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@AricToler
May 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Wrote up a summary on @bellingcat that shows how the recently-unearthed Odnoklassniki account of the Allen, TX mall shooter is definitely, absolutely, certainly his.
bellingcat.com/news/2023/05/0…
Also: lol
As much as I'd like to actually be the greatest digital spelunker who delved deep for hours to find this obscure OK page, I literally just saw the second paragraph of an NYT article, used these search filters (male / USA / birth date), found the shooter's page.
3rd result. Tada. ImageImage
The story "comes from Bellingcat" in that I was just the first person who thought of doing these three simple filters while searching on OK. That's it!
You can still look at the page yourself and make your own judgment (have to register to see full page): ok.ru/profile/574887…

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May 10
Is this a typical thing for Twitter to do? It's "sensitive" content in that it shows that a mass shooter had two Nazi tattoos? Image
(I honestly don't know, maybe this is how it's always been, I've only seen the sensitive warning on things like violent videos/photos)
Didn't know that you can't see Quote Tweets on posts that are being limited, like this one is apparently. Twitter -- a neat site!
Read 4 tweets
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May 10
I've been playing around with this tool for a couple of months, and it's insanely cool once you get the hang of it. It lets you leverage OSM's data for geolocation, but without having to learn how to use Overpass-Turbo.

bellingcat.com/resources/how-…
The tool lets you search for intersecting features within a certain radius of @openstreetmap's data. You can use this for geolocation.

For example: show me all parks in NYC within a 50m radius of a one-way street with a 25mph speed limit, Catholic church, and Italian restaurant.
OSM's dataset isn't perfect or complete all over the world, so you can't always get ultra-granular. But it's pretty fantastic at letting you layer geographic details to get a list of potential geolocation candidates.
Read 11 tweets
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May 8
Took a while, but I found the Odnoklassniki profile of the Allen. TX shooter described in this NYT article:
ok.ru/profile/574887… Image
His YouTube account: youtube.com/@dustyshacklef…
The most recent post on his OK profile is basically his manifesto/suicide note. He closes it with a quote from South Park.
Read 26 tweets
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Apr 27
Government motion for pretrial detention of Jack Teixeira was just posted: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Why would he smash his Xbox? Image
Initial reporting on Teixeira noted that he intel drops started in October 2022. New report we had last week in the NYT shows he actually started posting right after the war started in February 2022. Image
Read 10 tweets
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Apr 27
Since 2014, our YouTube channel has basically been a giant repository for us to dump videos that we embed into articles. Our new social media manager is cleaning it up and making it actually presentable, and maybe even worth following. There's some neat stuff in there!
If you've see the Navalny documentary, you have to watch the full, 49-minute (!!!!) call between Navalny and one of his poisoners, Konstantin Kudryavtsev. The movie only shows ~2min of the call.
We recently did a very neat tutorial on using NASA FIRMS in OSINT work -- this is a resource that shows heat-generating events, such as major structure fires, forest fires, and so on.
Read 4 tweets
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Apr 26
So, I think I figured out how these edited casualty counts came about.

The first public mention of them was through the pro-Russia Donbass Devushka Telegram channel. How did the channel get her?

A pro-Ukraine troll group on Telegram made them as a joke, and sent on to her.
Donbass Devushka posted the documents on April 5th at 1:29pm (US/Central) and shortly after.

In the Devushka group chat, you can see someone say they have leaked documents about half an hour before then. ImageImageImage
Below is a screenshot (redacted) of the original post and correspondence, originally captured by a person in this pro-Ukraine Telegram troll group (hence the +7 hour time zone difference from me). Lucas is apparently an admin from the Donbass Devushka group. Image
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