Simon
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Earth from space Opinions my own.
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” — Omar El Akkad
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
This can't possibly work to avert a stage 5 famine and so in effect merely provides cover for the holocaust to move to completion while allowing governments to feel like good humanitarians and say that they tried
BREAKING: Israel to allow foreign countries to drop aid into Gaza from today, a senior IDF official tells Sky News 🔗 Read more trib.al/meMidLt
Slow but steady progress. Palestine is not just Hamas, it’s real people. Civilians…Not military targets for Israel. Israel is in the wrong side of morality. France turns the corner. Hopefully other nations to follow.
Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine. I will make this solemn announcement before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September.…
Huge algal bloom on the #Baltic Sea! The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image, colliected on July 21st shows an enormous swirling algal bloom on the eastern part of swedisch islands, during the longest #heatwave ever for #Scandinavia.
Even spending a short time in Belfast will make you realise how actively depoliticising English culture is designed to be. Our education system teaches us remarkably little of recent history – I grew up knowing heaps about the Tudors, and virtually nothing about the Troubles!
Doing some idle Wikipedia reading and discovered that every year between 2004 and 2018 the world rally championship was won by someone called Sebastien 😂 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_W…
This is lynch mob mentality. The guy who’s been accused is on remand in jail. None of the other asylum seekers are guilty of anything. It’s mindless thuggery.
The British police and gov are willing to go to war to defend mosques, and illegal migrant hotels. But do absolutely nothing to protect our women and children. There lies the problem! RT if agree. #IAmBritish🇬🇧
Kfar Kila in South Lebanon before and after Israel completely obliterated it. They take all that is beautiful and vibrant, and destroy it with their evil October 2023 July 2025
Today is Sand and Dust Storms International Day #SDSDay. Sand and dust storms are not just distant phenomena. They disrupt daily life, threaten health, and undermine progress in communities worldwide.
Large #wildfires burning in Syria, seen yesterday by the @CopernicusEU / @ESA_EO Sentinel-2 mission. As well as the fires themselves, you can see a huge region that's already been burned - all that Brown-coloured bit in the middle.
Ongoing fires in northwest #Syria's Latakia governorate already laid over 10.000 hectares of forest to ashes, the latest @jrc_EFFIS data based on Sentinel-2 analysis shows. Droughts, winds, and limited capacity all driving the spread of fires, with UXOs hindering firefighting
Hot take: Something really needs to be done about the radicalisation of airline pilots. Way too many of them have gone down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, anti-immigrant rhetoric and fake news. Too much time down-route staring at agitator content on twitter and facebook?
🔥 A wildfire broke out on 29 June near the Bizanet commune in France. It was intensified by the dry conditions of the European heatwave. 👨🚒 More than 600 firefighters were deployed to combat the fire. This #ImageOfTheDay by #CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 shows a burn scar.
I just got an email auto-reply saying: "Hello, I'm away from my desk. I will reply when I'm back." I love the vagueness. Are they away for a sandwich, or away visiting the North Pole? 😂
Satellite sees satellite!😯 The @NOAASatellites GOES-18 satellite saw @eumetsat's MTG-S1 satellite as it blasted off from Florida last night. See that little bright dot in the middle of the image? That's the @SpaceX rocket!

Liftoff for MTG-S1 and @CopernicusEU Sentinel-4! Watch live at esawebtv.esa.int & follow @ESA_EO for details.
Best wishes to all my friends and colleagues across @eumetsat, @esa and @CopernicusEU for the launch of MTG-S1 later today. This sat will be a game changer for weather forecasting and pollution monitoring. Can't wait to see the first data!
Live in 1️⃣ hour! Join us for a front-row seat to the MTG-S1 story 15 years in the making. The satellite is now ready with Falcon 9 on the pad for launch. 🚀 Want to join in the fun? Use #MTGS1 - your msg could appear on our in-house social wall 📽️
Great to see GOSAT-GW doing well in it's post launch, early operations phase. A vital satellite carrying essential sensors to take the pulse of our planet. Congrats to @satellite_jaxa for the success this far.
【お知らせ】 温室効果ガス・水循環観測技術衛星「いぶきGW」(GOSAT-GW)AMSR3初期ランアップが正常に行われたことを確認しました。 初期ランアップとは、AMSR3の回転駆動部を低速回転させ、設定した角運動量目標値に到達することを確認することです。 詳細はこちら▽ satnavi.jaxa.jp/ja/news/2025/0…
🌍 From all of us at @ESA_EO — thank you! What an incredible week at #LPS25: we leave Vienna inspired, proud, and more motivated than ever. Until next time — thank you for being part of this journey.