#suite 309

[sophia-hjkl]

THE PHYSICALS ARE FINALLY HEEEERREEE!!!!!! BREAKCORE BURNOUT cassette tapes and CD preorders available through SUITE 309 Illustration by @bunbunbewwii COMING OUT OCTOBER 29th🐾🎃🥁🐶🥁⚛️💕

[devoid-of-love]

Sophiaaaahjkl;8901 - No Fun

Breakcore Burnout on Suite 309

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Tiger Village — Grid Work (Suite 309)

Photo by Cari Thornton

As Tiger Village, Tim Thornton creates a joyfully anarchic process-based form of percussion centered electronic bedlam. On his latest album he imposes some restrictions on himself. Limited to 4/4 time and an average of 175bpm, Thornton still manages to subvert the straitjacket of tempo across its 16 short tracks of breakcore. He winds up his singular mechanisms and lets them go careening through his matrices. Layers of percussion, snippets of melody and distorted samples ricochet about, the elements colliding, fracturing, and regrouping. Rather than a dry, academic exercise, Grid Work is playful, full of humor and sly nods at formative influences.

“Fine Silk”, for instance, has the aquatic feel of Two Lone Swordsmen setting deep, dub inflected pans under stuttering beats that dance around like hyperactive robots. On “Amen Brak” and “Keys Ring” Thornton twiddles knobs and pushes buttons over classic late 1990s drum ‘n’ bass as if your old flip phone ringtone was repeating during a Luke Vibert set. As the album progresses you hear the whirling cogs of Thornton’s imagine translating into rhythm and sound. There are echoes of µ-ziq’s off-kilter beats and melodic sensibility, footwork influenced subversions of DAF’s electro-punk, bits of Aphex Twin’s fractal abstractions. Tiger Village weaves harsh computer noise and throwaway 8-bit game riffs into his tracks and makes them work in accessible ways. The high-pitched squeaks and squelches that threaten to send “Mono Rail” lurching off course play against clear lines of flattened drums. The dissonance between industrious rhythms and chaotic racket wittily conjures the daily commute. On “Good Boys” heavily processed chatter amidst the clamor of percussion effects calls into the question the intentions of the titular lads.

Tiger Village’s records are all rather wonderfully demented and inventive fun and Grid Work is as ingenious as its predecessors. Thornton says this is his least personal record but it bears all his hallmarks and feels like only he could have made it. Within the formal matrices, his omnivorous love of sound and rhythm, his gleeful genre juxtapositions and his enthusiasm for controlled chaos are the things that stay with you.

Andrew Forell

[harrysfolklore]

another instagram prompt with madison beer as face claim but relationship focused please!! 🥺

WELL HELLO THIS IS MY FIRST F1 BLURB 🥹 i’m kinda nervous idk why but i hope you like it! i left this open for a part two so lmk if that’s something you’d like to see

btw this is obviously inspired by taylor and joe breakup and taylor and travis lol, also harry ilysm sorry for making you the villain here, anyways, ENJOY!

MASTERLIST | MY PATREON | PART TWO HERE

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yourinstagram THE SPINNIN TOUR STATRS IN 10 DAYS 🥲🤍 who am i seeing there??

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ynfan1 SO FUCKING EXCITED

conangray LETS GO 🔥

ynfan2 this is going to be the biggest concert tour in history and i’m so serious

↳ ynfan1 i mean the pre sale broke ticketmaster, three stadium dates on each city sold out. it’s going to be insane

harryfan1 i can’t wait for the boyfriend harry content this tour is going to give us

ynfan3 she’s getting ready to make history

annetwist ❤️❤️❤️

harryfan2 soooo ready to see harry at the vip box on opening night and all the other nights

dualipa an angel 🤍

oliviarodrigo 💘

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harryupdates Harry out in London today !

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harryfan1 MY BUUUUB

ynfan1 what is he doing in london??? the spinnin tour starts today

harryfan2 HARRY GET YOUR ASS TO ARIZONA RN

ynfan2 he’s not attending opening night :(

harryfan3 what is he mad about lol

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yourinstagram 7th night of the spinnin tour done ! houston thank you so much for your love and your loud singing, i’m making the best memories of my life on this tour thanks to you 🤎

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ynfan1 TOUR OF THE CENTURY

conangray this tour changed my life fr

↳ ynfan2 BEST OPENING ACT EVER

harryfan1 okay but WHEN is harry doing his spinnin tour debut

↳ ynfan1 i wonder the same thing 🤔

arianagrande 🖤

charles_leclerc I can’t wait to see the show 🙌🏻

↳ charlesfan1 CHARLES ???

↳ charlesfan2 he’s a pop girlie wbk

harryfan2 get your ass to the next show NOW

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people It’s over 💔#YN and #HarryStyles are calling it quits after six years of dating. Tap the link in our bio for the full story.

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harryfan1 WHAT?????

ynfan1 NO WAY

harryfan2 nah i don’t believe this

ynfan2 but what about lover??? delicate ??? pov??? so american ??? golden hour ?? paper rings ?? WERE ALL THOSE SONGS NOT REAL

harryfan3 man im so confused right now, how did this happen

ynfan2 lord she must be heartbroken and she has to continue with the tour performing for 70k people every night

harryfan4 this is clearly fake

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profesionalfangirlie UM HELLO I JUST MET CHARLES LECLERC AT YN’S SHOW !!???? istg i just wanted a refill for my lavender haze margarita and he was there in line too WTF ?? #thespinnintour

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charlesfan1 NO WAY 😭😭😭

ynfan1 THIS IS SUCH A SLAY

ynfan2 yn is a celebrity to celebrities

charlesfan2 HES SUCH A FANBOY

charlesfan3 i need to see him trading friendship bracelets

charlesfan4 HOTTEST MAN ALIVE

ynfan3 he’s about to experience the best show of his life

charlesfan5 THE CONTENT WE DESERVE

ynfan3 WAS HE AT THE VIP TENT??

↳ profesionalfangirlie i think he’s up there in a suite of the stadium with family and friends

↳ charlesfan1 OHHHH

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charlesupdates “I wanted to give YN a friendship bracelet with my number on it, since I knew her shows were all about friendship bracelets. She didn’t want to meet me after the show so I took it personal. Other than that the show was completely out of this world, she’s amazing.” -Charles on attending the Spinnin Tour for Fedez podcast !

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charlesfan1 OMG???

charlesfan2 THIS MAN ISTH

ynfan1 girl wtf why didn’t you want to mee him ? @yourinstagram

↳ ynfan2 i bet it was a timing thing and not her actively not wanting to meet him 🥹

charlesfan3 is he shooting his shot ???? publicly

charlesfan4 NOT CHARLES BEGGING FOR A CHANCE

ynfan3 this would be such a powerful ship… ferrari’s golden boy and the pop princess.. do you see the vision…

↳ charlesfan1 I SO DO

INSTAGRAM DMS

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yourinstagram last night of the spinnin tour in the us 🥹🥹 you can tell by my fave here that i’m going to miss these crowds every single day. THANK YOU for coming to the shows, singing every lyric and making friendship bracelets, all the memories we made together will stay with me forever 💘 LATIN AMERICA YOU’RE NEXT 🇲🇽🇦🇷🇧🇷

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ynfan1 IM SOBBINGGGGGG

ynfan2 IM SO EXCITED FOR THE NEXT SHOWS

arianagrande easily the best show anyone has ever put on, love you sister 🤎

theweeknd The GOAT 🐐

ynfan3 she finished her stadium tour after getting out of a 6 year long relation and being completely heartbroken. she loves her art more than anything

↳ ynfan1 she can do it with a broken heart because she’s THAT good

charles_leclerc Congratulations, excited for what’s coming next 🙌🏻

↳ charlesfan1 CHARLIE ???

↳ charlesfan2 WHATS GOING ON 😭

ynfan4 harry styles you have nothing on her

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ynupdates YN AND CHARLES LECLERC OUT AND ABOUT TONIGHT !!!

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ynfan1 HUHHHH???

ynfan2 GOOD GOD

charlesfan1 IS THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENING

ynfan3 wow and some people clowned him when he said he wanted to give yn a bracelet with his number

harryfan1 she’s dating someone already ??? wow

↳ ynfan1 she has all the right do it especially after realizing that she wasted 6 years of her life with someone who never made any sacrifice for her

↳ charlesfan1 ntm that charles has done more in what a week??? (commenting on her posts, holding hands in public, not making her run from the paps) than harry did in 6 years

↳ harryfan2 i will always mourn ynrry

ynfan3 IM SOOO HERE FOR YNS WAG ERA

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yourinstagram my first race 🏁 i had the best time with the best people🤍

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ynfan1 OMFGGGGG

charlesfan1 the jacket ????? the bracelet ????? the last pic ????? INSANIYY

dualipa ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

ynfan2 THIS IS SO SERIOUS ALSJAKA

harryfan1 she never posted harry in their 6 years together but she posts dumps about her rebound 😭

↳ ynfan1 as if harry wasn’t an ass who never wanted their relationship to be publicly acknowledged, bffr

ynfan2 IM SO HAPPY FOR HER

charlesfan2 i lowkey love this, charles is proof that persistence is key

charles_leclerc ❤️❤️❤️❤️

↳ charlesfan1 AHHHHHH

↳ charlesfan3 I CANT DO THIS

ynfan3 idk if they’re dating but it’s so good to see her proudly attending events and posting about them and not hiding to please the person she’s with

leclerc_pascale Belle 🤍

↳ charlesfan1 MAAAANNNN ITS SERIOUS

lilyhme queenie ⭐️

↳ ynfan1 told ya she was going to befriend all the wags 😭

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charles_leclerc Perfect race ❤️

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charlesfan1 LOML

ynfan1 perfect bc yn was there so true

arthur_leclerc 🙌🏻

charlesfan2 checo in the back is killing me

ynfan2 HARD LAUNCH YN ON INSTA NOW !!!

leclerc_pascale ❤️

harryfan1 you’ll never be harry

charlesfan3 i need yn on every race now

yourinstagram 😍😍😍❤️‍🔥

↳ ynfan1 HEEEEELP

↳ ynfan2 CONTROL YOURSELF

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charlesupdates Charles and YN in Argentina today !! YN has a show there tomorrow, we love a supportive boyfriend 🥺

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charlesfan1 OMFGGGG

charlesfan2 WE STAN THIS

ynfan1 maannn this is what she deserves, someone who's willing to travel across the globe to support her

↳ ynfan2 i can't believe harry just went to ONE show of the positions tour and we used to think that was the most romantic thing ever

charlesfan3 I KNEWWWW he would be at every show once her tour started again

ynfan3 I CANT WAIT FOR ALL THE CONTENT

charlesfan4 we need a charles cam at the spinnin tour crowd

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ynupdates YN JUST CHANGED THE KARMA BRIDGE TO "KARMA IS THE GUY ON THE PITS COMING STRAIGHT HOME TO ME"

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ynfan1 WTFFFF

ynfan2 SHES INSANE 😭

charlesfan1 LORD PLEASE HELP ME

ynfan3 she's so silly. she's also deranged

charlesfan2 what a time to be alive

charlesfan3 MAN I CANT STOP WATCHING THE VIDEO OF CHARLES REACTION

ynfan4 FRUIT BOY YOURE SO OVERRRRR

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charles_leclerc The Spinnin Tour🤍

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charlesfan1 GOING INSANE

ynfan1 OMG BABYYYYY

leclerc_pascale 💕❤️

ynfan2 FINALLY SOMEONE WHO POSTS ABOUT HER !! AND ATTENDS HER SHOWS !! AND IS SUPPORTIVE !!

charlesfan2 this boy is down BAD

carlossainz55 🙌🏻

ynfan3 i cant believe some people still want her old relationship when we have THIS

charlesfan3 charlie's popstar boyfriend era

yourinstagram thank you for being here 🥺

↳ ynfan1 SHE DESERVES THIS AND MORE

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thepopbuzz YN and Charles Leclerc spotted on a yatch in the Bahamas, the couple seems to be enjoying their days off before they have to go back to touring and racing respectively. Tap the link in our bio for more details 👌

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charlesfan1 AHHHHHHHHH

ynfan1 i love one fairytale couple

harryfan1 trying to rewrite history i see

ynfan2 WE STAN

charlesfan2 that should be me

ynfan3 finally a boyfriend who likes pda

charlesfan3 I LOVE THEM SO BAD

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charles_leclerc I wanted to take pictures of my girl but she beat me to it

A much needed break

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charlesfan1 STOP THIS

ynfan1 IM SPIRALING

carlossainz55 Enjoy mates 🙌🏻

lilyhme cuties 💓

charlesfan2 THE BOYFRIEND CONTENT I SIGNED UP FOR

ynfan2 HIS 🥹 GIRL 🥹

yourinstagram lover booooy ❤️

↳ ynfan3 AHHHH MY HEART

charlesfan3 we love simp charlieeee

ynfan4 i can’t stress how happy this makes me. from running to get in a van to this

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yourinstagram SURPRISE !! my new album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is coming soon 🤍

ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND POETRY

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ynfan1 KAHAIAJAYAABAJAI

ynfan2 WHAT ON EARTH

oliviarodrigo NO WAY ‼️‼️‼️

conangray thank you mother for constantly serving

ynfan3 THE COVER ??? THE NAME ?? THAT LYRIC ??? we’re not ready

charlesfan1 oooohhhh this is exciting

ynfan4 and fruit boy better HIDE

dualipa 🖤🖤🖤🖤

postmalone 🙌🏻

charles_leclerc So proud of you ❤️

↳ charlesfan2 AWEEEEEEES

↳ charlesfan3 i know they just started dating but i hope we get songs about him

[uhhlifeig]

Spy - October 4 - word count: 309 - @wolfstarmicrofic

“Alright, who’s doing it?” James asked as he leaned back in his chair, looking around the circle of his friends.

Sirius stretched lazily. “I’ll do it, obviously,” he said, his usual smirk spreading across his face.

Remus shook his head with a sigh. “You? Spy on the Slytherins? You’ll be spotted in about two seconds flat.”

Sirius turned to him, his grin only growing wider. “You underestimate me, Moony. I’m practically invisible when I want to be.”

“Right,” Remus said, raising an eyebrow. “Like when you tried to sneak up on Filch and knocked over that suit of armor?”

“That was ages ago!” Sirius protested. “I’m stealthier now. And, besides, you love me even when I’m not.”

Remus rolled his eyes. “I’m just saying, we don’t need the whole school knowing we’re trying to sneak around.”

“You have a better plan, Moony?” Sirius asked defiantly.

Remus shot him a look. “I have a more realistic one.”

James, who had been watching the exchange with amusement, decided to interrupt. “Look, let’s be real- none of us are actually great at sneaking around.”

“Except Remus,” Peter chimed in helpfully, earning a grin from James and a faint blush from the werewolf.

“He’s good at a lot of things,” the dog animagus murmured, only loud enough for the other boy to hear.

Remus felt heat rise to his face. “Focus, Black,” he murmured, trying to regain control of the situation.

Sirius leaned back again. “Alright, alright. Let’s all go together. Strength in numbers, right?”

James laughed, standing up and stretching. “The Gryffindor way.” The messy-haired boy went to the dorm to get the Cloak with Peter, leaving the other Marauders in the common room.

Sirius turned to Remus the moment they were out of sight, eyes twinkling. 

“So, Moony,” he said lowly, “How do you feel about sneaking around for real tonight?”

[takeyourcyanide]

They’re Right Outside The Door

TWs: physical abuse, verbal abuse, emotional/psychological abuse

Ao3 link

fandom: soul eater

characters: franken stein, original character(s), original male character(s), original female character(s)

word count: 2 309 (2 chapters)

tags: implied/referenced child abuse, physical abuse, emotional/psychological abuse, verbal abuse, canon-typical violence, dissection, crying, needles, hurt no comfort, rain, child neglect, title from a mitski song, angst

summary: Stein’s mother is not particularly fond of his dissection habits, actively trying to keep him from dissecting. Other shenanigans ensue. Stein is no more than eleven in this.

“We find�� certain aspects of your personality to be.. concerning,” the echoing voice of a particularly foolish individual rushed through some dingy, sewage-filled tunnel in his mind.

Franken scoffed, snickering; the slightest, and yet most arrogant of smirks on his lips. ‘Get in line.’

******

The cotton of Stein’s socks and the fabric of his slippers squished with each step he took, the constant ebb and - primarily - flow of rainwater crashing down onto him more than welcome. Droplets ran eagerly throughout his hair, wiggling and subsequently plummeting off of the ends. The white of his pajamas had become transparent, the articles heavy and form-fitting.

He stood in the middle of the driveway, holding his arms out on each side, craning his head backward to come face-to-face with the crescent moon beaming sinisterly down upon him. He basked in the sensation of continuous streams of water hitting his forehead, cupping his cheeks, rolling down his jaw, and fleetingly caressing his carotid arteries. The perpetual tension in his body billowed out of his pores to the sound of chirping crickets, rushing gusts of wind, and complete solitude.

He dreamily sighed to nobody but himself, chest rising and-

“Stein!?

Stein!

Get in here!”

-falling fast and hard, his arms following suit.

He rubbed the water into his skin for a moment, finding bits of fuzz, threading, and silver strands just as stuck to his hands and arms as glitter, eyeing the smacking of the rain against concrete and mounds of dirt just one last time.

******

“I don’t know what in the hell you were thinking going outside in the freezing rain at nearly two in the morning, but look at you! You’re soaked!”

Stein grimaced at the obnoxious whisper-yelling, the woman’s voice grating and scornful.

“You’re tracking water all over the damn house now! Nice going. …Seriously, why would you go out there without any sort of raincoat or anything- or at all, for that matter, in the middle of the night?!

…

Don’t tell me you were out there looking for something to dissect again, Franken.” Her marching ceased abruptly in the middle of the unlit hallway, her arms crossed over her chest and cheeks rosy, as she stared the young male down much like a predator fed up with chasing its prey.

Stein tilted his head up, staring, unresponsive, into her narrowing eyes. ‘Her pupils are awfully small,’ he observed.

The woman nearly cracked her elbow pointing at his bedroom, a harsh, burdened sigh barreling out of her mouth. “I want you to go in there, get some new clothes, go take a shower, and go back to bed. I better not hear the front door open again,” she wagged her finger directly in front of his face.

And just as she began stomping away, she whipped back around once more, sinking her nails into her wide hips through the soft, plush robe she adorned. “Oh! Yes! And consider the possibility of getting kidnapped before you even so much as think of doing something that stupid again! You’re smarter than that.”

Her slippers, then, dragged like jagged nails on an old chalkboard against the floor, as she disappeared into the shadows, having finally turned that blessed corner.

Stein, with a bit of a scowl, pushed the already cracked door to his bedroom open. A hoard of gruesome visuals and pure, unabashed sadism swarmed and muddled his thinking. And like sap, they stuck to the lobes of his brain, painting over the organ as though it was merely their canvas, unwilling to roll off like that rainwater certainly would.

******

Before he’d even had the chance to peel his eyelids apart and groan at the forceful morning sun, as usual, his parents’ adoration for fervent.. “debates” pierced his ears.

“You never spend any time with us!” The woman wailed.

“See, there’s this thing called ‘work,’ and me going there helps to keep this family afloat and not out on the streets,” the man returned the favor, though in a far calmer tone.

Stein balled his hands into fists, rubbing at his eyes. With a yawn, he escaped the blanket he was warmly cocooned in, tip-toeing into the chilly hallway and peaking behind the door, which had been left carelessly ajar.

They were standing in the kitchen in front of the oven, from which the smell of scorching food wafted, the room’s irradiant lighting accentuating the fury and self-righteousness in their glistering eyes and faces. The woman tightly gripped her waist, her back as straight as a perfect line, and her chin pointed up. The man was fussing with his already done-up tie, repeatedly peering down at his fancy little watch in a tizzy.

“Oh, is that why you jump at every opportunity to avoid us?” She scoffed.

“I was away on business!”

“And you have been for the last eleven years!”

The woman grabbed the sizzling skillet, dumping the charred bacon it held into the teeming trash can. She purposefully hit her shoulder against the man’s arm on her way over, to which he glared serrated daggers into her flesh and huffed an indignant “tsk.”

As she moved past him to switch the burning stove off, she mumbled, voice dripping with resentment and sardoniscism, “Maybe if you weren’t gone all the time, your kid wouldn’t be so maladjusted and nuts.”

In the blink of an eye, the man had seized her forearm, hand coiling around the limb and thoughtlessly squeezing, pulling her closer. A high-pitched yelp escaped the woman, her eyes wide and racing with fear.

“What did you just say?”

“Y-you’re hurting me-“

“And how many times has the kid been dehydrated to the point of hospitalization under your care?”

She seemed to be at a loss for words, her mouth falling open, only to close again. She didn’t avert her gaze from his wild one even once, her trembling body frozen in place.

Stein stayed as silent as a scurrying mouse, ignoring the palpitating of his heart which pounded in his ears and in his paling fingertips.

“Well, by now, he should be able to keep up with that shit himself! And at least I’m not dragging him all across the damn country! At least I’m even here with him at all!” A spark of bravery.

“God, you’re an idiot,” he exhaled something akin to a disbelieving and annoyed chuckle. “You act like he isn’t always alone regardless of whether I’m here or not.”

“And what exactly are you implying?”

“You know what I’m implying,” he stated in a low rumble, almost under his breath. His nimble hand released her arm and shot upwards, firmly taking ahold of her neck, gradually compressing harder and harder, constricting as though he were a famished boa.

Slamming her back against the counter, heavy breaths bursting out of him and fanning like hoards of smoke over her visage, he muttered, “I’m just imagining listening to you choke, squeezing and squeezing until you die, and watching as your lifeless body slips from my hands and hits the cold, hard floor.”

“……Maybe I.. was… wrong,” she struggled in between gasps and gargles, glistening tears welling in her eyes. “Maybe this is why he is the way he is.. you’re both… just the same. You being one step away from being a deadbeat sack of shit’s got… nothing to do with it. He’s just got.. too much of… you in ‘im.” The disdain and disgust with which she spoke overrode the trepidation and tension hanging like thick, opaque fog in the air.

A strange hole Franken couldn’t quite wrap his head around wedged itself into his chest, a tightness forming within it and clasping around his heart and lungs. He subdued the heat he felt rising in the very back of his eyes, swallowing, the girth of a baseball lodged snugly in his throat.

“I have to go to work,” the man ripped his hand away from her as if it had scalded him, wiping it off on his striped button-up with an expression of antipathy and passionate contempt.

The hinges of the front door squealed as it was swung open and promptly shut, the resounding ‘bang’ it produced leaving the house shaking.

Strained sobs bubbled, effervescent, in the back of the woman’s throat, swimming up and falling out from her quivering lips. “Ow!” She quietly shrieked, as she soothed tenderly over the burst blood vessels underneath the skin of her neck.

When she started towards the hallway, Stein remained still, biting on his index finger, a glimmer of curiosity within the recesses of his brain. And when she simply side-eyed him whilst dabbing away at the rolling tears staining her cheeks, he found himself wholly unsurprised.

The door to the master bedroom crashed hard in a manner not dissimilar to the front door, and Stein flinched, his brows scrunching and eyes squinting in muddied thought.

‘What about school?’ He wondered to himself amidst the dense haze they’d so often cast, truthfully a little more than restless. ‘Oh, well. …At least I don’t have to do it.’

Stein swayed himself gently on his feet, as he glanced around, nothing but the woman’s muffled weeping to fill the awkward silence nipping greedily at his viscera. Within him, he felt there was some sort of buzzing hornet’s nest, filled to the brim, being incessantly teased with the batting of a reckless child. Everything was soon put to a momentary rest, however, when a sudden flashing thought moaned louder than the woman: ‘She’s less likely to notice, or at least care, if I go out and find a worthy test subject… and then everything will be better, too.’

A mischievous grin etched itself into his countenance, his teeth begrudgingly relinquishing their hold on his abused finger. He studied the bite marks and even tiny spots of blood decorating the appendage, turning it back and forth in a circular motion.

‘Yes.’

******

Stein laid an old, shabby towel down onto the chilled driveway, shivering at the relentless wind sending pins into his reddening skin, as he carefully placed both a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and one of the man’s many needles upon the tattered surface.

He waltzed away from the area, the yellowing grass at his feet standing about as tall as the rain boots he absentmindedly sunk into mud. He glanced up as he bent down, admiring the world’s fogged disposition - a kindred, oscillating soul. He knew nearly all animals were deterred by and afraid of its waning and dimness, thus yanking the first thing he could visually process from the ground with a sense of blunted gratitude; an earthworm.

‘I haven’t seen one of you in a while,’ he observed with a giddy smirk how it writhed violently between his fingers, curling around them and effectively becoming a dirty, slimy ring.

He took the worm over to the towel, sitting down cross-legged. He unscrewed the lid of the bottle, sliding the syringe into the hydrogen peroxide. The needle swallowed the liquid with ease, the barrel dutifully becoming its temporary dwelling.

He dug the shining needle into the squirming worm, thrusting the peroxide into its body. It went limp, stiffening and twitching, as it changed from a maroon color to a mixture of greens and brighter reds. Stein laid the worm down onto the towel, observing as its foamy blood came rushing out through the tiny hole left by the needle.

“Fascinating,” he mused, giggling. He continued thrusting the needle in and out of the worm’s body, not letting up until a good five or ten minutes had passed, and until all of it blood had drained.

******

When he returned, pained whimpers could still be heard. They blended with the sound of the ticking wall clock, though they struggled to harmonize. He shut the door quietly behind him, as to not alert the woman to his waxing and waning presence, practically tiptoeing to his bedroom.

He’d found an injured bird, a blue jay, one of which he laid upon the towel sheathing his desk. It was barely alive, alive enough to heave a few breaths but far from alive enough to fight back - not dissimilar to the woman, he thought.

He gathered the necessary supplies he’d bought behind their backs, laying a few different scalpels and surgical scissors and such onto the table in a steel tray, an unusual smile plastered on his face.

He was feeling excitement, or at least something akin to excitement, for the first time in God knows how long.

That is, until he was so rudely interrupted.

“Stein! I heard you go out the front door!” The woman’s voice wavered, her weeping getting the best of her.

Evidently, he wasn’t quiet enough.

“Open this door right now!”

“Then why didn’t you come and get me?”

“Because-“

“Because you were crying?”

“…”

He lifted a no. 11 blade scalpel, twirling it before bringing the blade down to the bird’s thorax.

“I’m not opening this door. You’ve ruined my fun too many times,” he drawled proudly.

“Open the damn door, Franken!”

“No.”

“What are you dissecting?! Don’t tell me you’re using one of my kitchen knives. Open the door already! I won’t ask you again.”

“Good.”

The woman banged on the door with a certainly aching fist, rattling the locked knob as if it would do anything.

“Do you want to be grounded?”

“I truly don’t care. I have nothing to lose.”

“Argh,” she groaned, stomping away. “The moment you leave that room, you know what your father will do to you. I was trying to help you out.”

“He doesn’t care, though.”

And with one less distraction, being left entirely by himself and to his own devices, he pierced through the bird’s thoracic cavity, dragging the blade through its abdominal cavity, and tittering uncontrollably at the gushing blood as he pulled the animal slowly but surely apart.

[yesterdayandkarma]

Suite 309 by Giovanni Gori

[mariacallous]

Just after 9 pm on an August night in 2020, Kimberly Thompson and Brian James pulled the car into a driveway in Akron, Ohio, and stepped out into a barrage of gunfire. They were shot in the legs, rushed to a hospital, and survived. But Thompson’s 20-month-old grandson, Tyree Halsell, who was still sitting in the car, was shot in the head and mortally wounded.

In the aftermath, Akron police collected video footage from the neighborhood and asked for the public’s help with identifying two men who’d been seen approaching the victims, firing, then fleeing in a truck. Within months, detectives narrowed in on a suspect, Phillip Mendoza, and obtained a search warrant for his cell phone location data from Sprint, according to court records. They also served a geofence warrant on Google, seeking information on devices whose GPS, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth records placed them near the scene of the shooting. Neither warrant turned up any evidence locating Mendoza or his devices on the 1200 block of Fifth Avenue, where the shooting occurred, that night.

The investigation stalled until August 2022, when Akron police received a three-page report containing the evidence they’d been seeking. It came from a little-known Canadian company called Global Intelligence, which for the past several years has been selling an extraordinary service to police departments across the United States.

Global Intelligence claims that, using only open source data—public information that doesn’t require a warrant—and a suite of more than 700 algorithms, its Cybercheck system allegedly can geolocate an individual in real time or at a specific time in the past by detecting the wireless networks and access points the person’s “cyber profile” has interacted with. The company’s founder, Adam Mosher, has testified under oath that the process is entirely automated, requiring no human intervention from the time an investigator enters basic details about a case into the Cybercheck portal until the time the system produces a report identifying a suspect and their location.

If the technology works as advertised, then Global Intelligence is selling police departments previously unknown surveillance capabilities for as little as $309 a case that rival the open source tools used by national spy agencies. But a WIRED review of investigations involving Cybercheck from California to New York, based on hundreds of pages of court filings, testimony, interviews, and police records, suggests Cybercheck is a much less effective tool—one that has provided evidence in high-profile cases that was either demonstrably incorrect or couldn’t be verified by any other means.

Open source intelligence experts allege to WIRED that much of the information Cybercheck provides in its reports to law enforcement would be impossible to obtain using only open source data. Indeed, over the past several months, Global Intelligence’s work in Ohio has faded away, with prosecutors ultimately deciding not to use Cybercheck reports as evidence in several murder cases, including Mendoza’s.

“Either they’re somehow doing the Minority Report now, or somehow it’s just BS,” says Stephen Coulthart, director of the Open Source Intelligence Laboratory at the State University of New York at Albany, who reviewed Cybercheck reports and transcripts of Mosher’s testimony at WIRED’s request.

Cases Pending

During a November 2022 trial, Mosher testified that 345 different law enforcement agencies had used Cybercheck to conduct approximately 24,000 searches since 2017. WIRED identified more than a dozen cases involving Cybercheck, including 13 in which prosecutors intended to use Cybercheck reports as evidence at trial. Two of the cases in which courts allowed Cybercheck reports to be admitted as trial evidence resulted in murder convictions.

The agencies we found using Cybercheck ranged from small suburban police departments to county sheriffs and state police. The alleged crimes ranged from those related to child sexual abuse material to drive-by shootings, as well as cold cases that have haunted communities for decades. Last year, for example, the New York State Police arrested a man for murder after receiving evidence from Cybercheck that allegedly placed his cell phone at key locations on the night of the homicide, roughly 20 years ago, according to the indictment. The case is scheduled to go to trial in 2025.

While Mosher has testified on numerous occasions about Cybercheck, his explanations of what data sources the algorithms draw on and how they reach their conclusions do not fully explain Cybercheck’s ability to produce its reports. Global Intelligence did not answer WIRED’s questions about who designed Cybercheck’s algorithms or what data the company used to train them. When asked how the tool could determine that a person’s cyber profile had pinged a particular wireless network—oftentimes years after the incident occurred—an unnamed Global Intelligence employee wrote in an email: “There is no specific single source of information with regard to wireless network interactions.”

Accuracy Ratings

In 2022, more than two years after Halsell was shot and killed in Akron, Cybercheck produced a report for police that claimed Mendoza’s cyber profile had pinged two wireless internet devices located near 1228 Fifth Avenue after 9 pm. A cyber profile, from what Mosher has testified, is the amalgamation of names, aliases, emails, phone numbers, IP addresses, Google IDs, and other online identifiers that combine to create a person’s unique digital fingerprint.

Summit County prosecutors charged Mendoza with murder. But when Mendoza’s defense attorney, Donald Malarcik, dug into the Cybercheck report, he found a problem. The police department employee who entered the information into Cybercheck’s system had allegedly made a mistake: They had asked the system whether it could locate Mendoza at the scene on August 20, 2020. The shooting occurred on August 2. Cybercheck had nonetheless claimed to locate Mendoza at 1228 Fifth Avenue with 93.13 percent accuracy, even though it was on the wrong day. Stranger still to Malarcik, at some point after delivering the first report, Cybercheck produced another report. It was identical in all respects to the first report—from the MAC addresses, which are unique IDs assigned to networked devices, to the time of day when Mendoza’s cyber profile allegedly pinged them, and the accuracy rating—except it had the correct date of the shooting.

The warrants served to Sprint and Google hadn’t produced any evidence that Mendoza’s devices or accounts were at the scene. But according to Cybercheck's entirely automated algorithms, Mendoza’s cyber profile had not only been at 1228 Fifth Avenue at the time of the shooting, it had also been at the exact same location, at the exact same time of day, for the same amount of time, pinging the same wireless networks, 18 days later.

The unnamed Cybercheck employee who responded to WIRED’s questions says the company stands by the accuracy of both reports in the Mendoza case. “It is not uncommon to have the same cyber profile with the same device at a location on a different date,” they wrote.

Malarcik filed a motion where he asked the prosecutor to provide Cybercheck’s software in another case for which a report had been generated. He also subpoenaed Mosher, and hired a digital forensics expert in an attempt to review the code and the two Cybercheck reports about Mendoza. He tells WIRED that all that experts in a separate case allegedly saw were a couple hundred lines of code that created a program for searching public websites for information about a subject—nothing like the 1 million lines of code and more than 700 algorithms Mosher has testified about in pre-trial hearings.

“It was the equivalent of what you would do on a Google search,” Malarcik alleges. “What we didn’t see is the secret sauce, which [Mosher] claims is the machine learning that takes these data points and turns it into intelligence that takes a cyber profile and says it was at this location. That’s what he’s never disclosed to us.”

Mosher and Global Intelligence did not respond to WIRED’s questions about Malarcik’s claims.

Malarcik requested the court hold what is known as a Daubert hearing to determine whether Mosher’s testimony about Cybercheck’s findings was credible enough to be admitted as evidence in Mendoza’s trial. Two days before the hearing date, Summit County prosecutors decided to not use Cybercheck as evidence. Since then, the prosecutor’s office has withdrawn Cybercheck reports in three other cases, involving four men accused of murder, in which they potentially could have been presented as evidence, according to Malarcik and court records. In early August, Mendoza pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve at least 15 years of a 15-to-20.5-year sentence.

“In the cases we had with Cybercheck that went to trial, there were those aspects that Cybercheck found that the boots-on-the-ground detectives also found,” Brad Gessner, the Summit County prosecutor’s chief counsel, tells WIRED. “Those things matched.”

In total, the office has used, or intended to use, Cybercheck reports in 10 cases brought to them by the Akron Police Department, Gessner said. The Akron Beacon Journal and NBC News were the first to report about the county’s use of the tool.

The Summit County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to the Akron Beacon Journal this month that it is investigating whether Mosher lied under oath but provided no other details.

In other cases—murder trials for Salah Mahdi and Adarus Black—defense attorneys didn’t challenge the use of Cybercheck and the trials resulted in convictions. Both convictions were upheld by an appeals court.

Since then, judges overseeing the murder trials of Javion Rankin, Deair Wray, Demonte Carr, and Demetrius Carr have ruled that Cybercheck cannot be admitted as evidence unless Global Intelligence grants the defendants access to its source code. However, the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office appealed several of those rulings, and in September an Ohio appeals court ruled that the trial court erred in excluding the Cybercheck reports as evidence for reasons unrelated to the technology’s effectiveness.

In other jurisdictions, WIRED found, prosecutors have also decided not to use Cybercheck reports, or have dropped charges against defendants after defense attorneys scrutinized the findings and Mosher’s testimony.

In 2021, Midland County, Texas sheriff’s deputies were investigating the murder of a woman whose burned body had been found in a roadside field. Deputies had arrested the woman’s ex-boyfriend, Sergio Cerna, on unrelated charges. When they searched his phone, according to an affidavit, they found text messages in which he threatened the victim, including texts that read, “Your car is going to be burned down then you will be next.” But they couldn’t find evidence that placed Cerna near the scene of the crime.

The sheriff’s office asked Cybercheck for help and received a report claiming that the algorithms had determined, with 97.25 percent accuracy, that Cerna’s cyber profile had pinged a wireless LaserJet printer near the crime scene the day the victim’s body was found. Prosecutors wanted to use the report as evidence at Cerna’s trial, but his defense requested a Daubert hearing. Halfway through the hearing and before the defense could cross-examine Mosher, assistant district attorney Lisa Borden decided not to use Mosher’s testimony or the Cybercheck report at trial.

“We would have needed to be able to authenticate that data,” she tells WIRED, but by the time of the Daubert hearing, the printer that Cybercheck had identified in its report couldn’t be located. That was the first, and only, Daubert hearing that Cybercheck has been subjected to in the country, according to court records and Global Intelligence.

A Midland County jury convicted Cerna in March and sentenced him to life in prison. Cerna’s attorney said he would appeal the conviction.

In Colorado, questions about Mosher and Cybercheck preceded prosecutors’ dropping the charges and sealing the file against a defendant in what law enforcement said was a child sexual abuse material (CSAM) case. After learning that the local district attorney’s office planned to enter Cybercheck evidence at trial and call Mosher as an expert witness, defense attorney Eric Zale hired private investigators to look into Mosher’s background.

Mosher told the Boulder County court that he’d previously testified as an expert witness in two CSAM cases in Canada, according to Zale and an appeal brief filed by Malarcik for another client in which a Cybercheck report had been shared in discovery. But after being contacted by Zale’s investigator, the Canadian prosecutors in one of those cases contacted the prosecutor in Boulder County to say that Mosher had never been called to testify in any capacity. The defendant, who was related to Mosher, had pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial. A prosecutor familiar with the other Canadian case wrote to the court that no charges had ever been brought against the person whose trial Mosher had told a judge he testified at.

Zale alleges Mosher is “preying on this kind of holy grail of technology to sucker local law enforcement and judges and prosecutors, and frankly some defense counsel” into relying on Cybercheck’s technology.

Mosher did not respond to WIRED’s request to comment on Zale’s claims. Global Intelligence did not dispute that Mosher claimed to have testified as an expert in the two Canadian cases.

“Mr. Mosher felt at the time that he needed to relay all court participation activities including provision of statements regarding an investigation,” the unnamed Global Intelligence employee wrote. “Other prosecutors have reviewed this matter during other trial proceedings, finding this incident was more of a lost-in-translation issue as opposed to some sort of impropriety.”

WIRED requested the names of those prosecutors but did not receive a response.

No Receipts

The challenges in Ohio and Texas have hinged on an unusual aspect of Cybercheck that differentiates it from other digital forensics tools: The automated system doesn’t retain supporting evidence for its findings. As Mosher has testified under oath in multiple jurisdictions, Cybercheck doesn’t record where it sources its data, how it draws connections between various data points, or how it specifically calculates its accuracy rates.

In Mendoza’s case, for example, no one knows exactly how Cybercheck determined that the email address “ladypimpjuice625@aol.com” belonged to Mendoza. Nor did Global Intelligence explain exactly how the system determined that Mendoza’s cyber profile had pinged the wireless devices near 1228 Fifth Avenue.

Mosher has testified that the only information Cybercheck retains during its search process is the data it deems relevant to the investigation, all of which is included in the reports it automatically generates for investigators. Anything else, including potentially contradictory information about who owns a particular email address or online alias, is supposedly processed by the algorithms and used to calculate the accuracy scores that Cybercheck includes in its reports but isn’t archived.

“When you're asking, you know, do we preserve all the artifacts and all the data that we crawl—we couldn't realistically do that because it's zettabytes of data,” Mosher testified in the Texas Daubert hearing on January 19, 2024. A zettabyte is equivalent to more than 1 trillion gigabytes.

Mosher has testified that Cybercheck doesn’t need to show its work because its conclusions are derived from open source data that anyone with the proper open source intelligence (OSINT) training can find on the web.

“If you give that [Cybercheck] report to a skilled investigator that knows cyberspace and machine learning, they're going to come up with the exact same results,” Mosher testified during the murder trial of Adarus Black, in Summit County.

Rob Lee is an OSINT expert and chief of research and faculty lead at the SANS Institute, a leading provider of cybersecurity and infosec training. According to Mosher’s résumé and court testimony, Mosher took more than a dozen SANS Institute training courses prior to founding Global Intelligence.

At WIRED’s request, Lee and a team of researchers at the SANS Institute reviewed Cybercheck reports and the descriptions of the system that Mosher has given under oath. They say it’s highly unlikely that some of the information in the reports can be gathered from publicly available sources.

Specifically, to determine when a particular device has pinged a wireless network, an analyst would need to either physically intercept the signal or have access to the device or the network’s logs, neither of which are open source, Lee says. That kind of access requires a search warrant.

“There is a lack of peer review and transparency in [Cybercheck’s] algorithmic processes, which makes me question the legitimacy, sufficiency, and legality of the datasets used for accurate profiling and geolocation,” Lee tells WIRED. “The claim of achieving this level of accuracy using only open source data without further validation and transparency in the tool's methods and data sources is highly suspicious and questionable.”

A Global Intelligence employee tells WIRED that law enforcement works with “industry analysts and experts in the open source intelligence space who are manually replicating and backstopping intelligence data from our reports.” They add that “investigations and prosecutions only move ahead on the strength of the evidence gathered by agencies and verified after backstopping Cybercheck intelligence.” The company’s response did not address claims that certain data, such as whether a device connected to a specific Wi-Fi network, are typically not accessible via open source methods.

“Completely False”

During the Black murder trial in November 2022, Mosher testified that, since January 2021, Cybercheck had run approximately 1,900 searches for suspects’ historical locations and another 1,000 searches for their real-time locations. Out of those 2,900 searches, Mosher testified, there was only one search in which the individual didn’t turn out to be in the location Cybercheck listed for their cyber profile.

But in interviews with WIRED and in emails obtained by WIRED through public records requests, more than one of Cybercheck’s law enforcement clients allege the company’s technology provided information that investigators were unable to substantiate or that contradicted reliable sources.

In January, Mark Kollar, an assistant superintendent with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), wrote an email to Cybercheck about a search warrant his agency had served to an email provider seeking information about an account that Cybercheck linked to a suspect. “The email provider is saying that the email listed in the Cybercheck report doesn’t exist and has never existed,” Kollar wrote.

The Ohio BCI, which is a division of the state attorney general’s office, entered into a $30,000 trial contract with Cybercheck in August 2023 and submitted more than a dozen cases to the company, Steve Irwin, a spokesperson for the attorney general’s office, tells WIRED. “BCI has not received results on many of the cases and some of the leads produced haven’t panned out,” he says. “Due to the lack of investigative leads that have been produced, BCI has no intentions of entering into another contract with the company.”

The Yakima County Sheriff’s Office, in Washington, signed an $11,000 contract in 2022 allowing them to submit 20 cases to Cybercheck. “I think we still have access to Cybercheck, but we don’t use it,” Casey Schilperoort, the sheriff’s public information officer, wrote in an email. “I heard that we don’t receive much or accurate information.”

In an unofficial email chain in which investigators from different agencies shared their experiences with the technology, which WIRED obtained through a public record request, Aurora, Colorado detective Nicholas Lesnansky wrote that Cybercheck had identified someone as a suspect in one of his department’s homicide cases because the person’s cyber profile pinged a router located at an address of interest. “Detectives went and spoke to the resident at that home who has lived there for 20+ years and never had a router by that name so we can’t corroborate their information,” Lesnansky wrote. Neither Mosher nor Global Intelligence responded to WIRED’s inquiry about Lesnansky’s claims.

In a second Aurora case involving the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old, Global Intelligence staff were “adamant” that Cybercheck had identified the killer, but Lesnansky’s investigation was pointing toward an individual he considered a more likely suspect. “They then came up with a scenario where it was a gang initiation thing where the person they had identified was driving the person I think is more likely around,” Lesnansky wrote. “I doubt the suspect Cybercheck identified and the other person I find more likely are driving around together as one has had his house shot up by the other several times.”

On the same email chain, Heather Collins, a special victims unit intelligence analyst with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, wrote that she used Cybercheck on a missing juvenile case. “They gave us information on possible ‘suspects’ and it wound up being completely false. We located the missing juvenile using other methods. They wasted our time.”

Mosher did not respond to WIRED’s questions about Collins’ allegation that the information Global Intelligence provided was false.

In other cases, Cybercheck appears to have produced accurate information, although investigators weren’t always able to act on it.

Joe Moylan, the public information officer for the Aurora Police Department, says that his agency has requested information from Cybercheck on five cases, and that in two of those cases the technology was “beneficial to the investigations,” although no arrests have been made as a result.

In 2017, then 9-year-old Kayla Unbehaun was abducted. For years, the South Elgin, Illinois police department searched for Unbehaun and her noncustodial mother, Heather Unbehaun, who was accused of the abduction, following her trail to Georgia, where they hit a dead end. During that time, the department signed a contract with Global Intelligence, and sergeant Dan Eichholz received a Cybercheck report that placed Unbehaun and her mother in Oregon, he tells WIRED. It was a new lead, but because Cybercheck didn’t provide any evidence to support its findings, Eichholz couldn’t use the report to obtain a search warrant.

Unbehaun was finally reunited with her father in 2023, after an employee at a consignment shop in Asheville, North Carolina, recognized her mother from a picture shown on the Netflix show Unsolved Mysteries. After Unbehaun was located, Eichholz learned during the follow-up investigation that, until several months earlier, the pair had indeed been living in Oregon.

“I don’t want to say it wasn’t actionable, but I couldn’t just take their information and go with it,” Eichholz says. “That was always the hang-up for us. ‘OK, you got me this information, but I still have to check and verify and do my thing with search warrants.’” The child abduction case against Heather Unbehaun is ongoing.

Any Help They Can Get

Cybercheck has spread to law enforcement agencies across the country thanks to generous marketing offers and word-of-mouth recommendations. But in interviews with WIRED and the email exchanges we examined, there was little evidence that law enforcement agencies sought or received evidence to support Global Intelligence’s claims about what its technology could do.

Prosecutors who spoke to WIRED, such as Borden from Midland County, say they learned about Cybercheck because law enforcement in their jurisdiction had been using it. And when it came up in a case, they let the adversarial court system decide whether or not it was legitimate.

“It was new technology and I was curious, so I was like, ‘Let’s give it a try and see how far we can get,’” Borden says. “I’m thankful that it didn’t come into evidence in my case, that I didn’t need it to get my conviction.”

Emails show Global Intelligence sales representatives regularly offered to run police departments’ cases through Cybercheck for free in order to demonstrate the technology. They also referenced cases that Global Intelligence characterized as high profile and that Cybercheck supposedly helped solve, without naming the cases outright or providing evidence that Cybercheck had made any difference in the investigations.

Emails obtained by WIRED from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation show that investigators were initially excited to see what information Cybercheck could provide about their cold cases. They even introduced Global Intelligence sales representatives to other law enforcement agencies in Ohio. That enthusiasm seems to have helped convince other agencies to trust the company.

Gessner, from the Summit County Prosecutor’s office, says that when his agency was deciding whether to use Cybercheck evidence, it asked the Ohio BCI’s cybercrimes unit for an opinion. “They said, yes, it makes sense … we don't have the technology to do this, but we'd love to have it.” County prosecutors also reached out to the SANS Institute, he says, and were told the institute didn’t “do this type of stuff.”

But even as it has withdrawn evidence that Cybercheck provided, Gessner says the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office is asking other companies whether they can do the same kind of open source locating that Global Intelligence marketed.

“We don’t want to shut doors that can help point to the truth in our cases,” he says.

[dailysonadowfanfics]

Reading every single Sonadow Fanfic (Ao3): 309/4.790

Title: Hollow

Author: orphan_account

Website: Ao3

Published: 24.07.2019

Word Count: 4.269 words

Language: English

Suited for minors? At this point in the story i'd say teen and up

Warnings: Violence, Major Character Death

Smut? No

Finished? No

Characters: Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog(mentioned), Mephiles the Dark, Silver the Hedgehog, Blaze the Cat, Knuckles the Echidna, Miles Tails Prower, Amy Rose, Rouge the Bat

Ships: Sonic/Shadow (mentioned), Mephiles/Silver

Author Tags: Sonadow - Freeform, Mephilver, slight knuxouge, a lot of gore, no nsfw or smut, Manipulation, Brainwashing, Mentions of genocide, technically not mephilver but kind of, won’t spoil, Crushes, Bonds, Insanity

Author Summary: It was unexpected, at the very least.

When given the task to murder Sonic the Hedgehog, the accused “Iblis Trigger”- Silver believes that even that isn’t enough to save his world.

My summary: This fic is unfinished and at that point more focused on Silver during the events of Sonic 06. One mention of Shadow that is sonadow coded.

You can read it here

[carpediem-celebrpg-events]

Under the cut is the roommate list for Atlantis trip. Please keep your eye on it throughout the week for any changes for people coming and go! If you see a typo or two of your celebrities paired together please let us know as we'd love to see you interact with your roommate for the week!

Regular rooms ( floors 2 & 3)

201: Sabrina Carpenter & Seth McFarlane

202: Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens

203: Demi Bennett & Ashley Benson

205: Chris Evans & Alexa Vega

206: Freya Allen & Renee Rapp

207: Chris Meloni & Selena Gomez

208: Danneel Ackles & Jeremy Renner

209: Glenn Powell & Hilarie Burton

303: Kendall Schmidt

304: Alex Gaskarth

Presidential suites (Floor 3& 4)

307:: Deborah Ann Woll & Liam Hemsworth

308: Dianna Agron & Alexander Skarsgard

309: Elizabeth Olsen & Tyler Hoechlin

401: Janel Parrish & Keegan Allen

402: Katy Perry & Henry Cavill

403: Lucy Hale & Carlos Pena

404: Nina Dobrev & Jensen Ackles

405: Shay Mitchell & Jared Padalecki

406: Taylor Swift & Chris Hemsworth

[sophia-hjkl]

FEATURED IN A BANDCAMP DAILY WRITEUP ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE LABELS, SUITE 309

[gregoftom]

Proof for you, lmao https://www.google.com/amp/s/bamfstyle.com/2023/03/26/succession-309-tom-cream-suit/amp/

good grief. i haven’t finished the ep yet but i’m excited for the tomgreg goodness later on. AS FOR YOU. god bless you. the devil works hard but tomgreggies work harder

ALSO THIS FUCKING PARAGRAPH.

castrates his soul. well that’s one way to put it.

[extraordinarilyextreme]

my full author's notes for 岁月不待人 | the moon and the tides, you and i because (for the first time) i ran out of space on ao3 😭

Zhuge Qing, as a Qimen sorcerer (奇门术士), is interested in both his own bagua (八卦; the Eight Trigrams) and others’ (slang for “gossip”)

unless i simply missed it, the live-action doesn’t really explain why Zhang Chulan’s nickname is a-Lian (阿莲; “lotus”). it’s because he was so shameless during the tournament that people cussed him out for “not having any fucking face” (不要逼脸), which then became a pun/homophone:  不摇碧莲 (lit. “the unshakeable jade lotus”)

the meme that Zhuge Qing sends Feng Baobao is the 不要靠近---，会变得不幸 joke

i really wanted to explore Zhuge Qing and Zhang Lingyu’s friendship more lol. they’re the first to size each other up, yet they don’t really seem to interact after the tournament??? 

“That I like him is not false” (“我喜欢他不假。”) is a line Zhuge Qing says in manhua chapter 309 about Wang Ye. it was cut from the donghua

A heart that cradles everything beneath the heavens (心怀天下)

a very famous scene (名场面) during the end of the Biyou Village arc is when Wang Ye beats up Zhuge Qing (王也踏青图 LOL)

Zhuge Qing is the star fated to oppose Wang Ye (克星; lit. “star that restrains,” “star that subdues”). my use of “oppose” is meant to callback to all the times they stand facing each other within their Qimen arrays

“It’s been many days since we last saw each other; you’ve lost weight.” (“多日未见，你瘦了。”）

“Happy end-of-filming.” (“杀青快乐。”; lit. can be understood as “Happy killing/murder of Qing”) which is why Zhuge Qing jokes that it’s inauspicious

the Tying-a-Red-String Squad (牵红线小分队) is a rather literal translation, but i liked the imagery. it’s really more like the Matchmaking Squad or the Wingmen Squad

in the source material, Wang Ye (26 yo) is 182cm, whereas Zhuge Qing (25 yo) is 180cm. this is a live-action set-up though, so i’m pleased to inform everyone that Hou Minghao is 178cm and Wanyan Luorong is 188cm. 你看着身高差，很难不嗑

the black coat, blue scarf, gloves, and boots outfit that Wang Ye wears is a reference to this douyin of Hou Minghao’s, which is in turn a reference to a sequence in the donghua’s season 3 opening

Hou Minghao has almond-shaped eyes (杏眼) <3

“Like the perfect blooming flowers and the round full moon, may the ones you care about be at peace for ages to come” (花好月圆人长久) is fairly common Mid-Autumn Festival phrase. 花好月圆 in particular is also related with conjugal bliss and can be used as congratulations for someone’s marriage

similarly, “The most beautiful landscape that can be described with words: the wind and moon that are without boundary; I wish you a joyful festival” (风月无边，佳节愉快) is often used for the Mid-Autumn Festival. 风月无边 comes from this poem and can also allude to the romantic affairs between people～

drifting clouds and wild storks (闲云野鹤) is an idiom: free and unrestrained, aloof from worldly concerns. i think it suits Wang Ye very well, as someone who is always searching for peace but will never be able to attain it

“it is for me that your mortal heart beats” (你是为我动的凡心). another translation that i ended up scrapping was “it is for me that you developed mortal desires.”

“actor” (艺人) and “Outsider” (异人) sound the same; hence, Wang Ye was making a really shitty pun. rui offered a better translation: “I may not be in a film cast, but I am an Outcast.” 

a dragonfly kissing the surface of a pond (蜻蜓点水)

Hou Minghao and Wanyan Luorong do both have freckles on their eyelids!!

i owe rui my LIFE for helping me come up with Xiao Hao’s (肖豪) name. 豪 can refer to “a person of extraordinary powers,” so i thought it fitting for the setting. his name is also supposed to be a pun for 消耗 (“to consume,” “to use up”), because he was wasting Wang Ye’s time

QingYe’s conversation about platinum-colored hair is reference to Hou Minghao’s birthday photoshoot. platinum (白金) can be broken down into “white” and “gold,” which is why Wang Ye asks if Zhuge Qing is saying “you’ll be with me till our hair turns white” (白头偕老; to remain happily married till a ripe old age)

Zhuge Qing teases Wang Ye by using 嫁 (“to be taken as someone’s wife”; “to marry” [women-only]) rather than 娶 (“to take someone as wife”; “to marry” [men-only]). of course, Wang Ye points out he’s a whole-ass man (老爷们儿)

“Face this world with sincerity, and so shall you obtain a sincere character. When you can face this world with calmness always, then so shall you achieve peace and tranquility forever.” (真常应物，真常得性；常应常静，常清静矣。) is the Sutra of Everlasting Peace (清静经) that Wang Ye recites in episode 15 of the live-action

“Cultivation doesn’t happen in the past. It happens now.” (修行不在过去，在现在) comes from Zhang Chulan’s closing monologue in episode 27 of the live-action. Cultivation, of course, is another word for life

“The amount of good cabbage you’ve ruined makes you no less than a pig” references 好白菜都让猪给拱了, which can mean that “a pure/good[-looking] person has been spoiled by someone scummy.” 拱 has sexual undertones lol

peach blossoms represent [romantic] love～

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Title: A Day in the Life of Spider-Man

Pairings Peter Parker  x Gwen Stacy

Word count: 309

Warnings: None

Summary: Peter Parker spends a day with Gwen Stacy, enjoying simple pleasures like making pancakes and watching movies together, finding comfort in her presence amid the challenges of being Spider-Man.

A/N: setting the stage for a fluffy mini-series centered around Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man and Emma Stone's Gwen.

Peter swung through the city, feeling the familiar rush of wind against his face as he traversed the skyline. Today was a special day - he had promised Gwen they would spend some quality time together, away from the chaos of his double life as Spider-Man.

As he landed gracefully on the rooftop of Gwen's apartment building, he couldn't help but smile at the thought of seeing her. He quickly changed into his civilian clothes, tucking his Spider-Man suit safely into his backpack before descending the fire escape to knock on Gwen's window.

Gwen's face lit up with a bright smile as she opened the window, her eyes sparkling with excitement. "Peter! You made it!" she exclaimed, pulling him into a tight hug.

"Wouldn't miss it for the world," Peter replied, returning her hug warmly. "What's on the agenda for today?"

Gwen grinned mischievously. "Well, I thought we could start with some homemade pancakes for breakfast, followed by a stroll in the park, and maybe a movie marathon later?"

Peter's heart swelled with affection for the girl standing before him. "Sounds perfect," he said, brushing a stray strand of hair away from her face.

Together, they spent the morning flipping pancakes in Gwen's cozy kitchen, laughing and chatting as they enjoyed each other's company. As they walked hand in hand through the park, Peter couldn't shake the feeling of contentment that washed over him.

As the sun began to set, they settled on the couch with a pile of blankets and snacks, ready to dive into their movie marathon. Gwen snuggled up against Peter, resting her head on his shoulder as they lost themselves in the world of cinema.

In that moment, Peter felt truly at peace. Despite the dangers he faced as Spider-Man, he knew that as long as he had Gwen by his side, everything would be okay.

As the credits rolled on the final movie of the night, Peter glanced down at Gwen, who had fallen asleep against him. Gently, he lifted her in his arms and carried her to bed, tucking her in with a soft kiss on the forehead.

With a smile on his face, Peter whispered, "Sweet dreams, Gwen," before quietly slipping out of her room and back into the night, ready to face whatever challenges awaited him as Spider-Man. But for now, he was just Peter Parker, and that was more than enough.

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