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Crystal Huff (they/them)
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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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Welp. I thought I knew what to expect re funding sources for the "No on 3" campaign, but this legit astonished me.

$20k of donations from one wealthy Somerville family, another $19k from 69 other donors in Somerville ... and that makes up less than 20% of […]

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Pie chart of donations to the "Focus on Somerville" campaign -- the people urging a NO vote on ballot question 3. 9.8% (aka $20k) from one Somerville household 9.4% (aka $19k) from 69 other Somerville donors 28.4% (aka $58k) from institutions external to Somerville (CJP, ADL, etc.) 52.3% (aka 106k) from 275 individual donors external to Somerville Data downloadable from Somerville Election Commission https://www.somervillema.gov/campaign-finance-reports
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I am a very slow canvasser, but I went out today to canvass for Jon Link. Had some really great conversations on the doors. Definitely felt like I was having an Overton Window discussion with a couple of folks. 😅
Left to right: Daniel, Ben, me, Jon Link, and Aaron. Pic taken from below. Pretty trees above us. The clear sky is visible through the leaves.
October 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The mutual aid garden keeps on giving, both in friendships and in food bounty. Harvested beans for 30 min tonight with a neighbor. Now to curl up with my reading while @hakamadare cooks them for the household. 😍 #garden #mutualaid #gardening
A bounty of shelled beans in pink, white, purple, and black shades. Behind the pile of beans is a yellow squash and two books: Copaganda by Alec Karakatsanis and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Very close photo of a bounty of shelled beans in pink, white, purple, and black shades.
October 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Sometimes, what I need is to see flowers and the butts of pollinators at work. Sharing here in case that's also true for you. #bloomscrolling #bees #flowers
A blurry tannish-yellow bee (not a classic bumblebee) in foreground. Less-blurry white aster flowers around it. A bumblebee, close up with wings in focus, while pollinating a series of white asters. The centers of many flowers are light purple, indicating they've been successfully pollinated. Wider-scope pic of a few bees on aster flowers, with a light green hose and white house visible in the background.
October 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I did actually make it out to the end of the Fluff festival in #somervillema today. This is basically the only photo I got, but it's a banger! This guy said he voluntarily got decorated with a peanut butter and fluff sandwich. His partner said there would be thorough showering when they got home. 😆
Me, on the left, wearing a white Flo mask and my hair in pigtails. On the right is a person with long hair and a beard, absolutely covered with white marshmallow fluff. There is fluff all over hair and beard and shirt. In the middle is a person with a grey hat, laughing and holding a jar of fluff.
September 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Look! We got certificates and everything! :) @somershade.bsky.social
Thirteen people (mostly white people, one black man) in a formal building (Somerville City Hall). Many are holding certificates and smiling.
September 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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For @Chip_Unicorn (and also likely @inarticulatequilter ): Cat Verification Photo. #catsofmastodon
A black and white kitten, Carol Danvers, with her tummy turned up toward the camera. Front paws are curled in an appealing manner, as though requesting attention. Back legs are splayed out, stretched long. The kitten is lying on her back on top of an unfinished striped quilt with yellow and blue and cream tones.
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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I made this quilt top a year ago and still haven't managed to finish the edges off after quilting the sandwich, but fuck, I want to prove to myself I still do crafts, so I'm looking at this pic and feeling some pride. This was a ton of work. It's not done […]

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A very large, striped quilt top with yellow, blue, purple, and white shades. It is huge. I (a white person with blonde hair) am trying to hold up one corner for the photo. It covers the entire floor and then some. Probably 150" on one side. There are stacks of books behind my head, and a skeleton. A sewing machine is in the forefront of the pic, lower left corner.
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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@solcita.sunnie.org snapped this pic in my own garden. :)
A bumblebee hanging from some very lush goldenrod flowers. The background is more blurred goldenrod.
August 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Wooooow.

Not for nothing, but I was outside the house this week for way less than 40 hours. My Pro Flo mask filter is rated for 40 hours at 100 AQI.

I think this is the first time I've seen it go black before changing it.

#wearamask #airquality #smoke #climatechange
2 Pro filters for Flo Mask. The first is unused and totally white. The second is used and completely middle-to-dark grey except for the slight edge around the rim where the filter attached to the mask. It's a shocking color difference, showing the particulates filtered out of my air this week.
August 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Developer says they're trying to integrate the Revival window next door, which will be next to their courtyard. #somerpoli
Artistic rendering of first floor, with Revival coffee on the right.
August 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Artistic renderings of what they plan the building to look like (next to Revival restaurant). Commercial elevator for accessibility. #somerpoli
Artistic rendering from an angle, in front. Artistic rendering from the front, head-on.
August 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Floor plan for 199 Elm St presentation.
To be updated. Floor plan of the first floor (mostly commercial space).
August 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I apparently talk a lot about how much I love beets... to such an extent that someone left me a box of fresh beets in the garden this week, and I honestly don't know who! 😅😅😅 I have begun putting them to good use, though!
A large, blue and yellow pan with sliced red beets cooking in it, on top of an electric stovetop.
July 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Screenshot attached, and I will copy/paste the convo over the next few toots.

He'd asked me for my vote.

I replied: Hi, Justin, I don't think so. You blocked me on twitter for favoriting a tweet a few years ago that asked about why you were changing the […]

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I will copy-paste the texts from this screenshot into the next few toots because the text limit is too small for this convo.
July 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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HA, this is a common occurrence around here, but I don't often manage to catch it on video! Carol Danvers went from purring up a storm, cuddling my foot, to twisting around onto her back and putting her (shaved somewhat recently due to illness) belly in the air. #cat
June 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Cuddle the nearest foot when a foot is all you can reach, I guess? Carol Danvers is very silly. #cat
A b&w tuxedo cat is lying on the wooden floor and on top of my bare foot. Her eyes are mostly closed.
June 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Just when I thought Google couldn't get worse, it went in for more enshittification. We've got special brand map symbology for national brands & slogans for some! We've got suggested activities while there! (Telling me I might want to replace my car keys is […]

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A screenshot of Google maps with "Tags Hardware -- replace your automotive keys" in the center. Tags Hardware has a special branded marker that says "ACE" in all capital letters (because it's part of the Ace Hardware franchise). All other businesses in the area have a generic blue marker with a shopping bag. A screenshot of Google maps with two CVS boxes and a Ben & Jerry's branded box in the middle. One CVS is subtitled "CVS is your one stop shop." The other CVS is subtitled "Photo Quality Guaranteed." The Ben & Jerry's is subtitled "Takeout - Delivery." A nearby Healthworks does not have a branded mark, just a generic green dot. It is subtitled "Less busy than usual." A white screenshot with "Saved - Notifications - Messages" across the top. Yellow and grey talking balloon icons are below. It says "No messages yet." White screen screenshot which is titled "Introducing Following on Maps." People can follow your profile. They may be more likely to see your reviews, media, and other content across Maps. Anyone can see who you follow and who follows you.
June 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Not for nothing, but this is the first time I've ever actually seen CAO Lammis Vargas in any live form in Somerville. I'm still irritated that we have a CAO before we have a revised charter. :P #somerpoli
Screenshot of 3 femme people in a Zoom room labeled "Conference Room." On the left, Lammis Vargas of RI. Middle is Somerville's mayoral chief of staff, Nikki Spencer. Right side is Director Singh.
June 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Also, everyone's protest signage is great, but I'm not sure anyone can top this sign from 2017, after the Charlottesville murder of Heather Heyer via nazi car. (This was not my sign, to be clear -- it was held by someone near me at a Boston protest against homophobic nazis.)
A white sign with large black letters in all capitals: "NOT TODAY SATAN." The two As in SATAN have two red eyes in each, as though KKK white hats. You can just see two hands holding the sign at the edge of the frame of this pic.
June 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Not for nothing, but the city of Somerville posting excitedly to social media about the Braille printer tonight is A WHOLE LOOK. The machine was purchased over a year ago but never used! This ADA coordinator has also (within the past month) been publicly […]

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Post to Facebook by the official City of Somerville social media account. The only text in the post preview appears to be "10 min. ago." The post is a photo of a smiling white woman with grey hair holding some Braille-embossed papers in front of her. She is in an office setting next to a desk. There is a computer in the background behind her, and the computer is next to a IRIE BrailleTrac 120 desktop Braille embosser which is in white, green, and grey plastic.
June 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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I'm looking forward to this book talk next week! Copaganda: how the police and media manipulate our news. Wednesday, 6/4 at 6:30 pm at Connexion in Somerville, MA. #mapoli #somerpoli #policing #politics #somervillema
Peach background Flyer for a book talk and discussion. Book title: "Copaganda: How police and the media manipulate our news" Blue book cover on left, picture of a white person with a beard on right. Connexion: 149 Broadway, Somerville, MA 02145 Sponsors: All She Wrote Books The New Press Defund SPD
May 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Today I learned a bunch about map projection stuff for my GIS course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

DID YOU KNOW that Florida uses two different map projection systems for different parts of the state??? This kinda blows my mind. (See image […]

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A map of the continental United States that demonstrates the TYPE of map projection used in each state (or section of state) when mapping it. The map is in green and red segments, so far as I can tell, although the legend also says there's a yellow portion. Most states, even if there are lines to show different portions of the state, are all in one color. A few, however, are mixed colors. For example, Florida uses Lambert Conformal Conic Projection (in red) for the western part of the state (as that's better for distances that are wider in the east-west directions), but uses Transverse Mercator Projection (in green) for the southern and east-most parts of the state (because that's better for distances that are lengthy in the north-south directions). I'm still learning all this stuff, so I'm not sure how better to describe this in order to be accessible, but I hope that helps.
May 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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My cat, Carol Danvers, is very very silly. She does this thing where she twists around and pets her own head and sticks her back legs straight out and flips over (sometimes falling off furniture) when she sees us looking at her and she wants treats. This pic […]

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Black and white kitten sitting on the bottom shelf of a bookcase with her head upside down, back legs sticking out straight off the shelf, front paws curled up under her chin like a dog's. Her tummy is somehow facing up toward the ceiling. Behind her is my painted mural of books (unfinished). The background color of the wall is yellow. The books in the mural are all sorts of colors.
May 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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It is very very wee, but after thinning some of the hakurai turnips this afternoon (with my mutual aid buddies), I am having the removed turnips in my salad for dinner. This is VERY satisfying. First true salad of the season from my garden is still to come […]

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A small white turnip, with greens removed, is in the center of this photo. It's not quite the length of my fork prongs, also pictured. There are greens and salad dressing and sesame seeds also in the pic.
May 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM