Hey,
Just a quick heads-up.
Starting this week, our Wednesday posts are dropping a week early for paid subscribers. That means today’s new article—featuring a confused 9-1-1 operator, a geriatric flatulence offender, and a crash course in syncing digital media evidence—is live for the paid folks.
If you're a free subscriber, you’ll get it next Wednesday.
We’re not locking stories down for good—we’re giving paid subscribers early access to Wednesday pieces, and new episodes of Accounts Vary, our monthly audio series where investigative tradecraft meets fiction.
We’ll shut up about it now. Thanks for supporting us, even in flux and figuring out what growth means to us. We’ll see you next week, back to our regularly scheduled program.
In the meantime, here are a few well-loved favourites from 2025 so far:
A Free OSINT Lesson: The Simple Beauty of Aging
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. Firewood doesn’t season overnight, and neither does your information. Data evaporates, memories fail us. So take notes, archive everything, and buy a damn filing cabinet.Can I Be Real With You for a Second?
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. Authentication—how documents and digital evidence make it into court, and what we do with the issue of modern media, like screenshots, that are more obscure in origin.Surveilling the State: Open Police Records
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. They say it’s “open data.” But that doesn’t mean it’s readable, accessible, or honest. Justin breaks down how to analyze what law enforcement publishes—and what they don’t.The Cult of Productivity
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. You're not tired because you're doing it all wrong.You're tired because the system is built to burn you out and call it ambition. A critical look at self-optimization and productivity influencing.
Thanks for being here.
Your Bullshit Hunting Crew