Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Many have asked me what I think of the Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. I have not commented on this because I genuinely believe it is a waste of time, effort, energy, space, and focus. Approaching Gaza with a predetermined outcome, in which you know the Israeli navy is going to intercept you, and yet persisting with said useless and futile action tells me you are the most unserious player who is simply trying to gain attention and make a point, not to make a difference. Everybody knows that Israel has a blockade on Gaza, including a naval component; you are not raising awareness about anything that the entire world doesn’t already know.
You cannot access Gaza’s territorial waters during wartime without coordination with the more powerful and controlling party, which in this case is Israel. In fact, the maritime corridor between Cyprus and Gaza that was activated last year proved that the coastal enclave could be open for business if Israel’s legitimate security needs are met. This created a precedent that, after two decades of Israeli control of territorial water with coordination and trusted third parties, you could indeed make something happen in Gaza, even though that particular corridor is no longer in action.
If you truly wanted to make a difference, you might have considered using the port of Ashdod to deliver aid into Gaza or collaborating with Egypt and the UAE to land aid via El-Arish port and transport it via trucks to the Strip. The realities of war and realpolitik are not vanishing for a group of selfie activists who have no clue about how the real world works. I wish we would stop hearing about Greta Thunberg and Western activists trying to make this endeavor about themselves instead of making a difference and engaging in radical pragmatism. I wish we would stop wasting time and resources that could have been better spent on actually sending a larger quantity of aid into Gaza to support Palestinians.
I wish this time and energy were allocated toward the grunt work that I, along with many of my colleagues, do behind the scenes to conduct evacuations of patients and their families, as well as humanitarian cases from Gaza into Middle Eastern or Western countries. May this be the last selfie-flotilla that we have to discuss, and may these activists start actually helping the Palestinian people of Gaza instead of wasting time on self-centered and self-absorbed actions and interventions.
#NoticiaRelevo 🗞️ LaLiga y AFE acuerdan el calendario para la 2024-25.
Aquí os dejamos 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐬 las fechas para la próxima temporada.
📌 Sólo falta el OK de la RFEF, pero está casi todo decidido.
✍️ @sergiofernan5ez
https://t.co/jflYXgqmDe
👋 Hoy despedimos a Jose y Félix que nos han acompañado durante los últimos dos meses
¡Gracias por vuestro trabajo 🗣️📻 en @ondacerocan y suerte en vuestro futuro 🥰🥰!
🎙️ La exposición inmersiva “El Oro de Klimt” estará en Santander hasta el 17 de septiembre en el @PdeExposiciones
https://t.co/CKKWnVaLCa vía @ondacerocan
En él se podrá conocer el papel de las instituciones cántabras en la acogida de los más de 1500 ucranianos y sus cautivadoras historias de superación para encontrar un nuevo hogar. 🏠
🔜Próximamente el reportaje íntegro en el mismo canal de YouTube. ¡Estad atentos!👀
Hoy 20 de junio, #DíaMundialdelRefugiado, me complace compartir el tráiler del reportaje audiovisual “Ucranianos Refugiados en Cantabria”. 🇺🇦🤝
https://t.co/24nkKPd5ki
Con la participación de: @gemaigual@CRECantabria@cantabriaes, Ayuntamiento de Santander y asociación Oberig.