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.
Reposted by Chris Maytag
Everyone is agitated that Grok keeps sexualizing photos of women and children for users and ignoring that it is also editing photos in more modest ways, like putting women in, uh, Nazi uniforms.
January 4, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Everyone is agitated that Grok keeps sexualizing photos of women and children for users and ignoring that it is also editing photos in more modest ways, like putting women in, uh, Nazi uniforms.
Over Christmas someone told me that they had dreamed that I was a hologram, and then I began to worry about being a hologram and the implications. If anyone notices hologram-like attributes please let me know.
“Frog, is that really you?” said Toad.
“Of course it is me,” said Frog.
“And you are your own right size?” asked Toad.
“I think so,” said Frog.
“Of course it is me,” said Frog.
“And you are your own right size?” asked Toad.
“I think so,” said Frog.
January 5, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Over Christmas someone told me that they had dreamed that I was a hologram, and then I began to worry about being a hologram and the implications. If anyone notices hologram-like attributes please let me know.
Reposted by Chris Maytag
My guess is that their plan is to use special forces to eliminate head cartel members, which already has been done before during Calderon’s presidency twenty years ago and all it resulted in was 100,000 people being killed.
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 PM
My guess is that their plan is to use special forces to eliminate head cartel members, which already has been done before during Calderon’s presidency twenty years ago and all it resulted in was 100,000 people being killed.
Reposted by Chris Maytag
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
Sounds like we may not get more Pluribus anytime soon, and I’m sort of wondering if maybe this is a good thing.
We are perhaps too preoccupied by the need for answers, and likewise too inattentive to what is.
We are perhaps too preoccupied by the need for answers, and likewise too inattentive to what is.
January 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Sounds like we may not get more Pluribus anytime soon, and I’m sort of wondering if maybe this is a good thing.
We are perhaps too preoccupied by the need for answers, and likewise too inattentive to what is.
We are perhaps too preoccupied by the need for answers, and likewise too inattentive to what is.
“When I get to the bottom,
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop, and I turn, and I go for a ride
'Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again”
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop, and I turn, and I go for a ride
'Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again”
January 5, 2026 at 1:25 AM
“When I get to the bottom,
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop, and I turn, and I go for a ride
'Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again”
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop, and I turn, and I go for a ride
'Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again”
Reposted by Chris Maytag
Some of you will think I'm a nut for posting this. Believe me, I want to be wrong. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/i-explain-...
I Explain Everything
If your head is spinning at the state of the world, fear not: I explain the entire ghastly plan.
michaelianblack.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Some of you will think I'm a nut for posting this. Believe me, I want to be wrong. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/i-explain-...
The abject failure of @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @democrats.senate.gov in this time is historic. The most incredibly incompetent, ignorant, weak-willed, cowardly bunch of idiots to ever occupy congress. Just shameful failure in every direction, as far as the eyes can see.
January 5, 2026 at 12:22 AM
The abject failure of @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @democrats.senate.gov in this time is historic. The most incredibly incompetent, ignorant, weak-willed, cowardly bunch of idiots to ever occupy congress. Just shameful failure in every direction, as far as the eyes can see.
Reposted by Chris Maytag
“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.”
Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.
Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.
How are voters meant to understand how serious things are if in lieu of shouting fire AND going into building with hoses, you're simply posting fire safety suggestions on social media?
Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.
Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 AM
“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.”
Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.
Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.
Reposted by Chris Maytag
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
Reposted by Chris Maytag
I bet it feels so good to be left to simmer on medium heat
January 4, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I bet it feels so good to be left to simmer on medium heat
Reposted by Chris Maytag
Members of Congress coming on social media to issue commentary instead of fucking DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS are signing their own electoral death warrants.
The people are tired of play-by-play commentary. You are members of congress. Act like it.
The people are tired of play-by-play commentary. You are members of congress. Act like it.
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Members of Congress coming on social media to issue commentary instead of fucking DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS are signing their own electoral death warrants.
The people are tired of play-by-play commentary. You are members of congress. Act like it.
The people are tired of play-by-play commentary. You are members of congress. Act like it.
Also by everyone internalizing that "maybe someone else is the right person for this, and not me."
A lot would be improved by everyone internalizing "my own experience is not universal."
January 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Also by everyone internalizing that "maybe someone else is the right person for this, and not me."
Just a couple days ago POTUS was angry at Zelensky because he thought Zelensky had gone after the leader of a foreign country.
January 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Just a couple days ago POTUS was angry at Zelensky because he thought Zelensky had gone after the leader of a foreign country.
Reposted by Chris Maytag
im not joking, i think a huge reason theyre doing this is bc in their minds war is masculine and penis and being against war is feminine and vagina
January 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM
im not joking, i think a huge reason theyre doing this is bc in their minds war is masculine and penis and being against war is feminine and vagina
Reposted by Chris Maytag
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
Reposted by Chris Maytag
Words cannot describe the absolute power of this paragraph
"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
En kvinna, utklädd till rosa Power Ranger, hackade datingsida för högerextrema. Hon raderade hela sidan, men först fick hon användarna att bli kära i AI-botar som hon drev och fick på så sätt ut information om dem. Över 8000 högerextrema profiler har nu kartlagts.
cybernews.com/security/inv...
cybernews.com/security/inv...
January 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Words cannot describe the absolute power of this paragraph
This is an important and correct observation. If you're Normal Computer and not Very Computer, you're going to just install a distro, a browser, and maybe an email client and messaging app and everything is going to just work. The Hardness comes from Very, not Normal.
I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
This is an important and correct observation. If you're Normal Computer and not Very Computer, you're going to just install a distro, a browser, and maybe an email client and messaging app and everything is going to just work. The Hardness comes from Very, not Normal.
God bless coffee, every cup
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
God bless coffee, every cup
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.