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Kevin Hyde
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Writer, occasional music blogger.

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Ping, You’ve Got Whale

A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.

by @ashleybraun.bsky.social

www.biographic.com/ping-youve-g...
Ping, You've Got Whale - bioGraphic
A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.
www.biographic.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Hi Bluesky friends, I’m giving out a handful of free Audible audiobook versions of my novel, THE NIMBUS. If you’d like a copy, DM me your name and email address. The offer’s good till they’re gone. Learn more about the book here: robertpbaird.com/nimbus/
The Nimbus - A Novel
robertpbaird.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Nightmares, passing the test, trial period, route assignments—

An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
“Driver” by Mattia Fillice — The Dial
An excerpt.
www.thedial.world
October 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I considered writing a treatise on a certain pop vortex’s song that details her man’s dick with the facepalm yucks of a B-level stand-up from the mid-’80s, but I decided instead to take advice, of sorts, from singer and rapper Shelailai: Don’t need it!
Like J Dilla Zooted Off a Few Lines of Pixy Stix Powder
Plus the catchiest song Dry Cleaning have ever made, a grown-and-sexy house-pop situation, and more.
www.hearingthings.co
October 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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A book of my Creased Comics is coming this spring from NYRC.
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The publisher has only five copies left of my translation of Book IV of Vergil's Georgics, titled The Bees.

It's a beautifully designed little chapbook, with the classic drawing by Breughel on the cover, and typesetting by the designer Ken Botnick.

Get a copy for $10 before they're gone!
Joel Calahan - The Bees — Verge Books
www.vergebooks.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Tortoise spoke with @theguardian.com about their Chicago roots; the making of their new album, ‘𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡,’ out next month; and the special shows they’re performing to celebrate the release of the album, their first in nine years 🦂✨
READ MORE: tinyurl.com/mr46fc7k

Photo: Heather Cantrell
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Read Anna Gaca’s essay in LARB Quarterly no. 46, where she recounts her journey learning French and immersing herself in the language. “What trust is lost, what intimate connections with language, with culture, with auditory experience itself?” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/vous-ecoutez-rfi/
September 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here:

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

#roadecology
Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is initiating an environmental impact statement (EIS) and rulemaking concerning management of inventoried roadless areas on approximately 44.7 million acres of Natio...
www.federalregister.gov
September 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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"This will never work": PARCHMENT (@parchmentmag.bsky.social), a literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing, is returning to print.

I joined the editorial board because I don't feel "Jewish writing" needs to mean what it usually means, especially lately. 1/5
August 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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"To raise sunflower stars in captivity and release them to the Pacific, however, scientists must first learn how to keep stars from dying. And for that, they must know what’s killing them in the first place."

@craigwelch.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer
After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?
www.biographic.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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My new piece Untitled/Dreamweapon is out today on Bandcamp. Its based off a recording originally performed by Angus MacLise & Tony Conrad in NYC, 1968, my own take on "Untitled" from the Dreamweapon recordings. Ive been trying to think of ways to make more work with explicit Antifascist intentions…
August 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Incredible article by Jaclyn Moyer in the June issue of @highcountrynews.org about a community in rural Oregon fighting against the expansion of an already colossal landfill:

Where the garbage goes - High Country News share.google/bM92q4RqRm8t...
Where the garbage goes - High Country News
Amid massive rollbacks of federal environmental protections, a community battling the expansion of a local landfill seeks to safeguard its own backyard – and everyone else’s.
share.google
July 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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there's been a scandal brewing on nerdy guitar-centric corners of YouTube for the last couple of months about a guy who got caught copying other people's guitar solos and presenting them as his own. i wrote about that bizarre saga here www.hearingthings.co/the-great-in...
The Great Instagram Jazz Guitar Plagiarism Scandal
What Giacomo Turra shows us about the strange intersection of jazz and social media
www.hearingthings.co
June 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Never thought Forth Wanderers would come back. Still listen to their 2018 album a bunch. New songs sound great: forthwanderers.bandcamp.com/track/to-kno...
To Know Me/To Love Me, by Forth Wanderers
from the album The Longer This Goes On
forthwanderers.bandcamp.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Last week, we lost the poet, activist, and scholar Joshua Clover. Those who want to pay homage might donate to their local bail fund.
The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)
How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.
www.thenation.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The infamous Toronto '85 live version of "Baby Beluga" is 19 minutes long and features audible cries of anguish from kids in the audience. But Raffi and the band just kept going.
April 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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I wrote about enduring Philadelphia traditions, Wanamaker’s ads that printed the word WANAMAKER 111 times in a row, and taking my son to the department store where I proposed. defector.com/one-last-tri...
One Last Trip To Philadelphia’s Department Store Of Dreams | Defector
My son was on a mission. Simon has been walking since December, and he’s getting more confident each day. He’d spotted something, and was scooting down the aisle as fast as he could towards it. He wan...
defector.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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‘I have always had a taste for not-quite-novels, but I suspect this would always have been too much of a not-quite-a-not-quite-novel for me.’

Michael Hofmann reads Paul Valéry’s 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘶𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Hofmann · Going with the Gush: Unfunny Valéry
Would it have made a difference to read Monsieur Teste earlier? I have always had a taste for not-quite-novels, but I...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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icymi I wrote about some seriously cool hunting strategies of cuttlefish
defector.com/this-is-the-...
This Is The Last Thing You See Before You Die (If You Are A Crab) | Defector
You, a purple mangrove crab, have had a good run. You began your life as a larva drifting around the tropical blue waters of the Indo-Pacific. When you had molted enough to settle on the seafloor, you...
defector.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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sometimes it fills me with paralyzing dread to think that early millennials are the last people in the industrialized world who have an accessible, first-person pre-internet frame of reference, but then i am comforted by the knowledge that someday i will die defector.com/glossy-gunky...
Glossy, Gunky And Ready In Minutes: AI Meal Recipes Are Overrunning The Internet | Defector
It all started with a Messenger notification. In my inbox was a blurry image of a Tiramisu Cupcake sent by my grandpa, featuring a too-perfect frosting swirl with a thick coating of cocoa powder and a...
defector.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM