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Thomas Day

@twday.bsky.social
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Retired at everything (audio engineer, electronics engineer, manufacturing engineer, reliability assurance engineer, journalist) and, now, I'm just a hobby everything (musician, songwriter and music producer, motorcyclist/bicyclist [ebike], and writer).

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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Northfield Dakota is a story about how Americans turned it around before.
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Forgotten Lessons
North Dakota is an easily accessed example of how far we have fallen and what was lost.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
AI might be the only hope to preserve life on the planet. Here's my advice to those digital "brains" to do some good.
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What “Intelligence” Needs to Know About Humans
Artificial or otherwise, “intelligence” needs to understand some core things about humans.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Personally, I think the American Experiment is wrapping up its last moments in total insanity. This is just one bit of why that is true.
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Why It Sucks to be An Atheist
And why it’s not a choice, but a necessity.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Led by A Pack of Stupid Hyenas
That is abusing the word “led” by a lot.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is what you get when you build a force to terrorize immigrant communities and recruit for it with Great Replacement fear mongering and slogans borrowed from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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“The Salt of the Earth”
Ever since I was a kid, growing up in western Kansas, in Dodge City (in fact), I’ve heard the phrase “the salt of the earth” as some sort of Midwestern boast of superiority. The phrase comes from the ...
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#trump, #republican, #america
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There Is No “Coming Back” from This
Some things can't be repaired.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Rising and Falling, All Over Again
Here we go again!
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This story is political, only if you want it to be.
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Me and ICE (Part I)
This story is only political if you want it to be.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
What's driving the descent into world fascism? The usual shit. #fascism,#Republican,#evolution,#Minnesota
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Why Is Fascism Popular?
It seems counterintuitive to think a political/economic system that has failed so spectacularly and consistently over at least 1,000 years (totalitarian dictatorships) is making a comeback.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
#minnnesota
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The Putin-lickin’s Minneapolis Miscalculation
Even the outstate (rural) Putin-lickers misread Minneapolis.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Lies are bad enough, Republican lies are destroying the country.
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Lies, Damned Lies, and, Worst of All, Republican Lies
Some lies are worse, far worse, than others.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
@ruralanarchy.bsky.social @usdagov.bsky.social @sustainablefarming.bsky.social @dfl.org Rural irritation at not getting a "fair share" of state assistance is, usually, nothing more than welfare queens bitching that their Cadillac is 2 years old.
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The Red State Types Inside Blue States
A practical definition of "red states" should be "noisy, dependent, uneducated, and jealous rural goobers."
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I'm pilling on to Bruce's move with "The Streets of Minneapolis" with this post and a 2000 song of mine. twdayrants.substack.com/p/im-an-amer...
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“I’m An American” (also 😊, me too)
Bruce Springsteen’s song, “The Streets of Minneapolis” came out of the gate swinging and smacked Donny’s fragile ego right in the balls.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
@atheists.org @music.natalie.mu @altmusician.altgov.info www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX_P... Like the gross opportunist I am, it seemed like a "good time" to pile on to Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Minnesota" wagon with my 2020 song, "I'm An American (Lie to Me)."
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I'm An American (Lie to Me)
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
When you have a lot more days behind you than in front, perspective changes.
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Things We Do and Say At the End
In 2009, a long-time friend who had always made herself valuable, by being totally no-bullshit, received what, three years later, would be a terminal cancer diagnosis.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We are repeating some of the worst of human history.
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Here Is Where We Are in History
And who we are imitating.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Sort of a poll, sort of a cynical comment on the sewer we're swirling around, and a "game." open.substack.com/pub/twdayran...
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Vote: Like Your Opinion Matters Anyway
Even the most braindead, illiterate, meth/oxy/fentanyl doped-up MAGAcultist knows (and maybe hopes), the United States of America is not going back to the country it was before Trump, That chubby, ant...
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
#mastering #musicproduction #audiomastering #masteringengineer #mixingandmastering #recordingstudio #musicproducer #soundengineer #audioengineer wirebenderaudio.blogspot.com/2025/12/prod...
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Product Review: Steven Slate Audio VSX Headphone
One of the never-ending holy grails of recording studio equipment is a reliable, predictably transferable-to-any-sound-system, studio moni...
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A bit of personal history related to current events.
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Couldn’t Find a Heart with an Axe
The current exodus of good, smart, talented people from the American medical system reminds me of my first experience as a “field clinical engineer” in medical devices in Colorado.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
It's just fiction, but a guy can dream can't he?
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Killing Them Loudly with Pleasure (and approval)
How do you move from one of the world’s most hated, or disregarded, nations to one of the most popular?
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
A wild democratic (small "d") idea.
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Creating A Representative Democracy
In the unlikely event that the USA survives Trump and Republican fascism, this is an important step in creating an actual representative democracy.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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What the Country Needs
This is also who and what Democrats need to become. We’re way past “normal” behavior.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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How Stupid Do Republicans/Russians Think They Are?
My bet is the easiest way to answer that question is with a symbol: ∞.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Does an overwhelming majority of Trump voters mean a community is doomed to slovenly poverty?
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Red Voters Create Economic Dead Zones
Several years ago, I read about a collection of mid-sized towns along the Pacific Coast, between Northern California and the Canadian border, that were affordable (under $300k for a decent sized home ...
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"They aren't terrible people." Really?
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They Aren’t Terrible People
“I’ve met them, talked to them. They aren’t terrible people.”
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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A Hopeful Unintended Consequence
At my age and during the current de-evolving condition of this country, I’m not much for hope.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Reading Biographies
Be careful of whom you idolize, you may become them.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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The Dunning-Kruger Presidency
“In any organization, people are promoted until they reach their maximum level of incompetence.” Laurence Peter, “The Peter Principle of Incompetence.”
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Actually, if any characteristic should be a death sentence, it's stupidity.
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Stupidity Is A Death Sentence
And it always has been.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Music as a punishment?
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Why Does It Have to Hurt So Much?
This little rural town where I have lived for the past dozen years has people who really try to make it an interesting place to live.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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You Are No Cowboy
I grew up in western Kansas and spent a lot of my K-12 years working on an uncle’s eastern Kansas ranch.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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The Price of Accommodating Fascism
Yesterday, I wrapped up “History Is Not Comforting” with this statement, “Since November 2016, I have felt that every Trump voter is my enemy and that was, at that critical moment, a mistake.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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History Is Not Comforting
Sometimes, knowing we’ve been here before is, at least, reassuring that we have some kind of chance to recover, again. But not always.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Is it worth the effort to keep trying?
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One Foot in Front of the Other
“Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got, but something happened on the way to that place, they threw an American flag in our face.”
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
And I'm still not Russian and I care even less about billionaires.
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“I’m Not Russian”
“And I don’t care about billionaires.”
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The USA is becoming the Dunning-Kruger capitol of the world and that isn't something to be proud of, ever.
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You’re Not That Smart (and neither am I)
A friend sent me a link to an interview with Tom Nichols where he discussed the ideas that he describes in his book, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matte...
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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Bend Over and Take Your Apple Like A Man
I'm not an Apple-phobe, I just think their equipment is overpriced, overrated, and not much more than toys.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Seriously, I believe a strong curiosity is crucial to being a decent human being and I've personally tied low curiosity to a limited sense of humor to a conservative mindset.
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Curiosity
Probably what kept the damn cat alive.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Stuff just keeps changing and nothing I do slows it down. Not that I'm doing anything.
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Just Another Brick in the Wall (or a cup on the shelf)
In 1982, I had been managing a very small manufacturing company for a little over a year.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We tend to look to philosophy for comfort, but it often is considerably less than comfortable.
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Scary Philosophy
Every decision is complicated, if you are aware enough to imagine complications. Some are downright terrifying and the poster-child for "rocks and hard places."
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Maybe you can run away from your problems if you keep running?
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Running to Safety
You absolutely can run away from your problems. . . sometimes.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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“What Do You Think Will Happen?
The wrong question at the right time.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Thomas Day
Thomas is a 70+ year-old musician-wannabe, beginning at 9 years old with a trumpet in school band with a wild dream of figuring out how to play that instrument like Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis to ...
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Big numbers are confusing?
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One Way Streets
Imagined importance in an infinite universe.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Wingnut Blindness or Illiteracy?
This is a review left by a wingnut non-reader (typically unwilling to list his real name) on my local library’s website:
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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It Sucks to be Us
You're blaming the wrong people for your problems.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I'd be safe and secure, that's what I'd be.
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Without Republicans, I’d Be . . .
Waiting for the next insanely stupid and catastrophic Trump shoe to drop, Mrs.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What are we afraid of?
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Scaring Ourselves to Death
In the 70s, my first job out of electronic tech school was servicing mobile and stationary electronic scales.
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Thomas Day @twday.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Remember "boring?"
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Boring Is Government’s Goal
Living "in interesting times" is not what you think.
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