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If anyone's struggling with the video embeds on the WordPress site (I am on my phone), there's direct links for both the videos on #PeerTube. If that goes down (and I’ve no reason to think it should) I have got Vimeo links - but 
- Mike Little, Part 1: co-founding WordPress and watching it grow (from afar): https://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz
- Mike Little, Part 2: his life in code: https://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf
How many people know that #WordPress was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?
Or that he's from the north of England? A self-taught coder from #Stockport, just south of #Manchester? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?
After @bevangelist told me about @mikelittle I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he's Wozniak to Mullenweg's Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that's been central to WP's bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he's one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn't share in WP's financial success, but that he's barely known.
But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet #MikeLittle, perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in #foss… https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/
Labour and Mahmoud’s instincts to echo Reform’s anti-migrant rhetoric is bizarrely as strong as their desire to give the Green Party easy wins.
Ah no, because the Government apparently limitless cash, public support on this subject, and hubris they plan to appeal 
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“UK ban on #PalestineAction unlawful, high court judges rule
Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori has won a legal challenge against the decision to proscribe the group under anti-terrorism laws.”
Well done rule-of-law – and everyone who risked so much campaigning 
Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
