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🎇📘 It’s live! Walking with the Muse—short stories from three decades of listening for the Muse’s whispers.
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Gorgeous Ruin
It all makes
a certain sort of sense,
as long as cleverness
doesn't get in the way.
Experience, adding
new layers,
pushing memories
into the margins
as our journey takes on
a deeper meaning.
Yet dreary symmetry lives on
unless we evict it ourselves.
Sumptuousness is held in art,
not in time and
not in neat, obedient lines
we once expected of the world.
Hair, now threaded through with grey,
like lightning flashing across the sky,
a wild and silvery map of every storm
we've learned to walk through.
The storms, they don't apologize.
Neither do I.
Let the rain fall where it may,
dance in the puddles
each droplet a small, cool mercy
washing the messy, gorgeous ruin
we refer to as our lives.
-EVW-
Eric Vance Walton retweeted
Gandalf is arguably the greatest character in cinematic history, and the older you get, the more you understand why.
He is one of the most powerful beings in Middle-earth, yet he chooses humility over domination.
He could walk among kings, but prefers the company of Hobbits.
He possesses ancient wisdom, but never pretends to know everything.
He inspires courage without demanding obedience.
He confronts unimaginable evil, not because he believes himself invincible, but because someone has to stand against it.
He understands that the fate of the world is not determined solely by armies, kings or great powers, but by the seemingly insignificant acts of ordinary people.
He sees greatness in those who cannot see it in themselves.
He falls into the abyss fighting a demon from the ancient world, sacrificing himself so that his friends might live.
And when he returns, more powerful than ever, he remains fundamentally unchanged in character.
No arrogance. No hunger for power. No desire to rule.
Just wisdom, compassion, humour, courage and an unwavering commitment to what is good.
And perhaps his greatest lesson is that evil is not ultimately defeated by becoming more powerful than it, but by refusing to become like it.
Gandalf isn’t simply a great fictional character.
He’s a representation of everything humanity should aspire to become.
The Tesla army reported for duty. 🫡
TOP TWENTY!!!
The responses keep pouring in. The Tesla Retail Letter in Support of a $SPCX / $TSLA MERGER cracks the Top 20!
Tesla Retail represents MORE SHARES than Baron Funds or Ark or Barclays, and many more household names.
The stats - in less than 48 Hours:
♦️6,493 signers representing an
♦️Astonishing 17,528,859 shares
♦️Worth $6.5 Billion
Shareholders see a very bright future ahead for a combined Tesla/SpaceX.
SUM GREATER THAN THE PARTS Shareholders think their same investment dollars will be worth more if the companies combine, reduce friction, and tackle every more ambitious projects.
Join in and let the Tesla Board and Special Committee know how you feel.
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Next Target: Top 15, about 2.77 Million more shares. Can we get close???
It will be closing soon. Last chance. @TeslaBoomerMama Forward to shareholders:
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Eric Vance Walton retweeted
🚨✍️
Calling on the Tesla Board & Special Committee to pursue a merger with SpaceX.
The shareholder letter is live. Read it and sign if you agree. Share it with friends & family.
Thank you to @Amy787 for drafting this so well.
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We want the combined company focused on building, not bureaucracy.
Eric Vance Walton retweeted
Few poems describe a gentleman's character better than Kipling's "If—," and few men read it better than Sir Michael Caine.
Have a great Friday.
Here we go.
MERGER UPDATE 🚨 The race against the clock is officially on 🔥
People familiar with the matter say that the special committees from Tesla and SpaceX are pushing to announce a deal in the first half of 2027, aiming to close the transaction before the current Trump administration's term ends 🔥
The combination would unite two companies with a joint market value of roughly $3.7 trillion, cementing Elon Musk's corporate grip before the political and financial climate turns less favorable.
With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, a Democratic takeover of either chamber of Congress could expose Elon and his businesses to congressional scrutiny while weakening the leverage of an administration heading into lame-duck territory.
Meanwhile, a relentless selloff in chipmakers and AI stocks threatens to erode the investor backing needed to pull off such an ambitious deal.
'Musk and his advisers undoubtedly want to capitalize on this window,' said Bill Birmingham, head of research at REX Financial. 'The timing is both favorable and critical.'
Neither SpaceX nor Tesla responded to requests for comment regarding the proposed timeline.
I just discovered vendors on eBay are selling my books for 2x their retail price. Hopefully none of you are purchasing these!
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Tesla reported Q3 2026 results today (October 21, 2026).
Key financial results
•Revenue: $28.05 billion (essentially flat year-over-year; roughly in line with consensus around $28.06B).
•Non-GAAP EPS: $0.48 (beat consensus of ~$0.45; down from $0.50 a year ago).
•GAAP net income: $787 million ($0.22 diluted EPS), down ~43% year-over-year.
•GAAP operating income: $718 million (operating margin 2.6%).
•Gross margin: 19.6% total (up from 18.0% a year ago and 16.8% in Q2). Automotive gross margin excluding regulatory credits was ~18.1%.
•Adjusted EBITDA: ~$3.9 billion.
•Free cash flow: $1.53 billion (positive after a negative Q2).
•Capex: $4.73 billion.
•Cash & investments: ~$45.4–45.5 billion (up ~9% year-over-year).
Regulatory credits were low at $113 million. Energy storage revenue declined even as deployments rose, while services and other revenue grew strongly. Operating expenses rose (driven by R&D on AI/Super Intelligence, Optimus, and Cybercab, plus higher stock-based compensation).
Operational context (previously reported)
•Vehicle deliveries: 486,532 (down ~2% YoY but ahead of consensus ~462k). Production was lower at 464,391.
•Energy storage deployments: 13.7 GWh (up from 12.5 GWh a year earlier).
•Active FSD subscriptions: 1.74 million (+67% YoY). FSD Supervised attach rate exceeded 75% of new North American deliveries.
Other notes from the shareholder update: Tesla cited battery supply as a limiter on vehicle volumes and ended the quarter with its largest passenger-vehicle backlog in four years. Cybercab entered the Austin Robotaxi fleet; cumulative unsupervised Robotaxi miles grew sharply. Tesla Semi entered volume production, and there were highlights around FSD expansion in Europe and energy/storage progress.
Official materials (including the Q3 2026 Update deck) are on Tesla’s investor relations site. The earnings call was scheduled for 5:30 p.m. ET. Figures are from the company update and contemporaneous reporting; final SEC filings will confirm the numbers.
I can’t explain it but for some reason this is the best piece of music I’ve ever heard.
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