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Chris Lay

@chrislay.bsky.social
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Villen, lefty, runner, engineer, in that order. Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite. Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook. Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online. Some ville, Mass

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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Quote repost with a photo from whatever device you're using without explanation.
A little pink piggie made of metal cans
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
The cover of The Bouncing Souls' 1999 album Hopeless Romantic
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah this checks out
A graph showing population on the vertical and left-rightness on the horizontal; there's a broad left-side bump for Democrats, a shield volcano for independents in the middle, and a prakier bump on the right for Republicans. A bar labelled 'you' [me] is clipping the far left edge.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My folks are from CT. I learned to talk in Buffalo then moved to the suburbs of Portland OR, then moved to a suburb of Baltimore, went to college in Providence, have lived in Somerville MA for the last 20+ years, & married into a family of Indian immigrants to & their descendents from Chicagoland.
A hilarious Times dialect map for a guy with a hilarious series of residences in different regions.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Post something random or you'll have an awful September
HOT single RATS IN YOUR AREA
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Yes, This! Spotted this in Union Square Somerville a few weeks back and I sill chuckle every time I see it.
A poster with a QR code advertising HOT single RATS in your area. A hand-illustrated rat with its tail curled into a heart lounges in a hand-rendered Windows screencap of rat.jpg. The rat is winking.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I will now have Death Cab doing Crooked Teeth in my head all day.
Cropped screenshot of the Weather Underground app showing 100 degrees fahrenheit in Somerville, Massachusetts
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ok, story checks out.
Screenshot from the currently viral political compass quiz showing 88% woke/12% chud, 56% techbro/44% neo-luddite, 53% hopepilled/47% doomer, 86% Davos/14% Dubai, closest match Zohran Mamdani
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Name your fav non-DC or Marvel comic book movie
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?
A vandal's poster urging us to EXPROPRIATE THE BILLIONAIRES defaced my a second vandal's anarchy symbol in black marker
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
What's your sign?
A Tokyo Metro sign showing three obnoxious monkeys annoying other animal passengers. There's a lot of Japanese text. The only line in English reads:
Please care about people around you.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist. Sessions are gonna be rough but I'll be fine.
Promotional picture of Shoreh Aghdashloo for the tragically now-cancelled Amazon adaptation of Wheel of Time
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Aurora is out in Somerville!
The Aurora in magenta and teal above an urban drivewayThe Aurora in magenta and teal above a split-level colonial houseThe Aurora in magenta and teal over a detached garage
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if you feel like it).
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
AI at its peak
MARVIN the paranoid android from the BBC adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This was the best punk rock show I've seen in quite some time. I only caught Jer's last song and didn't get a pic but they were great!
The Bouncing SoulsH2OThe Smoking Popes
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr:
Doctor Aphra, amoral archaeologist with no medical expertise. Works with Darth Vader more than seems wise
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
If you see this repost with a vampire that isn't Dracula.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This is where I post from:
Pic of Bishop remotely piloting the Sulaco's remaining shuttle to the surface of LV-426 in Aliens.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Revere Beach North of Boston, too.
Gmaps screen cap showing the Beachmont blue line stop and Revere Beach
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Yup. Also the one from 30-odd years ago. Cheers!
The cover of Rage Against the Machine's self-titled first LP, reproducing the famous photograph of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burning himself to death in Saigon in June 1963 to protest the US-backed Republic of Vietnam's suppression of Buddhism and Buddhists.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
News is awful Post a Godzilla
A gif of Lizzie from Rampage
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
What's a poster you had in your room growing up?
A cover of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac showing a doughboy on the left and Nny on the right, both grinning and rendered in a phantasmagoric color palette.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I drew this between calls at work in March 2016
A flow chart doodled in red ink and titled Who should I vote for. First question: Is shit broken?
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The cover picture from The Residents' 1995 CD-ROM interactive fiction game Bad Day on the Midway.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Looking forward to the permanently stranded Waymos that will be studding the Medford Supercollider an hour after they're introduced to Metro Boston.
Screen cap of a satellite view of the Medford Supercollider intersection on Google Maps. It's a 3-sigma or so bad Massachusetts intersection.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A cropped screenshot of The Epoxies' Bandcamp page for their album Stop The Future. The cover art depicts the band tumbling down an infinite, gridded, triangular shaft.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Repost with a favorite book from childhood (This was the first book I read by myself, with a dictionary close at hand)
The cover of the Ballantine edition of The Fellowship of the Ring, which was boxed with The Hobbit and the latter books of The Lord of the Rings. This cover is sky blue and features a painting of the Fellowship at the gates of Moria.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery.
A view from below of a cherry tree's branch in full bloom, backed by a cloudless blue sky
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Fair enough
Screenshot of the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year gif showing the word 'derelicht'
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Trevi Fountain, Rome, three weeks ago.
The Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy, dry and scaffolded for repairs
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie.
A grafito of a blue, bearded man wearing a necktie, boxy hat, and safety goggles looking askance at the viewer
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've now deleted my entire Twitter history from my live tweet of the '09 Rock 'n Roll Rumble via the SMS interface to my final post in December '22. Also deleted was the most-seen thing I've ever written or drawn, doodled between conference calls in March '16. I'm posting it here for safekeeping.
A flow chart titled 'Who should I vote for'
1st question: Is shit broken? (Yes or No)
   No-> 2nd-tier question: Are women people? (Yes or No)
      No-> Answer: Kasich
      Yes-> Answer: Clinton
   Yes-> 2nd-tier question: Who did it? (Rich people or {Mexicans, muslims, #BLM})
      Rich people-> Answer: Sanders
      {Mexicans, muslims, #BLM}-> 3rd-tier question: When is Jesus coming back? (Dunno or Next week)
         Dunno-> Answer: Trump
         Next week-> Answer: Cruz
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Apropos of nothing,
The astronaut meme. The astronaut gazing at earth from orbit says 'Wait, law is an instrument of power, not justice?'; the astronaut pointing a gun at that astronaut says 'Always has been'.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
If you see this post a vampire
Cover of a YA book about a vegetable-preying vampire rabbit
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
The northern lights came down to Somerville, Mass tonight!
A magenta aurora seen from an abandoned gas station's parking lotA magenta aurora behind patchy clouds seen from a major thoroughfareA magenta aurora seen from a hilltop park
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
The Dispossessed, again.
The cover of the Library of America's collected edition of Ursula LeGuin's Hainish Novels & Stories, Volume One
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Without downloading new pics where are you at mentally
A skeleton in sunglasses and a tropical shirt clutches a warhead
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
It was a little eclipse but still a fun one.
MoonMoonMoonMoon
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
I got in toward the end of the invites. Thanks again @baimas.bsky.social !
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Post a perfect album from when you were 21
The cover of Blackalicious' album Blazing Arrow, released in April 2002
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
I have to work with someone who has one. They have not yet identified themself.
A cybertruck parked in my employer's lot
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Repost with your first crush
She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985)
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A variation on the Seven Psychopaths noncompliant Walken meme:
Nihilist with gun: Stop pursuing meaning.
Absurdist Walken: No.
NwG: But there is none.
AW: I don't care.
NwG: That doesn't make any sense.
AW: Too bad.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Post a non-religious photo that you think of as holy
A photo of Mt St Helens with the cloud level grazing the caldera
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source
A cover from Channel Zero issue 1
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
Post the television character you most identify with.
Animal from the Muppets
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
The Inside Out characters in my head.
The cast of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, clockwise from top left: Brak, Moltar, Tad Ghostal, Zorak.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
Post an image that people will hear when they see it
A still from the video for Nine Inch Nails' song Closer showing Trent, Reznor wearing steampunk goggles, wrong his hands.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
Quote skeet with one of your favorite films that isn't a hit
Poster for the 1967 film The President's Analyst
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