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
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Chris Maytag
@cpm5280.bsky.social
· Jan 20
I hope you’re all doing ok.
Gratitude, non-flora edition:
- I got lucky family wise. I'm from good people.
- Cats. All of them.
- Friends: I don't have many but the ones I do are important to me.
- Physics (just on principle)
- Linux
- Big one: Star Trek, every single minute of it. ST matters to me more than most things do.
- I got lucky family wise. I'm from good people.
- Cats. All of them.
- Friends: I don't have many but the ones I do are important to me.
- Physics (just on principle)
- Linux
- Big one: Star Trek, every single minute of it. ST matters to me more than most things do.
Today I am grateful for several plants:
- Coffea arabica
- Theobroma cacao
- Cannabis sativa
- Solanum tuberosum
- Zea mays
- Salvia rosmarinus
- Capsicum
- Cucurbita pepo
- Apium graveolens
- Coffea arabica
- Theobroma cacao
- Cannabis sativa
- Solanum tuberosum
- Zea mays
- Salvia rosmarinus
- Capsicum
- Cucurbita pepo
- Apium graveolens
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Gratitude, non-flora edition:
- I got lucky family wise. I'm from good people.
- Cats. All of them.
- Friends: I don't have many but the ones I do are important to me.
- Physics (just on principle)
- Linux
- Big one: Star Trek, every single minute of it. ST matters to me more than most things do.
- I got lucky family wise. I'm from good people.
- Cats. All of them.
- Friends: I don't have many but the ones I do are important to me.
- Physics (just on principle)
- Linux
- Big one: Star Trek, every single minute of it. ST matters to me more than most things do.
Sudden realization: I think I'm sick. Fuck.
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sudden realization: I think I'm sick. Fuck.
In recent years I feel like I've seen more people expressing genuine love of this holiday than I'd seen in earlier times. I don't think that this is people ignoring the more problematic elements of the day's history, but rather a deliberate choice to focus on thankfulness, and that seems healthy.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In recent years I feel like I've seen more people expressing genuine love of this holiday than I'd seen in earlier times. I don't think that this is people ignoring the more problematic elements of the day's history, but rather a deliberate choice to focus on thankfulness, and that seems healthy.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Today I am grateful for several plants:
- Coffea arabica
- Theobroma cacao
- Cannabis sativa
- Solanum tuberosum
- Zea mays
- Salvia rosmarinus
- Capsicum
- Cucurbita pepo
- Apium graveolens
- Coffea arabica
- Theobroma cacao
- Cannabis sativa
- Solanum tuberosum
- Zea mays
- Salvia rosmarinus
- Capsicum
- Cucurbita pepo
- Apium graveolens
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Today I am grateful for several plants:
- Coffea arabica
- Theobroma cacao
- Cannabis sativa
- Solanum tuberosum
- Zea mays
- Salvia rosmarinus
- Capsicum
- Cucurbita pepo
- Apium graveolens
- Coffea arabica
- Theobroma cacao
- Cannabis sativa
- Solanum tuberosum
- Zea mays
- Salvia rosmarinus
- Capsicum
- Cucurbita pepo
- Apium graveolens
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This isn't any worse than any of the other illegal detainments but I love Marilyn and seriously with all my heart fuck these people sideways with a thorny rose bush.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This isn't any worse than any of the other illegal detainments but I love Marilyn and seriously with all my heart fuck these people sideways with a thorny rose bush.
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A great blue heron perches before sunset at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.
#bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #wetland #wetlands #greatblueheron #heron #greatblueherons #herons
#bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #wetland #wetlands #greatblueheron #heron #greatblueherons #herons
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A great blue heron perches before sunset at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.
#bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #wetland #wetlands #greatblueheron #heron #greatblueherons #herons
#bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #wetland #wetlands #greatblueheron #heron #greatblueherons #herons
Anyone else think that the chances of a Kelly run in 2028 just went way, waaay up?
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Anyone else think that the chances of a Kelly run in 2028 just went way, waaay up?
Looking at housing. In one spot near where I intend to be the cheapest apartment is 87% of the standard base wage in the area.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Looking at housing. In one spot near where I intend to be the cheapest apartment is 87% of the standard base wage in the area.
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It was only a failure if you assume they ever had good intentions. If you assume they intended to destroy the federal government from within, they succeeded.
We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.
We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It was only a failure if you assume they ever had good intentions. If you assume they intended to destroy the federal government from within, they succeeded.
We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.
We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.
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“I trust it won’t dampen anyone’s enjoyment of the holiday if I note that this now familiar origin story of Thanksgiving became central to our commemoration only in the mid-nineteenth century…Take a look at Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/turkey-day...
www.thebulwark.com/p/turkey-day...
Turkey Day With a Turkey President
Trump’s fixation on personal flattery feeds his authoritarianism. It makes for bad diplomacy, too.
www.thebulwark.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“I trust it won’t dampen anyone’s enjoyment of the holiday if I note that this now familiar origin story of Thanksgiving became central to our commemoration only in the mid-nineteenth century…Take a look at Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/turkey-day...
www.thebulwark.com/p/turkey-day...
Bad couple, but highly effective coworkers
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Bad couple, but highly effective coworkers
I am currently involved in a plan to change things about my life (moving, etc.) and it's making me sick. I feel like I'm making a terrible mistake but can't opt to do anything else.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I am currently involved in a plan to change things about my life (moving, etc.) and it's making me sick. I feel like I'm making a terrible mistake but can't opt to do anything else.
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FBI agent working as a Population Control Police is caught smashing a small business owner's surveillance camera. Why? Because the PCP does not want their crimes on camera.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
FBI agent working as a Population Control Police is caught smashing a small business owner's surveillance camera. Why? Because the PCP does not want their crimes on camera.
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Oltmann: “I think violence is the probably the only solution at this point… I think it’s going to take someone doing something very drastic or a group of people doing something drastic… So maybe we do that. Maybe we have 50k people that show up… and shake the walls around Polis”
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Oltmann: “I think violence is the probably the only solution at this point… I think it’s going to take someone doing something very drastic or a group of people doing something drastic… So maybe we do that. Maybe we have 50k people that show up… and shake the walls around Polis”
Someone around me had a terrible thing happen the other day: her bank account was emptied after someone swiped her info with a skimmer device.
I was able to help her with immediate needs, but I'm aghast at the treatment by her bank. What's a poor person supposed to do when *all* their $ disappears?
I was able to help her with immediate needs, but I'm aghast at the treatment by her bank. What's a poor person supposed to do when *all* their $ disappears?
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Someone around me had a terrible thing happen the other day: her bank account was emptied after someone swiped her info with a skimmer device.
I was able to help her with immediate needs, but I'm aghast at the treatment by her bank. What's a poor person supposed to do when *all* their $ disappears?
I was able to help her with immediate needs, but I'm aghast at the treatment by her bank. What's a poor person supposed to do when *all* their $ disappears?
We could live in a world where this movie was never made, but we don't. Be thankful.
It’s hard to say what makes something spiritually a “Thanksgiving movie” but Hundreds of Beavers is definitely a Thanksgiving movie.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We could live in a world where this movie was never made, but we don't. Be thankful.
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Ahead of World AIDS Day, we'll be sharing nurses' experiences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. Join our event on 27 November to discover how their stories are being preserved for younger generations.
Free and open to all: https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI
📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.
Free and open to all: https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI
📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ahead of World AIDS Day, we'll be sharing nurses' experiences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. Join our event on 27 November to discover how their stories are being preserved for younger generations.
Free and open to all: https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI
📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.
Free and open to all: https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI
📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.
The folks that run the internet should do us all a solid and establish a new TLD that will save everyone lots of frustration: The ".coim" TLD would automatically remap to .com, thus saving humanity more than one million hours of frustration every year
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The folks that run the internet should do us all a solid and establish a new TLD that will save everyone lots of frustration: The ".coim" TLD would automatically remap to .com, thus saving humanity more than one million hours of frustration every year
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"I think all of these people should be tried for treason and hung. I think Jared Polis should be hung. I think Jena Griswold should be hung. I think Phil Weiser should be hung. I think they should hang by their neck until dead," said MAGA activist and Tina Peters ally Joe Oltmann
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"I think all of these people should be tried for treason and hung. I think Jared Polis should be hung. I think Jena Griswold should be hung. I think Phil Weiser should be hung. I think they should hang by their neck until dead," said MAGA activist and Tina Peters ally Joe Oltmann
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So we are currently at multiple threatened military operations, attorneys being rejected for improper appointments, suburbanites chasing the armed agents of the state cursing their names, a two vote margin in the house, and consumer sentiment worse than 2008/2009. It’s been less than a year.
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
So we are currently at multiple threatened military operations, attorneys being rejected for improper appointments, suburbanites chasing the armed agents of the state cursing their names, a two vote margin in the house, and consumer sentiment worse than 2008/2009. It’s been less than a year.
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this is beautiful
who else needed this today
who else needed this today
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
this is beautiful
who else needed this today
who else needed this today
Fam, do you have any go-to spots for buying short-sleeve shirts for men suitable for biz-casual workplaces?
I'm gearing up for what (I hope) will be a newly-employed version of me in the new year, and I need affordable-but-decent work wear.
Amazon, Banana Republic, sure, but what else ya got?
I'm gearing up for what (I hope) will be a newly-employed version of me in the new year, and I need affordable-but-decent work wear.
Amazon, Banana Republic, sure, but what else ya got?
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Fam, do you have any go-to spots for buying short-sleeve shirts for men suitable for biz-casual workplaces?
I'm gearing up for what (I hope) will be a newly-employed version of me in the new year, and I need affordable-but-decent work wear.
Amazon, Banana Republic, sure, but what else ya got?
I'm gearing up for what (I hope) will be a newly-employed version of me in the new year, and I need affordable-but-decent work wear.
Amazon, Banana Republic, sure, but what else ya got?
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good DNS lore here for "deeply hierarchical" handle and NSID lovers, from @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
memories of .us
computer.rip
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
good DNS lore here for "deeply hierarchical" handle and NSID lovers, from @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
You can argue about whether Mark Kelly is a great senator, or a Democratic standard-bearer, or sufficiently progressive, or a centrist, or a great orator.
You cannot argue that mark Kelly is anything but a dedicated, dead-serious, morally consistent public servant who's upheld his oaths.
You cannot argue that mark Kelly is anything but a dedicated, dead-serious, morally consistent public servant who's upheld his oaths.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
You can argue about whether Mark Kelly is a great senator, or a Democratic standard-bearer, or sufficiently progressive, or a centrist, or a great orator.
You cannot argue that mark Kelly is anything but a dedicated, dead-serious, morally consistent public servant who's upheld his oaths.
You cannot argue that mark Kelly is anything but a dedicated, dead-serious, morally consistent public servant who's upheld his oaths.