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polymath42.bsky.social

Curious about everything, often to my own detriment. Mechanical engineer by trade and training, mostly in heavy duty truck drivetrain and suspension. Intermittent community volunteer, coming off 6 years on a non-profit board.

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 38 days ago • 763 comments

Really resonates with the reasons I left my rural background www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvL_...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

In the face of disinformation, defenders of democracy are often drawn into endless battles against falsehoods. This is precisely the trap laid by anti-democratic movements. But we don’t have to play along. Read our our latest statement 👇 www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-dis...

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

Reminder that a good protest song persists open.spotify.com/track/3rAkWY...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

submitted 72 days ago • 772 comments

“As long as the stasi can get you across the border before you can wrangle a lawyer you’re fucked” is a hell of an argument

submitted 73 days ago • 58 comments

Good start at the Indiana Statehouse. The crowd was still growing when I left an hour later.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

You could knock me over with a feather. Lawsuits coming from the right (Koch, Leonard Leo associates) seeking to block the tariffs newrepublic.com/post/193612/...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Good summation of the current state of affairs. pluralistic.net/2025/04/04/a...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape? Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.

submitted 89 days ago • 82 comments

Nice primer on the harms of having a billionaire class. open.substack.com/pub/longmemo...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Some needed amusement

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We’re Democrats intent on saving our party, demanding @schumer.senate.gov step down as minority leader. He betrayed his caucus & the American people, allowing Trump to continue his carnage. He then left on a cash grab book tour while Americans are losing their jobs? STEP DOWN CHUCK The Reformers +

submitted 95 days ago • 22 comments

This. @schumer.senate.gov. If you can’t lead the Democrats to go out and inform the outrage get out of the way and let people like Warren, Sanders, AOC do it open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Politico isn’t my favorite source, but I do appreciate a good primer on Gilded Age parallels. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

submitted 101 days ago • 267 comments

Very good explainer of one of the failures of the Demorcratic party. YouTube link if you don't want to deal with the NYT website. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwjx...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a house with a right-wing preacher, owned by a right-wing car dealer magnate who made his fourth wife watch films of him having sex with prostitutes to "train her." But Johnson avers he never talks policy with Pastor Berger, who has not registered as a lobbyist.

submitted 102 days ago • 310 comments

Why is it so hard for some democrats to do what Bernie is doing?

submitted 102 days ago • 9 comments

Good primer on why the tech bros are trying to destroy our government. open.substack.com/pub/shanealm...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

No one is better at capturing this moment (and how the Dems are failing to meet it) than @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. inthesetimes.com/article/stat...

submitted 106 days ago • 25 comments