Reposted by crystalalyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 11hImagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying. 361174256
Reposted by crystallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026what keeps me up at night is these guys have basically never received real pushback and they still lost their minds and shredded the federal government's regulatory capacity when employees started griping too much in the company slack. What if you actually arrested one of them for their crimes 181143132
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah I think my life is probably better off deleting the Instagram app from my phone. nothing I do there is a good idea. I think this means nothing on my phone will show me reels anymore? maybe I'll be able to get bored and put it down again 110
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026we as a society have to stop having those freakishly weird reels or clips where someone's head is physically pinned in one place while everything else moves. it's deeply unnatural and gives this horrid vertigo 000
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026is Chicago capable of opening and operating a lesbian bar that is not hosting a special event every single night. like a bar where I can just show up and not have to like Have Something Happening at all times 010
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't know what I expected but the Friday night experience at Pizza Lobo, which I feel is worth emphasizing is a _bar_, is that of having roughly two dozen children sprinting around the patio and throwing rocks at patrons for two hours. Wait staff had to lecture the idle and distracted parents! 100
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think the Instagram algorithm has detected a downward trend in my mental health because it keeps showing me content about winding garage door springs for some reason 100
Reposted by crystalEvan Maple VO @evanmaplevo.com · 22/09/2026it’s been said a ton already but I really do appreciate mamdani so throughly dismantling the core democrat ideology of “we actually can’t ever do anything helpful or good because of. circumstances” 738501015
Reposted by crystalBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves! 7866851028
Reposted by crystalPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136392890
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026it's really deeply funny that dnc establisment consultants all seem to think that regular human adults know who hasan is and also care 000
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026brick privilege is the joy of only lesbians realizing you're hot so you can just glide through life unbothered 110
Reposted by crystalmcc @dryad.technology · 18/09/2026This may be a little awkward, but this is why I think the discussion around "AI doomerism" is kinda broken.. Imagine a political compass. On the X axis, put "AI works". On the Y axis, put "AI is an existential threat to humanity". 48723
Reposted by crystalFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026I think it’s pretty fun to watch the rationalist millenarian AI sex cult sputter and squawk like a flock of turkeys suddenly confronted with a mirror over “the public found out about you and they think you’re evil, but also enormous dorks.” 1037548
Reposted by crystalCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026AI critics: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination AI Stans: This is the greatest, most powerful tech in history. It is not a theft machine. There are no original thoughts anymore People Who Created AI: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination 3527171
Reposted by crystalVote Angel 2028🏳️⚧️ 👉😎👉 @benotafraid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Ah so talerico wasnt lying to get elected, ita literally what thebparty is telling them to say www.advocate.com/politics/tra...advocate.comDemocratic Operatives Want Candidates to Talk About Trans Athletes — Very Quickly, One Time — and Then Move OnParty advisors are reportedly trying out a new strategy on the culture war issue. 75217
Reposted by crystalJane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights. 92036376
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026my keyboard sicko era has reached full swing now with some printed wrist rests and tenting stands 030
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026there really ought to be a Division brown line stop, like, I'm not insane for thinking this right? I feel like the absence of one is for like historically racist reasons (proximity to Cabrini Green) 110
Reposted by crystalskáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026talarico reminds me of how democrats spent years trying to "moderate" on immigration and getting nothing in return and now we have the best funded paramilitary force on the planet disappearing people across the country while running a system of concentration camps with no oversight 171605396
Reposted by crystalrue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 14/09/2026the crazy thing is that all these dems who win primaries supporting trans people and then give it up at the first sign of resistance in general elections are communicating more than anything that they are weak willed cowards who will fold for a stiff breeze 7519104
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"We didn't hit a plateau, we're actually all agreeing to keep our product shitty because it's *too dangerous*!!!!!" the credulity with which mass media is treating this wild and baseless claim is inexcusable 030
Reposted by crystalErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple. 11163071002
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026okay but real talk is this the ideal keyboard layout for doing CAD 110
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026what you can just hook up an iPhone to a thunderbolt dock and it'll like use the monitor and keyboard and stuff? whoa. this thing should run Mac OS 101
Reposted by crystalLorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A thing I don't see enough in convos abt LLMs is how they egregiously misunderstand what writing is FOR. LLMs assume writing is primarily meant to be consumed by other people. But the actual act of producing language on the page is a process of DISCOVERY. It's a process of finding out what you think 06422
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Someone at work expressed the deranged opinion that shake shack is the best burger in the world, which is obviously false but now I do want shake shack 210
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026why has nobody designed a full size video game controller for adult size hands with a bunch of buttons that all feel *exactly* as crisp and clicky and low profile as the buttons on a GBA SP 020
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026it's like fucking insane that good home internet costs more than $1000 a year, right, like, why is this normal 000
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I think we can kind of quantify how useless someone's job is based on how long it took for them to figure out AI was terrible at it. If they never figure it out, was it a real job in the first place? 100
Reposted by crystalJane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 02/09/2026i notice that every time one of these dems excited to throw us under the bus loses like this, a lot of cis people celebrate along with us, like they realize that allowing for any bigotry against anyone is a threat to everyone. We are gonna win. 2267
Reposted by crystal🐈⬛🎃🔪 Adam Jay 🍁💀👻 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026When you’re excited for fall on September 1st 1257
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026how different would the world be if we had sent a PSA to like CTOs in 2012 that just said "fyi: the cloud is just someone else's computer" 000
Reposted by crystalEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Very much this. Holding space for refusal of this tech is a key resistance strategy. That means advocating for that option in e.g. school policies (if we can't get a full ban) but also simply being visible in our own refusal, so that others see it as possible. 521465
Reposted by crystal🏳️⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 31/08/2026What was that about, "This wont spread through the party, you're over reacting!" ? 8553109
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I've had a preoccupation with playing pong at my birthday, and I feel like what is guaranteed tonhappen is that I will go to all the effort of setting up cups and a table and then literally nobody else will be into it 000
Reposted by crystalBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending. 190115342180
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026anyone got opinions on making a database for clothes? some desire to plan outfits but mostly I want to semantically keep track of how many of different categories of items I have (eg nice red tank tops, black jean shorts, etc) in such a way that I can sort and play with the data in a couple of ways 100
Reposted by crystallumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026LLMs and that whole class of machine learning models should've stayed relatively quietly developed by computer science academics to make it easier to perform complex operations on data structures like JSON objects and various flavors of XML, not boastfully turned into The Psychosis-Inducing Chatbot. 715332
Reposted by crystalmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 24/08/2026the way of the future | patreon.com/lubchansky 163608923
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026how do the cottagecore queers at the Crane Wives show get so hip and fashionable, I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas 000
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026they need to invent an Old Town with architecture about as beautiful but with an average household income like 70% lower 000
crystal @cim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026is there some reason the Metra NCS line only has one reverse commute train option each day, and they aren't even 8 hours apart so you can't possibly use them for a job 000