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\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/01/rowan-williams-weve-tried-over.html","date_published":"2026-05-01T12:23:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"12:23","date_timestamp":1777638181,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89378920","content_html":"We’ve tried over Christian history, in all sorts of ways and contexts, to imitate other kinds of militancy. And my feeling about that is: well that worked, didn’t it! I want to ask: how does Christ change things? One thing I think you can be fairly sure about in the New Testament is that he doesn’t use the techniques of available power systems. ‘This is how the kings of the gentiles work.’ What we do in our militancy for the faith, that is our committed and courageous attempt to witness to what we’ve been given and make it available to others, we do by lives of holiness — which means...
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I have Thoughts about the Battle of Arnhem.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/05/01/i-have-thoughts-about-the.html","date_published":"2026-05-01T11:59:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"11:59","date_timestamp":1777636798,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89348870","content_html":"The funny thing about Matt Taibbi's summary of Samuel Moyn’s new book — “Old People Suck and We Should Take Their Stuff\" — is that it's 100% accurate. That is precisely what Moyn argues.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/30/the-funny-thing-about-matt.html","date_published":"2026-04-30T22:26:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 22:26","date_timestamp":1777587965,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89312126","content_html":"\n\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/30/hal-foster-looking-at-a.html","date_published":"2026-04-30T13:07:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 13:07","date_timestamp":1777554446,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89311799","content_html":"Looking at a painting is a welcome respite from scanning a screen. In that sense, this exercise is reactive: I labor in the small cottage industry of attention that has sprouted up in the cracks of the massive complex of distraction all around us. A phenomenological turn often occurs at times of intensive mediation, but the point is not simply to have our perceptions mirrored back to us. T. J. Clark has put the aim nicely: “When I am in front of a picture the thing I most want is to enter the picture’s world: it is the possibility of doing so that makes pictures worth looking at for me.”...
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@ablerism Buggy MS software will follow us to the ends of the cosmos.
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\nCurrently reading: Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock. Bullock is obviously drawing on Plutarch — and the story of how widely read Plutarch used to be versus how completely unknown he is today is a story worth telling — but he also says this in his preface: “Looking back, I cannot think of a...
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/30/hank-greens-timeline-of-artemis.html","date_published":"2026-04-30T12:17:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 12:17","date_timestamp":1777551427,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89284113","content_html":"
I’m getting a start on my critical edition of Auden’s Nones, and reflecting that one of the chief pleasures of doing this work is the requirement that I own and consult the original Random House and Faber editions of the volumes. I’m amassing an interesting collection.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/29/im-getting-a-start-on.html","date_published":"2026-04-30T01:06:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 01:06","date_timestamp":1777511181,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89266053","content_html":"It’s the bester Bleistiftspitzer.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/d612dd3cd4.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/29/its-the-bester-bleistiftspitzer.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T19:28:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 19:28","date_timestamp":1777490883,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89255869","content_html":"A post on being fair to Harvey Mansfield.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/29/condition-versus-cause-the-homebound.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T17:08:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 17:08","date_timestamp":1777482530,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89254258","content_html":"![\"Tumblr](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/tumblr-ee0ea767ea37a7e059ded0d1e34e7bed-cb1c3d11-1280-m.jpg\")
I do love me some Caslon
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/29/i-do-love-me-some.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T16:17:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 16:17","date_timestamp":1777479437,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89211881","content_html":"“Influencers” and “content creators”: People who want to affect others in unspecified ways for unspecified reasons by unspecified means.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/28/influencers-and-content-creators-people.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T01:27:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 01:27","date_timestamp":1777426065,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89178667","content_html":"![\"2014-01-02](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/2014-01-02-wish-here-03-m.jpg\")
This biographer of C. S. Lewis has no comment.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/27/this-biographer-of-c-s.html","date_published":"2026-04-27T22:27:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 22:27","date_timestamp":1777328846,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89105492","content_html":"Currently reading: A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from The Readers’ Subscription and Mid-century Book Clubs. It’s odd to think that Auden and Barzun were born in the same year, two years after Trilling — and Barzun lived until 2012. 📚
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\n\nI am reminded by the appearance of this delightful magazine that my own desultory education happened in large measure in the pages of periodicals. Many were the hours I sat at coffeeshops and bars, or in my little apartment over cheap dinners, reading the Times Literary Supplement, First Things, Commentary, the New Criterion, National Review, the Weekly Standard, the Atlantic and, in its latter days, Partisan Review. In those pages I learned how little I knew and what I might read to remedy my situation. There I also found lessons in putting words in the right order.
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For every thousand...
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/27/this-announcement-of-delays-ahead.html","date_published":"2026-04-27T14:38:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 14:38","date_timestamp":1777300739,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89097973","content_html":"Delays Ahead: cosmosmalick.net
","summary":"","url":"https://cosmosmalick.net/2026/04/27/delays-ahead.html","date_published":"2026-04-27T13:10:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 13:10","date_timestamp":1777295405,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89071306","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780865972124/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: Twilight of Authority by Robert Nisbet (1975). Nisbet has long been an important writer for me, but this, the only one of his major books I hadn’t read, is a disappointment, vague and full of moot assertions. There’a a provocative point in the Preface, though: having made the familiar old-school conservative case that we suffer from a decline in civil society, in the various institutions that mediate between individuals and the state, he adds this:
\n\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/26/finished-reading-twilight-of-authority.html","date_published":"2026-04-27T01:25:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 01:25","date_timestamp":1777253137,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89071050","content_html":"Accompanying the decline of institutions and the decay of values in such ages [of decline as ours] is the cultivation of power that...
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One lawn down the street from us is filled this evening with fireflies! — or lightning bugs, as we called them in Alabama when I was growing up. It’s so wonderful to see them: they are rare now (I hadn’t seen any for years) but they filled the summer evenings of my childhood. Sitting cross-legged on the...
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Gianni Benvenuti, illustration from Winny-Puh (the Italian translation of Winnie-the-Pooh).
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/25/gianni-benvenuti-illustration-from-winnypuh.html","date_published":"2026-04-25T13:38:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-25 13:38","date_timestamp":1777124286,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88984820","content_html":"![\"Benvenuti](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/benvenuti-illustration-m.jpg\")
British footy announcers identifying a player from the U.S. when he does something impressive: “the Fulham left-back,” “the Juventus midfielder,” etc.
\nBritish footy announcers identifying the same player when he does something wrong: “The American.”
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/24/british-footy-announcers-identifying-a.html","date_published":"2026-04-24T16:32:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 16:32","date_timestamp":1777048375,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88929950","content_html":"@mbattles I’m not sure it’s beyond assessment either, but, as I said, I don’t know how the assessment might be done or whether Neuman is even interested in that.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/88929950","date_published":"2026-04-24T14:18:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 14:18","date_timestamp":1777040315,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88927792","content_html":"@ablerism I also feel that it’s important to make an accurate assessment of how much influence we have over our students’ lives. Even the most charismatic an d compelling teacher is just one voice among many, and any scheme that assumes that we have have the power to re-shape students’ minds is bound to fail. We need to know our limits and work well within them.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/88927792","date_published":"2026-04-24T13:45:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 13:45","date_timestamp":1777038312,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88927520","content_html":"From an earlier essay by Elizabeth on the alternative to thinking of every social/cultural political situation as a pitched battle:
\n\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/24/from-an-earlier-essay-on.html","date_published":"2026-04-24T13:37:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 13:37","date_timestamp":1777037836,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88925481","content_html":"Warriors are right that this world is certainly full of problems, and sometimes battles must be fought. Nobody can shrug them off or pretend that they don’t exist. But losers don’t in fact shun the active life. Instead, they are engaged in activity that takes place in a much deeper stratum of consciousness than political and journalistic warfare. They invest energy in existentially permanent activities, like loving and caring for other people: children, students, family,...
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My friend and colleague Elizabeth Corey:
\n\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/24/my-friend-and-colleague-elizabeth.html","date_published":"2026-04-24T13:03:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 13:03","date_timestamp":1777035782,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88919252","content_html":"Certainly the professoriate leans leftward. But it turns out that people from right and left can agree on many things despite our differences: for example, what to read in our courses, pedagogical practices, and how to care for our students. In short, we live and work among people who differ from us in all sorts of ways, yet it’s possible and sometimes even delightful to become friends with those we thought initially we wouldn’t like. The friend/enemy dichotomy doesn’t make sense here. We must bridge all kinds of divides, not search and destroy. Only within the...
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On the right tools for the (or my) classroom job.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/24/on-the-right-tools-for.html","date_published":"2026-04-24T11:17:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-24 11:17","date_timestamp":1777029441,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88882459","content_html":"@mbattles I am pleased to say that I saw her in Chicago, but it was several years later and at the Riviera. It was a great show.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/88882459","date_published":"2026-04-23T21:10:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-23 21:10","date_timestamp":1776978626,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88869713","content_html":"@ablerism But maybe it’s the bow he makes in acknowledgement of the gift.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/88869713","date_published":"2026-04-23T17:45:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-23 17:45","date_timestamp":1776966348,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88868919","content_html":"@ablerism I thought of bewilderment as the bow (pronounced as in “go”) on the gift.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/88462405","date_published":"2026-04-17T17:59:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-17 17:59","date_timestamp":1776448778,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88237838","content_html":"@ablerism My chief worry is about the people (mainly young) who can’t surrender what they don’t possess.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/88237838","date_published":"2026-04-14T15:20:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-14 15:20","date_timestamp":1776180020,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88171565","content_html":"@patrickrhone I’d like that! — but on the other hand, I also enjoy the mystery. It’s fun to speculate.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/88171565","date_published":"2026-04-13T16:13:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-13 16:13","date_timestamp":1776096796,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88169543","content_html":"@patrickrhone There seem to be many mysteries surrounding Guinan.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/88169543","date_published":"2026-04-13T15:41:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-13 15:41","date_timestamp":1776094881,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87984119","content_html":"@fayaz That’s so kind of you! And Austin is one of my funniest friends.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/87984119","date_published":"2026-04-10T14:48:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-10 14:48","date_timestamp":1775832485,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87867386","content_html":"@JohnBrady Probably Robin took his original post down? Sorry, I can’t help.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/87867386","date_published":"2026-04-08T21:05:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-08 21:05","date_timestamp":1775682305,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87867053","content_html":"@JohnBrady Did you do a web search for the phrase?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/87867053","date_published":"2026-04-08T21:00:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-08 21:00","date_timestamp":1775682055,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87666208","content_html":"@patrickrhone I think I might actually produce a syllabus! Stay tuned.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/87666208","date_published":"2026-04-06T00:13:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-06 00:13","date_timestamp":1775434383,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87546304","content_html":"@mwerickson Explanation coming soon!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/87546304","date_published":"2026-04-03T19:03:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-03 19:03","date_timestamp":1775243022,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87477459","content_html":"@mwerickson ☺️
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/87477459","date_published":"2026-04-02T16:51:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-02 16:51","date_timestamp":1775148701,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87257022","content_html":"@lukemperez Very true, but I am not convinced that we need another essay saying “You really need to internalize this.”
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/87257022","date_published":"2026-03-30T15:37:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-30 15:37","date_timestamp":1774885065,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87199885","content_html":"@frjonjordan “There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.” The key must cast into the fires of Mount Doom, whence it came.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/87199885","date_published":"2026-03-29T15:44:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-29 15:44","date_timestamp":1774799066,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87198897","content_html":"@manton Thanks, Manton! I’ll see how it goes. I have one related problem that I’ll share via email (screenshots).
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/87198897","date_published":"2026-03-29T15:28:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F650.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ayjay"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-29 15:28","date_timestamp":1774798096,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87160829","content_html":"@manton FWIW, changing to 0.158 makes no difference to me. It still takes several minutes for a post to show up, and if I make any edits to that post, those won’t show up for hours.
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