Every now and then I wondered what happened to him. Like when the Arab Spring finally came to Syria.

When the government began killing protestors.

And today, when Bashar has finally left Syria.

Here's hoping for better days, where no one is afraid of their president. /END

5/ One of the starers was a heavy in a leather jacket. Like a caricature of the secret police (mukhabarat).

Straight away he asks me and my amigo, in English: "Where are you from?"

"Spain eh... tell me... Real Madrid or Barshelona?"

We have a laugh and move on. Phew.

A short story from Syria, March 2011:

I'm in the back row of a minibus, chatting with the guy next to me. He's an electrician, friendly, and speaking in very broken English.

After a while, he asks: "In Britania, who is the president?"

The report has caused quite a stir among the supporters of JStark.

For them, JStark isn't a person. He's a symbol, an icon, a "martyr". And you can't look deeper than that.

They don't want to see the person behind the mask: a complex, contradictory, lonely man, often full of anger and self-hate.

Really proud to share new research with you, looking at "JStark", the most influential 3D-printed gun designer.

Using open sources I uncovered his seemingly "anonymous" comments.

They show his disturbing misogynist incel beliefs and support for far-right terrorism.

Link: icsr.info/wp-content/u...

Can't wait to share this with the wide world.

It's the most fun and interesting open-source research I've done...

If you're in London, feel free to join me for the launch on October 18th