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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 04:18:34 JST goatsarah

   Going through moons of the solar system, and I get the naming scheme, but it's still funny that Uranus has a moon called Margaret.

   My aunt is called Margaret.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 04:22:32 JST goatsarah

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     • Iain Roberts
     @slowbikeiain Not that I have noticed.
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     Iain Roberts (slowbikeiain@urbanists.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 04:22:33 JST Iain Roberts

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     @goatsarah But I bet you're aunt doesn't go around Uranus.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 04:25:04 JST goatsarah

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     Also, I secretly think they ran out of deity names for trans neptunian objects and started naming them after Unix utilities.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 04:27:33 JST goatsarah

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     Distant future, schoolyard:

     "Your accent is funny, Where did you grow up?"

     "Margaret"

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     Inken Paper 🇵🇸 (crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 05:10:53 JST Inken Paper 🇵🇸

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     @goatsarah

     "i think i see Margaret"
     "no, that's Phil. he only comes around once every 126.3 years, and often mistaken for Margaret."

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     Inken Paper 🇵🇸 (crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 05:16:41 JST Inken Paper 🇵🇸

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     @goatsarah future scientists will land a probe on a moon named bash. it will be a scripted mission.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 05:19:21 JST goatsarah

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     • Inken Paper 🇵🇸
     @crashglasshouses I take the view that referring to any TNO as a "moon" is a bit dubious, but this may be a minority view.