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fraying

@fraying@xoxo.zone

I used to make websites. I wrote “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 for https://milkbarn.farm. I take care of 30-something chickens, 13 goats, 3 dogs, 2 cats, and my wife and myself in Boring, Oregon.

Nazis, TERFs, and Republicans can fuck off. Do not explain capitalism to me.

He/him.

#fedi22 #community #goats #communitydesign #farmlife #design

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mulegirl, to random
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Visit the chicks on https://chicken.pics!

atrupar, to random
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New in PN: Trump isn't joking about serving 3 or more terms

"If Trump returns to power, it’s likely he and his minions will push to abolish the 22nd Amendment and its maximum of two terms for presidents — in fact Project 2025 is already scheming to do just that. And you don’t have to take it from us. Just listen to the man himself." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-third-term-nra-speech-dallas

JuliusGoat, to random
@JuliusGoat@mastodon.social avatar

A lot of people who spent the last 10 years telling us that respect for the flag was the most important thing in the world suddenly don’t want us to care about who flies what flags how, I notice.

cfiesler, to random
@cfiesler@hci.social avatar

I couldn't stop thinking about the Meta AI chatbot that made up a human experience in a parenting Facebook group - so I wrote about why online communities are for people, not chatbots. Decades of social computing research tells us that information seeking in online communities is as much about shared experiences and human connection as it is about getting an answer. Maybe generative AI shouldn't be everywhere doing everything. https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473

StillIRise1963, to random
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The U.S. fascists will follow the Russian fascists and outlaw being gay if they get power. Is this not clear?

Hey_Beth, to random
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Nate Silver needs to fuck off.

evacide, to random
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If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

Pineywoozle, to random
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When you threaten not to vote, you aren’t threatening Joe Biden. You’re threatening your neighbor.

TonyStark, to random
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I’ve said this before but apparently it hasn’t sunk in but if you say “Biden has lost my vote”, don’t expect anyone to listen to you or be surprised he’s not out gunning for it. The election is 6 months out. If there’s no way you’re voting for him, nobody fucking cares what you want.

You can enjoy likely a 7-2 or 8-1 conservative SCOTUS that will be grinding down our rights for the next generation or three. Enjoy that.

sarahtaber, to random
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There are 2 things to know about US agriculture.

  1. It’s very hard to make a living as a new farmer.

  2. About half our farmland is owned by wealthy families, investment funds, & others who buy it up as an asset- but don’t farm themselves.

There IS a fix to both problems!

charliejane, to random
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They're trying to sneak the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) into must-pass legislation because they know it's a terrible bill that will censor the internet and silence LGBTQIA+ people. I know we're all tired, but please call your reps again and ask them to put a stop to this terrible bill!

Gift link: https://wapo.st/3QzeZRG

augieray, to random
@augieray@mastodon.social avatar

"I'm so angry at Biden over Isreal/Gaza that I'm going to help Trump destroy democracy, weaponize the Justice system, send millions to deportation camps, lower the taxes on the wealthy and shift the burden to the middle class, cut Social Security, track and prosecute women having abortions, pardon the people who violently attacked Capitol police, dismantle NATO, help Russia, AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT do even more harm to Palestinians" is a take--it's just a really awful take, IMO.

StillIRise1963, to random
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SOMEONE is going to be elected president of the U.S. in November. It can either be the guy you yell at who changes his approach, or the guy you yell at who puts you in a camp. Up to you.

FantasticalEconomics, to Israel
@FantasticalEconomics@geekdom.social avatar

has halted two arms shipments to .

"It is the first time since the Oct. 7 attack that the U.S. has stopped a weapons shipment intended for the Israeli military."

I would hope those on the left recognize this as a tangible improvement in US policy in the region. We can certainly want more and think this is not enough while also recognizing the progress (much of which is likely stemming from the recent pushback and protests).

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/05/israel-us-ammunition-shipment-hold

18+ jewishreader, to random
@jewishreader@sfba.social avatar

Just in case this discourse starts again, because I saw a post about the anniversary of the first major Nazi book burning: Magnus Hirschfeld's work was targeted both because it was about queer and trans identities AND because he was Jewish. The Nazis saw these things as linked, with the Jews as the source of cultural perversion.

samhenrigold, to random
@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io avatar

the Nantucket Current has been chronicling the first cybertruck on the island and is making fun of them parking like a dick. this is the reason a free press is crucial to democracy.

Follow up post: “We have an update, believe it or not” Attached is a picture of the cybertruck stuck on a beach, its wheels sunk into the sand

nicol, to random
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Huge protests across Israel tonight against Netanyahu, calling for elections & a ceasefire/hostage deal.

'There is now a deal on the table, that Hamas has signaled it will agree to. But Netanyahu, after Hamas' signals, is once again trying to torpedo the deal" Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker.

"Bibi, you can't fool us. You're stalling to please Ben-Gvir and stay in power. You don't care about the 132 hostages" Danny Elgarat, brother of hostage Itzhak.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-04/ty-article/.premium/israelis-rally-for-hostage-deal-against-netanyahu-govt-amid-reports-of-emerging-truce/0000018f-43f5-d17f-adcf-fbf7bd0f0000

Large group of anti-government protestors with banners and Israel flags, surrounding something that is on fire. Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg for AP Photo, via Times Of Israel
Crowd of protestors - Israel flags in the foreground; in the background a large banner featuring an image of Netanyahu and the words 'Crime Minister'. Credit: Itai Ron, via Haaretz

nicol,
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“Gantz hit the nail on the head this time. Netanyahu is fleeing from a hostage deal. The closer it gets, the faster he runs to avoid it. At least twice in recent months he has sabotaged the sensitive moves toward a deal, whether through public statements or covert messages, or by curbing the mandate of the negotiating team. It was no different this time.

What was the point of these statements, before Hamas had even responded to the proposal, if not to thwart & sabotage.” https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-05/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-hoped-hamas-would-reject-israels-offer-when-it-didnt-he-turned-to-sabotage/0000018f-4817-d414-a5bf-fb37db290000

evacide, to random
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I cannot overstate how dangerous to free speech and a healthy democracy it is to redefine all anti-Zionism and criticism of the state of Israel as antisemitism. You know who's loudly critical of Zionism and the Israeli govt? Jews. A lot of Jews.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/608308/gop-democrats-antisemitism-campus-israel/

boogah, to random
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Just came to this quote in “A People’s History of the United States” and thought it worth sharing — even though May Day is almost over.

“If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists.”

— Joseph Ettor

angiebaby, to random
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The current atmosphere is making it frighteningly easy for fascist actors to groom lonely people who are rightly horrified by what is happening in Gaza (and what is happening in the USA to suppress dissent) into antisemitism. We need to be there to try to pull our friends down off the ceiling, especially if they go from posting for justice and peace to conspiracies about Jewish people. Netanyahu is not Israel, and he is not the Jewish people. He is a criminal trying to save his own ass.

SNerd, to random
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Something to put a smile on your face

yonabee, to random
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it really doesn't matter what eugen thinks or does, mastodon is open source and we can take the ball, the whole field, all of the goalposts and the players, and go wherever we like

tbqh it's us who need to stop treating eugen like some tech CEO who must be deferred to, and .social as 'too big to defederate'

.social would be a pretty terrible social network all on its own, so it's actually us who give them legitimacy, and not the other way around

heidilifeldman, (edited ) to random
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social avatar

Am lamenting anew the refusal by Biden to support Supreme Court reform when Democrats controlled the House and Senate and could have expanded the Court, neutralizing the power of demonstrably corrupt Justice Thomas and the justices appointed after Mitch McConnell illegitimately refused to advance Obama’s nominee to the seat that went eventually to Gorsuch. Elected Democrats must take foundational measures if we are to preserve any sort of meaningful democracy in America. 1/

parismarx, to tech
@parismarx@mastodon.online avatar

Apple’s Vision Pro is a bad product with an even worse vision for the future of computation.

New sales numbers prove it’s a failure, but more than that it shows the idea of tech’s inevitability is a myth. We have the collective power to stop tech that doesn’t serve us.

https://disconnect.blog/the-vision-pro-is-a-big-flop/

stevesilberman, to random
@stevesilberman@newsie.social avatar

How anti-Semitic GOP propaganda rags like the NY Post are trying to blame a Jew for financing "anti-Semitic" protests. https://wapo.st/3wlEmiO

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