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Nathan L Smith
@nlsmith.com
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Gardening, historic building maintenance, pet photos, infrastructure observability, JavaScript, graph theory, jokes. Fiscally anti-fascist, socially anti-fascist. Pacifist Gemini.

South Amana, Iowa
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www.circleofblue.org/2026/opinion...
Chris Jones Campaigns to Clean Up Iowa’s Water
KEY POINTS The race for Iowa agriculture secretary focuses on clean water and farm-related pollution. Iowa author and clean water activist Chris Jones is running as a Democrat. Industrial agriculture ...
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January 28, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa is having a ride on Saturday, too. Reminder that I’m planning a SUNDAY ride for those observing the Jewish Sabbath. Details announced tomorrow but likely 1P.
January 28, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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This is the greatest day of Randy Feenstra's life! Look at him. What a knob.
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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Gophers and Hawkeyes united in Des Moines today...
January 27, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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prosecute him as an adult!
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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David Bowie, refusing to be upsold at the appliance store: "Oh my TV? She work fine. Whoa whoa!"
January 27, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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Bison, Grand Teton National Park. November, 2022.

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR
🎞 255 mm – 1/400″ – f/8 – ISO 400
🔗 https://www.allencompassingtrip.com/4125/bison-bison-bison?utm_campaign=random&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon

#nationalparks #bison #photography #wildlife
Two bison running on a snow-covered field. In the background, hoarfrost-covered trees.
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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I’ve been using @laurarbelin.bsky.social as a source for months and I just now learned she’s on BlueSky.

I recommend anyone interested in Iowa politics follow her.
January 26, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
January 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Amana savanna 🌱
Quercus macrocopa in a grassy area Andropogon gerardi Old branches
January 25, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Gus 🥰
Dog just chilling on the chair with teddy bear as pillow
January 25, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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But oak 🌱
A big old beautiful specimen of a tree
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.

ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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How to get into nature.
A four-panel comic titled "how to get into nature". In panel 1, a person kneels in the woods, looking down at a red-backed salamander, and the text says "notice a living thing." In panel 2, the text says "notice some other things that live near it," and there's a starflower, springtail, ant, little wood satyr butterfly, and salamander on the leaf litter. In panel 3, covered in creatures, plants, and a colorful starburst, the text says "Notice the connections between them, discover the wider ecosystem, learn about its histories, and find yourself following links from bedrock to stratosphere, between biotic and abiotic, at scales both microbial and massive, until you’re hopelessly overwhelmed by the wonder of it all." In panel 4, the text says "Fall into a daze and let moss engulf you." The person from the first panel is still kneeling in the woods, looking happy as moss slowly engulfs them, and they're saying "This is for the best."
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Anybody else get "dirt snow" or is that just a rural Iowa thing? i.e., it snows, then gets windy, and dirt from the fields of the farms west of me covers the snow, I think?

@theswinerepublic.bsky.social would cover crops reduce this?

Clean water? We don't even get clean snow here!
A ditch where the snow in the low part is brown A dog on a farm road where the tracks through the snow are white but the snow is brown.
January 20, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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FU ICE

#ICEprotests
Des Moines, Iowa
Black and white image of a person holding a sign reading, “FU ICE” at an ICE protest rally in Des Moines, Iowa.
January 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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R.A.M.E.N.: Real Actual Men Eating Noodles
Drawing by Samuel Smith
January 14, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Me: If you love food so much, why don’t you marry it?

Lana, my dog: Is…is that an option?
January 14, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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Mine is the Iowa
The Iowa River
January 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Diminish a band:

Todd and the Monsters
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Diminish a band:

9,999 Maniacs
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Diminish a band:

Sun Wound Moon
January 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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My daughter dug mud out of the river and made me a little pot.
A small pot With the lid on
January 10, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Bark 🌱
Dead tree bark with snow
January 10, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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I bet the dudes who live in the broreal forest are great pals.
January 9, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Flying saucer invasion 🌱
Mushrooms on a tree
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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South Amana tree 🌱
Large tree Tree from below It’s got these in January
January 7, 2026 at 11:56 PM