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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this sequence in the 39 steps is pretty dang good. this alfred hitchcock kid really had something.

Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Very cool to get a piece on @npr.org’s All Things Considered today in honor of Harry Dean Stanton’s 100th birthday. Harry Dean Stanton Fest is a special event that will keep the late character actor’s star shining bright in his home state of Kentucky for years to come. www.npr.org/2026/07/14/n...

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Harry Dean Stanton fans celebrate the character actor with a festival in Kentucky

Character actor Harry Dean Stanton would be 100 years old this week and fans in his home state of Kentucky still celebrate him each year with a festival.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This was a really fine one to work on. Just cool to get new pictures from Paducah’s bigger brushes with Hollywood history, and love that I could get them added to my local library’s digital collection.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Jimmy Stewart pronounces “grizzly bear” exactly the way you want him to

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

For the first post on The Liquid Moment substack, I took a look at Kentucky jazz king Les McCann and his synth-led record Layers, as well as the late musician’s love of basketball. Check it out and subscribe if you like deep dives on culture, film, music, art, and history happenings.

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Let's Gather // TLM001

On the synth jazz perfection of Les McCann's Layers, and the late Kentucky pianist's dreams of dunking a basketball.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

For me, it'll be a low-pressure space where I can engage with things outside the news cycle and share fun stuff from around the web. And, naturally, it's free (with an option slide me a few bucks every now and again). The first one is set to publish later this week. I hope you'll give it a shot.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Each issue will feature a deep dive of some kind (maybe my thoughts on something going on in the world, a bit o’ history about art, a book, or a film, or maybe even an interview with a musician/director/writer/etc) and a stack of links, recommendations, a playlist, and other internet tomfoolery.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sharing is caring and, when it comes to telling stories about interesting art, film, music, and history, I care very deeply. I've often written about these subjects as a reporter, but this week I'm launching what will hopefully be a monthly newsletter form of The Liquid Moment.

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The Liquid Moment | Derek ♼perle | Substack

Exploring the shifting depths of time through art, film, music, and other miscellany. Click to read The Liquid Moment, by Derek ♼perle, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

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WKMS @wkmsfm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🎉 Congratulations to @kentuckypublicradio.org Capitol Reporter @sylviaruthg.lpm.org on being selected as the 2026 New Voices Award winner from the Public Media Journalists Association! 🎉

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Kentucky's Sylvia Goodman receives national award for early career journalists

Capitol Reporter Sylvia Goodman is the second-ever recipient of the PMJA New Voices Award.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Well spotted by @hannahsaad.bsky.social today: A Paducah cryptocurrency mine is being considered for the siting of a small modular nuclear reactor after a partnership was announced today between Terrestrial Energy and Riot Platforms. Read up on it ➡️ @wkmsfm.bsky.social. www.wkms.org/business-eco...

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Small nuclear reactor could power McCracken County crypto mining center under new partnership

A cryptocurrency mining facility in McCracken County could one day be powered by a small modular nuclear reactor under a new business partnership announced Wednesday between an energy tech company and...

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

For @wkmsfm.bsky.social: It was a packed house at WKCTC in Paducah last night for a PSC meeting to gather opinions on nuclear power in Kentucky. Many cited environmental concerns, corporate interests, and a perceived lack of transparency when it comes to nuclear projects already in the works.

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PSC meeting on nuclear power draws critical crowd in Paducah

Crowds packed three separate meeting rooms at West Kentucky Community & Technical College in Paducah Wednesday for the Public Service Commission’s hearing on nuclear power generation, part of a series...

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

fave march first-time watches • my darling clementine (1946) • diamonds of the night (1964) • report (1967) • ice (1970) • messiah of evil (1974) • gallipoli (1981) • running on empty (1988) • beyond the infinite two minutes (2020)

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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 26/03/2026

Reservoirs of geologic hydrogen – an untapped, clean energy source – might be pooling underground in parts of Kentucky, according to research published last year by the U.S. Geological Survey. From @doperle.bsky.social at @wkmsfm.bsky.social

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Geologic hydrogen: A carbon-free energy source that could be just underneath Kentuckians' feet

Geologists say an untapped, carbon-free energy source could be underneath parts of Kentucky. So why isn’t anyone trying to use it?

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My latest on @wkmsfm.bsky.social: Geologists say an untapped, carbon-free energy source could be just sitting underneath parts of Kentucky, particularly the far western and southcentral parts of the Bluegrass State. So ... why isn’t anyone trying to use it? www.wkms.org/science/2026...

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Geologic hydrogen: A carbon-free energy source that could be just underneath Kentuckians' feet

Geologists say an untapped, carbon-free energy source could be underneath parts of Kentucky. So why isn’t anyone trying to use it?

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

As more musicians talk about using AI in their songwriting, how is the music-making process changing in the industry and for everyone else? We dive into it on our podcast. Listen now: buff.ly/5c85X7l

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AI Music Is On The Charts. Where Does It Go From Here?

AI-generated songs are breaking onto the charts, and music labels are pivoting from lawsuits to partnerships with AI startups. What comes next?

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

feeling good and chill about things

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I was a journalist once and writing stories I didn’t feel passionate about is how I got good at it

Rinehart, who oversees the wire service's Al initiatives, suggested that in the future, reporters could go to events, get quotes, plug them into a large language model, and have the model generate a story, saving them time on writing stories they don't feel passionately about. She also noted that some editors told her

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

fave february first-time watches, pt. 2 • slc punk (merendino, 1998) • in the mood for love (wong kar wai, 2000) • secretary (shainberg, 2002) • the dirties (johnson, 2013) • you were never really here (2017, ramsay)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

fave february first-time watches, pt. 1 • band of outsiders (godard, 1964) • the great silence (corbucci, 1968) • the hired hand (fonda, 1971) • just before dawn (lieberman, 1981) • a moment of innocence (makhmalbaf, 1996) • the last angel of history (akomfrah, 1996)

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 19/02/2026

Important Kentucky elections story right here 👇 #kyga26

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

new cassette pickups to add to the rotation

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

saturday morning media diet

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

fave january first-time watches, pt. 2 • cane toads: an unnatural history (lewis, 1988) • american job (smith, 1996) • sexy beast (glazer, 2000) • awesome: i fuckin’ shot that! (yauch, 2006) • local legends (farley, 2013) • no bears (panahi, 2022)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

fave january first-time watches, pt. 1 • the kid (chaplin, 1921) • battleship potemkin (eisenstein, 1925) — w/ pet shop boys score • closely watched trains (menzel, 1966) • the incredible shrinking woman (schumacher, 1981) • where is the friend’s house? (kiarostami, 1987)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

new year, new monthly film “discoveries” thread. a running tab of new-to-me movies that are at least a couple years old.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A small anti-ICE demonstration — no more than two dozen people — took place in front of the McCracken County courthouse in Paducah on Friday, as many across the country protest against actions taken by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in other places.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I agree they're a part of the independent film scene, but even things like the Art House Convergence classify Speed as being a different type of entity because of it being a museum. An incredibly valuable resource and screening location, just a separate type of space.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

hey there! speed is mentioned in here but they are a museum with a theater, not a dedicated independent cinema. big fan of what they do, but there’s not first-run films there weekly like there were at baxter and like there still are at mac and at the kentucky.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

the pharcyde guys learned the lyrics to "drop" backwards phonetically so they could move "forward" through the reversed video. awesome mad science music video making. youtu.be/8CBsxCUhNu0

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The Making of The Pharcyde's Drop

YouTube video by unahmean

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

friday vibing. one of the great music videos from spike jonze. youtu.be/wqVsfGQ_1SU?...

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The Pharcyde - Drop (Official HD Music Video)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Due to a bomb threat on Murray State campus, classes in several buildings have been cancelled for the remainder of Monday.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

this is how i learn we have ways in paducah??

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

my 2025 in books (aside from sonya lea’s american bloodlines and kyle chayka’s filterworld, both on loan)

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

me personally? i’d need to talk to my aunt like A LOT.

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Nonfiction: Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld + Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine + Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves To Death (still wildly prescient despite it being a full 40 years old) Fiction: Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America + E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime + Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer

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Hannah Saad @hannahsaad.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Our student reporter Shelby Bloomer spent weeks reseaching, interviewing and traveling out to different hemp businesses in western Kentucky to put this piece together, and I think she did a pretty dang good job exploring this issue. Check out the results of her labor:

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

big rec: watch Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc with the score recorded a few years ago by Joan of Arc (Tim Kinsella’s post Cap’n Jazz project)

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Joan of Arc Presents: Joan of Arc

YouTube video by Joan Of Arc - Topic

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WKMS @wkmsfm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It’s been more than 25 years since 18-year-old Jessica Currin was found dead and burned behind a Mayfield middle school, but the man convicted for her murder still maintains his innocence. An evidentiary hearing for the case began this week and is expected to conclude in mid-December.

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Multiple witnesses in Jessica Currin case recant statements during evidentiary hearing

It’s been more than 25 years since 18-year-old Jessica Currin was found dead and burned behind a Mayfield middle school, but the man convicted for her murder still maintains his innocence. An…

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If only you could have interviewed Hollywood’s finest carpenter turned actor for this’n

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Jason P. Woodbury @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This week on Transmissions: Steve Von Till of Neurosis joins us to discuss his art, teaching, philosophy & work with the indigenous suicide prevention campaign Firekeeper Alliance. Listen wherever you get podcasts & direct at reader-supported @aquariumdrunkard.com. @talkhouse.bsky.social

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Massively underrated documentary. Funny and insightful.

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