Mark Noble //.//

have you read Tolstoy?

Just learned about the concept of a “telescope ranch” in Texas. People pay to have their $10,000+ telescope rigs set up in the middle of TX to avoid light pollution. Every night the roof rolls back off the warehouses. Then you can remote in to your telescope and use it from anywhere in the world.

Knowing your rights changes EVERYTHING. Watch what happens when they try to shut this camera down… Kaitlin Bennett was filming people-on-the-street interviews at the Winter Garden Farmers Market. Police and city staff told Bennett her activities needed to be conducted outside the event's perimeter, as past market practices typically restricted event activity to approved vendors. When she entered the event area, she was issued a trespass warning and threatened with arrest. Following a review, the City Manager and the Police Department acknowledged that the market, while hosted by a third party, took place on unclosed public right-of-way. The city rescinded the trespass notice, apologized, and permitted Bennett to return, noting that the restriction violated her First Amendment right to record in a traditional public forum. Bennett subsequently returned to the market the following week. Bennett was also involved in a similar situation at the Lakeland Farmers Market in May 2025. In that instance, she claimed her free speech rights were violated after police responded to complaints about her filming and "hateful statements". However, city officials clarified that she was not trespassed from the market, though the dispute drew local attention regarding the boundaries of filming on public spaces. No legal cases or arrests were ultimately filed in either situation.

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Centennial High School graduation in Franklin, Tennessee was held outdoors despite heavy rain and lightning Weather is known in advance so the caroming could have been moved indoors but school officials had a “Rain or Shine” Policy so the Pre-Set Plans had to move ahead They knew the rain was coming but thought they could get the ceremony done before the rain and didn’t want to move the ceremony into the gym. From what I could find they didn’t know if everyone would fit They even had a backup plan incase it rained Staff indicated that if it rained on Thursday, they’d try again Friday and go indoors if needed then. They stuck with the original Thursday plan rather than moving it to Friday Many parents and attendees were extremely frustrated, calling it unsafe due to the lightning strikes. They were disappointing because it was such a milestone