Crystal St. Marie Lewis

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought. --Basho • #resist

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?"

--Rabbi Hillel

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

Hey everyone! I'm using my first tweet in nearly a year to invite y'all to follow me on Bluesky:

https://t.co/cU4NzmXRYk

I don't anticipate a return to Twitter after this message. Many blessings.

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

They invented case law references out of whole cloth, y'all, with no expectation that the clerks would check their work. Simply astonishing. Just wow.

[Axios @axios]

Judge says "none" of the cases cited by Michael Cohen's lawyer in his request to end his supervised release early seem to exist https://t.co/qlwXGLzo61

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

Whoever coined the term "velcro dog" most certainly had my little fluffer in mind. This guy follows me everywhere and snuggles me mercilessly and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

I'm using my very last verified tweet to say: This platform has become the Green Acres of social media. What utter dumbassery this decision is.

[Bert @bertsesame]

I'm okay with just being okay.

[April @ReignOfApril]

I’m getting word from several people that the Tyre Nichols video is bad. Like… worse than we’ve seen in a long time, and that’s saying something.

A reminder that you can turn off video Auto-Play in your Settings. You don’t owe anyone anything. You don’t have to watch.

[Smithsonian Transcription Center @TranscribeSI]

The North Star, one of the most influential antislavery newspapers in the pre-Civil War U.S, was published by Frederick Douglass between 1847 and 1851.

A newly digitized issue from 1848, held @NMAAHC, is now available to transcribe: https://t.co/xlHcZlrDAb.

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

My dog when I disturb him in any way while he's trying to sleep

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

For the record, I'm trying to read this article: https://t.co/YS1u3DqZE3

--which is, of course, of minimal utility to me because the gray and blue super-thin print are hardly readable.

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

Hi @NotabilityApp. I'm trying to read a troubleshooting article on your website but your font weight/colors are SO LIGHT that I can barely read the page. I know gray text is trendy, but it's terrible for people with low vision. Would you please consider changing this?

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

My intuition is trustworthy.

[Mental Floss @mental_floss]

What's something new you've discovered about yourself in the last year? 💭

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

I literally just emerged from this kind of disaster. A validating must-read for Black women who are given the so-called "dream job" they want with none of the resources (personnel, stable working relationships, room for trial/error, etc.) they need: https://t.co/4WaWXBRffH

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

@sanosbo1 "Even Democrats love you"

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

"My dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play on Negro family life. I have tentatively chosen as a title for this work a line from one of your poems. The line is: 'a raisin in the sun.'" Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes & his reply https://t.co/etiqVOSXGL

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

Me: *"disciplining" said puppy*

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

Me: Phew! My apartment is finally clean and organized.

My Puppy (5 minutes later):

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

@mawaubergine @Chewy I'm so sorry to hear about your cat. Thanks for sharing the surprisingly human and truly lovely response from Chewy.

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

I'm gleaning that Twitter has fired the staff who once provided contextual subtitles for trending topics. I really miss the meaningful blurbs that once accompanied the numbered links.

[Crystal St. Marie Lewis @CrystalLewis]

I guess I should write this, since rumors of Twitter's imminent obsolescence abound:

I learned so much about what it means to truly be an empathetic, golden-rule following, informed human being through the relationships and ideas that I accessed here.

Thank you, Twitter. ♡

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

This Twitter fiasco is a reminder of who is *actually* critical to the survival of our economy & society.

Twitter worked before the billionaire got here. Now that workers are gone, Twitter is collapsing. Workers made Twitter work—a billionaire broke it.

Workers > Billionaires