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@PictureSporting Interesting trajectories Murali and Hair took from that moment - one went onto become a legend, ICC hall of famer, Wisden’s cricketer of the 21st century, honoured by the MCC. The other ended up being a thief who stole from a bottle shop in rural Aus - google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.…

@fandompulse Berman killed the franchise when he let Braga be show runner instead of Ron Moore. Ron Moore left to do Battlestar, the rest is history. Meanwhile, Braga did poor man’s piss Trek with the Orville 🫠😂

Star Trek: Enterprise showrunner Brannon Braga on what Star Trek is: "STAR TREK, as conceived by Gene Roddenberry, portrays the epic saga of humanity’s exploration of space and, in turn, their own struggles as a species. Every episode and movie of STAR TREK is a morality tale in which human beings find solutions to conflict through enlightenment and reason. Through science. Through wit and intellect. Through a belief in our potential as animals that can supercede our baser instincts. In Gene Roddenberry’s imagining of the future (in this case the 23rd century), Earth is a paradise where we have solved all of our problems with technology, ingenuity, and compassion. There is no more hunger, war, or disease. And most importantly to the context of our meeting here today, religion is completely gone. Not a single human being on Earth believes in any of the nonsense that has plagued our civilization for thousands of years. This was an important part of Roddenberry’s mythology. He, himself, was a secular humanist and made it well-known to writers of STAR TREK and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION that religion and superstition and mystical thinking were not to be part of his universe. On Roddenberry’s future Earth, everyone is an atheist. And that world is the better for it." Could this explain why the franchise is in massive decline? Is there a rot at the core of the entire franchise? Is it possible to redeem it?

If Ben Roberts-Smith wanted to murder people with impunity and still be hailed a hero, he should have joined the IDF.

This is why the US backed a coup against Pakistan's independent Prime Minister Imran Khan and helped put in power Shehbaz Sharif, a corrupt US puppet from an oligarchic dynasty. Sharif is such a shameless puppet that the US writes his public statements. nytimes.com/2026/04/08/wor…

The news is accurate and precise: Since last night, a limited number of ships and tankers have been permitted to transit through the Strait of Hormuz after paying tolls.

While China was busy shipping missile chemicals to Iran and collecting yuan tolls at Hormuz, someone was inside its most sensitive supercomputer stealing everything. CNN reports that a hacker group calling itself FlamingChina breached the China National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin and exfiltrated up to 10 petabytes of classified defence data. The samples posted on dark web forums include bomb and missile designs, animated explosion simulations, structural integrity tests, renderings of the J-20 stealth fighter, sixth-generation aircraft concepts, nuclear submarine schematics, hypersonic weapons systems, and target analyses for American assets including HIMARS launchers and carrier strike groups. Ten petabytes. For context, the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress is approximately 10 terabytes. This breach is one thousand times that volume. It is being sold for cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. Cybersecurity experts who reviewed the previews told CNN the data appears genuine, matching known output patterns from the NSCC Tianjin facility, which serves over 6,000 clients including defence agencies and aviation firms across China. The timing is extraordinary. Trump posted a 50 percent tariff threat on any country supplying military weapons to Iran hours before CNN published this story. Five Chinese vessels shipped sodium perchlorate to Iran from Gaolan Port in the past six weeks, enough propellant precursor for hundreds of ballistic missiles. China’s ghost fleet continues operating through the IRGC’s yuan toll booth at Hormuz. And now the supercomputer that designed the weapons China is helping Iran reconstitute has been gutted by hackers selling its contents for the same cryptocurrency that Iran charges for strait passage. The irony is architectural. China built a parallel financial system using yuan and crypto to bypass the dollar at Hormuz. A hacker group is now using crypto to bypass Chinese state security and sell Beijing’s most classified military designs to anyone with a wallet address. The same technology that enables sanction evasion enables espionage monetisation. The blockchain does not distinguish between a toll payment and a weapons leak. It processes both. For Xi, this is a catastrophe arriving at the worst possible moment. Bessent’s mid-May Beijing summit was already going to be difficult. Trump holds the waiver on 140 million barrels of Chinese-bound Iranian crude. The 50 percent tariff threat targets China’s arms pipeline. The IDF just destroyed 100 Hezbollah targets using F-35I aircraft with Israeli software upgrades the Pentagon approved today. And now the classified designs for China’s most advanced military systems, the systems that justify the rare earth monopoly and the South China Sea posture and the Taiwan coercion campaign, are available for purchase on a dark web forum for less than the price of a single Hormuz transit. If the data is genuine, every adversary and ally of China can now reverse-engineer the capabilities Beijing spent decades and hundreds of billions developing. The J-20’s stealth profile. The hypersonic glide vehicle’s trajectory calculations. The nuclear submarine’s acoustic signature. The sixth-generation fighter’s sensor architecture. All of it, priced in crypto, available now. China wanted to build a post-dollar world. A hacker group just demonstrated what that world looks like when the technology works in both directions. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Professor Mohammad Marandi, Iranian academic, on what would happen if Trump decides to use a nuclear weapon on Iran

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year. Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

Let's repeat to remember: The Strait (not straight) of Hormuz The Persian Gulf (not just 'the Gulf') The government of Iran (not 'the regime')

Yet some things remain just as they were 5 weeks ago: in the week before the war, India's Modi looked like the dumbest world leader in existence. Today he looks exactly the same

This is just too funny 🤦‍♂️ Trump's justification for extending his deadline by 2 weeks is that Pakistan's Prime Minister "requested" it. But when you look at the edit history of the post in question by Pakistan's PM, where he "requests" the extension, it's painfully obvious it was sent to him by the White House since he first stupidly posted it with the mention "Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X" 🤣

TACO Tuesday, as expected.

European jews bombed Iranian jews. 🙃

Israel sent spies to bomb Jewish centers in Baghdad in the early 1950s to compel Iraqi Jews to emigrate Its army bombed the main synagogue in Beirut after it invaded Lebanon in 1982 Now it’s attacking the last major Jewish community in the region outside Zionism’s control

Vladimir Putin🇷🇺: "After the collapse of the USSR, it seemed to us that we would become members of the so-called civilised family of European nations… Today it turns out that there is no civilisation there, only complete degeneracy."

Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including: "*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*" Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him "Pakistan's PM." Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn't hanging in the balance.

@krystalball Hopefully Obama scheduled a tweet for 8pm ET tonight where he'll release his musical playlist and recommended films for this year.

The BBC's @GhonchehAzad drew outrage for publishing a quote demanding Iran be nuked, then quietly removed it She’s since been revealed as a dedicated regime change activist whose career was launched by a CIA-founded propaganda network By @wyattreed13 thegrayzone.com/2026/04/07/sen…

Not only has the BBC refused to provide any explanation of what happened here with this dangerous insertion of this demented quote, but the person bylined on the now-altered story, Azad, blocks anyone who asks her about it (a violation of BBC's social media rules).

It's a huge journalistic scandal that the BBC published an obviously shocking purported quote from a 21-year-old in Tehran saying he'd be fine if Trump nukes Iran, then silently removed the quote. Even more so because of the pro-war activism of its "reporter", @GhonchehAzad.

This story is insane. The BBC just changed a direct quote — meaning one of them is a lie. Consider the options: either the BBC lied that someone said they were happy for an atomic bomb to strike their city, or they softened that clearly psychopathic language but kept that quote in as if the source is credible. Either the BBC is manufacturing consent to use atomic bombs, or they’re happy to platform someone else who did so. No sane person says they’re OK being in the city an atomic bomb hits, obviously. That goes without saying. But the BBC thinks this is valid reporting. Western media institutions like this deserve to die.