I don't remember any others off the top of my head
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I don't remember any others off the top of my head
I know what a house venue is, I'm old but not that old. I was just citing what they wrote in quote marks. The diaries are very inconsistent/rambling/mistake-prone.
I don't remember there being any preoccupation with trans kids in particular
On the music venue: @kylebazgo.bsky.social found it -- it is indeed someone's house where they hold concerts, and is presented as a trans/furry/queer space. (They intentionally withhold the address from being public)
It's not a disclosure issue. There just isn't as much out there. Crooks used a VPN, was careful, etc. The MN shooter literally posted a 250+ page hand-written diary in a 20-minute YouTube video. The two couldn't be any different with how they operated.
@kylebazgo.bsky.social found it -- Dogpark is indeed someone's house where they hold concerts, and is presented as a trans/furry/queer space. (They intentionally withhold the address from being public)
1) The Minnesota shooter filmed 250+ pages of their diary and posted it online. Crooks did not. 2) We do know a decent amount about Crooks: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
When I taught first year Russian, some of my students did this to practice Cyrillic. Not that weird, and kinda fun when you're first starting to learn Russian
New video piece on the Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital that killed six journalists. From @ckoettl.bsky.social, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, and Natalie Reneau www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Probably none
Yeah it's hard to search because the band and actual dog parks ruin the search. Most likely it's a big house where a lot of local bands play. Elsewhere in the journal the shooter talks about going to a concert with lots of trans/queer people present, so it could be the same place.
The politics/ideology are all over the place -- it definitely deserves a fuller treatment. The shooter talks about wanting to shoot up hate groups like Nazis to make the world a better place, while simultaneously talking about hating Jews/Mexicans/black people. Nothing is consistent.
Direction quotation from what they said, though I probably should have put armed in quotes too. Full sentence here: "But this might be a 'so radically left they went right' kinda place and there might be armed trans girls."
You're giving it more thought that the shooter did
I put it in quotes because it's a direct quotation, here's the full sentence: "But this might be a 'so radically left they went right' kinda place and there might be armed trans girls"
They were vague about the venue itself, and the descriptions gave the impression that it is not like an official, established business/concert hall/bar. (A "house venue", so I assume like a big house where they have shows with lots of people)
Self taught (very elementary)
Yes true
(An outlet translated "Бэионэта" as "Beyonce". Maybe they don't play enough video games to know the reference.)
Here's what it looks like in Pinpoint with OCR-ed text. You have to read a *lot* of the diary to pick up how vowels in particular are transliterated. For example, highlighted word below is "continuing" I've seen a major outlet mis-"translate" a key word or two in their coverage.
I screenshotted every page (this only took like 10-15 minutes with SnagIt), uploaded them to Pinpoint, and it did a good job of OCR-ing the handwritten faux-Russian. I could then do keyword searches in Russian (predicting how it was written) to make sure I didn't miss big topics.
On a more boring, technical note, as I like to describe research/reporting methodologies whenever I do a story: I read a big chunk of the diaries just old-school style of taking notes while watching the video with the pages being flipped through. Eventually, I used Google Pinpoint.
Aha, hadn't seen this before, thanks! "At the father's home, police recovered a tactical vest, two external media storage devices and miscellaneous documents, according to the search warrant."
Another point that didn't make it into the article, but is fairly obvious, is that the shooter was suicidal, and frequently mentioned wanting to die and while taking out as many people as possible in the process.
(I haven't seen if there was other reporting about the father being aware of all the guns, but I haven't really looked for anything about this. There are mentions of going to shooting ranges with friends/family, so maybe?)
No. The shooter was learning (very basic/elementary) Russian. When I taught first-year Russian, a lot of students did the same thing to practice Cyrillic, and feel cool in writing in a sorta secret language. That part didn't really feel odd to me, it was just obnoxious to read.
Didn't live with the father. The shooter describes trying to hide guns from a guy they were crashing with after a breakup with their girlfriend.
We don't talk about politics in this piece, it's just focused on the planning. The politics stuff would need an entirely other article. But yes they are very racist (and talk endlessly about being racist in the diaries), are anti-Semitic, etc. And extremely edgelord about it.
In sum: the church/school were chosen because of an obsession with hurting and killing children (this was extremely disturbing to read in the diary), and it being a soft target compared to a Trump rally or a political assassination (Trump/Musk/Nazis/"execs of greedy megacorps" are mentioned).
(The diary explicitly describes dismissing a plan to attack a Trump rally partly because of the prospect of many armed rally participants)
The shooter constantly talked about looking out for other people with guns, thinking that some "old fart" may be armed, and in previous plans about a music venue, being convinced that a lot of "trans girls" may be armed. (I assume it's a popular venue in the trans community?)
The diaries describe multiple scouting / recon trips to the church, including one at Sunday Mass a few weeks before the shooting. The diaries describe going to meet with a church official to assess security under the guise of volunteering for church music service.
The shooter considered many targets, including a Trump rally, mosque, synagogue, grocery store, and theater. The first plan was to attack a music venue in Minneapolis, with detailed plans on the layout, how to approach, etc. This was later abandoned for the church/school target.
The vast majority of the writing is not at all interesting -- it's the same tropes you see in every manifesto, diary, etc. from mass shooters. It was written in what was described as a light "cipher" -- English transliterated into mistake-filled Russian, and a few Russian words.
As the kids say, skill issue
The diaries of the Minnesota school shooter go for over 250 pages. I've spent the last few days reading them. The writing is full of self-hatred, detailed planning, and obsessions with inflicting pain & suffering. From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
sure
In one of the videos on the suspected Minnesota school shooter's YouTube account, he wrote "I'm a bassoon" in Russian (If you know Russian, you know what he was actually trying to say)
Story from Isabel Kershner, me, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, @ckoettl.bsky.social, and Aaron Boxerman. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Pretty straightforward to see the sequence of events here. Reuters was livestreaming from this staircase on August 25th, as they had each day on August 18-22. The camera operator was killed in one of the two strikes (most of those killed were in the second one, at the same spot)
This video compilation shows a series of other videos with a number of journalists at the same exterior staircase location at Nasser Hospital, back in January 2024. It was clearly a place where journalists regularly filmed/streamed, for years now. x.com/MiddleEastEy...
See Younis's thread from earlier: x.com/ytirawi/stat... Reuters streamed there back in July and all last week. The AP has also streamed there from the same staircase location overlooking Khan Younis.
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there. The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream. From me and others (see byline/contribs) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Happy 21st birthday to my Gmail account, it can now buy a beer (and legally sports gamble)
*Airport
No I'm giving him a very good idea
Don't even get me started on the dozen AI slop games that pretend to be the Steam trading card shop simulator game
There was that silly and fun "Digging a Hole" game on Steam that cost like $10. And now there are at least 5 (I don't think I'm even exaggerating) AI clone slop games on the Playstation store imitating it, like "Fantasy Digging a Hole Simulator", etc.
A very simple executive order Trump could do to gain +20 with 18-35 men is to force Sony and Nintendo to ban slop on their game stores. It's insane looking through the catalogues, with hentai games on Switch (?!) and "Recycling Center Simulator" and "Life in [Airpot] Terminal Simulator" in PS store
The story we did, if you're interested (no paywall, gift article): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Did a podcast on the online pedo hunter piece that @neilbedi.bsky.social and I wrote a few months ago pod.link/1780210954/e...
And this, found on Reddit, a 2004 community TV broadcast from Indiana www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6a...
The videos were filmed by Ibrahim al-Sallout, see on his Instagram here: www.instagram.com/p/DMkmVvNo6n...
The satellite image of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks and the videos filmed from the ground made it on A1 of today's paper
"A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up" — short write-up on this image and video from Ibrahim Alsallout by @aric.bsky.social at the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
Yeah it's likely thousands but I'm horrible at estimating crowd sizes.
Shout-out to @godin.bsky.social for matching videos from a Palestinian reporting from the exact same location as the satellite image. bsky.app/profile/godi...
On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
A massive crowd of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks is visible in July 26 SkySat imagery from @planet.com near the so-called Morag Corridor at 31.3104, 34.2822 in southern Gaza. July 26 video from Ibrahim Alsallout on Instagram showed the crowd from the ground: www.instagram.com/p/DMkmVvNo6n...
Alasdair found a new photograph of the venue in the Illustrated London News (21 November 1925)
Not about me, I would never gatekeep Epstein lore
and still live in Kansas!
Amazing shot/chaser from the police department near my hometown in rural Kansas
fyi the Internet Archive has a really great collection of old Jason Molina shows -- archive.org/details/Magn... (I recommend this one, it feels the closest to Trial and Errors of the recordings on the site archive.org/details/meco...)
A wonderful, and very well-made, video from Kubrick scholar @archiviokubrick.it on this search for the Overlook Hotel photograph that closes The Shining: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7x...
Just saw a guy tweet about the dangers of socialism by citing "Solgenitzen" and the Gulag "Arcipeligo"
You've probably seen it but there's a huge community of people who follow up on old Unsolved Mysteries cases. There's a message board where a lot of people who were in episodes (or their family) write updates. It's really fascinating
Nah I just watch way too much Unsolved Mysteries/Intervention
I wrote a book chapter where I used ancient Usenet posts about X-Files to talk about QAnon: www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/...
Unsolved Mysteries provides the best time capsule view of how average / lower-class Americans talked, acted, etc for the early/mid-90s. Intervention fills this gap for the 2000s.
100%, I could write a book about my feelings about the show but losing that vibe was maybe worse than losing Duchovny and the main lore going totally off the rails.
Unsolved Mysteries is the other show that scratches the early/mid-90s nostalgia better than anything
The very early X-Files seasons are the most perfect and comforting little time capsule into the mid-90s, but man these later ones are hard to watch. But I'll still always watch that garbage when I see it on YouTube TV.
Had old episodes of a Parts Unknown on in the background tonight when working. The Iran one happened to play today.
I totally forgot how off-the-rails late X-Files got. Just rewatched the S9 episode where Ben Linus from Lost plays an magical, evil version of Cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch.
Works for me. Go to the nytimes.com front page, it's there too.
Two Palestinians showed us first-person videos of what it's like to try and retrieve, and provide, food in Gaza City. By Ang Li, Meg Felling, and me. Heaps of geolocation help too from @fdov21.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
More details on Rodriguez in this piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
same guy. loather was banned, so he made a new account with 1 letter difference.
yeah most everyone can
And another, with a Habbo Hotel reference. bsky.app/profile/trav...
www.israelhayom.com/2024/09/30/t...
The automated crawler
If you want to see his old tweets before his original account was suspended, go here. (He was a Don Hughes reply guy) The weird URL structure breaks when hyperlinking and I can't get it to work without looking wonky.
See: bsky.app/profile/kyot...
The manifesto is indeed that of the Israeli embassy staffer shooter. He previously used his email address (eliasninefour@gmail.com) for the Twitter account @kyotoloather, but was banned after DMing death threats to Will Stancil. More: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u... x.com/kyotoleather...
Bonus lore: This is the same video that Grok got obsessed with last week, when it kept yelling about white genocide in South Africa. x.com/RadishHarmer...
Trump claims that a video shows the “burial sites” of “over 1,000” white farmers in South Africa. It doesn't. From @rileymellen.bsky.social and me www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
First I'm seeing this (would have cited you if we got it from here of course), good spot!
I didn't see anything on Discord or her post -- I only searched on Twitter about this and don't read blue sky outside of my mentions. But good spot on it!
The government's use of private planes to facilitate deportation flights leads to some strange coincidences. The Georgtown student paper did an interesting piece on how planes used by the basketball team for away games are also used for ICE deportations: thehoya.com/news/inside-...
The private plane that the U.S. government used to deport eight migrants to Djibouti/South Sudan (unclear what the final destination is) was previously used in the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
The New York Times (gifted) article has a very well done shocking visualisation of the destruction of Rafah by Israel. Not damaged by war, but destroyed, razed to the ground.
I tried counting how many buildings were destroyed in Rafah in just April -- I had done this with no issue in some previous investigations on Israeli combat engineers -- but it was just too many. (I did count 300+ greenhouses/agricultural structures around Rafah destroyed over just a few weeks)
Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Start with an entry level orange pop and work your way up to an exotic root beer
If it wasn't for that school and water tank in the background, I wouldn't have recognized the scene from the image from just 48 hours ago. The IDF has been very thorough in destroying neighborhoods in Rafah proper and north of the town, and now they're working in the northwest parts of the city.
There is a *lot* more destruction visible in this video that was not in the May 11th satellite image from Planet. Parts of the Tel Sultan neighborhood were relatively (compared to the rest of Rafah) unharmed. Now, it looks like the IDF is now destroying this large residential area.
