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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.

2 down, 3 to go 🇷🇸 Serbia — Vucic lost 🇧🇷 Brazil — Bolsonaro lost 🇮🇱 Israel — 27 Oct 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 1 Nov 🇺🇸 USA — 3 Nov

Insolvency scam The boss of twice-bust business back despite £3m debts. These people gut a company, HMRC and creditors not paid. Then buy assets cheaply from the administrator in pre-packs, and back in business. Gone on for decades. No transparency of administrator dealings. No investigation.

I'm in two minds. I listen to a lot of James (a *lot*) but I'm not sure about this. For contrast I do subscribe to @garyseconomics.bsky.social but that's because he does need to pay someone to run it and promotion etc. I'm conscious this is just Global shaking the shareholder tin.

President Obama Is Freakin Right...

Angela Rayner, "We're 10 years on from Brexit, we now need to look at what the next 10 years will look like" "We've seen a 20% reduction in exports with the EU" "That's 16,000 businesses no longer exporting to the EU because of Brexit red tape"

Watching the Le Pen fans in Orleans reminds me how good life was for the French until the Third Reich. The power of social media laid bare. "All politicians are somewhat corrupt", "at least she's standing up for us". Suckers.

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

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Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

Nailed it.

"another bad apple" would be a great name for a corruption tracking website

I guess that, unlike with Brexit where daft fantasy seems endlessly sustainable, Trump’s awfulness becomes objectively undeniable at some point. Notable how many reverse ferrets involve zero self-examination or remorse. This is very good…

Brexit voter in Makerfield tells Beth Rigby, "Everything seemed better when we were in the European Union. Boris Johnson just convinced everyone that we would be so much better off, didn't he" Another says he didn't make the right choice to vote for Brexit because Brexit ended FOM

Just the news to kick off the weekend

UK lacks essential electricity transmission/storage systems. Billions paid to solar & wind turbine farms to switch off during periods of high sunshine/winds, expected to cost £8bn a year by 2030. National Grid pays dividends. What is the Govt doing? Watch the Minister's reply.

Where is Ofcom? Sign the petition now 👇 https://bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-on-gb-news-demand-that-ofcom-takes-immediate-action/

DIRTY MOTHER FUCKER JUST LIKE HIS JAIL BIRD DADDY.

Slamming into reverse so fast you can hear the gears crunch

"The IMF intervened twice on their demented plan. The Bank of England rushed in to prevent a £1.5 trillion collapse of pension funds. The budget still cost pensions £75 billion. That’s £1 per second for 2,325 years. Or £3,600 per hour, every hour, since Hannibal marched his elephants over the Alps."

Turning Point UK was supposed to be a youth movement All it's ever done is appeal to middle aged thugs

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Always remember "Uber->self driving taxis" as the template for AI. Step 1: new tool makes old jobs somehow easier, everyone cheers. Step 2: tool company replaces everyone with machines.

Well done to everyone who's condemning Burnham for appearing on Gogglebox. It's a NEW LOW. You'd never have seen PMs or statesmen of old cheapen themselves by association with pop culture... or by appearing on high rating TV shows... Never happened

Banking lobby pushes misleading numbers on tax. Claims UK banks paid £47.8bn in tax; includes PAYE, NIC, VAT paid by other parties; that leaves £25.7bn borne by banks. Silence on profiteering, £100bn subsidy over last 3 years via interest on central bank reserves. Banking frauds buried - HBOS.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social there are so many people out there writing AI agents to replace themselves, it's not even funny. Some firms are doing it with a carrot and stick: carrot is AI training, the stick is so much regular work that you can't stay sane without using AI to turn enough work around.

Today Mark Petterson took his oath and joined the team. Mark co-founded Warwick Energy in 2000 and has developed three offshore wind projects that are now in operation. They include Thanet, the world’s largest offshore wind farm when it came onstream in 2010.

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Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone Projection location: Slough, UK Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social

The Duchy of Cornwall owned the by Prince of Wales is a giant business organization It is exempt from corporation and capital gains tax, uses infrastructure funded by others to make profit. Inevitably, leads to unfair competition and free-rider problem.

🚨BREAKING PMQs🚨 PM: "Have they had the time to read the COVID inquiry report yesterday about the appalling state of social care as it went into the pandemic, the hundreds of thousands of British people who suffered as a result of that, the lives that were lost." "I need no lectures."

‘The saying is actually one bad apple spoils the bunch. My contention is that he [Farage] is that bad apple’. Peter Ettedgui

Senior Reform official cast doubt over legality of £72m donations 3 months before they were given. Reform took the money. He appeared to discuss ways to get around funding laws to allow donations from a US-based donor with money laundering conviction.

UK ‘wealth exodus’ was manufactured by the press. The press complaints body IPSO must investigate or step aside. The story started with one study which now admits it has no evidence. Media owned by corporations and the super rich lapped it up, served their economic interest, ideological purpose.

Much of the media isn’t picking up on the ITV investigation into Reform UK (WONDER WHY???). Anyway, I wrote about it for LBC Views and more specifically how if we tolerate this we will become the United States - www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who's spent $100M+ against California's Prop 40, spent the weekend dining with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. These billionaires keep accidentally proving why we need a billionaire wealth tax.