Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.

Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour stacked exposure from CFHT. This was from 2022, when there were thousands fewer satellites... This is dumb.

Image credit: P. Cowan/W. Fraser/S. Lawler/CLASSY Survey Team

(The small streaks that are similar lengths are actually asteroids!)

'"The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial,” said Israeli-American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi.'

The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal | Democracy Now

#Gaza #genocide #hostages #Palestine

democracynow.org/2025/10/20/sa…

Always great news from META ;)

When I see news from META, I feel the same way I do when receiving a physical letter - it ain't gonna be good!

These #news were so amazing, they made me launch a DeMeta Reddit to give people a place to talk about getting rid of it:
reddit.com/r/DeMeta/ 😜

#Meta #news #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Tech #IT #reddit #privacy #privacypolicy #changes #ai #ainews #chat #artificialintelligence #ads #badnews #corporation

Jewish journalist Noa Avishag Schnall describes how Israeli soldiers abused her:

"I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways."

#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla #Palestine #JournalismIsNotaCrime
democracynow.org/2025/10/14/he…

Displaced Palestinians, preparing to return to Gaza City in the north in advance of an expected halt to fighting, wait on the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the centre of the besieged enclave in October 9, 2025 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

#photography
#Gaza
#displaced
#ceasefire

“In order to write poetry
that isn't political,
I must listen to the birds;
and in order to listen to the birds,
the warplanes must be silent.”

Marwan Makhoul
Palestinian poet

#poetry
#Palestinian
#Gaza
#MarwanMakhoul

Israel blocking transfer of incubators in Gaza

Israel has repeatedly denied permission to transfer incubators from an evacuated hospital in northern Gaza, worsening conditions in overcrowded hospitals farther south where newborns are now sharing oxygen masks, UNICEF says.

“In one of the paediatric rooms, there were three babies and three mums on a single bed, one source of oxygen, and the mothers would rotate the oxygen 20 minutes to each child.”

#Gaza
#incubators
#newborns
#photography

#Apartheid wall #art:

#Banksy's 'Boys with a Sand Bucket', near #Bethlehem, #WestBank, #Palestine

#Art4Palestine

#Atacama desert, #Chile
The desert near Copiapó has begun to bloom in shades of purple and white for miles after unusual rainfall was recorded in that area of northern Chile.

Photograph: Lucas Aguayo/Anadolu/Getty Images

#photography
#desert
#wildflowers
#BloomScrolling