Joanne Stocker

As we’ll all be using this more, a proper introduction: I’m a verification producer with the CBS News Confirmed team in London, by way of Ireland and Erbil and Philly and a bunch of other stops. I specialise mainly in OSINT, defence, conflict, big boats, and, increasingly, the far-right.

....is it Bolsonover?

"There is a big fishing fleet here in Portsmouth," Nigel Farage tells a Reform rally in Plymouth, which actually boos in response.

What happens to a nature reserve when war arrives? @paxvoorvrede.nl and partners examined protected areas in 8 conflict-affected countries using satellite data, interviews and local expertise. #COP17 The pattern: protection on paper offers little shelter once fighting starts. 🧵1/x

30 years ago pre-Ks had “Officer Friendly” come in and talk to us about how important it is to wear seatbelts and not touch the oven. I still remember a fairly unsetttling description of a burn victim from when I was 4.

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

Two ways to support Eoghan’s family: www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend... Set up by @gavinsblog.bsky.social and @joegalvin.bsky.social whydonate.com/fundraising/... Set up by Sara Badilini

Return to Oz. All of it.

Today's protests in Hasakah aren't particularly noteworthy - some people, largely from an Arab neighbourhood where the PYD was never popular, want more integration into the state - but the counter protest has finally given me a good photo of one of the wildly contraversial Mazlum Abdi flags.

doing some more scanning tonight, here are a few more photos that i thought were pretty neat

65 yrs ago tonight, CBS broadcast the second nuclear-war-themed episode of “The Twilight Zone” to air in a month. Written by Rod Serling, “The Shelter” dramatically and effectively distilled the profound moral/ethical dilemmas presented by the family fallout shelter during a serious nuclear crisis.

The original research from @transluce.bsky.social suggests the AI agents were also sniffing around the UN-supported conflict events database @acleddata.bsky.social. transluce.org/agent-activi...

I cannot believe we live in a world with flying robots and are relitigating Drumcree

The last time an Orange Order march went down the Garvaghy Road was 1997 CO2 was 363ppm of the atmosphere- something most of us were blissfully ignorant of- this morning feels like a throwback

The drip, your Holiness

Macron says France has agreed with Saudi Arabia to dispatch French “soldiers, radars, defensive systems” to protect the Yanbu oil terminal on the Saudi Red Sea coast, which was recently hit by Iran-allied groups. www.tf1info.fr/politique/cr...

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

We are indeed in for a CRUDE awakening

Everyone wants to talk about AI killing us in a decade, but one researcher is sounding the alarm about groups like Boko Haram/ISWAP who are excited to kill us with AI now www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuXP...

A few months ago before a punk show I told this girl I really liked her coat (it was awesome) and of course it turned out to be Phoebe fucking Lunny who proceeded to get on stage and make us all scream and slam into each other like happy idiots www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

Haven't had a knife-bomb sighting in a while

Today's dispatch from "it'll get darker before it gets lighter" www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

More octopus fun. They may be one of the most intelligent animals on earth.

Fair enough, like. KSA has its own bombs.

10. Not necessarily a tool, but more a story from Reddit 'whereisthis', where someone posted an image of a tour guide from Nepal, trying to help their friend identify their last known whereabouts. The community identified the location shortly after. www.reddit.com/r/whereisthi...

The munitions used by JNIM in drone attacks against tribal Dozo militias.

Global shipping rules are collapsing, say maritime nations ft.trib.al/s1R4AC4

I don't know what it says about immigration in this country that I've just had to get a UKVI share code to buy a mattress topper but there we are.

Inkinane Ag Attaher retrouve ses compagnons du FLA après sa libération au Niger. #Azawad #Mali #Niger #FLA

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

"Understanding the source of my pain and what it is doing to me mentally, never mind physically, has been life changing." This feels like it could be a real breakthrough for many people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do you remember when a fundraising campaign for the Navajo and Hopi people went viral during the pandemic, as people recalled the generosity of native Americans to Irish people during the famine? If you were one of those who donated - you are invited to have your photo taken …

when dracula kills someone to suck their blood is that a) legally murder or b) arguably a form of natural predation

The sightings highlight concerns about drone attacks from the sea, especially at a time of extreme hostility between Iran and the U.S. https://www.twz.com/news-features/drone-sightings-are-happening-at-diego-garcia-americas-remote-strategic-island-outpost