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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.

THEY WANTED A REFERENDUM IN 5 YEARS IN 2016 AND 2021 AND 2026

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

The presenter of #r4today opines.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Brazil rejected Bolsonaro. Serbia's students beat Vučić. Machado is home in Venezuela. What a day for democracy.

Feeling a bit rough this morning after being up all night comforting Richard Tice, who was crying hysterically.

Today I came across a clip from Trump’s 2016 primary debates. The cognitive decline since then is astounding, but the fact that his voice has been a constant background noise in our life for ten years has desensitised us to the extent of his drift.

Ukraine's defense ministry says Starlink/Starshield is now working at speeds above 161 km/h, though they're still testing to find the real upper limits and confirm how fully it's been restored.

❗️Elon Musk stated that Ukrainian elites have “greatly enriched themselves” on hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. aid, while the interests of the elites and the people diverge sharply: children of ordinary people are being mobilized

They are: Lord (Jack) McConnell Lord (Maurice) Glasman Baroness (Ann) Mallalieu 'Labour MP Phil Brickell accused three colleagues of "legitimising" Reform’s crypto-billionaire Ben Delo by participating in the event, partnered with the far-right Oldspeak Bookshop.' bylinetimes.com/2026/10/23/t...

Trump: "If you don't want communists controlling the US Senate, which is between JAIIIIIIT"

for those wondering how the whole Drumcree Orange Order Parade strategy has panned out for british Unionists.... The Secretary of State for NI has banned the parade and here's 2 of the main british unionist party leaders on BBCNI's The View, last night, selling "The Union". #speirgorm

Some don't have to wait until 3 November. It comes down to money or lives? And one of the biggest investors in Musk's Space X is rightly "disgusted" at events in Ukraine over the past week. Ross Gerber tells CNN's Jim Sciutto it's given everyone a reason to dump Starlink:

There goes 6250 tonnes of CO₂ removal every year…

A majority of PIP recipients undertake economically valuable or wellbeing-enhancing activities that they could not do without support. Close to half (47 per cent) report that the benefit enables them to do at least one "economically valuable" activity, including working, training or caring.

So forgive me if seeing the actual Chancellor suddenly admit that yeah actually we would have an oil fund worth over a trillion - just like Norway - and trotting it out as a great big Labour talking point is completely infuriating

Trump makes an indescribable sound effect: "I'd say 90% of the reason I took the governor-- EUHHH"

BioWare statement

This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

To reiterate: these huge benefit cuts are so disastrously unpopular that the current government had to conceal them from the public and lie about it to get elected, and then they cost the last PM his job. But these people are undeterred, they just reset the board for themselves then begin again.

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

Trump: "Maybe I won't have a news conference santamataldum"

JUST IN: Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine, per The Telegraph

🇬🇧 The Houses of Parliament’s bigoted, Protestant supremacist, Loyalist sectarian, Orange Orcs Front and centre is the notorious Child Sex Offender, His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Councillor, Knight Bachelor, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺

Douglas Alexander says that because there's no consensus for another independence referendum in Scotland (not least because, as he points out, the UK parliament opposes it) there can't be one.

The DUP knew.

⚡️ Breaking: Starlink service in Ukraine 'restored,' Defense Ministry source says. SpaceX, the owner of Starlink, implemented speed restrictions on Oct. 14 without warning.

Big winner from Elon's stunts today:

Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this

i think we can come up with a better system than putting a drug addled, pedophile dipshit with no grip on reality in charge of defense satellites

Great read as always from @warringfictions.bsky.social - this time on scarcity and fairness (parables.substack.com/p/scarcity-a...)

European politicians won't even get off X (neither will ours), but this should prompt an EU-wide attempt to expel Elon from the continent. And we need one here, too. You have to be Walter Isaacson to miss what's going on.

It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion.

It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

Reminder that the EU had no compunction about banning Russia Today. If anything, Musk’s behaviour is more egregious - directly assisting a foreign enemy's military attack. And this is on top of his support for race riots, Nazis and CSAM! By any measure, a threat to national security.

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

Nick Ferrari going after "feckless Brits" this morning, and "supporting" migrant grafters. Entirely predictable because: 1) Immigration is down 2) There's a campaign to cut benefits for anyone under pension age. Reform UK's non-pensioner support base is choc full of feckless Brits. @lbc.co.uk

A.I. needs to be totally and utterly destroyed and removed from society. It is a cancer.

Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin

"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"

Chants of 'Don't protect the women, we can fight. We don't need your fascist shite' rang out in Glasgow tonight. As anti-fascists, women's rights groups and trade unionists protested against 'patriot platform' and their supporters pushing their racist agenda in the city. Things you love to see ✊

Flash floods hit northern Nepal on Sunday, sweeping away buildings and at least one bridge along the Budhi Gandaki River. The torrent comes just weeks after a devastating flood on the border with Tibet that killed more than a thousand people.

OPEC SECRETARY GENERAL: THE WORLD IS GOING TO REQUIRE 23% MORE PRIMARY ENERGY FROM NOW TO 2050

I don't really know what to say about the fact HM Treasury can't seem to get its head around the fact that heat pump grants are industrial policy not household subsidy. It doesn't signal great depth of policy thinking. www.theguardian.com/environment/...