sneakydave

Going down the UAP rabbit hole.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@RepLuna @Keir_Starmer How many mass shootings in the US? Think it’s best you stay out of British politics.

[Beatriz Villarroel @DrBeaVillarroel]

This is HUGE news.
PhD astronomer and former NASA engineer Ivo Busko has single-handedly driven a final nail into the coffin of the contamination-based hypotheses (e.g. plate defects and cosmic rays) proposed to explain the VASCO transients. He did so using one of the most creative approaches in astronomy I have ever seen: by analysing pre-Sputnik photographic plates from a German telescope known to suffer from severe optical distortions (aberrations), he demonstrated that the transients appear on these plates and exhibit the same optical distortions as the stars themselves. They are slightly narrower and sharper than the stars, consistent with brief flashes.

This is a crucial result. It shows that the transient light passed through the telescope optics, meaning the transients originate from real objects producing light, rather than from plate defects or cosmic-ray contamination that hit the plate. Dr Busko has also shown that the transients cluster spatially and are associated with periods close to nuclear tests. See the example of the triple transient with optical comas.

This is the greatest gift. Congratulations, Ivo.

I'm happy beyond belief.

Read Ivo Busko's paper: https://t.co/6CT58wnsKJ

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@DoWCTO @DeptofWar @DOWResponse the jokes write themselves.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@The_Astral_ Where did he say this? I assumed it was the Jesse Michaels interview but he doesn't seem to have said it there.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@ufouapam Definitely a blue nose.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@UAPDr Oh God. Blocked.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@UAPWixy Bollocks.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@Aliens__X @Jubilee0123 He’s telling us he was told this. Big difference.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@GoldenInSilence @The_Astral_ Yes. She’s referring to the videos in the last batch.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@GNOSIS80s Well done that man!!

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@RepLuna You said you were assaulted. Embarrassing.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@RepLuna Watched the video. Good luck with filing charges. Absolutely pathetic from you.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@The_Astral_ They are just releasing the low hanging fruit and hoping that will appease the masses.

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

“The notion that football or sport somehow exists separately from politics is nothing other than a convenient myth”
~Kelly Given @kellylgiven

The National

☕️🥐

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

It's 31 years ago to the day that this was broadcast - for my money one of the most joyous bits of TV ever committed to celluloid.

It is, of course, Mr Sting's appearence on The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.

Chitter chatter chit

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@ufouapam Lots of talk about catastrophic disclosure. Very little being disclosed catastrophically.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@mtryxza Who is taking the videos down? They are all over my feed.

[edgarwright @edgarwright]

I really enjoyed 'Backrooms'. Imaginative, hypnotic and cryptic in a purely pleasurable way. Saw it with a full house, 9pm on a Sunday night. It's different from 'The Blair Witch Project' but I was reminded of seeing that film on its opening weekend and, similarly, how you could hear a pin drop in a packed house. Great to see young filmmakers and new horror movies keeping the big-screen experience in rude health. Bring it on.

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

🎬 Backrooms (2026)

One of the internet's greatest success stories.

In May 2019, an anonymous user on 4chan posted a grainy photo of an empty room. Sickly yellow walls, harsh fluorescent lighting, damp carpet, and an overwhelming sense that something was deeply wrong. Someone added a caption claiming that if you're not careful, you can "noclip out of reality" and end up trapped in an endless maze of identical rooms known as the Backrooms.

Nobody knew where the photo was taken. For five years, the image spread across forums, Reddit, YouTube, and social media, evolving from a creepy image into one of the internet's most fascinating pieces of modern folklore.

Then, in May 2024, four users on Discord finally traced the image using the Wayback Machine. The photograph originated from a 2002 renovation photo taken inside a former furniture store at 807 Oregon Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. But by then, the truth hardly mattered. The myth had already become bigger than its origin.

The Backrooms entered a completely new phase in January 2022 when a 16-year-old filmmaker named Kane Parsons uploaded a nine-minute short film called The Backrooms (Found Footage). Having taught himself Blender and VFX techniques, Parsons transformed a niche internet creepypasta into something cinematic and terrifyingly believable. The video exploded in popularity and quickly became one of the defining horror projects of YouTube's generation.

Hollywood took notice.

Just a few years later, A24 greenlit a feature film adaptation and handed the project to Parsons himself. Operating under the codename Effigy, the production built a massive 30,000-square-foot Backrooms maze in Vancouver. The crew reportedly tested dozens of shades of yellow to recreate the unsettling atmosphere that made the original image so iconic, while the scale of the set became a story in itself.

Born in 2005, the same year YouTube launched Kane Parsons became A24's youngest director ever. At only 20 years old, he achieved something almost unimaginable: turning an internet urban legend into a major theatrical event.

The story of Backrooms is remarkable not because of where it started, but because of what it became. An anonymous image posted on a forum evolved into a collaborative online myth, inspired millions of viewers, launched the career of a young filmmaker, and eventually became a global horror phenomenon.

Few pieces of internet culture have made the journey from obscure message board post to mainstream cinema. The Backrooms did.

All because of a single photograph and a simple idea that tapped into a universal fear, the feeling of being lost in a place that looks familiar, yet somehow feels completely wrong.

[sneakydave @ciaopatsy1]

@GNOSIS80s @harmonicLattice @ufouapam 🤣🤣