alt.sexy.bald.captain is how we learned from Usenet that there was more going on than just the acting.

Most people knew Patrick Stewart through his justly famous role as Jean Luc Picard, but to me he'll always be first and foremost the tyrannical Praetorian captain Aelius Sejanus from I, CLAUDIUS, a performance so effortless and natural it felt like he might reach through the TV and get you.

More stupid than their staff and management? (B.A. Journalism, University of Oregon, 1981, for the record.)

◥◤Kriston Capps 250@kristoncapps.bsky.social · 2h ago

This site's NYT derangement syndrome is really hard to take. It's so embarrassing to read otherwise smart people writing the stupidest things about journalism

The man was a lifelong campaigner against domestic violence because of what he saw his mother go through. A king, a champ, a feminist icon, he deserved all the love he got and more. www.theguardian.com/society/2009...

James Hell Brooks@kleinman.bsky.social · 2h ago

NOOOOOOOO www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

rip to one of history's great bromances

So many things to admire about Patrick Stewart, but the one that hits me the most is his deeply loving friendship with Ian McKellen. It's so rare and so important to see straight man-gay man friendships as true and natural and authentic as theirs.

Michael Yarbrough (he/him)@mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 2h ago

They keep taking all the good ones.

I'm the too woke friend because I'll remind you people were forced to drink poison at gunpoint in Jonestown.

Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · 7h ago

"There's not like seeing a cult right up front man."

The Age Of Ultron is already here. We need kill switches and regulation NOW. Another boat Gavin Newsom missed when he had the AI kill switch bill on his desk and sided with the billionaires and vetoed it last year. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

Five Major Banks Are Blocking AI Agents From Logging Into Customer Accounts

Major U.S. banks are blocking third-party AI agents from accounts, with view-only access emerging as the likely compromise for now.

finance.yahoo.com

They had one job. Or two, depending how you count.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 5h ago

CPSC Warns Consumers to Stop Using GuardianSense/ KLTseanife Combination Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detectors Immediately Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire Hazard There have been two reports of the alarms failing to alert in the presence of smoke or fire. www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

just involuntarily said the words "dear fucking god" out loud to myself

andy™@andylevy.net · 5h ago

pinhead take me now

Yup

After observers lawfully filmed ICE in a public parking lot, the agents followed their car, boxed them in, and slashed their tire in retaliation. The observers bravely caught the whole thing on video.

"The cuts were partially offset by new hiring and the reinstatement of some workers. Overall, the portion of the federal workforce that is Black has dropped substantially since Trump’s second administration began, The Post found."

Nearly 1 in 5 federal workers left under Trump. Black workers took the biggest hit.

A Post analysis reveals how many more workers have departed under President Donald Trump's second administration compared with Joe Biden and Trump's first term.

washingtonpost.com

Beloved teacher and newly-minted "Employee of the Year" Wendy Mendez was deported by ICE goons after they ignored her updated address and mailed her court notice to a three-year-old home so they could claim she skipped her hearing and throw her out of the country. Inhumane monsters.

Oshkosh teacher, former ‘employee of the year,' detained by ICE

An Oshkosh middle school teacher has been detained by federal immigration authorities after being ordered to leave the country.

wpr.org

check this shit out motherfucker (i spend billions of dollars on ai and sabotage my own search engine, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do)

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 9h ago

Breaking news: Alphabet shares tumbled 13% on Thursday after the Google owner revealed that 'AI mode' searches were threatening profits at its core advertising business. ft.trib.al/g8Q9IPx

The obvious explanation is she told him the truth.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h ago

Hegseth sacks another member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this time the Director of Planning, just at the moment the military is planning another war.

Considering that there are more than twice as many Muslims as Jews in Michigan, it's pretty remarkable how little mainstream anguish there has been about the GOP running the most Islamophobic campaign in US history in a key swing state.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 9h ago

We have not one, not two, but three stories on the Michigan Senate race today. First: a dispatch from Macomb County, and how Abdul El-Sayed is handling the rampant and shameful Republican campaign of Islamophobia by confronting it directly. prospect.org/2026/10/29/a...

Look this is disgusting, but it's also really funny to do this when you're rallying for your Hindu candidate for governor

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

Moreno: "Rogers is in a race w/ somebody that is an affront to me as an American. El-Sayed can be nowhere near DC. Do you think he understands that concept that our rights come from God Almighty? That Jesus came here for our salvation? He should be nowhere near DC & Rogers is going to kick his ass."

thanks are due to Chris Rufo and the New York Times, who worked together assiduously and intentionally to produce this outcome

@stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 12h ago

Black enrollment at Harvard has fallen by 50% in three years. After a brief period in which African Americans were well-represented among at Harvard College, we have now returned to the centuries-old pattern of black underrepresentation. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

My video on lessons to take from Lula’s victory in Brazil has blown up on YouTube, and the comments are full of fantastic advice from Brazilians, like this. Take note.

these true crime shows are getting wilder and wilder

🚨NEW: Senator Adam Schiff (@schiff.senate.gov) tells Meta to withdraw its commercial terms that allow for the mass-scraping of business users' websites. Following Senator Marsha Blackburn's comments on Friday, Meta's terms have now become a bipartisan concern. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/a-gr...

“A gross abuse of Meta’s power”: California senator Adam Schiff tells Meta to scrap its new terms of service

Democratic senator Adam Schiff of California is urging Meta not to implement its forthcoming commercial terms on November 20, his office announced Tuesday. In a letter sent to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerber...

niemanlab.org

Seems like a problem that major donors to Democratic candidate want Republicans to control the Senate.

The Detroit News@detroitnews.com · yesterday

Jason Turkish, a Democratic mega donor, described his decision to back Republican Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed as "putting country before party."

Jezebel’s new owner is reportedly deleting old blogs that aren’t “brand safe,” which means that this very timely investigation I did into a sketchy reality TV producer pushing a rape lawsuit against Trump is seemingly just gone. When I click the link it just goes to their homepage

Trump can say "don't seat Democrats" as much as he wants. The new House isn't seated by the old House. The old one ends at noon on 1/3/27, and the next one starts. The first thing the majority party does is elect a Speaker. The old Speaker has literally no role to play.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

RAJU: So if Trump says 'Don't seat Democrats,' you'll resist him? MIKE JOHNSON: I'll do my job as Speaker. The president has vowed of course that he wants to follow the law as well.

I love to read 7 breathless paragraphs about this before the author decides to finally acknowledge that this sort of thing is legal and commonly done by both parties including in Alaska 👍

The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterday

Operatives aligned with Alaska Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from her Republican rival. The group worked to coax would-be spoilers into the race to dilute the incumbent's support and help catapult Peltola to victory. trib.al/gWKhuWh

these guys might have to hide to avoid meeting lots of people who know them, hate them and can follow them from work to their homes, that's a crying shame

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: A leak of DHS internal records has exposed details on more than 41,000 employees and contractors, including phone numbers, office addresses, and groups tied to undercover operations, wiretap programs, Palantir software, and Grok.

The path is now clear for rechristening everything that bears the name Cesar Chavez, if it hasn't happened already. Rest in power, Dolores Huerta.