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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

JAXA's MMX arrives at Phobos in 2027, about 30 years after the data I used in my MS were collected by Mars Global Surveyor.

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Do you think if we give them another 106 years, the IAU will get around to fixing this?

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article "Name conflicts in astronomy", starting from the section "Bodies with identical names and referents". Among the objects with conflicting names are Europa, Io, Dione, Rhea, Titania, Metis, Leda, Pandora, and more. The dates of naming indicate the name conflict problem began as early as 1858 and has continued to grow worse up to the present.

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

DEAR OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF WIKIPEDIA I AM ALL IN ON ADMIRING THE IRREGULAR SHAPE OF THE MYSTERIOUS MOONS OF MARS AND I CAN INTRODUCE YOU TO SEVERAL OF MY FRIENDS WHO WOULD SAY THE SAME 🔭🛰️

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

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Daniel Machacek @danielmachacek.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Seasonally recurrent annular cyclone on Mars in processed images from newly released data from the EXI camera system onboard the Hope probe (EMM - Emirates Mars Mission). The images were taken on August 7, 2025 between ~12:30 and 18:10 UTC. Credit: Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)/EXI/D. Machacek.

Two color images of the crescent of Mars with a cyclone near the north polar ice cap at the top of the image. The images were taken on August 7, 2025 at 12:30 and 14:20 UTC.

Two color images of Mars with a cyclone near the north polar ice cap at the top of the image. Also visible in the center of the images are the three large volcanoes of Tharsis Montes and Olympus Mons volcano. The images were taken on August 7, 2025 at 16:18 and 18:10 UTC.

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

funniest outcome of this is that the justice system functions as intended and they have to send maduro right back, a free man

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/01/2026

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

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Danny Page @danny.page · 03/01/2026

This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

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United States involvement in regime change - Wikipedia

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

it's advent you know what that means

the big hay goat from sweden or something looking very unburned and majestic with text from the old "you wouldn't download a car" but it reads "you wouldn't burn a goat"

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Science diagrams that look like shitposts

A cat and a dog, grouped four ways indicating how different language architectures might express the same semantic information
A) natural language: "a cat with a dog"
B) unnatural semantic: "a gol with a nar"
C) non-local systematic: "waitacdahogt"
D) holistic: "vek"

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Prepping D&D, I'm thinking I'm gonna give the deer avatar of one of my gods forward-facing predator eyes like the restored Ghent Altarpiece lamb, to better express its uncanny divinity.

Before and after comparison of a detail from the 1432 Ghent Altarpiece by Van Eyck, showing the face of a lamb with a radiant halo. The pre-restoration version looks pretty naturalistic, with wide-set, side-facing eyes, appropriate for a grazing animal low on the food chain, and soft, uplifted ears.

This appearance was apparently modified at some point in the past five centuries from the (now-restored) original version, shown on the right, which has the uncannily human, front-facing eyes of a predator, along with tube-shaped ears (like Shrek), set low on its head for some reason, giving an altogether alien appearance. These eyes are calm, but locked in an intense gaze, fully making eye-contact with the viewer. Presumably the artist had seen a sheep before, and chose to depict this lamb with the front-facing eyes to better express the lamb's divinity as the Lamb of God, symbolic of the crucified Jesus.

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I made the code wheel puzzle from pentiment this weekend for my D&D campaign. I'm really pleased with how it turned out!

A multicolored wheel made of paper, inscribed with alchemical symbols and a star chart, plus other scraps of paper including an encoded clue with zodiac symbols and Greek letters, and a chart relating zodiac symbols to classical elements.

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

this is art

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Lines for italian beef are too long at the Tempe Portillos when the Cubs are playing spring training games in Mesa! Arizona calls out for the bounty of the steppe!

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 13/03/2025

Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Not super great that today feels like a "we should have class outside today!" kind of day, and it's February

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Let us pledge in final chorus, Illinois, Illinois That in struggles still before us, Illinois, Illinois To our heroes we'll be true, As their vision we pursue. In abiding love for you, Illinois, Illinois. In abiding love for you, Illinois. In abiding love for you, Illinois. youtu.be/zE1gpEtQHMA

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Illinois (arr. A. Boysen, Jr. for choir)

YouTube video by Illinois Honors Chorus - Topic

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Two messaging options to consider below, which works better? Senate Dems: we stand ready to unite in bipartisanship to move America forward Governor Pritzker: *beheads a Republican* Sic Semper Tyrannis

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025

Only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and healthcare for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs, monitoring of nursing home abuse, nuclear reactor regulation, and cancer research.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

JB's state of the state speech today was remarkable. There are a lot of people that have given up on the fight, and then there is one steppe warlord who absolutely has not

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We may not have kings but we do have a mighty khan

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

taking a bunch of adderall and mixing minutes and hours on a log-log plot because the rules are all made up to stop you from achieving your dreams

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Fiestaware 2025 new color thread, go! Whether you're showing off a delicious baked good, a meal of some kind, or an array of your favorite agave plants, you can't go wrong pairing your social-media friendly item with the vibrant colors and classic art-deco design of Fiesta Tableware.

Eight Fiesta teacups and saucers, each with a small agave plant potted inside. The cups and saucers are color-mismatched, representing Shamrock, Sunflower, Tangerine, Pearl Gray, Cobalt, and Rose. They sit on a short upright piano among other potted plants. The piano is painted in an outer-space theme, with nebulas and small asteroids and a comet visible against a field of stars.

A collection of Fiestaware pieces sitting on a kitchen counter, sorted by color from Cinnabar through Cobalt, Lapis, Peacock to Turqoise, Shamrock, Sea Mist, and Lemongrass, to Sunflower and Yellow, Tangerine, and two shades of Rose. Please ignore the mess in the background, I took this photo years ago.

A selection of cannoli on four Fiesta plates. Clockwise from the top: chocolate chip on Lemongrass, cinnamon on vintage Light Green, pistachio on Peacock, and maple walnut on vintage Turquoise.

an array of Fiesta dinner plates on a kitchen counter, including Sage, Chocolate, Shamrock, Paprika, Evergreen, and Lapis, along with dessert plates in Rose and Pearl Gray, a lunch plate in Peacock, and a Peacock mug with an agave plant in it.

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Also the Lucy mission just whizzed past Earth everybody look up and wave! Wow a real Santa Lucia Day pleasant coincidence

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Hej alla! It's Santa Lucia Day so that's right it's time to serve my roommates saffron buns in bed (open-flame headgear not included). Gledelig Jul from Flagstaff!

A plate of saffron buns. They're coiled into different shapes and decorated with craisins. There are a few S shaped ones, others look like ram heads, a wreath, a harp, a clover, and there are a couple that are more abstract knots.

Saffron buns sitting on a wire cooling rack. They're coiled into different shapes and decorated with craisins, the closest one looks vaguely like a ram's head.

A bedroom mirror selfie of me in my gender-swapped Santa Lucia outfit, holding a large plate of saffron buns. I'm wearing a white tuxedo shirt, white pants, a red sash around my waist, and a headlamp (which traditionally would be a wreath worn like a crown with lit candles stuck in it). Hi alt-text readers! Lucia is patron saint of the blind!

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Loki van Lodenaken @lokivanlodenaken.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Happy Santa Lucia. The longest nights of the year have arrived. Enjoy the Yuletide!

Girl with long blond hair, dressed as Saint Lucia in a white long dress, wearing a evergreen crown with as much as red candles possible, riding the Yule goat which is brown coloured. She holds to its long horns, sitting on some saddle in green red and blue
In the background left a bit uphill a person stands, in trousers and a blue jacket in the snow in front of snowed pines, at the right there is a re house, a mother dressed in brownred holding a small child in blue colours in her arms standing in front of the door watching Saint Lucia bringing light with Yule

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

As of this year, the castle at disneyland was built closer in time to the construction of this castle in bavaria that it's inspired by than to the present day.

Sleeping Beauty's castle at Disneyland, Anaheim California.

Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany.

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

So rarely do I have occasion to optimize my code. I got a script down from ~70 seconds to 8.5 today and I'm gonna ride this thrill for a while.

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

I had fun this weekend shooting the eclipse from just north of the San Juan in Utah near Bears Ears!

Landscape view of 2023 Annular solar eclipse over a large mesa cut off from the surrounding terrain by a dry oxbow side canyon of the San Juan river in southern Utah. The sun is a thin orange crescent viewed through a pair of eclipse glasses held in the foreground.

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Nathan Smith @nsmithplanets.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Hey, I made it onto this one! I still don't really have much to say though.

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