SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

🏇 🐎 🐴

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

A reminder on International Women's Day that trans women are women, and that true feminism is intersectional.

#internationalwomensday #transwomenarewomen #intersectionalfeminism

I'm filling out the forms to leave a comment about SpaceX's ridiculous plan to have millions of satellites in orbit and Reflect Orbital's unhinged plan to make daylight available for 24 hours, and the process to submit a comment is almost as absurd as those ideas.

Thanks to @sundogplanets for providing information on how to do this.

Link included if you want to submit a comment (need to do so by March 6th for SpaceX, March 9th for Reflect Orbital).

https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.

I'm making this choice because:

• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.

• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.

• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.

• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.

• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.

• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.

• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.

• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.

• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.

• This technology...

#NoAI

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116075410883057361

these need to be Ray Banned, everywhere.