Notices by Derek Powazek 🐐 (fraying@xoxo.zone)

Cynicism is easy. It asks nothing of you or the world. Cynicism delights in despair.

Hope is brave. Hope takes work. Hope makes you take responsibility for doing your part, however small, to steer the world toward where it should be.

Do something brave. Have hope. And then do your part.

Guess what! Good community management doesn’t care if you’re famous or not, or if you’re cis or not, or what sex parts you have or don’t. There are aggressors is the world, and they’re not all the same.

Ask yourself if you’re being the aggressor right now. And remember that ofttimes aggressors don’t know when they’re doing it.

If you’re ganging up on someone, you’re the aggressor. If you’re messaging people to trash someone, you’re the goddamn aggressor.

Be better than that.

If you write, you’re a writer. If you make art, you’re an artist. If you take photos, you’re a photographer.

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

I’ll never forgive the internet for training a generation of artists and writers to call what they make “content.”

Boxes have contents. You’re a fucking ARTIST. You make ART. Own it.

Feeding Bunbun last night. 10 days old. #Bunny

Baby Bunbun has opened her eyes!

Also reposting this on the new instance:

If any mastodon devs are looking for design help and would like a hand from the original designer of blogger.com, who recently redesigned the WordPress.com Reader, and wrote an early book on the design of community spaces online, let me know because I can put you in touch with him.

Because he’s me. Hi. Let’s talk.