Sometimes I feel anxious about my pomodoro timer making me a public nuisance BUT I’m at Kenwick Table right now and there are like three other people with audible timers going off in 25-minute increments. God bless.

We watched “Stranger With a Camera” as a class in my first semester as a convergent media major at Morehead State. It informs my conduct every bit as much as anything I learned in media law and ethics.

Was looking for a desk at the ReStore this morning and found: 1) One Million Fancy Chairs

The Hickman Holler Reading Club features a new recommendation from Tyler Childers each month, starting with Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road” - for which his current tour is named.

It’s nearly our favorite time of year at the Capital City Museum! Follow “Kentucky Deceased” to learn how a tax on ghosts (still on the books!) pushed Frankfort’s palm readers out of town, how gardeners look to the skies to know when to sow, and how murder ballads were basically true crime podcasts.

Updated version includes statement from #FCPS Board Chair Tyler Murphy.

Hundreds of singers from all over the world recently gathered in Atlanta to debut a new music book called “The Sacred Harp.” It’s central to shape note singing — one of the oldest American musical traditions. From @justinhicks.lpm.org & Laura Atkinson

Fun fact courtesy of my grandmother - WUKY is five years older than the UN, which turns 80 this October! Help WUKY continue being Lexington and central Kentucky’s window to the world - donate now at wuky.org! 💙

I am interested in speaking to people who have gotten an IUD in Kentucky. Good experience, bad experience -- it's all relevant. I If that's you and you're open to talking publicly about it, feel free to drop me a line here: [email protected]

"Are ghost candles a fire hazard?" Is that a real candle that looks like a ghost or a candle in another plane of existence that looks like a ghost and was lit by a ghost or did the ghost light a real candle in our plane of existence and the appearance of the candle is irrelevant. Help us help you.

Time is almost up to get the September Pay-What-You-Want album This month only, get a digital download of Earl Gilmore's 1977 blues + gospel album "From the Depths of My Soul" and name your own price! https://loom.ly/RvHl_E0 🎵: "From the Depths of My Soul," Earl Gilmore, June Appal Records, 1977.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says FCC Chairman Brandon Carr’s criticism of comedian Jimmy Kimmel was “absolutely inappropriate.” “The FCC was wrong to weigh in. And I’ll fight any — any — attempt by the government to get involved with speech. I will fight." kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/21/r...

Peace is the best medicine - that’s not just a slogan, it's based on evidence. In countries affected by conflict and insecurity: -70% of disease outbreaks erupt -Half of all child deaths globally occur -1 in 5 people suffer from mental health disorders. The most courageous choose peace. #PeaceDay

Cluck Ol’ Hen (Tyler Childers & Jesse Wells twin fiddles!)

helloooooo from the lemonade line at Healing Appalachia!

Per WPSD, McCracken County BOE has approved LifeWise Academy to offer Bible instruction to students. www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/mccrack...

CPJ - Israel's targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen's capital, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers, is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded. cpj.org/2025/09/israels-killi...

A mug shot. GET IT? </end cringe> But seriously, get you one. And support public media. (859) 257-9858. WUKY.org.

It’s WUKY’s Fall Fund Drive! If you’ve ever found the reporting of our news team helpful, if you’ve ever been moved by a hand-picked tune on Rock & Roots, or if you enjoy tuning into your favorite NPR programs at 91.3 - you can thank listeners like you for making that possible!

Swinging benches, a dog park, a stage, three-story climbing playground, sensory play area, and... (drum roll)... "self-cleaning" bathrooms. #PhoenixPark

Andy Wolfson, journalist whose beat was justice, dies in Louisville kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/18/a...

The band met an eight week old St. Bernard this weekend. He is LARGE and a very good boy. More pictures in the post!

Happy Constitution Day, everybody

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion. - Lillian Hellman, blacklisted for not naming names to The House Committee on Un-American Activities (1952).

may I speak with the primary poster in your household?

weaning myself off 5-hour energy with these bad boys

Went on PBS NewsHour last night to talk about Gen Z accelerationist violence

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream brand after 47 years, saying that the independence it once had to speak up on social issues has been stifled by parent company Unilever. https://to.pbs.org/46ahiD1

So uh donate to your local public radio/TV station. www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

In 1954, Edward R. Murrow’s program “See It Now” produced the episode “A Report On Senator Joseph R. McCarthy” which primarily featured clips of the Senator contradicting himself while accusing people of being communists and railing against perceived “extreme left wing elements of press and radio.”

Bulletin board finds in Lexington.

We are the Horse Capital of the WORLD so of course Umamusume is represented. Why there’s Takiki Shuttle, Hishi Akebono and *gasp* my favorite, El Condor Pasa! They’re all here! Someone beat me to it but I’ll tag @claywallace.bsky.social anyway.

Thank you Kentucky Horse Park.

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Show’s up! - Brooke and Micah on the misinfo following the murder of Charlie Kirk. - @oliverdarcy.bsky.social on how CBS is caving to conservative pressure. - @notalawyer.bsky.social unpacks the influence and ideology of Bari Weiss + the Free Press www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

I’m out of town today but if someone going to the Japan Festival in Frankfort happens to meander by the Kentucky Museum of the Horse booth and they happen to have the Uma Musume cutouts displayed on the Old Capitol lawn… please take a picture for me.

This is a fascinating case (lest you thought Kentucky was finished with its school choice debates!) Amendment 2 may have failed, but the AGs office is arguing these public charters should actually count as part of the common (read public) school system Read more ⬇️⬇️

Back when radio broadcasting was young, there were some crazy ideas about how it could make money. And they weren't about advertising. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/what-if-we...

CarPlay glitch back again suggesting the collabs of my dreams.

An estimated 14 million kids don't get any vaccines. They face serious threats from measles, diarrhea, pneumonia and more.

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

Kentuckians, what are you experiencing with COVID-19 vaccines this fall? Do you want one and can't find it? Happy with the new federal guidelines?

After confusion over whether and when #COVID vaccines would be accessible to Kentuckians, the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy updated their guidance to allow pharmacists to administer the #vaccine in advance of the CDC’s ACIP recommendations. Story by @claywallace.bsky.social

Amazing work in here. “Voice Cracks, Backing Tracks, and Comebacks,” a piece about navigating a changing voice as a trans vocalist, really spoke to me. Touching and thoughtful story + actionable suggestions for singers on testosterone.

Thinking about more than one rooster? Cock-a-doodle-don’t.

During the rally, Beshear recognized six new counties as “Recovery Ready” communities: Boyd, Carter, Clay, Greenup, Letcher and Owsley. From @claywallace.bsky.social