speaking of things that might be related. could fred brennan have something to do with this? look at these 2 threads on twitter from earlier today:
https://twitter.com/QOrigins/status/1544411386712768512
https://twitter.com/kunstderfuge1/status/1544412090969993216
both of them were on his timeline as well as this: https://gist.github.com/ctrlcctrlv/ac25fc34021acc8b4f52e6b3d3ce923f