Crystal M. Huff, 赫 晶 (they/them)

Spouse: "I hope you saw [quality content on twitter] b/c that shit is excellent!" Me: "I read about lots of trolls and shitposting and ugh." Spouse: "..." Me: "Yes, I know, sometimes I regret my life choices." Spouse: "And now we see the violence inherent in the system."

@noisecapella Thanks for catching all that! I'm not really on twitter anymore, but someone sent me the start of your thread and I missed the beginning of the meeting, so I extra appreciate! :)

Kate: no more hands in queue so we will close meeting. We really appreciate your time in this meeting. You will be receiving an email with opportunies for feedback. Have a wonderful evening!

Live tweeting this at 6! x.com/somerbikesafet…

@noisecapella mfbc.us/m/w7csb4c (Public comment bingo cards.)

@somershade1 If you can pass the word to this person, that might be a kindness. They are not without a poker face entirely, but they might want to know. (I am without a poker face entirely, and I would want to know.)

@crystalvisits There's a reason that I sit on the far right of the chambers ... It's the spot in which I am exceptionally unlikely to be captured on camera. Not least because I don't what to see what my face looks like, listening to some of this stuff.

Against my own better judgement on this beautiful early fall evening, I am LIVE AND IN THE CHAMBERS as the Somerville City Council resumes their meetings after the summer recess. somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.… 1/?

@somershade1 Whoever is on a laptop sitting kinda near Mayor Ballantyne is giving *amazing* skeptical vibes at the moment.

The Mayor is, in fact, here to take a victory lap about wrapping up a contract with one of the city's unions. She notes that this is the fourth such agreement that her administration has "hammered out" over the past 30 months. 13/?

@JonathanCohn I think I got taken off the list of whoever sent you that text! Which campaign was it?

A state rep candidate using both "Obamacare" and "Romneycare" in their health care text is the perfect way to send me into a long rant about how the term "Obamacare" fundamentally obscures what the bill did and "Romneycare" is incoherent bc he tried to veto huge parts of the bill

@Somervillennial That's really the moment at which I decided I was gonna ignore my lawyer's advice and speak. People who don't engage with good faith should be shut down, and that is truly, obviously some bad-faith-straw-person arguing.

Ok here's a concept: Wife Swap but with municipal budgets. librarians get cop budgets for a year and we see what can be done

@JonathanCohn In fact, I hunted down my FB post about that 2020 campaign. It was even worse than I remembered. facebook.com/chaiyahuff/pos… I still think that was shitty and racist. Why is it even coming up now, though? That was literally litigated in court, and @rep_erika won.

@JonathanCohn I also feel like Kathleen Hornby's rhetoric Erika moving to Somerville in 2019 echoes the framing of the first opponent Erika ran against. In that campaign, Erika (a WoC) had to go to court to prove that she lived here b/c a WW said she didn't belong. Wtf. #SomerPoli #MApoli

Last night, we saw how Trump plays fast and loose with the truth. A great opportunity to point out how candidates in MA can also be heavily disingenuous in how they talk about policy and votes. Case study: this mailer from Somerville candidate Kathleen Hornby

Marjorie Decker has been silent on the bike safety crisis this month: She was absent at the vigil despite Kim Staley’s death occurring in her district. She made zero public statements. And..20 minutes before the vigil, she promoted an elite fundraiser for up to $1000 a plate.

@somershade1 Sigh. Mine don't get published anymore because the mayor's staff now insists that I have to submit my address with each public comment email, and I asked if they could check with the city solicitor about my stalker situation, in order to avoid my address being FOIA-able. :P

I had time to pre-read the agenda tonight and WOW the community is on fire with public communications. We don't want to pay police overtime to "educate" cyclists and we -do- want a union contract. I always love to see citizen engagement, even when it's weird and ranty. 2/?

It is an utterly glorious late afternoon in Somerville. The sounds of laughter and sport are wafting over the city ... and I'm heading up to City Hall to get my CIVICS on. That's right, it's City Council night. somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.… 1/?

Fun for the whole family! My mother-in-law and I are out collecting signatures in Somerville Ward 5 for @rep_erika to be on the ballot again this fall! Drizzle can't keep us away. 😇 @erika4rep #MApoli #SomerPoli

Friend was traveling & wanted to visit - I declined because they don’t take Covid precautions. They get home & tell me “omg I’m so sick - it’s a good thing we didn’t visit as this would kill you.” I asked if they considered the other people like me they exposed on travels. A 🧵/1

@andrewmurano Gotcha. Well, fwiw, I'm on Masto and miss seeing you on MAMAS meetings and stuff!

@andrewmurano Super old thread, but I want to follow up... I still can't figure out how to see individual accts on projectmushroom.social & I can't find you by searching for murano... Can you find me by loading this link, maybe? @crystalvisits" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mas.wrong.tools/deck/@crystalv… Or send me a link to your profile?

@andrewmurano Idk if that's a mastodon thing. Might be a settings thing. I had to change my settings to be discoverable when I first started using my account.

@HalloranElder I appreciate the offer, but not at the moment. I'm not keeping up enough with the current social media accounts I have (c.f. replying to you after 10 days!), and that'll continue to be true at least through the end of this year. Are you on Masto?

@crystalvisits Do you want a bsky account? I have codes if you want one.

At this point, I'm mostly not on formerly-known-as-Twitter, folks. I don't have a Bluesky acct. Best ways to reach me lately are Mastadon, Facebook, or text message if you know my number. Here's the Mastadon: @crystalvisits" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mas.wrong.tools/@crystalvisits

.@SpeakerJohnson thank you for providing an increase in SNAP so all Americans in need will be able to eat and also for supporting Universal School Lunch. You can not multiply fishes and loaves but you can support the policies to make something similar happen! Jesus will be so proud