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America’s spending on the war in Iran will far outlast active combat.
The U.S. government has already made contracts and other commitments to repair damaged bases, field counter-drone platforms, feed and shelter thousands of troops and replenish munitions.
Even if President Trump signs a deal ending the war tomorrow, we will harden bases in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Turkey,
by reinforcing aircraft shelters, building blast walls arou…

Opinion | We Will Be Paying for the Iran War for a Very Long Time
The Iran conflict resembles others the United States has been involved in recently: easy to start and hard to end.

Left-leaning French alternative media startups surged over the past decade amid the country's rightward shift and consolidation of billionaire media ownership (Christopher Clark/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/french-media-blast-mediapart-lag…

France’s Independent Press Fights Back - Nieman Reports
Alternative media startups in France see themselves as a bulwark against billionaires and the far right. Can they survive? 

Gold medalist Alysa Liu has a BLAST in the exhibition gala | Winter Olympics 2026 | NBC Sports
#olympics

blast from the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MacQpu8JniQ
How are things going, whatcha think?
addenda:
https://www…

For #MountainMonday I share this view from a recent hike.
The 300mm zoom lens zoomed me into this area. It would be a blast to walk there. Yet this is a protection zone that noone should enter in winter to give wildlife some peace.
Well, I was happy to see that scene with the soft snow ... just beautiful (to me at least)

Marines, this ain’t a park in Los Angeles you’re trying to invade this time.
Iran is over half a million square miles (1.6 million square kilometers) and over 92 million Iranians, with mountains and terrain so fierce even the Romans avoided invading it, but 2,500 USMC soldiers (with planning by kegsbreath and the geriatric bone spur) are gonna move the needle. Right.
Building a graveyard isn’t good for anyone.

Blast near pro-government demonstration in Iran after Israeli warning
A large explosion rocked an area of Iran’s capital where thousands were gathered for an annual state-organized rally to support the Palestinians and call for Israel’s demise. Israel had warned earlier Friday that it would operate in the area in central Tehran. There were no immediate reports of casualties. But the decision to proceed with the mass demonstrations, and Israel’s threat to target the area, underscored the fierce determination on both sides nearly two weeks into a war that has…

Kenny Clark's New Cowboys Jersey Number Is Blast From Pro Bowl Past https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/kenny-clark-new-dallas-cowboys-jersey-number-blast-from-pro-bowl-past

Imagine being a Trump shill, so unaware of the real world, you self-own HARD on social while trying to put the libs on blast. 😅
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ihpglfqq3dapqjmwl2ntktil/post/3mfiuw4hqkk2e

The messaging coming from the White House increasingly reflects an “America, fuck yeah!” approach to international politics
– a phrase from the theme tune of "Team America: World Police",
the 2004 satire by the creators of South Park, which mocked the thrusting militarism of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
For those who don’t remember,
the film follows a crack squad of puppet soldiers as they blast their way around the world,
pursuing bad guy…

Trump’s ‘America, F**k Yeah’ doctrine and the war with Iran
Bombing the Iranian regime with little thought of what comes next suggests a foreign policy driven by pure swagger – a Team America approach to global power

Off to the Canberra Comedy Festival Gala tonight - it's one of my favourite events of the year. I get to see some of the comedians really like, as well as some others I've not seen before. I don't go to quite as many festival shows these days but the gala is a must - and it's always a blast. We'll stop in at Tiger Lane for an early feed beforehand.
#CanberraComedyFestival

Joey Ramone passed away on this day (April 15) in 2001. Joey no longer walks Earth (and Dee Dee and Johnny are no longer with us either), but the unreal music he and they left behind is immortal, and it will fucking blast and rip forever. It still blows my mind I was briefly on Earth at the same time as this man, this legend, Jeffrey Hyman.
Here's a writeup Ultimate Classic Rock put up today on Joey and the Ramones for the 25th anniversary of his passing:

Russia kills 4 in Sumy Oblast, strikes ambulance carrying minor hospitalized in blast, targets Mondelez factory: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/22/russia-kills-in-sumy-oblast.html

uh.. blast from the past, only newish 🪦 🦇 :moth_black_red:
#punk

This is what intellectual arson leads to. Fortunately, no one was injured! #antisemitism #Judenhass

Belgium: Explosion in front of Liege synagogue
No one was injured in the blast, police say. Liege Mayor Willy Demeyer condemned the explosion as an "extremely violent act of antisemitism."

So, the Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition is over and it was a blast even if I'm completely exhausted. However, figured I'd post some code I actually wrote and ran in the competition:
```go
package main
func main() {
for i := 0; i < 8; i {
go func() {
for {
}
}()
}
for {
}
}
```

Blast from the Past! 2009 when we did a radio commercial for Bucketworks, and old hackerspace in Milwaukee.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2009/03/25/bucketworks-radio-commercial/

Bucketworks Radio Commercial
Occasionally at Z2 Marketing, I engineer radio commercials. If you still listen to commercial radio, you may have heard one of them!

#FOSDEM was awesome as always! Lots of action around the Perl and Raku table. Well done to everyone who volunteered! It was a blast!
We had stickers for #perl, #rakulang , @…

GOP, Democrats blast Vought for holding back cash: 'You don't have the authority to impound' (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/16/congress/vought-slammed-on-impoundment-00877112
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p92#a260416p92

Continuing my exploration of the Reason DAW (12), making beats, and the study of bass guitar.
Most importantly, having a blast...
#bass

Subway systems are uncomfortably hot—and worsening, study finds #subway

Subway systems are uncomfortably hot—and worsening, study finds
For millions of commuters, the workday doesn't just begin with a train ride. It also begins with a blast of heat. In one of the largest studies ever conducted on thermal comfort in metro systems, Northwestern University scientists found that subway riders consistently report feeling uncomfortably hot while underground.

@…
wow
wot (web of trust), blast from the past. I want to put on a 45.

Two episodes into the new #taskmaster series, and it's... okay.
It's a low energy group, which is not my style.
I love chaotic, energetic contestants that bomb and blast their way through tasks.
Thus far, that's not this series 🙁

Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools.
The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterized by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT.
Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI…

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Why the US can't blast open the Strait of Hormuz (and Europe can’t either) https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-of-hormuz/

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band on long island at the calderone concert hall in hempstead, just a few days after kingfish were there. audience tape with a big debut & proper blast of long island dead freak energy. spring ’76, show #14: https://archive.org/details/jg76-…

It hit 15°C today. That must explain why the air conditioning is on full blast in this lecture hall.

Joey Porter blasts Ben Roethlisberger: Former Steelers QB not a good teammate or person https://www.nfl.com/news/joey-porter-blasts-ben-roethlisberger-former-steelers-qb-not-a-good-teammate-or-person

Charlie puts PSA on BLAST for destroying some poor guy's Pokémon card... and now PSA buckled (now that they were caught) and are supposedly gonna fix the situation.
▶️ I've Disliked This Company for Awhile and Feel Vindicated Now
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3pQAJzGa3t

NASA began a two-day practice countdown Saturday
leading up to the fueling of its new moon rocket,
a crucial test that will determine when four astronauts blast off on a lunar flyby.
Already in quarantine to avoid germs,
Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew will be the first people to launch to the moon since 1972.
They will monitor the dress rehearsal from their Houston base before flying to Kennedy Space Center once the rocket is cleared for flight.
The 3…

NASA begins a practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in more than 50 years
NASA has begun a two-day practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in 53 years

New footage raises likelihood the US struck an Iranian school where a blast killed at least 165 (Julia Frankel/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-strike-school-minab-us-3f55b6ca193a3295bef5735a45a06368
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p77#a260309p77

The Defense Department is looking for information from private contractors who can provide
“prefabricated, transportable, hardened shelter systems
designed to protect personnel from blast and fragmentation threats,”
according to a new federal contract notice posted Monday.
The March 23 notice has a deadline of Friday
and asks for companies to submit possible delivery timelines for 3 days, 15 days, and 30 days
and include information about the “highest thre…

Pentagon looks for vendors to supply pre-made bunkers within 30 days
The Defense Department is trying to find vendors who can supply transportable bunkers that protect troops against blasts and shrapnel.

Loud blast and smoke near US Embassy in Oslo Norway. Smoke seen. No injuries found.
#oslo #norway #USEmbassy #explosion

Loud Blast Heard Near US Embassy in Oslo, Norway, Police Report
A loud blast was reported near the US embassy in Oslo, Norway. Police say there are no injuries and are in dialogue with embassy officials.

Super Bowl Contender Blasted for Not Pursuing Cowboys WR George Pickens https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/bills-called-out-george-pickens-trade/

The Donald Trump - JD Vance administration has sentenced Middletown, Ohio
— Vance's hometown
— to decades of environmental devastation
by canceling a $500 million federal grant that would have transformed a major steel plant into the world's cleanest industrial facility.
Instead, Cleveland-Cliffs is now planning to reline its aging blast furnace with coal and coke,
locking the region into at least 15 to 18 more years of toxic pollution and the health con…