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I share my modest #OSINT knowledge with journalism students at RMIT || Fact Checking & Verification/Photojournalism || ex Age || #FCnV || IG: gord_19
Off topic:
Any other #adhd folk have a habit of buying lottery tickets but never checking to see if they’ve won anything?
I’ve done that for years.
For all I know I’m a millionaire many times over while living on the income of a low-level academic. 🙄🤷🏻
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
To get higher quality version of an image posted on #bluesky:

Right-click image to open in new tab

In the URL:

1. Replace "feed_thumbnail" with "feed_fullsize"
2. Replace "@jpeg" with "@png"

Voila.

#OSINT @quiztime #geolocation

@juliabayer.bsky.social
@tlmn.bsky.social
@henkvaness.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Thrilled to partner with The Guardian to have it republish my @indicator.media story about Diddy AI slop videos racking up views on YouTube. You can read for free here: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fake, AI-generated videos about the Diddy trial are raking in millions of views on YouTube
Channels serving AI slop feature videos full of false claims about celebs and their involvement with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for quick cash
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
MUST-WATCH

Great segment re “AI slop” infesting socmedia/internet (Last Week Tonight, 23/6)

Clips:

youtube.com/shorts/wtqAx...

youtube.com/shorts/V6dNs...

This crap has annoyed me for yonks. Used to reply “Don’t post AI crap” whenever I saw it.

Now I reply #noaislop.

Hope it trends. 🤞🏻🤞🏼🤞🏾

:})
June 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Just got a call from a scammer. The recorded massage ended up on my voicemail — half in English, half in Mandarin.
iOS17 kindly auto-translated the message for me …
[Feel free to trace the phone number, if you like. They’re usually “not in service”]
April 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Welcome to @quiztime.bsky.social and it’s #MondayQuiz

🥚 What piece for which puzzle is it?

📮reply just to me with an answer
🤝 reply to all for collaboration
🌈have fun
April 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Very pleased to see you’ve joined the OSINT/fact-checking field, @beaudonelly.bsky.social
A bit of OSINT might have helped locate the owner of that US college pin/medal (??) back at MMP …
January 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
An Open Letter from fact-checkers to #MarkZuckerberg via @poynterinstitute.bsky.social

At a time it's needed more than ever, the decision to drop #factchecking on #Meta is cowardly, dangerous pandering
[NB: Those are my words, not Poynter's]

#assaultontruth

www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...
www.poynter.org
January 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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🇷🇺 You can use ADSBexchange to follow Russian aircraft using this one filter. It works because the ICAO have assigned 100000 to 1FFFFF (hex) to Russia, and those numbers are assigned to Russian-owned aircraft by the government.

Filter ICAO (Regex): ^1
👉 globe.adsbexchange.com?filtericao=%...
December 31, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Another great take by Heather RC, my fave commentator on the current US moment.
She explains historical context+precedent with clarity, draws insightful parallels, reveals the forces at work & suggests strategies to resist+repair.
Thanks, Tim. Thanks, Heather.
@thebulwark.bsky.social
🙏🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻👍🏻
December 21, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Another month of #OSINT games …
Must be Christmas ;})
https://challenge.bellingcat.com/
December 2, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Looking for some fun Xmas #OSINT challenges?
Try #osint4fun’s Advent of OSINT 2024.
A new challenge every day. Play solo or as a team.
www.osint4fun.eu/advent2024/en/
OSINT4Fun | Ressources pédagogiques en OSINT - Recherche d'informations et analyse
OSINT For Fun - Apprenez l'OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) ou ROSO (Renseignement d'Origine Sources Ouvertes) : des techniques pour rechercher, analyser et exploiter des informations disponibles en l...
www.osint4fun.eu
December 1, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Anyone here aware of folks/projects looking for/tracking/warning about #bots n fake accounts on @bsky.app?
Is there an internal team monitoring?
Perhaps users should set up a list/ warning hash to ID confirmed fakes — or would that be too easily abused?
November 24, 2024 at 10:31 PM
@craigsilverman.bsky.social posted this over on the X place.
Big If True: new show about navigating #misinfo & #disinfo
Must check it out.
#fcnv
#factchecking

https://x.com/bigiftruetvo/status/1858956993949569467?s=46
November 24, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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10 Essential #OSINT Newsletters You Should Subscribe to Today (by Nina Maelainine)
OSINT Team
OSINT Newsletter
OSINT Jobs
OSINT Ambition
Forensic OSINT
Digital Investigations
Cyber Detective
Gary Ruddell’s OSINT
OSINT Drip
Ervin Zubic on Medium
osintteam.blog/10-essential...
August 25, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Know what I don’t miss about X?
Having to delete the constant flow of new followers whose avatar is a sexy woman, whose accnt was created mid 2023, who follows 6-7000 accnts, who has 60-80 followers and who has never posted.
They must be real people, though, because Elon got rid of the bots.
Right?
November 24, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Found a new tool, used by a student in an assignment I'm marking:
Use #filmot to search for key words+phrases in YouTube subtitles, captions and transcripts
https://filmot.com
Just had a play with it.
Very useful.
#OSINT #OSINTsearch #OSINTtools
November 20, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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And the day 2 recording is here - really enjoyed the session on ship tracking from Ollie Ballinger, Bridget Diakun and Yoruk Isik, who cleverly tracked down the whole ecosystem of ships smuggling Russian oil
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DM8...
BELLINGFEST DAY 2
YouTube video by Bellingcat
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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a piece of bluesky lore i hold close to my heart: apparently this was the first skeet to reach 1,000 likes, at which point i found out that the devs had actively decided not to add the “,” for numbers >999 until they saw a post hit it lmfao. legends
guess where we’re complaining about it now bitch
November 17, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Is The Guardian the first major news org to give up on X/Twitter or just the first of many?
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/the-guardian-wont-post-on-x-anymore-but-isnt-deleting-its-accounts-there-at-least-for-now/
November 13, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Looks like the assault on #bsky is happening.
Monitor your profile and report imposters.
We need to protect this platform’s integrity for it to be an effective replacement for the Twitter/X fiasco.

x.com/thejackhopki...
x.com
x.com
November 11, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Looks like the band is getting back together …
#OSINT
November 11, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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This is why good and smart #OSINT practitioners look beyond page one of any search engine it’s results. And also this why you need to learn how to “Google dork”.

Great story on what we can call “accidental OSINT” hidden gem found: www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 9, 2024 at 8:46 AM