Matt Armstrong

Metalhead, Gamer, Computer Tech, Kiwi

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

Tonight’s agenda:

Confirm that Kamiya-san is an idiot.
Have dinner.

Actual result:
Confirmed that we are both idiots.

A very productive evening.

[Briana White @ItsBrianaWhite]

SQUARE TABITHA ENIX YOU DID NOT

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇳🇿🇺🇦 Remember his name: Jeremy Hector Braggins.

A New Zealander who travelled thousands of kilometres from home to stand with Ukraine against Russian aggression.

Jeremy was in his early 50s. He had previously served in the New Zealand Army Reserve and was also a trained emergency medic who had worked on ambulances for a private hospital in South Africa.

When Russia's war against Ukraine called for people willing to do more than simply watch from a safe distance, Jeremy joined the International Legion of Ukraine.

He trained as both a soldier and a medic.

One of the men who trained alongside him, American volunteer Addison Jureidini, later remembered Jeremy as a genuinely good man. Their beds were next to each other in camp. They talked every day, including about Jeremy's family and his parents, who had retired to Europe.

Jeremy completed basic military training and was then selected for advanced medical training.

He excelled.

“He was good,” his comrade recalled. “He passed it really easily.”

Then came the deployment.

In May 2025, Jeremy and his comrades travelled toward Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast. They were entering one of the most dangerous battlefields in Europe.

The warning before combat was brutal: expect mines, expect drones, and don't expect air cover.

On May 17, 2025, Jeremy went into his first frontline battle.

He never came back.

Jeremy was listed as missing in action and presumed killed after intense fighting in Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian memorials subsequently honoured him among the international volunteers who gave their lives for Ukraine.

But there is another heartbreaking part of his story.

His body has still not been recovered.

Under Ukrainian procedure, he therefore remains formally listed as missing in action. His father, Ian, has said that the family cannot accept with certainty that Jeremy is dead until their son is brought home.

So somewhere on the battlefield of eastern Ukraine remains a New Zealander who chose to fight for the freedom of people living on the other side of the world.

Jeremy did not have to go to Ukraine.

Ukraine was not his country.
Ukrainians were not his people.
This was not his war by birth.

He went anyway.

He brought something Ukraine desperately needed: military experience, medical skills, courage — and ultimately himself.

Jeremy Hector Braggins joined a remarkable group of New Zealanders who stood with Ukraine when standing with Ukraine could cost them everything.

Some people speak about freedom.

Others cross the world to defend it.

Jeremy did.

Until he is brought home, he remains missing.

Until Ukraine is free, what he fought for remains unfinished.

And regardless of what the battlefield ultimately reveals, his courage deserves to be remembered.

Honor and gratitude to Jeremy Hector Braggins. 🇳🇿🇺🇦

New Zealand should remember his name.
Ukraine should remember his name.
We should remember his name.

Glory to the heroes.

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But , for now cheer up. From us.

[Matt Armstrong @murderfaec]

@VladVexler Congrats Vlad!

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.

[Matt Armstrong @murderfaec]

@ThePOTSPostman EBV at 10, CFS ever since (now 35).

[ThePOTSPostman @ThePOTSPostman]

Chronic illness teaches you how to act.

How to smile when your body is screaming.

How to say “I’m okay” when you’re anything but.

How to hide your pain so people don’t stare, worry, or even pity you.

You learn to mask your symptoms because it’s easier to pretend you’re okay than to explain for the hundredth time that you’re not.

You hide symptoms not to deceive people, but to protect yourself from being doubted.

You get so good at masking that even you forget how bad it is sometimes.

Then one quiet moment hits and you realize how much you’ve normalized just to seem functional.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Trump wins the White House. Again.
The Democrats blew it. Again.
A depressing yet predictable result.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

It really is amazing seeing a bunch of people angry at elites f*cking them over handing power over to elites f*cking them over. Enjoy the slaughter.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Trump is proof that if you commit enough crimes instead of facing the law, you become the law.

[sarah 🕸♡ @VampireGhuleh]

Finally made an account over on BlueSky to see what all the hype is about! Please help me spread the word 🥺 going to be reposting some of my favourite pictures on there over the course of the next few days! Please RT 🖤 https://t.co/EzmLiNofEd

[Matt Armstrong @murderfaec]

@JasminDarnell I'm going thru and following a bunch of ppl I follow here right now 👍

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

FUCK.

[Matt Armstrong @murderfaec]

@locust9 Seen a few ppl say they are gonna move to NZ, man what a fuckn world

[Matt Armstrong @murderfaec]

Fuck

[Matt Armstrong @murderfaec]

@linds_longcovid I guess post truth populism and attaching their reality, self worth and personality to the political tribe social media tricked them into. Also as someone with ME since I was 10 (2001), often people are cruel when they can't see your illness and don't care until it affects them

[Smarter Every Day @smartereveryday]

Hey it's me Destin, from Smarter Every Day. Now that it's time to elect America's next leader, I would like to share something very interesting and important with you. I've been paying attention to this for a while, and I think if you look for it, you see it too.
🧵 1/n

[Matt Armstrong @murderfaec]

@ladyddancing Hell yeah rip in piss mayor

[Matt Armstrong @murderfaec]

@outstarwalker I can go multiple hours where nothing sticks out for sure. I'm over half way in and doing all side quests and it doesn't bother me to the point I wanna stop even at the worst. However I could see ppl noping out hard if they were more bothered by it / didn't care about DA lore