🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🏳️‍🌈

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Anthropology PhD Candidate.

nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, secrecy, etc.

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Me too, Drop Bear. I feel it too.

Thank fuck. Trump would be a rude response to the UK & France not choosing the greater evils.

looks like the left and center in france are sighing deeply, staring off into the middle distance, stubbing out their cigarettes and blocking lepen

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From Insta: When your therapist tells you: "The fact that you're considered 'high functioning' doesn't mean your illness is easier for you to deal with. It means it's easier for others to deal with." ☝️Interesting bookends to my day👇

You're a person, not a chore.

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE EVENING! @cherylrofer.bsky.social AND BOTANICAL GARDENS AND KITTENS!😻😻😻

Many thanks to @nuclearanthro.bsky.social for getting me out this beautiful but warm afternoon. His payment was two hours of play with the kittens.

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Drawing for The Century with Mushroom Clouds, Project for the 20th Century by Cai Guo-Qiang, 1995 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137267

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OH! Speaking of deterrence and compellence, Stephen Schwartz' thread about the UKPM Letters of Last Resort yesterday yielded a gem in the replies that you might be interested in. I listened to it last night. it's darkly funny & deeply unsettling: ...1/2 youtu.be/PwY9th-vmNY?...

BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama: The Letter of Last Resortyoutu.be

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Reminds me of some of the embroidery the Stasi did. An odd juxtaposition of form and subject.

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i LOVED "the silent service" can anyone recommend something similar? high drama, fast paced, ??! just great. also @nuclearanthro.bsky.social you might be interested for its presentation of deterrence - it's novel to me, and i found it really interesting.

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@nuclearanthro.bsky.social FYI, I've seen this artist at a local art festival a few times and think you might like. He does hand embroidery of silk in the style of traditional Chinese paintings. embroidery.itgo.com/index.html

Home Pageembroidery.itgo.com

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Theobromine - one of the many interesting molecules in chocolate. Here's hoping that summer warms up a little to make this pic a little more seasonally relevant! #SciArt #SciComm #Science #ChemSky 🐡🧪 (and at a push #CompChemSky, I did build the structure in molecular modelling software after all😀)

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE MORNING! SPARKLE!😻😻😻

Glad for you both that this is so. I know how you feel as my wee Sparkle is on that same trajectory. Both she and Cloudy are keeping on for now.😻❤️🤞

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The Economist has some astonishing figures on Russian losses in Ukraine. They surpass all losses by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation from 1945 to 2022 combined. Up to 728,000 soldiers eliminated, confirming Ukraine’s figures. 1/2

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Thread art 💜💜

My current experimental #NuclearEmbroidery. I am working to improve my skills & stitch repertoire which also involves improving my materials. A notional Teller-Ulam thermonuclear explosive design on a linen-cotton blend. Interstage is my first serious long-and-short attempt & it came out ok.

Bingo.

It drives me nuts when people say we need to make sure poor people have access to AI. The entire schtick is focused on providing AI slop to the masses while ensuring the elites get real human professionals. Having a human teacher or doctor or lawyer cannot become a bespoke luxury for the wealthy.

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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

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Look I Know Miss J.D. Ferguson Said This Pot Was Used By Bonnie Prince Charlie But As A Local Historian I Have Standards You Know.

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The result is that now, at the end of that 50 year process of laser-like dedication on the republican side, a *hell* of a lot of people the democrats would like to scare with project 2025 have already spent their entire lives living with the damned thing.

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This week: raise your voice against spending on nuclear weapons. Today is the 7th anniversary of the adoption of the UN-Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, on 7/7/2017. #nukesky

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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Also hurricanes

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I've seen too many people driven mad by posting to believe it "accomplishes nothing" lol

The state of Israel is carrying out a genocide by destroying Palestinian lives & possibilities for life and are doing so with continued USA political cover, weapons, & aid.

“At least five journalists were killed in attacks by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours in Gaza as bombings and air strikes across the besieged enclave intensified.”

Five journalists killed as Israel steps up bombardment across Gazawww.aljazeera.com Journalist couple Amjad Jahjouh and Wafa Abu Dabaan and their children were killed in a strike on the Nuseirat camp.

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE EVENING!😻😻😻

It's still #Caturday, so here's Bowie being silly (as usual!)

I am pleased to announce that Cloudy has a reprieve from euthanasia and will be with me for some (maybe months seems most probable? who knows with cats) time yet. What looked like terminal decline were some bad days and less (bit still more than is good) weight loss than I thought. SO HOORAY!

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never forget the usa today “heatwave” infographic

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2023 Canadian wildfires produced CO2 emissions that were *quadruple* the global aviation sector. But because it's a physical hazard they don't "count" Physical risk 🤝 Transition risk HT @hausfath.bsky.social

Canada’s 2023 wildfires outsmoked global aviation, yet emissions go uncountednews.mongabay.com On a June day in 2023, New Yorkers woke up to an eerie scene: the sky had turned a murky orange, the sun a dim red orb in the haze. The culprit? Smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away, in Canada....

Another enormous difference between me and Donald Trump is that I have made good faith & long term efforts in therapy & behavioral training to be a better & better regulated person. Trump glories in his chaos and viciousness and views it as his due.

This. I am mentally ill. Donald Trump is an abusive, amoral, greedy, dishonest, & self-centered piece of shit.

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Seen at the Santa Cruz, CA Museum of Art and History yesterday... A sort of time capsule from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake @nuclearanthro.bsky.social