Derek Powazek
@fraying.bsky.social
I used to make websites. I wrote the book “Design for Community.” I designed the original Blogger. I created JPG Magazine, Fray, Kvetch, Cute-Fight, and more.
Now I grow flowers and turn them into CBD products at https://milkbarn.farm.
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This photo dates from the era of the Red Scare and McCarthyism, which sought to demonize Jews as subversive, disloyal elements in American society. Much of the Christmas music of that era was written by Jews to show patriotism and avoid being blacklisted.
Trump wants that again.
Trump wants that again.
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This photo dates from the era of the Red Scare and McCarthyism, which sought to demonize Jews as subversive, disloyal elements in American society. Much of the Christmas music of that era was written by Jews to show patriotism and avoid being blacklisted.
Trump wants that again.
Trump wants that again.
Before you post that screenshot from X, amplifying the fascist message of the day, consider doing anything else instead. There are literally so many other things you could do.
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Before you post that screenshot from X, amplifying the fascist message of the day, consider doing anything else instead. There are literally so many other things you could do.
I’m starting to think that people who couldn’t stop talking about the war on Christmas just really wanted a war on Christmas.
Indiana State Senator wishes you a Merry Christmas by… posting images of himself assaulting Santa Claus.
Are the fascists okay?
Are the fascists okay?
December 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I’m starting to think that people who couldn’t stop talking about the war on Christmas just really wanted a war on Christmas.
Button says “you can stop petting me when I say so.”
December 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Button says “you can stop petting me when I say so.”
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christofascists really believe with a passion that feels like a core moral intuition that Jews, Black people, Muslims, Hispanic people, and on and on, should not be in positions of authority over white christian men.
December 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
christofascists really believe with a passion that feels like a core moral intuition that Jews, Black people, Muslims, Hispanic people, and on and on, should not be in positions of authority over white christian men.
Every once in a while there’s a post that just states something as a fact like “Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about” that reminds me that I am an alien.
In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
December 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Every once in a while there’s a post that just states something as a fact like “Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about” that reminds me that I am an alien.
Head of the class.
December 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Head of the class.
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Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
One of the dogs left us a gift at the top of the stairs so now I am walking around the house singing “dookie in the hallway” to the tune of “mirror in the bathroom.”
English Beat - Mirror In the Bathroom (Remaster)
YouTube video by RHINO
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December 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
One of the dogs left us a gift at the top of the stairs so now I am walking around the house singing “dookie in the hallway” to the tune of “mirror in the bathroom.”
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
People who talk like this will be excited to go to work in the morning when the administration proposes their Final Solution.
December 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
People who talk like this will be excited to go to work in the morning when the administration proposes their Final Solution.
Stop wasting so many words and just call them concentration camps.
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Stop wasting so many words and just call them concentration camps.
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it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
We are go for winter grow.
December 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We are go for winter grow.
"Tech" when I was in my 20s: People can talk to each other! And the rich and powerful can't stop us!
"Tech" now: People can talk to AI! And the rich and powerful can decide what the AI says!
"Tech" now: People can talk to AI! And the rich and powerful can decide what the AI says!
December 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"Tech" when I was in my 20s: People can talk to each other! And the rich and powerful can't stop us!
"Tech" now: People can talk to AI! And the rich and powerful can decide what the AI says!
"Tech" now: People can talk to AI! And the rich and powerful can decide what the AI says!
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
Tariffs making everything more expensive. Promises of AI taking your job. Presidential gilded ballrooms. Billionaires becoming trillionaires. It’s not hard to see why.
I hadn't check in on this for a while, but we're back to the strongest declines in economic sentiment being reported by upper- and middle-income households.
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Tariffs making everything more expensive. Promises of AI taking your job. Presidential gilded ballrooms. Billionaires becoming trillionaires. It’s not hard to see why.
In ‘20 the economy was being stifled by forces outside our control. In ‘25 we’re doing it to ourselves. The latter is more depressing.
(Caveat that “we” means the rich and powerful who hate us.)
(Caveat that “we” means the rich and powerful who hate us.)
Kind of amazing to see economic sentiment in October 2025 lower than it was in April 2020.
December 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In ‘20 the economy was being stifled by forces outside our control. In ‘25 we’re doing it to ourselves. The latter is more depressing.
(Caveat that “we” means the rich and powerful who hate us.)
(Caveat that “we” means the rich and powerful who hate us.)
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Last night’s dream featured a machine that could embroider words so I chose to make a piece that said: what if everything was going to be okay?
December 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Last night’s dream featured a machine that could embroider words so I chose to make a piece that said: what if everything was going to be okay?
Yeah this. Our Vice President hangs out with neonazis and would find perfect common cause with the segregationists of the 1900s. JD is a bigot, as are literally all republicans.
the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.
December 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Yeah this. Our Vice President hangs out with neonazis and would find perfect common cause with the segregationists of the 1900s. JD is a bigot, as are literally all republicans.
This is how you know you followed the right people.
My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This is how you know you followed the right people.