Jessica Maya
@mayica.bsky.social
Former (!) math and stats lecturer. Avid reader. Baker.
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We can accept "sicko fan" in this instance
Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."
January 26, 2026 at 7:43 PM
We can accept "sicko fan" in this instance
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pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
January 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM
pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
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All these MAGAts who said for years they'd put their lives on the line to fight a tyrannical government seem awfully confused and angry at the liberals actually doing it.
January 25, 2026 at 10:55 PM
All these MAGAts who said for years they'd put their lives on the line to fight a tyrannical government seem awfully confused and angry at the liberals actually doing it.
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Swedish mathematician Niels Fabian Helge von Koch was born #OTD in 1870.
He did important work in number theory, including a result relating the Riemann hypothesis to the asymptotic distribution of prime numbers. But he's best known for the "Koch Curve" – an early example of a fractal. 🧪 🧮
He did important work in number theory, including a result relating the Riemann hypothesis to the asymptotic distribution of prime numbers. But he's best known for the "Koch Curve" – an early example of a fractal. 🧪 🧮
January 25, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Swedish mathematician Niels Fabian Helge von Koch was born #OTD in 1870.
He did important work in number theory, including a result relating the Riemann hypothesis to the asymptotic distribution of prime numbers. But he's best known for the "Koch Curve" – an early example of a fractal. 🧪 🧮
He did important work in number theory, including a result relating the Riemann hypothesis to the asymptotic distribution of prime numbers. But he's best known for the "Koch Curve" – an early example of a fractal. 🧪 🧮
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Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act
January 25, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act
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Great explainer by meteorologist Ricky Matthews, especially for folks who are not used to this kind of weather down south. Explainer in the alt text. 🧪
Source: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Source: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
January 23, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Great explainer by meteorologist Ricky Matthews, especially for folks who are not used to this kind of weather down south. Explainer in the alt text. 🧪
Source: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Source: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 AM
“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
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Watching the Greenland thing unfold really does feel like a psychotic break except instead of me breaking away from reality it's reality breaking away from me
January 21, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Watching the Greenland thing unfold really does feel like a psychotic break except instead of me breaking away from reality it's reality breaking away from me
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the pitch went like this
ken liu: "hey christina, can i write — "
me: "you can do whatever you want forever"
ken liu: "hey christina, can i write — "
me: "you can do whatever you want forever"
"Why is science fiction so bad at predicting the future, even as we continue to use science fiction terms to describe reality?"
Author @kyliu99.bsky.social tracks a brief history of human innovation and science fiction as myth-making:
Author @kyliu99.bsky.social tracks a brief history of human innovation and science fiction as myth-making:
Why Science Fiction Can’t Predict the Future (And Why That’s a Good Thing) - Reactor
Ken Liu discusses the project of science fiction and the creation of modern mythology
reactormag.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:24 PM
the pitch went like this
ken liu: "hey christina, can i write — "
me: "you can do whatever you want forever"
ken liu: "hey christina, can i write — "
me: "you can do whatever you want forever"
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This is not a SCIF, it's a blanket fort
January 5, 2026 at 12:14 AM
This is not a SCIF, it's a blanket fort
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My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
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this is just to say
I have loosed
the blood-dimmed tide
that you were probably saving
for the ceremony of innocence
forgive me
the best lack all conviction
while the worst
are so passionate
and so intense
I have loosed
the blood-dimmed tide
that you were probably saving
for the ceremony of innocence
forgive me
the best lack all conviction
while the worst
are so passionate
and so intense
October 23, 2023 at 3:36 PM
this is just to say
I have loosed
the blood-dimmed tide
that you were probably saving
for the ceremony of innocence
forgive me
the best lack all conviction
while the worst
are so passionate
and so intense
I have loosed
the blood-dimmed tide
that you were probably saving
for the ceremony of innocence
forgive me
the best lack all conviction
while the worst
are so passionate
and so intense
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
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Didn't think I could be more crushed by anything vicarious this weekend than Ethan Hawke reading this speech from Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. But the murder of the Reiners definitely proved everything wrong.
www.instagram.com/reel/DRp03CX...
www.instagram.com/reel/DRp03CX...
December 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Didn't think I could be more crushed by anything vicarious this weekend than Ethan Hawke reading this speech from Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. But the murder of the Reiners definitely proved everything wrong.
www.instagram.com/reel/DRp03CX...
www.instagram.com/reel/DRp03CX...
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
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out of respect for the family, I have not circulated any of the rumors about this beloved young man's death. but this right here is some jim crow-level shit
The police told Trey Reed's family that he'd been found dead in his dorm room. They found out from the media that he'd actually been found hanging from a tree in the middle of campus. www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-f...
Trey Reed’s Family Calls for an Independent Autopsy After Tree Hanging Death
Demartravion “Trey” Reed’s family is seeking an independent autopsy after the Delta State University student was found hanging in a tree.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
out of respect for the family, I have not circulated any of the rumors about this beloved young man's death. but this right here is some jim crow-level shit
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Redford, 89 years old today.
“All the President’s Men” (1976) owes its existence to him — buying the film rights, developing a script and cajoling a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein.
I thought it was “a great character study,” he said — but for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”
“All the President’s Men” (1976) owes its existence to him — buying the film rights, developing a script and cajoling a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein.
I thought it was “a great character study,” he said — but for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”
August 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Redford, 89 years old today.
“All the President’s Men” (1976) owes its existence to him — buying the film rights, developing a script and cajoling a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein.
I thought it was “a great character study,” he said — but for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”
“All the President’s Men” (1976) owes its existence to him — buying the film rights, developing a script and cajoling a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein.
I thought it was “a great character study,” he said — but for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”
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Can’t stop, got heron shit to do.
September 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Can’t stop, got heron shit to do.
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This is the shit they’re defunding. Scientists can make your teeth see so you can get back to balling and they want to take that away from you forever
TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery
Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.
www.nbcboston.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is the shit they’re defunding. Scientists can make your teeth see so you can get back to balling and they want to take that away from you forever