David DeKeyser
@daviddk.bsky.social
This and there, here and there.
I do some writing stuff with NPR, I do some radio stuff with Spinitron, and I do a lot of other boring stuff for other companies.
https://yespressy.tumblr.com/Writing
I do some writing stuff with NPR, I do some radio stuff with Spinitron, and I do a lot of other boring stuff for other companies.
https://yespressy.tumblr.com/Writing
Want to feel excited about the future? Go talk to DJs at a college radio station & listen to the joy they have about music and building community. I feel lucky to do it often via @spinitron.bsky.social but now also wrote about it in a piece about WCSF's two student PDs noncommusic.org/stories/wcsf/
At WCSF, Two Student Leaders Found a Radio Home
The University of St. Francis station runs on indie rock, a rotating cast of freshman year radio classes, and a student and volunteer team that aims to immediately connect anyone who walks in the door...
noncommusic.org
September 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Want to feel excited about the future? Go talk to DJs at a college radio station & listen to the joy they have about music and building community. I feel lucky to do it often via @spinitron.bsky.social but now also wrote about it in a piece about WCSF's two student PDs noncommusic.org/stories/wcsf/
I’ve listened to a bunch of playlists trying to sort out what “indie sleaze” was and frankly I don’t think any of them match the zenith I hit with this playlist I made for a boudoir-themed Christmas party in December 2009
September 10, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I’ve listened to a bunch of playlists trying to sort out what “indie sleaze” was and frankly I don’t think any of them match the zenith I hit with this playlist I made for a boudoir-themed Christmas party in December 2009
Before I started reporting on rural public media, I did not comprehend the amount of work devoted to the regular natural disasters and climate emergencies they see. It’s been eye opening. Glad KVNF and @kuer.org are doing it, especially this terrible wildfire season
ruralpublic.org/blog/west-wi...
ruralpublic.org/blog/west-wi...
Through the West's Worst Fire Season in Years, Local Public Media Keeps their Communities Informed
In Paonia, CO and Salt Lake City, UT, KVNF and KUER’s two small newsrooms are covering a fast-moving disaster. Their reporters describe what it takes.
ruralpublic.org
September 2, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Before I started reporting on rural public media, I did not comprehend the amount of work devoted to the regular natural disasters and climate emergencies they see. It’s been eye opening. Glad KVNF and @kuer.org are doing it, especially this terrible wildfire season
ruralpublic.org/blog/west-wi...
ruralpublic.org/blog/west-wi...
We seem to be losing so many wonderful minds lately, & I’m somewhat stuck on this one. Soraya wrote a hugely lasting piece of music writing for me, where she explores something I’ve often felt since I was a teen: that tedious friction of hating art everyone else loves. longreads.com/2020/05/04/i...
![A screen grab from an piece called What Happens If I Don’t Like Fiona Apple? by Soraya Roberts: “After all of that, Wilson’s final words could have very well been all he had written: “[M]aybe you just find Fiona Apple a bit much.” The irony is that the same thing I critique her for — for being too solipsistic, for making it all too self-centered — is the same reason I can’t hear her straight. My reactions to art are as impulsive as my consumption is lonely. It’s why, ultimately, I can’t trust critics’ taste though I can trust their analysis, and why I can’t trust the artists themselves, only their art and my own experience of it. If you think about it, it’s a little crazy to believe in your gut when your gut is at least in part influenced by exposure: “acquired taste” is a thing for a reason. And yet I always seem hellbent on independently deciding on the quality of everything. If nothing else, I am entirely secure in my judgment, because, the thinking goes, I may not know much about anything else, but I know myself perfectly”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ahattnokqmdnog6n3gzic3h5/bafkreicr5sxulpw3t4gvdyto7qjpmmrqdd6vmo5p7zba4w56ulkj3upwz4)
August 28, 2026 at 1:19 AM
We seem to be losing so many wonderful minds lately, & I’m somewhat stuck on this one. Soraya wrote a hugely lasting piece of music writing for me, where she explores something I’ve often felt since I was a teen: that tedious friction of hating art everyone else loves. longreads.com/2020/05/04/i...
You ever hear a performance that makes you love and appreciate music that much more? One where you realize this is just as good as it gets? That the musicians just have found something perfect? Despite being 40+ minutes long, I have listened to this more than I can count youtu.be/U_5iALgdLYw?...
Fishmans - LONG SEASON (Live at Akasaka Blitz, 1998) [4K, CD Audio]
YouTube video by spnii_
youtu.be
July 15, 2026 at 1:34 AM
You ever hear a performance that makes you love and appreciate music that much more? One where you realize this is just as good as it gets? That the musicians just have found something perfect? Despite being 40+ minutes long, I have listened to this more than I can count youtu.be/U_5iALgdLYw?...
Always a pleasure to chat with a station outside the contiguous 48 and KKCR in Kaua’i was no different. “Community radio” means something different when you’re surrounded by water but the station & their volunteer DJs broadcast a lot further than the tiny island
noncommusic.org/stories/kkcr/
noncommusic.org/stories/kkcr/
On Kaua'i, KKCR Is the Island's Only Community Station - But It’s Half the World's Radio
From Japan to the mainland to all of Hawaii’s islands, the dozens of volunteer DJs that make up KKCR broadcast the small island’s sense of community far and wide
noncommusic.org
June 23, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Always a pleasure to chat with a station outside the contiguous 48 and KKCR in Kaua’i was no different. “Community radio” means something different when you’re surrounded by water but the station & their volunteer DJs broadcast a lot further than the tiny island
noncommusic.org/stories/kkcr/
noncommusic.org/stories/kkcr/
There’s a very specific man who gets a Knicks themed kei truck and frankly, I’d like to meet that man
June 18, 2026 at 10:48 PM
There’s a very specific man who gets a Knicks themed kei truck and frankly, I’d like to meet that man
Reposted by David DeKeyser
watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
May 15, 2026 at 11:33 AM
watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Proud to get to write about public media but especially happy with this one. Talked to Native Public Media and had an especially affecting chat with KOYA about the need for tribal radio to survive and what it means to have community radio continue a cultural history ruralpublic.org/blog/tribal-...
For Visually-Impaired Kansans in Rural Areas, Audio-Reader Brings the Local Stories
Audio-Reader has served individuals who are blind or print-disabled for more than 50 years. The program is carried across the state by a network of public radio stations that make the signal possible.
ruralpublic.org
May 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Proud to get to write about public media but especially happy with this one. Talked to Native Public Media and had an especially affecting chat with KOYA about the need for tribal radio to survive and what it means to have community radio continue a cultural history ruralpublic.org/blog/tribal-...
Picked back up our A Day In The Life series with a position I actually don’t interview much: Music Director, namely Stephen Philip Harvey at Delmarva Public Media about what it means to be less than a year into the job at an org that’s never readlly had an MD before noncommusic.org/stories/musi...
A Day in the Life of a Public Radio Music Director: Delmarva Public Media
Eight months into a newly created role, a saxophonist and educator shapes the sound of three stations on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
noncommusic.org
April 26, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Picked back up our A Day In The Life series with a position I actually don’t interview much: Music Director, namely Stephen Philip Harvey at Delmarva Public Media about what it means to be less than a year into the job at an org that’s never readlly had an MD before noncommusic.org/stories/musi...
Did one not about a station or a show but a program that's largely done THROUGH radio: Audio-Reader, a beautifully simple service to share local print media to those who are blind or print-disabled, volunteer-powered across KS and western MO for 50+ years ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...
For Visually-Impaired Kansans in Rural Areas, Audio-Reader Brings the Local Stories
Audio-Reader has served individuals who are blind or print-disabled for more than 50 years. The program is carried across the state by a network of public radio stations that make the signal possible.
ruralpublic.org
April 25, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Did one not about a station or a show but a program that's largely done THROUGH radio: Audio-Reader, a beautifully simple service to share local print media to those who are blind or print-disabled, volunteer-powered across KS and western MO for 50+ years ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...
For the noncomMUSIC Alliance side of @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social, I dug into 'Wyoming Sounds.' Had the chance to talk to its host and two WY bandleaders about how the show has helped them, built a scene among fans and musicians, and helped shape what the sound is noncommusic.org/stories/wyom...
Turn on Wyoming Sounds. You'll Hear a Friend on the Radio.
Wyoming Public Media's music program has spent ten years creating connections that make the nation's least populated state feel like “one big local scene.”
noncommusic.org
April 23, 2026 at 4:51 PM
For the noncomMUSIC Alliance side of @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social, I dug into 'Wyoming Sounds.' Had the chance to talk to its host and two WY bandleaders about how the show has helped them, built a scene among fans and musicians, and helped shape what the sound is noncommusic.org/stories/wyom...
Doing deep dives in states has been a joy in my reporting, and in Feb, I got to do Wyoming. On the Alliance for Rural Public Media side: a fight to define the value of state-level funding for @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social and public media in the state, then at risk
ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...
ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...
In Wyoming Public Media’s Budget Battle, Emergency Communications Hang in the Balance
The statewide broadcaster faces additional state funding cuts that threaten not just programming but public safety infrastructure rural communities depend on.
ruralpublic.org
April 23, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Doing deep dives in states has been a joy in my reporting, and in Feb, I got to do Wyoming. On the Alliance for Rural Public Media side: a fight to define the value of state-level funding for @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social and public media in the state, then at risk
ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...
ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...
So we’re just going to have to live in a world where in every public space we’re forever going to have to listen to the murmurs of 15-30 second video snippets of whatever some stray person is scrolling through on their phone huh. Anything we can do to stop this?
April 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
So we’re just going to have to live in a world where in every public space we’re forever going to have to listen to the murmurs of 15-30 second video snippets of whatever some stray person is scrolling through on their phone huh. Anything we can do to stop this?
Seeing a bunch of idiots arguing with a priest, offering flaccid appeals to just war theory is giving me flashbacks to sitting in my Catholic high school, Jesuit-taught philosophy class in 2003 hearing patient explanations to a bunch of Republicans’ kids why it wasn’t applicable to the war on terror
April 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Seeing a bunch of idiots arguing with a priest, offering flaccid appeals to just war theory is giving me flashbacks to sitting in my Catholic high school, Jesuit-taught philosophy class in 2003 hearing patient explanations to a bunch of Republicans’ kids why it wasn’t applicable to the war on terror
Ted as sharp as always on this. I came to Geese through consensus- “a lot of people are into this, might as well check it out” & to learn that part of this was astroturfing just feels gross. It feels like a marketing team manipulated the market and not actual community of fans and that’s loser shit
I have never heard a Geese song, so this is not a critique of them, and I can’t place any moral judgment on surreptitiously astro-turfing a fan base via tiktok sock puppet accounts creating ubiquity and a sense of inevitability that achieve their stated goal…
April 14, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Ted as sharp as always on this. I came to Geese through consensus- “a lot of people are into this, might as well check it out” & to learn that part of this was astroturfing just feels gross. It feels like a marketing team manipulated the market and not actual community of fans and that’s loser shit
My first 2026 story was a positive addendum to the year end batch on the after effects of losing CPB: documenting the work @npr.org did to pick up slack negotiating and executing the not terribly exciting but vitally important work of public media music licensing noncommusic.org/stories/musi...
Navigating Public Media Music Licensing After the Loss of CPB
NPR and PBS jointly launched a new portal to handle performing rights agreements for public media stations nationwide, with plans to continue supporting future licensing negotiations
noncommusic.org
April 14, 2026 at 6:49 PM
My first 2026 story was a positive addendum to the year end batch on the after effects of losing CPB: documenting the work @npr.org did to pick up slack negotiating and executing the not terribly exciting but vitally important work of public media music licensing noncommusic.org/stories/musi...
Should be better about sharing my writing so will start with one I missed from 2025- a short piece exploring when @blueridgepublic.bsky.social became an ad-hoc emergency hub after Hurricane Helene, the kind of rural community action made harder by the loss of the CPB ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...
In the Long Wake of Helene, Blue Ridge Public Radio is a Lifeline
When Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina, Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) was a vital lifeline. Providing 24-hour coverage when no one else could, BPR kept the community safe and informed...
ruralpublic.org
April 11, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Should be better about sharing my writing so will start with one I missed from 2025- a short piece exploring when @blueridgepublic.bsky.social became an ad-hoc emergency hub after Hurricane Helene, the kind of rural community action made harder by the loss of the CPB ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...
Has there ever been a person who has done politics this well
The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable.
The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back.
We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.
The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back.
We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.
April 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Has there ever been a person who has done politics this well
This wasn’t told to me but I’ll never forget it from another similar thread: “If there is a dog in your story- name the dog.” It has honestly become a mantra for me as a way to think about and dig into details you otherwise wouldn’t consider.
“Name the dog”
“Name the dog”
since this plainly sucks let me ask you: what's the best advice you got from an editor?
March 6, 2026 at 10:04 PM
This wasn’t told to me but I’ll never forget it from another similar thread: “If there is a dog in your story- name the dog.” It has honestly become a mantra for me as a way to think about and dig into details you otherwise wouldn’t consider.
“Name the dog”
“Name the dog”
Reposted by David DeKeyser
I’m excited to share I have a work of short fiction published in @kwelijournal.bsky.social. The story is excerpted from my novel set in mid-2000s Shanghai. I’m so honored the story found a home in a journal whose contributions the community I admire so much.
www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2025...
www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2025...
Encounter on the Bund by Mimi Wong — KWELI / Truth From the Diaspora's Boldest Voices
He watched as his companion for the past hour left, not bothering to cast even a backwards glance as she exited the bar arm in arm with another man.
www.kwelijournal.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I’m excited to share I have a work of short fiction published in @kwelijournal.bsky.social. The story is excerpted from my novel set in mid-2000s Shanghai. I’m so honored the story found a home in a journal whose contributions the community I admire so much.
www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2025...
www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2025...
The bummer I’ve felt doing these public media article wrapups on Bluesky the past two years is how few of the stations have accounts. If @npr.org can do it, so can you, local station! Promoters and music folk- do what you can to encourage them. I try to mention it at the end of my interviews now
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The bummer I’ve felt doing these public media article wrapups on Bluesky the past two years is how few of the stations have accounts. If @npr.org can do it, so can you, local station! Promoters and music folk- do what you can to encourage them. I try to mention it at the end of my interviews now
Was my 7th year having the privilege to write for 2 public media support orgs, the noncomMUSIC Alliance & the Alliance of Rural Media. I got to talk to a diverse set of people across the country about the unique joy of public radio. It was heartbreaking year but there is still enough to celebrate:
December 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Was my 7th year having the privilege to write for 2 public media support orgs, the noncomMUSIC Alliance & the Alliance of Rural Media. I got to talk to a diverse set of people across the country about the unique joy of public radio. It was heartbreaking year but there is still enough to celebrate:
It Happened to Me: I recognized someone I work with on a company-wide call as a person I first met via an anime message board 26 years ago
December 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It Happened to Me: I recognized someone I work with on a company-wide call as a person I first met via an anime message board 26 years ago
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December 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Supporting The Offing every year has meant I’m exposed to new writers and artists and helping give people the break they deserve. @mimiwong.bsky.social and I are committing this year to matching $500 in donations and we’re halfway there so we hope you can make a tax deductible donation today!