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@cim

33 / f / chicago. mechanical engineer / product designer, speedrunner, vaguely leftist, queer / polyam / transfemme. @iscrystalme on Twitter

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if the Air meets my needs then I would keep that and we would buy a Neo for my partner, which is $600. if the Air doesn't meet my needs, I'd buy a Pro that costs at least $1k more than that. Can I just get a cooling pad or something?

12.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it's really annoying how the only problem I have with a MacBook Air is that I'm playing a Unity game on it after like two hours it'll just slowly drop frames regardless of how little is going on graphically

12.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

16 year old me: don’t tell me what to do

33 year old me: tell me what to do

11.03.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of good arguments exist for a north Kedzie bus but the most important one is that I need a more direct route to Babe's

12.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"where do the dolls hang out"
"Boystown, Andersonville, Rogers Park"
"but on the blue line tho"
*crickets*

12.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you know I think I fit into the Logan Square hipster vibe a *lot* better as an egg than I do as a transfemme lmao. maybe I just need to change my haunts

12.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

10.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 17165 πŸ” 3492 πŸ’¬ 305 πŸ“Œ 237

in the sense that both murder and destruction of one's only shelter and possessions are both acts of genocide

10.03.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you can literally go watch the video of him destroying the possessions of homeless people right now, which is the only claim I have made. where's the lie

10.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

we are more than 24 months away from picking a nominee. it isn't newsom yet. my brilliant idea is let's pick someone who does less than half of what ice does. perhaps someone who does none of it.

10.03.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if you believe ice must be stopped at all costs, we have over 2 years to nominate someone with moral authority. stopping ice is more important than nominating newsom. if you won't let go of him, that's kinda a you problem

10.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have no issue with newsom's crassness (beyond it being kinda cringe), I have an issue with violence of the state being directed toward any sort of target.

10.03.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

indeed I do! which is why I oppose ice. I have moral consistency on this issue, leading me to oppose anyone who does these things. you clearly do not have such moral consistency.

10.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

leaving someone to die by stealing all of their possessions and destroying their home is morally, to me, about the same as leaving someone to die of an injury. newsom isn't ashamed of it at all, he's proud enough of it to have invited a camera crew. devil shit.

feel free to reply "nuh uh!" tho

10.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

this honestly isn't materially all that different than what he has personally done to homeless people with his own hands on camera

10.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

we gotta start telling pollsters that we won't vote if we get too many fliers, they won't listen to any other form of reason

09.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

whomever invented the 2 1/4 round "decorative" jbox cover, meet me outside I just wanna talk

08.03.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

YES

07.03.2026 07:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate the comically aggressive advertising of goth fashion to me on Instagram, especially with hot curvy models I wish I looked like, but they really should have made sure their account wasn't spelled Fore Stink before they did that

06.03.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

they should have the little bird sit with you at campfires imo

06.03.2026 04:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

part of a greater tend of democrats acting like every single candidate is Inevitable for as long as possible. it's like even the illusion of the primary process being about having the best candidate win is just completely gone

05.03.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it's what Microsoft deserves to happen to them, tbh

04.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah the rural urban divide is basically "is your neighborhood a food desert other than Walmart"; this is the result of Walmarts systemically destroying small downtowns for decades. there truly is full market capture for those outside of cities and suburbs

03.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

03.03.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 569 πŸ” 316 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't get how the ceo of the company could think that the joke pronunciation of their name was somehow rooted in the quality and reputation of the store, like "wow people thought we were fancy!" rather than "folks are ironically trying to dress up a big box store shopping trip as something else"

03.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I can personally very much relate to that and I share that feeling, though it feels different than my peers' feelings

01.03.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

when one's emotions are suppressed we tend to think of ourselves as highly logical / rational beings, and I think our unleashed emotions have a strength of conviction to them that feel like objective rational thought to those unprepared for it

01.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ehhh, I think this is partially true, but a lot more of it can be more easily explained by just having much more intense emotional responses for the first times in our lives, but all of our social coping skills were grown when we were suppressing so many of those emotions

01.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
28.02.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 9130 πŸ” 2867 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 11

the nice thing is that this is her character in literally every Bill Lawrence show

27.02.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0