Things I have liked recently: K-pop Demon Hunters, Arcane, Holly Humberstone. Please, what are some other good things I should know?
Thomas Bulen Jacobs
@tbjacobs.bsky.social
Writer www.thomasbulenjacobs.com https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/cyberscion
I just want to say that I don’t like Jon Ossof and I’m already bummed by his anointing.
As colleges and universities implement AI for educating students, we must remember that AI cannot truly teach, and relinquishing this responsibility would be to ignore the spark of God in every one of our students. open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...
Teachers Cannot be Replaced by AI, or What I Learned from Roger Haight, SJ
By Brianne Bell Jacobs
open.substack.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/marco-rubi... This was obvious in 2015, to anyone who cared to see it
Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller, in the Original German
They keep telling you who they are.
thebulwark.com
A beautiful review of @briannejacobs.bsky.social lovely and important book Holy Body. (Out now in paperback!) jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/1658...
Review of Holy Body: Gender and Sexual Difference in Theological Anthropology and Ecclesiology | Published in Journal of Moral Theology
By Annie Selak. Review of Holy Body: Gender and Sexual Difference in Theological Anthropology and Ecclesiology, by Brianne Bell Jacobs
jmt.scholasticahq.com
I'm doing an author talk at the local library. Come! Ask questions! Talk shop! 8/12/26 7PM Register here: norwoodlibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/tal...
Talking Craft w/ Local Author Thomas Bulen Jacobs
Morrill Memorial Library is excited to host local author Thomas Bulen Jacobs for
norwoodlibrary.assabetinteractive.com
I’m almost done with this one. Forgot it won the Newberry too
“Some stories are day stories…” One of my favorite opening lines from the inimitable @ceciliatan.com One of my new favorite books, with such a light touch. Lovely, sweet, mysterious.
www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/o... ““Catching one’s thoughts as they arise is a lot more difficult than it sounds,” she said. “I suspect that fiction writers develop the ability to watch their own thoughts arising in the course of writing.””
An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day | Michael Pollan
What novelists can teach neuroscientists about consciousness.
laphamsquarterly.org
Would love to see an analysis of which police departments saw higher than usual requests for time off today. Why? No reason.
If you're in or near Beverly, Massachusetts this Wednesday, July 8 at 6 PM, swing by @copperdogbooks.bsky.social to join me and @ceciliatan.com for the launch of The Mystery of the Bitten Peach
getting hype for this MA event at @copperdogbooks.bsky.social with @ceciliatan.com @tbjacobs.bsky.social & @omgjulia.bsky.social
good point consider picking up CYBERSCION by @tbjacobs.bsky.social & THE MYSTERY OF TH BITTEN PEACH by @ceciliatan.com for half off and nominating purposes or, you know, pay full price to support indie SFF if you got those kind of dollars 💸
Isobel Frost@theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 2mo agohuge for people looking at novellas that might be nominated for Hugo’s: two in here for a cool £3 each with this!
I just finished "Cyberscion" by @tbjacobs.bsky.social . A delightful cyberpunk exploration with a hint of romance and political intrigue; the ended was not in the direction I had expected and yet it is all the better for what is was. I would be fascinated to see more in this universe. Amazing Work.
Susan Marie Richfield@jjgyet.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy summer reading list. "The Iron Below Remembers" by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social "Cyberscion" by @tbjacobs.bsky.social "The Dead Withheld" by @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app "Death Valley Blooms" by @whatsmacksaid.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... People voted for this suppurating pustule of a human being three full times
Trump to skip son’s wedding that he labeled a ‘no-win’ for him: report
President insisted he would be criticized whether he attended, or did not attend, his eldest son’s wedding
independent.co.uk
Story about St. John's College, my alma mater, in Chronicle of Higher Ed (you can usually get a free article or register for free!) www.chronicle.com/article/st-j... #SJCA #Annapolis #GreatBooks
St. John’s College Is Weird. Maybe Yours Should Be More Like It.
Its Great Books approach is anachronistic, and spreading.
chronicle.com
I’m not crying. It’s just been raining on my face.
How am I just now hearing about Arcane??!! #Arcane #steampunk #cyberpunk
aeon.co/essays/the-r... “…because genuine literacy is a training in disinterestedness, in generously reflecting on the meaning of chosen expressions.”
aeon.co
@noahkahan.bsky.social somehow finding even higher heights with The Great Divide. Fucking hell, 10/10 perfection. I’m not given to hyperbole or false praise. This album is a masterpiece.