Steffan Watkins

Steffan Watkins

@steffanwatkins.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 I'm a research consultant, a writer, a source. I track aircraft & ships using publicly available info. I fact-check public officials regularly. I show my work.

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🇨🇦⚓️ #HMCSRegina, deployed on #OpLIMPID, showed themselves on AIS-S briefly in the international waters of the 🇷🇺 Russian EEZ, in the Chukchi Sea, possibly monitoring the 🇨🇳 PLA(N) after the 🇺🇸 USCG met them in the ADIZ on the July 6/7 weekend, when REG deployed from Esquimalt.

🇨🇦 #RCAF CH-147F Chinook #BATL21 using an invalid Mode-S identifier of 000001 on May 29, while conducting training with the folk from Dwyer Hill over Arnprior. 👀

After much badgering, I've finally set up a Patreon for those who would like to support my effort to raise the level of 🇨🇦⚓️ Royal Canadian Navy fleet awareness in the media and in public discourse. www.patreon.com/SteffanWatki...

Get more from Steffan Watkins on Patreonwww.patreon.com Paying attention, keeping you up to date.

🇬🇧 It seems implausible that in the past six months, with over 250 sorties, British RAF "Shadow" ISR aircraft, operating near Gaza, an area awash with atrocities, haven't incidentally collected evidence of war crimes. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/raf-flies-25...

RAF flies 250 surveillance flights near Gaza in six monthsukdefencejournal.org.uk An analyst has asked whether British surveillance operations have incidentally collected intelligence on potential war crimes.

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recently learned what "california sober" is and now i wanna figure out what sobriety is in the other 49 states

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Anyone can take part in the information war, there's no barrier to entry. The war is being fought by governments, companies, and people. The area I'm interested in is the intersection where passively collected radio transponder signals, and obscured aviation (or naval) movements meet. 🧵

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This works for any country you don't see me chirping about. I'm very simple to manipulate. Jamaica? Belize? Nicaragua? Libya? Armenia? Wherever you're at, whatever you're interested in, deploy #ADSBexchange receivers, and I'll tell you, and everyone else, what's above your head.

🇮🇶 If less than a dozen people in Iraq, spread out, not all in Baghdad, ran #ADSBexchange internet-connected software defined radio receivers, collecting transponder data from overhead aircraft, we'd be able to geolocate most of the aircraft over #Iraq that we can't "see" today.

Ways To Join The Exchange - ADS-B Exchangewww.adsbexchange.com Existing Equipment Already have a receiver and want to start contributing to the ADSB Exchange Network? Build Your Own Technically Savvy? Get detailed instructions on building your own ADSB receiver. ...

This change will bring Bluesky closer to Twitter-parity, and motivate me to post more here. 👍

Exciting news: We’re taking another step to making Bluesky an open network for public conversations. Around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.

"RCAF jet was broadcasting British identifier code during flights" by Steven Chase for The Globe and Mail September 13, 2020

This works for any country you don't see me chirping about. I'm very simple to manipulate. Jamaica? Belize? Nicaragua? Libya? Armenia? Wherever you're at, whatever you're interested in, deploy #ADSBexchange receivers, and I'll tell you, and everyone else, what's above your head.

🇮🇶 If less than a dozen people in Iraq, spread out, not all in Baghdad, ran #ADSBexchange internet-connected software defined radio receivers, collecting transponder data from overhead aircraft, we'd be able to geolocate most of the aircraft over #Iraq that we can't "see" today.

Ways To Join The Exchange - ADS-B Exchangewww.adsbexchange.com Existing Equipment Already have a receiver and want to start contributing to the ADSB Exchange Network? Build Your Own Technically Savvy? Get detailed instructions on building your own ADSB receiver. ...

"New aircraft expected to fix Canada's transport plane woes" by Bryan Passifiume for The National Post October 2, 2023 nationalpost.com/news/politic...

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I mentioned it before to a few people and I will mention it again. The quickest way is to put them in schools as a STEM project. Great way to cultivate future trackers and get you into areas you may not otherwise be able to get into

🇮🇶 If less than a dozen people in Iraq, spread out, not all in Baghdad, ran #ADSBexchange internet-connected software defined radio receivers, collecting transponder data from overhead aircraft, we'd be able to geolocate most of the aircraft over #Iraq that we can't "see" today.

Ways To Join The Exchange - ADS-B Exchangewww.adsbexchange.com Existing Equipment Already have a receiver and want to start contributing to the ADSB Exchange Network? Build Your Own Technically Savvy? Get detailed instructions on building your own ADSB receiver. ...

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E-7 Wedgetail Radar Jet Chosen By NATO To Replace Aging E-3 www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...

E-7 Wedgetail Radar Jet Chosen By NATO To Replace Aging E-3www.thedrive.com NATO has followed the U.S. Air Force in opting for the E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft as a partial replacement for its aging E-3 AWACS fleet.

"Twitter’s the Only Tool You Need for Tracking the Military" By Ben Sullivan, Vice Motherboard April 24, 2017 www.vice.com/en/article/w...

"Tracking Air Force One flights — and other secret trips — from your living room" by Tom Spears, The Ottawa Citizen December 30, 2018 ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

I'm replaying the oldies today, to fill people in who don't know what I've been up to. If you've been following a while - you'll remember some of these!

"How an Ottawa man tracks the world's military and spy ships — from his home office" by Tom Blackwell, National Post April 15, 2018 nationalpost.com/news/how-an-...

Anyone can take part in the information war, there's no barrier to entry. The war is being fought by governments, companies, and people. The area I'm interested in is the intersection where passively collected radio transponder signals, and obscured aviation (or naval) movements meet. 🧵

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Russia circumventing Canadian sanctions to buy mine detonators: report www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Russia circumventing Canadian sanctions to buy mine detonators: reportwww.theglobeandmail.com Paper by the World Liberty Congress details military goods from Western and Asian countries are being shipped through Central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan to Russia

@brooklynmarie.bsky.social from your extensive experience following disinformation purveyors of the far right, have you ever distinguished between the more customer-facing radio/podcast disinformation spreaders, and those more behind the scenes who allegedly do "research" that supports their fraud?

@hareldan.bsky.social I noticed something very interesting you might find very interesting too, but there's no DM here. :(

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Today in 1950, a B-50 ferrying a Mark-4 atomic bomb (minus its plutonium pit) from Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, to Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, developed engine trouble and jettisoned the bomb over the St. Lawrence River near Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec.

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This is a must-read. SO many (nearly all) the articles about Musk-era Twitter are written from the lofty vantagepoints of people who weren't hardcore Twitter users or who just didn't get why Twitter wasn't like any other social media

I wrote about our dark, chaotic, almost-optimistic year of watching Elon Musk shit all over everything at Twitter. faineg.substack.com/p/our-year-o...

Our Year of Watching Elon Musk Ruin Absolutely Everything At Twitterfaineg.substack.com what have we learned from this year of watching Elon Musk repeatedly, endlessly fail?

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That about captures it

American elections are great. Once a year, we get to see if “shoot poison into the water supply with space lasers” or “don’t do that” wins 51-49.

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Everyone who was on USENET, IRC or had a blog looking at Millennials being labeled "First Gen Social Media Users": The fuck did you just say, my dude www.wired.com/story/first-...

First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Gowww.wired.com The collective erosion of X, Instagram, and Facebook marks a turning point for millennials, who are outgrowing a constant need to be plugged in.

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this is the coolest online has ever been

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Just published on our blog: Bluesky for Journalists FAQ This page also includes a link to a waitlist form for journalists, so members of the press no longer have to email our press inbox for a code. We appreciate everyone's help sharing this information!

Bluesky for Journalistsblueskyweb.xyz

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Because their whole thing is destroying public spaces and they don't want to talk to each other either