Elizabeth Mattijsen @lizmat@mastodon.social

@liztormato.bsky.social

🦋🇪🇺🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🕊🌻 Mostly working on the Raku Programming Language. Born at 314 ppm.

@liztormato.bsky.social wrote a new Rakudo Weekly Newsletter, celebrates the new 2026.09 release of Rakudo: the new Raku grammar, based on RakuAST, is set to be default. Liz and many others have put enormous amounts of work and hours into this. Congrats! rakudoweekly.blog/2026/09/29/2... #rakulang

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A major step towards releasing the next language level of the Raku Programming Language (tentatively called “6.e”) has been achieved with the 2026.09 release of Rakudo: it makes the new…

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No, it’s not just Musk who uses his ‘social’ media platform to dictate how ‘the people’ should vote in your #elections. Rather, it’s the whole pack of US tech-broligarchs using their platforms (X, TikTok, FB, Insta,) to demolish democracy in all our countries. So, stop putting trust in US ‘socials’

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🚨 Meta blocked President Lula’s Facebook page and campaign ads two weeks before the election While also failing to block 87% of disinformation ads targeted against him. A handful of companies shouldn't have this much power over a country's democracy.

Russians hit the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv with a drone. People are climbing out of windows to escape being burned alive. And the world is watching. Europe is lifting sanctions on russian oligarchs. Trump is asking Ukraine to slow down strikes1/2

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🔴 Russian drones hunted down a combine harvester in the fields of Kherson. Four drones repeatedly struck the machine—donated by Howard Buffett—targeting workers as they attempted to extinguish the flames. It was the farm's very last remaining harvester.

"This is just my opinion, but instead of electing Socialists to run our states or country, why not go live in a socialist country for a year first to see what it's like." — Anonymous MAGAt

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1/ I dove into one of the most destructive acts of Russian #sabotage we have seen on Nato’s eastern flank. 1.400 shops and restaurants destroyed, people losing their life’s work, and a trail that leads from #Lithuania and #Poland, via #Ukraine to #Russia. Thread: nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

Oekraïense 'wegwerpspionnen' voor de rechter, 'geen twijfel over rol Rusland'

Twee jaar geleden brandde het grootste winkelcentrum van Warschau af. Vermoedelijk zat Rusland achter de aanslag.

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I never thought I’d live to see Communist China’s flags flying above the White House during the reign of a supposedly staunchly anti-communist president. Yet here we are—with U.S. service members holding them.

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