Michael Tyznik
@tyznik.com
Multidisciplinary branding designer and transit nerd. he/him
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Every single one of these particular and nuanced policies that made people's lives just a tiny bit more manageable were the result of sometimes decades of advocacy from every day people. Hours of testimonies, calls, pleas. And all are being wiped away en masse because the cruelty is the point.
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
FCC allows prisons, jails to charge more for phone and video calls • Ohio Capital Journal
The Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Every single one of these particular and nuanced policies that made people's lives just a tiny bit more manageable were the result of sometimes decades of advocacy from every day people. Hours of testimonies, calls, pleas. And all are being wiped away en masse because the cruelty is the point.
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"
Jimmy Fallon, James Corden croon Sinatra, Bennett standards for gobsmacked guests in NYC
Jimmy Fallon, James Corden croon Sinatra, Bennett standards for gobsmacked guests in NYC
A source said, "The Eric Newman Jazz Band was playing, and before long, Fallon and Corden were up onstage trading Sinatra and Tony Bennett tunes!"
pagesix.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"
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Yes! Most people's experience with AI is not "a very tedious, data-heavy, repetitive process that if automated could vastly improve the quality of my work and job."
It's "mom sending me fake videos of riots in her neighborhood, she's scared to go outside" or "trump shits on protestors."
It's "mom sending me fake videos of riots in her neighborhood, she's scared to go outside" or "trump shits on protestors."
Even if you think, like I do, that AI has a lot of cool potential uses, that’s a very understandable reason why a lot of people get angry whenever it’s brought up right now.
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Yes! Most people's experience with AI is not "a very tedious, data-heavy, repetitive process that if automated could vastly improve the quality of my work and job."
It's "mom sending me fake videos of riots in her neighborhood, she's scared to go outside" or "trump shits on protestors."
It's "mom sending me fake videos of riots in her neighborhood, she's scared to go outside" or "trump shits on protestors."
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"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
www.publicnotice.co
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
Historians: The secret police are a characteristic aspect of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and we must recognize them as a cautionary tale.
Republicans: At long last we have created the secret police from the famous totalitarian regimes Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy!
Republicans: At long last we have created the secret police from the famous totalitarian regimes Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy!
Philip K. Dick gets it right again.
Let's hear it for the vague blurs!
Let's hear it for the vague blurs!
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Historians: The secret police are a characteristic aspect of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and we must recognize them as a cautionary tale.
Republicans: At long last we have created the secret police from the famous totalitarian regimes Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy!
Republicans: At long last we have created the secret police from the famous totalitarian regimes Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy!
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When Congress pushed back the end of Daylight Saving Time in 2005, it ensured that our annual plunge in to darkness will almost always occur just before the November election.
I am CONVINCED this is voter suppression—quite possibly to the persistent benefit of Republicans! slate.com/news-and-pol...
I am CONVINCED this is voter suppression—quite possibly to the persistent benefit of Republicans! slate.com/news-and-pol...
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
When Congress pushed back the end of Daylight Saving Time in 2005, it ensured that our annual plunge in to darkness will almost always occur just before the November election.
I am CONVINCED this is voter suppression—quite possibly to the persistent benefit of Republicans! slate.com/news-and-pol...
I am CONVINCED this is voter suppression—quite possibly to the persistent benefit of Republicans! slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Legally, this is no different from Iran sinking a Disney cruise in international waters and then saying "it's all good, they were terrorists carrying drugs."
Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.
Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.
Another illegal US maritime strike—again in the Pacific.
Against a vessel allegedly operated by an unspecified "designated terrorist organization."
Four reported fatalities—dubbed w/o ID or evidence "narco-terrorists."
There's a word for premeditated killings outside of armed conflict.
Against a vessel allegedly operated by an unspecified "designated terrorist organization."
Four reported fatalities—dubbed w/o ID or evidence "narco-terrorists."
There's a word for premeditated killings outside of armed conflict.
October 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Legally, this is no different from Iran sinking a Disney cruise in international waters and then saying "it's all good, they were terrorists carrying drugs."
Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.
Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.
I've gotten a mystery box from Miami Fruit that introduced me to some new fruits I'd never seen in america.
I wonder how many fruits are out there that taste delicious, but just aren’t profitable/stable enough to turn into an industry so we just don’t know about them in America.
October 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I've gotten a mystery box from Miami Fruit that introduced me to some new fruits I'd never seen in america.
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doug emhoff's law firm cut a deal with trump to provide him 100 million in pro bono law services and eliminate all dei initiatives. seven partners resigned, doug emhoff did not 💙
October 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
doug emhoff's law firm cut a deal with trump to provide him 100 million in pro bono law services and eliminate all dei initiatives. seven partners resigned, doug emhoff did not 💙
Jesus fucking christ
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Jesus fucking christ
Toasted everything bagel with chicken salad, bacon, lettuce, tomato
Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.
One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Toasted everything bagel with chicken salad, bacon, lettuce, tomato
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the thing is even if you took out all the possible issues one might have with it, the actual process of using it would be a literal nightmare for me. i cannot IMAGINE having creativeness being locked behind of the equivalent of standing over a co-worker's shoulder mentally begging Just Let Me Do It
there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
October 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
the thing is even if you took out all the possible issues one might have with it, the actual process of using it would be a literal nightmare for me. i cannot IMAGINE having creativeness being locked behind of the equivalent of standing over a co-worker's shoulder mentally begging Just Let Me Do It
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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
@durbin.senate.gov Do not let the GOP use trans healthcare as a bargaining chip. Do not agree to any funding package that bans federal funding for facilities providing trans healthcare.
September 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
@durbin.senate.gov Do not let the GOP use trans healthcare as a bargaining chip. Do not agree to any funding package that bans federal funding for facilities providing trans healthcare.
@duckworth.senate.gov Do not let the GOP use trans healthcare as a bargaining chip. Do not agree to any funding package that bans federal funding for facilities providing trans healthcare.
September 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
@duckworth.senate.gov Do not let the GOP use trans healthcare as a bargaining chip. Do not agree to any funding package that bans federal funding for facilities providing trans healthcare.
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Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches
September 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches
Technologically advance a band.
Silversun Grubhub Deliveries
Silversun Grubhub Deliveries
technologically advance a band.
My Chatbot Romance
My Chatbot Romance
technologically advance a band.
Nine Inch Nailguns
Nine Inch Nailguns
September 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Technologically advance a band.
Silversun Grubhub Deliveries
Silversun Grubhub Deliveries
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Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream:
The dose makes the poison.
That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine.
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The dose makes the poison.
That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine.
1/
September 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream:
The dose makes the poison.
That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine.
1/
The dose makes the poison.
That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine.
1/
For some reason @1password.bsky.social is deleting comments critical of its partnership with Perplexity from its forum post on the topic. It's really disappointing, I've been a 1Password evangelist for over a decade. Examples of deleted comments here: arstechnica.com/civis/thread...
September 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
For some reason @1password.bsky.social is deleting comments critical of its partnership with Perplexity from its forum post on the topic. It's really disappointing, I've been a 1Password evangelist for over a decade. Examples of deleted comments here: arstechnica.com/civis/thread...
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Gorgeous lift door in 33 N Lasalle, Chicago
September 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Gorgeous lift door in 33 N Lasalle, Chicago
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For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…
September 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…
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It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.
September 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.
