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I’m on Twitter / X through a VPN in Dallas, Texas, following the midterm elections. I’m actually based in the Netherlands.
And honestly, I’m absolutely stunned by the sheer scale of MAGA propaganda being shoved down Americans’ throats.
It’s as if Elon Musk has shoved a billion-dollar funnel into the mouths of American voters and is force-feeding them a grotesque blend of oligarchic and fascist propaganda until all that comes out is Republican foie gras.
The amount of Republican propaganda flooding your timeline is genuinely insane.
1. The so-called “America” account.
At the very top of the #1 Trending Topics, you’ll find an advertisement from an account called “America”.
Except it’s not America.
It’s a Republican propaganda account, sporting a gold verification badge, designed to manipulate and indoctrinate American voters.
2. Open Twitter / X from Texas.
A video automatically starts playing, portraying James Talarico as some kind of public enemy.
Cheap, shameless political propaganda.
Not a single word about his opponent, Ken Paxton.
Just an endless stream of attacks on Talarico.
Wonder why?
Perhaps because Ken Paxton has quite a little history of his own:
●Alleged corruption involving wealthy donor Nate Paul.
●Abuse of public office.
●Alleged bribery.
●Securities fraud charges.
●Alleged obstruction of justice.
●Retaliation against whistleblowers.
●Firing employees who reported him to the FBI.
●Alleged misuse of taxpayer-funded resources.
●Alleged interference in law-enforcement investigations.
●Alleged preferential treatment of political donors.
●Undisclosed compensation for promoting a company’s stock.
●Employment assistance for a woman with whom he acknowledged having an affair.
●Impeachment by the Republican-controlled Texas House.
●Acquittal by the Texas Senate.
●A $6.6 million whistleblower settlement.
●Controversy over extensive travel and taxpayer-funded security expenses.
Quite a résumé, isn’t it?
3. Fearmongering.
Republicans are also pushing the narrative that if Democrats win, democracy itself will be doomed.
Let that sink in for a moment.
They’re telling Americans that voting for Democrats is somehow a vote against democracy.
The irony is apparently completely lost on them.
4. Project 2025.
And then there’s Project 2025.
A detailed political blueprint for fundamentally reshaping the American federal government, concentrating executive power and dismantling longstanding institutional safeguards.
Critics have warned that its proposals threaten democratic checks and balances and could pave the way for authoritarian rule.
This isn’t some obscure conspiracy theory.
Its ideas are already influencing and being implemented in American politics.
5. Try a little experiment.
Google “James Talarico”.
The first two results you’ll encounter are sponsored advertisements paid for by TEXAS PAC and MAGA Inc.
Both pushing anti-Democratic messaging.
(See attached screenshot.)
This is what American voters are up against.
An unprecedented propaganda machine, backed by billionaires, political PACs and a social media platform that has become an increasingly powerful vehicle for partisan messaging.
And apparently, we’re supposed to believe this is all just about freedom of speech.
America, you deserve better than this.
Vote Blue. Vote Talarico. Vote for democracy. Vote for peace. For neighborliness. For tolerance. Vote against hate. Vote against polarization. Vote for your wallet. Vote to keep your freedom. Vote for inclusion ans tolerance.
Vote James Talarico.
Do what is needed for the future or yourself ánd your children.
Like ❤️ and RT this please.
Geri K retweeted
Patrick Stewart ha muerto a los 86 años. Durante casi toda su vida cargó con una pregunta sobre su padre.
De niño, en un pueblo de Yorkshire, veía cómo su padre pegaba a su madre los fines de semana.
Con su hermano aprendió a ponerse en medio.
Muchos años después descubrió algo que nadie en su familia le había contado.
Murió el miércoles 28 de octubre en su casa de Los Ángeles, cuidado por su mujer, Sunny Ozell, tras un tiempo con alzhéimer y demencia de cuerpos de Lewy. Fue el capitán Picard en «Star Trek» y el profesor Xavier en «X-Men». Pero antes fue un chico de Mirfield que crecía con miedo.
Su padre, Alfred, había sido sargento mayor de regimiento en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Entre semana trabajaba y no bebía. Los viernes se arreglaba, se iba al pub y volvía de noche, y por las canciones que cantaba al llegar los niños sabían de qué humor venía. Stewart contó que él y su hermano se interponían entre sus padres, porque así su padre se apartaba.
Ya de mayor, en un programa de la BBC sobre genealogía, supo que su padre había vuelto de la guerra con una neurosis de guerra grave, lo que hoy llamamos estrés postraumático, y que nunca lo trataron. Él mismo dijo que eso explicaba muchas cosas, pero no justificaba ninguna.
Lo que más me impresiona es que supo sostener las dos verdades a la vez. Se volcó con Refuge, una organización británica que ayuda a mujeres y niños que sufren violencia en casa, y también con Combat Stress, que atiende a veteranos de guerra con estrés postraumático.
Hablando de su trabajo con Refuge, lo resumió así: «Hago este activismo por mi madre, porque entonces no pude hacerlo por ella». No hace falta añadir nada.
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SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
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Sir Patrick Stewart tells a story about meeting Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in a restaurant.
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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“This spring, the U.S. military faced a similar dilemma in the Middle East. According to a Reuters report that cited Pentagon documents, U.S. forces used Starshield to pilot their drones for strikes against Iran. When SpaceX found out, it raised the price for Starshield service in that region from roughly $5,000 per terminal per month to $25,000. The Pentagon agreed to pay.
In Ukraine, Musk could be attempting a similar upsell.”
theatlantic.com/national-sec…
The Hollywood Charity Horse Show is holding a silent auction to support local and national children’s and veteran’s charities.
Auction items include Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, comics and other Hollywood shows.
Where are all those @StarWars fans?
I have signed items in my charity auction‽
👇🏻
silentauctionpro.com/bidonli…
Geri K retweeted
One of the EOD guys from my first deployment did the Army’s “enlisted to doctors” program.
He did 2 years of premed, 4 years of medical school, and then specialized as a trauma surgeon.
It cost him zero dollars.
He has no debt for medical school.
He’s set up for life.
I wonder if a system like this could be installed around buildings during a wildfire to help extinguish sparks, etc.
A high school girl in Mexico just won a gold medal for putting out fires with a speaker. It plays one deep, low hum and the flames die in about 5 seconds.
DARPA tried the same idea back in 2012 with a rig so big and clunky they never took it any further, and hers runs on a 12-volt battery and a speaker she can carry around.
Sound is just air being pushed back and forth. A low note at 30 hertz means the air around the flame is flipping direction 30 times every second.
Flames only exist in a thin layer where fuel vapor mixes with oxygen. Shake that layer hard enough and it keeps getting stretched thinner, the heat gets pulled away faster than the flame can make more, and eventually the flame rips right off the fuel. Whatever tears off is too cool to keep burning, so it just goes out.
DARPA's report put a number on how little it takes. Once the air at the flame is moving about half a meter per second, which is barely a breeze, the flame goes out, and pretty much any pitch can get there if you crank the power high enough.
Low notes just get you there way cheaper, because a speaker moves a lot more air on each push when the pitch is low. Two engineering students at George Mason figured this out by trial and error in 2015. They started with super high pitches, 20,000 to 30,000 hertz, and all the flames did was shiver. It only worked once they dropped down to 30 to 60 hertz, which is basically the bass on a hip-hop track.
Ángela Karime's build is a 12-volt battery, a frequency generator, an amplifier and a speaker, tuned to 30 hertz. She named it Vortex Tech and talks about it shooting out little rings of air, and that's real physics. When loud, low sound gets pushed through a narrow opening, the air curls up into rings like a smoke ring, and those rings carry a puff of air way farther than the sound would get on its own. In her tests it put out small flames from about 2 meters away.
She went through five prototypes and over 100 tests in about a year, and she says it's put out burning wood, flammable liquids, electronics and cooking oil.
The cooking oil one is a big deal. Throw water on a grease fire and it flashes into steam and flings burning oil all over your kitchen, which is exactly the kind of fire where you'd want something that doesn't put anything into the pan.
Now, sound can't cool anything down, so a big fire sitting on red-hot fuel can come right back the second the speaker shuts off. The George Mason guys worried about the same thing in 2015, and it's why this is still a prototype for small flames and the red extinguisher under your sink isn't going anywhere yet.
Space might end up being where this matters first. Up there water floats off in blobs, while sound works the same with or without gravity, and acoustics researchers have already published experiments on fighting fires with sound on spacecraft.
She's still in high school, and she's already working on a version that spots a fire and puts it out by itself. The gold in Indonesia also came with a special award that gets her into another international competition.
Geri K retweeted
Someone on Reddit built his wife a job search app.
She is a junior software engineer, and her job search had dragged on for almost 10 months. Tailoring a resume for every posting took ages.
So he built Dossier. It finds postings, then writes a tailored resume, cover letter and email for each job, using only facts from her profile.
It tracks every application from draft to offer on a board, and it runs on your own server, with a local AI model option, so your data stays with you.
She landed a job with it, so he open-sourced it for anyone in the same spot.
It is free at github.com/AienTech/dossier.
Geri K retweeted
Hots&Cots has never been my full-time job. It’s been nights, weekends, and vacation days.
My day job has been almost 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as a senior iOS engineer. I’m part of this round.
So I’m open to two things:
* A full-time senior iOS role, building apps or the platforms behind them.
* Contract work. If you need an iOS, Android, or web app built end to end, that’s how I built Hots&Cots.
DMs are open. Hots&Cots isn’t going anywhere.
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
Geri K retweeted
Wow, this is an even more plausible theory for the purpose of the ancient Roman Dodecahedron!
I think she is onto it here.
Again with weaving, but this time it's with metal as well, the demonstration shows a pretty convincing match to the gold chain work found in ancient gold caches. And it's a process that would naturally use all the different widths of the holes, for the drawing and stretching of the metal chain. She gives two different size examples in the linked complete video.
It's also an explanation for why it would have been found in Roman military archeological sites, as it would work not only for metal chain, but for cordage as well.
youtu.be/lADTLozKm0I?is=4Zu-…
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🚨 🚨 🚨 URGENT ELECTION CHEATING UPDATE 🚨 🚨 🚨
REMEMBER TO TRIPLE CHECK ✔️✔️✔️YOUR CANDIDATE SELECTIONS!
Florida is NOT the only state experiencing this problem with trying to choose a Democrat candidate!!
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Hundreds, maybe thousands have entered lines stretching around the Cleveland Public Auditorium and Mall B Saturday morning ahead of former President Barack Obama’s campaign rally.
Video: Josh Duke, Cleveland sitcom
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NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy built two China-based biotech subsidiaries with financing from an investment firm tied to the Chinese Communist Party, one run by a "princeling" whose father helped censor information on the Uyghur crackdown. Read more: s.tiffinohio.net/otU2QDc
ALT Ramaswamy has business ties to China’s Communist Party
Geri K retweeted
Since this apology I have deleted some of my posts about him. I don’t think he’s as bad as his one of his worst moments caught on camera. This is a much needed reminder that we shouldn’t read too much into a highly charged moment of emotion and make snap judgments about someone we don’t know.
I still stand by my initial assessment that she had every right to move him out of her way and didn’t need to ask nicely and it seems he actually understands that too.
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I can’t go to sleep.
As a former medic, the event in Wainwright is the stuff of nightmares.
Before an exercise or on deployment you’re always thinking what’s the worst case scenario I might face.
You make plans in your mind for a hundred possibilities. You pack your kit for the most likely eventualities. You pray you’ll not have to put your more advanced lifesaving training to use.
If you’re lucky you won’t, but sometimes you do.
And sometimes, despite all the training, planning, and careful preparation, it isn’t enough. Sometimes you simply can’t be ready.
That’s not your fault. Do not blame yourself.
You can’t see the future and you can’t save them all. Do your best for the ones you can and be proud of that.
It’s ok to feel messed up. Ask to talk to someone, don’t let your thoughts or emotions tear you apart.
If you think something like this won’t affect you, don’t be surprised if someday down the road it does. When that happens, ask to talk to someone then.
Thinking of all the front line health care, fire, police and investigators doing gods work to help and protect those who need in the aftermath of today.
You’re not alone. Never feel like you have nowhere to go or have no one to turn too when it becomes too much. Help is out there.
Geri K retweeted
Our campaign is continuing to get a lot of attention as Rep. Harris gives more interviews and MD-1 has been shifted from "safe-red" to "likely-red". I'll go on any news network or talk to any journalist about this race--left leaning, right-leaning, doesn't matter to me. It's the job of a candidate to get the word out as much as they can.
I want this job.
Rep. Harris made it clear he does not.
Tune in tonight on NewsNation at 10.
