I just checked my notes, 2 hours and 43 minutes

Least surprising news of the day. Now let the investigations begin.

Truly awful. Lots of footage

Exactly. I watched like 3 hours of people suffering and dying from Sarin attacks in 2013 and people were angry at me for not watching more.

Some kids are just going to grow up hating their parents

It really annoys me because people send me the stuff and demand that I watch every bit of it.

Go take your intellectual poverty elsewhere David.

I also have witnessed some people who thought they were doing useful research commit som terrible damage to themselves by watching too much warfare footage

I remember getting into some weird arguments with amateur alleged OSINT enthusiasts on Twitter years ago. Some of these people were sickos who were voyeurs watching death videos from Syria and Ukraine abd other places

“You know who also set up stuff in Brazil?”

It takes effort. It can be done.

Some 8 or 10 kids are going to become school shooters and, collectively, massacre a hundred or more people, in part because of moral injury from a parent making them watch a death by firing squad

🇺🇦👇🏼

The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.

Trump’s obeisance to Putin has been established beyond even the vaguest scintilla of doubt; the possibility of another January 6-style assault on US democracy after/during the mid-terms is clearly acute and ‘we’ are still wary of calling fascism fascism. These are the moments…

Institutional culture is a thing and new institutional cultures arise when a new institution is created. This is not hard to understand

It doesn’t need to exist. It’s an odd mix of functions that in many countries would be done by separate agencies

Zelensky’s approval rating with AMERICANS is already higher than Trump’s. And my guess is the gap will become even bigger. Zelensky here speaking bravely and clearly (both factually and morally)

RAF Wethersfield has housed asylum seekers since 2023. Essex Police say crimes and incidents associated with the site are very low. It's evidence worth considering amid the controversy over RAF Barnham.