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Oof! 😏 #StarTrek #DadJoke

"Gallaudet states that UAPs are real and backed by physical materials. He claims the US is trapped in a Cold War-era mindset that still shapes secrecy – and that deliberate suppression has stalled scientific progress..." #ufosky #Fortean

"Palantir has quickly become one of the most powerful corporations in Donald Trump’s America" Palantir "holds contracts with almost a dozen UK police forces... a dedicated policing unit is systematically instructing forces to withhold information about Palantir and its controversial technology."

😏 #philosophy #mythology

"I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet" - Marc Andreessen, Silicon Valley tech broverlord

"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?" George Deacon

"Fast-moving shadows. Livestock found drained of blood, but left unbroken. Dogs refusing to go up certain paths. And more recently, strange screeches echoing through the mountain gorges at night..." #Fortean #Cryptid #Chupacabra #Folklore

"Here, Bigfoot is a protected species, hugging your passenger while driving is legally dicey, and displaying a hypnotized person in a store window is strictly off-limits (duh)..." 🤨 #Fortean #weirdsky

"Jesse Michels announced on his X account: "I would pay Sean Kirkpatrick $50K... to come on my show and discuss these Wall Street Journal articles... My only condition is that we don’t edit any of it”... The next day, Michels doubled the amount." #ufosky

Awww! #moviesky #SciFi #horrorsky

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"Researchers recently caught Meta using an egregious new tracking technique to spy on you... yet another reason to distrust Meta, block web tracking, and end surveillance advertising." #Meta #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigTech

😏 #StarWars #Moviesky

"... the web has been dying for a while now, costing us over $100 billion in spam, ad fraud, scams, and bot traffic that’s set to overtake human activity in less than two years at its current rate..."

🚨BREAKING -- Iran has confirmed that it attacked US forces stationed at Al Udeid air base in Qatar. This air base also houses the Royal Air Force (RAF) No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group.

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June 23 is St John’s Eve — Midsummer Night. In Welsh folklore, it was a night to beware the Cŵn Annwn —ghostly hounds from the Otherworld — who roam the lonely roads and byways of Wales in eerie procession. Listen carefully, they might be closer than you think... #Wales #Folklore

Doh! 😆

The Four Fuckwits of the Apocalypse.

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"We actually have proof that Facebook purposefully built a machine that can affect your mood, experimented with it, found that outrage and fear get the most user time spent on the platform, and left the machine’s dial on “lies and paranoia” to meet quarterly financial goals..." #meta #BigTech

"A controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens’ political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal information..." #privacy #BigTech

"We’ve always had hotspots that seem to flare up,” says Halliday. “Bonnybridge in the nineties was like that – a sudden burst of reports, more than anywhere else in Scotland. “But these older cases suggest there was always something simmering below the surface..." #ufosky #Bonnybridge #Fortean

I knew it! 🤨 #cryptid #Bigfoot #Fortean

Worth a try...

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Zuckerberg slowly shows true self... #meta #techbro #techfascism

An old article, still worth a read. "... if you have a sense of reality you are going to be really troubled. Anybody in this culture who watches the news and can be happy - there's something wrong with them."

Trump: "I'm not going to start wars, I'm going to stop wars"