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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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 2h

incredible meme throwback here

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 7h

this is your brain on Ghost Deck

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 9h

I wouldn't call a single sentence tweet an obsession

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 17h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

fuck I need to get this game

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

we just have absolutely no need as humans to know about every little thing that ever happens in front of or outside our houses. When people talk about this stuff and just say "it alerts me at work when X happens!" I'm just like "ok and how does that ever help you"?

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

yo that's a sick hat tho

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

A normal station servicing one line should always list just the next tracked inbound and outbound there, and then summarize the full half dozen of the next trains when that info screen rotates around

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

It's really annoying how the CTA station TV panels are like 90% "an ad for shit I don't care about" and 10% "two of the next six arrivals, but never the ones you want"

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 4d

we all do the best we can for the people we love with the skills and resources we have available at the time. it's the ride we bought a ticket for.

I spent a lot of time this year working through old grudges and healing as best I can. forgiveness matters, including forgiving myself.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 5d

Today is Forgive an Ex Day.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

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