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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

TRANS RIGHTS ARE A WINNING POLITICAL ISSUE

Every single centrist claiming we must all compromise our bodily autonomy for their personal comfort is a traitor to American democracy & rational human decency.

They have no place in a modern Democratic Party, toss them out. Total liberation for all.

A brown cloud arising from an underground nuclear test in Nevada. Dry Nevadan hills are in the background. The scientific encampment to control the test and take data is in the lower right. This is the Baneberry nuclear test, and it is not how underground nuclear tests should look.

Screenshot of a Facebook post: Terry Wallace On December 18, 1970, a nuclear weapons test was conducted in an underground shaft at the Nevada Test Site. The test, code-named Baneberry, was detonated at a depth of about 900 feet. Baneberry was a relatively small weapons test and was conducted at Yucca Flats (a large playa) in alluvial soil derived from surrounding deposits of volcanic tuff. Within the alluvium, there were intermittent seams of montmorillonite clay that were saturated with water. The drill hole was filled with a concrete plug and sorted materials; the procedure for plugging the hole was consistent with previous tests at Yucca Flats, which aimed to fully contain the radioactive products within a cavity produced by the nuclear explosion. In the case of Baneberry, the detonation seemed normal until about 3 ½ minutes after the “boom,” when a large fissure opened up a few hundred feet from the test shaft, and a boiling cloud of radioactive debris rose above the Nevada desert (Figure 1 is an image of the Baneberry release). The cloud rose about 10,000 feet above the test and was visible in Las Vegas, 100 miles away. The cloud spread radioactive dust across a broad area, contaminating 86 workers at the test site. The total radioactive release was 6.7 megacuries (for comparison, Chernobyl released 200 megacuries), including 80,000 curies of iodine-131. Two of the workers who were contaminated died in 1974 from myeloid leukemia. The accident resulted in a six-month suspension of nuclear weapons testing, and a root cause analysis revealed three geological issues that combined to create the release: an unrecognized fault in the alluvium, a buried escarpment between the alluvium and limestone, and the structural weakness of the water-saturated clay.

Post continues (2) the structural weakness of the water-saturated clay. The summary conclusion of the root cause analysis indicated that a thorough geological analysis was needed for all future nuclear tests, and it recommended the establishment of a containment evaluation panel (CEP) for the approval of any tests. This panel required that “successful containment means no radioactivity detectable offsite, and no unanticipated release of activity onsite.” Of the 200+ tests that occurred after the creation of the CEP, only four tests had releases—the worst of which was a test called Diagonal Line, detonated about a year after Baneberry, and resulting in a release of 6,000 curies. I started my career at Los Alamos National Laboratory as an undergraduate student in 1975 employed by the J Division, which was responsible for providing the containment package for LANL nuclear tests. My first project involved modeling the small earthquakes that occurred after an explosion. Once an explosion is detonated, it creates a cavity by vaporizing and compressing the surrounding materials. This cavity is expected to collapse over the following days or weeks to create a porous chimney that traps the gases produced in the explosion. This containment strategy is unique to the geology of the Nevada Test Site and is not applicable to other testing environments, especially crystalline rock (like the North Korean Test Site). Over the three years I worked as a student at LANL, I analyzed data from more than 70 tests, which initiated my career in forensic geophysics and eventually led to my becoming the 11th Director of LANL. On September 23, 1992, the U.S. conducted its final explosive nuclear

Post continues (3): On September 23, 1992, the U.S. conducted its final explosive nuclear test, code-named Divider (a LANL test). Shortly after the test, President Bush announced a test moratorium that was extended indefinitely by President Clinton. This ushered in a new era in which nuclear weapons were evaluated not through explosions but by scientific tools that verified material properties through dynamic testing and advanced computer simulations that encapsulated the complex physics of nuclear reactions and explosions along with the material properties derived from non-explosive experiments. The Directors of Los Alamos, Livermore, and Sandia are required to write an annual stockpile assessment letter that assures the nuclear stockpile's reliability; this letter is finalized after a yearlong assessment of the safety, reliability, and performance of both the nuclear and non-nuclear components of all weapon types in the U.S. arsenal. The letters are highly classified and closely held, but no letter has indicated that the U.S. needs to return to nuclear testing. This is hugely significant not only for the U.S. but also for the world—the moratorium on testing represents a small step toward a world that recognizes that nuclear weapons are not weapons of war, but rather instruments of deterrence. On October 28, President Trump announced that the U.S. would restart nuclear weapons tests: “Because of other countries’ testing programs, I

This needs to be shared more widely. It's on Facebook, which AFAIK doesn't allow direct links to its posts. Terry clearly wants it to be shared, so I don't feel bad about posting it in multiple screenshots.

Terry Wallace was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

I have absolutely no idea if any of them ever actually make it. There were dozens (hundreds?) in the pool by the waterfall. #salmon

Officials issue warning after hunter is attacked by group of bears: 'We believe the calls attracted the grizzly bear family' "The deceased bear was the same one involved in the attack."

"And while the hunter should not be blamed for his own terrible injuries" - um, yes he should. Then he should be heavily fined for shooting the bear. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

YouTube video by glassemon Katie Jacoby Solo - Baba O'Riley/Teenage Wasteland Bethel Woods 6/8/18

Jump to the 0:50 mark if you're not a Who fan, Katie is such a freaking badass.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_dj...

I'm not going to hold my breath that an entire party of rapists will suddenly try to solve their own crimes.
This country would first have to begin thinking of women as human beings, not simply a collection of holes.

This hits hard—and says everything about where we are right now.

A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.

The leader of the worlds biggest pedo ring is dead and I'm supposed to be sad? OK I'm sad. See, very sad. Sad sad sad.

This happened a couple months ago in a Starbucks where I live & I said a few things to him that caused him to leave before his precious coffee was ready. I thought the staff were going to ask me to leave because they heard what I said to him - but instead they gave me a coupon for a free coffee!

UK Supreme Court says legal definition of ‘woman’ excludes trans women, in landmark ruling | CNN The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” excludes trans women, in a case with sweeping consequences for how equality laws are applied.

In some ways it's nice to know that Americans aren't the only complete pieces of shit in the world.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/u...

Coal. Doomed.

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For An unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.

What a surprise.

www.wired.com/story/genomi...

*Totally* get it. There are a lot of bands I don't care for but have to admit they have one or three amazing tunes.

You mean to tell me I'm not the only person in the world who doesn't love The Who?

first mowing of the year yard work suuucksss

We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

I don't understand how people who don't drink coffee get out of bed each morning.

Did you know it costs $ if you want to revoke your US citizenship? What a joke.

Did anyone call in and just want to discuss how dumb you all are?

I have absolutely no recollection of learning how to skate, but apparently it happened when I was 4. I remember scoring my first goal when I was 5.

We didn't really play street hockey, presumably because there was an outdoor public rink around the corner, and busy streets...

IRS begins layoffs, as DOGE cuts collide with tax season More than 100 were laid off in Denver, part of a reported 6,000 nationally.

www.axios.com/2025/02/20/i...

YouTube video by Warren Haynes Warren Haynes - These Changes ft. Derek Trucks (Live)

As a duo they're just... about as close to perfect as it gets.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SS8...

I'm going to question the sanity of any American who pays federal income tax this year.

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Is there any chance they'll broadcast the national anthems before the US vs. Canada hockey game today? I could use a laugh.

YouTube video by Gregg Allman Allman Brothers Band - Dreams (Live at the Beacon Theater)

For some reason my memory of this show is a bit hazy but I do recall seeing the setlist ahead of time and making a note to myself that I wasn't going to miss Maurice sit in on "Dreams" no matter what.

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If you're looking for something, anything, that resembles justice... Here you go:

Ruthie Foster and Taj Mahal won the blues Grammy's tonight (Ruthie won contemporary blues, Taj won traditional blues). Not Joe fuckstick Bonnamamassa or Samantha givemeabreak Fish.

a photo of Empty shelves at a liquor store in Sidney, BC with signs on the shelves that say "BUY CANADIAN INSTEAD" with a maple leaf below the text.

Liquor stores on Vancouver Island have started removing stock. #BuyCanadian

Photo of the label of a bag of Mandarins- a product of Morocco

I got Moroccan Mandarins ✌️