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Saturday, February 28, 2026

From 24 hours ago...

That's a lot of big sky iron in one place all at once. Six E-3 Sentries... (mislabeled as E-3Cs, when ours are all E-3Gs) ...at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi. That's something like roughly a third of our AWACs fleet right there.

It's out of SRBM range for most of Iran's arsenal, and I don't know what their MRBM fleet is looking like after our last round of bomb tag with the Islamic Republic.

We're gonna wind up burning up a year's worth of ballistic missile interceptor production in the next couple weeks, I bet.

Meme Dump!

"Epic Fury"? YHGTBSM.

On Saturday, Mr. Trump announced that “major combat operations” were underway in Iran. The Department of Defense has called the strikes “Operation Epic Fury.”

Did they poll middle school Call of Duty players for the operation name? I miss the good ol' days when we named them after strippers, like Odyssey Dawn.

I sweartagawd we are only about two steps away from

Official Pentagon spokesman PubliusMaximus1488 announced that “We’ve totally mogged Iran with Operation Based Bombmaxxing. We’d like to thank the best president ever for making America great again.”

Fundamentally unserious people.‪

PS: Boy, these tweets aged like fine milk, didn't they?

Friday, February 27, 2026

"ISI what you did there..."

Relations between the neighboring countries have deteriorated recently over Pakistan’s accusations that the Afghan government is harboring the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

So Pakistan's casus belli is that the Afghani Taliban are sheltering, arming, and training the Pakistani Taliban... which if you know anything about the history of the Taliban is some world class irony.

"Actually, Pakistan is the name of the doctor. The creature is called Pakistan's monster."

Fighting The Monster GIFfrom Fighting GIFs

Tab Clearing...

An app that warns you when it thinks smart glasses are nearby.

When you're finally over the effin' snow.

Jim Grey encounters enshittification.

Last Memes Before the Weekend!

Didn't we just leave this party?

Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel, is urging embassy staff to hop any flight they can get out of the country, and pronto.

Those wishing to leave “should do so TODAY,” Mr. Huckabee wrote in the email, sent at 10:24 a.m. local time. He urged them to find a flight out of Ben-Gurion Airport to any destination for which they could book passage.

The embassy’s move “will likely result in high demand for airline seats today,” he said in the email, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times. “Focus on getting a seat to anyplace from which you can then continue travel to DC, but the first priority will be getting expeditiously out of country.”

For a guy who ran on a platform of not getting us into any foreign wars, this president sure does seem to enjoy getting involved in them.

Also, remember when we "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program? Everybody from Al Jazeera to CNN does. Now we need to re-obliterate it or something, I guess.

Meanwhile, Pakistan and Afghanistan are basically in an actual shooting war now, if a largely desultory and remote controlled one thus far.