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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My belief is that Chang'e 7 has been delayed until 2027 (independent source - needs confirmation): bsky.app/profile/coas...

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Canada is contractually obligated to purchase a minimum of 16 F35 aircraft for the RCAF. However, the Swedish Gripen, optimized to operate in a rugged northern environment under threat of invasion from a larger neighbour, seems like a better choice.

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My favourite prehistoric sea monster

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am not a big fan of Premier Ford, but really -- what kind of fucking idiot criticizes a politician for doing their job???

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I was at this CNE airshow back in the 80s! I thought it was more like 1984 or 1985. To my knowledge, it was the only time an SR-71 Blackbird flew at a CNE airshow. youtube.com/shorts/8VqCn...

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Why America's Deadliest Fighter Jet Still Has No Equal 🇺🇸✈️

YouTube video by WarTech Facts

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Signal boost! Karl Schroeder's short story collection *Laika's Ghost* is now available - both as electronic and dead tree editions.

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I am not yet on Gander Social, but looking forward to its public launch

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Really, this ought to be more concerning for Americans:

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The war with Iran delayed Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial. The war with Iran got people to stop talking about Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein. So both men had corrupt motives for colluding to start a senseless war. Because they only care about themselves, not the people they kill.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

For the past 30 years, every time Conservatives have been elected to govern Ontario, they start vandalizing cultural institutions. Mike Harris destroyed Sam McLaughlin’s gift of a planetarium. Doug Ford destroyed the Ontario Science Centre and Ontario Place. Next? 🙄 www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...

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This planetarium at U of T was created as a gift to citizens. Decades later, it’s being demolished

The Royal Ontario Museum opened the McLaughlin Planetarium in 1968, welcoming more than six million visitors in its 27 years of operation.

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Jeremy and his colleagues made it back safely... yay!

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't access it -- either been deleted, or not accessible to me because I am not ion the test group

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I will provide WhatsApp details to you privately on Model Mayhem. As I said in my reply, I am unable to work with you on this trip.

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

April is complicated. Let me get back to you.

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Yes, but did Baldwin vote for Trump?

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Comets often break apart when they pass close to the Sun, but we've never seen the process in this kind of detail. By serendipity, the Hubble Telescope was watching closely as Comet K1/ATLAS (the *other* Comet ATLAS) fragmented into 4 major pieces last autumn. 🧪🔭 esahubble.org/news/heic2606/

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AkaSci @akasci.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Sorry, new data from NASA JWST indicates that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not crash into the moon on Dec. 22 2032, as predicted earlier with 4.3% prob; instead, it will fly by 21,200 km away on the far side of the moon. science.nasa.gov/blogs/planet... fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1142... #PlanetSci

1. Graphic showing asteroid 2024 YR4’s potential locations on December 22, 2032, estimated last year on June 3, 2025.

2. Graphic showing new estimate of asteroid 2024 YR4’s potential locations on December 22, 2032. The locations now lie on the far side of the moon.

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Yes -- Clonezilla would be my first choice also. Rescuezilla is another possibility.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

"...it's a mysterious and marvelous fact that our universe obeys laws of nature that always turn out to be expressible in the language of calculus as sentences called differential equations." — Steven Strogatz, 'Infinite Powers' 🔭 🧪 #Hubble images' description, sources, credits in the ALT text

Mystic Mountain in the Carina Nebula
This picture never fails to mess with me—like I’ve accidentally stepped into some brutal, jagged fantasy landscape that’s actively on fire. Hubble snagged it in 2010: a rough spike of gas & dust lost in the insane storm that is the Carina Nebula, sitting about 7,500 light-years out. Tiny new stars are losing their minds inside, shooting Herbig-Haro jets everywhere like they’re trying to escape. At the same time the monster stars right next door are sandblasting the whole thing with radiation, eating the edges away. The palette is ridiculous—sharp electric blue oxygen, warm green-gold from hydrogen and nitrogen, angry red sulfur glowing through it all. Feels straight-up like a Tolkien mountain caught in an apocalypse, pure violent energy. Just stars being born the hard way, screaming into existence. Wild.
Source: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/hubble-captures-view-of-mystic-mountain/
Credits: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI).

The Veil Nebula
This pic always creeps me out in the best way—like catching the faint leftover smoke from a star that blew up around 8,000 years ago. It was a heavy one, roughly 20× our Sun, and now we’ve got this huge expanding shell called the Cygnus Loop, about 2,100 light-years out. Spreads over 110 light-years and still racing away at insane speed. When Hubble gets close you see these thin, wispy threads curling everywhere: soft blue-green oxygen, red hydrogen, some sulfur mixed in—looks like torn lace or drifting cosmic smoke. Quietly brutal. All that’s left of a massive star, yet those threads are basically planting the seeds for the next round of planets and suns. Eerie, gorgeous, and kind of humbling.

Source: https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/veil-nebula/
Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (Cosmic Reef)
Way out in the Large Magellanic Cloud—163,000 light-years from home—you see this big angry red patch (NGC 2014) getting blasted bright by a bunch of really heavy stars, 10–20 times our Sun’s size. Then, right next to it, that perfect electric-blue bubble (NGC 2020) carved clean by one single Wolf-Rayet monster throwing out 200,000× the Sun’s light. The reds/oranges scream hydrogen + nitrogen; the sharp blue ring is oxygen going nuts. Looks exactly like some underwater coral reef… except the whole scene is only about 5 million years old.
Source: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/cosmic-reef/
Credits: NASA, ESA and STScI

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Wow! Hope this goes somewhere...

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas, Canada.

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

No, don't do this if you are in the USA

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

You will find a couple of my photos in old issues of Locus Magazine!

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is a fabulous, evocative image!

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 14/12/2025

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rise-o...

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The Wine Wars were not started by Canada. That said, I think highly of the products made by the Granite Hill winery in Prince Edward County, and would recommend them.

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The unlikely winner of the US's wine wars

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Do-Ming Lum @do-ming.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Getting up to speed in linear algebra and a reasonable familiarity with tensor calculus is a pretty big prerequisite step....

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