The strangest thing I have ever witnessed was dropping the lid of a highlighter pen, watching it hit the floor by my desk, bounce and disappear mid-air. Never to be seen again. #jott

"vegetables to get smaller and more expensive due to heat, farmers warn" How convenient. Fail to plan for climate change = extra profit for less.

When I was 16, I told my mother I wanted to go to university to study psychology and she said no, because we couldn’t afford it. I had to go to work instead. So this is a very good thing. Had this sort of support been in place back then, my life would be much better today, I just know it.

Big Issue@bigissue.com · 12h ago

Households can currently lose between £17 and £330 a week in benefit payments when a young person starts an apprenticeship.

How do you know if a man is interested in UFOs? Oh don’t worry, you’ll fucking know…

Some of you take yourselves far too seriously and it’s quite funny

Oh I just had a bit of a spooky experience. Casper, an indoor cat, got out on the kitchen roof from a bedroom window. I was keeping an eye and gently coaxing him back in and then I heard a lady calling him a pretty kitty and telling him to go back in, but there was nobody there.

Oh my god stop I don’t want to see your “book asks”, you’re the only one who thinks it’s interestinggggg

My kumquat tree is ✨flourishing✨

Having a US Senator person with an almost identical name as yours is jarring. So many mentions of not-me in my timeline.

Without downloading new pics what's it like dating you?

Edd Edmondson@eddedmondson.eurosky.social · 3d ago

Without downloading new pics what's it like dating you? (Look I had a very limited choice ok?)

Adelaide Claxton, “The Party on the Stairs”(1875). #SpookySunday

Groceries got delivered. Bought green beans, sprouts, spinach, Broccoli. Substitutions mean I genuinely, genuinely got: green beans, green beans, green beans, sprouts. Amazing. 🫛🫛🫛

shopping for a watering can. Found one which is... which is a watering can for watering cans, apparently.

We've reached a point where AI chatbots have taken on the role usually set aside for psychic mediums. Talking to the dead, and making it seem they're talking back. Here, I examine a recent paper exploring the results of this sort of exchange. www.theghostgeek.com/p/are-we-cre...

Are We Creating Digital Memorials… or Digital Mediums?

When an AI chatbot imitates the voice of someone who has died, what happens when grief makes it feel uncannily real?

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I’ve been going through some personal realisations recently and, as a result, I’ve had to update some of the colours in my jewellery collection…

When your routine-building support app starts dropping the term “grateful” into things a bit too much. Don’t ever tell me to be grateful. People find this out the hard way.

The door to my bedroom is always open for Casper (the cat) to wander in and out. Every time he comes in, I say "Oh, hi there! Hi!" and he slow blinks in response. Recently, he's developed a behaviour where, as he enters the room, he pauses and gently meows like he's greeting me first.

Jason Sudeikis: Don't Know Why I'm Emotional

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I don't know if anyone is interested in this but I've updated my code of conduct for field-based paranormal research I undertake. Free to view here: www.theghostgeek.com/p/weird-wilt...

Weird Wiltshire Research

I’m Hayley Stevens, a Wiltshire-based paranormal researcher and former ghost hunter who now investigates strange claims using scientific skepticism.

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I've created a new Mastodon account after my old instance was deleted without warning. You can find me here: mastodon.social/@theghostgeek

Hayley Stevens (@theghostgeek@mastodon.social)

1 Post, 50 Following, 1 Follower · Former ghost hunter turned scientific skeptic 👻 Paranormal researcher, MSc Forensic Psychology student, and writer of The Ghost Geek - an award-winning science blog...

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AI griefbots don’t need to convince us that the dead have returned. Recently published research suggests they may only need to sound right often enough that the difference begins to feel less important, and that's a little chilling... www.theghostgeek.com/p/are-we-cre...

Are We Creating Digital Memorials… or Digital Mediums?

When an AI chatbot imitates the voice of someone who has died, what happens when grief makes it feel uncannily real?

theghostgeek.com

I will never forget how a lot of readers to my blog came from the SPR sharing my articles. And then they stopped because 2-3 men continued to be abusive about me in the comments on their Facebook page. They didn't get removed or banned, though. So I lost a bunch of readers. So, that was nice.

AI griefbots don’t need to convince us that the dead have returned. Recently published research suggests they may only need to sound right often enough that the difference begins to feel less important, and that's a little chilling... www.theghostgeek.com/p/are-we-cre...

Are We Creating Digital Memorials… or Digital Mediums?

When an AI chatbot imitates the voice of someone who has died, what happens when grief makes it feel uncannily real?

theghostgeek.com

I'm (slowly) writing about the latest update in research into the effects of AI griefbots and I can't believe that half the sentences I'm writing are real. They sound like sci-fi nonsense. 18-year-old me who was a ghost hunter in the 00s would not believe this was real stuff, for sure.

Did psychics really hack into a laptop using only their minds? www.theghostgeek.com/psychic-hack...

Psychic Hacking: New Threat or Old Remote-Viewing Claims Repackaged?

A new experiment claims psychics can steal data from secured computers. But does the evidence really show that a laptop was hacked?

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I wonder how hopeless trans kids feel after reading so much from allies in their communities about how policies are going to kill trans youth?

For all major health issues I’ve had to private to get diagnosis and treatment. Starting to wonder why I’m even registered with a GP clinic.

Do married women really pay less National Insurance?

This man is surrounded by people who appease him by nodding along at his cleverness while slowly being eroded by the very existence of him within their periphery.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7d ago

Nighty night.

When your undergrad final research project had a larger sample size, made fewer unsubstantiated claims, and used near identical methodology as studies being published in Frontiers I did it before and, apparently, better, while working a full time job.

Reese Witherspoon: Iconic Look

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Instead of asking whether paranormal belief is simply good or bad for mental health, this paper examines where it sits inside a larger psychological system and is suggests such beliefs may act as an interpretive framework which ultimately >> www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | The network structure of psychological wellbeing: paranormal belief is peripheral but meaningful

IntroductionParanormal belief (PB) remains prevalent within modern societies despite the dominance of scientific rationalism. While early research conceptual...

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