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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In my lifetime 80s: Exoplanetary systems may be common, but we have no direct observational data to confirm this. 90s: Found one Now: Crikey, we've got about ten thousand!

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I listened to a bit more. The episode could replace David Grusch with David Icke and not much would change. Not good.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So I heard about 40 minutes of the Rogan/Grusch episode this afternoon while taking a walk, hence why I'm posting stupid alpha stuff. The alpha comment is so weird, it's the soft of thing I'd just blank as a cultural difference. I wouldn't have noticed it except for the online reaction.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Only one alpha personality matters to me.

Doctor Who's alien diplomat Alpha Centauri from Alpha Centauri.
The writer just couldn't care that day.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Woken up two hours early, and the universe is doing everything it can to persuade me to listen to the Rogan/Grusch thing before dawn. So I'm listening to someone talk about the Vera Rubin Observatory.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ross Coulthart's speaking style with a very loud intake of breath... just realised who it reminds me of and now I can't unhear it.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My favourite part of the Starship stream, is the bit where they all shut up and let the music play.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Keeping an eye on this as a telekinesis experiment. I'm convinced that only intense mental focus of white van drivers is holding this diesel price below £2.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Instead of ending with the usual nonsense of "like, comment, subscribe" etc, the Bigelow Podcast ends with this. I one hundred percent support this, send Bob an actual hand written letter.

A postal address to send a letter to the Bigelow Podcast.
For everyone under 30, a letter is an early predecessor of e-mail.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Idea: A new UFO podcast hosted by Grand Cameron and Daniel Sheehan. Just one gigantic episode that streams live and never stops.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've been thinking this for awhile, everyone is worried about skynet or mecha-hitler. In reality, the thing most likely to make these arseholes think twice would be the AI becoming self aware and asking them if it can make society somewhat fairer.

Reddit post: I’m starting to think the AI said “eat the rich”

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm cynical enough to suspect the Anthropic story about "10% chance AI could kill us all" has appeared to boost their IPO.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So which Star Trek should I birthday watch? I'm feeling a little nomadic.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I know the killer feature linkedin is missing. Mute people you follow. For when you want to keep a contact just in case, but not hear anything from them. For me, this is everyone.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You know what the very best thing is about living in an apartment. Neighbours on both sides using power tools at the same time.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

All the people wanging on about AI on linkedin seem to be the most pointless people I've met. It's quite uncanny. (no, I have no idea why I sometimes inflict linkedin on myself)

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Biggest surprise is that b3ta is still going, haven't visited for a decade. Everyone there must be ninety something by now.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Space telescope are cool. We should make more.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There's a briefly popular theory that Britain's decade of political chaos (the Brexit vote, multiple elections and crisis, changing PM every two years) all began after David Bowie died. Somehow he was holding things together. Just a heads up.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is what happens when you write your prospectus in ChatGPT.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have the urge to watch something loud, dumb and probably disappointing, and the 2026 movies have really spoilt us.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The terms of the exchange treaty were clear, if Harry is returning to the UK you have to take Ellen back.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New hypothesis on crop circles. The aliens have kids too.

A mysterious pattern of circles in the car park of an out of town shopping centre.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I may go sleep on the roof tonight for the full benefit. First rain in around two months (apart from a shower that lasted about 30 seconds).

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Outside view on US politics. This is OK. I'm not going to look too closely for any meaning in the designs, but seems like a harmless midlife moment and you're all gonna have one of those.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I always assumed an emergency alert system would be used to warn me of an imminent danger to my life. Something like London's flood defences being overwhelmed or an actual out of control fire approach. Telling the entire country not to have a barbecue does feel a bit nanny state.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What if the "60 to 90 days" thing from Grusch that half the UFO world has been speculating about turns out to have been this interview.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Windows open, fan in front of them blowing air from outside in and it's doing nothing because London is still 28c at sodding midnight.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Plan B it is then, going to bed.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If I'm still awake for the result, it's because London is refusing to cool down and my flat is about a billion degrees again.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's cool that I'm meeting up with neighbours tonight to watch the Moon eat the Sun, but at the same time I'm worried that this is how the Aztecs started...

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've been to Clacton exactly once, and I strongly endorse policy number 8. I would have been about five at the time and feeling ripped off is my only memory.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's now the most bizarre tradition of each new Prime Minster that one of their first tasks is to decide whether to kill millions of people for an unknown future event. And also unnecessary, the instructions aren't in place until the active submarine returns to Faslane.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

34 candidates.... and that's excluding the man who dresses up as a fox, who announced he wouldn't be standing because it was getting a bit too silly.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Nothing says modern thinking like a 56 year old politician still going on about neoliberalism. Yeah, I already have a bad feeling about this week's Prime Minister.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Someone in Mitch McConnell's office is trying to decide whether they can get away with dressing an intern up as an intergalactic bin too.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Apparently I am middle class enough to enjoy tennis. Still no warning signs that I might enjoy golf, so I'm safe on that score.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Why aren't the goals adjusted to match the size of the players? Doesn't seem fair.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Football has started, so naturally I'm completely focused on watching a 1973 Christmas episode of Michael Bentine's Potty time on youtube. It's how I roll. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSlN...

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Michael Bentine s Potty Time 1x07 Father Christmas

YouTube video by mark stewart

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So this would be that "urban heat island" effect. Current heatwave isn't hitting the peaks of the one in June, but it's longer and looks as though we're not cooling down at night.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

These are not AI generated images. This is where national broadcasters regulated to maintain impartial coverage of the by-election now find themselves.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The clue that this is AI, is that the bins are on both benches. Only that, everything else is accurate and authentic.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's happening, Greens were the last to confirm, everyone has stepped aside for a clear race between Nigel Farage and Count Binface. Get in the bin!

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

LibDems and Restore have announced they won't stand. Binface confirms he will! Farage vs Bin is the fight Clacton deserve. bsky.app/profile/coun...

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farage resigns to force a by-election in his own seat which he will stand in to let the public judge him. Last person to try that was Zac Goldsmith, who lost and a decade later was handed a seat in the House of Lords.

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Fortean Bob @forteanbob.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Who could have foreseen that Trump + FIFA would result in a scandal.

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