I love r/shortguys, half of the posts are "a tall man did a crime and yet women still love him" and the other half are going through post histories of women married to short guys or short guys who say they're married to "prove" that the wife is definitely cheating.

Just saw a farm truck with a decal of an American flag that said "You cannot cancel all of us" in a rural Kansas town of 187 people.

Crypto casinos have become wildly popular with young people. Here's how the sites built an exploitative online marketing machine using celebrities like Drake and an army of livestreamers: w/ @aric.bsky.social Jenny Vrentas, Leo Dominguez and @iamrumz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There's a whole longform piece you could do on just this phenomenon that we didn't have space to go into. There's a huge industry of people going into villages in India, Kenya, Philippines, etc. and gathering up tons of IDs and having guys hold up papers with casino names on them for verification.

Great to see the New York Times picking up on my investigation from a couple of years ago at Sky news.sky.com/story/from-d... but how frustrating to see so little has changed in the time that's passed since my report.... A brilliant read from @aric.bsky.social and the NYT team also

An entire thesis about the consequences of the digital attention economy could be written based on this post alone

Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours. New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Three years ago, @michaelsheldon.bsky.social and I identified Ochur-Suge Mongush as the Russian soldier who castrated and murdered a Ukrainian POW in Pryvillia. Mongush was apparently given a medal (the "Order of Courage") and is fighting in Ukraine again. www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/08...

Alasdair kept digging and identified most of the photographs at the ending that are shown in montage before the ballroom photo is zoomed in on. Turns out that Ronald Regan is in multiple photos. www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKub...

Was thinking about movies with 100% penetration/familiarity with my generation, but probably four people under the age of 18 have watched (and likely under duress). Joe Dirt is the best one I could think of.

Watching an old Unsolved Mysteries episode and man it really fell off in the late Robert Stack seasons. There's a segment on now about a haunted toilet (it flushes on its own, and a lady heard 'conversations' emanating out of the bowl)

For some reason I've joined like 20 subreddits for retail store employees and r/DollarGeneralWorkers is definitely the best

Is Shazam/song recognition the actual most useful, universally loved use of AI? (I know that early Shazam didn't technically use AI, but you get the point)

We're still gathering applications for this job, if you haven't seen it and are interested. Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage:

Our New York Times Visual Investigations team is hiring a reporter. It's the same job I have -- use visual investigation/OSINT/etc. skills to report on the world. You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k. www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

For years when people on 4chan/elsewhere referred to mods by calling them "jannies", I thought it was short for Janissaries, from some ancient in-joke. Janitors is way more boring.

Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @aric.bsky.social (@nytimes.com) showed Friday the extent of Israel's razing operations in Gaza City. Using satellite analysis, they document the rapidly progressing destruction of Zeitoun and surrounding neighborhoods in Gaza's north.

The Utah shooter joked on Discord with his friends that his doppelganger killed Charlie Kirk when they asked him about it From Nick Bogel-Burroughs, and contribution from me. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

On the Utah shooter's meme bullet casings, and how the extremely-online shooter is now commonplace. From @sheeraf.bsky.social, Richard Fausset, and me. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

On the manhunt @robinsteinnyt.bsky.social has been monitoring police scanner chatter, and it's - as usual with these events - insane. It included chatter about police searching for a man with a prosthetic arm in a hospital (This was also a plot thread in Twin Peaks) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

New contribution to this piece from @malachy.bsky.social and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago. nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u... The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6). Compare with a 1997 photo here:

New contribution to this piece from @malachybrowne and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago. nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u... The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6). Compare with a 1997 photo here:

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/...

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...

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)

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)

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

Did a podcast on the online pedo hunter piece that @neilbedi.bsky.social and I wrote a few months ago pod.link/1780210954/e...

"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...

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)

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"

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.

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/...

The manifesto is indeed that of the Israeli embassy staffer shooter. He previously used his email address ([email protected]) 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...

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...

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.

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

Geolocation of a video posted by Younis over on Twitter in this mini-thread: x.com/ytirawi/stat...

This area in northwestern Rafah has been rapidly developing over the last few weeks, near a still-under-construction hospital that the IDF has been using as a base of operations. It looks similar to the JLOTS area near the doomed American pier. www.google.com/maps/@31.321...