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Stephen Egolf

@polymath42

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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Sooo cuuutte!!

07.03.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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XTC - Here Comes President Kill Again (2001 Remaster) Listen to Here Comes President Kill Again (2001 Remaster) on TIDAL

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07.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it is 2002 and im being told im unserious for saying the invasion of iraq is a bad idea

it is 2017 and im being told im unserious for saying donald trump is a fascist

it is 2020 and im being told im unserious for saying donald trump is a racist fascist

28.01.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Frequency Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Frequency

Yep.
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/freque...

18.01.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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12.01.2026 09:37 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bruce Hornsby & The Range - Look Out Any Window Listen to Look Out Any Window on TIDAL

Sad how this even more relevant than when it was released

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20.12.2025 02:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of β€œpolitical capitalism” (06 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Very interesting thoughts on the drivers of the Long Boom and the Long Decline. pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/b...

13.12.2025 16:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dean Blundell (@deanblundell) BREAKING: The EU just greenlit the transfer of $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s war effort while tabling a MASSIVE US bond sell-off. WOW. My Latest…

Well, this is some hopeful news substack.com/@deanblundel...

12.12.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet (Official Video)
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet (Official Video) YouTube video by CrashTestDummiesVEVO

New headphones. Appreciating the new aural detail

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aql...

15.11.2025 02:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Coming Clash of Civilizations From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat

Very good dissection of how we ended up with a group of leaders ready to tear it all down and restablish feudalism / authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

07.11.2025 16:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

"One of those questions came from a young man who said (...) "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

20.10.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Life as a prisoner of the neoliberal mind palace must suck: it's a world where every person who suffers under predatory business practices is a "consumer" who has "revealed a preference" for being screwed:" pluralistic.net/2025/10/07/t...

19.10.2025 23:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw my wife and friends in that video. I was on the west lawn. Crowds make me tense, but even an introvert can come out to protest.

18.10.2025 23:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting lens to look at what our media preferences are, and what behaviors they are driving

17.10.2025 13:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Everything Is Television A theory of culture and attention

open.substack.com/pub/derektho...

17.10.2025 13:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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09.10.2025 14:56 πŸ‘ 390 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Let's be clear what this image represents.

Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.

THAT is the reference here.

07.09.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 7625 πŸ” 3268 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 81
Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

"I think that ideologically, conservatism contains elements that groom its followers to get rooked by scammers" - interesting pondering on how conservative movements marry so well with people who are easy marks pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/a...

01.08.2025 00:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Million Dreams Ziv Zaifman, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams Β· The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Β· Song Β· 2017

While I may be ugly crying over the budget bill that is stomping on so many already downtrodden, this song helps me hope for a better day to come open.spotify.com/track/0RoA7O...

02.07.2025 02:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Rich Should Be Paying Moreβ€”and Yes, That Means Me The last 50 years have been a sickening catastrophe for the working class and have created another class of people who really do think they’re better than everyone else. There is an obvious cure for t...

Article that should have been attached. newrepublic.com/article/1961...

23.06.2025 16:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Really appreciate Abigail Disney’s continuing efforts to call out the harms of oligarchs, especially from the perspective of someone who is inside the privileged bubble and aware of what it does to a person

The Rich Should Be Paying Moreβ€”and Yes, That Means Me | The New Republic

23.06.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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?

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12.05.2025 15:20 πŸ‘ 22437 πŸ” 7711 πŸ’¬ 744 πŸ“Œ 1490

C.S. Lewis talks about the difficulty of preventing the memory of a deceased person turning into a caricature. A Grief Observed, around page 9. This is that warning write horribly large. www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/PDF...

09.05.2025 01:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Billy Strings - Must Be Seven (Lyrics)
Billy Strings - Must Be Seven (Lyrics) YouTube video by radiomimi

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

09.05.2025 01:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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27.04.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ‘‡
www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-dis...

11.04.2025 07:48 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 6
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I Hear Them All / This Land Is Your Land Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Willie Watson Β· Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Β· Song Β· 2015

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

10.04.2025 00:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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09.04.2025 12:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

08.04.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 14540 πŸ” 2577 πŸ’¬ 734 πŸ“Œ 367

β€œAs 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

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