Alex Conkleton

#PositiveProactivePassion #social #technology #personalbranding #hotels #businessexcellence #innovator #Environment #imaginator #Futurologist #esoterican #Gaian

[The King of Blackadder 👑🇬🇧 @pitchblacksteed]

It is now 37 years ago that the last episode of #Blackadder Goes Forth was screened. This TV gold concluded 3 hrs of unmatched of comedy to many of us. But there was a deeper message throughout encapsulated in this moving final scene.
Vid: BlackadderQtes

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.

https://t.co/fFfJnxqQ84

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

One of the most famous inventions in science fiction was created because a TV show couldn't afford to land its spaceship. 🖖

When Star Trek premiered in 1966, creator Gene Roddenberry faced a problem.

Every time Captain Kirk and his crew visited a new planet, the Enterprise would somehow have to land, and then take off again.

For a weekly television series with a limited budget, filming those sequences would have been expensive and time-consuming.

So the production came up with a much simpler solution.

Why land a spaceship when you can make the crew disappear from one place and reappear somewhere else?

The transporter was born.

With a glowing platform, some clever camera effects, and that unforgettable shimmering sound, the Enterprise crew could travel from ship to planet in seconds.

And just like that, a practical production shortcut became one of the most recognizable pieces of technology in television history.

The funny part? The transporter eventually inspired decades of conversations about whether human teleportation could ever be possible.

All because a television show needed a cheaper way to get its actors onto a planet.

Sometimes the best science fiction begins with a budget problem.

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

A new era for the nation’s high street 💚

Nearly a kilometre of Oxford Street will become traffic-free from Monday - marking the start of its biggest transformation in a generation.

Great to see our plans set out in this weekend's Guardian long-read ⬇️

https://t.co/DNPC4A0ybx

[The Standard @theLDNstandard]

Built to serve as a major international train hub in east London, Stratford International is yet to see a single cross-Channel service stop there.

The Standard's Luke Reevey got an exclusive behind the scenes look at the ambitious-yet-unused station at the heart of plans to improve international train services for millions of Londoners.

#trains #london #londonnews #londonlife #travel #londontransport

[Met4Cast - UK Weather @Met4CastUK]

The weather front associated with #StormBoelo is so vast that at one point on Saturday afternoon, it could plausibly be raining in every single location of the UK.

[Alex Conkleton @Conkleton]

@Met4CastUK We desperately need the rain.

[Francisco | Formula Más @Formula_Stats]

1989: Prost se lleva el título tras una descalificación polémica.

1990: Senna lo embiste en la largada y se queda con el campeonato. Dos Suzuka, dos definiciones que todavía se discute

#f1

[Brighton Argus @brightonargus]

Following the collapse of the West Pier, we look back at its tragic history https://t.co/8ZKmlAej5o

[Stephen Royle @Steveontour2]

We have just lost a big part of the West Pier #Brighton to #StormAusten @StormHour @brightonargus

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Huge waves were seen crashing into Taiwan’s northeastern coast as Typhoon Champi approached with winds reaching 191 km/h.

The storm has killed one person so far and injured 163, forcing thousands to evacuate as much of the island shuts down.

[IN TRUMP WE TRUST @TrumpweTrust47]

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

[Stuart Budd @StuartBudd1]

I find it amazing that the UK, an island off mainland europe, managed to build up car manufacturing to the point where it rivalled Germany in 2016.

That was pretty good going for the UK.

Then the Brexit vote hit and killed it.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

It takes 2 weeks to confirm ocean sea surface temperatures and the long wait is finally over. The first day in recorded history with Nino 3.4 SST at or above 30.0°C is now officially on the record.

October 7, 2026: 30.000°C.

https://t.co/RG4UniF2Gc

[Brighton Argus @brightonargus]

Live updates as huge section of Brighton's historic West Pier collapses in storm https://t.co/cGezwBAN7h

[Cinefilia Cult @cinefiliacult]

Este era el reparto original de “Alien (1979)”, y ya de él solo nos quedan vivas Sigourney Weaver (77) y Veronica Cartwright (77).

En pocos años se nos han ido Harry Dean Stanton y John Hurt (2017), Ian Holm (2020), Yaphet Kotto (2021), y hoy Tom Skerritt.

Vaya leyendas…🥹💔💫

[Pablo Martinez (Holiness) @F1BigData]

On this day in 1989, one of the most controversial moments in history took place

Prost and Senna collided at Suzuka while battling for the title. The former retired from the race, while the latter was ultimately disqualified, handing the title to Prost

[Variety @Variety]

Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series “Picket Fences” and appeared in movies ranging from “MASH” to “Alien,” “Top Gun,” “A River Runs Through It” and “Ted,” has died of natural causes at 93.

https://t.co/13H8QfVBlc

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

Stratford is one of London's best-connected transport hubs.

Adding international rail services would take that connectivity even further, linking East London and beyond directly to Europe while supporting jobs, tourism and growth.

[Alex Conkleton @Conkleton]

@TheEpicVault An unforgettable moment that retains an emotional punch.