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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 2d

Watch this, totally worth it. Follow the Election Truth Alliance and support them with donations. They are fighting the good fight for honest Americans.
Minnesota 2024 Election Data Shows Alarming Trends In Places Where Machines Count Votes - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSV1...

Minnesota 2024 Election Data Shows Alarming Trends In Places Where Machines Count Votes

YouTube video by Election Truth Alliance

www.youtube.com

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 7d

Awesome progress!
WordPress and Higher Education: An Alliance that Transforms – Make WordPress Community make.wordpress.org/community/20...

WordPress and Higher Education: An Alliance that Transforms

An Agreement that Opens New Paths At the Faculty of Computer Science of Universidad Fidélitas, we have taken a historic step: we signed an agreement with the WordPress Foundation, turning our Compu…

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 7d

What Past Education Tech Failures Can Teach Us About the Future of AI in Schools gizmodo.com/what-past-ed...

What Past Education Tech Failures Can Teach Us About the Future of AI in Schools

Teachers need to be scientists themselves, experimenting and measuring the impact of powerful AI products on education.

gizmodo.com

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 9d

Early 2025, the CDC fired all of its full-time cruise ship inspectors working for the Vessel Sanitation Program, as part of the Trump administration’s plan to cut gov jobs across the board.
"2025 Has Been a Nightmare Year for Getting Violently Ill on Cruise Ships" gizmodo.com/2025-has-bee...

2025 Has Been a Nightmare Year for Getting Violently Ill on Cruise Ships

Gastrointestinal germs like norovirus are causing more cruise ship outbreaks than we've seen in a long time.

gizmodo.com

Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 13d

This is worth watching. Beware America and the rest of the world.
One Nation Under THEIR God! - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKz...

One Nation Under THEIR God!

YouTube video by Life, take two!

www.youtube.com

Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 14d

Yip, that about sums it up!!
World News Day www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/worl...

World News Day

Zapiro cartoon

www.dailymaverick.co.za

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 15d

WordPress 6.9 is coming, moar plugins, Query block and Fonts gutenbergtimes.com?view_newslet...

WordPress 6.9 is coming, moar plugins, Query block and Fonts

gutenbergtimes.com

Reposted by Anja Merret

MaxiBlocks @maxiblocks.bsky.social · 17d

Two more super starter sites. Ready for you to drop in your story and publish your site. (well, there are other bits too like hosting... - but it's close to being ready).
Co-working & architecture starter sites plus blog templates maxiblocks.com/co-working-a...

Co-working & architecture starter sites plus blog templates

Launch complete co-working and architecture websites today. Plus 13 blog templates for single posts, indexes, and author bios in WordPress.

maxiblocks.com

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 19d

Absolutely!

Ken Jones @350kjones.bsky.social · 19d

Along with the group
smartelections.us which already have a lawsuit and its in discovery phase to match paper ballots to what the vote counter machines tabulated.

SMART Elections

SMART Elections - a non-partisan project transforming elections by improving election security, providing public oversight, and advocating for voting rights, accessibility, and equity.

smartelections.us

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 19d

This organisation needs to be supported and talked about as they fight to uncover voter fraud during the 2024 elections. youtu.be/1nus5JA3Vh4

BOMBSHELL CLAIM: TRUMP DID NOT WIN 2024, ELECTION MANIPULATED

YouTube video by David Pakman Show

youtu.be

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 20d

AI Slop Fatigue and Analog Intelligence cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne marketoonist.com/2025/09/ai-s...

AI Slop Fatigue and Analog Intelligence cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne

Following my cartoon last month on the content firehose, I was struck by this comment from Albi Pagenstert, head of brand for BMW North America: “Authenticity is the new disruption. At a time when eve...

marketoonist.com

Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 21d

Could this be because ordinary Google search results are so full of rubbish it's difficult find anything?? You want AI summaries use ChatGPT or equivalent.
to Google Says Searchers Want AI Summaries Over Links www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-su...

Google Says Searchers Want AI Summaries Over Links

Markham Erickson, Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy at Google told The Verge that searchers want AI Overviews, "contextual answers and summaries," over links to publishers. But to h...

www.seroundtable.com

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 25d

Love to read about one-man businesses that make a go of it. In these days of unemployment spotlights on individuals making it work are invaluable.
Ivor H Founder of WPINDIGO Sharing His Story - WPfounders wpfounders.com/wordpress-bl...

Ivor H Founder of WPINDIGO Sharing His Story - WPfounders

Hi, Ivor here. I was born in Moldova and lived there the most part of my life. I have a university degree in computer science and had a pretty usual

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 25d

It's always about the money! Hence the "follow the money" principle....

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 26d

Divi Den getting Divi 5 ready. More sections ready!
Divi 5 Ready: 54 New Sections Added to Divi Den Pro wp-den.com/divi-5-ready...

Divi 5 Ready: 31 New Items Added to Divi Den Pro

31 new Divi 5 compatible items added to Divi Den Pro: 27 sections & 4 complete homepages. Total count now at 134 tested layouts ready for Divi 5.

wp-den.com

Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 27d

The WP Awards 2025: Nominations phase ends this week! Get yours in now!!
WP Weekly 260 - Tools - Video Popups, Text Effects in Blocks, RSL in WP thewpweekly.com/issue-260/

WP Weekly 260 - Tools - Video Popups, Text Effects in Blocks, RSL in WP

New tools for WordPress like DebugHawk, Ablad, and Logpress App. New product features like Video Popup, Course Gifting, and PDFs from form entries. Latest on Automattic and WP Engine case and implemen...

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · 27d

WordPress keeping up to date!
WordPress, AI, and the generational shift: insights from #WCUS Creators Studio - Gutenberg Times gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-ai...

WordPress, AI, and the generational shift: insights from #WCUS Creators Studio - Gutenberg Times

Automattic’s Developer Advocates didn’t hold back at WordCamp US. Jonathan Bossenger, Brian Coords, Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Ryan Welcher sat down for a no-BS roundtable about WordPress’s future, AI’s ...

gutenbergtimes.com

Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · Sep 10

WP Weekly 259 - Security - New SugarCart, ChangelogWP Project, Hosting Providers Feedback thewpweekly.com/issue-259/

WP Weekly 259 - Security - New SugarCart, ChangelogWP Project, Hosting Providers Feedback

David Michael from ArrayPress is launching SugarCart for WordPress, Ryan Logan and Derek Ashauer are launching ChangelogWP project, WordPress org opened survey for Hosting providers feedback, and Word...

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · Sep 7

Super review of WordCampUS and list of talks. Watch out for videos of talks and activities.
Accordion Block, Automattic Telex, Playground CLI and more gutenbergtimes.com?view_newslet...

Accordion Block, Automattic Telex, Playground CLI and more

gutenbergtimes.com

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · Sep 5

Awesome initiative. Welcomes many more people to your event!
Join WordCamp Gdynia 2025: Two Language Tracks Available openchannels.fm/wordcamp-gdy...

Join WordCamp Gdynia 2025: Two Language Tracks Available

Join us at WordCamp Gdynia 2025 from September 26-28 for bilingual sessions, workshops, and networking that unite the WordPress community.

openchannels.fm

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · Sep 3

As always excellent coverage of what's going on in the world of WordPress.
thewpweekly.com/issue-258/

WP Weekly 258 - Automation - WP Org Traffic, Book on Block Editor, WordCamp US & Asia 2026

Matt Mullenweg revealed the WordPress org website traffic is up, book on Block Editor by Paulo Carvajal, next 2026 WordCamp Asia and US dates announced, many automation plugins got new features. Also,...

thewpweekly.com

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · Sep 3

A warning!
The melancholy of history rhyming www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-mel...

The melancholy of history rhyming

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

www.baldurbjarnason.com

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · Sep 3

So much fun!!

BlueVoter @bluevoter24.bsky.social · Sep 2

This chick already looks like it’s seen too much 💭🦤😂 #birds #humor

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Anja Merret @therealanja.bsky.social · Sep 3

Visited Norway with my 6 year old grandson. He just loved the trolls and the stories behind them.

Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mountain trolls are the biggest creatures in Norwegian folklore. They dwell inside mountains in their own realms, where they hoard gold and gemstones.

If they are exposed to sunlight they turn into rock, and legend has it that many mountains in Norway are former trolls.

🎨 Martina Ehrenborg

Watercolour illustration of a huge troll that has turned into rock, in a misty forest landscape. There is a cottage on top of the troll's head.

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