The UN Security Council has condemned the attacks on protestors and demanded that it stop.
Pro-Gaddafi supporters in Tripoli have come out after one of his speeches ("I will die here, I will fight on, I will eat your face and etc.") to demonstrate. Curiously, the shots I saw (state tv, natch) are of people waving flags and going out of their way to look directly at the camera. Doesn't look very demonstrate-y to me, but then I've only seen a few short clips, so. I find it hard to believe there are many people in Tripoli who would protest in favour of a regime that's bombing other Libyans, even if they were previously in favour of Gaddafi.
Death toll put at 300 by state tv; other estimates top about 1,000. Probably safe to assume it's at least 500.
Two battleships have appeared in Malta, having refused orders to shell Benghazi.
Communications down - internet access etc. gone. Unclear what workarounds are in place - I'm probably not looking hard enough, but I think Libya also has a lower proportion of English speakers than Egypt, and I am too ignorant to know Arabic, although I now know several ways to ask a dictator to leave, which could be quite useful at work in the coming weeks.
50 people reportedly arrested in Zimbabwe for watching coverage of Libyan protests
A Libyan student in Washington speaking out on AJE just now, saying that she doesn't care if they cancel her scholarship and refuse to let her back in; she will speak out and go back and die with her people if she has to, and wants to say to them that she's sorry she's come so late.
Finding it hard to comment here. The Libyan embassy are the second biggest pain in the arse of all the sponsors of our students, so I've got to know a couple of our Libyan students relatively well. I know there's an extra check I'll be making for any student records I work on next week....
Chile has reportedly cut off diplomatic ties with Libya. I can't find confirmation of this, but go Chile if it's accurate.
Google are helping out again with their "speak to tweet" service.
This paints an interesting picture of Libya's influence on neighbouring African states.
John Railton's telephone call service, launched last month for Egyptians to call and leave messages for all to hear, is now
reaching out to Libyans.
CNN reports that Eastern Libya "appears to be under opposition control", with armed men in civilian clothing guarding the streets claiming to have killed or captured hundreds of Gaddafi's Central African mercenaries.