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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 45m

TS Playground - An online editor for exploring TypeScript and JavaScript

The Playground lets you write TypeScript or JavaScript online in a safe and sharable way.

www.typescriptlang.org

Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 46m

#javascript

Not sure why I've never thought of or seen this before?

It works exactly as you'd expect due to operator precedence. I call it Elvis logging haha

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Chris Silverman @csilverman.bsky.social · 19h

#notesArt #inktober day 7: starfish

A clear, starry night sky. The sky is a deep blue and covered with stars. Floating in the sky is the huge, ghostly form of a fish, outlined in iridescent green. Where the fish's eye would be is a white full moon. A number of the stars sit along the outline, defining it. Below is a remote, craggy mountain peak, with a dark blur of a treeline in the background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 12h

The point, like most institutions now, is to uphold the illusion of a social contract, while providing plausible deniability for the UK government (red or blue) to deliberately create and nurture culture wars and wedge issues.

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 1d

ded 😂

Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 8d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 1d

👇👇👇 Remembering the human cost of sectarianism, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, today, and every day.

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 1d

Everything before October 7 explains why October 7 happened, and so does everything that’s happened since.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/everything...

Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 1d

Humanism has always been global. 🌍✨

From philosophers like Epicurus in ancient Greece, to Cārvāka in India, Mengzi in China, the goðlauss of the Nordic sagas, and the philosophy of ubuntu in Africa — humanist ideas can be found in traditions all over the world.

Humanism: a global history

Humanism is not just a modern Western phenomenon but has roots across the globe

understandinghumanism.org.uk

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 1d

"different"

Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 2d

Understandable, thank you for such amazing work.

Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 2d

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 2d

Is there a way to verify after the fact that the binary patches were built from the sources they claim to have been? Thanks

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 4d

Deceleration / Accentralization ?

Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 4d

NOW I know what you're thinking

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4d

Not to make light of the editorial failure, but look how far Twitter lies now permeate in to normal discourse. We think we know about the racism but the utter contempt for truth since Musk bought the platform is deliberate & very dangerous. You can’t foment racism with fact checkers in the building.

Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 4d

To meet people where they are i.e. have plausible deniability for doing nothing to shepherd the voting public away from radicalisation because secretly it benefits their donors to have a malleable, brainrotten, and weaponisable median electorate

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 5d

I agree. I think it's awful that some people seem to effectively want to live in a big castle and launch missiles at anyone who's outside. They've been memetically and arguably genetically engineered to have more hatred of "others" than was necessary to get us here. 😔

Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 6d

So, did it?

Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 6d

You're referring to global inequalities?

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 6d

America, what the fuck is going on? Who is funding this?

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 6d

We know why - huge conflicts of interest that some describe as corruption, accurately or not. I don't understand why close to 100% of the media and public discourse isn't about the huge conflicts of interest that politicians are subject to?!

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 6d

literally true

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 14d

This print was added to our store by popular demand.

PRINT ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/aut...
ORIGINAL COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.*

www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats”

The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform

www.newstatesman.com

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Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 6d

A giant global graph of cryptographically signed AST nodes on IPFS

Alexander Jones (alexweej) @alex.weej.com · 7d

Fucking hell. #vercel

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