Tweets From Jesse Nickles  ## Metadata - Author: [[@jessuppi on Twitter]] - Full Title: Tweets From Jesse Nickles - Category: #tweets - URL: https://twitter.com/jessuppi ## Document Notes ## Highlights - For those interested, Repo Man 1.4.0 is now released and you can finally install plugins directly from GitHub into your WordPress site... it will scan the repo's default branch and fallback to master and main branch, grab zip file, rename folder, activate: https://t.co/ebyxE8wZXL ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1844842332216304084)) - US military veteran Scott Allen was so devastated by Matt Mullenweg banning his free WP Spamshield plugin from WPorg (after it got more popular than Akismet) that he shut down his entire business and literally disappeared... how many others like this? https://t.co/BgPMtQFpjZ https://t.co/5hZG0uXPqj ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1851342395616739408)) - if @wpengine @bluehost want to launch their own WP plugin repo, that's great! put it under your company's infra and then embrace all the secrecy and bias that you want... but calling this "FAIR" and virtue-signaling and preventing public feedback was a very foolish move imo ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1934179002857726254)) - this lady doesn't give two shits about the open web or open source software... she's a corporate grifter pushing her own career and WP Engine's interests, nothing more... literally I couldn't find a single free WP plugin or theme she released besides this repo from 9+ years ago https://t.co/ztFgYXpt3q  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1934175167904981191)) - but what about "Carrie Dils" @cdils idk where this far-left lady came from, I only heard about her a couple years ago for the first time and then blocked me on X... apparently she's a WP Engine employee with literally ZERO open source projects lol, this is the FAIR leader??? https://t.co/8sJHhx5QCs https://t.co/YnFAjEofxs  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1934175162624319868)) - ...I knew @jdevalk was involved, but didn't realize he pulled in Bluehost / EIG / Newfold too... that alone makes me skeptical of how this FAIR plugin repo project is going to shake out, besides the ongoing secrecy and apparent "far-left" leadership https://t.co/bBDsIvcKAL ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1933465736237752399)) - unfortunately this new FAIR "distributed WordPress plugin repo" project is exactly what I expected, a bunch of far-left (mostly women) Matt Mullenweg haters who want to impose their "Code of Conduct" leftism on the FOSS community under a veil of secrecy... no thanks! https://t.co/lyXzxmvLaZ ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1933468578633671084)) - @DuaneStorey @jdevalk @rmccue Nah, it's either cowardice or exclusivism or both, but if you're going to be "forking" an open source software, you do it publicly, unless you have ulterior motives... the trust is already destroyed, this project clearly serves a few narrow corporate and political interests ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1934164770808320344)) - @DuaneStorey @jdevalk @rmccue I did already in the quoted tweet thread, multiple of these "leaders" have already blocked and banned users from social media, and GitHub, the entire reason this thing was done in secret is A) to avoid Automattic backlash to certain corporate employees and B) to be exclusive ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1934163620579181056)) - this is the web's most popular open source CMS! WordPress is janky and politically incorrect and unapologetic and that's why newbies flock to it... it is easy to use, backwards compatible to the death and it doesn't care about your feelings, FAIR is dead in the water, bad move ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1934160453825180056)) - @DuaneStorey @jdevalk @rmccue I distill the distillers... those who inject their far-left politics into everything because they can't help themselves, it inevitably leads to blocking and banning and censorship and exclusivism and "Code of Conduct" all leftist coded, as they've already proven ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1934162779235377322)) - p.s. for the record I think Mika is a pretty nice person, and not very political, but she did still ban me from certain GitHub repos and when push comes to shove she clearly supports far-left ideals (and supports censorship) so tldr she chose her tribe and it's not free speech ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1955167758087585804)) - literally all Matt has to do is embrace and defend free speech, stop banning and censoring people, stop playing favorites, and be honest and transparent about WP but he refuses and it leaves him with very few allies beyond a few grifters and cowardly "yes men" who enable him ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1955162436560093361)) - omg Jesse are you antisemitic? hmm well I'm quoting Lunduke, a based Jewish tech journalist so probably not, but these patterns of leftist-LGBTQ Jewish groups trying to takeover and control communities is too common not to mention, also shows how Mullenweg is his own worst enemy ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1955162431216623727)) - these are the leftist nutjobs trying to take over WordPress via "FAIR" initiative along with the Jews behind @wpengine ...there I said it, is it a coincidence they also chose LGBTQ Jewish activist Mika Epstein to join their takeover attempt? perhaps or perhaps not, you decide https://t.co/3I4i666tKU ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1955162427756323153)) - here's some further reading about mystery man Zemlin from a few years ago https://t.co/dMxbnd7yXJ ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1955511965230719282)) - Zemlin is not a very common surname, although some Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants have used it... why is this guy running the Linux Foundation despite no background in open source or computer programming and why is he turning the Foundation into a leftist political activism group? ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1955511961720066308)) - at this point the question has to be asked why the hell Jim Zemlin was chosen, and continues to run, the Linux Foundation despite a short and insignificant career in corporate marketing... he won't even disclose his alleged university degrees, but claims to speak Japanese!? ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1955511957894902240)) - the executive director of @linuxfoundation for ~20 years, Jim Zemlin, has an incredibly vague background... according to Lunduke he uses a Macbook at speaking events (not Linux), gets paid more than Linus Torvalds, lies about his education... is Jim Zemlin a closet Jew? https://t.co/Ve8EqENWYB ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/jessuppi/status/1955511953704817079))