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Nate Heard
@nateheard.bsky.social
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Health geographer, melomaniac, archer, hockey player, vegan, small-town energy and climate action
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What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read.

prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...
The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want - The American Prospect
Ryan Coogler’s bloodsucker blockbuster is all about Black creative freedom. No wonder the industry saw it as a threat.
prospect.org
December 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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thacalebdume.bsky.social
Not a song, but Osunlade on the decks is spiritual. #HouseMusic
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
A small group of humans, and a dog, pretending there is no giant citrus fruit flying above them...
And another one. What a great book.
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
nateheard.bsky.social
In the first period against the Goldeneyes you got to see what Sparre meant when he said the Boston Fleet would play a suffocating style of hockey and I love it.
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
nateheard.bsky.social
Sublime mix and a chance to hear songs anew.
jamesreeves.co James A. Reeves @jamesreeves.co · 14d
All the greatest hits at a slower speed—guaranteed. Plus some egg foo young.

1. Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me
2. Will Web - Spacewalk
3. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
4. Vladislav Delay - Huone
5. Swans - Leaving Meaning
6. Pole - Hafen
7. Aphex Twin - #1
8. The Cars - Jacki
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
nateheard.bsky.social
So much public health work involves spreadsheets. This reporting is a wonderful spotlight on the compassion and humanism that motivates the people providing direct services as well as those who are deep in cell formulas trying to make the best funding decisions they can under extreme uncertainty.
marychilds.bsky.social mary childs @marychilds.bsky.social · 19d
After USAID got cut, I asked GiveWell if @planetmoney.bsky.social could ride along as they tried to figure out if and how to jump into the void. They said yes. They recorded weeks and weeks of deliberations. Here is the episode about it: www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Work music, for real www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xuw...
Floating Points - 'Fast Forward' (Official Video)
YouTube video by Floating Points
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November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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purelyfiction.bsky.social
Jacob Elordi reading Weak in Comparison to Dreams while he’s being made up as Frankenstein, reposted by the wonderful translator Max Lawton. In the original novel, the Creature reads Paradise Lost, Plutarch, and some other classics, so I'm in good company
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
nateheard.bsky.social
I'll always be Team Fleet but The Goldeneyes is instantly one of the greatest names in all of sports. See you on December 3rd!
pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social Vancouver Goldeneyes @pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social · Nov 6
For those who see what others miss.
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
nateheard.bsky.social
"I have met the baby." www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
Blakeslee interviews his clients and then creates personalized "sonic talismans" using custom blends of sounds, including Mellotron and Nord synthesizer tones, dolphin and whale sounds, honeybee sounds, and a heartbeat. "Have you ever gotten anyone pregnant?" I ask him. "I have met the baby," he says.
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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christopherbrown.bsky.social
Tungsten film is tricky but when it works it is like finding a lost album of ambient music
Film photo of river in fog with egret flying through
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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annapatton.bsky.social
New feature from us at @pioneerspost.bsky.social - this time on how #openmapping - plus drones, AI and community engagement - can help people better prepare for and respond to climate disasters.

immersives.pioneerspost.com/openstreetma... #opensource @hotosm.org
Mapping a fairer future: The open-source movement that's mobilising for climate resilience
Huge swathes of the planet barely appear on commercial maps, leaving open-source maps – built and updated by volunteers around the world – to fill in the gaps. Now, the nonprofit Humanitarian OpenStre...
immersives.pioneerspost.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
nateheard.bsky.social
*stares in Lady Joker*
The book cover of Kaoru Takamura's Lady Joker, an epic crime novel published over two volumes that hinges on the kidnapping of a Japanese beer company executive.
October 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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woodgrainterrain.bsky.social
The 'Face on Mars' with slightly exaggerated terrain is carved here into tigerwood and placed at different rotations to the setting sun. Thanks to @uarizonalpl.bsky.social for the Martian surface data!

#PlanetSci
#Spacetober
#SciArt
#Pareidolia
The 'Face on Mars' is pictured carved into tigerwood, and the dark striations cover the eyes of the face.The low-angle sun reveals what appear to be eye-holes and a mouth. The 'Face on Mars' is pictured carved into tigerwood, and the dark striations cover the eyes of the face.The low-angle sun at this rotation doesn't reveal much in the way of facial features. The 'Face on Mars' is pictured carved into tigerwood, and the dark striations cover the eyes of the face.The low-angle sun reveals no face-like features at this rotation. The 'Face on Mars' is pictured carved into tigerwood, and the dark striations cover the eyes of the face.The low-angle sun at this rotation also reveals no face-like features.
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
nateheard.bsky.social
Great to see electrical grid open mapping projects in support of the energy transition. Was surprised, but probably shouldn't have been, to learn the degree to which state, federal, and local agencies use OSM energy infrastructure data in their tools and systems. #EnergySky #GISchat
youthmappers.bsky.social YouthMappers @youthmappers.bsky.social · Oct 1
Registration is OPEN! 🌍

Join us on Oct 23 for Mapping Power for People with OET as part of YouthMappers’ 10-Year Anniversary 🎉

⚡ Learn to map power grids with iD Editor & AI tools
🕙 10 AM ET / 14:00 UTC
👉 Register: tinyurl.com/YM-OET-Webinar

#YouthMappers10
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
nateheard.bsky.social
This story of how a philosopher's thought experiment inspired a movement to impartially give away money in an attempt to save or improve other people's lives was as great as I'd hoped. I rushed to read it upon publication.
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Sep 23
A fascinating account of Peter Singer’s controversial “drowning child” thought experiment—and how it changed the way people think about charitable giving.

Death in a Shallow Pond by @davidedmonds100.bsky.social is now available. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Philosophy
Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds
October 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
nateheard.bsky.social
In Mireille Gagné's Horsefly, things long buried (among them regrets) come to the surface. Creepy, short eco-horror. Historical fiction about environmental crimes leading to planetary-scale mayhem and how the role of perpetrators can be lost if others don't bear witness. chbooks.com/Books/H/Hors...
Horsefly
A chilling tale about what happens when we mess with nature.In 1942, a young entomologist, Thomas, is sent to a remote island to work on biological weapons for the Allied military. The scientists live...
chbooks.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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benjaminoc.bsky.social
John Langan’s THE FISHERMAN is sad, unsettling, and, above all, brilliant. Cosmic horror trades in the ineffable, and few human experiences are more vast and horrible than grief. By pairing the two, Langan has written a novel that is as grounded as it is disquieting.
THE FISHERMAN A NOVEL By JOHN LANGAN
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
nateheard.bsky.social
Hard to overstate how well Wang's assessment of China's ability to build illuminates abundance discourse in the US. That leadership positions are dominated by engineers in China and lawyers in the US is a fine enough framing, but Wang is a good storyteller, a journalist, and he does a lot with it.
hannahritchie.bsky.social Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · Sep 19
Next book on the reading list 📚
September 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Night bear with sparkle ears
September 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
nateheard.bsky.social
When the kids are little, you expose them to dozens of activities, never knowing what, if anything, will stick. At a certain point, they start introducing *you* to cool stuff. And that's just the best.
September 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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51stdc.bsky.social
Walk proudly in town & out of town with the shirts that tells the world what we want & what we deserve: #DCStatehood www.bonfire.com/store/neighb...
Red shirt with the words "Statehood for D.C." on it inside of the DC borders. Black shirt with red letters that say "Statehood." The A in statehood is the DC borders and the E is the DC flag.
August 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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pwhlfleet.bsky.social
The inaugural Women’s Para Ice Hockey World Championships start today in Slovakia! 🇺🇸🏅

Best of luck to Ai Lin, Catherine, Rebecca, and the entire Team USA squad as they aim for gold this week!

@usahockey.bsky.social
Aerin Frankel with Ai Lin Zheng, Catherine Faherty, and Rebecca Mann of the U.S. National Sled Hockey team. (From left to right) Ai Lin Zheng, Rebecca Mann, and Catherine Faherty of the U.S. National Sled Hockey team.
August 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
nateheard.bsky.social
Great find at JCPenney's.
A t-shirt with a picture of a smiling, running couple, decked out in Puma gear. On the shirt is the text, "Running from your problems never looked so good."
August 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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reliefbot.bsky.social
//\ Relief #048

Location: Pichanaqui, Junín, Perú
Coordinates: -10.8857, -74.7131
Elevation Range: 748m to 1889m
Terrain type: high-mountainous

#ReliefOfTheDay #DataViz #Geography
Relief visualization in perspective style showing elevation data from Pichanaqui at coordinates -10.8857, -74.7131 with elevation range from 748m to 1889m.
July 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM