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Ian Simmons
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Curator, Fortean Times news editor, blockchain ontologist, cognitive dissident and discontent provider. MAGA - Make America Go Away - all opinions are my own
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“America has always been at war with the island of San Serif,” said a White House spokesperson

Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman
A cable from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’
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December 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Lads on tour
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1h
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Towncreep. Been researching a supposedly lost town in deepest Sussex that 19th century locals called "Towncreep". They said it was destroyed by "the red-haired men". Now that's a folk horror scenario for you. I'll explain in forthcoming book...
December 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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~ George Herriman
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
Serious wow! Just when you thought the artefacts from the 70s occult revival couldn't get any weirder.
johncoulthart.com John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d
From the latest Midian Books mailer: The Avalon Hill Witchcraft Ritual Kit (1974). "A boxed set of materials and guide books for performing witchcraft rituals....seems to be a hybrid of role-play and 'genuine' Wicca. Needless to say extremely scarce."

www.midianbooks.com/product-page...
The lid of the box containing the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: a pair of red-lit witches (male & female) are engaged in some saucy shenanigans in front of a small altar holding a lit candle and a chalice. The word WITCHCRAFT is printed in large and groovy red letters below them. From the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: a fold-out chart showing a magic circle surrounded by various astrological names and symbols. From the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: Four circular emblems in different colours bearing images related to Beltane, Summer Solstice, All Hallows Eve and Winter Solstice. These may be detached from the sheet of card surrounding them. Also visible are nine cards each of which has a photo of a different implement (or weapon) used in magic rituals. From the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: a horned goat mask made from card.
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Early scribes filling volumes of the Bible fantasized about this level of punishment.
mementomorty.bsky.social Memento (merry) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1d
A woman on Tiktok had a man reply to her in what was a nasty, racist way and she figured out his name and WHERE he worked and drove there to make him apologize and told him if he didn't she would show his wife his Grindr account she found, then made him read a handwritten apology and recorded it
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Opened up Reddit to be presented with a comment in my local Reddit group about flags being strung up. I've not said anything about this topic so I've spent the last hour writing a verbose reply. Let's see how many flag-shaggers I can offend today.
The fundamental problem with these self-appointed defenders of national virtue is remarkably straightforward. Gravity continues to function regardless of patriotic sentiment. They're putting themselves at risk by traversing whatever piece of street architecture they're trying to tie their flag to, and then in the early hours of a morning at some in determined time in the future, a council worker (funded by our taxes) arrives to repeat this entire absurd ritual. Albeit with PPE and on a cherry picker. All of this effort, all of this risk, all of this performance is dedicated to decorative bunting imbued with delusions of profound significance. They call it pride, they call it devotion. But examined honestly, without the fog of sentiment, it reveals itself as something else entirely. Their relationship with the flag has taken on the characteristics of religious worship transformed into veneration of a sacred relic. Their reasoning, to 'take their country back is' frankly, psychotic. In previous generations, they understood that our flags power derived partly from its selective appearance, its association with moments that genuinely mattered. They did not affix it to every available surface like a gig poster. We are perfectly aware of what the flag looks like; we do not require these daily flashcards, this relentless visual drilling although those who choose to put it up need to know how to hang it the right way up. Why not stick to The English flag, it's harder to f**k that up. There was a time when the flag stood as a quiet representation of the nation and its values, requiring no amplification, no theatrical presentation. It needed no accompanying soundtrack, so to speak. This new compulsion to drape it across every available surface has the paradoxical effect of diminishing rather than enhancing its meaning. The constant exposure drains away its significance, leaves it depleted and hollow, taken over by those with dubious agendas. What this obsessive display communicates is not strength but rather a desperate form of neediness, an urgent plea barely concealed beneath the patriotic veneer. Look at me, it insists. Acknowledge my presence. Validate my feelings. Confirm that you share my views, that you stand beside me in whatever stupid message GB News has made me fixate about. The entire performance carries the unmistakable odor of collective panic, of anger borrowed from somewhere else rather than genuinely felt, of identity constructed at the most superficial level because deeper foundations have eroded. It functions primarily as territorial marking, a way of claiming space and warning others away. The entire performance carries the unmistakable odor of collective panic, of anger borrowed from somewhere else rather than genuinely felt, of identity constructed at the most superficial level because deeper foundations have eroded. It functions primarily as territorial marking, a way of claiming space and warning others away. It has become a vehicle for selling and broadcasting grievance, for advertising resentment without ever articulating what precisely has been lost. The whole enterprise represents a substitution; effort replaced by theatrical gesture, genuine purpose displaced by mere noise and spectacle that signifies nothing beyond its own performance.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
iansimmons1960.bsky.social
Apparently Spotify thinks I am 17 according to what I listened to this year. There must be some very odd 17 year old listening to Eno and Laura Cannell.
December 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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RIP the great Martin Parr
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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based
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Still a favorite...
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Imagine how fast you have to be to do this job
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him.

So there’s that, too.
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Morning
One of those fake children’s books: a painting of a small grey/white kitten in the snow, with a surprised/concerned look on its face. Book title: THE STARTLINGLY MOIST FART
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Sadly relevant today.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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*Fritz Leiber Sr, wow, he was the dad of the science fiction author Fritz Leiber Jr
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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you best not miss
Storm Michael Humbert asks, "Can't you technically frame lots of romance movies as horse girl movies where the man is the horse? All it requires is that the female lead is socially awkward." John Wiswell replies, "Movies where the guy is the centaur of attention."
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Peter Francis: SDS believed that "somebody in the extreme left" was running the Stephen Lawrence campaign, there was "disbelief" that the family itself could be running it. SDS had a "Reds under the beds" mentality, a fantasy that "Communists" or "Trotskyites" were behind the campaign. #spycops
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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priver.dev
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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pbump.com
Good front-paging.
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I shot the serif.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Glasgow decked out in half Palestine half Scotland flags 👏🏻
Glasgow decked out in half Palestine half Scotland flags
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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“Guy who worked for US-backed death squad goes nuts and shoots up some soldiers” doesn’t actually seem like it needs a particularly baroque explanation
denisedwheeler.bsky.social Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 11d
What's more logical?

That the CIA directed one of its assets to perform the perfect false flag?

Or

That a jihadist played the long game by working with the CIA in Afghanistan to gain legal access to the country and then travel 3,000 miles to enact his plan of attacking National Guard soldiers?
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The big picture on the undermining of the most successful vaccine in history is even worse.

bsky.app/profile/neil...
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM