Krystine Smith

What a take, when federally protected lands are disappearing and we aren’t paying our National Park Service… Also, who is doing the expensive and pointless big game hunting again? Oh right ⚪️

Veteran in my late 30s who is glad smart phones didn’t record my stupidity as an enlisted person. That stupidity NEVER included Nazi symbolism. Hate and racism can’t be excused by young stupidity.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Some dad is going to have a very happy kid with fairy hair on demand thanks to you!

When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Ravenwood! I was feeling witchy today and the music followed suit. #flute #witch #renfaire

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

I don’t have the energy to post these days but just go ahead and assume that I’m generally upset, troubled, put out, and otherwise pissed off about pretty much everything

Aaaand this is how AI learns to take over the world. Now we’re not just making lifeless art and music. I’ve watched too much sci-fi for this…

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

Post a mage!

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

Of aaaallll the horrible things happening in the world, people who don’t support AI are the eugenicists? 😅 ok….

This just all feels so surreal. We’ve spent the past 11 months in collective shock, yet somehow people still don’t get it. I’m honestly terrified.

My husband has a really long commute on a busy interstate. We share location for safety purposes! And we use a lot of the same passwords for things. It’s convenient. I’m married to my best friend.

As someone who has hypoxic brain damage from respiratory failure; the way a lot of you conflate any kind of brain injury and/or neurodivergence with immorality really fucking sucks.

Disability doesn't cause fascism. Colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy do.

a little girl is sitting on a couch with her eyes closed and making a funny face . Alt: Little girl crying into table.

Why did I decide to do a qualitative research study again?

I always invite my listeners to close their eyes and let the music create their fantasy. We all need a little escape night now, so I hope this takes you someplace safe and happy #flute

Live looping is the most fun! My music is often inspired by the people at my shows. Sometimes seeing a character gives me an idea, sometimes I invite an audience member to select a flute or two and see where that takes me. This was inspired by a family of boys who kept returning for more more music.

Never give up on your dream that one day, you will finally have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

I felt so creative yesterday! I primarily perform improvised, live-looped music. This is always a lovely adventure, but sometimes I start feeling stuck playing similar ideas. I pleasantly surprised myself yesterday and I think that’s entirely because I had so many wonderful people stop to listen!

Thank you!!

Another magical day of music making in the books ✔️ I don’t always get to have friends and family in my audience, but I was so thrilled to be on stage watching more and more friends roll in. Yall are amazing, thank you for joining me today 💕💕 #renfaire #renaissance #witchtok #livemusic #flute

I make no money from streaming. Maybe $30 altogether in 3 years. It’s hard to make a living with your music these days.

I don’t usually share about my mental health, but in light of some recent White House comments about autism, I feel like this is something personal I'd like to talk about. In my twenties, I went through addiction and recovery. Since then I’ve spent years trying to understand myself better. I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD and OCD, and after years of therapy, my therapist has told me he has “zero doubt” I’m on the spectrum, even though I’ve never gone through the full formal diagnostic process. Whether or not I’d check every box doesn’t matter to me. What matters is that I relate deeply to much of the autistic experience, and learning about it has helped me find healthier ways to cope and communicate. That said, for many people who do experience enough distress or impairment, having a formal diagnosis can make a huge difference in getting the support and accommodations they need. I’ve also seen firsthand how autism is overlooked, misunderstood, and stigmatized. Those misunderstandings make life harder than it needs to be. Autism isn’t a flaw to be fixed—it’s a variation, like being left-handed in a right-handed world. The world wasn’t designed with autistic people in mind, but that doesn’t make them broken—it just means things take some adapting. That’s why it’s so harmful to see people with serious influence like Trump and RFK Jr. pushing the false claim that Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. There is no scientific evidence for this. Worse, it unfairly places blame on expectant mothers while ignoring real and complex factors involved, like genetics. All it does is reinforce stigma against autistic people, people who deserve understanding and respect, not fear-mongering.

Something I shared on Facebook, the only place I've personally seen people justifying Trump's and RFK's Tylenol claims, and I felt compelled to say something.

Figured I'd share here as well 💙

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.