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Derek Powazek

@fraying.bsky.social

I used to make websites (Blogger, JPG Mag, Fray). I wrote the book “Design for Community.” Now I grow flowers and keep animals at milkbarn.farm in Boring, Oregon. No dooming in my replies. There's already enough doom in the world.

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Derek Powazek@fraying.bsky.social · 7m ago

I'm still thinking about how if you offered these toxic dudebros a salad they'd act like you chopped their dick off, but if you shove vegetables into a salt brine for a week and call it a FERMENT they think it's manly and choke it down. Everything really is gender to them.

Derek Powazek@fraying.bsky.social · 20h ago

There’s also something toxically masculine about only consuming vegetables if they’ve been fermented. As if fresh vegetables are girly. Only veggies that smell like a locker room for us manly men! Stinky men, stinky food. They won’t even call them vegetables - they have to call them FERMENTS. C’mon.

Derek Powazek@fraying.bsky.social · 2h ago

My takeaway from Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan is that lefty candidates can win primaries in purple places when they don’t have nazi tattoos or abuse women. I bet we could find more like that if we looked a bit harder.

Derek Powazek@fraying.bsky.social · 16h ago

You know all the forms a new doctor makes you fill out online before an appointment? I'm going to a specialist soon and their new forms process is to talk to an AI bot that will fill out the forms for you. There is no non-AI option. No, I will not be disclosing my medical info to your bot.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

Derek Powazek@fraying.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reminder that “bubble” just means “a community I don’t like” or “a community that rejected me.” Please replace the word with the appropriate phrase whenever you see it used to describe a social media system.