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Chris Maytag

@cpm5280.bsky.social

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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

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · Jan 20

I hope you’re all doing ok.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 10h

Watched The Greatest Beer Run Ever tonight. A better and more interesting film than I'd anticipated going in.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 13h

This is genuinely cool. Here's a website to learn more about the system and what you're hearing through this hydrophone nearly 900 meters below the ocean surface.

www.mbari.org/project/soun...

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 13h

Just discovered that a drive I have multiple copies of has the highest failure rate in its series, and now I'm looking sideways at all my data and contemplating having to save for new drives, years ahead of schedule, just for peace of mind. Ugh.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 14h

I can remember not long ago people would tiptoe around words like "fascism" and "nazi," and chiding and finger-wagging often greeted anyone who dared to. But we were right to use those words, because they are those things, are obviously and undeniably those things.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15h

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 15h

Trying this evening to learn how btrfs actually works. I've settled on using it over ext4, but this means I need to actually have a model for how it works in my head.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 15h

At least y'all can do this without having all those cops empty their magazines into him, as would happen in damn near any jurisdiction in the U.S.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 15h

Flingin' terabytes around over here

whoosh

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty pleased. Was less $ than the now-gone (or super expensive) frog costumes, and the eagle feels pretty topically relevant to these protests. Will wear a US flag cape and carry a @djinnandtonic.bsky.social Wide Awakes flag.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 17h

A photo of me in an inflatable eagle costume, similar to the frog costumes currently popular at protests.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 18h

If you were at this protest and witnessed this assault, please contact Austin PID complaint investigator Selena Shabani,
[email protected] 512-978-0731

This is a screencap of an email from Austin PD complaint investigator Selena Shabani.

If you were at the protest below and witnessed this assault, please contact Austin PID complaint investigator Selena Shabani,
selena.shabani@austintexas.gov 512-978-0731

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 18h

If anyone was physically present at this assault, this Austin PD officer wants to know more (I reached out to them with the video link, but they want to talk to people who where there).

A screenshot from an email to me from Austin PD complaint investigator Selena Shabani, selena.shabani@austintexas.gov 512-978-0731, please contact them if you were present for this assault

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, exactly. It's one advantage of a booster using lots of medium sized engines over a smaller number of larger engines. Once launch cadence approaches the predicted levels, it'll be important to keep suspect engines from destroying known-good engines. Best to keep bad one turned off & replace.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

Presenting the plague of frogs on Portland. And yes, I choose to believe God has a sense of humor & is laughing at this too.

There’s no better way to show how absurd a bully is than to ridicule their absurdity. Kudos to Portlanders! Stand United & keep exercising your 1A right to protest tyranny!❤️✊🏽

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 21h

Way, waaaaay too much AI slop in my feed. Folks who should know better turning to AI-made images to promote random crap. Not cool.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 22h

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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fairshare.help @fairshare.help · 23h

Please contribute if you're able or share if you're not.

Directly asking people you know is most effective

Emergency Relief for Ziad & Julia

Hello friends. My name is Todd and I am a close family friend of Nour and her family currently in Nuseirat, Gaza, in Palestine, originally Gaza City. The humanitarian crisis has bore down severly on t...

chuffed.org

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 23h

The EarnestPoster vs. ShitPoster divide can explain a lot around here.

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 23h

They've had issues with engine relight before (as have others, it's an ongoing thing), and I suspect that there are lots of data feeding into the engine computer's decision to fire back up or not - it's maybe better to not relight an engine if the computer thinks that engine might have issues.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 23h

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 23h

I have joined the ranks of the inflatable.
Bald Eagle, not Frog.

Also, now I have battery anxiety. I don't want the little fan to give out in the middle of things on Saturday.

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Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 23h

There's a park in my town named after Arleigh Burke and it has a body of water that's insufficient to hold an Arleigh Burke.

A top-down image of Arleigh Burke park in Boulder, CO inside of the Google Earth app, showing the measuring tool and the length of the pool at under 400 feet on its longest side.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 23h

Still, Winboat is super impressive. If you need Windows apps on the Linux desktop, it can do things WINE cannot (like run Affinity Photo, e.g.).

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 23h

Tried yesterday to get oh-my-zsh/zsh working in my Win10 install under @winboat.app but it looks like WSL is broken because of missing virtualization capabilities. So I'll just have a decent shell set up in the other windows VM. Too bad.

Chris Maytag @cpm5280.bsky.social · 1d

"...the last mission for the TROUBLED V2 prototype that has failed several times this year." (emphasis mine)

No, not a troubled prototype, a prototype series that has done precisely what it was supposed to do. Calling this process "troubled" misunderstands SpaceX's proven development process.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

SpaceX's megarocket has made a fiery splashdown in the Indian Ocean, successfully completing a roughly hourlong test flight.

SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight | CNN

SpaceX lifted off on a planned hour-long test flight — the last mission for the troubled V2 prototype that has failed several times this year.