In my 21 1/2 years of military service I don’t recall ever running into anything like this. This is fucked up beyond all recognition.
#FUBAR

“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,’ according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.” - Jonathan Larsen
https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQTONJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeJG3E3YqM8ukVozZseDDcDk7CWLgH6C2-l29rGcDD7SgEoT5gVduTtcaS4ak_aem_TITttkhQhu5b_C9u3tX4mA

Synth-pop band Chvrches covered Such Great Heights by The Postal Service. https://kottke.org/26/02/cover-of-such-great-heights-by-chvrches

25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.

In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3i

good news out of #Portugal. in only the 2nd runoff election for #president, the #socialist candidate, Antonio Jose Seguro, won against the #Richtwing #Chega candidate 67% to 33% 😁

Chega = Maga = a fascist cancer on the world

& can we make an agreement around the world to stop calling #Libertarian parties "liberal"? they are neo-liberal #cancervatives. Let's call them what they are: pro-oligarch parties

https://youtu.be/bQEQCKVdpak?si=RIcOj4r1QPca3cRO