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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The country had a chance to elect a government that would have been genuinely transformative but swallowed the smears of the Times and the other MSM and chose Johnson over Corbyn. You get the shit you vote for if you are gullible.
🧵In today’s Times @joshglancy.bsky.social has a brilliant write up of our focus groups he sat in on. Definitely read it in full! But I want to focus on two voters: Kylie & Eve I think have outsized importance in explaining today’s politics
www.thetimes.com/article/b75e...
www.thetimes.com/article/b75e...
February 16, 2026 at 4:52 AM
The country had a chance to elect a government that would have been genuinely transformative but swallowed the smears of the Times and the other MSM and chose Johnson over Corbyn. You get the shit you vote for if you are gullible.
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Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.
February 16, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.
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If you like making love to music, put on a live album. That way, you get applause every two to four minutes.
February 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM
If you like making love to music, put on a live album. That way, you get applause every two to four minutes.
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"the entire body of anti-trans propaganda was workshopped in emails with the billionaire pedophile guy to facilitate twin campaigns of elimination and sex slavery" being both a.) true and b.) a thing no major news org seems interested in reporting is making me feel like I'm losing my fucking mind
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
"the entire body of anti-trans propaganda was workshopped in emails with the billionaire pedophile guy to facilitate twin campaigns of elimination and sex slavery" being both a.) true and b.) a thing no major news org seems interested in reporting is making me feel like I'm losing my fucking mind
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The only reason JKs connection to Epstein hasn’t killed the Warner Bros contract, stopped the anti-trans movement and anti trans legislation dead in its tracks, and ended JKs career is because too many people comfortably hate trans people and will not push this point home.
We need celebs talking.
We need celebs talking.
oh and "self-made mouthpiece of the anti-trans movement emails billionaire pedophile guy to declare proudly that she does not understand lolita" hahahaHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
February 15, 2026 at 1:52 AM
The only reason JKs connection to Epstein hasn’t killed the Warner Bros contract, stopped the anti-trans movement and anti trans legislation dead in its tracks, and ended JKs career is because too many people comfortably hate trans people and will not push this point home.
We need celebs talking.
We need celebs talking.
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If you haven’t seen the Bollywood Mardi Gras marching krewe, rectify that now
I might have missed the Chaissez Ladies but I managed to catch Krewe da Bhan Gras (twice!). They bring me so much joy.
February 14, 2026 at 9:29 PM
If you haven’t seen the Bollywood Mardi Gras marching krewe, rectify that now
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i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.
February 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.
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Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous & fiercely independent, & based on the author herself in a kind of characteristic self-portrait #WomensArt
February 15, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous & fiercely independent, & based on the author herself in a kind of characteristic self-portrait #WomensArt
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lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
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I've said it before but, in the absence of proper regulation and the licensing of metal detecting, then we must rely on the good old fashioned fairy curses attached to each and every hoard. Let the folk beyond the veil sort it out. 🏺🪙🧚🏼♂️☠️
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 AM
I've said it before but, in the absence of proper regulation and the licensing of metal detecting, then we must rely on the good old fashioned fairy curses attached to each and every hoard. Let the folk beyond the veil sort it out. 🏺🪙🧚🏼♂️☠️
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By Jake Goretzki.
February 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM
By Jake Goretzki.
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Poverty is not real.
You should not be allowed to work from home.
Minimum wage is a bad idea.
Women need to stay at home and have kids.
Migrant workers are the problem.
I don’t know guys. It seems like Reform might not represent the working class at all?
You should not be allowed to work from home.
Minimum wage is a bad idea.
Women need to stay at home and have kids.
Migrant workers are the problem.
I don’t know guys. It seems like Reform might not represent the working class at all?
Reform have totally let the cat out of the bag about who they are.
Zia Yusuf lecturing that poverty and peoples everyday struggles with rising bills and rent is exaggerated.
A party of the failed status quo, funded and representing big corporate interests.
Zia Yusuf lecturing that poverty and peoples everyday struggles with rising bills and rent is exaggerated.
A party of the failed status quo, funded and representing big corporate interests.
February 15, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Poverty is not real.
You should not be allowed to work from home.
Minimum wage is a bad idea.
Women need to stay at home and have kids.
Migrant workers are the problem.
I don’t know guys. It seems like Reform might not represent the working class at all?
You should not be allowed to work from home.
Minimum wage is a bad idea.
Women need to stay at home and have kids.
Migrant workers are the problem.
I don’t know guys. It seems like Reform might not represent the working class at all?
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Here's my idea.
If Billionaires/multimillionaires operating in the UK haven't paid the 47% tax on their incomes that they are supposed to pay.
People can just legally go into their businesses and properties and take stuff for free until they have.
There can be an offical list.
If Billionaires/multimillionaires operating in the UK haven't paid the 47% tax on their incomes that they are supposed to pay.
People can just legally go into their businesses and properties and take stuff for free until they have.
There can be an offical list.
February 15, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Here's my idea.
If Billionaires/multimillionaires operating in the UK haven't paid the 47% tax on their incomes that they are supposed to pay.
People can just legally go into their businesses and properties and take stuff for free until they have.
There can be an offical list.
If Billionaires/multimillionaires operating in the UK haven't paid the 47% tax on their incomes that they are supposed to pay.
People can just legally go into their businesses and properties and take stuff for free until they have.
There can be an offical list.
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TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.
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One conspiracy theory I do actually hold do is that it's no coincidence that PA got proscribed shortly after they trashed Trump's golf course. There was absolutely foreign pressure there.
Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
February 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
One conspiracy theory I do actually hold do is that it's no coincidence that PA got proscribed shortly after they trashed Trump's golf course. There was absolutely foreign pressure there.
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This is an enormous victory for the Palestinian solidarity movement, for civil liberties and for our common humanity.
The real crime is this government’s complicity in genocide - and we will not rest until we have justice for the Palestinian people.
The real crime is this government’s complicity in genocide - and we will not rest until we have justice for the Palestinian people.
UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful ft.trib.al/TKbvf6A
UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful
Ministers argued the direct action group engaged in a campaign of criminal damage and violence
ft.trib.al
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 AM
This is an enormous victory for the Palestinian solidarity movement, for civil liberties and for our common humanity.
The real crime is this government’s complicity in genocide - and we will not rest until we have justice for the Palestinian people.
The real crime is this government’s complicity in genocide - and we will not rest until we have justice for the Palestinian people.
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Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.
www.eff.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Can’t find the sign to tap, but it bears repeating that, minus the one you’re on, every big social media site in the US is run by a defense contractor or intelligence partner.
February 14, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Can’t find the sign to tap, but it bears repeating that, minus the one you’re on, every big social media site in the US is run by a defense contractor or intelligence partner.
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INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.
February 13, 2026 at 11:17 PM
INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.
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In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"
The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
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If you loved me you would get me the Edeka salami bouquet.
Pffft. Red roses for Valentine’s Day? German supermarket Edeka is out here making sausage bouquets.
February 14, 2026 at 8:51 AM
If you loved me you would get me the Edeka salami bouquet.