Symon Turner

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will tomorrow announce £40m in infrastructure and green energy projects for Caribbean countries

Why can’t hackers do something useful and relatable? Don’t be fucking around with freezers. Hack into Mastercard and wipe out all evidence of spending. Lower the prices at petrol pumps. Shut down Microsoft Teams, or takedown Outlook for 72 hours. Win hearts and minds!

🚨 NEW: The Democrats are projected to gain control of the Senate following tomorrow's midterm elections 🔵 DEM: 54 (+7) (including 2 independents) 🔴 GOP: 46 (-7) Alabama: GOP HOLD 🔴 48 🔵 40% Alaska: DEM GAIN 🔵 48% 🔴 46% Arkansas: GOP HOLD 🔴 50% 🔵 41% Colorado: DEM HOLD 🔵 52% 🔴 38% Florida: GOP HOLD 🔴 49% 🔵 45% Georgia: DEM HOLD 🔵 54% 🔴 46% Idaho: GOP HOLD 🔴 49% ⚪️ 43% Illinois: DEM HOLD 🔵 56% 🔴 44% Iowa: DEM GAIN 🔵 48% 🔴 47% Kansas: DEM GAIN 🔵 49% 🔴 44% Kentucky: GOP HOLD 🔴 49% 🔵 40% Louisiana: GOP HOLD 🔴 48% 🔵 44% Maine: DEM GAIN 🔵 51% 🔴 45% Massachusetts: DEM HOLD 🔵 53% 🔴 32% Michigan: DEM HOLD 🔵 50% 🔴 44% Minnesota: DEM HOLD 🔵 48% 🔴 43% Mississippi: GOP HOLD 🔴 43% 🔵 40% Montana: GOP HOLD 🔴 46% ⚪️ 29% 🔵 21% Nebraska: GOP HOLD 🔴 48% ⚪️ 46% New Hampshire: DEM HOLD 🔵 54% 🔴 42% New Mexico: DEM HOLD 🔵 53% 🔴 37% North Carolina: DEM GAIN 🔵 54% 🔴 45% Ohio: DEM GAIN 🔵 49% 🔴 44% Rhode Island: DEM HOLD 🔵 59% 🔴 25% South Carolina: GOP HOLD 🔴 48% 🔵 47% South Dakota: GOP HOLD 🔴 54% ⚪️ 46% Texas: DEM GAIN 🔵 50% 🔴 46% Races with no verified or recent polling data: Delaware: 🔵 DEM HOLD New Jersey: 🔵 DEM HOLD Oklahoma: 🔴 GOP HOLD Oregon: 🔵 DEM HOLD Tennessee: 🔴 GOP HOLD Virginia: 🔵 DEM HOLD West Virginia: 🔴 GOP HOLD Wyoming: 🔴 GOP HOLD [Via NYTimes aggregate of polls from sources including Quantas, YouGov and MSNow]

You have to go one for the rest of your life. Which one are you choosing?

Dear Christians, I have a genuine question for you. If a Muslim converts to Christianity, what happens to the sins they committed while they were Muslims? Are those past sins forgiven when they accept Christianity, or do they continue carrying the same sins? I’m asking because Islam clearly teaches that when someone sincerely accepts Islam, their previous sins are forgiven. I’d appreciate an honest answer.

Today, Protestants celebrate 509 years without priests, 509 years without bishops, 509 years without confession, 509 years without the Holy Mass. They celebrate the denial of the sacraments, instituted by Jesus Christ so that we might receive God’s life within us, thanks to His life offered for us on the Cross. Between celebrating the 509th anniversary of that tragic event called the “Protestant Reformation” and celebrating Halloween, the first one seems a lot worse.

Completely agree with that 100%!

Not really a huge Star Trek guy so I honestly don't know: is it ever explained properly how their post-scarcity economy actually functions? Every clip I see is just handwaving about "transcending greed" or not worrying about personal possessions any more.

Welcome to Reformation Airlines flight 1517 with nonstop service to Wittenberg, Germany. Where will you be sitting on this flight?

If you think your building project is taking too long, Barcelona has a story for you. Construction of the Sagrada Família started in 1882, and work is still ongoing. 144 years later, they're still building one of the world's most remarkable churches.

I hate the arms crossed thing. Why not just stay in your pew and pray? Who invented this?

Non-Catholics receiving Holy Communion in St. Peter’s Basilica today because some Americans decided to present themselves to the priest with their arms crossed, I guess to get a blessing, in a practice that is common in America but rare outside of the anglosphere, and one that makes no sense and should not happen at the distribution of Holy Communion.

🇮🇪 Ireland's Taoiseach (PM) Micheál Martin is launching a new government body to research UNITY with Northern Ireland for the FIRST time. It will examine 3 scenarios: full 32-county unity, NI remaining in the UK, and a united Ireland with a devolved North under Dublin. Martin wants an evidence-based discussion, not partisan pushes that treat a border poll as easy and inevitable. He aims to include unionist voices. Cabinet proposals are expected before Christmas. Wouldn’t it be wild to see a united Ireland again? Source: Reuters / Writer: Jamie

Some people are upset that the pope just voted in the Midterm Election. I’ve got news for them. Under U.S. law, he can technically run for president too! And if he did, he would likely win! Don’t worry. Canon Law forbids it. But the pope can change canon law, so…

Will Pope Leo, as a US Citizen, be subject to US taxes on incomes received by the global Catholic Church? Has anyone alerted the IRS to potentially the most interesting audit target in history?