (STS), nuclear energy/nonpro. Former SRO instructor nuke worker. he/him. #TritiumMatters

Dissertation:
https://hdl.handle.net/10919/120638

FAS Day One 2025:
https://fas.org/publication/fusion-energy-leadership-tritium-capacity/
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Dr. Taylor Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · Aug 10
*PhD-level intelligence intensifies*
tayloraloy.bsky.social
This is a great read especially if you’ve missed recent nuclear dialogue between US and South Korea.

#NukeSky
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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wellerstein.bsky.social
For this week’s DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I interviewed my good friend @cherylrofer.bsky.social about her +30 year career at Los Alamos — topics discussed include gender, lasers, and much more — doomsdaymachines.net/p/working-at...
Working at Cold War Los Alamos
A conversation with the chemist Cheryl Rofer about her over thirty year career at Los Alamos
doomsdaymachines.net
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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tayloraloy.bsky.social
A tpublic, if you can keep it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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tayloraloy.bsky.social
Some SMR
others SMR Not.
December 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Once again asking for Zotero help. Trying to do Chicago footnotes. I have 18th ed notes & bib selected, but it will only do shortened notes. Same problem both from google docs zotero connector and zotero desktop app. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Screenshot of examples of citations
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
tayloraloy.bsky.social
Even an AI image generator was able to draw from a sufficiently broad semiotic reservoir of human morality to not depict Franklin killing unarmed men clinging onto a capsized boat.

The prompt they used might explain more of their admin mindset than the secret legal opinion.
December 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
tayloraloy.bsky.social
Good US/Ru (extended) deterrence thread.
#NukeSky
jjjcameron.bsky.social James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 6d
The basic problem with the United States' call for Europe to lead on conventional forces while it takes care of nuclear deterrence.
anderspucknielsen.dk Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 6d
It's not credible the US would fight a nuclear war over Europe if they aren't willing to contribute conventionally.
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
tayloraloy.bsky.social
People often quote Jesus about the difficulties of rich people getting into heaven, but there is literally an entire book of Wisdom in Ecclesiastes where a rich man painstakingly explains how and why worldly riches and power are vanity.

But too many religious folks don’t receive this message.
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
tayloraloy.bsky.social
I watched TN 07 results live on NBC. The estimated total was revised up multiple times as votes were being tallied. Just because one election site, Decision Desk HQ, didn’t do that isn’t a smoking gun.

It really looks like a high turnout special election that was underestimated.
December 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
Yeah, this is a pretty unambiguous war crime.
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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nuclearanthro.bsky.social
Yo #NukeSky can we uptake this & try to get the journos we talk to to do the same?
cherylrofer.bsky.social Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 8d
The US government will never do an explosive nuclear test again at the Nevada Test Site.

They have built an immense underground laboratory, costing billions of dollars. It contains particle accelerators and lasers that will not fare well with the shaking that comes with nuclear tests.
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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alexblock.bsky.social
Burn after reading: I thought you might be worried… about the security of your shit
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
tayloraloy.bsky.social
Watching this from nearby and unable to vote in the jigsawed mess of a district because it was drawn by those with failed imaginations.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Tennessee House Special Election 2025 Live Results
See live results from the 2025 Tennessee House special election. Track vote counts by candidate and county.
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
tayloraloy.bsky.social
There was a time when I could’ve honestly said that I’ve either watched or could describe the box of almost any movie at our local video store.
gwillow.me G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13d
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 18d
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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salisbot.bsky.social
"War crimes, murder, or both"
rgoodlaw.bsky.social Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13d
Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
This Creedence from 1970’s been sounding exponentially prescient for quite a while now

I went down Virginia, seekin’ shelter from the storm
Caught up in the fable
I watched the tower grow
Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
captmarkkelly.bsky.social Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 16d
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.

But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
tayloraloy.bsky.social
A tpublic, if you can keep it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Today in 1958, a B-47 on ground alert at Chennault Air Force Base, Louisiana, carrying a sealed-pit hydrogen bomb containing no plutonium, caught fire when the Jet-Assisted Take-Off (JATO) bottles accidentally discharged during the pilot’s acceptance check, pushing the plane into a towing vehicle.
A black and white photograph showing three B-47 bombers on a flight line at an air base under a partly cloudy sky. The ground below the aircraft is wet, possibly from rain.
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
tayloraloy.bsky.social
When given a regulatory limit for environmental releases is the nuclear industry the only industry that attempts to maintain those releases as low as technically possible even when they are routinely releasing only a fraction of the allowable limit of a given pollutant? Or is that common?
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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nuclearkatie.com
Every day I learn about another new nuclear startup (derogatory)
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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courtneymilan.com
If the only thing that can help you is a placebo, I hope you find an inexpensive, easy, and harmless placebo and ride it for all it is worth.
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Useful @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social analysis of Trump proposal on Russia, skewering it point-by-point in an easily digestible way:
www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-...
Trump and Witkoff Try to Get Russia a Win
The joint U.S.-Russia proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, taken point-by-point
www.arcdigital.media
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
tayloraloy.bsky.social
1 Megadollar : 1 Megadeath
atomicanalyst.bsky.social Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 24d
Today in 1952, the Boston Globe published an article by science writer Michael Amrine sharing the news that the hydrogen bomb—successfully tested for the first time 18 days earlier but not yet deployed—would enable the United States to conduct mass slaughter for the low, low cost of $1 per person.
Copy of a November 19, 1952, front-page article in the Boston Globe headlined: “Our New H-Bomb Makes Life Cheap * * * Costs $1 to Kill Super-Weapon Man With Atoms for Use on Cities * * * * * * Hydrogen Further It Brings War Reduces the Cost Home to Civilians” A note below the headlines and above the article reads, “Michael Amrine was the first person outside of Atomic Energy Commission to learn that work on the hydrogen bomb had begun. He was interviewing Senator Edwin C. Johnson, Dem., of Colorado, member of the Congressional Atomic committee, on a television broadcast three years ago this month at the time when the Senator disclosed that scientists were working on ‘a bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb which fell on Hiroshima.’” An excerpt from the article: "The first atomic bombs cost approximately $2,000,000,000 in development—and each of the first few bombs cost $1,000,000 in themselves. Now the individual cost of each atomic bomb is said to be around $250,000, but with improved efficiency it is estimated that one bomb might kill 250,000 persons in New York—or Moscow. That is $1 per person, and even if one adds in the $4,000,000 for a B-36 bomber, if that is the means used, the atomic bomb is far more 'economical' than using fleets of bombers with ordinary bombs, or even using 1,000,000 men with 1,000,000 two-cent bullets."
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Today in 1952, the Boston Globe published an article by science writer Michael Amrine sharing the news that the hydrogen bomb—successfully tested for the first time 18 days earlier but not yet deployed—would enable the United States to conduct mass slaughter for the low, low cost of $1 per person.
Copy of a November 19, 1952, front-page article in the Boston Globe headlined: “Our New H-Bomb Makes Life Cheap * * * Costs $1 to Kill Super-Weapon Man With Atoms for Use on Cities * * * * * * Hydrogen Further It Brings War Reduces the Cost Home to Civilians” A note below the headlines and above the article reads, “Michael Amrine was the first person outside of Atomic Energy Commission to learn that work on the hydrogen bomb had begun. He was interviewing Senator Edwin C. Johnson, Dem., of Colorado, member of the Congressional Atomic committee, on a television broadcast three years ago this month at the time when the Senator disclosed that scientists were working on ‘a bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb which fell on Hiroshima.’” An excerpt from the article: "The first atomic bombs cost approximately $2,000,000,000 in development—and each of the first few bombs cost $1,000,000 in themselves. Now the individual cost of each atomic bomb is said to be around $250,000, but with improved efficiency it is estimated that one bomb might kill 250,000 persons in New York—or Moscow. That is $1 per person, and even if one adds in the $4,000,000 for a B-36 bomber, if that is the means used, the atomic bomb is far more 'economical' than using fleets of bombers with ordinary bombs, or even using 1,000,000 men with 1,000,000 two-cent bullets."
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM