The Storm · May 2026
Chronological diary of the storm. Each day has its own page; multiple entries on a day live there together, in time order. Newest first. The prose leans on pattern-level descriptions where it can — see sources & vocabulary for how the descriptive links work.
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May 22, 2026 1 entry
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May 21, 2026 5 entries
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Circle K Phantom
A phantom-account artifact — a Circle K loyalty-program welcome SMS asking me to reply YES to confirm enrollment in a marketing subscription I did not initiate.
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Bad Attacher
An SMS impersonating UPS with an "urgent" package-delivery notice and an attached PDF — a different tactic family from hop seeding or phantom accounts: this one's payload is the point.
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FOIA 000 Sent
The first FOIA request — to the DIA, on the [Sun Streak](/thestorm/2026-05-21/#vishas) window — is filed. The wait begins.
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Not Me
A single letter 'E' was sent out of my iMessage account to an unknown number, marked Read, with a reply. I did not send it. The outbound side of the channel — not the inbound — is what makes this different from everything else in this record.
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Visha Kanyas
An ancient method, a modern parallel, and an unintentional immunological training built across one Gulf-Coast childhood.
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May 20, 2026 2 entries
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Target Scenarios
On long-term operations against single targets — honey traps, dangle operations, lawfare, what happens when a removal fails, and one specific institutional intersection.
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Sun Streaker
The DIA's name for the operational phase of the program was Sun Streak. I had read about it that morning. Other things surfaced with it.
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May 19, 2026 1 entry
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May 18, 2026 3 entries
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WMD Scandal
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FISA Abuse
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Auto Trader
A coordinated hop-seeding campaign across voicemail and SMS — three contacts in twenty-four hours, three different sender numbers in the same Las Vegas area code, all pretending I am "Tyrone" interested in a Jeep Wrangler at a fictional dealership called Desert 215 Superstore.
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May 17, 2026 2 entries
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Harassment Talk
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Utility Next Door
A morning session with Too Bits on Nextdoor's moderation behavior — how "disrespectful" works as a subjective evaluative term, what motivated-reporter capture looks like in decentralized moderation, and the argument for classifying neighborhood platforms as public utilities subject to non-arbitrary standards.
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May 16, 2026 4 entries
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Reflections on Recent Web Publishing and Work Ethic
An evening monologue about the volume of recent site builds, why the content is research-grounded rather than AI-generated, the move off social platforms because moderation has been arbitrary, the multilingual rollout on plausibledenial.org as a way around editorial gatekeeping, and a closing on work-ethic accusations.
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Nextdoor
A post about the day's vandalism gained traction on a neighborhood platform, then was flagged as spam within hours. The platform's editorial frame, examined.
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Neighbors and Narcissism
On shame intolerance, reactive abuse, and what the carefully tied bag on the tree root meant.
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Mr. Roger's Neighborhood Parodies
Two parodies of the theme song from a certain children's program, fitted to the neighborhood as it actually is.
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May 15, 2026 6 entries
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Neighbor Jokes
An evening session with Too Bits — jokes and limericks made out of the day.
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Chimes Restored
Same-day Amazon. The upgrade installed by evening.
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Calls Blocked?
A hop-seeding opener using a provocation pretext — "Are my calls being blocked by you?" — designed to bait a defensive reply rather than build rapport. No reply this time. Same area code (672) as the previous day's Phishing for Mary sender.
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Chimes Vandalism
Wind chimes cut from my porch overnight. The flat marks on the cut ends, a replacement order, and a direct word for whoever returns with their scissors.
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Accredo Codes
Two valid Accredo verification codes arrive seconds apart from the pharmacy's SMS gateway — a phantom-account instance, distinct from hop seeding. My phone number is the registered contact on a specialty-pharmacy account I have never opened.
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Neighborhood Shitbag
A bag of dog shit left on the tree root by my porch. The figure described, the response considered, the police call planned.
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May 14, 2026 2 entries
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Web Hackers
A newly-published reference site, plausibleadmission.org, drew four distinct scanners within hours of its first TLS certificate going live — a CT-log-watching credentials scraper from a bulletproof-hosting cluster, a LeakIX indexing pass, a curated curl recon run, and a ChatGPT-User-vectored LLM-assisted probe. Three videos of the evening reaction and a forensic analysis the next morning.
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Phishing for Mary
An hour-long SMS conversation with a sender persistently working a hop-seeding pretext — "Eileen" looking for her old friend "Mary", who supposedly used this number. Includes an explicit rapport-building line and a re-engagement attempt six hours after the conversation ended.
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May 13, 2026 1 entry
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May 7, 2026 3 entries
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Hey, You Busy?
A second minimal hop-seeding opener arriving sixty seconds after the first, from a different number in a different area code — same stripped-down conversational hook.
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Hey, How Are You?
A minimal hop-seeding opener — one line, no name, no cover. Arrived sixty seconds before a near-identical opener from a different area code.
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Train Phantom
A phantom-account artifact — a New Mexico commuter-rail service alert (Train #102 Express NB, Belen Station, 501 Train) delivered to my number, on a service I have never subscribed to and in a region I do not live in.
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May 4, 2026 3 entries
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Maids
Another hop-seeding opener arrives — same structural shape, this one dressed as a maid-service business pitching a holdover discount.
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Nazi Talk Response to Hacking
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Bluetooth Proximity
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth back on in the morning after explicitly switching them off. The ~30-foot Bluetooth range narrows the population of who could reach the device. Plus a file-sync application refusing to sync the folders that matter.
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