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This was the moment I had dream of, the moment I had feared. Patrick Stewart walking onto the bridge of the USS Enterprise that I had recreated. Would he hate it would he love it. What would this moment feel like. For months we agonized over every detail, then the moment came and he walked onto the bridge and moved to the chair that had helped define his career and he sat down. I clicked the shot as that smile fell over his face. This is how I will remember him. Such an honor to have had the opportunity to work with such an extraordinary individual. He will be greatly missed.
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If you haven't had the chance. Listen to his autobiography on audiobook as he narrates it himself. I listened to it on one long roadtrip during a very challenging time and it's truly a gift.
É muito difícil aceitar que você se foi.
Descanse em paz, Capitão.
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
half-drigo retweeted
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
half-drigo retweeted
What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a deep sense of humanity to everything he did. Captain Picard stood for the best of us, and so did the man who played him. I was filled with affection and admiration for him and his work.
My heart goes out to Sunny and his family. He will be deeply missed.
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Quem está defendendo que Lula faça ajuste fiscal, cortando gastos em políticas sociais, não entendeu nada do que foi essa eleição. O Tesouraço foi derrotado nas urnas e pela mobilização popular. O candidato da Faria Lima perdeu e fugiu para os EUA. A agenda econômica do Brasil será a que venceu as eleições, não a que perdeu!
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“ditadura do judiciário” “perseguição contra a direita”
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Não sei se alguém mais notou mas essa carta deixa a impressão de ter sido originalmente redigida em inglês e depois traduzida/adaptada para o português. Há várias construções frasais, escolhas de vocabulário e o próprio ritmo retórico que soam mais naturais em inglês do que em português. A começar pela expressão “líder do Brasil”, que aparece de forma mais forçada, quase como uma tradução literal de “the leader of Brazil” ou “I address you as the leader of Brazil”.
Além disso, há expressões (caça às bruxas politicamente motivada”, “roteiro da perseguição” / “manual clássico”) que carregam uma marca muito característica do discurso político americano contemporâneo.
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Vem aí o racha entre o Sunismo e o Xiismo bolsonarista. A segunda ala vai pregar que só alguém da linhagem Bolsonaro pode interpretar corretamente os escritos de Olavo de Carvalho.
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Lula surrendered to justice, faced his accusers, went to jail on tampered evidence, proved his innocence and then won 2 elections in a row.
Flavio fled a day after he won 60 million votes and a congressional majority.
NADA é por acaso.
Dito isso, esse episódio semiótico pegou até a mim de surpresa. Como pode ser tão baixo e cínico, bicho.
🇧🇷 Brasão da carta divulgada por Flávio Bolsonaro traz o nome “Estados Unidos do Brazil” (com Z) e não “República Federativa do Brasil”.
“Estados Unidos do Brasil” foi o nome oficial do Brasil durante o regime republicano, da Proclamação da República (1889) até 1968, quando foi alterado em plena ditadura militar.
Maldito. Entreguista. Pilantra. Mafioso.
É bom saber que você e sua família serão malditos pelo resto da história do Brasil. Vocês serão registrados como o fundo do poço da nossa democracia.
Eu maldigo o nome de vocês e cuspo em sua memória torpe. Que sejam pulverizados, todos.
🇧🇷 Após fugir para os EUA, Flávio Bolsonaro declara em carta ser “o verdadeiro presidente eleito do Brasil”. Candidato derrotado alega “fraude eleitoral”, cita precedente histórico do STF que extendeu o horário de votação e diz que vai “liderar a oposição” de fora do país.
“Não fugi do Brasil, eu saí pelo Brasil”, afirmou Flávio, que agradeceu publicamente os presidentes Javier Milei e Donald Trump por auxiliarem no processo de fuga. Ele comparou seu episódio ao de Rui Barbosa, que precisou se exilar por motivos de perseguição política durante o governo do marechal Floriano Peixoto, e María Corina Machado, líder da oposição à ditadura de Nicolás Maduro.
