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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Damn, the last one was really tricky. But I finally got it 😅, although just randomly. Figuring out how to write a write-up would be even harder 🫣. Thanks to #bellingcat for another month of great challenges.

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Ok, I am missing something here :(

Bellingcat Challenges for December 2025: 4 out of 5 challenges solved

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Bonus Material 2: check Yörük Işık's profile. bsky.app/profile/yoru...

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Bonus Material 1: learn how shipspotting, vessel tracking websites, and satellite imagery is used in an investigation. 👇 From Crimea to Iran: Two More Ships Join Russia’s Grain-Smuggling Fleet www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04...

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From Crimea to Iran: Two More Ships Join Russia’s Grain-Smuggling Fleet - bellingcat

The Zaid and Zafar sailed from a grain terminal in occupied Crimea and unloaded cargo in Iran — we followed them at every step.

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Maritime OSINT introduction with Bellingcat Challenges. Part 1: Introduction to the vessel identification system and ship tracking website with “Straight Through” medium.com/@effenok/bel...

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Bellingcat Challege: Strait Through

This is the third one of October 2025 Bellingcat Challenges, which introduce us to maritime OSINT. This challenge introduces us to vessel…

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Weeeeeeee. My medium page got a visitor🥳🎉. Thanks to the Bellingcat community managers for making the challenges experience even rewarding. Although I would very much like to understand which write-ups people consider useful. Any feedback, especially negative, is always appreciated.

Notifications from Medium. Bellingcat Challenge
clapped for 3 articles.

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I would look at who donates to mainstream parties that let far-right set the agenda. They protect the wealthy, instead of helping the poor.

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Calling for scapegoats instead of solving problems is basically how far-right extrimism works.

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

write-ups are up :) bsky.app/profile/effe...

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Write-Ups for Bellingcat OSINT challenge for October are available on my medium page. medium.com/@effenok

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effenok – Medium

Read writing from effenok on Medium.

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Slight delay. Apparently I can only publish 3 articles per day :(

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

final preparations for today's livestream (actually immediately after the livestream)😓

5 drafts of writeups for 5 bellingcat OSINT challenges

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The write-ups are available on my medium page: Challenge 1: medium.com/@effenok/bel... Challenge 2: medium.com/@effenok/bel... Challenge 3: medium.com/@effenok/bel...

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Bellingcat Challenge: Seems Fishy

September challenges are all about using clues from the background to determine locations of photos

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Was super honored to have 3 of my write-ups for September challenges being featured in the newsletter. It was a lot of fun writing them, but also quite a lot of extra work and it was a very pleasant feeling to be appreciated. Thanks to the Bellingcat community managers for their amazing work.

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Effenok @effenok.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Bellingcat open source challenge for October completed. Time to start writing.

Screenshot of Bellingcat Open Source Challenge "Oceans of Evidence" (October 2025), showing all five challenges as solved.

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Tomi McCluskey @tomi-mcc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Had both the great privilege and some great fun developing some maritime OSINT challenges for the fine folks at @bellingcat.com ! Huge appreciation for their work and other investigative outlets telling the important stories happening on our oceans.

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