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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈

@nuclearanthro.bsky.social

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Anthro PhD Candidate. nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc. gonzo journo QUEER RT/Fave/etc ≠agree he/him http://patreon.com/nuclearanthro http://paypal.me/nuclearanthro https://osf.io/46sfd/

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1m

Like the flail: fake weapon (mostly).

publicmedievalist.com/curious-case...

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Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 1d

Today in historical hot takes: a well-supported argument that the straight punch was invented in early-modern Venice and likely didn't exist before that. hemamisfits.com/2025/10/05/a...

A paucity of punches: why was punching so rare in pre-modern martial arts

by Maxime Chouinard To most people, punching seems like one of the most natural ways of fighting when unarmed. Most movies will show protagonists and villains alike dealing numerous punches, and kn…

hemamisfits.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16m

Good night Bluesky.

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

Moreover we must destroy ICE & smash fascism.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16m

It could have been worse.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 17m

Paul Tibbetts was a previous awardee (2000). CEO of URENCO was 2011.

Only been 5 or 6 women awardees although WINS was 2017.

Palo Verde Generating station—another consistent donor/supporter—was 2024 & has a longer bio than WINS.

I have a table & a page+ about this!
#DissertationWriting

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

I appreciate the online calculators.

a man in a suit and white shirt says it was my understanding there would be no math

Alt: a man in a suit and white shirt says it was my understanding there would be no math

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

Oblique (sorry Dr. Mummah, it’s the #DissertationWriting) and URENCO incidentally is a sustained and decent sized donor & sponsor of the Nuclear Museum & an exhibit therein & events related & also their head was given the Museum’s National Nuclear Scienxe & History Award.

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Katie Mummah, PhD @nuclearkatie.com · 5h

Urenco approved to enrich uranium up to 10% in "all existing and future cascades".

This is HALEU, but only the lower end of HALEU enrichments. Sometimes this enrichment level, 5-10%, is referred to as LEU+
www.ans.org/news/2025-10...
#NukeSky

Urenco USA gets OK to enrich uranium up to 10 percent

www.ans.org

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 29m

Here's the TOTAL budgets of some other agencies that are being cut so the Admin can send $20B your tax dollars to their ideological friends:

- EPA (clean air and water): $9.1B

- NOAA (weather forecasts, warn if hurricane coming): $6.8B

- DOE EERE (energy efficiency & renewable energy): $3.4B

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 39m

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 29m

Oh hells yes!

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 30m

Frank Kyte picked up a fossil piece of the K-Pg and identified it as a carbonaceous chondrite in 1998: www.nature.com/articles/24322

A meteorite from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary - Nature

Nature - A meteorite from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

www.nature.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1h

“In related scientific news, a replicating RNA vaccine based on older, historical H5N1 avian flu antigens can protect macaques from lethal infections with the latest strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus, according to a study in Science Translational Medicine.”

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 50m

*extremely Albert Camus voice*

In the end, we must imagine the dinosaurs as grateful for the asteroid.

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid came from the edge of the solar system | Natural History Museum

We now know the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

www.nhm.ac.uk

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h

Strong 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes off southern Philippines, tsunami warning issued reut.rs/3IGrhah

Strong 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes off southern Philippines, tsunami warning issued

An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck offshore in the southern Philippines on Friday, the country's seismology agency said, with tsunami warnings issued in several countries and people in nearby coastal areas urged to evacuate to higher ground.

reut.rs

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 56m

HELLO I TOO ENJOY TAKING DRUGS TO ALTER MY STATE OF MIND AND WATCH FILMS!

It was the only way I got through Oppenheimer. I had to step out at the sex scene & smoke again (legal medical/recreational here).

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Marquis Lafayette @renegadesci.bsky.social · 1h

I hope every team he enjoys loses from bad calls.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2h

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

i mean define expositions.

🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

how fun!

🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

That looks exceptional.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

ICYMI: FOIA docs up at my OSF:

osf.io/46sfd/

(See the “recent activity)

Docs are on the National Nuclear Weapons History Program

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

Fair!

🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

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

HOORAY NAPPING VOID KITTENS ADORABLY READY FOR ADOPTION😻😻😻

Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 2h

Okay I might have missed them a little bit.

I don't tend to miss fosters when they go off to their new homes because I know they're living their best lives and learning to love new humans. But I'm glad to have these two back.

Two snuggly black cat sisters curled up together in a grey fluffy bed. Meg, at the front, has her little back legs stretched towards the camera.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

I’m glad they are getting TLC from you and back to being happy, healthful, hungry, helpful, and adorably adoptable kittens!

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1h

😻😻😻DOZE BUNNY FEET!