"Silicon Valley is the biggest existential threat American democracy has ever faced, and we need to treat it as such." - @gilduran.com (From this excellent discussion about the 'Network State' between Gil, @wajali.bsky.social and @jacobsilverman.com: youtu.be/XlNGpY-uL1Q )

My new novel, Loss Protocol, is due to be published in 5 weeks, and I may be mentioning it here from time to time. Meanwhile, it's available for prerorder from yr favourite bookshop, eg blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Contrary opinion: My frustrations with what's happening are now such that whenever I hear smoothbrain MAGA bullshit, I unleash the full Australian descriptive arsenal at them. Since I started doing that, MAGAts don't know what to do. They literally didn't imagine 'leftists' would talk mean to them.

Only just found out that the Daily Grail made the New York Times in 2023. Well, kinda...the NYT wrote a story about a new jewellery store that called itself Daily Grail, but noted they couldn't get the website, because us. We'd been around for 25 years by then. 🤨 www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/f...

When a #UFO Researcher Encounters the ‘Others’: Mike Masters’s Account www.dailygrail.com/2026/01/when...

The Friday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Humans may have eaten Neanderthal babies, astronaut's medical condition forces NASA to end mission, Lemmy's bizarre alien encounter, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/01/news...

I didn't mention it in the article, but I have a crazy theory that the Duffer Brothers included Prince and Bowie in the finale as a piece of magic: Bowie died Jan 2016; Prince died in April; Stranger Things debuted July; Trump elected Nov. We've been in the Upside Down ever since. But now it's done.

It takes a special kind of white South African to support this sentiment decades after apartheid fell and this straight up didn’t happen

I really can't get over how much society is sleepwalking into a nightmare with this - Overton Window shift, frog slowly being boiled, whatever you call it. Just 10 years ago this would have caused a major scandal - it's straight up white supremacy. Now it's not even a blip on people's radars.

Both @gilduran.com and @quinnslobodian.com are OG researchers into the Dark Enlightenment/Network State topic, whose research I used in my own essay on the topic - be sure to follow them for ongoing insights and commentary!

For no reason, just gonna note again that the anti-democratic movement Elon Musk's grandfather was a leader in, Technocracy Inc, thought the US should annex Venezuela and Greenland. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Did the Stranger Things finale contain some clues to a possible sequel/spin-off series? www.dailygrail.com/2026/01/movi...

Sure is hard to believe this guy could have done a Nazi salute for real, huh?

Feels sadly relevant today...

He would have been 10 today.

For no reason, just gonna note again that the anti-democratic movement Elon Musk's grandfather was a leader in, Technocracy Inc, thought the US should annex Venezuela and Greenland. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Last night @dailygrail.com and I had a wonderful conversation with Dean Radin, the GOAT of #PSI research, about his new book 'The Science of Magic'. It will be posted on our YouTube channel soon. Please be patient as we've fallen a little behind schedule due to the holiday break.

See also this on Richard Dadd from @johnreppion.bsky.social, as part of his wonderful series discussing themes in 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell'. www.dailygrail.com/2015/06/stra...

Details from The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke by the British painter Richard Dadd, who died #onthisday in 1886 whilst in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Read more on the man and his mesmerising work in Nicholas Tromans' essay — publicdomainreview.org/essay/r... #OTD

Jan 7th 2092 - Ellen Ripley was born. 📽️📅 Aliens (1986)

The Wednesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Indigenous Bolivians lay claim to £16 billion shipwreck, British military tried to obtain ET technology in the 1990s, AI-generated police report states officer was turned into a frog, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/01/news...

I wish every single American could truly, fully understand how trashed your country's reputation now is across the world. Literally going to take decades for any country to trust you again. And what advantage have you got from this administration to justify this loss of trust, are things better?

And one more on the @dailygrail.com from me. Go give it a look-see, and give Greg some click throughs. www.dailygrail.com/2015/02/mohe...

A very old article from me on @dailygrail.com. Thanks to Greg for featuring it in today's news brief. It's hard to believe this came from me what feels like a lifetime ago. www.dailygrail.com/2018/04/a-hi...

Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Were there hints in the Stranger Things finale to a likely sequel or spin-off series? @redpilljunkie.bsky.social and I chatted about a few things worth noting: youtu.be/qdF92GOvF0I

The Monday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Massive ancient structure discovered in Ireland, new Voynich Manuscript theory, scientists scanned 3I/ATLAS for technosignatures, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/01/news...

Evening visitor #straya

Stop me if you've heard this song before... www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

This is a real headline in the year 2026.

A rare red sprite was just captured above a Kimberley electrical storm in Western Australia— ping @dailygrail.com 👀 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Evergreen skeet.

The Friday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! The intriguing idea that we might be Martians, William Butler Yeats' occult imagination, the US Right is now championing psychedelic drugs, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/01/news...

Two paths lie before you in 2026, ninja turtle

A guy in Australia went to the beach with Nazi tattoos, and another guy reported him to the police. Guess which guy is being doxxed and 'shamed' on Twitter and Facebook?

Get 2026 off to a properly weird start with our January issue! The occult origins of television; Martin's Devils; Viennese esoteric art; Fortean Pynchon; the Washington Stain; partying ghosts; Japanese bear wars; rampaging robots; werewolf arrested; baby vs snake; Antarctic mystery signals and more

Orca Avengers, assemble.

One thing about 2025 that I'm still coming to grips with is how straight up White Nationalist shit became everyday, normalized discourse and news media and the public just ignore it. This is literal Camp of the Saints bullshit from a government department and in times past would be a major scandal.

Yo dawg, I heard you like lists, so for the last Daily Grail news briefs collection of the year, I posted a list of all the 'best of the year' lists: www.dailygrail.com/2025/12/news...

My daughter Isis did a portrait of me for Xmas!

Hello from 2026! We’ll try and forge a clear path for the rest of y’all, to make your journey more enjoyable this year.

what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming

Bit off topic for this account, but just an old school 'cool link' to explore for anyone into music and/or classic synths. An amazing page full of song breakdowns where they work out the synths and settings on great songs, along with a whole bunch of free sounds: reverbmachine.com

The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Cryptic Dead Sea scroll code possibly broken, giant stone monuments older than Stonehenge in Armenia, scientist says the Universe is intelligent, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2025/12/news...

The Monday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Inside the US's psychedelic church boom, quantum clues to consciousness, has the US become a surveillance state, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2025/12/news...

Whenever I hear about Peter Thiel's parties, I'm always wondering if, like his public persona, they're the most boring thing ever, or if in private he lets it all hang out and flies his freak flag.

Adrenochrome injection. (Pass it on to any QAnon freak you might know.)

I've said many-a-time now, that if certain government agencies had deliberately set out to hijack the UFO community and stop actual boots-on-the-ground research, they couldn't have done a better job than what's panned out over the last 8 years. ⬇️⬇️⬇️