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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.

Shouldn't it be free?

Ah shit, it got Dallas. RIP Tom Skerritt.

In today's economy, Bart Simpson would be far more financially successful and influential than Lisa. YouTube dickhead vs university professor.

ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”

R.I.P. Tragic. www.tmz.com/2026/10/12/r... If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org.

The internet has become a place where depressed people scream at each other about things none of them understand the first thing about.

One of the most annoying things about thinking of the books I loved as a child - Narnia, Box of delights etc is the posh entitled kids in these story will grow up to be twats like David Cameron or George Osbourne

People should stop calling tech manual "bibles". The Bible is a barely coherent bunch of stories and half-truths, told by illiterate men, packaged together by the powerful to exert political control over the masses. Your average tech manual can only dream of being that

My wife and I were so hot when we were young. She was very beautiful and I was so handsome. Now we are in our late sixties, I look like Danny Divito and she looks like Mitch Miconnell. I can't unsee it now.

I started a rumour that the vicar who came in to teach Christian Education didn't have a soul. It made it onto to agenda of the PTA meeting and the minutes showed that he asserted that he did have a soul. Religious schools are really peculiar.

Salt doesn't need to be ground like pepper does. The only reason we have salt and pepper grinders is because humans like symmetry.

Ministers should have to dress like the sectors they engage with. Science ministers should wear labs coats, building ministers should wear hard hats, boots, and hi viz. The farming minister should wear a flat cap and carry a shepherd's crook.

Crypto will be listed in history as the biggest ever transfer of wealth from a great many dumb individuals into the hands of a few very powerful individuals. Those billions Trump and his kids "raised" with the Trump coin? Where exactly do you think that money comes from?

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Wayland Yutani having an office in Canary Warf makes sense.

Fyi in 2024 the Harris Campaign spent $1.2 billion during the 2024 election and Trump spent around $500 million. Money isn't everything in politics.

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In the same way that the downfall of Al Qaeda gave way to the rise of ISIS I do worry that Farage's fall, when it comes, will be the handmaiden of something worse.

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A still from a long-lost deleted scene.

Aberdeen's finest adopted son and also the first ever lad fea toon to get into space. Well done Scotty fea Star Trek.

Star Trek Forever

Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

Nearly 60 years since this episode aired, and its message continues to be as powerful today as it was in 1966 #StarTrek #StarTrek60

How can a person who looks like this be anything other than as pure as the driven snow?

You absolutely should look a gift horse in the mouth. Otherwise, you might end-up with a crap horse, or even a dead one. And then you've got to get rid of it.

So, US policy is to be “devastating” to Canada until we break them and do what we want. It will take generations to recover from this madness.

Tell ’em, Reagan: “We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends — weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire Free World — all while cynically waving the American flag.” Thank you.

I spoke with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, which has encrypted the daily online work/comms a hundred million-plus people. We talked in particular about Proton's surprising embrace of AI, like its chatbot Lumo. Yen says "AI is surveillance." He also says it's "unavoidable." www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

My course, "Hitler and Stalin Today," is available for free online. Through 10 lectures, I examine Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared, and what we should have learned from the 20th century. Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/timothy...

Everyone you know has a skeleton inside them. I feel that this unsettling fact is not given the attention it deserves.

Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets https://theonion.com/crying-newborn-has-no-idea-how-much-worse-it-gets/

Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...

As I wrote elsewhere, Arday’s universities have blood on their hands. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/w...

We're gonna do it, aren't we? We're actually gonna do it. We're gonna let greedy rich cunts cook the planet and suck it dry of energy and water just so bots can send emails to other bots. Un-fucking-believable.

Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Rob Sand, the Democrat running for governor of Iowa, “is very much a moderate,” writes Ben Rhodes, “but he has a withering critique of the political establishment in this country.”

Inexplicable. Deutschland radio 1939 - relax/study to | Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht youtu.be/t1XTDpouggk

Pre internet I once drove half an hour home to get a dictionary to prove to my work colleague that the word gullible was in the dictionary. I was literally 2 mins away, on the way back, when it dawned on me.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Birthrates have fallen almost continuously for nearly 20 years,” Lyman Stone writes in a guest essay. “They have fallen through good economies and bad, through Republican administrations and Democratic ones, through every tax credit and child-care subsidy.”

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