Herald of Creation

#IsaacAsimovNovelRanking THE RESULTS Those of you that have been following this will know the challenges I have been having with the Polls on X so the number of votes cast has been relatively low compared to some of the other ranking projects I have done.

Notts County have been promoted to League One! 🆙

I love Gene Roddenberry. ❤️

#EMRUpdate with the met office forecasting extreme temperatures today please see National Rails advice on travelling during hot weather: nationalrail.co.uk/summer/

How many people know this?

If Vance doesn’t run, it’ll be because Peter Thiel is abandoning him for somebody else—keep an eye on that.

@trevorbaxendale @grumpywho1 I bought the original Paperback as a gift for my older brother. It remains the only James Bond book I have read. (Unless you count Harry Sullivan's War and The Enemy of the World)

John Gardner’s first #JamesBond continuation novel #LicenceRenewed was published in 1981. It’s been reprinted for its 40th anniversary so I’ve decided to reread it. 1/

@DWUDatabase Guarantee “Temptation” is losing so bad bc not enough people have seen it. “The Ark” is so forgettable “Temptation” is such a hard-hitting story, & while being a kid’s show, treats its audience with more maturity than like anything made in the last 5+ years.

Peter Gabriel “Solsbury Hill” youtu.be/_OO2PuGz-H8?si…

The former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on @Nigel_Farage's claims of Russian hacking.

VANCE CONSIDERS ABANDONING 2028 PRESIDENTIAL RUN, SOURCES SAY — MAIL

Pope Leo warns about AI and calls for regulation as he quotes from the Lord of the Rings 🔗 trib.al/62sWYUj

Trump and his MAGAts are weak little bitches.

Rejoining the EU seems to resonate with many British voters, a majority of whom now think leaving was a mistake. The notion is unlikely to go away soon economist.com/europe/2026/05…

GREAT nomination & well deserved too! The 'draft dodger' currently in the Oval Office probably won't be pleased with Zelensky's @NobelPrize nomination? 🤷‍♀️ So, please do NOT share, got it? 😉 Wave a 🇺🇦 flag if you stand with Ukraine and Zelensky! 🙏 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

Apparently climate change is a myth.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA by formally apologizing for the Church's role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries, calling it a "wound in Christian memory." This is truly historic and Republicans are furious... “It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark contrast to their immeasurable dignity as persons infinitely loved by the Lord. For this, in the name of the church, I sincerely ask for pardon," Leo wrote in “Magnifica Humanitas,” his much-anticipated first encyclical. While previous popes have apologized for the Christian involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, none has ever delivered such a direct apology for the broader role that the Church played in the survival of that deeply evil institution. The Vatican at times gave European monarchs express permission to colonize and enslave foreign peoples, slathering their brutal crimes against humanity in a veneer of Christian piety. In the 15th century, Pope Nicholas V went so far as to give the Portugese throne authority to subjugate and rob “Saracens, and pagans, and other infidels, and enemies of the name of Christ” as well as "reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.” Leo took that history on head-first— "Already in the early modern period, the Apostolic See of Rome, responding to the requests of sovereigns, intervened several times in order to regulate and legitimize forms of subjugation, and, in certain cases, including the enslavement of ‘infidels,'" he wrote. "In the development of her doctrine, the Church has gradually come to a deeper awareness of the gravity of these issues," Leo stated. "It is true that past events cannot be judged anachronistically, as though the moral criteria that matured over time had always been available. Yet neither can we deny or diminish the delay with which both society and the Church came to denounce the scourge of slavery." He added that it "took eighteen centuries" for the Church to "explicitly" recognize its "full incompatibility with slavery." “This constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached,” Leo added. The pronouncement has already been met with outrage from many members of the online right, who believe that the Western world should never apologize for anything it's done, not even slavery. Social media is aflurry with MAGA accusations that Leo has succumbed to "suicidal empathy" and "white guilt." These are the same people who believe that the Civil War was fought for "states' rights" and that the Confederacy was an admirable endeavor. “For descendants of enslaved persons, this is once again a much needed apology from the pope,” said Anthea Butler, senior fellow at Oxford University's Koch History Center. She added that the apology empowers Leo to “speak to the current issues of technological enslavement.” The Pope's slavery apology was part of a much lengthier document whose title translates to "Magnificent Humanity." It's largely focused on humanity's roles and responsibilities as artificial intelligence reshapes the world around us. Leo connected the topic to slavery by warning that these emergent technologies are leading to new forms of human exploitation and debasement, as neocolonialist labor practices are implemented to provide the rare minerals necessary to build AI chips. The situation in the Congo is particularly dire, with untold masses of men, women, and children being paid next to nothing — and in some cases nothing at all — to work in inhumane, unhealthy conditions mining cobalt. While so many of our world leaders are failing to confront the challenges and evils of the modern world, Pope Leo is boldly leading the way. Please ❤️ and share if you're a big fan of Pope Leo!

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Nigel, you’re missing the point. I don’t care who hacked your phone. The real story is that you’ll happily take money from almost anyone. Spare us the “man of the people” routine. You’re a grifter, and people can see it.

@gregrcox DVDs is a weird one. Recently they have been so cheap that you can hardly give them away but I think there is an uneasiness about giving up physical media so they might accrue in value

@Heraldofcreatio I need to start selling my LPs, Dvds, comics & Dinky/Corgi cars!

If the heat is too much for you I suggest that you stay indoors and buy other people's crap off ebay (preferably mine) We have vinyl ebay.co.uk/itm/1684016724…