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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 8h

First day of feeling healthy again is here!! Celebrating with more Outlast Trials, because now my throat won't disintegrate if I scream :) #Twitch #OutlastTrials twitch.tv/forceghostleia

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First day feeling healthy again!! ♡ | !theforce !hope

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.

If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 1d

Playing more Dying Light 2 live right now! We'll get back to Outlast Trials (and onto Fallout 3!) soon, I just want to run around some more first :) #Twitch #DL2 twitch.tv/forceghostleia

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine trying to explain « iodine-131 » and « buried escarpments » to a man who does not realize he has been taking dementia tests and cannot comprehend the difference between “asylum” and “an asylum”

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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.

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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.

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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

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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

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 1d

i'm sorry did you all know about the historic butt-drag fossil and you didn't tell me? y'all were keeping this from me??? this whole time??? i am wounded

World’s first known butt-drag fossil trace was left by a rock hyrax in South Africa 126,000 years ago

The first hyrax fossil tracks and traces ever to be discovered were identified on South Africa’s coast.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

The choice is clear as day: Trump and Musk for Cuomo vs. our campaign for change.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

(🚨) NEW at PROOF: It is 8PM the night before Election Day, and *this* is the breaking news the whole world should be talking about.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump’s Involvement in An Apparent Obama Assassination Plot Was Just Discovered—Then Systematically Covered Up

As America heads to the polls in early November, this would seem to be the biggest legal and political scandal US media is by and large doing nothing to draw voters’ attention to. Proof has the story.

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry I'm late to stream tonight, been feeling sick and sleepy all day. But I'm not giving up, so here comes a little more Dying Light 2 just for you guys!! #Twitch #DyingLight twitch.tv/forceghostleia

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight's stream shall be an hour late but at least it's here

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 2d

This is DAMN close.

Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 2d

Took my second round of cold meds for today and snoozed my alarm to start stream as my cat coughed up a hairball... the look of despair on my face can only be summaries my medieval depictions of dogs in paintings.

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow! Get out and VOTE!

Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 6d

Spent all day thinking it was Friday... but nope, we have one more scheduled stream this week!! More Outlast Trials starts now, this time we're talking the courthouse! 👻 #Twitch #OutlastTrials twitch.tv/forceghostleia

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Call me Judge Judy the way I dominate this courthouse | !theforce !hope

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Meredith Morgenstern she/her | Read banned books @mlmorgenstern.bsky.social · 6d

Remember to leave a babysitter out for Michael Myers tonight!

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Nugget @compactnugget.bsky.social · 6d

my boy is back! #acnh

a video game character named resetti is talking

ALT: a video game character named resetti is talking

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 7d

Been traveling the last few days, but now we're back! Time for more Outlast Trials, methinks 🫶🏻 #Twitch #OutlastTrials twitch.tv/forceghostleia

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Leia | 28 | AuDHD | bisexual |

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

The refusal to fund SNAP will drive millions into hunger.

But when the Trump administration chooses cruelty,
@newyorkstateag.bsky.social chooses courage.

Grateful for her joining this suit to keep people fed.

Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Food Stamp Cuts

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 8d

NEED THIS

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 8d

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 8d

"When do you think you'll have kids?"
"Probably in ten years."
"Ten years? You'll be 38!"

Yeah it's almost like we live in a country where fascism has stolen the dreams and future of young people from every background.

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 8d

I know there's not a lot of us on here, but I appreciate you guys being a part of the small community where I filter my thoughts less. If you see this, thanks!

Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 8d

Remembered I was on my period because I had to cough. Someone throw me a life preserver...

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Halli Leia ⁎⁺˳✧ @forceghostleia.bsky.social · 8d

Now is the time to resist. Now is the time to say no. Love thy neighbor. Refuse treasonous orders. Reject becoming a part of the fascist regime, be the sand in the gears instead.

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CJ NOW+ @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 8d

It can’t be overstated what absolute pieces of reeking shit these people are.

Humanizing Through Story @yourstorymatters.bsky.social · 8d

Border Patrol Chief Bovino exited the federal courthouse in Chicago today, facing questions over his use of tear gas in communities despite a federal ban without justification. Before leaving, he stood in the truck doorway, fist-pumped, and then placed a CS grenade on the dashboard.

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