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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 10h

Mine’s also the dog with a cool rock formation

A black and white mixed breed dog in front of Corona Arch in Utah

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 13h

People on Hinge will put the most absolutely depraved things on their profiles

I recently discovered that
Watermelon goes with ranch.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 13h

That Chris Polansky got really mad (fair) and ended up doing such a good job at signing me up for spam email lists that I still get some to this day nearly two decades later, so he won in the end

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 13h

When I was like 18 I kept getting emails for a Chris Polansky who was on the board of the Texas A&M anime club. The board members kept emailing me despite my repeatedly telling them they had the wrong email address for their Chris Polansky, so I emailed in a resignation and it caused a whole thing

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 23h

The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(“Beautiful Morning Light” - Fruit Bats)

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dog update: he just jumped up to join me in the hammock, which he’s never done before

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dog update: he just jumped up to join me in the hammock, which he’s never done before

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Met a historic bear today

A plaque reading “This black bear was the first recorded bear struck by a vehicle in the history of Connecticut. The accident occured in 1991 in the town of Redding. The bear was a male and its live weight was approximately 300 pounds.”

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Friend just saw a bear in the neighborhood. I think I remain the last person in West Hartford, Connecticut, to have never seen a bear here. Not fair

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When we lived in Utah, Trout loved the trout guy at the farmers market because he’d always give Trout little scraps of trout.

A man pets a black and white mixed breed dog in front of a sign reading FRESH AND SMOKED TROUT FILLETS

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Is the guy upstairs cool as hell? Does he have a smoker?” — questions for prospective landlords

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have the best upstairs neighbor in the game

Theres ginger soy glazed smoked salmon in a target bag on the hook of your hallway closet door

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I left the University of and the state of Minnesota after just one year because I lost my scholarships owing to my living every night like a Hold Steady song

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s the reason when I moved to Minneapolis I thought the real name of the Hennepin Avenue Bridge was the Grain Belt Bridge

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Craig Finn, 2006 Topps style, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Hold Steady’s “Boys and Girls in America”

Colored-pencil card drawing of Craig Finn

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Her name is Soup and I was babysitting her and she’s a very good girl.

A black and white mixed breed dog on a couch awaits a tennis ball in flight

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyway, general assignment — the lack of a beat — is the best beat, IMO

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Working in news can certainly be a drag sometimes for all the obvious reasons but this week I got to tour a new giant piece of wastewater infrastructure then today I got to talk to wildlife biologists about bears for an hour, so sometimes it can be fun too

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This other bear, meanwhile, is named Knucklehead.

A taxidermied black bear in front of the emblem of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

A plaque reading “Donated To Sessions Woods for Educational Purposes
By The tephen Barberino Family
Stephen Cadillac, GMC, Toyota & Scion
Route 6 Bristol
Bear #49 AKA Knucklehead”

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This other bear, meanwhile, is named Knucklehead.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It sounds wild but it tracks with the history! Bears were completely eradicated from CT in the 1800s and didn't start coming back until the 1980s.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did I just find a murder weapon in the middle of the street

A knife with a moose carved into the handle and maybe blood on it?

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Berman booked studio time at an old gun factory in Hartford, Connecticut in the summer of 1996.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here is @iamstevenhale.bsky.social, who I directed you all to be following earlier and was a witness tonight, reporting on what Tennessee did tonight. Just absolutely horrifying.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My life as a reporter changed a lot moving from Oklahoma to Connecticut. The most profound change is probably not having to witness executions anymore. Utmost respect to the media witnesses in Tennessee who’ve watched multiple botched executions this year. It’s a hard but incredibly important job.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Governor of Tennessee on capital punishment earlier this year, via this @catherinejsweeney.bsky.social story: kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

"It's one of the most difficult things that we do in this state," Lee said later.
"But I am committed to making sure that it is done in the way that it should be."

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 01/10/2026

“Not a single TDOC official appeared or spoke to the media gathered at the prison. After the news conference, members of the media were told to leave within the hour. It was not clear at 9:55 p.m. whether Christa Pike was alive or dead.”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just watched the media witnesses give their accounts of this botched execution in Tennessee. Disturbing.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Found an old video of teen me playing a Postal Service cover on an ukulele in my childhood living room, wondering how it could be that a kid as undeniably cool as this couldn’t get dates back in high school

A teenaged boy plays an ukulele. He looks lame as hell

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are funnier Onion heds but this one definitely passes through my head the most, every time I, a catty bitch from New Jersey, gossip

Comey: What Can I Say, I'm Just A Catty Bitch From New Jersey And I Live For Drama

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Diamantis has reportedly sought a pardon from President Donald Trump. However, in a statement to Connecticut Public, a White House official said the administration was not tracking Diamantis’ pardon application and had never heard of Diamantis.”

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Kosta Diamantis, CT’s disgraced former Deputy Budget Director, sentenced

Kosta Diamantis, Connecticut’s former Deputy Budget Director and Director of School Construction Funding, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Bridgeport.

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