Most of the push for AI is just isolating & infantilizing people, then bullying them into thinking this is what "progress" looks like

Consider: Papal PayPal Makes you think, eh

If you plan on Getting Spooked today, it's quite a scene: Three gnomes walk into a bar & turn a minisode into a full-length podcast, covering Reid’s trip to hostile elf territory, a book hoarder with an NYT feature, that one looksmaxxing guy, and more. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/32-gnome-1...

[#32] Gnome 11: Sasquatch Remains at the Slimeball Gnome-O-Rama

Listen now | Three gnomes walk into a bar & turn a minisode into a full-length podcast, covering Iceland, Clavicular, book hoarding, MAHA, the Grahams, the UK, and a Bigfoot body.

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Visiting the Álfakirkja (elf church) on Iceland's Laugarvatnsvellir plains

Tanner gets his nostalgia goggles on, reminiscing about St. Louis. Guest Devin Thomas O’Shea, thankfully, brings things back down to historical reality, where the city is beset by a strange, Klannish secret society that's made life worse for everyone. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/31-unveili...

[#31] Unveiling the Veiled Prophet & Other St. Louis Spookiness w/ Devin Thomas O'Shea

Listen now | Journalist and historian Devin Thomas O’Shea joins the program to discuss his book The Veiled Prophet, secret societies in action, and other spooky St. Louis minutiae.

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Saw a crazy new flower today, looks genuinely alien

今天晚上我的中文老师告诉我：”两个月你的中文真好。你能听好，写好，也说可以。But your accent still sounds like a robot trying too hard.“ 我很高兴！

Sometimes friends ask "why care about UFOs if you think it's all bullshit?" Tanner answers this better than I can. First, because it's not bullshit — people do see strange things in the skies, and everywhere else. Their stories are an important dimension of human experience and culture. Second...

Short story debunker@seriations.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tanner demolishes the narrative that much-hyped "UFO Disclosure" from the US military establishment is anything other than propaganda. Very notable how Avi Loeb, apparent head of the Trump admin's "UAP Advisory Council", worked in Israel's nuclear program. In Leah Haley's terms, OMAGS run the show.

Tanner demolishes the narrative that much-hyped "UFO Disclosure" from the US military establishment is anything other than propaganda. Very notable how Avi Loeb, apparent head of the Trump admin's "UAP Advisory Council", worked in Israel's nuclear program. In Leah Haley's terms, OMAGS run the show.

Tanner F. Boyle, Getting Spooked@tannerfboyle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's all the UAP hubbub? I try to answer in "The Disclosure Conundrum: Who to Trust When You Should Trust No One"—a piece on recent UFO releases, the uneventful days after revelation, & how to find the real flying saucer within us all—the one that matters. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/the-disclo...

Rick's work has been hugely influential on me, and it was great to finally have him on Getting Spooked. We talked about the historical method, contemporary conspiracy culture, and Rick shared some fascinating insights from his research adventures.

Tanner F. Boyle, Getting Spooked@tannerfboyle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today: Professor emeritus of history at the University of Idaho and author of Trust No One & Secret Agent 666, Dr. Richard B. Spence, joins Getting Spooked to discuss his research into espionage, intelligence activity, occultism, and fringe groups. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/29-towards...

Back after a short break, Norm, Reid, & yours truly continue to tackle the writing of experiencer/mystic Whitley Strieber & his major book/film, Communion. We talk possible events that shaped him long before his ostensible abduction. Only on Getting Spooked: tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/28-the-com...

[#28] The Communionist Manifesto: Redux w/ Norm E. Guy & Reid

Listen now | Norm, Reid, and Tanner rejoin forces to continue discussing Whitley Strieber's abduction tale Communion, some suspicious coincidences/motivations, and his enmeshment in occult networks ea...

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I joined Marcus & Seb on Return of the Repressed to wrap up our Atlantis of the Goths series. We discuss Rudbeck's pseudolinguistics linking ancient Sweden to the myth of Atlantis, why today's tech elites want you to believe in a lost advanced civilization, and more. www.patreon.com/posts/94-sku...

Scientists *are* mysteriously dying & disappearing in America, but it's not because they knew too much about UFOs. It's because they're Chinese & are accused by the US gov of spying. Obama started this initiative and the Trump admin is only accelerating it. SCMP reported in Dec about torture cases.

Short story debunker@seriations.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Behind the viral "missing/dead UFO/nuclear scientists" conspiracyslop headlines is the fact the US has been purging Chinese scientists from academia since Obama, and under Trump has been torturing them in ICE detention facilities & hounding them to death. Both believers and debunkers ignore this.

Behind the viral "missing/dead UFO/nuclear scientists" conspiracyslop headlines is the fact the US has been purging Chinese scientists from academia since Obama, and under Trump has been torturing them in ICE detention facilities & hounding them to death. Both believers and debunkers ignore this.

Here's a loud announcement: Mindwarcinema #2 - The Arrival (Unarius Academy of Science, 1980). Join Mark Pilkington (Mirage Men & Strange Attractor) & yours truly for a screening & chat at The Horse Hospital, London at 7pm 23 April 2026. Details & tickets: www.thehorsehospital.com/events/mindw...

Incredible birthday present: nine volumes from the 1980s Chinese Journal of UFO Research

Denying the existence of any behavioural addiction just reinforces the medicalization of bad habits. This contains discourse between two poles: 1. Social media is addictive & must be controlled by medical experts 2. It's not addictive & must be controlled by different experts (tech libertines)

Cystic Detective lets his hair down, though it may be falling out. Today's public update covers some scattered thoughts upon rereading Jim Garrison's On the Trail of the Assassins and contains a special announcement. Only on Getting Spooked: tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/cystic-det...

Cystic Detective Update #12

Mulling over the Jim Garrison JFK probe, where it went awry, some strands of weird interest, and an upcoming event

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Zionists are worse than rabid dogs. A rabid dog only lashes out at anything around it, but zionists savour killing the weak and innocent. Our complicity in these crimes will come back to us a thousandfold. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Iran says strikes hit historic Pasteur Institute in Tehran: What to know

Iranian officials say US-Israeli strikes have hit Tehran’s Pasteur Institute, a century-old pillar of Iran’s public health system.

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We had Wendy on Getting Spooked just in time to discuss the bizarre & wildly irresponsible interview Jesse Michels did with Oklahoma City Bombing suspect, methamphetamine cook, and alien implant aficionado Steve Colbern. Passages on Colbern from Wendy's book Aberration in the Heartland of the Real:

Tanner F. Boyle, Getting Spooked@tannerfboyle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gnomes are back! Bradley deals with the Patterson-Gimlin debunk nightmare, Tanner dreams of eggs, Emily worries about meningitis, and Reid connects the dots with assassinations in the realm of academia and military science (cont). Only on Getting Spooked™️. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/27-gnome-8...

Let's fucking go

This is a very good summary of the male experience. Yes you're a talking dog, but yes she does in fact mean you.

Digging deep in the Getting Spooked vault, I found a love letter to indie rock legend Robert Pollard, his band Guided By Voices, rising above expectations, and the creative life. Something a little different but important to me. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/guided-by-...

Guided By Voices and the Fractured American Dream of Rock ‘n’ Roll

A love letter to Robert Pollard, Guided By Voices, rising above expectations, and the creative life

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I had a blast going on The Return of the Repressed with Marcus & Sebbe to talk about science in early modern Northern Europe, Swedish political & class history, and Olof Rudbeck's theory that Atlantis was actually in ancient Uppsala. www.patreon.com/posts/89-sku...

#89. The Skull Boys s02e04 "Atlantis of the Goths" | The Return Of The Repressed

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This week: how parapsychology, The Telepathy Tapes, and the "Skeptics" movement relate to the latest Epstein files releases. Also touched upon: The Phoenix Lights, Bradley’s finds at an estate sale, and I learn the strange terms Yanks have for hotdogs. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/25-gnome-7...

[#25] Gnome 7: Epstein Incidentally

Listen now | Wherein the gnome trio answers listener questions about The Telepathy Tapes and Wikipedia, and considers why both of these topics came up in the Epstein files

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Chomsky's wife Valeria telling Epstein he's the couple's "best friend" post-conviction in 2017 reminds me of Barb Bronfman saying that Ira Einhorn was "the best friend anybody could ever have" while he was on the lam in Europe fleeing his murder charge. In many ways Einhorn was a proto-Epstein

Very curious email from [REDACTED] to Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 recounting a "top secret dinner" at a General Dynamics office building that concealed an occult library containing "unbelievable relics", including nazi paraphernalia, moon rocks, and "Vesalius stuff". James Randi was in attendance.

Short story debunker@seriations.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Listener question we answered on this episode: what evidence is there that James Randi was a pedophile? The evidence comes from a defamation suit against Randi, as covered in this Baltimore Sun article. There's also a folder simply titled "Randi's Pedophilia" in Marcello Truzzi's archive at EMU.

"Discordian warlocks and unstable informants" is too 2022. "狐狸和老鼠" is what we're saying in 2026.

Listener question we answered on this episode: what evidence is there that James Randi was a pedophile? The evidence comes from a defamation suit against Randi, as covered in this Baltimore Sun article. There's also a folder simply titled "Randi's Pedophilia" in Marcello Truzzi's archive at EMU.

Tanner F. Boyle, Getting Spooked@tannerfboyle.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You know the drill by this point: Bradley, Emily, Reid, and Tanner discuss assorted things & continue working our way through listener questions. Today that involves getting sidetracked by Canadian news before tackling a question about James Randi, (cont.) tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/24-gnome-6...

To ring in the Gnome Year, gnomegang answers some questions posed by listeners. First, we catch up by talking about the Montauk Project, CIA magicians, the Canuck tucker convoy, & COVID-19, but we eventually get to two inquiries on our docket. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/23-gnome-5...

[#23] Gnome 5: Happy Gnome Year (feat. Wendy S. Painting)

Listen now | The gnome collective talks personal experiences with the paranormal, the Missing 411 cruise, and a knowledgeable guest joins the roundtable discussion

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