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I just saw this post and immediately joined patreon.com/xjm. It would just take a few hundreds #Drupal community members sponsoring a short code review to fund a significant chunk of @xjmdrupal's work. Let's just do it. 1/3
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WAKE UP, People. Today, Palestine is a REVEALER of the system we live in. Not long ago, European Jews were genocided in 'civilized' Europe, under everyone's eyes: they were "unseen", and not many seemed to care. Today, millions of people "see" and are trying to stop Israel's genocide - protesting, seeking accountability - invoking the very legal framework that was crafted after the Holocaust to ensure "never again". But, from the US to Europe, they are either ignored or harshly punished. Far too many states are enabling the genocide of the Palestinians, while turning also repressive toward their own citizens. This is both revolting and scary. We must stop it now.
20 Mar 2025
I’m a British Jew. I’m 63 All my life I could not understand how millions of ordinary people could take part in the Holocaust NOW I see Israel’s GENOCIDE & the support from the West including people who consider themselves thoughtful, liberal, & upholders of human rights, NOW I understand
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17 Mar 2025
Israel. Is. Cutting. Off. Water. And. Is. Starving. Babies. Children. Elderly. Women. Men. To. Death. In. Gaza. Right. Now. UK politicians, the BBC and the rest of the mainstream media are doing NOTHING to stop them In fact, they are supporting Israel's genocidal actions
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Thrilled to announce the launch of the new #Twig playground! Powered by PHP wasm, everything operates directly in the browser. It lets you try out Twig templates online. The state is preserved in the URL for easy sharing, perfect for bug reports.
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Y'all, /u/nicxvan have successfully converted all #drupal core hooks to OOP and solved all the auxilliary issues necessary. Absolutely incredible work!
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RT @FilBarbera: Gli attivisti del clima che bloccano le strade
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📢 Drupal 11.0.0-rc1 is now available! Release candidates are not for production sites, they are intended for widespread testing in preparation for the upcoming stable release. Test now! 11.0.0 is planned for the week of July 29, 2024. drupal.org/project/drupal/re…
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13 Oct 2023
Great news -- I am back up to 60% funding for #Drupal core release management! Learn more about the organizations and individuals who have made this possible: xjmdrupal.org/blog/new-spons…

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12 Oct 2023
My humble *plea* to #opensource projects out there: please write OPINIONATED documentation. When I'm trying your thing out for the first time, 13 possible installation options is NOT HELPFUL. Give me ONE that works most of the time, with a pointer to more if I'm feeling fancy.
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It's my 20th Drupalversary today! In 2003 @drupal was the best open source web system with structured data and flexible outputs to modernize the site of our Hungarian web dev portal. I immediately got involved to improve it and soon figured out the community was even better! 💙
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29 Sep 2023
Proudly presenting “Acquia Migrate: Accelerate” — a tool to help make the >350,000 remaining #Drupal 7 sites #migrate to Drupal 9 and 10! Available *now*: dev.acquia.com/blog/acquia-m… Detailed tutorial, in which I migrate my own site in less than an hour: dev.acquia.com/tutorial/drup… 🥳
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I just saw this post and immediately joined patreon.com/xjm. It would just take a few hundreds #Drupal community members sponsoring a short code review to fund a significant chunk of @xjmdrupal's work. Let's just do it. 1/3
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I'm not sure people fully appreciate the scale at which the @drupal project would be damaged, if @xjmdrupal reduced significantly her level of contribution. I had the privilege to act as a Drupal committer for a few years and I'm not even willing to contemplate the idea. 2/3
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@Dries has been saying for years that agencies should be more involved in committer funding: a few dozen #drupal shops offering some serious sponsoring would ensure that @xjmdrupal keeps doing her vital job. If you work with @drupal that is just a smart thing to do 🙂 3/3
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How would a nuclear war between Russia and the U.S. affect you? Who would survive? Watch and share our most realistic nuclear war simulation yet:
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1 Aug 2023
Replying to @GabeSullice
At the moment we don't have any sort of budget surplus or open positions that could be repurposed for this, but if partners were interested in supporting an endowment for core positions or something like that, perhaps we could make it happen.
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Culinary map of Europe, according to Italy
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Una madre e una figlia nate nella parte sbagliata del mondo
It was expected, so there can’t be nuancing, indulgence or omission. This woman and her daughter died abandoned in the desert by Tunisia European and Italian political leaders who beat their chest at political rallies shouting they are Christian mothers are responsible for this
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13 Jul 2023
You've seen this tweet before, but... #Drupal world, xjm is seeking employment! Especially as a paid core committer. Before today (July 13) I was 100% funded and today 0%. Help me and help core! Thanks to @Agileana for seven great months of core contribution sponsorship!
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