Matt Smith ❌👑
@genericuser258.bsky.social
Engineer, ISS, Space Shuttles, nuke electrician, currently unemployed; trying to figure out where I'm wrong, and to fix it.
Welp, today is my last day employed with Boeing working on the International Space Station program. I'm heading up north to be closer to family, and don't have anything actually lined up yet. A break will be nice; looking to find something in the new year.
October 2, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Welp, today is my last day employed with Boeing working on the International Space Station program. I'm heading up north to be closer to family, and don't have anything actually lined up yet. A break will be nice; looking to find something in the new year.
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Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
September 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
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NASA released a bunch of 16 and 35mm film engineering footage of the Artemis II launch today.
Naturally I knew what I had to do with it.
Naturally I knew what I had to do with it.
September 16, 2026 at 3:06 AM
NASA released a bunch of 16 and 35mm film engineering footage of the Artemis II launch today.
Naturally I knew what I had to do with it.
Naturally I knew what I had to do with it.
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Some fantastic flying by the pilot of this Skylane last week. www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraf...
September 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Some fantastic flying by the pilot of this Skylane last week. www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraf...
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🚨 LIVE NOW! From ESA Mission Control
The GO was given, the operation is underway, our livestream has begun. Follow along as #BepiColombo executes the MTM separation sequence and enters the next phase of its journey to #Mercury. ☀️🌑🛰️
Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7l...
@esa.int #JAXA
The GO was given, the operation is underway, our livestream has begun. Follow along as #BepiColombo executes the MTM separation sequence and enters the next phase of its journey to #Mercury. ☀️🌑🛰️
Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7l...
@esa.int #JAXA
September 3, 2026 at 11:47 AM
🚨 LIVE NOW! From ESA Mission Control
The GO was given, the operation is underway, our livestream has begun. Follow along as #BepiColombo executes the MTM separation sequence and enters the next phase of its journey to #Mercury. ☀️🌑🛰️
Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7l...
@esa.int #JAXA
The GO was given, the operation is underway, our livestream has begun. Follow along as #BepiColombo executes the MTM separation sequence and enters the next phase of its journey to #Mercury. ☀️🌑🛰️
Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7l...
@esa.int #JAXA
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It's been forever since I've done a post specifically related to Oregon Road '83 on DOOMSDAY MACHINES, and I've been wanting to write up this research on gasoline after a nuclear war for ages. What started as specifically a game-related research question became (as always) a rather deep dive...
Running on empty
How much gasoline would be available after a full-scale nuclear war?
doomsdaymachines.net
August 28, 2026 at 3:49 PM
It's been forever since I've done a post specifically related to Oregon Road '83 on DOOMSDAY MACHINES, and I've been wanting to write up this research on gasoline after a nuclear war for ages. What started as specifically a game-related research question became (as always) a rather deep dive...
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NASA and Katalyst have abandoned plans to boost the aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after an attitude-control issue with the LINK servicer. LINK will still attempt rendezvous and proximity operations, gathering valuable data for future in-space servicing missions.
August 19, 2026 at 9:50 PM
NASA and Katalyst have abandoned plans to boost the aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after an attitude-control issue with the LINK servicer. LINK will still attempt rendezvous and proximity operations, gathering valuable data for future in-space servicing missions.
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❗️🇷🇺Moscow Region. One of the buildings of Roscosmos’ main scientific institute in Korolyov is on fire.
August 5, 2026 at 1:43 PM
❗️🇷🇺Moscow Region. One of the buildings of Roscosmos’ main scientific institute in Korolyov is on fire.
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A series of posts that offers a little taste of what I hope will be a groundbreaking new book about the Gettysburg Campaign. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The Enslaved Men of Gettysburg: A Recap
My full anniversary series on the enslaved laborers who marched with the Army of Northern Virginia.
open.substack.com
July 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM
A series of posts that offers a little taste of what I hope will be a groundbreaking new book about the Gettysburg Campaign. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Francis Fukuyama: The problem of equality ft.trib.al/DgXausP
Francis Fukuyama: The problem of equality
We must understand our identity to be fundamentally rooted in a set of ideas, not the racial or ethnic identity of our ancestors
ft.trib.al
July 4, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Francis Fukuyama: The problem of equality ft.trib.al/DgXausP
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Years ago, NASA put out a Progress Pride flag of space images created by Rachel Lense. She is no longer at NASA, NASA is no longer celebrating diversity, and that old image just made me sad.
So I made a new one.
patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/pride-...
So I made a new one.
patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/pride-...
The Pride Flag, but make it space | CosmoQuestX
Years ago, NASA put out a Progress Pride flag of space images. David Shiffman has a good article about it here, where he interviews the crea
patreon.cosmoquest.org
July 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Years ago, NASA put out a Progress Pride flag of space images created by Rachel Lense. She is no longer at NASA, NASA is no longer celebrating diversity, and that old image just made me sad.
So I made a new one.
patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/pride-...
So I made a new one.
patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/pride-...
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On Damnatio Memoriae and de-Trumpification. (Gift link)
Been waiting for this one to go up. Please read and share.
Been waiting for this one to go up. Please read and share.
Perry: How should the U.S. remember its would-be autocrat once he leaves the White House?
"When some emperors died," David M. Perry writes, "successors condemned their memory, ordering statues smashed, their faces scrubbed from portraits, their names erased from inscriptions and their lega...
www.startribune.com
June 30, 2026 at 8:36 PM
On Damnatio Memoriae and de-Trumpification. (Gift link)
Been waiting for this one to go up. Please read and share.
Been waiting for this one to go up. Please read and share.
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The DoD cannot simultaneously be moving towards:
-An expeditionary, lean and mean mindset where trying not to get targeted and extremely lethal fires predominant
-A super shield for America that stops everything from FOBS to cruise missiles
-A giant surface combatant called a battleship
-All Drones
-An expeditionary, lean and mean mindset where trying not to get targeted and extremely lethal fires predominant
-A super shield for America that stops everything from FOBS to cruise missiles
-A giant surface combatant called a battleship
-All Drones
June 28, 2026 at 4:14 PM
The DoD cannot simultaneously be moving towards:
-An expeditionary, lean and mean mindset where trying not to get targeted and extremely lethal fires predominant
-A super shield for America that stops everything from FOBS to cruise missiles
-A giant surface combatant called a battleship
-All Drones
-An expeditionary, lean and mean mindset where trying not to get targeted and extremely lethal fires predominant
-A super shield for America that stops everything from FOBS to cruise missiles
-A giant surface combatant called a battleship
-All Drones
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Good reporting by Reuters. Factual, to the point, and no "Iran-aligned" nonsense.
Iraq arrests politicians and government officials in anti-corruption crackdown
Iraqi security forces arrested politicians, lawmakers and senior government officials early on Sunday in what security and legal sources described as the start of a broader anti-corruption campaign o...
www.reuters.com
June 28, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Good reporting by Reuters. Factual, to the point, and no "Iran-aligned" nonsense.
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‘Mr. Rogers but with a steel spine' is the kind of energy I want to see from the Democratic Party.
June 25, 2026 at 11:38 PM
‘Mr. Rogers but with a steel spine' is the kind of energy I want to see from the Democratic Party.
Hair-raising story here, great job @kyracloudy.bsky.social!
Passengers SUCKED OUT at 23,000 Feet! | United Airlines 811
YouTube video by Mentour Pilot
youtu.be
June 23, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Hair-raising story here, great job @kyracloudy.bsky.social!
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I just posted a monster mosaic of the Moon, made from 60 #Artemis2 frames. I could have made this even better by downloading 180 frames and doing HDR processing on them first, but I'll leave that exercise to the reader :) www.patreon.com/elakdawalla/...
Artemis 2 Data | Emily Lakdawalla
Because the Johnson Space Center image website was a little difficult to browse, I put together my own browse pages for the Artemis 2 astron
www.patreon.com
June 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I just posted a monster mosaic of the Moon, made from 60 #Artemis2 frames. I could have made this even better by downloading 180 frames and doing HDR processing on them first, but I'll leave that exercise to the reader :) www.patreon.com/elakdawalla/...
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One plane forced to reroute because of a SpaceX explosion last year was running low on fuel, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency and fly the jet and its 283 passengers through a designated debris zone to reach an airport.
(Published January)
(Published January)
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
www.propublica.org
June 18, 2026 at 12:01 AM
One plane forced to reroute because of a SpaceX explosion last year was running low on fuel, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency and fly the jet and its 283 passengers through a designated debris zone to reach an airport.
(Published January)
(Published January)
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NEH grant recipients who received notification that a terminated award is eligible for reinstatement can find more information about initiating the restatement process here: shorturl.at/0GwBc
June 17, 2026 at 9:56 PM
NEH grant recipients who received notification that a terminated award is eligible for reinstatement can find more information about initiating the restatement process here: shorturl.at/0GwBc
A really cool way to experience some of ISS that you don't often come across is the ambient sounds and noises made. ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot did a great jot here, give it a listen.
"Day 121, orbit 1873 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 9: Hunting for sounds, part 2.
Before anyone starts wondering why the TOCA is clicking while it’s switched off… I recorded the sound later on during actual operations. It’s my absolute favourite sound onboard the Station! "
Before anyone starts wondering why the TOCA is clicking while it’s switched off… I recorded the sound later on during actual operations. It’s my absolute favourite sound onboard the Station! "
June 14, 2026 at 1:26 PM
A really cool way to experience some of ISS that you don't often come across is the ambient sounds and noises made. ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot did a great jot here, give it a listen.
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"Day 121, orbit 1873 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 9: Hunting for sounds, part 2.
Before anyone starts wondering why the TOCA is clicking while it’s switched off… I recorded the sound later on during actual operations. It’s my absolute favourite sound onboard the Station! "
Before anyone starts wondering why the TOCA is clicking while it’s switched off… I recorded the sound later on during actual operations. It’s my absolute favourite sound onboard the Station! "
June 14, 2026 at 9:48 AM
"Day 121, orbit 1873 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 9: Hunting for sounds, part 2.
Before anyone starts wondering why the TOCA is clicking while it’s switched off… I recorded the sound later on during actual operations. It’s my absolute favourite sound onboard the Station! "
Before anyone starts wondering why the TOCA is clicking while it’s switched off… I recorded the sound later on during actual operations. It’s my absolute favourite sound onboard the Station! "
I know many astronauts who would congratulate these guys on their good tether discipline. Don't want getting away from you, nicely done gents.
June 13, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I know many astronauts who would congratulate these guys on their good tether discipline. Don't want getting away from you, nicely done gents.
Been trying to keep off the socials to keep the stress down, but holy cow, this week was a rough one. Probably the craziest week since I started at NASA in 2013.
I am heartened that we got PAO to put the story out fast, and mostly accurate. But we're just going to have to see how next week goes
I am heartened that we got PAO to put the story out fast, and mostly accurate. But we're just going to have to see how next week goes
June 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Been trying to keep off the socials to keep the stress down, but holy cow, this week was a rough one. Probably the craziest week since I started at NASA in 2013.
I am heartened that we got PAO to put the story out fast, and mostly accurate. But we're just going to have to see how next week goes
I am heartened that we got PAO to put the story out fast, and mostly accurate. But we're just going to have to see how next week goes
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precisely
it is bad enough that Reagan has been mythologized the way he has; to let it happen with Donald Trump would be a travesty
damnatio memoriae for all traitors and monsters
it is bad enough that Reagan has been mythologized the way he has; to let it happen with Donald Trump would be a travesty
damnatio memoriae for all traitors and monsters
May 7, 2026 at 3:51 PM
precisely
it is bad enough that Reagan has been mythologized the way he has; to let it happen with Donald Trump would be a travesty
damnatio memoriae for all traitors and monsters
it is bad enough that Reagan has been mythologized the way he has; to let it happen with Donald Trump would be a travesty
damnatio memoriae for all traitors and monsters
Our government can be made to do good things
On this day in 1935, FDR signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Of 2,000 WPA posters known to exist—publicizing community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs—the Library's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
May 6, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Our government can be made to do good things