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One of my deductions has proven true.

Press conference in approximately 30 minutes. I'll see if anything winds up being revealed other than "We know who we're looking for in order to question them." Hopefully we'll get more. Also, I'm curious as to how much this is penetrating the news elsewhere. Obviously it's all over my local news, but I have no impression for how far it's being covered nationally.

Also, the account with the other videos isn't the same account. I don't know how much S Mc G really narrows things down. For one, S McG is definitely Irish. And a few videos with clearly Irish content... isn't surprising. But that doesn't mean that S Mc G is the same person. There's a lot of Sxxx McGxxx's in the world. I'm not ready to give this one the full Pepe Silvia.

I don't like this stuff because there's just really nothing at all to go on with these backgrounds. It could be that S Mc G is just the account that the security camera thing is associated with. And there's been no reason to post anything publicly from the camera until now.

Curfew has been instituted by the mayor. I'm going to my Dad's in a bit to do Christmas there. Cross your fingers I don't get Covid. I'll keep an eye on this stuff later tonight.

No identification or indication of whether it might have been the perpetrator or a victim.

I had the same thought earlier. I think it's more likely that it's an accidental wide ranging effect because the knowledge of what taking out a central hub would do is a very small portion of the population. I also think that this is probably all it will be. When we say "this seems like the beginning of something bigger" because of the wide ranging communications effects, we're basing that off movies and books and what we THINK would happen in some massive terror attack. I hope I'm right in saying that most people that would do something like this really only have the resources to do just one thing.

Big bada boom.

Flights are shut down. On Christmas. Shit's fucked.

There's the RV.

Interstates ringing downtown are partially shut down. They're sealing off the downtown core.

There really isn't an Irish Republican presence in Nashville, Tennessee.

AT&T reports service may be affected due to damage to their facilities. They are in contact with law enforcement and working quickly to restore service. Corporate stuff. Whatever. But they acknowledge that the outages are due to damage from this blast--not due to volume.

Normal aftermath after an attack. News now reporting that A) power is shut off to the area, and B) AT&T has shut off some of their generators in their building. These make perfect sense as to why there's internet and phone outages. Here's damage to the building:

Intentional bombing = "we know this was not an accident, but we don't know who or why." Which is a better way of explaining that because 'terrorism' isn't really accurate. Also, mega internet and phone disruptions in Nashville going on now.

Update from the FBI and ATF: Several buildings on 2nd Ave have structural damage. They will sweep the buildings and inspect them with the Fire Departments to determine damage. In the briefing, the FBI said officers responded to a shots fired call (this matches many reports from witnesses). They encountered an RV that was playing a "go away" message. The FBI says there were announcements coming from the RV. (Witness accounts and the videos say that the announcement was "please evacuate the area" and also included a COUNTDOWN timer starting at 30 minutes. Starting at 15 minutes it went minute-by-minute). The police went door to door to evacuate people after arriving on the scene, then the RV blew up. They do not know whether anyone was in the RV when it blew up. Similarly, they don't know yet whether the AT&T building at the explosion site was the target, or whether it was merely coincidence.

Maybe? I just don't know what goes on in that building--or the conspiracies as to what might be going on in them.

I don't know if this was the target or not. I genuinely don't know what a transmission building for AT&T would entail.

So where this exploded is 2nd avenue. It's one of the heaviest tourist areas in the city. There are residences nearby, but all the street level businesses are things like bars, restaurants, and shops. I guess it happened some time around 630 am on Christmas Day.... so there wasn't anyone on the street.

So there was a PA announcement prior to the explosion: I do not know the source of this PA--whether it was Police or if it was integral to the RV that exploded.

I'll update later with what I know. First off, I'm fine. I'm actually out of town at my Mom's for Christmas. We're about 2 hours away in the country. All my friends in town--no matter where they lived--heard this.

I think the best way forward is join in on the zoom call. You can't control them, but you ultimately don't need to bow out of seeing them if they don't follow the rules. Meanwhile, I drove 2 hours to my mom's for my small immediate family to have a Christmas dinner and a breakfast tomorrow.

Crazy that a deepfaker on youtube can't make things that look better than fucking DISNEY.

Crazy that a deepfaker on youtube can't make things that look better than fucking DISNEY.

Thank god. The ostrich jacket is safe.