Foeke Postma
@foeke.bsky.social
Investigator & trainer at Bellingcat.
The next edition of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference is coming to the Netherlands 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The next edition of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference is coming to the Netherlands 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
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If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people.
Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org
Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people.
Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org
Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org
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Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech
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Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.
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I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.
Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Welcome to Decoherence Media!
We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
decoherence.media
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.
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Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Russia’s Grain Smuggling Fleet Continues Undeterred - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged vessel exporting grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen.
www.bellingcat.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
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With colleagues at FA and Earshot, I recently contributed to an investigative documentary film that highlights the story of one man who left home in the early hours to get bread but never returned home.
'Soaked in Blood: The killing of Ameen Sameer Khalifa' from Middle East Eye can be seen here:
'Soaked in Blood: The killing of Ameen Sameer Khalifa' from Middle East Eye can be seen here:
Soaked in Blood: The Killing Of Ameen Sameer Khalifa | MEE Investigations
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
With colleagues at FA and Earshot, I recently contributed to an investigative documentary film that highlights the story of one man who left home in the early hours to get bread but never returned home.
'Soaked in Blood: The killing of Ameen Sameer Khalifa' from Middle East Eye can be seen here:
'Soaked in Blood: The killing of Ameen Sameer Khalifa' from Middle East Eye can be seen here:
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
futurism.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
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“Yes, this was the first time we saw a dark STS transfer of Russian LNG in this part of the world. Oh, and CCH GAS did a lousy job at spoofing,” says Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, Inc., an online service that tracks and reports shipments of crude oil.
gcaptain.com/china-joins-...
gcaptain.com/china-joins-...
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Yes, this was the first time we saw a dark STS transfer of Russian LNG in this part of the world. Oh, and CCH GAS did a lousy job at spoofing,” says Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, Inc., an online service that tracks and reports shipments of crude oil.
gcaptain.com/china-joins-...
gcaptain.com/china-joins-...
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Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.
Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.
Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.
Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.
Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.
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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-...
You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k.
www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
Open-Source Reporter (Video Journalist), Visual Investigations | The New York Times Company
www.nytco.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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-...
You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k.
www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
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Satellite analysis by Bellingcat found that wildfires destroyed over a third of Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve last month, impacting crucial grazing lands for endangered species, including black rhinos and elephants. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Wildfires Ravage One of Africa’s Largest Nature Reserves - bellingcat
Satellite analysis of the Etosha wildfires in Namibia has found that more than a third of the nature reserve was burned.
www.bellingcat.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Satellite analysis by Bellingcat found that wildfires destroyed over a third of Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve last month, impacting crucial grazing lands for endangered species, including black rhinos and elephants. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
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Bellingcat-oprichter: ‘Verbied algoritmes bij sociale media, ze vergiftigen onze democratie’
Bellingcat-oprichter: ‘Verbied algoritmes bij sociale media, ze vergiftigen onze democratie’
Eliot Higgins verwierf faam met zijn onderzoeksplatform Bellingcat. Hij duikt nu in online misinformatie en desinformatie, zoals van de Russen. Maar concludeert dat we zelf onze democratie uithollen.
fd.nl
October 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Bellingcat-oprichter: ‘Verbied algoritmes bij sociale media, ze vergiftigen onze democratie’
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The Shadow Fleet shipping Russia's oil is already leaving trails of oil in its wake, raising the question of who will pay up if the worst is to happen.
Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org.
www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...
Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org.
www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...
Shadow fleet slicks test limits of EU sanctions – SourceMaterial
As the West continues to blacklist ship carrying Russian oil, new slicks near Europe’s shores test the limits of Western sanctions
www.source-material.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Shadow Fleet shipping Russia's oil is already leaving trails of oil in its wake, raising the question of who will pay up if the worst is to happen.
Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org.
www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...
Our latest investigation with @victorjack.bsky.social of @politico.eu, using data from @skytruth.org.
www.source-material.org/shadow-fleet...
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Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...
October 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...
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Of all the best and kindest humans to ever live, Jane Goodall is near the top of my list.
Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul.
On behalf of the earth, I thank you
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul.
On behalf of the earth, I thank you
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Of all the best and kindest humans to ever live, Jane Goodall is near the top of my list.
Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul.
On behalf of the earth, I thank you
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul.
On behalf of the earth, I thank you
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
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September 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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So what was one of the main motivators behind the far-right violence in The Hague last weekend? A fake antifa page that’s thought to be linked to the far right that claimed there’d be a counterdemo that no Dutch antifascists actually knew about
archive.ph/2025.09.24-0...
archive.ph/2025.09.24-0...
September 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
So what was one of the main motivators behind the far-right violence in The Hague last weekend? A fake antifa page that’s thought to be linked to the far right that claimed there’d be a counterdemo that no Dutch antifascists actually knew about
archive.ph/2025.09.24-0...
archive.ph/2025.09.24-0...
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this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
September 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
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I'm re-starting my charity Twitch streams starting tonight at 7:00 PM EST via @extralife4kids.bsky.social! Come hang out in the chat, and if you've got a dollar, donate it to Toronto's SickKids Hospital.
100% of proceeds go directly to the hospital!
www.twitch.tv/gianfiorel
100% of proceeds go directly to the hospital!
www.twitch.tv/gianfiorel
gianfiorel - Twitch
Hi! I live in Toronto and I stream to raise funds for SickKids via ExtraLife! Here is my ExtraLife page: https://www.extra-life.org/participant/548667
www.twitch.tv
September 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I'm re-starting my charity Twitch streams starting tonight at 7:00 PM EST via @extralife4kids.bsky.social! Come hang out in the chat, and if you've got a dollar, donate it to Toronto's SickKids Hospital.
100% of proceeds go directly to the hospital!
www.twitch.tv/gianfiorel
100% of proceeds go directly to the hospital!
www.twitch.tv/gianfiorel
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The Groyper Wars
September 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The Groyper Wars