I haven't really looked at or paid attention to any results, but I'm pleased to say that, whatever they were or are, they strongly validate precisely whatever it is I've been saying.
Jacob Bacharach
@jacobbacharach.bsky.social
Novelist, critic, books about crooks. jacobbacharach.com
This is the purest form of true Pittsburgh architecture and home design. Don't ask me to explain. If you know, you know.
I wrote a sonnet about Telemachus racing Spider-Man.
"Marvelous, often lovely stuff, but unfortunately it is mostly hokum..." I reviewed Robert Wright's new book about AI: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
Adopt AI or Die?
In his new book “The God Test,” Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.
newrepublic.com
I wrote a sonnet about taking this longevity thing too far.
I wrote a sonnet about the most progressive parents in American giving theirchildren the most traditional names.
They're calling it "a hard summer rain in rural Carolina."
Firmly against the death penalty except for every single spectator currently overcrowding the course on the Alpe d'Huez.
I wrote a sonnet about whether the average person should be more afraid of the American rich, or Maoism.
Gently, but firmly, instructing my design-build firm to make my new home approximately 95% more ominous.
Given their respective outputs, I think that Christopher Nolan and Robert Eggers should team up and make the Kalevala.
My take on the Odyssey and also the trailer about Brad Pitt and the Dog is that all male actors are converging on becoming Josh Brolin.
What a stroke of historic luck to be alive at the same time as Tadej Pogacar.
The world may be complicated and unpredictable, but I take comfort in the solid, immovable certainty that there will always exist, in the Pittsburgh suburbs, a kind of house whose bland suburban exterior conceals an interior design deeply and firmly rooted in the unimaginable power of COCAINE.
I wrote a sonnet about being called an idiot for directly sending Elon Musk $25.
"No obvious blunders" is a fascinating and charming Britishism for the American "totally exonerated."
Stanley Pignal@spignal.bsky.social · last mo.Seen from abroad it's hard to make sense of what happened to Starmer. Big majority, centrist, fairly united party, no obvious blunders -- and somehow it went off the rail in just a few years. Political scientists will have their work cut out on this one.
A few years back I decided to really focus my public writing on book reviewing; enormous thanks to @lauramarsh.bsky.social and @newrepublic.com for giving me a regular forum. Could not do it without great editorial partnership.
Laura Marsh@lauramarsh.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongrats to @jacobbacharach.bsky.social and Rhoda Feng, finalists for the Kukula Award for non fiction book reviewing! washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/08/2...
