Chris Polansky

Chris Polansky

@chrispolansky.bsky.social

Public radio reporter in Connecticut. One-time Bart Harley Jarvis of the Oklahoma press corps. CUNY grad. Replacement-level infielder for the Hartford Dark Twains Sandlot Baseball Club. he/him

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SLEEPY BEES:

Connecticut Public@ctpublic.bsky.social

This time of year, cooler temperatures make for sleepier bees. Unlike humans, insects can’t regulate their body temperature. So, you’re more likely to see them sleeping in flowers after the sun is up.

As a teenager I was a big Decemberists guy but could take or leave the Tarkio stuff. Now I think the Tarkio stuff rules and I could pretty much take or leave the Decemberists stuff. Time makes fools of us all

Finally got to listen to this — great hour of radio, equally perfect for the uninitiated or for the E6 cultist

Lars Gotrich@totalvibration.bsky.social

The Olivia Tremor Control are the Rosetta Stone of Elephant 6 ... yet I've met so many people who don't know this sprawling collective. With the wondrous, third and final album by OTC out this Friday, @robinpr.bsky.social and I attempt to tell the E6 story @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/10/20/n...

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Richard Hubbard’s dog, Kobe, was mauled by a bear when the two animals startled each other near this Torrington, Connecticut, dumpster in July. Kobe’s trachea was punctured and he nearly died. I interviewed Richard and Kobe today for a series about bears in CT, coming soon to CT Public Radio.

Got home late from work and it was dark so I needed a headlamp to walk the dog and realized that soon the clocks change and I’ll need a headlamp every time I walk the dog for a matter of many months. I’m not ready

Richard Hubbard’s dog, Kobe, was mauled by a bear when the two animals startled each other near this Torrington, Connecticut, dumpster in July. Kobe’s trachea was punctured and he nearly died. I interviewed Richard and Kobe today for a series about bears in CT, coming soon to CT Public Radio.

This is one of my first vivid baseball-watching memories. Clemens claiming he thought it was the ball remains hilarious. “Yeah I was throwing an in-play ball at the runner” Anyway, fuck Roger Clemens

Baseball by BSmile@bsmile.bsky.social

Today In 2000: Roger Clemens throws Mike Piazza's broken bat barrel at him as he runs to first base during World Series Game 2 at Yankee Stadium! #MLB #Baseball #Mets #Yankees #Postseason #WorldSeries

Lady in suburban northern Virginia once yelled “you’ve got some nerve!” at me because Trout peed on the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. I was like “excuse me?” and she was like “how’d you like it if I let my dog go in YOUR yard?” and I was like “that… that would be fine?”

Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer

🚨Beulah played on NPR, this is not a drill🚨

Lars Gotrich@totalvibration.bsky.social

The Olivia Tremor Control are the Rosetta Stone of Elephant 6 ... yet I've met so many people who don't know this sprawling collective. With the wondrous, third and final album by OTC out this Friday, @robinpr.bsky.social and I attempt to tell the E6 story @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/10/20/n...

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Nathan Fielder should simultaneously go to prison and win a Nobel Prize for this film. I will be thinking about it for months.

Chris Polansky@chrispolansky.bsky.social

Friends couldn’t swing seeing the Nathan Fielder Elizabeth Holmes movie this weekend but I’m going alone so the discourse doesn’t pass me by

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Chris Polansky@chrispolansky.bsky.social

My CT Public Radio colleague Michayla Savitt and I are closing out our fall membership drive during All Things Considered today. Consider supporting your public radio station! We've got a dollar-for-dollar match today courtesy of Better Built Basements. secure.ctpublic.org/page/61635/d...

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My CT Public Radio colleague Michayla Savitt and I are closing out our fall membership drive during All Things Considered today. Consider supporting your public radio station! We've got a dollar-for-dollar match today courtesy of Better Built Basements. secure.ctpublic.org/page/61635/d...

secure.ctpublic.orgDonate to Connecticut Public!Connecticut Public is media for the curious. The listeners, readers, and viewers who appreciate a good story. Give today to keep public media strong.

My CT Public Radio colleague Michayla Savitt and I are closing out our fall membership drive during All Things Considered today. Consider supporting your public radio station! We've got a dollar-for-dollar match today courtesy of Better Built Basements. secure.ctpublic.org/page/61635/d...

secure.ctpublic.orgDonate to Connecticut Public!Connecticut Public is media for the curious. The listeners, readers, and viewers who appreciate a good story. Give today to keep public media strong.

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At WestConn for opening night of “Dante Vaghi: UFO Pioneer.” Vaghi, who died in 2011, was an outsider artist and UFO enthusiast from Bethel, Connecticut, who claimed to have been visited by extraterrestrials many times over decades. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of his work and papers.

Update: The influencer posted a non-apology apology video that further upset the rabbit handler and now this is being covered on local TV news

Chris Polansky@chrispolansky.bsky.social

An obnoxious Connecticut “influencer” dissed the airport’s therapy bunnies in an Instagram reel and now the rabbit handler is fighting back with an Instagram reel of her own. I live for this