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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 3h
whether it happens this election or the next one, we’re reaching a point where people are waking up to the reality that we have to forcefully remove power from tech oligarch billionaires and send these people to prison
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
going to enter my hopecore era, watch this space
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
working in politics is hard but sometimes you get glimpses of hope so strong from regular folks and it really brightens your worldview
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
edible to fight off the sunday scaries
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
our neighbor has pet rabbits, and they let them free roam unsupervised in the backyard at night which feels crazy
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is as accurate as i can get (though i do feel like i’m forgetting games) my9games.net/en/edit
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.
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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
 * Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
 * Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this shit is so fucking disappointing and infuriating
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i’m working on a project rn for work that is EXACTLY what i want to be doing all the time, but never get to do
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
also every time i’m down here i’m reminded how much i want to live closer to the city and escape the suburbs
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
drive 45 minutes to downtown for a 5 minute meeting AMA
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i love playing dress-up 🥹
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans hold every statewide office in the battlegrounds of Florida, Ohio, and Texas. With costs surging and wages stagnating, their voters are fed up with both parties.
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i hope yall will understand 😔
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
being a white(ish) guy with a beard named Chris grants me an amount of camouflage i could never give up
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
anyone else getting a lot of gnats in their plants?
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
feels so Southern to be sitting on the back porch with my dogs in the heat of summer drinking sweet tea
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
two guys were talking/shouting about content creation strategies at the coffee shop while i was giving notes on an episode draft and it pains me to know they probably make AT LEAST 3x what I make in a year
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
i believe in my heart the frog’s name is frank
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i think it’s crazy to expect me to fix audio problems for a video when you took the mic off of the person being interviewed
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i kinda ate with these
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
today was my last day of outpatient therapy after a severe mental health crisis, and call me cringe but i’m really proud of myself for both following through and being able to bounce back
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
well i guess it’s time to head back to the defending-avatar-korra trenches
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
it was so fucking humid mowing the lawn, but at least they’re reaping the benefits
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
not bad, not bad
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
i’m going to start lying more, like i think the benefits will overall be worth it
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
you know, religion is just a coping mechanism
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PLEASE turn off the HDR setting on your videos, i’m begging at this point
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
truly feel like i am cursed to have bad movie-theater going experiences!!!
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
people’s movie theater etiquette is so fucking garbage nowadays. i want to watch the movie!! shut tf up!! anyway, disclosure day was good and sorry you haters don’t have whimsy
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
it’s insane to think about the fact that people are going to ask an AI who to vote for this fall
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
yall bitches that meditate… i understand now, i get it
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I CAN’T STOP CRYING WTF
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
anytime we have friends stay with us, i’m inconsolably crying for at least an hour after everyone leaves
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
i am going through a period of Internal Turmoil that is really, really intense and i am struggling picture unrelated
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
i think it’s crazy that i said LAST YEAR that we didn’t have enough footage for a project, and nobody did anything about. but now they’re like “oh we need this and this” a couple weeks from a deadline
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
took three hits off the penjamin AMA
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
i love to scroll in the morning and check up on folks that i’ve never met to make sure they’re doing ok
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
this is the biggest sign yet that i need to replay skyrim
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
dane’s taking me to cheesecake factory, so i gotta put out i guess
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
having my “i hate being mentally ill and how much it fucks up my ability to do regular fucking things” crashout rn
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
everything at work is so so bad, but in a way that makes me seem like the perfect angel
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
ghosted again
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
second interview secured
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
the people that call it Water-burger but shorthand to Whata should be studied
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
in an april fool’s joke to myself, i thought an appointment i had was today but it’s actually tomorrow
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
had our first monthly game night and though it was sparse it was a lot of fun 🥹 i love my friends
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
i’m being so fr when i say i will never vote for gavin newsom
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Chris @crustdotmp4.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
learning how to use Lightroom to edit my photos 😵‍💫 i’m so used to video editing and mama this is a lot
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