🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social

Former CIA officer. Compulsive early adopter, AI entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, amateur musician, world traveler. Слава Украïнi! 🇺🇦🌻

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

Things are going to get worse before they get better.

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

Great read here for espionage nerds.

[Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor]

"How a #KGB Illegal Penetrated a Nuclear Power Plant Construction Company in West Germany"

My NEW article based on the Mitrokhin files.

The link: https://t.co/o9NcLKtaM4

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

They’re so hilariously bad at this

[Status-6 @Archer83Able]

"a short, intense military campaign after the midterms"

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

Our tax code is so hopelessly, ridiculously complex that the best AI only gets an <11% pass rate. That’s the fault of Congress, not the AI. https://t.co/M28TWBMYqW

[Edward Lucas @edwardlucas]

The top-secret Russian nuclear weapons storage bunker in Kaliningrad has disappeared from Google Maps, along with the amusing reviews ("bad service, not coming back"). But there is an even better satellite picture of it here https://t.co/YSWXU7LH8F
In years to come it will be a tourist attraction, along with other imperial/colonial relics. #KG2050

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

Nobody who works at DNI should ever even be allowed to get close to a firearm, AYFKM 😂

[Dustin Volz @dnvolz]

Months into the job, spy chief Jay Clayton is trying to return his office to some of its roots, reshuffling or firing officials and halting projects he inherited from Tulsi Gabbard and Bill Pulte — including the buildout at headquarters of a firing range.
https://t.co/Ok2P58REWh

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

we 👏 don’t 👏 WANT 👏 Venezuela 👏 😭

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Trump says Venezuela could become the '51st state'

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

Totally normal for a former presidential candidate to [checks notes] sneak across the border in order to avoid being arrested… 🤔

[Polymarket Intel @PolymarketIntel]

Reports of Brazil's Flávio Bolsonaro is on a plane to the United States. An ally told Reuters he left Brazil after Sunday's runoff loss to Lula da Silva.

He vanished from public view Monday. He never appeared to hand his passport to federal police, as the Supreme Court ordered in a money laundering investigation against him. His passports were then cancelled. CNN Brasil reports federal police are searching for him.

His wife and two daughters are with him, per The Guardian.

Brazilian and Argentine media report he crossed into Argentina on foot before flying to the U.S. Argentine authorities have no record of his entry.

He plans to seek political asylum from the Trump administration, Metrópoles reports.

Still needs confirmation.

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

Not just him! Many such cases

[распад и неуважение @VictorKvert2008]

The main reason not to trust Russians, explained by Harry Truman.

“Do you trust the Russians?”

“No. Period.”

“Why?”

“Because they broke every agreement they ever made with me.”

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

If you prioritize protection of your vacation residence over your military production capacity AND your capital city, that suggests you aren’t really serious about winning the war

[Prof. Bonk 🇺🇦 Perverse & Unintended Consequences @actfast]

The distribution reveals the regime's true priority:

• Moscow (20 million citizens): 98 towers = 1 per 200,000 people.
• Valdai (<100,000 residents): 50 towers = 1 per 2,000 people. 10/

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

😳 oh well 🤷‍♂️

[The Assembly @InTheAssembly]

1.3 TRILLION erased from the Chinese stock market today 📉

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

are you twelve

[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov]

Fake & Gay!

Moussa Diawara, the Malian national featured in this shockingly poorly researched @60Minutes report, now faces allegations of immigration FRAUD after his asylum application surfaced, revealing that he claimed to be a HOMOSEXUAL man who feared persecution in Mali.

Read more ⬇️

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

@HKRoySpyWriter @YouTube The tiny coffee cup and plates of burek at the beginning were [chef kiss] 😂

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

@HKRoySpyWriter Daj bože! 😆

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

@Ami_Marisol @cturnbull1968 @CynicalPublius Meal Team Six

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🧐🤯🤨🤔

[Insomnia @insomnia_vip]

grok found every photo i “permanently deleted” from my iPhone

3 years of deleted photos and videos sitting in a hidden cache that any app with file access could read.

i plugged my iPhone into my MacBook to run a backup. had Grok doing a security scan at the same time. it flagged something i wasn’t even looking for.

a directory called PhotoData/Thumbnails with over 140,000 files. photos, videos, screenshots. every single one was something i deleted.

photos from 2023. 2024. 2025. photos i deleted the second after taking them. photos i went into Recently Deleted and hit Delete All on. photos i deleted three times because i wanted to be sure they were gone. all still there.

what was sitting in that cache:

- a photo of my passport i took for a visa application in 2023
- screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers
- private photos i sent someone and deleted the same night after a breakup
- a screenshot of my crypto seed phrase i took “for a minute” in 2022
- my ID and credit card side by side, deleted 10 seconds later

140k+ files in total. some at full resolution. all organized by date going back to 2021.

when you delete a photo on iPhone, iOS removes it from your camera roll and Recently Deleted. but it keeps a compressed copy in the Spotlight search cache. Apple never clears it. not after 30 days. not after a year. not ever.

i checked which apps had Files & Folders access. 21 apps. weather apps. QR scanners. PDF readers. a flashlight app from 2022. any of them could have been reading every “deleted” photo this whole time.

went from 21 apps to 3 in about two minutes.

the prompt i used is in the comments. takes 2 minutes. save it and send it to anyone with an iPhone

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

@EggerDC Not like Scott is a blue collar icon, when was the last time he darkened the door of a Cheesecake Factory 🙄

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.

This happened in Alaska. Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, stepped down after finding out that the Russian "Novatek" company, which is under US sanctions, has been involved in a $25 billion energy project in Alaska. The CEO thought that he was working with Gentry Beach, a close friend of Donald Trump Junior.

Reportedly, that project was also discussed between Witkoff and Jared Kushner when they were with Putin. The White House admitted that the project was talked about "briefly".

We are witnessing the greatest corruption scandal the USA has ever witnessed. It all leads to Trump, his family and the Russians, and apparently they were even ready to sell riches of Alaska to the Russians.

The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of rampant corruption.

We are starting to see more details why Trump and his friends are trying so strongly to bully Ukraine into surrender. This is most certainly only the tip of the iceberg.

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

@HKRoySpyWriter Never deleting this app 😂

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

Maybe the Iranians spring an October Surprise™️ a week out from the election?

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: The U.S. has now placed diplomatic personnel across the Middle East on heightened alert and begun reducing embassy staffing after intelligence reportedly warned that Iran is in the advanced stages of planning lethal attacks against Americans, per The New York Times.

A memo from Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that Iran has “substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel,” with lethal plotting efforts against American citizens reaching “advanced stages” in the Middle East and other countries.

The drawdown follows orders for nonessential personnel and their families to leave Saudi Arabia, with staffing also reduced at U.S. missions in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and the UAE.

[🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social @BlogGuero]

Who was the person who thought to study this? 😂🐶

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Dogs circle. Then they stop. Their bodies point north or south.

A 2013 study recorded the body orientation of 70 dogs from 37 breeds during 1,893 defecations and 5,582 urinations over two years.

Under calm geomagnetic conditions the dogs aligned their spines along the north-south magnetic axis and avoided the east-west line.

When solar activity made the field fluctuate, the preference disappeared. The researchers measured orientation with a compass in open fields, off leash, and they ruled out the sun’s direction, weather, and the owner’s position as causes.

Migratory birds and salmon detect the same field and use it for long-range navigation. Dogs appear to detect it as well. The study authors noted that the alignment occurs only when the field is quiet, roughly one-fifth of daylight hours in their observations.

They proposed that the dog may be centering an internal magnetic map against visible landmarks, the way a person pauses on a trail to match a compass to the ground.
A later study from the same research group fitted 27 hunting dogs with GPS collars and released them on scent trails in Czech forests.

Before the dogs set off on the return, many first moved a short distance, about 18 meters on average, along the north-south axis regardless of the actual direction home. The short run looks like a compass reading taken before the longer navigation.
Small bar magnets placed in the grass shift the alignment. In parks in Eilat, dogs that normally faced north-south changed orientation when a magnet was nearby, an effect large enough to disrupt the sense even though the local field remains weak.

Not every later observation matches the original result. A 2022 replication in five urban parks in Lyon recorded orientations during excretion and found no detectable preference for the magnetic north-south axis. The dogs’ positions were non-random relative to the parks themselves.

The authors suggested that traffic, other dogs, and the layout of city spaces may override the magnetic cue, and that volunteer observers may introduce bias when magnetic conditions are not logged.

The original pattern therefore appears only under restricted conditions: open ground, a stable field, and no competing cues strong enough to override it. The behavior is measurable when those conditions hold. The reason the sense is expressed during defecation remains unknown.

Paper:

Open-access full text:
https://t.co/n3FCZ4UvSF
DOI:
https://t.co/O0unxzZqdD
PubMed:
https://t.co/cKgT9UHuQr