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Fun Friday Poll!

It's time for me to change the header photo on my website The Wonderful World of Cinema. I love How to Steal a Million, but that photo has been displayed at the top of my blog since 2021, and I think we're due for a change. And, has I did with the previous header photos, I want you to help me choose it by voting!

This time, I went with photos from films from the 50s. Click on the link to vote. You have until January 20 at 6:00 pm ET. to do so.

Thanks in advance!

[korattata]

You now have to check a checkbox saying you like pineapple on pizza in order to log into wordpress's website btw.

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"Open Source, once ridiculed and attacked by the professional classes, has taken over as an intellectual and moral movement. Its followers are legion within every major tech company. Yet, even now, false prophets like Meta are trying to co-opt it. Llama, its “open source” AI model, is free to use—at least until “monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month.” Seriously."

"Actual Open Source licenses are the law that guarantees freedom, the bulwark against authoritarianism. But what makes Open Source work isn’t the law, it’s the ethos. It’s the social mores. It’s what I’m now calling Ecosystem Thinking:"

Learn Evolve Teach Nourish

For #wcus contributor day I did some writing, with a post on WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking.

[tinystepsforward]

automattic vs wp engine mastterpost

adrienne's GitHub recap is probably the best place to see a comprehensive timeline of what's going down. it's been kept up to date. my (very out of date) previous writeup is here.

what's happened/other links

Matt has not logged off, just switched platforms, so there's lots on X/Twitter, Reddit, and Hacker News. it's really not worth wading through.

WP Engine actually filed suit.

the complaint includes some truly remarkable screenshots of Matt trying to blackmail the CEO of WP Engine.

which... personally i would not happily work for someone who just blackmailed me while not even my boss, but that's just me. he hasn't denied this at all, in fact confirming on Hacker News:

I haven't doxxed any private texts from other parties like they have. [source]

and, notably,

I even invited her to my 40th birthday on Jan 11, another text message she decided not to share. [source]

this gives me the creeps. in the context of the rest of the way he's talking to her, and the ways in which he's interacted with women in general, it's. not great.

also he slid into an ex-employee (also a woman)'s DMs asking why she was being mean to him bc he'd never been nothing but nice to her, while also making legal threats. so y'know, pattern of behaviour.

a good writeup of the social side of things

if you don't care so much about the open-source stuff, Steph Lundberg's writeup is, like her previous one on Matt's Tumblr meltdown, pretty solid and people-focused.

Mullenweg has already demonstrated egregious lapses in judgment and abuses of power, it’s just that up until now he’s wielded his power against vulnerable populations without access to high-powered lawyers and their own massive platforms.

a more technical writeup

this one is melodramatic in the same ways Matt was (uses war terminology), which i don't agree with, and which led to some... internal arguments at Automattic. that part's not my story to tell, but a little more on that later. it's a solid writeup of the actual WordPress side of things. there's some seriously dodgy trademark behaviour going on here.

of note: this blogger locked comments on his post:

and then Matt, uh, found a way around that:

wild!

10% of Automattic leaves

that's a link to Matt's blog post. here's an Internet Archive link.

in short, staff were offered a severance deal of the higher of $30k or six months' salary. while that's very generous, it's still very risky in today's tech market, especially (for the same reasons i mentioned when Matt was melting down on here) for people outside the US, people who need the health insurance, or people with young kids. despite that, 10% decided with very little notice (they had two days to decide) to leave.

However now, I feel much lighter. I’m grateful and thankful for all the people who took the offer, and even more excited to work with those who turned down $126M to stay. As the kids say, LFG!

i'm thrilled to see some of my ex-colleagues make it out. i'm keeping the rest who have stayed on in my thoughts. i don't know anyone who's wholesale shilling for Matt.

Matt's been pressuring staff to post in support of him, @-ing the entire company to vote on Twitter polls in his favor, and so on. many of the people who stayed have written blog posts about it, all starting with "I stayed". people on social media have pointed out the very clear pattern of Automatticians jumping into discourse to defend Matt, and it doesn't look good.

i don't have a lot to say about those posts, except to highlight Jeffrey Zeldman, whose "I stayed" post is perhaps one of the more honest ones. (his Rodney King reference was in poor taste, and he... i don't like his role at automattic, tbc) but like. he's nearly 70. he helped shape the modern internet and develop its accessibility standards. he has often put his neck on the line for disabled staff who don't have as much clout as he does. given the financial troubles he talks about and the state of this market and how old he is, i personally have read between the lines of what he's saying in a particular way.

fuck, man. i'm sad. i'm sad for all my friends who are creaking under the strain and watching others leave but who can't do that. i'm sad that many of them are left in teams which are half-empty or divisions where significant senior leadership are just gone, with no time to document what they had in progress.

i'm sad for Josepha Haden Chomphosy, the former executive director of the WordPress Foundation, who was dealing with a personal emergency and ended up having to miss WordCamp US (where Matt started publicly starting shit with WPE). she came back from that to a gigantic fire in the community she's invested a decade of careful, Matt-negotiating, stewardship to, and decided to take the severance offer. she deserved better.

other things Matt's been up to

mostly linking to comments or posts which compile things here, bc it's too scattered otherwise.

blocking people from the official WordPress X account if they disapprove of his actions.

publicly talking about a vulnerability in ACF, a plugin WPE maintains, which could put thousands of sites at risk. this is not normal, and he met with so much horror even from current staff that he deleted his post.

saying he comes across badly because he's "a little ASD", which is driving me personally up the fucking wall. he's never once said it before and he really is turning into Temu Elon.

generally bragging that he still has more planned. jesus fucking christ

continually saying that WPE's suit is against WordPress.org and the community, which is not true. on which note, his pinned tweet is certainly something:

his choice of lawyer is uh. the kind of guy to defend nestle against literal child slaves.

as always, while i think WordPress crumbling will disproportionately affect websites in poorer parts of the world, there are certainly tyrants who are causing much more immediate and potent suffering. if you've read this far, please do send anything you have spare to gazafunds.com.

[whateveradjunct]

Last Minute Reminder to Ohioans: Vote NO on Issue 1 Today

Why? You mean, aside from the fact that it was rushed onto the ballot in order to make sure that the uterus-bearing in Ohio have less control over their bodies than their local politicians, and that it was shoved into an August voting date that this same legislature actually voted out of existence specifically to ensure that the issue would have so little attention that only the rabid faithful…

[mc-posts]

Union Management supports Biden. Workers support Trump.

Union Management supports Biden. Workers support Trump. In a strange interview, the UAW President admitted that the Joe Bag a Donut worker was not supporting the Union upper management pick. United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain said “a great majority” of American union workers in the auto industry “will not vote for” President Joe Biden against presumptive Republican presidential…

[yakumtsaki]

gen 4 finale + heir vote on wordpress!

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'Get that fat pig off the couch': Trump's remark at Michigan rally sparks outrage

Donald Trump at Michigan rally (Picture credit: Reuters) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday urged his female supporters to get their ‘fat’ husbands off the couch to vote for him, inviting criticism from many. He made this comment during a rally in Michigan’s Detroit.The campaign team of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, through their ‘Kamala HQ‘ page, shared…

[jscalzi]

Hey, Look at That

Starter Villain won this year’s Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Neat! Thank you to everyone at Tor, particularly my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden, my cover artist Tristan Elwell, and everyone who voted for the novel. I’m thrilled and delighted. It’s fun to win awards, and an honor to be part of the field of finalists. — JS

[the-most-humble-blog]

The Prattle Paradox:

Feminism Is Not a Medical Permit to Be a Horrible F🔥cking Human

📢 Just because you're oppressed by gravity doesn’t mean you're entitled to a stranger’s attention. Sit down. Log off. And maybe touch some grass.

🧼 Exorcism Begins: The Weaponized “Empowerment” Era

There was a time feminism stood for something. Equal pay, voting rights, not being traded for livestock — all valid. All noble. What we’ve got now?

🥴 A trauma-fueled MLM run by women who think disagreeing with them is violence.

This new “wave” isn’t feminism. It’s emotional racketeering.

Hijacked by wounded Karens with a WordPress blog.

Mutated into a passive-aggressive religion where validation is God and dissent is heresy.

Preached not from pulpits, but DMs. Unsolicited. Unhinged. Unread.

You don’t stand for women. You sit in men’s inboxes screaming at memes like they killed your hamster.

📣 “Just wondering why you’d post this while women are dying in Gaza—” Girl. It’s a TikTok of a guy cooking eggs.

That’s not feminism. That’s cortisol in heels.

📉 Your Message Was Received. And Deleted. Immediately.

Let’s play out what really happens after you send that volcanic, performative, emotionally constipated DM:

Opens it mid-poop.

Sees 13 swipes of text.

Screenshots to the boys:

“LMAO she’s back again 😭”

They laugh.

Deleted.

Life goes on.

You're still typing.

Meanwhile, you think you’re a disruptor. In reality, you’re just the group chat’s court jester.

He doesn’t remember your name. He remembers the unhinged monologue you delivered over a meme about bacon. She — yes, his wife — remembers it too. Because they laughed together. At you.

👑 And you call that “holding men accountable”?

Nah. That’s emotional littering. And sis, you’re the raccoon.

😤 You Don’t Get a Personality Just by Having a Uterus

This is where we turn up the volume — because someone has to say it with their whole chest:

🛑 Feminism does not grant you moral superiority. 🛑 A uterus is not a certificate in ethics. 🛑 And trauma is not a license to be a walking internet aneurysm.

You are not a “badass.” You are just bad at communication.

And that isn’t empowerment. That’s unresolved daddy issues with a data plan.

Stop DMing strangers like they owe you closure for your last three ghostings. Stop responding to memes like you’re testifying at the Hague. Stop calling yourself “unapologetic” when you’re just unaccountable.

🪦 "But I Was Just Speaking My Truth…”

No, love. You were emotionally masturbating in someone else’s DMs without consent.

You weren’t brave. You were spam. And just because you felt “something” while typing it, doesn’t mean anyone else should have to read it.

⚠️ Feelings ≠ Facts. Your digital temper tantrum isn’t a think piece. It’s not activism. It’s desperation dressed in Canva fonts.

🧃 Why You Keep Getting Left on Read (Spoiler: It’s You)

You know that chronic ache that hits after you fire off a DM to a guy who "needs to hear the truth," only to get left on read?

That ache is called accountability. And you are severely allergic.

Men aren’t “avoiding accountability.” They’re avoiding you.

Because you don’t talk to them. You talk at them. With the tone of a divorced HR rep who hasn’t had a clitoral twitch since Obama’s first term.

And guess what?

👑 Nobody listens to someone performing pain like it’s a resume skill.

🤡 You Are the Meme Now

“This is exactly why women aren’t taken seriously—” Because you turned feminism into a skit.

You made it the punchline.

Now every time you DM a man about his “toxic masculinity,” he doesn't feel called out. He feels glad you’re single.

👏 You’re not empowering women. You’re inspiring vasectomies.

💀 If You Were on Fire, He Still Wouldn’t…

Let’s go nuclear:

If you were on fire, the man you DM’d wouldn’t piss on you to put it out.

Not because he’s evil. But because you earned that apathy.

You’ve harassed. You’ve spammed. You’ve projected. You’ve belittled. You’ve turned every space into your therapy room.

And you want him — a total stranger — to validate your trauma? Baby, even Siri tuned out.

💅 TL;DR:

Feminism ≠ moral invincibility.

Trauma ≠ authority.

Your DMs are not sacred scrolls.

No one is reading your rants except the group chat.

You’re not a movement. You’re meme fodder.

Stop being offended by things you willingly read.

**You’re not "disrupting misogyny." You’re building a highlight reel of rejection.

📣 So here’s the call:

Put down the iPhone. Pick up some self-awareness. Log off. Go outside. Touch literally anything that’s not male attention.

And for the love of cat hair — 🛑 Stop DMing men who don’t even know you exist.

⚖️⚖️⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER (READ IT TWICE, KAREN): This digital content is legally protected under free speech and expressive commentary. If this triggered a full-body hot flash of rage, that’s not harassment — that’s the Constitution doing its job. This post contains nothing defamatory, discriminatory, or illegal. It simply makes too much f🔥cking sense. ⚖️ Your offense is not our liability. ⚖️ Your projection is not our problem. ⚖️ Your inbox rants are still getting deleted. This is a lawful transmission of digital opinion for grown-ups. If that’s not you, find the exit.

🔁 REBLOG if you're done letting the emotionally unstable weaponize gender. 💬 Drop a comment with your favorite “she really thought this was a TED Talk” moment. 📩 DM your worst unsolicited essay from a DM warrior. We'll frame it in gold. 📢 Tag someone who needs this tattooed on their soul. 🔥 Save this for the next time a “not all men” debate pops up under a meme about eggs.

[simscognito]

Chapter 16 of The Tides of Power is live on WordPress.

You can read it here.

Thanks to those who voted in the poll. While nearly three quarters of you said you were happy to read on either platform, twice as many of the remaining voters preferred to read on Tumblr.

So tomorrow I'll share chapter 16 on Tumblr in 2 parts!

Just a note: from now on, this will be the same version of the story that I share on WP.

If you missed last week’s chapter, click here (Tumblr) | here (WP). 

To read from the beginning, click here (Tumblr) | here (WP).

If you’d like to start reading from Chapter 11, I’ve written a summary to catch you up, which you can read here.

[braveblackbutterfly]

I talked about this late last year, but I'm strongly thinking about starting a writer's blog on substack.

I wanted to do a paid subscription, but I first need to build up a social media following or at least some faithful readers before I can charge anybody to read my blog posts. So it will be a free subscription for now.

I have ideas for what I want to write about. But I'm curious to see what people are more interested in reading about.

Here's the link to my WordPress blog that includes my spoken word readings/performances, but also some personal essays.

Let me know if you want samples of my written work.

Please reblog so I can get as many votes/opinions as possible.

Added note: if you're interested in more than one topic, please let me know. I forgot to add that as an option.

[kinialohaguy]

Disrupter

Aloha kākou and Happy Aloha Friday. The last stab of tyranny against Citizen Donald J. Trump by the Marxist democrats and the Uniparty fascists happened today. The sentencing of an innocent man before he is inaugurated as President of the United States. What was the crime? To this day, no one knows. The next time some leftist knucklehead says you voted for a “34-Time Convicted Felon” Send Them…

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Rep. Larson Shames Republicans!!!

One of the best speeches by a congressman you will ever hear! Rep. John B. Larson (D-CT) called out his Republican colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee before they voted to block his Resolution of Inquiry into the Trump-Musk plan to gut Social Security. https://youtu.be/0MJDxvPL-EI?feature=shared Don’t miss this!

[whateveradjunct]

20 Years of Old Man's War

In retrospect, Tor Books officially releasing Old Man’s War on January 1, 2005, doesn’t seem like a huge vote of confidence in the novel. One, the holiday season is over and all the spending has been done save for a stray, occasional gift card. Two, even if one wanted to buy Old Man’s War on its official release date, most bookstores were closed for the national holiday, and this being 2005,…