Gary Bloomer

I share ideas on content creation, branding, and small business marketing. Award-winning graphic designer. Anglo/Celtic/Brit and happy hubby.

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

@Cyibarumawe I've had a cyclist do something similar to me in a multistory parking garage. The person passed me on the right while I was making a right turn.

[Thought Provoking Berserker ⚛️🦍🦅 @Provokethoughtz]

Me, when people use the Bible as an excuse for their prejudices.

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

Wow ...

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Let's talk about Carl Stewart.

If you were a high-level criminal in Europe around 2020, you didn't use WhatsApp. You used EncroChat. It was a bespoke, encrypted network sold specifically to organized crime. Costing thousands of dollars a year, these modified Android phones had no GPS, no camera (software disabled), and a panic wipe feature. Criminals trusted it implicitly. They talked openly about drug shipments, hits, and money laundering.

Carl Stewart, a major drug dealer from Liverpool, was one of them. He went by the handle Toffeeforce.

He moved heroin, cocaine, and MDMA. He trusted the encryption. He trusted the device.

But he made a mistake that sounds like a joke.

The Breadcrumb: The Stilton.

Stewart was at a Marks & Spencer grocery store. He bought a block of mature blue Stilton cheese. He thought it looked good.

So, he took a picture of it. He held the block of cheese in the palm of his hand and snapped a photo to share with a contact on EncroChat. Maybe to brag, maybe just making conversation.

He assumed it was safe. After all, the photo didn't show his face. It didn't show his house. It didn't have GPS coordinates attached.

It was just cheese and a hand.

The Investigation.

What Stewart didn't know was that French and Dutch police had already hacked the EncroChat servers. They were reading everything in real-time (Operation Venetic). But reading the messages wasn't enough. They had the what, but they needed the who. Toffeeforce was just a nickname. They needed a real identity.

Merseyside Police analyzed the photo of the cheese. They didn't care about the cheese. They looked at the hand holding it.

Modern smartphone cameras are incredible. They capture 12-megapixel images with stunning clarity. The photo was so sharp that the forensic team could zoom in on the fingers holding the package.

They could see the friction ridges. They could see the loops and whorls.

They pulled a full fingerprint directly from a photograph sent over an encrypted chat.

The Collapse.

They ran the fingerprint against the police database. It matched Carl Stewart.

That single biometric data point connected the Toffeeforce persona to a physical human being. He was arrested and sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison.

He fell because he posted a picture of his lunch.

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

@TheExtremeMusi1 No.

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

@historigins Despite Ms. Bush's considerable talents, in this video, she's not using a microphone which means she's lip synching. In a live music show with other instruments, no singer's voice is that clear. The drum sound is from a Linn Drum Machine and the melody is from a Fairlight CMI.

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

Before you get into an argument remember this..

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

For the first time, researchers have identified exactly what Roman builders were adding to their concrete to make it last for centuries....

At an unfinished building site in Pompeii, abandoned during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, archaeologists uncovered something rare: Roman concrete materials that were prepared but never mixed. That frozen moment revealed how Roman builders actually made their concrete.

Instead of mixing lime and water the way we do today, they combined quicklime with volcanic ash first, then added water. The reaction produced intense heat and left behind tiny fragments of reactive lime trapped inside the hardened concrete. When cracks later formed and water seeped in, those fragments reacted again and sealed the damage from within.

In other words, some Roman concrete was intentionally engineered to heal its own cracks — and it’s still doing it nearly 2,000 years later.

Archaeological Park of Pompeii

#archaeohistories

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

@MAstronomers The absurdity of this is off the charts. That wave is in excess of 10 miles high, and for some reason it seems to be missing off northern Scotland. Then there's the question of where the wave came from and what's driving it. The North Sea isn't that big!

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

The Americans
The Good Wife
Madam Secretary
The Diplomat
Better Call Saul

[LadyValor @lady_valor_07]

Name one

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

My dog died ...

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Walt Disney once told Charles Schulz he wasn't good enough to draw background art.

Form letter. Very polite.

"We only hire the very finest artists."

Sparky wasn't one of them.

His yearbook rejected his cartoons. His school gave him a zero in physics. He failed every subject in eighth grade.
Every. Single. One.

The other kids called him "Sparky" — after a horse in a comic strip.

They were calling him an animal.

Paul Harvey said it best:

"Sparky wasn't actually disliked by the other youngsters. No one cared enough about him to dislike him."

So this invisible boy did something strange.

He didn't try to prove Disney wrong.

He wrote his autobiography in cartoons instead.

Named the main character after himself.

Charlie Brown.

A kid whose kite never flies. Whose team never wins. Whose crush never notices him.

Then Schulz did something the network executives hated.

He put Luke 2 at the center of his Christmas special.

"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy..."

They told him to cut it.

Too religious.

He refused.

Christmas Eve, millions of families will watch that scene.

A loser became the messenger.

Disney said he wasn't good enough.

God said otherwise.

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

@AntiWokeMemes He works for a telephone company in Germany. Learn more about him here: https://t.co/T1pSiC6ELz

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

@DOGE__news "We're here to make a protest and to make a point!" ... good for you. Do it outside the store entrance. "You're assaulting someone's head!" "I don't know why she was assaulting him" ... I know why: because he's a tool! FFS ...

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

I feel your pain, Ricky.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Angry from Hampstead 😂

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

To summarize:

Reporter: Why didn’t Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Nobel Chair: the award only goes to people of courage and integrity.

*mic drop* 🫳🎤

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Neuroscience method to stop being pissed off ‼️‼️

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

@Bricktop_NAFO Hmmm ... this you, Pete? https://t.co/mqD7dp23rx

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Just so we’re clear, this is the guy who’s talking about maintaining the “highest physical standards in the armed forces.”

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

@factpostnews He spent his first term telling everyone how he was going to repeal and improve Obama Care. Nothing happened. This will be like the cost of prescription that he brought down by over 1,000%!

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

Yes please!

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

Canada will never be a State. But hey, does anybody want to be a Province? We have universal health care and our leader isn't orange. And, like, don't worry about the language, eh?

p.s. hullo there, Gulf of Mexico!

[Gary Bloomer @GaryBloomer]

@NoLieWithBTC Because, of course he has.