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

NEW: A Queensland software engineer has been in a four-and-a-half year long battle with Services Australia to get a look at a MyGov app's source code.

He says we should be able to scrutinise it to make sure it's secure. Services Australia says it's a national security risk.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/09/mygov-app-code-services-australia-security-fraser-tweedale/

So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.

Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.

Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy

I'm $82 from hitting $5000 in all-time sales via Bandcamp... bit of a tall order, but I think it's JUST possible I could hit that by the end of the month, with a little help (about $82 worth of help LOL). Can't buy? A share is almost as valuable!

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/

I am also ~40 followers from hitting 1000 on Bandcamp, which is ALSO a neat milestone. Even easier to help out with! You don't have to spend a dime, & I send fewer than 5 Bandcamp messages/year (new releases + a couple sales).

TikTok sold to Oracle!

https://joinloops.org/why-loops-matters

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tiktok-divestment_l_69448648e4b039c32babc75d

RE: https://hear-me.social/@Onj/115690218302125927

I've done what I set out to do by the end of the year. I made it to 180 tracks in the collection. I stopped at 171 in May of 2023, then I just couldn't focus on much music for the last couple of years which, as a composer, really depressed me, but this December I decided to really try and sit down to make a go of it, so I did.
It may not seem like much, but not being able to write, when it's what I've done for 30 years felt very stifling and depressing in ways I cannot express.

My next goal is to hit 200, so I'll start work on that, hopefully soonest.

I just want to thank every person that favourited, reposted or interacted with me on my self-assigned journey recently. You're all wonderful humans, even those that said they had no use for such a project, which is totally fine. They still shared it most of the time, and I respect that.