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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 · 10m

open to other brands of comfortable soft bras with inclusive sizing and optional rainbow bands

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 11m

I feel like tomboyx bra sizing is kind of just a lottery where any given size is either too big or too small. I've gotten 3x's tighter than 1x's sometimes and it's extremely inconsistent

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 47m

is this any good? I have an HD60S+ from forever ago that is Fine but a little fiddly

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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 19h

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 19h

once you know you've got 12 you might as well send out the whole team to break up a free play, right

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 20h

echolalaia? I hardly knew ye

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 23h

next week is great, I've got plans Wednesday and Friday and that's about it. yessss. I get to exist and sleep and stuff. I have needed a break. it sort of just happened.

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Lunch/Counter/Punch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 1d

The liberal elite delusion that police are broadly on the side of truth and justice has put us all in existential danger.

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

it does matter what it's for in, the sense that they don't smash pro fascist protests in nearly the same way as the leftist ones. in any case, any reasonable person reading your advice should not think of the police as their friend

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

Nope, must be somewhere else

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

did you run into my old boss lol

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 2d

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

fall right into meeeeeeeeee

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

we simply do not need to reach people who celebrate ICE invading cities and gassing Wal-Marts by changing the subject - people already hate this shit, and the quieter these invasions are the less people will associate them with voting Republican in the first place

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

buddy, if "this is a distraction" moved enough people on the right to win, then we wouldn't be here. 7 out of 10 Americans strongly object to the atrocities - plenty of votes to get by doing the morally right thing and spotlighting these crimes against humanity

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 3d

I don't love it either but I think pledging to arrest a head of state if he enters his city isn't really playing the middle of the road on an American scale

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 3d

it's just McDonald's for trust fund babies

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 3d

there are way too fucking many Small Chevals now. like every single north side neighborhood needs one all the sudden? There are locations less than a mile apart. There are locations that are Not Even Small! It's really nothing special!

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 3d

My choice in ramen places should be unaffected by whether or not the place has a steady stream of early 2000s backpacker shit on their sound system, and yet I am quite easily swayed

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 5d

who controlled Congress in every single one of these shutdowns lol

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 5d

also, in the world where we have emoji reacts for simple acknowledgement, writing this text at all is an act of aggression

crystal @cim.bsky.social · 5d

the period does a lot there

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