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Aric Toler
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Visual Investigations at The New York Times
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 12h
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-...
Open-Source Reporter (Video Journalist), Visual Investigations | The New York Times Company
www.nytco.com
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 7d
lol joplin?
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 7d
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.
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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.
Israel Is Flattening Parts of Gaza City (Gift Article)
The city had been spared from widespread demolitions during previous military operations there. This time is different.
www.nytimes.com
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 25d
you can read what i was bylined on yesterday: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
The Police Found Messages After Kirk’s Killing. What They Mean Is Unclear.
www.nytimes.com
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 25d
i unfortunately understand far too much about discord
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 25d
read the article and all your questions will be answered, friend
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 25d
of friends
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 25d
group chat basically
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 25d
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...
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 25d
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...
The Police Found Messages After Kirk’s Killing. What They Mean Is Unclear.
www.nytimes.com
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 27d
yes but Cooper also saw Mike at a hospital
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 27d
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...
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 29d
The February 1997 image (keeping the Irish domain in there out of solidarity with Malachy)
www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-...
Court de tennis dans la résidence de Donald Trump de Mar-a-Lago, en...
Court de tennis dans la résidence de Donald Trump de Mar-a-Lago, en février 1997.
www.gettyimages.ie
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 29d
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:
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 29d
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:
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Sep 2
I don't remember any others off the top of my head
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Aug 31
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.
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Aug 31
I don't remember there being any preoccupation with trans kids in particular
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Aug 31
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)
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Aug 31
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.
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Aug 31
@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)
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Aug 31
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...
The Quiet Unraveling of the Man Who Almost Killed Trump
www.nytimes.com
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Aug 31
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
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Aug 31
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/...
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a sec...
www.nytimes.com
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