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.
You both voted to confirm Marco Rubio, @hickenlooper.senate.gov @bennet.senate.gov. I want you to remember that, and feel bad about it. Next time your constituents are screaming bloody murder trying to get you to not do a thing, fucking pay a little attention.
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
You both voted to confirm Marco Rubio, @hickenlooper.senate.gov @bennet.senate.gov. I want you to remember that, and feel bad about it. Next time your constituents are screaming bloody murder trying to get you to not do a thing, fucking pay a little attention.
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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