Crystal Huff (they/them)
@crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy
I post about science fiction, my garden, mutual aid, equity, inclusion, local politics, climate change, pronouns, food, folk music, friends, and […]
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Struck by rereading this 2020 essay from Mariame Kaba, "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police. Because reform won’t happen."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
"When the streets calm and people suggest once again that we hire more black […]
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
"When the streets calm and people suggest once again that we hire more black […]
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mas.wrong.tools
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Struck by rereading this 2020 essay from Mariame Kaba, "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police. Because reform won’t happen."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
"When the streets calm and people suggest once again that we hire more black […]
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
"When the streets calm and people suggest once again that we hire more black […]
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I really thought this was a parody, but he in fact says, "they were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached."
unreal.
he also insults the reporters.
unreal.
he also insults the reporters.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I really thought this was a parody, but he in fact says, "they were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached."
unreal.
he also insults the reporters.
unreal.
he also insults the reporters.
I keep coming back to this post about/with ChatGPT by Amanda Guinzberg. #ai #chatgpt #writing
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?triedRedirect=true
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?triedRedirect=true
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I keep coming back to this post about/with ChatGPT by Amanda Guinzberg. #ai #chatgpt #writing
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?triedRedirect=true
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?triedRedirect=true
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Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For […]
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For […]
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For […]
A meaningful TDOR (trans day of remembrance) to those observing it.
🥺💜💜💜💜💜🥺
🥺💜💜💜💜💜🥺
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A meaningful TDOR (trans day of remembrance) to those observing it.
🥺💜💜💜💜💜🥺
🥺💜💜💜💜💜🥺
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Rest in power, Alice Wong.
We were Twitter mutuals for a while and we exchanged a bunch of dms about Chinese food and ice cream. She said she could not eat most foods due to her disability but she enjoyed talking about and reading about them. She was also […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
We were Twitter mutuals for a while and we exchanged a bunch of dms about Chinese food and ice cream. She said she could not eat most foods due to her disability but she enjoyed talking about and reading about them. She was also […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Rest in power, Alice Wong.
We were Twitter mutuals for a while and we exchanged a bunch of dms about Chinese food and ice cream. She said she could not eat most foods due to her disability but she enjoyed talking about and reading about them. She was also […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
We were Twitter mutuals for a while and we exchanged a bunch of dms about Chinese food and ice cream. She said she could not eat most foods due to her disability but she enjoyed talking about and reading about them. She was also […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
In case this is helpful to share again:
Some friends and I put together an info sheet on worm composting. Still seems to me to be the best way to compost items that the worms will take (esp paper). It doesn't require transportation elsewhere, and the nutrients go back into the garden when the […]
Some friends and I put together an info sheet on worm composting. Still seems to me to be the best way to compost items that the worms will take (esp paper). It doesn't require transportation elsewhere, and the nutrients go back into the garden when the […]
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mas.wrong.tools
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
In case this is helpful to share again:
Some friends and I put together an info sheet on worm composting. Still seems to me to be the best way to compost items that the worms will take (esp paper). It doesn't require transportation elsewhere, and the nutrients go back into the garden when the […]
Some friends and I put together an info sheet on worm composting. Still seems to me to be the best way to compost items that the worms will take (esp paper). It doesn't require transportation elsewhere, and the nutrients go back into the garden when the […]
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Something just occurred to be about that 'ask a chatbot to draw a clock' thing that is going around this morning. If you search the web for "draw a clock", what you get is a bunch of papers on diagnosing cognitive decline. The clocks the chatbots draw look just like the examples in those papers […]
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mastodon.social
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Something just occurred to be about that 'ask a chatbot to draw a clock' thing that is going around this morning. If you search the web for "draw a clock", what you get is a bunch of papers on diagnosing cognitive decline. The clocks the chatbots draw look just like the examples in those papers […]
This instagram post from a couple of weeks ago is honestly astonishing -- it's supposedly opposing DSA and opposing rent control, but it's also a great advertisement for DSA and for rent control??
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPWeF79Cr2e/
#dsa #bostonma #rentcontrol
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPWeF79Cr2e/
#dsa #bostonma #rentcontrol
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This instagram post from a couple of weeks ago is honestly astonishing -- it's supposedly opposing DSA and opposing rent control, but it's also a great advertisement for DSA and for rent control??
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPWeF79Cr2e/
#dsa #bostonma #rentcontrol
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPWeF79Cr2e/
#dsa #bostonma #rentcontrol
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this is why I keep saying that enfranchising DC and other territories if they want it is the way to go if Ds are going to offset the problem with white rural power in the senate (and in electoral college, and even in House to some degree.)
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
this is why I keep saying that enfranchising DC and other territories if they want it is the way to go if Ds are going to offset the problem with white rural power in the senate (and in electoral college, and even in House to some degree.)
Not for nothing, but the new thing on Masto in browser where I have to click pop-out box items if I want to enable a public post and/or quote-tooting... I get that it's something the community wants, but it is a really frustrating interface and not very accessible to me. #fediverse #accessibility
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Not for nothing, but the new thing on Masto in browser where I have to click pop-out box items if I want to enable a public post and/or quote-tooting... I get that it's something the community wants, but it is a really frustrating interface and not very accessible to me. #fediverse #accessibility
I am in no way gonna do a blow-by-blow reporting on tonight's #somervillema city council meeting, but if anyone else would like to watch online with me, your options are the Zoom link off the agenda (downloadable from Legistar here […]
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mas.wrong.tools
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I am in no way gonna do a blow-by-blow reporting on tonight's #somervillema city council meeting, but if anyone else would like to watch online with me, your options are the Zoom link off the agenda (downloadable from Legistar here […]
I honestly can't tell if I'm too intense for my classmates or have too high a standard of work, but one of my group projects is really, really not going well. Pretty irritated about it. 🤨
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I honestly can't tell if I'm too intense for my classmates or have too high a standard of work, but one of my group projects is really, really not going well. Pretty irritated about it. 🤨
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"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously
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I have to tell you, and yes I’m drunk, but if I were a Christian who thought I’d someday face Jesus, the idea of explaining why I took food out of the mouths of the poor ON PRINCIPLE? I’d be scared shitless.
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I have to tell you, and yes I’m drunk, but if I were a Christian who thought I’d someday face Jesus, the idea of explaining why I took food out of the mouths of the poor ON PRINCIPLE? I’d be scared shitless.
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Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work.
Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]
Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]
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gts.sadauskas.id.au
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work.
Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]
Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]
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BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
Jury Awards $112 Million to 674 Immigrants Unlawfully Held by Suffolk County for ICE Handover | LatinoJusticePRLDEF
FOR IMMEDIATE
www.latinojustice.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
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every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
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If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #inspireme into the search bar.
It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.
This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]
It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.
This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]
Original post on cloudisland.nz
cloudisland.nz
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #inspireme into the search bar.
It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.
This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]
It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.
This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]
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I was lamenting that my brain is full of squirrels and I couldn't find something I needed. My brilliant, brilliant spouse @hakamadare came back with this banger:
"Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]
"Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]
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mas.wrong.tools
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I was lamenting that my brain is full of squirrels and I couldn't find something I needed. My brilliant, brilliant spouse @hakamadare came back with this banger:
"Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]
"Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]
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If you're ever bored, you can while away some time amusing yourself at the UK government's petitions website by looking at the list of rejected petitions.
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If you're ever bored, you can while away some time amusing yourself at the UK government's petitions website by looking at the list of rejected petitions.
I was lamenting that my brain is full of squirrels and I couldn't find something I needed. My brilliant, brilliant spouse @hakamadare came back with this banger:
"Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]
"Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]
Original post on mas.wrong.tools
mas.wrong.tools
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I was lamenting that my brain is full of squirrels and I couldn't find something I needed. My brilliant, brilliant spouse @hakamadare came back with this banger:
"Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]
"Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]
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"What does antifa do?" My personal experience with antifa.
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"What does antifa do?" My personal experience with antifa.