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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

One of two Labour gains from Reform in Northumberland by-elections yesterday. Too early to know for sure we've passed peak Reform, but another encouraging sign.

Kassam has no official party role. This is a third recent exanple of an ethnic minority voice acting as an outrider for racialised xenophobic arguments [following Yusuf's attack on the birthplace of the Labour by-election candidate, & Braverman saying Asian & black people are in no way English

How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

Should have guessed that the thing that would eventually kill off the right's interest in grammar schools would be non-white kids doing too well in the 11+.

They’re your only hope

Brad and I are celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary today, September 14, 2026, in New York City. Brad and I were married on Sept 14, 2008, at the Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...

Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵

Hasbro on DHS’ use of Optimus Prime in their deportation slop.

My post from this week on the right's latest obsession: "suicidal empathy". Where it comes from; why it's so dangerous; and what a proper analysis of empathy tells us about policy. samf.substack.com/p/the-war-ag...

New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.

Assuming all those 600 or whatever "defenders of academic freedom" who signed that letter in defense of the racist are on this? Right? Riiight?

What were they first?

White people are given the grace of being judged as individuals, not as representatives of their entire race. xkcd presents the idea succintly for gender, but it's in every oppression: xkcd.com/385/

There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low.

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

It's now been confirmed that this summer will be the hottest on record. For those opposing bold action on the climate crisis - you're not just putting lives and the planet at risk today, but dooming future generations.

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

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Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity https://theonion.com/technological-advancements-allow-data-centers-to-run-on-even-more-electricity/

This is *not* an important point worth making unless you are tacitly accepting that the *presence* of non white people makes people racist. “Non white people cause racism because they’re too many of them” is a point to condemn not discuss.

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

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If this holds, Spain will be the only nation to hold both senior World Cups at the same time

Sometimes I can’t stand how Americans GLAZE everything that happens.

I guess I just don’t understand how stupid you have to be not to see the world’s richest man embracing boilerplate white nationalism because it allows him to present himself as a victim bsky.app/profile/bren...

Male Loneliness Crisis temporarily solved by World Cup

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

🚨 NATIONWIDE WARNING: CIA asset David Blaine has gone rogue.

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

Now France are protesting Michael Olise’s yellow card from the Paraguay game. I think FIFA might pretty quick regret this Balogun decision. Something about opening a can of worms.

Developers and UI/UX designers that split username and password prompts into separate steps should be forced to log in every 5 minutes. #rant

This Spectator piece does basically argue that the rioting is driven, in part, by republicans moving into traditionally unionist areas as a form of immigration and that Gerry Adams should be more racist. It's an absolutely fascinating level of bigotry. spectator.com/article/why-...

Top Ten Cheering Up Things. 1. Biscuit - Ginger Nut 2. Crisps - Cheese and Onion 3. Tea - Ginger 4. Coffee - Soy Flat White 5. Beer - DIPA 6. Meal - mums stew chicken, fried plantain, saltfish 7. Snack - cheese on crackers 8. Wine - Chianti 9. Takeway - Chinese 10. Pastime - Cycling

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

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