Crystalline
@crystallinebza.bsky.social
Artist, music lover, impassioned reader. Interests in law, philosophy, poetry, comics, space, & tech. 🏳️🌈
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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Another season of Sacramento Kings basketball
October 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Another season of Sacramento Kings basketball
She's ready for soup weather 🥣
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
She's ready for soup weather 🥣
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In her graphic novel debut, Sleeping While Standing <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3osmiubkohpqdtd3uvhvepdo" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@takisoma.bsky.social shares the key moments that shaped her—with honesty, humor, and heart. Told in 4-page stories. Published by @AveryHillPubl #comics #graphicNovel
September 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In her graphic novel debut, Sleeping While Standing <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3osmiubkohpqdtd3uvhvepdo" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@takisoma.bsky.social shares the key moments that shaped her—with honesty, humor, and heart. Told in 4-page stories. Published by @AveryHillPubl #comics #graphicNovel
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"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.
July 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
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With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
June 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
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Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin'
The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.
www.bbc.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Grim. Mortgaging the future of the country and not even making a dent in the deficit along the way
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Grim. Mortgaging the future of the country and not even making a dent in the deficit along the way
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This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
www.newyorker.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
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These headlines related to U.S. military aviation have all appeared in the last 11 days. There is a major problem at the Defense Department.
May 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
These headlines related to U.S. military aviation have all appeared in the last 11 days. There is a major problem at the Defense Department.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
March 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
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you can not win a trade war against a country that trades in chaos
March 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
you can not win a trade war against a country that trades in chaos
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I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.
March 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.
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this is so scary and sad, and we will see so many more situations like it
"Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital
Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
this is so scary and sad, and we will see so many more situations like it
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Morrison recorded the audio version of quit a few of her novels and was a wonderful reader. She makes you lean forward.
@theferocity.bsky.social informed us today that Toni Morrison read the Beloved audiobook herself, so I immediately checked it out from the library since I had been considering a reread after recently finishing the great ‘The Toni Morrison Book Club’.
February 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Morrison recorded the audio version of quit a few of her novels and was a wonderful reader. She makes you lean forward.
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The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash
February 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash
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While CEOs breathlessly talk about AI as the second coming by trading in delusions and fantasies, never lose sight of what it is *actually doing* and who bears the costs
“In November, students walked out to protest what they viewed as the school’s failure to investigate the scope and scale of the AI-generated media.”
Several parents are suing the school, “alleging that it failed to act when it was required to and that it failed to adequately protect its students.”
Several parents are suing the school, “alleging that it failed to act when it was required to and that it failed to adequately protect its students.”
Almost Half The Girls At This School Were Targets Of AI Porn. Their Ex-Classmates Have Now Been Indicted.
The accused are alleged to have created 347 images and videos of 60 female victims, 48 of whom were previously their classmates at a small school in Pennslyvania.
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2024 at 1:21 AM
While CEOs breathlessly talk about AI as the second coming by trading in delusions and fantasies, never lose sight of what it is *actually doing* and who bears the costs
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If you’re in California I highly recommend the app Watch Duty for info on fires. You can set it up to get alerts on fires that pop up near you, including evacuation warnings.
Students at Pepperdine University were ordered to take refuge in several of the school’s fire-resistant buildings as a wildfire scorched through the area
www.huffpost.com/entry/pepper...
www.huffpost.com/entry/pepper...
December 11, 2024 at 2:28 AM
If you’re in California I highly recommend the app Watch Duty for info on fires. You can set it up to get alerts on fires that pop up near you, including evacuation warnings.
100% nailed it 😍
December 9, 2024 at 6:30 AM
100% nailed it 😍
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me:
professor x: yes, i can read minds
me:
professor x: yes, i suppose the name alvin and the chipmunks alludes to he himself not being one
professor x: yes, i can read minds
me:
professor x: yes, i suppose the name alvin and the chipmunks alludes to he himself not being one
November 25, 2024 at 2:38 PM
me:
professor x: yes, i can read minds
me:
professor x: yes, i suppose the name alvin and the chipmunks alludes to he himself not being one
professor x: yes, i can read minds
me:
professor x: yes, i suppose the name alvin and the chipmunks alludes to he himself not being one