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crystal

@cim.bsky.social

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33 / f / chicago. mechanical engineer / product designer, speedrunner, vaguely leftist, queer / polyam / transfemme. @iscrystalme on Twitter

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · Apr 6

most drunk texts: blahhhhhhhh
me: the world is full of beauty and wonder and it is a joy to share it with those close to me

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 9m

watch the clip, she is under a gag order

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1h

also that

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1h

people who are sexual abusers should be held accountable. people who aren't should not be. if you find the former "sleazy" but not actual sexual abuse, you've got some stuff to work out

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1h

I think the main difference is that Bill and Hillary Clinton are different people, and Andrew Cuomo is one person

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10h

seeing some incredible screencap takes about platner and i'm starting to think that x users are frogs in boiling nazi water. really does something to your brain.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h

I think we also see the effects of staying on Vichy Twitter, I seriously doubt the Pod Jons would have made excuses like this pre-2022

CHOAM Nomsky (frightening) @samthielman.com · 12h

sorry I couldn’t find a version of this meme where both of the arms are white

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 21h

Windows audio does a weird thing where AirPods can either be a Bluetooth headset (where it sounds like garbage) or Bluetooth headphones (where it sounds totally normal) - disable the headset input device and then it'll sound fine. Mic won't work, but whatever.

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 21h

It's already a dumb gimmicky idea if it sounded exactly the same, genuinely I cannot for the life of me understand why they would think anyone would ever want their audio to do that. But "sounds like a milk carton" is exactly what it does. There's no reason for this feature...

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 21h

Turn off Spatial Audio, which is on by default and makes everything sound like complete fucking garbage. You may have to turn this off a few times in different apps. Then they'll sound great.

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 22h

incredible meme throwback here

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

this is your brain on Ghost Deck

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't call a single sentence tweet an obsession

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

I yearn for the days when we had a bunch of weird and cool separate websites we would all browse to and trade with one another. StumbleUpon was wild.

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

like let's not understate the threat, nazism is a scourge that must be squashed! I just think when we live online, in the media circles, etc. we see the loudest of em more. Plus when we have the most unaccountable fascists in power, the Nazis are literally the only people willing to fill the seats

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

I am choosing to believe that we are genuinely just seeing a disproportionate number of them right now and that this isn't more than, say, the 0.5% of Americans that voted for Pat Buchanan, just empowered

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

There is so much to be gained from connection and vulnerability in this world. We need to broadly encourage that! We can deal with those specific folks and cases directly rather than just calling out "trauma dumping" as a concept

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

Trauma dumping is a fairly specific criticism - it's when you just go out and start putting really heavy shit onto anyone around you, unprompted and unwelcomed, without giving any outs.

It's real fucked up that the message many internalize is "don't share anything personal about yourself"

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

every time someone is like "sorry for trauma dumping" when they are just telling me about a thing in their life that I'm encouraging, I both want to hug them and to yell at whomever put that cursed antisocial discourse in their head

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't wrong, as evidenced by the lack of boosting vocal Dems like Pritzker are getting, but at the same time it's not like national democrats are choosing to be weak and spineless because of this. They're sort of pre-surrendering on the message.

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

buddy I think you're just doing misogyny here

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mcc @dryad.technology · 2d

The problem, from our perspective, is people for whom peace is the absence of conflict. These people are "on your side" insofar as they do want peace, so if the murders, beatings, and kidnappings increase to where they can no longer ignore it, they *will* take to the streets to oppose that.

But.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Mayor Johnson's office confirms that he did, indeed, call for a general strike at the Chicago "No Kings" march when he said: “If my ancestors, as slaves, can lead the greatest general strike in the history of this country, taking it to the ultra-rich and big corporations, we can do it too!”

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

fuck I need to get this game

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

People really understated the societal benefit of employing someone who just hangs out and watches movies all day and making it so that person can share their sacred knowledge with all of society

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

it is so much easier to wash a knife than it is to write a column about it !!! like ten seconds with a sponge and some water, zero time at all