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Derek Powazek

@fraying.bsky.social
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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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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 12h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4h
Perfect.
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CDG-GTR @cdg-gtr.bsky.social · 5h
I worked for a social work org for many years, so my brain automatically reads SI as suicidal ideation. Definitely a little on the nose.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 6h
Ran out of sunlight before I ran out of peppers to harvest. More tomorrow. 🌶️
Multicolored peppers in many containers 
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8h
Cosign.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8h
First White Naga pepper. Whoever said this plant was prolific was underselling it. I'm going to have way too many of these. 1M SHU.
Me holding a perfect white pepper. A bucket of them.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8h
These hand grenades are Tom's Giant Peach Scorpion. They're enormous and dangerously spicy at around 1.5M SHU.
My hand holding three enormous yellow wrinkly pepper bombs
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8h
First California Reaper! They ripen to this yellow/peach color. this is a thoroughly evil pepper that is supposed to be 1.5 million SHU.
A peach, lumpy, evil looking pepper
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 13h
A computer has no heart and therefore should not be allowed to say anything is heartbreaking
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h
They called us "the censorious left" and elected a president who tells them which terms they're no longer allowed to use: Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, Artificial Intelligence...
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h
Handy new honeypot: anyone referring to "SI" is both brain-poisoned by AI and a Trumpist bootlicker.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11h
Maybe I just wanted to feel something. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8KdTQwr/
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Last year I bought seeds for "super hot" jalapeños, but are they really? I grew the plants, and they made the peppers, so let's have a taste test and find out! #superhotjalapenos #hotpeppers #japaleno...
TikTok video by Derek from Milk Barn Farm
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 14h
You can count my CBD business among these other casualties. Republicans killed them all. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/09/29/n...
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
New federal law puts an end to the hemp industry, Oregon businesses say • Oregon Capital Chronicle
A new federal law will ban the sale most hemp-derived products by end of the year.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 15h
Hershey says good morning. Make sure you're registered to vote.
Hershey is a brown and white goat with blue eyes looking at the camera with love in his heart
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 16h
1. Put right wing stooge in charge of news to please the Trump admin. 2. Get mega-merger approved by placated administration. 3. Boot the stooge because she was always terrible at the job. radaronline.com/p/bari-weiss...
radaronline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 16h
It's not like we needed more proof that these people are fucking racists, but, yeah, these people are fucking racists.
newrepublic.com
MAGA Furious Over Republican Ad Featuring White Man as Face of Welfare
Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the equivalent of someone giving you 12k, you blowing 8k on party drugs, and calling the remaining few thousand a successful business.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Update: Bari Weiss just hired him at CBS. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8w1KU6r/
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Real weird to find myself on the "fuck BLM" side of the coin. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/09/28/d...
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Data centers proposed on federal land in eastern Oregon, western states • Oregon Capital Chronicle
A data center proposed on BLM land near Hermiston would be the first on federal public land in Oregon, one of dozen proposed in six western states.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's weird that I know 100 times more about what Mamdani has done for NYC than I know about what Kotek has done for Oregon. (NYC has 8.8M people. Oregon has 4.2M.)
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
O RLY NY TIMES? NOW YOU NOTICE THIS? IN 2026?!
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The party of rapists, everyone.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The coffee Discourse has made it to Fox News so it's finally dead now, right?
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The same people who thought that doing homework was some kind of punishment are the ones trying to make AI agents happen now.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today I am very slowly turning this 3-gallon pot of blended tomatoes into tomato powder. Going to cook it down here in this pot until it's thick enough to spoon onto trays for the dehydrator.
Stainless steel pot full of red liquid
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Captain Planet Approves: Great Plan!
Alt: Captain Planet Approves: Great Plan!
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Heh. Remember when everyone was gonna make their own apps in Java? Good times.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"AI agents" are only appealing to a certain class of people: bosses who don't want to pay employees (and workers who want to digitally cosplay as bosses).
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I keep coming back to this idea. It explains a lot of different things happening lately.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay maybe I do want to see this movie.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Three things we should ban in one story: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
eff.org
DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio...
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've never heard of Choosin' Texas and now I never will out of spite.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mainstream media is drawn to racism like a moth to a flame.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Huh. This is a good point.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The bringing a coffee to the interview discourse is just more proof that we're all so fucking angry and looking for places to put it.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's disqualifying to demonstrate that you have any human needs at all during an interview - that's why I hold my breath the entire time.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What if I brought TWO coffees to the interview? What about THAT?
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can't believe this isn't a bit.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When the leader is an incompetent fascist, only incompetent wannabe fascists join up.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just want us to have the kind of solidarity these rich assholes have for each other.
mediaite.com
Social Media Shutdown: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Reportedly Rejecting Ads for Four-Hour Long Elon Musk Documentary
YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, along with X, have reportedly rejected ads for Alex Gibney's four-hour long look at Musk.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI companies have real human victims RIGHT NOW. If you're not worried about them but you're worried that the computer has feelings, your empathy is pointed in the wrong direction.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have no idea if the Musk documentary is any good, but I won't be seeing it, because I already hate that motherfucker so much I might catch on fire in the theater. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Heather made the stained glass. I grew the flower garden. Anyway, make sure you're registered.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My garage door once tried to kill me, but I'm pretty sure that was my fault.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Can Siri fall in love with you? Can your phone's autocomplete wish it were dead? Can your Magic 8 Ball feel ennui? Can Clippy have an orgasm?
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Original Star Wars opening crawl
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just imagine all the bots furiously generating it this weekend.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't think I ever brought a coffee to an interview, but there was that time I accidentally doubled my mental health meds before an interview, which made everything feel like it was happening in slow motion. Still got the job. It might have been helpful, honestly.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unfair comparison. The inventor of napalm invented something.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
39 days.
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