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I’m shutting down my BMAC page and I won’t be posting here, or anywhere else, for (probably) six months. Deo volente, I shall return!
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/27/065817.html","date_published":"2026-10-27T11:58:17+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":"2026-10-27 11:58","date_timestamp":1793102297,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99909215","content_html":"J. Todd Anderson, storyboarder extraordinaire
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/26/j-todd-anderson-storyboarder-extraordinaire.html","date_published":"2026-10-26T15:32:53+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":"2026-10-26 15:32","date_timestamp":1793028773,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99907460","content_html":"![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/birdfence-m.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/26/100048.html","date_published":"2026-10-26T15:00:48+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":"2026-10-26 15:00","date_timestamp":1793026848,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99899763","content_html":"Bible verse for my students: “I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.” (Proverbs 5:13-14)
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/26/bible-verse-for-my-students.html","date_published":"2026-10-26T12:05:53+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":"2026-10-26 12:05","date_timestamp":1793016353,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99870473","content_html":"\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/25/i-want-to-be-like.html","date_published":"2026-10-25T21:25:56+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":"2026-10-25 21:25","date_timestamp":1792963556,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99775262","content_html":"Listening to Charles Mingus: Blues & Roots. One of the masterpieces of jazz. Sounds brand-new every time, though it’s almost as old as I am. 🎵
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/23/listening-to-charles-mingus-blues.html","date_published":"2026-10-24T00:58:03+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":"2026-10-24 00:58","date_timestamp":1792803483,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99775035","content_html":"@mwerickson Might be specific to our neighborhood. Our squirrels are numerous and super-aggressive. Did you know that squirrels can eat through chicken wire?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/99775035","date_published":"2026-10-24T00:49:57+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":"2026-10-24 00:49","date_timestamp":1792802997,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99775004","content_html":"\nEverybody who tries to read a page like this — typical of legacy journalism online — hits the “Reader View” button, or saves to Instapaper or a similar service, because if you want to read the article there’s no alternative. (I only saw the above because I accidentally hit the Reader View button a second...
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Having done extensive research into the possibility of growing a lot of vegetables — after some halfhearted attempts in the past — I have come to two conclusions:
\nIf I were fifteen years younger I would already have written a long post on the Sally Rooney kerfuffle. Ten years younger: I would want to write such a post but might be able to restrain myself. Five years younger: I’d be feeling that I probably should have an opinion on the subject and would worry a little...
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\nFinished reading: Distant Neighbors by Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder. 📚 Berry to Snyder, 1978:
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/22/finished-reading-distant-neighbors-by.html","date_published":"2026-10-22T14:15:40+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":"2026-10-22 14:15","date_timestamp":1792678540,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99628800","content_html":"I am, I believe, a “non-violent” fighter. But I am a fighter. And I see with considerable sorrow that I am not going to get done fighting and live at peace in anything like the simple way I once thought I would. So how to keep from becoming evil?
\nMaybe the answer is to fight always for what you particularly love, not for abstractions and not against anything: don’t fight against even the devil, and don’t fight “to save the world.”
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The Rio Grande at Big Bend National Park. Some people want to build a Big Beautiful Wall right there.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/21/the-rio-grande-at-big.html","date_published":"2026-10-21T17:25:00+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":"2026-10-21 17:25","date_timestamp":1792603500,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99627245","content_html":"Over at Personal History, I wrote about photography.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/21/over-at-personal-history-i.html","date_published":"2026-10-21T16:57:38+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":"2026-10-21 16:57","date_timestamp":1792601858,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99620080","content_html":"![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/chisos-m.jpg\")
Chisos Mountains, 2014
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/21/chisos-mountains.html","date_published":"2026-10-21T14:56:21+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":"2026-10-21 14:56","date_timestamp":1792594581,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99619208","content_html":"![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0745-2-m.jpg\")
Seeing the World Again ![\"Large](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/387359/2026/large-item-4372372-10d0cec734.jpg\")
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: personalhistory.ayjay.org
George Saunders (yeah, I'm breaking my vow, but this is too funny not to quote):
\n\nsocial.ayjay.org","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/19/george-saunders-yeah-im-breaking.html","date_published":"2026-10-19T13:16:17+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":"2026-10-19 13:16","date_timestamp":1792415777,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99493019","content_html":"Think of it this way: there’s plenty to do, right now, with just these minds we’ve been given: fight our anxiety, temper our cruelty, foster loving-kindness, try to figure out just what a mind is and what sort of trap it’s making for us in every moment. (Or: learn to skate, make a better omelet, play Bach, etc.) These things make up the (honorable, pleasurable) work of a lifetime. In what way does AI make life better, really? And for whom? In the end, will AI be there to guide us across to the other side and soothe our...
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How LEGO Engineered the Perfect Plaything
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The pre-dawn walk with Angus is one of the best times of my day, especially as I usually listen to the Church of England’s service of Morning Prayer as we walk. This morning’s service was especially lovely.
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Yesterday evening as I was setting the table I experienced The Transfiguration of the Watermelon.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/19/yesterday-evening-as-i-was.html","date_published":"2026-10-19T12:23:52+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":"2026-10-19 12:23","date_timestamp":1792412632,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99471406","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/100x/https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw154%2FtgNjemQPG96uIezpiUiXFcer5ga.jpg\")
Watched: High and Low — for the third time. An absolutely bonkers and absolutely brilliant movie, profoundly influential on everything from Schindler’s List to modern heist movies to any number of animes. 🍿
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/18/watched-high-and-low-for.html","date_published":"2026-10-19T02:15:23+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":"2026-10-19 02:15","date_timestamp":1792376123,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99449445","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780821258224/cover.jpg\")
\nCurrently contemplating: Portfolios of Ansel Adams by Ansel Adams, John Szarkowski. I bought this book in 1982, but this is the first time I’m going through it systematically and very slowly. 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/10/18/currently-contemplating-portfolios-of-ansel.html","date_published":"2026-10-18T15:01:53+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":"2026-10-18 15:01","date_timestamp":1792335713,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99446282","content_html":"\nAnsel Adams, Moon and Half Dome (1960). Larger version here, and you have to see the larger version. It’s worth remembering that, as Louise Story wrote some years ago, “Yosemite does not often appear as it did at the moments Adams tripped his shutter. Nor is it easy to stand where he stood and capture the...
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/98886971","date_published":"2026-10-08T17:24:19+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":"2026-10-08 17:24","date_timestamp":1791480259,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98720263","content_html":"@manton For us users there will be a powerful prejudice in favor of developers we know to be legitimate and serious. The people I feel worst for are new developers who are not peddling slop — they’ll be impossible to find and if you find them difficult to trust.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/98720263","date_published":"2026-10-05T23:11:11+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":"2026-10-05 23:11","date_timestamp":1791241871,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98596681","content_html":"\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/98596681","date_published":"2026-10-03T12:02:54+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":"2026-10-03 12:02","date_timestamp":1791028974,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98427865","content_html":"@frjonjordan Honestly, I expect no punishment at all. My guess is that City will just keep appealing and filing lawsuits – they have bottomless pockets, after all – until finally the whole thing just fades away.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/98427865","date_published":"2026-09-30T14:23:12+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":"2026-09-30 14:23","date_timestamp":1790778192,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98310992","content_html":"@KevinHoltsberry Her best novel is The Nine Tailors, so it’s tempting to name that one as the starting point, but it’s unusual in several respects, so I would probably say Strong Poison (the first novel that introduces Harriet Vane alongside Lord Peter).
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/98310992","date_published":"2026-09-28T14:26:21+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":"2026-09-28 14:26","date_timestamp":1790605581,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98309823","content_html":"@KevinHoltsberry That would depend on whether you’re interested in detective fiction, theology, drama, literary criticism, or medieval poetry!
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/97516755","date_published":"2026-09-14T13:45:57+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":"2026-09-14 13:45","date_timestamp":1789393557,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97363358","content_html":"@ablerism I’m sure these old memories are very strong today.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/96729638","date_published":"2026-08-31T21:53:16+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":"2026-08-31 21:53","date_timestamp":1788213196,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96623547","content_html":"@mwerickson Each of us has to discern his or her own calling, but FWIW, I am here to show people the wonderful resources for thinking and living that are available through (a) things that are not online at all and (b) things that are online but obscure and not in any way part of The Discourse. My constraint is that I will not participate in any social media platform to do this – people have to find me on the open web only. Once I realized that participating in The Discourse in any form whatsoever is a betrayal of my calling, I gained real and really-God-given peace. Again: FWIW.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/96558080","date_published":"2026-08-28T15:45:27+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":"2026-08-28 15:45","date_timestamp":1787931927,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96206709","content_html":"@patrickrhone Maybe worth a try! (Though that’s not my preferred way to listen to music.) l’ve got a feeling that the sonic elements that are painful to me are just what the band wants to create.
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