Quite the week for "radio hobbyists knowing what is going on"
1. ham radio amateur discovers Starlink using out-of-band, unpermitted downlink frequencies
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal?
2. ham radio amateur pinpoints the weather balloon that nailed UAL1093
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/115410089015816867
3. ham radio amateur's website determines what is being deployed by US military to Venezuela
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/10/19/world/us-military-build-up-caribbean-trump-pressures-venezuela
There was a time when saying things like this were completely uncontroversial.
Fascists are taking over much of the West because saying things like this has become controversial.
Edit: correction: Hitchcock didn't actually say this (see point below). My point stands. I remember lots of adults on TV saying "The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi" when I was a child.
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. and Canada @u-s-and-canada-BBCNews
In honor of the trans community's new allies. /s
also: AI Slop