#with links to more information and whatnot because i've been bookmarking a lot of stuff shared through twitter

[twinsoftriumph]

i know i haven't been very active here or on my non-sky account in the first place, but with bisan calling for a strike, i thought it would be worth at least making a post about her message here:

pressure against israel's war crimes and their acts of ethnic cleansing + genocide is building, and there is always a way to contribute to this pressure. let's continue listening to and amplifying palestinian voices!

[fapangel]

How do you get all of this information for your updates? I read them, and find them the best source of information I can find, but how the hell do *you* put them together? There's always like a bajillion links, and it's information from places spread out over a pretty large area, and always cross-referenced. How do you do it?

It takes a LOT of time and I'm getting better at it as I go. And I freely admit I'm cribbing from other OSINT accounts all the time. For instance, I'll check the Finnish scribblemap, see where they are showing advances or whatever I never heard about, then go search for the name of that village or whatnot on Twitter and see what pops up. I was able to find the recent reports of damage in Makariv that way, for instance. (I've got the Finns in my OSINT bookmarks folder now but since I'm not on Twitter I can't actually ask them directly about their sources.) The other absolute fucking hero is an account of "10+ volunteers" who geolocate as much footage as possible and also repost other twitter users who geolocated stuff. I also always click through on various videos to see if someone in the comments has geolocated it. Geolocated video is of tremendous value because it confirms that an event actually happened where it's said to have happened. It also shows you exactly where it happened; many videos are just titled "Kharkiv oblast," which could mean near the city or anywhere in the entire fucking region. It doesn't just filter out mislabeled videos reposted by idiots (or info ops) it gives you a much finer-grained understanding of where things are happening.

The way I sort is to open my OSINT bookmarks folder (in incognito mode because Twitter is making itself more and more of a cunt about preventing non-account owners from viewing it) and scrolling through various feeds. As I see salient data I (on my second monitor) ctrl-T in a non-incognito window, ctrl-v to paste, then right-click to add the tab to a new group that I'll name "Odessa" or "kharkiv" or just "general" or w/e. I have to copy-paste to a normal window because Chrome loves to die on me cuz "muh RAM" and incognito mode doesn't save in history so you lose everything if it dies. Ha! Ha! THANKS TWITTER, FUCK YOU.

Then I read through all that shit, parse it, etc. Sometimes have to let it percolate a little to draw a bigger picture. Then I start pulling it all together.

I'm also reading the ISW daily reports, and reading the Ukrainian general staff bulletins directly as often as possible to ensure the ISW didn't leave out any tidbits that I find interesting, (there's been a few) and generally just, I'm going fucking insane! INSANE! INSANE!

And you all thought I was nuts when I was just pouring over Google Earth looking for DPRK TEL bunkers didn't you?

Oh, I keep Google Earth Pro open too (which isn't helping the RAM situation lmao Google) so I can quickly copypaste village names or decimal lat/long into the search and see where the hell these things are said or geolocated to be happening. This is confusing sometimes esp. with UMoD reports because some damn villages have the same name; you've got to be careful to sanity check the oblast/area of operations as well. Google Pro is free now btw and has been for a while, it's still a surprisingly powerful too.