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Chris Maytag
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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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Admittedly we're talking about an atypical kind of "effective."
Gordo and Tracy Stevens, now shown dead inside the airlock door of a lunar base after saving everyone from catastrophe.
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Bad couple, but highly effective coworkers
Gordo and Tracy Stevens from the TV show For All Mankind. In the show both are astronauts, and are shown here in Mission Control facing each other, computer stations and big screens in the background..
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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No, do not huddle for safety friends
"If you’re stuck outdoors in the open with a group of people during a lightning storm, don’t clump together to try to get out of the rain or wind. Instead, spread out at least 15 feet apart to minimize the likelihood that you will all get hit."
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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They printed the wrong name on these albums, Trek fam; it’s definitely Vic Fontaine on there.
A photo of my hand holding up two CD jewel cases, for James Darren’s “This One’s From The Heart” and “Goodbye Cruel World.”
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This is what gaming looked like back then. And this stick-figure level graphic image was 100% sufficient - in combination with human imagination - to make this a rewarding experience.
A screenshot of the old Apple II game, Wizardry. It's extremely rudimentary, with a small view of a hallway rendered using simple line drawing. The screen is low resolution, blocky.
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Block block block: @dcomrade.bsky. social
Russian propaganda and more.
A screenshot of the profile of the account mentioned above in the post’s main body text .
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Oh FFS.
The "and yet you participate in society" meme
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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2009 photo of me before ditching the silly goatee for a real beard. At Aspen Food & Wine festival.
2009 photo of me. It's black and white, and I'm facing left but looking at the camera. I'm wearing a cowboy hat.
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Star Trek: The Next Generation's Worf in a bright red outfit meant to make him a member of Robin Hood's band of merry men. He is looking toward the camera, saying "I am not a merry man!"
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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A full desktop shot showing many linux (and windows) apps open on my KDE desktop.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A photo of a shop window in winter. In reflection, we can see snow-covered streets, sidewalks, and a bench. Inside the shop are many toy ducks - some rubber and with hats, some stuffed. It's a bright, spring-ish scene, in contrast with the scene outside.
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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A snowy field, a barbed wire fence, a wooden post. Before dawn, but with pink on the horizon.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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A black and white photo of a wet brickwork surface, shot from near the ground. Light reflects off of pooled water, creating areas of light and shadow.
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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borg + borgmatic = easy deduplicated backups.
A screenshot from my terminal window showing the output of the command: "sudo -E /root/.local/bin/borgmatic create --progress --stats && sudo -E /root/.local/bin/borgmatic prune --stats && sudo -E /root/.local/bin/borgmatic compact --progress" The first of these 3 commands runs a preconfigured backup of my linux system, writing the backup data to a drive mounted at /mnt/Backups. The second command ("prune") removes no-longer-required backups from the destination volume, and the third ("compact") consolidates backup data, removing empty space.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Diminishing returns
Image from the Zohran Mamdani campaign poster generator (https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html), with the text "REBOOT FOR NEW KERNEL" Image from the Zohran Mamdani campaign poster generator (https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html), with the text "TAB A FOR SLOT A" Image from the Zohran Mamdani campaign poster generator (https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html), with the text "BOLTS FOR NUTS" Image from the Zohran Mamdani campaign poster generator (https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html), with the text "WHEELS FOR AXLES"
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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For my GenX brothers and sisters.
Made with the Zohran meme generator at https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html, this is a poster/sign image in the same style as Mamdani's campaign posters, with the text "FLASH FOR FANTASY" (Billy Idol song) Made with the Zohran meme generator at https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html, this is a poster/sign image in the same style as Mamdani's campaign posters, with the text "MONEY FOR NOTHING" (Dire Straits song) Made with the Zohran meme generator at https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html, this is a poster/sign image in the same style as Mamdani's campaign posters, with the text "I CAN'T GO FOR THAT" (Hall and Oates song) Made with the Zohran meme generator at https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html, this is a poster/sign image in the same style as Mamdani's campaign posters, with the text "DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME" (Simple Minds song)
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Handsome stickers.
Vivaldi browser sticker for a laptop. It's got the Vivaldi logo "V" but with a wood background.
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A few years ago, the Ball corporation released their aluminum take on the standard "solo cup." I bought some, and have one in use here on my desk that I've probably used ~200 times. Eventually I'll recycle it & start using another.

In bulk they're down to $0.44 each.
A standard product photo (brightly lit, against white background) of a Ball Corp. aluminum cup. It's in the same size/shape/form as a standard red plastic Solo cup one would find college kids drinking shitty beer from. It shows the Ball logo, the text "aluminum cup." My own example reads "INFINITELY RECYCLABLE" on it, though that full text isn't visible in this product shot.
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Boom.
An image containing the Ukrainian flag with the nation's trident symbol in the upper left; there is a cotton plant superimposed on the flag. In Ukrainian, cotton is "bavovna," and has come to symbolize wartime explosions (the cotton puffball looks like a smoke cloud).
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This Bluesky setting is your friend!

Turn it on and Bluesky will remind you to enter alt text before your post goes up!

It's easy and simple and by turning it on you're helping de-isolate other human beings! Do it!
A screencap of Bluesky's "Require alt text before posting" setting, which prevents users from posting images that lack alt text when enabled.
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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#FreeSeanDunn
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Affinity does some weird (and dumb) licensing stuff, but seems to run fine w/Winboat under Fedora 43/KDE.
A full-desktop screencap showing the Windows version of the Affinity app running on my Linux desktop via Winboat.
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Why are you doing clock checks, Affinity? (adds dumb steps to running Affinity in a VM)
Why does your *free* app still require login (and therefore tracking)?
A screenshot of Affinity's new Affinity DCC app complaining because the clock time inside a VM doesn't match IRL time (which it shouldn't need to)
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Ah!
The character Shran, an Andorian, holding a small glass of blue liquid up in a gesture akin to giving a toast. From Star Trek Enterprise. A blue hand (that of the character Shran, an Andorian), pouring one of two small glasses of blue liquid. From Star Trek Enterprise.
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM