Chris Maytag
@cpm5280.bsky.social
Cameras, space, astronomy, politics, art, words, mountains, ethics, chocolate, bikes, cats. Made of burritos & coffee. Mostly invisible. Future Starfleet Academy groundskeeper. He/him.
Seeking the thing.
California expat in Boulder
Seeking the thing.
California expat in Boulder
Pinned
Chris Maytag
@cpm5280.bsky.social
· Jan 20
I hope you’re all doing ok.
It is 1981 and you are 12 and have received a Sony Walkman for Christmas. It has orange earpads on the headphones. To your uneducated ears they sound miraculous. You put a cassette in – The Police's Ghost in the Machine – and hit play.
January 3, 2026 at 3:43 AM
It is 1981 and you are 12 and have received a Sony Walkman for Christmas. It has orange earpads on the headphones. To your uneducated ears they sound miraculous. You put a cassette in – The Police's Ghost in the Machine – and hit play.
There's a person in this house who is a) sick, b) in the kitchen, and c) unmasked, and d) coughing up a storm.
In other unrel... er, related news, this got delivered (for me) today:
In other unrel... er, related news, this got delivered (for me) today:
January 3, 2026 at 1:55 AM
There's a person in this house who is a) sick, b) in the kitchen, and c) unmasked, and d) coughing up a storm.
In other unrel... er, related news, this got delivered (for me) today:
In other unrel... er, related news, this got delivered (for me) today:
[thinking about the textile equivalent of 3-dimensional crystal structure, a crystal of woven/knotted fibers]
January 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
[thinking about the textile equivalent of 3-dimensional crystal structure, a crystal of woven/knotted fibers]
Lots of sirens, Boulder. Sounds like Friday evening commute has gotten off on the wrong foot.
January 2, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Lots of sirens, Boulder. Sounds like Friday evening commute has gotten off on the wrong foot.
After a week of sick I'm almsot feeling human. Lungs and sinus still a little cruddy. Really hoping this doesn't come back in a wave, I have a prodigious amount of work to do in the next few weeks. Simply cannot afford to be out of commission.
January 2, 2026 at 5:36 PM
After a week of sick I'm almsot feeling human. Lungs and sinus still a little cruddy. Really hoping this doesn't come back in a wave, I have a prodigious amount of work to do in the next few weeks. Simply cannot afford to be out of commission.
Six months with Linux (Fedora 42, then 43) as my primary desktop OS. No real complaints, and I've been able to find a tool to do everything I need to do.
January 2, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Six months with Linux (Fedora 42, then 43) as my primary desktop OS. No real complaints, and I've been able to find a tool to do everything I need to do.
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ICE arrested more than 3,500 people in Colorado in 2025 — including babies and the elderly coloradosun.com/2025/12/31/i... via @taydolven.bsky.social
ICE arrested more than 3,500 people in Colorado in 2025 — including babies and the elderly
The number of arrests made by ICE agents in Colorado this year from Jan. 20 to Oct. 15 quadrupled compared with the same period last year
coloradosun.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:47 PM
ICE arrested more than 3,500 people in Colorado in 2025 — including babies and the elderly coloradosun.com/2025/12/31/i... via @taydolven.bsky.social
Great set of photos in this thread.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall!
More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful!
Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.
More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful!
Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.
January 2, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Great set of photos in this thread.
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Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.
January 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.
Speaking of moving to new apps: I’m pretty much using Skeets instead of the official Bsky client, on both phone and ipad. Lots of neat, if relatively small, improvements.
Have been a Vivaldi user on desktop for a decade, and have now moved to Vivaldi for iOS. Absolutely loving having robust tab handling abilities on phone and tablet. Quite good.
January 2, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Speaking of moving to new apps: I’m pretty much using Skeets instead of the official Bsky client, on both phone and ipad. Lots of neat, if relatively small, improvements.
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We have American problems which require American solutions. Some will be trivial, some will require us to remember the great undertakings of our past. We can, we have – we will – do great things. It takes but a leader to arouse the patriotic spirit.
It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
January 1, 2026 at 11:06 PM
We have American problems which require American solutions. Some will be trivial, some will require us to remember the great undertakings of our past. We can, we have – we will – do great things. It takes but a leader to arouse the patriotic spirit.
Have been a Vivaldi user on desktop for a decade, and have now moved to Vivaldi for iOS. Absolutely loving having robust tab handling abilities on phone and tablet. Quite good.
January 1, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Have been a Vivaldi user on desktop for a decade, and have now moved to Vivaldi for iOS. Absolutely loving having robust tab handling abilities on phone and tablet. Quite good.
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AFL-CIO hq had this painting hanging around their main meeting hall. I have a copy in my office. It depicts the scale of the strike and the roles so many people played almost like a diorama.
wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/brea...
wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/brea...
Bread and Roses: Dignity and Respect in Working Class Struggles – Robert J. S. Ross
wordpress.clarku.edu
January 1, 2026 at 9:47 PM
AFL-CIO hq had this painting hanging around their main meeting hall. I have a copy in my office. It depicts the scale of the strike and the roles so many people played almost like a diorama.
wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/brea...
wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/brea...
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America, we have a serious problem. Thread.
Catholic “integralist” William Branson Donahue—founder of the College Republicans of America, which has over 300 chapters—says CRA would be “glad” to host Jack Posobiec following Poso’s decision to cozy up to Hitler lover Myron Gaines outside a TPUSA event where Poso also held up a rosary. 1/
January 1, 2026 at 9:11 PM
America, we have a serious problem. Thread.
Fantastic rainy day album.
Zipless (Songs From The Works of Erica Jong), by Vanessa Daou
10 track album
daourecords.bandcamp.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Fantastic rainy day album.
Now we just need to somehow elect Mamdani everywhere else
January 1, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Now we just need to somehow elect Mamdani everywhere else
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
My personal custom g.c.:
Sourdough (outside buttered well)
Sharpest white cheddar
Bit of Maytag blue
Fresh pesto
Tomato slices
Oregano dusting outside before grilling
Cholula/Tabasco/Frank's/Tapatío on the side.
Sourdough (outside buttered well)
Sharpest white cheddar
Bit of Maytag blue
Fresh pesto
Tomato slices
Oregano dusting outside before grilling
Cholula/Tabasco/Frank's/Tapatío on the side.
Want to start a restaurant called "Obscene" that's just custom two-thousand calorie grilled cheese sandos.
January 1, 2026 at 6:56 PM
My personal custom g.c.:
Sourdough (outside buttered well)
Sharpest white cheddar
Bit of Maytag blue
Fresh pesto
Tomato slices
Oregano dusting outside before grilling
Cholula/Tabasco/Frank's/Tapatío on the side.
Sourdough (outside buttered well)
Sharpest white cheddar
Bit of Maytag blue
Fresh pesto
Tomato slices
Oregano dusting outside before grilling
Cholula/Tabasco/Frank's/Tapatío on the side.
It is about as deeply imperfect as a large human structure can be, but I remain a serious fan and proponent of the EU project. Cooperation and solidarity and strength together are a powerful set of tools for a united Europe, especially in a time of new Russian aggression. The EU is good, actually.
🇺🇦🇪🇺 #Ukraine formally joined the European Union's single roaming zone on Jan. 1, allowing Ukrainian citizens to use their mobile phone service across the European bloc without incurring additional charges.
kyivindependent.com/ukraine-ente...
kyivindependent.com/ukraine-ente...
Ukraine enters EU's single mobile roaming zone
Ukraine formally joined the European Union's single roaming zone on Jan. 1, allowing Ukrainian citizens to use their mobile phone service across the European bloc without incurring additional charges.
kyivindependent.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
It is about as deeply imperfect as a large human structure can be, but I remain a serious fan and proponent of the EU project. Cooperation and solidarity and strength together are a powerful set of tools for a united Europe, especially in a time of new Russian aggression. The EU is good, actually.
Want to start a restaurant called "Obscene" that's just custom two-thousand calorie grilled cheese sandos.
January 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Want to start a restaurant called "Obscene" that's just custom two-thousand calorie grilled cheese sandos.
As interested as I am to see Mamdani's mayorship unfold, I am also interested - if a great deal less excited and eager - to see the old machine (NYPD, billionaires' club, etc) and its response to him. They won't go quietly.
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
As interested as I am to see Mamdani's mayorship unfold, I am also interested - if a great deal less excited and eager - to see the old machine (NYPD, billionaires' club, etc) and its response to him. They won't go quietly.
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For the many foreigners who seem interested in our new mayor, I’m reposting my favorite of his campaign videos, which I think illustrates why he won. It’s an expert video, he is appealing in it, and he radiates fondness for actual real New Yorkers, which is surprisingly rare in our city’s pols.
January 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
For the many foreigners who seem interested in our new mayor, I’m reposting my favorite of his campaign videos, which I think illustrates why he won. It’s an expert video, he is appealing in it, and he radiates fondness for actual real New Yorkers, which is surprisingly rare in our city’s pols.
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here’s hoping 2026 is just one year
January 1, 2026 at 4:02 AM
here’s hoping 2026 is just one year
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