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Andrey Savchenko
@Rarst
Russian warship, go fuck yourself. war.ukraine.ua
Kyiv
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Feb 26, 2022
    I'm of negative military value, but I can make money, so sending them to Ukrainian army & Come Back Alive fund. 💸💸💸💸💸 I've never taken donations for my WP&OSS work, if you ever offered - send it to Ukrainian army now, like my life depends on it. 🙏
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    Ukraine / Україна
    @Ukraine
    Feb 25, 2022
    Replying to @Ukraine
    2. Donate money to support the Ukrainian Army. You can transfer money to the following accounts: 🇺🇦 bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/na… 🇺🇦 savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ 3. Organize street protests in your city to support Ukraine and condemn Russian aggression
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Oct 12, 2024
    the hostile takeover of ACF was clearly threatened and isn't a surprise, but I am shook right now how any trust I had in WordPress as a platform had just been wiped out.
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Sep 26, 2024
    "You might think I act like a bad person, but actually I am rich."
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    Matt Mullenweg
    @photomatt
    Sep 25, 2024
    I'm open sourcing my personal non-profit donations for the past 12 years: 2011: $295,044.60 2012: $401,121.00 2013: $2,088,890.88 2014: $98,648.00 2015: $101,947.00 2016: $42,300.00 2017: $51,562.50 2018: $606,957.68 2019: $620,802.65 2020: $607,452.48 2021: $2,151,602.26 2022:
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Sep 27, 2024
    yes, Automattic donated 0.02282% (two hundredth of a percent) of capital they raised to PHP Foundation. it's (honestly!) awfully nice of them that it's larger than zero, but a little short of percentages they hold others to.
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Oct 10, 2024
    given recent WordPress actions against community and me personally, I am not interested in contributing as core component maintainer for Date/Time, or otherwise. just noting, I am no huge loss, busy with war anyway. glhf
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Mar 1, 2022
    look, if Russia blows me up right after 5 years of dental work, I will fucking haunt them, my ghost will come out at night and rip their throats out with very even teeth
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Sep 26, 2024
    on topic of who contributes what to WP ecosystem, I needed to let this one out of my head
    A meme image made from xkcd "Infrastructure" comic with large complicated pile of blocks labeled "block development" being held intact by one block on the bottom labeled "ACF".
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Oct 14, 2024
    Matt's "Are Investors Bad?" post was edited to remove BlackRock from the list of Automattic's investors
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Aug 19, 2019
    we have `wp_timezone()` in core!!! core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/45853 I don’t call much in WP a game changer, this is a game changer for Date/Time component! 🎉😊 #wp_date
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Feb 25, 2022
    a tour of my comfy sirens nest — between two walls, no windows, next to exit, warm clothes, bug-out bag, and large pillow to tie the look together! can haul ass to metro shelter in 5 mins, doesn't feel necessary for now.
    Floor near the door with some clothes, boots, backpack, blanket, and pillow.
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Oct 11, 2024
    I wrote about leaving WP plugin repository 10 years ago and it's uncanny how well we'd already understood what a monopolistic and privacy-hostile design it is, but people pushing for change were always framed as dramatic weirdos, because WP would never 🙃
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    Leaving WordPress plugin repository
    I have been saying for a while (considerably long while) that I had decided to remove my plugins from official WordPress plugin repository. As things go — the more you talk about intentions the less...
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Oct 1, 2024
    if WordPress Foundation can't support events because insurance, can't support development and run wordpress org because taxes, doesn't manage trademark because Automattic does, doesn't have a meaningful board that makes decisions on the project... what is Foundation for?
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    Andrey Savchenko
    @Rarst
    Feb 26, 2022
    - slept through whatever went down at night (nothing loud near me) - streets are actively dangerous now, staying put - going to try disconnect a bit and less doom scrolling today
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    Andrey Savchenko
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    Nov 20, 2020
    WordPress is going to get a serious reputation knock next spring when every site owner panics about Google considering site speed metrics and actually tests their mishmash of page builder, dozen heavy plugins, and semi-broken page cache.