👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️

New dwarf planet just dropped. For now, it's called 2026 ED138. It appears to be ~1000 kilometers (600 miles) wide. If confirmed, that would make it a dwarf planet about half the size of Pluto. 🧪🔭 rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

Star Wars: Ahsoka Season 2 Teaser Trailer youtube.com/watch?v=Fdar...

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

What if you set off a nuke in the Mariana Trench? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=alkJ...

Season 1 & done.

Trevor’s Basement Cinema

At last ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defence has come close enough to resolve both bodies in the Didymos binary asteroid system separately - the smaller one was deflected by NASA's DART back in 2022 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Behold: The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a report on challenges to security in space, including an NEI image of China’s spaceplane from Maxar, taken in 2024.

Fake email.

Secret Panel HERE 🏁 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/10/26/path-to-success

Forms of Water xkcd.com/3315/

perfect, no notes

The Collapse of Cuba Hunger. Sickness. Blackouts. Abandoned streets. The withering of the state is shocking to behold. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

the graffiti is out of control, every single dumpster is tagged

Terribly sad to hear we lost Walter Koening. Hard for some to understand just how important the original #StarTrek crew are to many of us. They and the show weren't just entertainment, it *meant* something to us, it offered optimism in the face of MAD & the Cold War.

I learned my English watching Walter Koening on the BBC playing Pavel Chekov in Star Trek TOS, the only ‘good Russian’ on TV during the height of the Cold War. I like to think he had a bigger part in ending that war than people might think. Also great as Alfred Bester in Babylon 5. Farewell 💔

Cartesian Poker - existentialcomics.com/comic/678

At some point humanity is going to encounter the question of space travel without sex at the end of it.

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.

This is a great day for Serbia, which has been lingering as a Russian controlled vassal state in the heart of Eastern Europe, as it finally breaks its chains. I hope, like Hungary, they will choose freedom, rejoin the European community, and prosper. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Archaeology ‘It’s magic’: scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Ukraine’s military says Starlink satellite connection stable after recent restrictions www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

But nothing beats the obstetrics textbook wherein one of the authors made his wife do the index, so she slips this one in:

I swear to god if I hear another person talk about “the mainstream media” while mainlining disinfo slop online all day, I’m going to lose my mind

My friend’s @akairondragon.ca new book has arrived. I can’t wait to read it. I greatly enjoyed following her and seeing her realise her dream of becoming an author 👏 I love it when people follow their dreams, whether they succeed or not❤️

Blaze engulfs Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ mountain retreat in Bavaria www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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CONTINUED, The Boy From Venus #18 📦

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV – Official Game Overview Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVmX...

Every gothic horror:

this is how moral universalism gets you: you get to be a hater but you have to admit that your haters have a point? TRULY unfair www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

It’s Go Time

It's October 22, 2026 and that means Children of Wrath IS OUT! Tomorrow also marks the first birthday for The First Sin. Do you have your copies yet? 😊 Visit https://akairondragon.ca/books to learn more.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

There are certainly animals with weird complex genomes. But let me update your graph with the maize numbers.

spooky month continued

omg I am never going to shut up about this

Millions of hacking attempts as companies, governments rush to patch PHP flaws www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...