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What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

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.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

NHS consultants to go on two-day strike in England in November, says BMA

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

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I'm being sued for $795m. By a fugitive fraudster. In Wyoming. Using an anti-Mafia law. 🧵

Upon further review, turns out that what Jared has been doing is already very very illegal, and if he does not face a massive criminal investigation & accountability we cannot pretend to have reinstated either democracy or rule-of-law.

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October 22nd is World Wombat Day! Let's learn about the THREE species of wombats. This is Sabine, Currumbin Sanctuary’s resident Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) showing off her zoomies. The Southern & Northern hairy-nosed wombats are much rarer than their bare-nosed cousins.

“When I look round the boardroom at the other board members Palantir has recently also recruited from the House of Lords – notably Lord Vader and Lord Voldemort – I don’t have any sense that these people are evil,” said Watson. From the new Private Eye, out now.

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What countries call leaving a party without saying goodbye

Image by Marijn Markus

[smugly] I am much older than that.

We are sensing a pattern

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

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Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

Journalist to Hegseth: “Mr. Secretary, are you Vladimir Putin’s puppet on Ukraine? Mr. Secretary, is Vladimir Putin playing you like a fiddle?” Good job, Britain! That’s how it’s done. Video: Sky News

Confessions of a Contemporary Prophet. Being extracts from the private journal of a the man who mistook the dock for a pulpit. "Arose early, having slept poorly on account of the persecution. My dreams are filled with thoughts of Jonah and the Whale..." mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/confession...

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

heartbreaking: the worst defender you know just made a great point www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Rejected Space Mission Profiles xkcd.com/3310/

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.

Eco chamber: Visions of the future From the latest Private Eye, out now.

A mid week piece from me, on the FT newspages. In an act of extraordinary generosity the owner of the building which houses Rules, London’s oldest restaurant, has donated it to the @nationaltrust.org.uk www.ft.com/content/1386...

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

Wildlife photographer of the year 2026 winners – in pictures

BREAKING: We just filed a Hatch Act complaint over the outrageous raid on Ilhan Omar's home Officials can't use criminal power to affect an election. This is the textbook case @democracydefendersfund.org & @rwpusa.bsky.social👇

It’s all just so tawdry and embarrassing this administration. Scary and dangerous because of the power wielded but also tacky and pathetic. A formerly great country soiling itself every day, revelling in mediocrity and incompetence

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Oracle, 29th largest company in the world, led by Larry Ellison, books looking bad, bet huge on AI, tens of billions in negative cash flow, and if the company goes down, there’s a good chance it takes the AI bubble and Skydance down with it.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Christopher & Georgianne Walken have been married 57yrs.