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.
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Was arguing with a now-blocked person on here earlier and they gave me permission to vote for the person I want to vote for, and I'm just so grateful for that permission, guy.
December 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Was arguing with a now-blocked person on here earlier and they gave me permission to vote for the person I want to vote for, and I'm just so grateful for that permission, guy.
Every now and then I experience a sudden and deeply-felt sorrow for a long-closed pizza joint.
We miss you, Jalinos. Nothing else is quite the same.
We miss you, Jalinos. Nothing else is quite the same.
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Every now and then I experience a sudden and deeply-felt sorrow for a long-closed pizza joint.
We miss you, Jalinos. Nothing else is quite the same.
We miss you, Jalinos. Nothing else is quite the same.
We live in a terrible time.
Good things are compromised, decent things are suspect, fun things are dangerous, and free things almost never are...except for @somafm.com. SomaFM is a miraculously still-standing island of goodness in a world of shit and evil and bile.
Good things are compromised, decent things are suspect, fun things are dangerous, and free things almost never are...except for @somafm.com. SomaFM is a miraculously still-standing island of goodness in a world of shit and evil and bile.
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We live in a terrible time.
Good things are compromised, decent things are suspect, fun things are dangerous, and free things almost never are...except for @somafm.com. SomaFM is a miraculously still-standing island of goodness in a world of shit and evil and bile.
Good things are compromised, decent things are suspect, fun things are dangerous, and free things almost never are...except for @somafm.com. SomaFM is a miraculously still-standing island of goodness in a world of shit and evil and bile.
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But for ignorance and hate, Matthew Shepard would have been 49 today.
Remember Matthew Shepard.
Remember Matthew Shepard.
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
But for ignorance and hate, Matthew Shepard would have been 49 today.
Remember Matthew Shepard.
Remember Matthew Shepard.
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Part of being an adult is realizing that you never have to use anything but your favorite spoon and favorite fork to eat out of your favorite bowl. The cops can't do shit about it.
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Part of being an adult is realizing that you never have to use anything but your favorite spoon and favorite fork to eat out of your favorite bowl. The cops can't do shit about it.
Watching a Voyager episode where they speculate that Harry Kim has been "turned into energy," so I ent to look up how much energy one Harry Kim might be, and it turns out to be around 117,000 Hiroshima bomb's worth. Lots of Joules. So many Joules. Too many Joules for a holodeck.
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Watching a Voyager episode where they speculate that Harry Kim has been "turned into energy," so I ent to look up how much energy one Harry Kim might be, and it turns out to be around 117,000 Hiroshima bomb's worth. Lots of Joules. So many Joules. Too many Joules for a holodeck.
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So glad to have been able to write about Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social for @proteanmag.com. Special thanks to Tyler Walicek, an extraordinary editor.
Horizons of Youth Liberation • Protean Magazine
Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Ch...
proteanmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
So glad to have been able to write about Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social for @proteanmag.com. Special thanks to Tyler Walicek, an extraordinary editor.
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Radio by Lester Beall for the Rural Electrification Administration (1937)
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Radio by Lester Beall for the Rural Electrification Administration (1937)
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Frog and Toad jumped into the water. They swam all afternoon.
Frog swam fast and made big splashes.
Toad swam slowly and made smaller splashes.
Frog swam fast and made big splashes.
Toad swam slowly and made smaller splashes.
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Frog and Toad jumped into the water. They swam all afternoon.
Frog swam fast and made big splashes.
Toad swam slowly and made smaller splashes.
Frog swam fast and made big splashes.
Toad swam slowly and made smaller splashes.
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Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
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Once again an accessibility reminder from your favorite dog in the entire universe:
If you use the spooky demonic looking text, this is what screen readers see. It is not understandable! It is not fun having to ask a friend to look at it and translate!
BTW, it says “everything must be monetized”
If you use the spooky demonic looking text, this is what screen readers see. It is not understandable! It is not fun having to ask a friend to look at it and translate!
BTW, it says “everything must be monetized”
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Once again an accessibility reminder from your favorite dog in the entire universe:
If you use the spooky demonic looking text, this is what screen readers see. It is not understandable! It is not fun having to ask a friend to look at it and translate!
BTW, it says “everything must be monetized”
If you use the spooky demonic looking text, this is what screen readers see. It is not understandable! It is not fun having to ask a friend to look at it and translate!
BTW, it says “everything must be monetized”
For years I've been dropping interesting images into a folder. One effect of AI has been to reduce the quantity of stuff I put in there: I have no interest in archiving AI imagery, so the pool of images I might pull from has been drastically reduced. If it *might* be AI, I skip it.
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
For years I've been dropping interesting images into a folder. One effect of AI has been to reduce the quantity of stuff I put in there: I have no interest in archiving AI imagery, so the pool of images I might pull from has been drastically reduced. If it *might* be AI, I skip it.
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Every now and then I realize all over again that Bsky doesn't have @trekonomics on here, and I hope that Manu is happy not being here, that he's living a good offline life.
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Every now and then I realize all over again that Bsky doesn't have @trekonomics on here, and I hope that Manu is happy not being here, that he's living a good offline life.
Refreshing my t-shirts with a few from @djinnandtonic.bsky.social's shop, including this glorious bit of goes-hard commentary:
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Refreshing my t-shirts with a few from @djinnandtonic.bsky.social's shop, including this glorious bit of goes-hard commentary:
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
— Tom Stoppard
— Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
— Tom Stoppard
— Tom Stoppard
Next is butter
Surely
Surely
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Next is butter
Surely
Surely
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A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
www.whitehouse.gov
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.
The Bird of Omelas
"The Thanksgiving turkey, functions as a ritual scapegoat in American culture, a symbolic animal onto whom people displace guilt, ambivalence, and resentment."
~ Karen Davis
A worthwhile read by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social
link.vox.com/view/66b4192...
~ Karen Davis
A worthwhile read by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social
link.vox.com/view/66b4192...
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The Bird of Omelas
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Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
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We are still, I assure you, New York Fucking City.
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We are still, I assure you, New York Fucking City.
Today is "new socks, new underwear, new sneakers" day and, reader, I am unduly excited. Big events in the life of Chris.
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Today is "new socks, new underwear, new sneakers" day and, reader, I am unduly excited. Big events in the life of Chris.
So grateful to all my teachers for having made me WORK.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
So grateful to all my teachers for having made me WORK.