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Kathleen Ryan
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Hey all! I wish I could join you today but I’m up to my eyeballs in paperwork. This time for my sister. So much bureaucracy! Sending my best! Hope to see you soon! #AT40
June 6, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

MAGA wanted you to boycott this.
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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“The only thing more powerful than hate is love….
Together we are America!🇺🇸”
—Bad Bunny
February 9, 2026 at 2:18 AM
kat8888.bsky.social
Thanks, Jezza, @porpster.bsky.social for the fun today. Always appreciate what you put into leading the countdown. Have a great week, Everyone! Stay warm!

#AT40
February 7, 2026 at 7:23 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Oh… I always loved this song! I know, it’s a bit cheesy, but her voice is lovely. “Torn Between Two Lovers.” Beautiful! #AT40
February 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Babs! Love her voice. Can’t think of anything she has done that wasn’t perfection.
#AT40
February 7, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.
January 29, 2026 at 8:03 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Greetings, #AT40 Family! I’ve been swamped for the past several weekends and missed you all! It’s freezing cold here… 3 degrees air temp, -22 with the wind chill. Brrr…!!

And what is up with this stupid chicken song?
February 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wow… what a story!!!
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? (Gift Article)
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
kat8888.bsky.social
Thanks everyone, especially Jezza for all the prep work! @porpster.bsky.social

Have a great week, everyone! Today’s project: egg washing. Brother has 30 chickens! #AT40
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Simon and Garfunkel were spectacular! I somehow know all the lyrics to all their music… don’t know how that happened! Slip Sliding Away is lovely!
#AT40
December 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Greetings, #AT40 Friends! Missed the past few weekends, so much going on. Hope everyone is well and looking forward to a peaceful holiday season!
My variegated amaryllis opened this week! 🎄🎄🎄
December 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Beautiful patisserie in the Penn District this morning. #AT40 Friends, see you all next week!
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Waiting for the show to start!Not expecting anything from #AT40, sadly!
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Greetings, #AT40 Friends! We’re spending Thanksgiving weekend in NYC! Saw the Rockettes Christmas show yesterday and going to see Chicago, the musical on Broadway this afternoon. NYC is sunny and cold, but always lots of fun! Tree in Rockefeller Center not yet lit. Best to everyone! 🦃❤️🍁
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Have a great week everybody! We are headed off to the theater to see some play that I’ve never even heard of, and then we’re gonna be battening the hatches because we’ve got big snow coming soon! Thanks, Jezza! @porpster.bsky.social
#AT40
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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LoL
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
kat8888.bsky.social
Good God… the rat song in the middle of a good countdown! Ugh!

#AT40
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Oh man! I love the 5th Dimension! This song is 🔥!
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Greetings, #AT40 Friends!
I’ve been here, just listening while I get some cooking done. Now it’s in the oven so I’m here for a while. 1972, my first semester of my freshman year at college. Man… truly a long time ago! Amazing how the music is timeless, and I remember lots of the lyrics! 🎶🎶🎶
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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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. 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
November 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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OMG !

This is horrible , some of the blows could kill someone.
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Nov 6
Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Trump Announces Tariff Increase on Canada Over Reagan Ad Spat www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...
He’s so goddam crazy. Isn’t it well past time to invoke the 25th Amendment?
Trump Announces Tariff Increase on Canada Over Reagan Ad Spat
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
kat8888.bsky.social
Those are some great #1 tunes from 1974!! Thanks, Casey! #AT40
October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM