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I added 1,000 COVID victims to Wikidata to create a lasting memorial. This project is my attempt to ensure their lives, connections, and stories are not forgotten. www.veradekok.nl/en/2025/03/c...

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We’re back with the Bellingcat Open Source Research Challenge! Starting today, we’ll release a series of five brand new challenges to test your digital investigative skills every month. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

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Wat zijn de verwoestende gevolgen van de illegale handel in bedreigde diersoorten? En hoe speelt Nederland een rol in dit wereldwijde probleem? Luister 'Wilde winst' via de link of de Argosfeed in alle podcast-apps: argos.vpro.nl/artikelen/wi...

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www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-... Unless I’m very mistaken, this is the first footage of an actual R9X strike.

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Google has me clicking traffic lights for 15 minutes because I use a vpn, and then allows "authors" to dump 31 slop-books on the Playstore with reviews like this. Enshittification continues.

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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

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Malaysian police now say the guy we identified has been caught and fined before, also for illegally dealing in wildlife! m.malaysiakini.com/news/735839 @alangbendahara.bsky.social

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Join Bellingcat researcher @foeke.bsky.social in the hunt for a wildlife dealer… Learn how we tracked down the individual selling wild animals, sometimes rare and endangered, to their social media followers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkVs...

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New from Bellingcat's environmental team - The Hunt for Malaysia's Elusive Wildlife Trafficker www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...

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We all like to engage with cute animal videos of baby monkeys, little lion cubs… But what if they’re shown in small cages and in boxes, ready for sale? @foeke.bsky.social & contributors @chrisosieck.bsky.social and Darcy White track down a wildlife dealer www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...

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Come read my latest, in which together with @chrisosieck.bsky.social and Darcy White, we hunt down a wildlife trafficker dealing in endangered species.

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This was such a great podcast talk from Mike Yambo at @nationafrica.bsky.social on the @bellingcat.com podcast. Extremely practical, running through tools and practical steps to take to learn open source investigative journalism. open.spotify.com/episode/2CH0...

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Incredible referencing guide for Google StreetView, and therefore for geolocation in general: license plates, sign posts, types of bollards, roof tiles, etc. Thanks @aric.bsky.social for sharing. plonkit.net/guide

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Al ruim tien jaar onthult @bellingcat.com oprichter @eliothiggins.bsky.social samen met vele burgerjournalisten nieuws aan de hand van openbare bronnen. Een gesprek over zijn onderzoeksmethoden en zijn missie om de nieuwe generatie kritisch te leren denken. bit.ly/buitenhof-9-...

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You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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From @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."

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The downing of flight MH17 in 2014 inspired a movement of online researchers to search for answers... Now, you can see how the Bellingcat team helped uncover those answers in a new three-part documentary series on National Geographic.

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Wat een verhaal: 'Radicale klimaatactivisten' die ruim 270 auto's beschadigden en met Groenen-stickers beplakten, bleken in werkelijkheid door Rusland aangestuurde 'amateuragenten'. Bedoeld om afkeer tegen de Groenen te vergroten. Verhaal van Spiegel: www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

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The Far-Right Concert Coming To Europe...

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Ik gebruik de @buienalarm.bsky.social-app al jaren met grote tegenzin (vanwege de vuile datadiefstal). Nu lees ik dat die app het @knmi.bsky.social aanklaagt omdat die een vergelijkbare (gratis en advertentievrij!) app hebben! Meteen overgestapt. #streisandeffect tweakers.net/nieuws/23119...

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Watch along as we share our investigation into the deadly opioids Nitazenes, revealing what the online advertisements look like and sharing how the drugs, that can cause an overdose even with trace quantities, are being smuggled into Europe... www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qU...

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In response to reports that left-leaning hashtags like #Democrats were being blocked on Instagram, Meta issued statements that the "error" affected hashtags "across the political spectrum" and the "issue" applied to "not just those on the left." Except _the vast majority_ were on the left.

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Do give Yohan here a follow - he provides excellent #earrhobservation #EO #remotesensing and #geodata tips and insights. Has a rather large following in the birdsite and is finally joining us here in bluesky

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"awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm" vs. a Nazi salute Let's not confuse the two

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saving this reel for future historians.

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Searching #liberal or #democrat on Instagram now returns "We've hidden these results", #Republican has no such problem. Seems bad.

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When the inevitable excuses come out that it simultaneously was totally accidental and also meant to be ironic, my 2023 @bellingcat.com article on how (not) to interpret far right symbols www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

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Adverts selling an opioid up to 500 times stronger than heroin are all over the internet, from social media platforms to trade sites. Bellingcat and partner Postimees investigate how this deadly drug is infiltrating Europe and beyond… www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/01...

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Join us today, it’ll be fun. I promise.

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Dutch Archaeological "living museum" Archeon now uses AI visuals. In the Mesolithic we meet a bunch of corpulent half-naked Obelix-characters. White. No women. We can debate Mesolithic people's skin colour (likely dark); they did not live life half-naked and there definitely were women.

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Just published on @bellingcat.com with Lloyd's List, Ukraine "outraged" that a grain shipment from occupied Crimea has ended up in Yemen. The shipment was delivered by a ship called Zafar, which tried to mask its presence in Crimea by switching off AIS tracking: www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/12...

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The US seem to have just used their R9X missile (Hellfire with blades) in Idlib. The fragments are the most complete example of the blades of an R9X I’ve ever seen, which gives us a few more hints about how they work.

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If it only vaguely shows pavement and cars—how can you still trace where a video was taken? Short thread on how @bellingcat.com found the location of assaults that took place in the center of Amsterdam last month, for @trouw.nl

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the EU Commission has a new Sanctions Tracker website up, where one can explore EU sanctions in all manner of ways data.europa.eu/apps/eusanct... #datavis #ddj #sanctions #syria #iran

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‘Russian former ASML employee suspected of theft of trade secrets’ nos.nl/l/2547340

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New SkySat imagery from Planet Labs over northern Gaza from Dec 5 shows extensive damage to the Beit Lahia Cemetery after the IDF cleared two paths through the middle of it. 🧵 I have a cemetery destruction thread on Twitter that I'll re-post to Bluesky for tracking purposes. CC: @geoconfirmed.org

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stevanzetti.bsky.social and I identified the men behind four of the largest (formerly) anonymous neo-Nazi accounts on X/Twitter. They include a Vice President at JP Morgan and a civilian at a Navy explosives testing facility. Musk has replied to 2 of them. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

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Mnemonic Labs is looking for an open source investigator for their work on Ukraine. mnemonic.org/en/about/job...

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