Chris Hatfield🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

Star Trek exists in more than one world. It exists in the fantasy of science fiction - weird and wonderful things that play unimaginable possibilities of exploration and human endeavor. But it also exists in the fantasy of human beings, the perfection of human beings, the exploration that human beings have made since the dawn of time and the continuing exploration - physically mentally and morally. It’s that aspect of Star Trek that I’ve always loved, to look at something physically that doesn’t exist now by these talented writers & designers but also to tackle the eternal human questions the agonies, the ecstasies. Star Trek should exist for a long time to come based on those truths. I for one would love to see its continuity. It’s with sorrow that I hear about the cancellation of the new Star Trek series.

@WilliamShatner Happy Birthday!!!!

At 95, I'm still smokin'! 😝 I’ve learned two things: Never waste a good cigar. Never trust anyone who says you should ‘act your age.’ 😉👍🏻

@CHRISBSFW You are getting so lean. Great progress.

Sauna and chill?

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

On this day in 1987, U2 released "With or Without You", the first single from 'The Joshua Tree'. The song became the band’s first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and held the top spot for three weeks, launching one of the biggest eras in rock.

@CHRISBSFW Beautiful

Leg session done still got some energy left 🤔

@ATRightMovies Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

What's your favourite 3 hour or longer film?

@CHRISBSFW @AlphaBaytonSolo The Right one. It’s sexier.

Left or right pic?

BREAKING: Satellite imagery shows an Iranian ballistic missile struck the AN/FPS-132 phased array radar at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. If the damage is as severe as the imagery suggests, Iran just destroyed a $1.1 billion piece of equipment that took years to build and cannot be replaced on any timeline relevant to this war. The AN/FPS-132 is not an ordinary radar. It is one of a handful of early warning sensors in the entire US global missile defence architecture. It detects ballistic missile launches at ranges exceeding 5,000 kilometres. It provides the initial tracking data that allows Patriot, THAAD, and Aegis systems to calculate intercept solutions. Without it, every other layer of missile defence in the Gulf theatre is operating with compressed reaction times and degraded situational awareness. Qatar intercepted 101 ballistic missiles during this conflict. Sixty-five missiles and twelve drones were fired at Al Udeid specifically. The base’s layered defences stopped nearly all of them. Two got through. One of them appears to have hit the single most valuable sensor in the entire region. This is the mathematics of asymmetric warfare in a single event. Iran does not need to overwhelm the defence system. It needs one missile to reach one target. The defender has to intercept everything. The attacker has to succeed once. A ballistic missile costs Iran a fraction of what the radar costs. Even at the most generous estimate of Iranian missile production costs, the exchange ratio is hundreds to one in the attacker’s favour. Now connect this to the insurance mechanism. I have written all day that the B-2 and B-52 campaigns are destroying Iran’s conventional military but not its ability to threaten asymmetric targets. This is the proof. The most heavily defended air base in the Middle East, housing CENTCOM’s forward headquarters, protected by Patriot batteries and the most advanced interception systems the US deploys, just lost its primary early warning radar to a single ballistic missile that evaded every layer. If the US military cannot protect a $1.1 billion radar inside its own most fortified base, on what basis does any reinsurer model that a tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz is protectable by Navy escorts? The DFC insurance backstop announced hours ago promised Navy escorts would secure Gulf shipping. The AN/FPS-132 strike demonstrates that even the most sophisticated US defensive systems cannot guarantee protection against Iranian ballistic missiles in a saturation attack environment. One missile. One radar. $1.1 billion. And a defence architecture that just revealed its fundamental constraint: perfection is required, and perfection is impossible. The escorts cannot guarantee what the base defences could not. The insurance market already knew this. Now the satellite imagery proves it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@Mikehomeseller All That You Can’t Leave Behind. I listen to this album often. I rarely revisit Boy.

Which U2 album do you prefer from below? #mikesquestions

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Is there a betting site where you can buy a square on what minute during the 2 hours of the SOTU that Piggy shits himself.

Denmark has decided to reciprocate the help from the US, they are now sending a fleet of library ships so that Americans can read freely, books completely uncensored.

This is the new music video about Ukraine 🇺🇦 Yours Eternally by U2 ft. Ed Sheeran and Taras Topolia - Antytila 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦

Jill Scott hasn't heard "anything even remotely as good" as her Perfect 10

American Obituary speaks to the shocking event the world witnessed in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 7th, 2026 where Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a peaceful protestor, was shot and killed at almost point-blank range by ICE, an arm of her own government. This unarmed mother of three was then described as a “domestic terrorist” by an administration who will not withdraw the description even though they know it’s not true or mount a proper enquiry into what happened for the sake of everyone involved. Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda here: u2.komi.io

U2: DAYS OF ASH - my very first thoughts on U2's new EP, released on Ash Wednesday... I seriously doubted my love of them anymore and then they take on the world in prophetic voice and I realise... I still need them. open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

@sciencegirl Spices

Boiled chicken, Greek yogurt and white rice. What’s missing here

@TheExtremeMusi1 Patti LaBelle in the Philly airport. She saw my Bartram HS jacket and called out to me.

Who is the most famous musician you’ve ever met???

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them