Ian Simmons
@iansimmons1960.bsky.social
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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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
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...
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~ George Herriman
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
~ George Herriman
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Serious wow! Just when you thought the artefacts from the 70s occult revival couldn't get any weirder.
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."
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December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Serious wow! Just when you thought the artefacts from the 70s occult revival couldn't get any weirder.
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Early scribes filling volumes of the Bible fantasized about this level of punishment.
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
Early scribes filling volumes of the Bible fantasized about this level of punishment.
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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.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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.
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
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.
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RIP the great Martin Parr
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
RIP the great Martin Parr
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based
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
based
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Still a favorite...
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Still a favorite...
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Imagine how fast you have to be to do this job
American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia for 35 years, hoping conservationists never have to use them.
How a sperm bank for cheetahs might one day save the fastest land animal
American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia for 35 years, hoping conservationists never have to use them.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Imagine how fast you have to be to do this job
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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.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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.
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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.
So there’s that, too.
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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.
So there’s that, too.
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Sadly relevant today.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sadly relevant today.
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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
*Fritz Leiber Sr, wow, he was the dad of the science fiction author Fritz Leiber Jr
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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
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
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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I shot the serif.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I shot the serif.
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Glasgow decked out in half Palestine half Scotland flags 👏🏻
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Glasgow decked out in half Palestine half Scotland flags 👏🏻
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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
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?
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
“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
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The big picture on the undermining of the most successful vaccine in history is even worse.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The big picture on the undermining of the most successful vaccine in history is even worse.
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So a secret cabal of anti semitic Nazi sympathisers under the watch of Project 2025 have tried to gain power in the Trump government. And it’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s real.
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
So a secret cabal of anti semitic Nazi sympathisers under the watch of Project 2025 have tried to gain power in the Trump government. And it’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s real.