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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 7h

Nope, must be somewhere else

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 8h

did you run into my old boss lol

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 22h

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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𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔷𝔦 💀 @dizzydezzie.bsky.social · 14h

this is how it's done babes!!!!!! i wouldn't have met my bestie if i didn't push myself to get dressed up and go dancing in my local goth scene. i wouldn't be buzzing with anticipation over the date i've got this weekend. i wouldn't have plans for halloween!

do it scared!!!!

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 18h

fall right into meeeeeeeeee

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

it's just McDonald's for trust fund babies

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

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

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

who controlled Congress in every single one of these shutdowns lol

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 4d

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

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 4d

the period does a lot there

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 4d

same energy as the chuds who say "how can you speak about police reform if you aren't a cop"

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 4d

it's so funny how close the CTA bus stops are to one another honestly. It's high comedy.

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 4d

how do you have furloughed workers strike, they are already not working???

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 5d

I literally have no idea who this author is or what bad things he said, but this message alone is enough to convince me that both him and this publisher are huge assholes I want nothing to do with

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 5d

I don't really know how "actually, I take it back, I want all the money I already promised to charity now" is like a defensible position without even considering whatever comments he might have made in the past. I don't even know who this guy is, that's just cold as hell

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 5d

"see guys you don't have to intervene, the site is like totally dying bro!"

this theory does feel a lot like cope but i guess whether or not it's true it gets to the same end state

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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 5d

given that being banned on Bluesky means you can't be seen by users of the separate instance *that hosts you*, it kind of does seem like central moderation overrides everything here? otherwise his account would just keep existing on blacksky and Blueskyers just wouldn't see it

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