Alexander Jones (alexweej)

The more people try to make this work, the less rentseekers will control and exploit software devs. Do it! (Disclaimer, not yet doing it...)

Great work!

Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog I hate disqus too much.

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I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.

TIP: Whenever I reach out to put a comment above an assertion in tests I stop and remind myself that there's a MUCH better way of bringing additional information that might help you debug that assertion.

Custom error messages!

A very good question.

This is excellent shoe-leather investigative journalism. The evidence certainly points to large scale tax evasion.

You should all follow @londoncentric.media and @jim.londoncentric.media.

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NO, BLOCKED 🚫

YouTube video by Matt Johansen what the hell is going on with extensions turning into malware?

Why should a "colour picker" need internet access? 🤦‍♂️

Photo of the screen of a parking validation machine that says "please pay displayed amount: five dollars", and underneath that, "change is possible."

I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

I'd say it's not a binary property. Humans will eventually come to a consensus on many or even most values if/when they stop pretending they are somehow "$THEIR_CULTURE values" but instead "human values".

THIS IS AMERIKKKA

Iran makes nuclear site ‘totally indestructible’ after hiding it inside a giant Nokia 3310 Iran has announced that their nuclear facility in Fordo is now completely impenetrable after national security decided to hide it inside a giant Nokia 3310.

NEWS! Iran makes nuclear site 'totally indestructible' after hiding it inside a giant Nokia 3310

Stupidly configured my @frame.work 16 with only 16GB RAM forgetting that I haven't closed a tab since like 2011

Luckily it's a @frame.work 16 so I'll just upgrade 😇

ICYMI: The response was justified in the face of such blatant provocation

Sir, you're in complete denial about how the referendum worked. It was a simple majority, the "results" of constituent parts of the UK, be they countries or counties, were not relevant.

I refuse to accept that generalisation! It was a UK-wide vote...

yooo England looks on too

In case you missed it, yesterday Labour negotiated a comprehensive and workable free movement deal between Gibraltar and the EU.

Yet they repeat until they turn hoarse the assertion that they will NEVER bring back Freedom of Movement for the rest of us. Brexit is Brexit.
www.itv.com/news/2025-06...

I swear I am not making this up. Tonight Trump will go to the Kennedy Center to see “Les Miserables,” a play about a mass uprising against a tyrannical king. I hereby retire from satire.

So, YouTube, as a result of your algorithm brainwashing creators into borderline (and in many cases obvious) clickbait titles and thumbnails, we now need AI generated summaries while browsing to actually decide what to watch 🙄

We know that Meta, X, Reddit have shadowbanning and tune the balance of content that graduates to feeds so they make as much money as possible over some kind of timescale. Doing that just as subtly, but promoting nuance and respectful debate, would probably go a long way.

A little of this, a little of that

I still have no idea what "the UK economy" is supposed to mean to people. It's literally a single number in most cases, that doesn't seem to imply much good for the average person even when it's "up".

Solidarity. Forever.

I don't see a fundamentally better culture of rational, healthily skeptic discourse on the left either, which is maybe a sign of the real problem - complacency.

Just remember this graphic. This is only LA City. LA County is bigger still.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Liquid Glass = Fast Fashion

We could be solving problems.