I found the comet again! It's still incredibly cool looking in binoculars! Go take a look if you've got a moderately dark sky (https://stellarium-web.org/ is a good place to check to see where it is, there's a free app version too)

Just blocked a sea lion with even more followers than me. Yay (?)

Everything is terrible, but my 13yo gets to learn basic welding in her public high school and I think that's really really cool.

Ok hive mind, send me Canadian journalists who write about things in space, bonus for their contact info! (I already have Nicole Mortillaro and Dan Falk, and probably everyone you can name in Saskatchewan) Local or national is fine.

Good quotes in this article from @JohnBarentine about the devastating effects of Reflect Orbital's sunlight-as-a-service plans: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/this-companys-plan-to-launch-4-000-massive-space-mirrors-has-scientists-alarmed-from-an-astronomical-perspective-thats-pretty-catastrophic

Usually my "good morning" posts are calm farm scenes. So...here's some chill to make up for starting the morning with bad stuff.

Oh fuck. It's snowing.

Today's before-school "crisis": 13yo bought a little crocheted dino for a friend over the weekend. But one of our cats LOVES to carry around stuffies of a certain texture, and this one was just perfect. When I got up this morning, I remember seeing the stuffie on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. But when 13yo was packing up for school, the stuffie was nowhere to be seen. Eventually found it hidden back upstairs in the bedroom.

The moral of the story: cats are really weird.

Enough grumping about space debris. More goats!

I've gotten lots of notes from people today about 2 potential space debris falls.

One looks like a Chinese rocket stage that fell on Australia (https://nitter.net/RaviHJagtiani/status/1979900950199386410 and https://satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2025/0078.html)

And one is a suspiciously high altitude aircraft windshield strike over Colorado https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/115401237847834728.

We just keep rolling the dice with reentries, and at some point a lot of people are going to die from it. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-84001-2

This is dumb.