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investigative reporter / OSINTer (english-language editor @crimew.gay, contributor @geoconfirmed.org @virtualstreets.org etc.)

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · Sep 20
my signal is rhinozz.1337, and @crimew.gay's is nyancrimew.01. tip to us!
ryan.staticnoi.se
real parenthetical in an article for "hana hou!", a magazine produced for Hawaiian Airlines, that a friend sent to me today
"I know a lot of people don't like it, but we try to make a difference with the tools we have, and right now the chemical treatments seem to be the best option," says Rian (pronounced like Ryan) Huizingh (pronounced who knows how), a field operations supervisor with the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Response. The government-funded organization, now based at the University of Hawaii, was established to combat the CRB invasion soon after the beetles were first discovered in Hawai'i on a golf course at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in late 2013.
December 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
ryan.staticnoi.se
every time i hear an off-hours slack notif sound i jump. that fucking tick-tick-tick is in my nightmares
December 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
ryan.staticnoi.se
i've always adored politico's newsletter heds and today is no different
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 2d
The mood inside European Commission headquarters is more Coreper hangover than Christmas carols after EU leaders delivered a harsh reality check.

What might Christmas Eve look like inside the empty Berlaymont?

Brussels Playbook imagines the scene 👇
Rubio’s naughty list hits EU Christmas vibe
POLITICO’s must-read briefing on what’s driving the day in Brussels, by Gerardo Fortuna and Nicholas Vinocur. By GERARDO FORTUNA Send tips here | Contact us on X @gerardofortuna @NicholasVino…
www.politico.eu
December 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
ryan.staticnoi.se
as a local journalist, seeing my colleagues get their pitches rejected when they boil down to "amplify this issue within the city" (by providing a local angle) hurts me deeply. major +1 to the entire thread before me
jesswash.bsky.social Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 4d
This is so true. There's a difference between pure recycling of a piece (bad), and building upon and amplifying an issue in the public square.
rainesford.bsky.social Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 4d
I've experienced this a lot this year: "this issue has been covered," "this isn't new," etc. Sometimes I get it, but often, I actually think there's a lot we don't know about so many stories or issues, even some that have technically gotten coverage, or a lot more nuance that needs to be explored.
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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joeuchill.bsky.social
At my college newspaper, when we would vote on a new photo editor every year, the two questions that we always asked were "what is the greatest rock and roll album of all time" and "let's say you had a cityscape picture that would only work if you moved the moon a few inches. Do you move the moon?"
December 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
on the other app i see Meg Brock of the Daily Caller making a fool of herself w/r/t the Vanity Fair debacle. but what concerns me the most is this comment under the post and how little pushback she's getting from other photojournalists in the thread.

like ?????????????
commenter: I take pics all the time and I will find a way to make sure that there’s no outlet or light switch in the background. It looks like they hired a middle schooler from the yearbook committee to take these pics. Brock: It’s also incredibly easy to clone them out in post production.
December 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
can i give a major shoutout to the folks at the Illinois State Archives, who took my shot-in-the-dark "do you maybe possibly have this obscure thing and does this obscure thing have this data" and responded with "yes, yes, and we digitized it for you for free"? 💜💜💜
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
ryan.staticnoi.se
reminder that hyphens suck
ryan.staticnoi.se ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · Jul 9
"in-law"; "aptly said"; "governor-elect" but "probate judge elect"; "25-gallon jug" but "25 percent full"; "post-1990" and "pre-war" but "nanoculture" and "hyperfocus"; "slow-moving van" but "red hot poker"; "jack-of-all-trades" but "flash in the pan"; "vice-chancellor" but "vice president"; etc.
December 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
ryan.staticnoi.se
i like this blog post a lot, even being outside of the tech space. being told "you make me want to reconsider my job of choice" by other freelance journos summons possibly the most uncomfortable feeling i can actively recall

really good, @jyn.dev! one for the bookmarks :)
December 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
ryan.staticnoi.se
every day i see something like this, i wonder how many reporters didn't take an introductory J-school reporting course. 'not both-sidesing issues,' 'not editorializing false dichotomies,' and 'using neutral terminology unless appropriate' are all essential topics. what the hell happened?
casmudde.bsky.social Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11d
WTF are we doing here, BBC?
December 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
one day all your favorite publications will write transparency meta-articles and finally teach their readers that the reporters don't write the headlines
December 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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vnclotto.misentropic.com
ASN: AS812 Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
Country: CA
City: Willowdale
State: Ontario
Scanned: 2025-05-06T22:39:46
https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse#id/23981179

#vnc #infosec
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
just had a foia come back with redactions in white. lmao
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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aric.bsky.social
Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours.
New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jasonleopold.bsky.social
NEW investigative report: "Things will get really nasty." Hedge funds. Brokerages. Billionaires. Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties on and off Wall Street were broader than previously known, a cache of emails @bloomberg.com obtained earlier this year reveals
🧵
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
How Epstein’s Wall Street Contacts Helped Him Build Wealth and Power
The disgraced financier maintained an abundance of access across the finance industry and was willing to play hardball to secure wealth and influence.
www.bloomberg.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
it's a surreal experience being up early and seeing all the australian news. like god damn what are they DOING to yall over there?? the government is projecting their murdoch slogan onto a bridge????
December 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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ernie.tedium.co
I have some news: I am helping my friends at @404media.co make a zine.

I just knocked out the layout last week. It was awesome and I hope to do more stuff like it.

www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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the-downballot.com
Quite the passage from NOTUS about Trump's pardon of Henry Cuellar. "Wow." mailchi.mp/notus/secret...
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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foiaball.com
Is your head coach's girlfriend filing FOIA requests on your school's top comms official a good look? Asking for a friend
Requester: Jordon Hudson Jordon Hudson FOIA request to UNC regarding top comms official's communications with CBS
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
ryan.staticnoi.se
this blurb alongside @pitchfork.com's aoty pick this year is brilliant, satisfying, and above all remarkably clear in the project's impossible complexity. stunning @jeremydlarson.bsky.social
Here’s an Onion headline that is tattooed on the back of my brain, from a brief notice with the dateline September 12, 2001: “Bill Gates Finally Getting Into Kid A.” Of all the things in this mille feuille joke, I love the outmoded phrase of “getting into” records. It’s a beautiful practice to let your opinions sit on the shelf like jarred homunculi while struggling to describe how exactly music makes you feel. To say that Los Thuthanaka, the self-titled album from Chuquimamani-Condori and their brother, Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, requires some time on the shelf might be an understatement. But get into it, and you’ll know this is a special record, so ahead of its time, and so worthy of your own. Los Thuthanaka is an album about transience and permanence, the mutability of sound and its deep roots. It’s an instrumental record, a lo-fi psychedelic noise rock piece that broke the VU meters somewhere along the recording process (it was never mastered; it is not on streaming services). But there are so many voices that speak through—and on behalf of—the siblings: electric guitars, electric keytars, mid-century acoustic Andean folk instruments like the ronroco, buried samples of Música Boliviana Popular, Italaque drums from indigenous Aymara people. “Ipi Saxara” features a fried, elliptical riff over a traditional Andean huayño rhythm that is syncopated almost out of time while CDJ backspins and chintzy Yamaha sound effects rain down on the track. Surrender to the wormhole, to the sound of clipping and chaos, to the trans state where you can make out five centuries of music history dancing with each other. And frankly, none of this would be half as good if this shit didn’t swing so hard. Chuquimamani-Condori’s career as a supersonic producer—whose imposing body of work speaks for voiceless and oppressed people around the world—culminates in this project. They and their brother Josh keep these songs off the grid by borrowing traditional Bolivian styles of huayño, like Salay and Kullawada, to introduce new and novel pockets of rhythm. The cascading drums of “Awila” and the breakneck (or break-your-neck) tempo of “Apnaqkaya Titi” feel like witnessing the birth of sound. The entire Western canon of dance music is rooted in the folk music of indigenous peoples, who brought the concept of syncopation to colonial ears and created the rhythms that moved people toward a higher power. And here it is, back from the past, like you’ve never heard it before. Los Thuthanaka offer a new national motto for anyone who needs it: Out of one, many. It’s head music, body music, spiritual music, polemic party music, decolonized plunderphonics, or as the title of the angelic opening song is translated from the Aymara language: “The Queer People-Medicines Are Here.” In this new era where we sell the time it takes to think about things to tech companies and their large language models, here is an album that asks something from you: time, patience, reorganization, reframing, and reconnection. Maybe you’ll take an ideological read into what an “unmastered” album signifies, or maybe you’ll take a musicological read into the microtonal noise artifacts popping off in your earbuds as a new harmonic modality. None of this is told; all of this is shown through the ancestry of two siblings who made music to honor their family and their people’s history. Simply put, it’s a story about the journey home, one of the oldest stories in the world. –Jeremy D. Larson
December 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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In the last year, DDoSecrets' publicaitons has exposed everyone from governments, to surveillance operators, and even Jeffrey Epstein.

If you want to support our one-of-a-kind work, consider donating to help us keep publishing this #GivingTuesday:

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Distributed Denial of Secrets is the most important active leaking organization in the world. DDoSecrets has published over 250 datasets from more than 50 countries, adding up to nearly 100…
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December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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rmac.bsky.social
my early take on part 4: not every album can be a banger, but i think folks will look back on it like the beatles' revolver. some decent hits but overlooked by other greater works
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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dell.bsky.social
no i'm sorry this sucks. these shows suck in particular. but also lots of journalists suck and are pieces of shit. and we are totally fair game.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
ryan.staticnoi.se
over the weekend, @aspyn.gay and @hue240.art ran two unrelated URLfests in support of Doctors Without Borders. i'm giddy to say that their combined-fest total raised for MSF is exactly $1,100.00 — a monumental success :)
aspyn.gay aspyn 🦋 🐈‍⬛️ @aspyn.gay · 26d
WE RAISED $721 FOR DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS! thank you for everyone who donated, everyone who contributed, and everyone who showed up. this was so amazing and im so so happy
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM