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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 25/09/2026

But wait, I found the toronto alternative. YIKES

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 24/09/2026

But there’s something unusual in one of those windows. Let’s zoom in on the highlighted bit. “COMPUTER, ENHANCE”

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 24/09/2026

Also, I got this new app called Photosynthesis that takes incredibly high resolution photos by using the multiple cameras on ur phone in cool ways. This was the view from my glamorous Halifax hotel room.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 24/09/2026

Maybe this not a novel idea (zing) but it’s the first time I’ve seen it. At the Halifax Airport you can scan your library card and borrow a book for your trip. If this was in the Toronto airport I would have used it for sure on the way out here.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 13/08/2026

glad I don’t live in California. My coffee maker is dangerous there apparently.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 08/08/2026

My kid sent me this. All Scooter needs is a cigarette

Tiny Chihuahua with hand-drawn curly moustache and eyebrows

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 03/08/2026

Did Dr. Seuss write the Crossplay word of the day today?

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 30/07/2026

here's a teaser I made for it.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 28/07/2026

Here's a teaser video I made for it. You gotta click through to the article to see the whole thing.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 23/07/2026

here's a teaser video I made for it

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 08/07/2026

pumping my own tires: The newsletter is gonna be great tomorrow. Here's the headline.

A Zoom room full of word nerds
Plus: a true detective story about fake authors

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 06/07/2026

I made this teaser for it (well, i cut a couple clips from the video together):

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 06/07/2026

their instagram is...interesting.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 01/07/2026

Got a newsletter piece brewing about the whole Yale Review AI writer thing:

a screengrab of some text that reads "I don't say this lightly: what a fucking clown."

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 25/06/2026

here's a teaser I made for instagram, give you a taste of the song.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 20/06/2026

Here’s a line from “ICU”, that Lehane later repurposed as a line from Marlo Stanfield in The Wire:

The man takes a step toward him. Then one more. He looks into Daniel. He says, "You want it to be one way. I understand. I do. But it's the other way."

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 20/06/2026

I’m reading CORONADO, the short story collection by Dennis Lehane. It’s almost upsettingly good. Look at this, this is from “Gone Down to Corpus”, it tells you everything you need to know about the story’s narrator in like 75 words:

SOMETIMES, AFTER THE sun's gone down and Daddy's been sitting out back all day drinking Lone Stars and adding some sour mash to the mix too, he'll end up looking at his shitty house and sloping back porch and hard Texas dirt and he'll cry without a sound. He'll sit there, not moving or shaking or nothing, just sit rock-still, his face leaking.
Says to me once, he says, "I'd known this was what it was all about, boy, know what I'd a done?”
I'm maybe ten. I say, "No, Daddy."
He takes a long pull on a can, tosses it aside, and belches. "Died earlier."

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 16/06/2026

OG tags not working I guess, check out the lineup. By my count I’ve covered 25 of the bands on Turn & Work. Maybe more, and that’s without checking. Could be more.

CLEOPATRICK • EKKSTACY • MILITARIE GUN MIKE ?????• HIGH VIS • FOLK BITCH TRIO ESPRIT • W.I.T.C.H. • CLARION • DEADLETTER
ADRIAN YOUNGE • DUNE RATS (FESTIVAL RESIDENCY)
PEARLY DROPS • COOTIE CATCHER • PISS • SLOPPY JANE
TWIN SHADOW • DOWNTOWN BOYS BELLS LARSEN • TRUCK VIOLENCE
SQUIRREL FLOWER ART D'ECCO • SHADY NASTY RIBBON SKIRT
CARTEL MADRAS MENNO VERSTEEG (OF HOLLERADO)
GRAHAM WRIGHT (OF TOKYO POLICE CLUB) • CHALK LORD SKO •ALI
PLUS ...
ABSOLUTE TREAT BA JOHNSTON• CHARLIE HOUSTON CHERRY PICK
CHINESE MEDICINE CHRIS LOCKE CISTER•COLD COURT•CUSTOMER SERVICE DAMBE DARK DAZEY
DEAD TOOTH• DUMB CRUSH• ELEPHANT STONE• EMMA GOLDMAN• GADFLY •HOLY VOID•HOUSEWIFE J EMBER JANKY BUNGAG JAYWOOD IDIALEDYOURNUMBER KIWI JR • LIA PAPPAS-KEMPS
LOVIET• MADFOLK MAD IRIS MOTORISTS• PALE BLUE EYES• PASTEL BLANK
PENNY & THE PITS• POMPEY• PRISM SHORES • RACHEL BOBBITT• RISE CARMINE SHISHI
SHIV AND THE CARVERS SHREWD •SKINNY DYCK SMUT• SOFTCULT • STARLY KIND
SUNDAYCLUB • TALLIES• THE JUMP CUTS • TRIPLES •WAIT//LESS

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 04/06/2026

Here's the teaser I made, with a taste of the song:

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 30/05/2026

Missed when it happened, but recently the traffic to turnandwork.com in 2026 passed the number for ALL OF 2025. Thanks to all of you for supporting it. Big things to come, hope to 3x or 4x this year. (and it’s not AI bots, those showed up in March and we blocked them with cloudflare)

Chart showing traffic in 2026 is already 13% over 2025.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 24/05/2026

Making’ it wain with my bookshop.org affiliate links. Someone is clicking em!

A screenshot showing $1.86 in commissions this week

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 24/05/2026

Making’ it wain with my bookshop.org affiliate links. Someone is clicking em!

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 20/05/2026

Here's the hilarious definition. My opponent was unimpressed.

Georgina says "Making stuff up at this point"

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 20/05/2026

I'm a Crossplay villain. Look at this:

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 16/05/2026

The Music Map is live. A geographic, interactive archive of every artist we've ever covered on Turn & Work. Check it out: www.turnandwork.com/music-map/

City-level map showing 127 artists from Toronto

country-level map showing dots for various cities, sized based on number of artists from the city

world map showing dots on countries with number of artists from that country.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 14/05/2026

PREMIERE: New single, video and Q&A by Pink Ranger, only on Turn & Work. www.turnandwork.com/profile/prem...

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 26/04/2026

This thing is coming together really nicely. I'm down to about 700 artists to fill in location data for, but Canada is holding its own pretty well here.

a map showing bubbles indicating how many bands turn and work has featured from countries around the world

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 25/04/2026

making progress. This is pretty cool

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 17/04/2026

Post the best picture you’ve ever taken of your pet

A chihuahua lookin like an absolute goon

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 15/04/2026

Looks like my day is spoken for

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 14/04/2026

The new record by Melanie Baker is fantastic, and so is her video backstory. Here's a teaser. The whole thing is up at turnandwork.com.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 09/04/2026

...I see bluesky still doesn't want to show my post images. It's a nice one, here it is while I figure out the problem.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 05/04/2026

I called them out on Threads, the only social network where they posted it.

Alfitude posted on threads: New Music: FREZYA
'FEVERLOCK' is an interesting song for us to feature, down to the fact that the artist behind the track, FREZYA, is actually a virtual creation that was constructed by Lokidio Lab. The track gives us a taste of what Al's potential can be in music. Sonically inspired by genres like dance and amapiano, the song's feel-good style of sound is infectiously uplifting. Alongside FREZYA, you can hear vocals from another digital...

with a link to their website's feature on Freezya's AI-generated music.

I responded:
"strange choice considering that 'artist' was trained without permission on the work of likely thousands of human artists"

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 20/03/2026

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn't Indiana Jones)

Jamiroquai wearing a big fuzzy hat in a music video still

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 15/03/2026

Heyyyyy my first bookshop.org commission! $2.80 because someone bought a book I reviewed. I hope they like the book as much as I did. This was the book, it’s a good one: www.turnandwork.com/book/waiting...

Screenshot showing $2.80 in commissions from a book sale

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 12/03/2026

Reading @cacrampton.bsky.social 's links this morning, she links the same Chris Dalla Riva piece I did in my newsletter, with the same pullquote. Here's Dalla Riva's piece: www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/is-the-dud...

Screenshot from Caroline Crampton's blog: "A data driven look at "whither the male pop superstar". Surprise, surprise: "Gender parity might just be making us think that there are no men in the pop world anymore."

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 08/03/2026

Scooter looking especially dignified tonight

An adorable chihuahua with no teeth lookin like a huge doofus

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 14/02/2026

Toronto looks a little Gothamish tonight.

A skyscraper on a gloomy night, some building exhaust obscuring a kinda futuristic looking condo tower

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 31/01/2026

Did a long overdue weeding on the fiction shelves. Easily 100 books here.

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 28/01/2026

In the graphic adaptation of Fahrenheit 451. In the intro, Bradbury asks: "...Name the one book that [you] would most want to memorize and protect from any censors...give the reasons why and why it would be a valuable asset to be recited and remembered in the future." What's yours?

A photo from a book of these words:
"Finally, may i suggest that anyone reading this introduction should take the time to name the one book that he or she would most want to memorize and protect from any censors or "firemen." And not only name the book, but give the reasons why they would wish to memorize it and why it would be a valuable asset to be recited and remembered in the future.

I think this would make for a lively session when my readers meet and tell the books they named and memorized, and why."

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