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2025-04-26 23:11:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-26 22:14:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-26 22:14:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-26 18:53:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-04-26 12:37:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-26 11:05:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-26 08:27:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-25 22:42:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-25 20:10:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-25 19:31:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-25 12:39:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-25 12:38:47

Sasha Engelmann

Between Queens and Schilling Buildings, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

The morning is balmy and bright, but my university office feels far too cold. I layer with a grey wool jumper that I keep in my office for such days. Whereas my east-facing windows receive piercing sun during the winter, the dense foliage of the oak trees in the small grassy field outside the department keep most light out of my office in spring and summer. It feels like I am the only member of staff in today, everyone is sheltering from the start of Term 3 at home. I buy myself a hot chocolate with whipped cream in the afternoon as consolation! This morning, T plays a video of a Spanish senator who is a trans woman, standing up and admonishing the senate for their attack on trans lives. She says ‘you insert yourself in every part of our lives!’ Then she lists all the invasive questions and topics asked by transphobes including ‘Do trans people orgasm?’ ‘Enough!!’ She bellows to the whole senate who applaud. Meanwhile in the U.K., Kier Starmer is ‘pleased’ that ‘we finally have clarity’ on the definition of a woman.

2025-04-25 12:35:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-25 11:03:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-25 10:55:27

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

Calm, cool conditions were conducive to a clear and crisp recording, marred only by my perennial foe during recent efforts - software glitches, cutting out the audio! I had a chance to reflect at a conference yesterday on the nature of these sensory undertakings, the registers and durations that they speak to. Glitches themselves manifest across multiple durations, and begin to inscribe their marks long before they become apparent on recorded media. The deep, granular hardware incompatibilities that will forever prevent this computer from generating a clear image were established several years ago, when it was first built, and will now be registered in this archive for as long as it is sustained. There's something pleasing about this - a sense of material traces across time that the usual quest for the perfect image (the perfect sensory recording) would otherwise strive to eliminate. There are long histories of Western onto-epistemic-political imperatives at work here, and these are now manifest in the technologies and techniques that delivered the signal processing behind our digital world - along with its surrounding marking rhetoric of perfect reproduction, and seamless, immaterial operation. The computing of angels. All this observed - I am presently dredging up an unusably 'glitched' computer that, nevertheless, once gave vastly better recordings than the more modern machine used here. I hope it might deliver a clearer image for the next pass, in 30 minutes time!

2025-04-24 22:55:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-24 11:19:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-24 11:15:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-24 10:41:00

Prajvi Mandhani

Noida, India , India

full bright sun and a slight wind. I went up to the terrace of my building to the 25th floor. I was impatient as my sweat trickled down my forehead. Its hot. trying to remember that there is still water in this atmosphere, no matter how dry today feels. India just suspended the Indus Valley Treaty that comprises of sharing river, Indus, and five bank tributaries, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Jhelum, and Chenab with Pakistan after a brutal terrorist attack in Kashmir. The land bleeds, the water is forced to stop. Is justice revenge or is justice freedom of the land, freedom of the water, freedom of the indigenous communities. Thinking of this strange weather swept across India, dark storms leaking into language.

2025-04-24 09:15:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-24 09:12:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-23 23:08:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-23 22:51:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-23 19:26:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-23 19:26:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-23 19:25:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-22 22:20:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-22 19:52:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-22 11:59:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-22 11:44:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-22 11:31:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-22 10:51:00

Bekes , Hungary

2025-04-22 08:31:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-22 08:03:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-21 23:20:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-21 22:37:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-21 21:50:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-21 20:15:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-21 19:36:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-21 11:56:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-21 11:43:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-21 11:23:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-20 23:33:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-20 23:32:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-20 22:03:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-20 21:50:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-20 12:09:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-20 11:35:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-20 11:00:23

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London , United Kingdom

London has exploded in green during the week T and I were on holiday in Cornwall. The chestnut trees in Hackney Downs are in full foliage and already budding flowers, while the plane trees are a cheerful yellow green. While in Cornwall we spent much of our time visiting several obscure stone circles and ‘quoits’ in the treeless moors, though we did visit one very prominent stone monument that happened to be on our way back to London (Stonehenge!). In contrast to the exposed rocks and windswept hills of western Cornwall, the green of London’s treetop overstory is almost overwhelming… In a unanimous decision a few days ago, the UK Supreme Court ruled that, under the Equality Act of 2010, “sex is binary” and it is based on biology. A trans woman therefore does not come within the definition of a ‘woman’ under the Act, and therefore loses protections made for the benefit of women. The court insists that trans rights are still protected under the ruling but it is very unclear how denying someone’s womanhood can be called protection. Shon Faye writes that the relative support (though ‘support’ is a strong word here) afforded trans people over the last two decades in the U.K. is coming to an end. Judith Butler points out, in an interview with Owen Jones, that anti-trans feminism is more virulent in the U.K. than in the US. T and I mull over the decision and its daily analysis, a decision that has wide ranging implications for many people in our immediate community, not to mention the health and wellbeing of queer and nonbinary folks more broadly. How are the rights of non-binary people to be seen under this ruling? Or any other place on the spectrum of transness? The U.K. remains by far the safest place to be out of our own two home countries (Italy and the US) but such laws - invisible anti-trans weather of the state - force us to consider both how to keep fighting and how to escape.

2025-04-19 23:46:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-19 23:02:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-19 22:04:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-19 22:02:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-19 22:02:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-19 10:53:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-18 23:58:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-18 23:14:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-18 22:15:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-18 12:25:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-18 11:06:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-18 08:36:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-17 22:45:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-17 12:41:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-17 12:38:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-17 11:04:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-17 10:54:19

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

Cable problems mean even the slightest breeze generates noise in the image - but this does result in the rather pleasing fact that the weather itself affects the image generated. You can see when significant breezes come in as striations over the image.

2025-04-16 12:54:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-16 12:51:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-16 11:16:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-16 11:09:39

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

2025-04-15 22:59:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-15 22:57:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-15 22:08:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-15 19:35:37

Richard A Carter

York, United Kingdom

A very noisy sounding, but fortunately free of the audio cut-outs that have beset many recent efforts. A chance also to see the image 'click' across the night time threshold.

2025-04-15 19:35:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-15 11:59:24

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

It has been over 3 months since the start of the Palisades Fire. I did a satellite capture less than an hour before the beginning of the fire on January 7th. I thought I would return to that location to do another capture. Road closures forced me to change plans. As the satellite was about to rise above the horizon, I found myself in the middle of the residential burn zone of the Palisades. With few trees standing, and even fewer homes, the skyline was favorable for a clear view of the sky. I found a convenient wall from a burned property to place my laptop. Several cars slowed during the pass giving me suspicious looks. Who is this man with an antenna in the middle of all the destruction? One car lingered for several minutes - I feel I was being filmed. Meanwhile, we live in the chaos of tarrifs, the deportation of students with political views, the defunding of universities and the promise to increase domestic energy (fossil fuel) production. Later that day I attended a press conference at City Hall promoting the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025. The odds are long, but the effort is important.

2025-04-14 23:10:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-14 23:09:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-14 12:09:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-14 09:02:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-14 08:41:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-13 22:06:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-13 20:24:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-13 19:11:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-13 12:22:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-13 11:59:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-13 11:47:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-13 08:59:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-12 22:18:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-12 21:50:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-12 19:37:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-12 12:35:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-12 12:16:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-12 12:12:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-12 12:00:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-11 23:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-11 22:31:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-11 22:05:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-11 22:02:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-11 19:39:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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