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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just released for Android: Animation of every atomic bomb the United States has exploded (or tried to; some "fizzled") with location, ktons, etc., July 1945 - September 1992. Data based almost entirely on U.S. gov't documents. (Other versions (desktop, iOS) coming!) play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Unfortunately it's normal for Trump, so it's not news. There are two things Trump can't keep his hands away from, and one of them is a Sharpie...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Now he's insisting EVERYBODY write in a new name for Lake Ontario. Personally, I'm amazed he's not calling it Lake Trump.

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ace Hoffman's Nuclear Failures Reports: Comments due Aug. 24, 2026 re NRC-2026-2476-0002 which would reduce safeguards for spent nuclear fuel. Here's our comment and the link to make one yourself: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/08/comm...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ace Hoffman's Nuclear Failures Reports: Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are large, complex, risky, inefficient — and misnamed on purpose! acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/08/smal...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Books books books... for the love of life!

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

From a friend: "In the recent ruling in Trump v. Slaughter, SCOTUS handed the president new power to remove independent agency commissioners like the FTC and NRC without cause." Full opinion: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

At least we have this to remember it by...

Image composed from image Trump himself posted of him and other member of his regime in the reflecting pool, with the characters isolated and placed in the same pool with green algae everywhere.

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm tired of the lies of the nuclear industry, and few lies are worse than the lie that the nuclear waste problem is solvable: My comment for the Southern California Edison Community Engagement Panel: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/06/sout...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

That autographed hat front and center tells us all we need to know regarding what Marco Rubio thinks about before he opens his blowhole...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This beautiful but black smoke-belching behemoth is traveling around the country and will end up in Philadelphia for the nation's 250th anniversary. This picture is from when it was sitting still in Colorado for many years. For scale, the person in the photo (my wife) is 5 feet tall.

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Connect the dots in the Epstein files to the Trump Regime needs a Sharpie, the lines are so thick.

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Also a great way to avoid the next MELTDOWN. (And there will be another... and another... and another... for those countries foolish enough to continue to use nuclear power.)

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Current AI artwork all seems like cheap copies of something — because it is. I'm not sure if that will still be true once AI is regularly copying other AI art, but what about humans copying hand-crafted artwork & repurposing it for one's own use by photoshopping in new text? People think that's OK?

Photo of a 1928 painting by Hugo Gellert called Worker and Machine, from the collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra, seen at the Huntington Library museum in Los Angeles, California USA in 2018

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Department of War Crimes will faithfully fulfill Trump's ILLEGAL ORDERS. Making them all just as culpable as he is. acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/04/pete...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

My most recent blog is a short essay about war crimes: Pete Kegtrumpsbreath and the Department of War Crimes: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/04/pete...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My dad didn't do all this for nothing, did he? (pics from his book)

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My latest essay: We will haunt humanity forever with the nuclear waste we produce today: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-w...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

In hindsight I don't think it was a good idea to hand the country over to a mad megalomaniac with a God-complex supported by true believers in Armageddon who then rely on Artificial Intelligence to decide how to start World War III, which responds: "Drop bombs on a school full of little girls."

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

All nuclear accidents (& nuclear operations, to a lesser degree) release hot isotopes. Even H3's so-called "weak" beta decay is ~3 orders of magnitude stronger than DNA's bonds. AI's delicate chips likewise are threatened by each nuclear accident. The damage is out of proportion to any benefit.

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Our latest (very timely!) review of a very timely book: Ace Hoffman's Nuclear Failures Reports: Book Review: The Nuclear Age by Serhii Plokhy (2025) reviewed by Sharon and Ace Hoffman: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2026/03/book...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I wrote (and sold) my own interactive animation tool for the IBM-PC starting in 1984. It was very reliable with very smooth animation, but by the mid 1990s "Flash" finally had smooth animation too, so I switched, rewrote everything in Animate and have been using it ever since. I ctrl-shft-s often.

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Book review: Return to Fukushima by Thomas A. Bass Bass interviewed people as they try to live and work in the contaminated areas around the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns. He found they were constantly recleaning, measuring radiation levels...and hoping. acehoffman.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

While at COP30 don't be fooled by the nuclear promoters! The Fed's failure to secure California's (or anybody's) nuclear waste is because the task cannot be done safely at ANY price (so we need to stop making more). See the pdf attached here: acehoffman.blogspot.com/2025/10/shre...

Yucca Mountain was never a reasonable solution to the nuclear waste problem. Stopping production is the first step

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This hearing starts at 9:00 am PST today (in about half an hour). This is my written statement to the California Coastal Commission. Ace Hoffman's Nuclear Failures Reports: Stop the Extended Permitting of Diablo Canyon Nucl... acehoffman.blogspot.com/2025/11/stop...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My wife and I biked to the C'bad No Kings rally and rode past most of it at one point. I think that's a good estimate of the # of people. The picture on the left was taken early on; over the next hour PCH got A LOT busier (same intersection)! Totally peaceful of course (tell Mike Johnson!).

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I wish you were right. But after fighting throughout WWII, the biggest war in history, Eisenhower was beyond horrified by the crimes he found at the concentration camps. It was beyond words. Have you cloistered yourself from the images of returning Ukraine POWs? & Putin has plenty of Polonium-210.

Alexander Litvinenko before and after being poisoned to death by agents of Vladimir Putin

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

YES on 50 and YES Gavin Newsom is what we need right now! Okay, so I don't like him either, for all the reasons this guy listed AND that Newsom is keeping Diablo Canyon Nuclear Waste Generating Station & Meltdown Risk open. It should have shut down completely by now. But THANK YOU GOV. NEWSOM!!!

ECCS at DCNPP sprung a leak after not being inspected properly

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We know the top of Trump's arch has already been completed...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Up and down the SoCal coast No Kings protests were packed and peaceful! (When I took this photo, half a dozen cops were standing to my right, no riot gear, no helmets, no billy-clubs... and nothing to do but watch.)

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Carlsbad, California doesn't want a king!!

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The top of the "Arc-de-Trump" is kinda nice, though...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Have you seen Trump's new idea for a giant monument to himself, apparently modeled after the Arc-de-Triomphe in Paris? Unfortunately most photos of the model of Trump's "Arc-de-Trump" aren't close-ups but I found one showing the planned sculptures for the top for the Arc so here it is!

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Meanwhile Trump wants yet another monument to him, this time a gigantic marble arch. I suggest this will be perfect to top it off...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

During WWII my uncle, who was the first person to mold plexiglass, made the plexiglass canopies for the P-51 Mustangs in a secret underground factory in PUERTO RICO. The plane the changed the course of the war -- because of the canopy. My uncle didn't design it, but PR (a part of the USA) built it!

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Then my guess is he bought it himself to make him look important -- and to increase the value of all his other doodles. But this recently revealed sketch: I can't understand why he won't take credit for it! It might be worth more than a Banksy (in his dreams). It might put him in jail (in ours).

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Trump does amazing lies with a Sharpie!

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Manipulating facts with a Sharpie is Trump's only skill (besides duping ignorant cult followers).

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I thought this important enough to screen capture the Google translation of some key sections...this goes to show that America's standing in the world has gone from something reasonably good or better, to pretty close to zero where N. Korea, China, Russia etc. are. And dropping daily, thx to Trump.

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Yes, it has a very powerful language, great for interactive things. I probably only use about 10% of what it can do! Currently I'm working on an interactive item with about a hundred different animations. Some, just for fun, are interactive simulations of old calculating devices (see image) :)

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I did that in the 1980s (but used it mainly for animated educational tutorials, not games). Over 1,000 fps! Originally 4 colors, then 256. MS-DOS; MASM; ~100,000 lines of Assembler code. Originally released on 5.25" floppies! (Thankfully, I've been using Flash/Animate for about 30 years now...)

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Last time it was a hurricane, this time it's gas prices...

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Others have touched on that subject but you really piled it on!

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