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US politics is so broken, they have become so common that @KnottMatthew comments in passing that Republicans who voted for impeachment “likely face death threats”. https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/double-impeachment-a-permanent-stain-but-trump-still-gets-off-lightly-20210114-p56u0v.html

Good to see @jack & co are using the Lady Macbeth playbook. Great work team.

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1347684877634838528

Twitter and Facebook claiming they’re suspending Trump’s accounts for inciting violence is bullshit. They’re suspending his accounts to try and save face after the violence they’ve allowed him to incite for months has come to fruition.

Three years after I last checked-in, I’ve downloaded Swarm to keep a log of where I’ve been. I wish I could have an iota of faith in the iOS CovidSafe app.

It’s obvious 5r gives provides tools for and encourages Twitter spam (my fav is auto-replies offering to assist someone at AIOSEO or Yoast with search) but I can’t decide whether to block on follow or only if they DM or mention spam.

In today’s CSS bad take I learnt that Ethan, Nicole, Jen and Rachel are all junior developers despite changing the face of modern front-end web development. Good to know.

I’m trying to do a logic check on why the NSW gov is loosening restrictions for three days over Christmas (not even Boris has done that). The only thing I can come up with is that they are trying to limit rule breaking by relaxing them… but it still doesn’t seem logical.

From an open-source maintainer point of view, PHP 8.0 is, not to put too fine a point to it, a nightmare.
– @jrf_nl

Juliette Reinders Folmer has written an excellent post on the sudden lack of forgiveness in the newest version of PHP.

This NSW outbreak has my already plentiful anxiety sky rocketing again. A new feature is a salting of guilt because all my friends overseas have more to be afraid of than Australians.

Of the contributors to WordPress 5.6, 39% did so for the first time. Their contribution is now running on 6.7 million sites 😎 @AudrasJb has released his summery of contribution stats for WP 5.6.

WordPress 5.6 Core Stats: contributions by country & company