Art Duszynski

I just watched A Simple Plan again this week. Such a great movie.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Why are you repeating yourself? Why are you repeating yourself? Why are you repeating yourself? Why are you repeating yourself?

And 3 proposed editions to go after that one is published :( I was hopeful it would be completed relatively swiftly when Evanier said there was no more major restoration work ahead of them after Carolyn passed away in 2017.

Newsom has that mean, moody magnificence

And then "20$" vs "$20"

honestly one of the reasons usenet and old internet forums were so fucking awesome is because it was a much smaller portion of the population heavily tiled towards weird and introverted people and gamers before the normies and dudebros got involved

My daughter's school walked out today, along with a few others in the Indianapolis area. She estimated around 600 students.

Notice at the top of the linked page. Gender Change Rule Update Effective Feb. 12, 2026, the BMV will no longer provide customers with the option to change their gender on their Indiana credential by using a court ordered gender change or physician statement per Amended Rule 140 Indiana Administrative Code section 7-1.1-3.

Indiana BMV is removing the option to change gender markers using a court ordered gender change or physician statement.

This Thursday — February 12th.

www.in.gov/bmv/licenses...

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Almost every high school in the Indianapolis suburbs (notorious backlash areas) have had them in the past week. It's great to see

No Kings includes Draft Kings

My position at The Post was eliminated, along with many other journalists of color hired after the 2020 racial reckoning.

Ah, I see. That makes sense.

Screenshot of Chanda's skeet with Will's skeet marked "deleted"

Bluesky blocks are wonderful :)

Now *this* is the kind of thing that I always understood “Never Again” to be about.

Flyer for White Meat: Appetizer showing at a bar called Strangelove's on February 6th with two Black zombies on the cover wearing old timey clothes

What better way to kick off Black History Month than to watch Black zombies eat white people? No. No better way is the answer. www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...

One thing I believe, as a white person, is far too many white people forget the debt that activism in the US owes generally to the Civil Rights movement, and how much the instruments of power that Stephen Miller is trying to extend across the country are those of Jim Crow.

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

Arendt’s “banality of evil” is not a claim that evil is small. It is a claim that mass violence can be carried out by people who look ordinary, speak in bureaucratic clichés, and treat murder as procedure. The danger is thoughtlessness, routinization, and careerism. 2/

Do they get little coins for whoever has the most?

Stage an alternative tournament in Germany or wherever. Call it the Peace Prize Cup to fuck with Trump.

You don't need to use AI to write me emails.

Just put your own words into the message. I'm sure it will be great.

I promise to reply with a thoughtful post, also without resorting to AI.

Your words are what I want to see, not some probabilistic phrase extruder.

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Oh killing moms isn’t as popular IRL as it is with middle aged boys who are still mad at their moms? bsky.app/profile/axio...

Any sentence that starts with, “why don’t you just…” and it’s many variations is always, always hiding some unexamined power dynamic.

In this case “easy” presumes the contractor’s skill to do it, low cost materials for doing it, and willingness to do it as the “cost” of repairing a hole in a wall

Just another morning in the Twin Cities, keeping my eyes on the preschool parent signal chat to make sure none of my child’s classmates, their parents, or their teachers were kidnapped by the federal government in front of the school.

A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

The ICE presence in Minneapolis is clearly making everything more much more difficult and dangerous for the people living there. This is not law enforcement. This is political prosecution.