{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Alan Jacobs ","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/ayjay","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"650","username":"ayjay","bio":"✝️ 📚  📖  🖊   ⚽️  🏀  🎸 🎵  🎥  ","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":88,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Alan Jacobs ","url":"https://ayjay.org","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2022/650.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"97057696","content_html":"<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0513-m.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/06/071921.html","date_published":"2026-09-06T12:19:21+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":"2026-09-06 12:19","date_timestamp":1788697161,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96889782","content_html":"<p>Two quick announcements:</p>\n<p>Turns out my Sayers biography is already available in digital form — if you’re a subscriber to Oxford Academic: see <a href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/63288\">here</a>.</p>\n<p>Over at the Hog Blog, I have a <a href=\"https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/she-also-found-it-at-the-movies\">longish essay about the great American autobiographer Pauline Kael</a>. Some links seem to have disappeared from that piece; that’s...</p> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/03/two-quick-announcements-turns-out.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/03/two-quick-announcements-turns-out.html","date_published":"2026-09-03T13:19:26+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":"2026-09-03 13:19","date_timestamp":1788441566,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96850006","content_html":"<p>If I don't post much in the coming days and weeks <a href=\"https://blog.ayjay.org/in-these-late-days/\">this is why</a>.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/02/if-i-dont-post-much.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T21:07:01+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":"2026-09-02 21:07","date_timestamp":1788383221,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96828431","content_html":"<p>I feel that I ought to say something about what Wendell Berry has meant to me, but I am struggling to articulate it — partly because some family health difficulties are consuming my attention, but also because the debt is deep. Once, in the early 1990s, I was talking with a grad-school friend at a wedding...</p> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/02/i-feel-that-i-ought.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/02/i-feel-that-i-ought.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T13:45:00+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":"2026-09-02 13:45","date_timestamp":1788356700,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96827996","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://mcrawford.substack.com/p/the-fate-of-liberty-in-the-american\">Matt Crawford</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Momentarily on the back burner in 2020, the global emergency of carbon dioxide could still be summoned as needed. But with climate, as with Covid, the politically supine character of technical bodies tasked with science-settling, on behalf of the emerging order, shocked the intellectual conscience of many observers.</p>\n<p>Each of these putative emergencies has a solution: Net zero, the hygiene state, DEI. Each solution requires a tightening net of surveillance and social control. Each has its cadres of moralists, as well as its institutional functionaries. 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It was never self-righteous—Berry was often self-deprecating, self-questioning, or drily funny—and neither did it pretend that “going back to the past” was any kind of easy solution to the complex mess of the present. His enemies liked to pretend that both of these things were true, but what they probably disliked most about him was that he actually practiced what he preached. Berry never bought a computer or used a smartphone; he wouldn’t use air travel; and he lived and worked in the small...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/02/paul-kingsnorth-that-moral-certainty.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/02/paul-kingsnorth-that-moral-certainty.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T12:31:12+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":"2026-09-02 12:31","date_timestamp":1788352272,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96780630","content_html":"<p>I have a tip for anyone teaching Chesterton’s <em>The Man Who Was Thursday</em>. Begin your class thus: “Imagine that you’re sitting on a bench under a tree reading this book. An acquaintance comes up and asks what you’re reading. You show her. She says, ‘Hmmm. What’s it about?’ What do you say?”</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/01/i-have-a-tip-for.html","date_published":"2026-09-01T18:39:30+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":"2026-09-01 18:39","date_timestamp":1788287970,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96780457","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/Miraz\">@Miraz</a> The live oaks all over campus are old and enormous — I never get tired of looking at them.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/96780457","date_published":"2026-09-01T18:36:35+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":"2026-09-01 18:36","date_timestamp":1788287795,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96780381","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/bloftin2\">@bloftin2</a> Here’s hoping they’ll be friends to several more generations.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/96780381","date_published":"2026-09-01T18:35:52+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":"2026-09-01 18:35","date_timestamp":1788287752,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96779255","content_html":"<p><img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/182034381-10158351743333693-2353745337229411674-n-m.jpg\" alt=\"182034381 10158351743333693 2353745337229411674 n.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n<p>Green jay on javelina; South Texas represent. Via <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/texasparkswildlife/?hl=en\">Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife</a>. </p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/01/green-jay-on-javelina-south.html","date_published":"2026-09-01T18:09:26+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":"2026-09-01 18:09","date_timestamp":1788286166,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96768438","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://substack.com/home/post/p-212196644\">Mark Humphries</a>: “To my mind, the traditional research paper as a tool of differential assessment is now dead. And I think it should be left to rest in peace.” I believe this judgment is correct. </p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/01/mark-humphries-to-my-mind.html","date_published":"2026-09-01T14:29:39+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":"2026-09-01 14:29","date_timestamp":1788272979,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96767034","content_html":"<p><img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0503-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/01/084553.html","date_published":"2026-09-01T13:45:53+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":"2026-09-01 13:45","date_timestamp":1788270353,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96767035","content_html":"<p>Morning on campus. </p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\">\n<img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0504-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"599\" loading=\"lazy\"><img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0506-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"599\" loading=\"lazy\">\n</div>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/09/01/morning-on-campus.html","date_published":"2026-09-01T13:45:29+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":"2026-09-01 13:45","date_timestamp":1788270329,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96740474","content_html":"<p>This has been a dark day for me in many respects and now I learn that <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html\">Wendell Berry has died</a>. One blow too many. Thanks be to God for his message and his work. We shall not look upon his like again.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/31/this-has-been-a-dark.html","date_published":"2026-09-01T01:58:25+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":"2026-09-01 01:58","date_timestamp":1788227905,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96739887","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> And sometimes, as Austin K likes to say, “It’s not for me.” Which is fine. You can watch and enjoy <em>Saul</em> without knowing anything about BB, but if you know BB it is deeper.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/96739887","date_published":"2026-09-01T01:44:14+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":"2026-09-01 01:44","date_timestamp":1788227054,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96729638","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> That would help, but since <em>Breaking Bad</em> is the best TV program in history, it would be no punishment.</p>\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":"96725843","content_html":"<img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/100x/https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw154%2FbAbZBZmz25Lqk8A8mwMWzAkvlAj.jpg\" class=\"mini_cover\"><p>Teri and I are re-watching <a href=\"https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/60059/season/1\">Better Call Saul Season 1</a>. It is, as we remembered, amazingly good. We’ll go at least through Season 3; a certain event occurs at the end of Season 3 that, I think, takes some of the energy out of the show. But up to that point at least it’s an absolute triumph. 🍿</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/31/teri-and-i-are-rewatching.html","date_published":"2026-08-31T20:23:26+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":"2026-08-31 20:23","date_timestamp":1788207806,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96682012","content_html":"<p>If I had a serious professional podcast, the intro music would be “<a href=\"https://youtu.be/0DsFnQqN8uk?is=vOemO4B--TZkEt0x\">The Super-Natural</a>,” by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. 🎵</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/30/if-i-had-a-serious.html","date_published":"2026-08-31T00:39:53+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":"2026-08-31 00:39","date_timestamp":1788136793,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96671089","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://blog.ayjay.org/dear-walter/\">I had to give Walter Martin a piece of my mind</a>, such as it is.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/30/i-had-to-give-walter.html","date_published":"2026-08-30T19:45:18+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":"2026-08-30 19:45","date_timestamp":1788119118,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96661381","content_html":"<p>Ideal epitaph for my tombstone: </p>\n<p>GOOD IDEA,</p>\n<p>POOR EXECUTION</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/30/ideal-epitaph-for-my-tombstone.html","date_published":"2026-08-30T15:50:57+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":"2026-08-30 15:50","date_timestamp":1788105057,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96653504","content_html":"<p><img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0482-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/30/070636.html","date_published":"2026-08-30T12:06:36+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":"2026-08-30 12:06","date_timestamp":1788091596,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96633360","content_html":"<p>Angus before his bath: <em>For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. </em></p>\n<p><img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0485-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n<p>Fifteen minutes later: <em>Party Time! </em></p>\n<p><img style=\"display: block;  \" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0491-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/29/angus-before-his-bath-that.html","date_published":"2026-08-30T00:12:00+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":"2026-08-30 00:12","date_timestamp":1788048720,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96623547","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mwerickson\">@mwerickson</a> 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 <em>any</em> 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.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/96623547","date_published":"2026-08-29T20:05:01+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":"2026-08-29 20:05","date_timestamp":1788033901,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96617498","content_html":"<p>Part of the corkboard over my desk. <a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/wcaleb\">@wcaleb</a> (I wish I could reply with an image.)</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/404/2026/img-0484-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/29/part-of-the-corkboard-over.html","date_published":"2026-08-29T17:25:29+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":"2026-08-29 17:25","date_timestamp":1788024329,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96611253","content_html":"<p>It seems that every Premier League match features a commemoration of someone’s death. (Maybe a former player or manager from one of the sides playing, maybe a fan.) As my son says, the real motto of the PL is “Dust thou art, and to dust thou shall return.”</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/29/it-seems-that-every-premier.html","date_published":"2026-08-29T14:47:44+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":"2026-08-29 14:47","date_timestamp":1788014864,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96604504","content_html":"<p>Adam Roberts weighs in on the great question of our time: <a href=\"https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/how-tall-was-dorothy-l-sayers\">How tall was Dorothy L. Sayers?</a> I also comment.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/29/adam-roberts-weighs-in-on.html","date_published":"2026-08-29T11:26:01+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":"2026-08-29 11:26","date_timestamp":1788002761,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96584258","content_html":"<p>Hey look, it’s another <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/08/welcome-to-the-scrolling-backlash/688446/\">maybe-all-this-time-on-social-media-isn’t-good-for-me thing</a>. They keep coming, even though <a href=\"https://blog.ayjay.org/everyone-knows/\">everyone knows what the deal is</a>. You know, I know, we know. All these pieces are desperate evasions of the essential question: <em>Why</em> don’t we do what we all know we <em>should</em> do?</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/28/193948.html","date_published":"2026-08-29T00:39:48+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":"2026-08-29 00:39","date_timestamp":1787963988,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96568712","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/the-detection-club-miles-jupp-bryony-hannah-cara-theobold\">The Detection Club</a> looks like it might be fun, but I wonder about one thing: Why did the creators decide to make Miles Jupp look exactly like Chesterton but make Bryony Hannah and Cara Theobold look <em>nothing</em> like Christie and Sayers?</p>\n<p>For the record: Christie was tall (5'8\", unusual for the time) and fair, and...</p> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/28/the-detection-club-looks-like.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/28/the-detection-club-looks-like.html","date_published":"2026-08-28T19:22:38+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":"2026-08-28 19:22","date_timestamp":1787944958,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96558088","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> It shouldn’t bother me as much as it does!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/96558088","date_published":"2026-08-28T15:45:40+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":"2026-08-28 15:45","date_timestamp":1787931940,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96558080","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mbattles\">@mbattles</a> I’m making central Texas great again!</p>\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":"96557167","content_html":"<p>You all know how much I love micro.blog, but one thing drives me a little nuts: When I post something that has an error, immediately see the error and correct it, and then have to wait … and wait … and wait for the corrected version to go live. And it seems that every time that happens I get messages from...</p> <a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/28/you-all-know-how-much.html\">social.ayjay.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/28/you-all-know-how-much.html","date_published":"2026-08-28T15:26:50+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":"2026-08-28 15:26","date_timestamp":1787930810,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96556488","content_html":"<p>PSA: The body of water formerly known as Lake Waco will hereafter be known as Lake Ayjay. I have also renamed the Brazos River as the Ayjay River, and the Bosque River as the Other Ayjay River. I will not be taking questions at this time.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/08/28/psa-the-body-of-water.html","date_published":"2026-08-28T15:15:38+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":"2026-08-28 15:15","date_timestamp":1787930138,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96206709","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/patrickrhone\">@patrickrhone</a> 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.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/96206709","date_published":"2026-08-22T11:53:46+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":"2026-08-22 11:53","date_timestamp":1787399626,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95765065","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> I would absolutely try this … if Marco did customer support. Seems like too big a risk in the circumstances. Also: Fingers crossed for Wavelength.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/95765065","date_published":"2026-08-14T14:41:25+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":"2026-08-14 14:41","date_timestamp":1786718485,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95646385","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/wcaleb\">@wcaleb</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> Also, I assume that when someone does a Google search and interacts in any way with the Gemini response at the top of the search results, Google counts that as using Gemini.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/95646385","date_published":"2026-08-12T15:49:00+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":"2026-08-12 15:49","date_timestamp":1786549740,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94925220","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/dancohen\">@dancohen</a> Ack, I didn’t clock that, though I should have. Trouble on all sides!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94925220","date_published":"2026-07-30T17:42:10+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":"2026-07-30 17:42","date_timestamp":1785433330,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94805665","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> Same. But I can see millions of people choosing to sweat rather than live without TikTok for a day.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94805665","date_published":"2026-07-28T18:06:37+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":"2026-07-28 18:06","date_timestamp":1785261997,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94804963","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> I have a feeling we’re not that far from getting text messages saying “If you’d like to have air-conditioning for the next 24 hours, press 1. If you’d prefer to have the internet, press 2.”</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94804963","date_published":"2026-07-28T17:52:21+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":"2026-07-28 17:52","date_timestamp":1785261141,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94800166","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> So pumped about this!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94800166","date_published":"2026-07-28T16:11:35+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":"2026-07-28 16:11","date_timestamp":1785255095,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94749066","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/grmr\">@grmr</a> Steven and I have been talking for a decade about hosting a year-long cohort: four seasons, four meetings, four books — let’s do it!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94749066","date_published":"2026-07-27T18:33:48+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":"2026-07-27 18:33","date_timestamp":1785177228,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94588182","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> I’m hoping (but not expecting) that the two roads will clearly diverge and some people will just do video while others will just do audio.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94588182","date_published":"2026-07-24T15:11:53+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":"2026-07-24 15:11","date_timestamp":1784905913,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94587781","content_html":"<p>One super-annoying thing about the podcast pivot to video: Many podcasters now think of video as the normal way to experience their podcasts, so they’ll regularly refer to images they’re displaying — images I can’t see, because I only listen to podcasts when I’m walking, driving, or lying in bed with my eyes closed. Podcasters increasingly assume that people are looking at screens <em>every minute of the day</em>. But wasn’t it always one of the virtues of podcasts that you don’t have to look at them?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94587781","date_published":"2026-07-24T15:04:31+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":"2026-07-24 15:04","date_timestamp":1784905471,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94536251","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mwerickson\">@mwerickson</a> Might not be worth it just for that little detail! (I also don’t think it one of Tarkovsky’s best.)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94536251","date_published":"2026-07-23T18:04:40+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":"2026-07-23 18:04","date_timestamp":1784829880,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94461133","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> Wonderful. And may you have at least 41 more.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94461133","date_published":"2026-07-22T13:30:51+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":"2026-07-22 13:30","date_timestamp":1784727051,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94285807","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> I guess they’ve been getting angry at strangers online for so long that it seems normal to them. The nice thing about getting away from it for a while is that you remember that it’s a pretty weird thing to do.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94285807","date_published":"2026-07-19T17:34:10+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":"2026-07-19 17:34","date_timestamp":1784482450,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94280377","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ablerism\">@ablerism</a> I find all this really fascinating! — in large part I guess because my own handedness is so peculiar.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94280377","date_published":"2026-07-19T15:04:54+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":"2026-07-19 15:04","date_timestamp":1784473494,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94184896","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manginajoe\">@manginajoe</a> I must save my reply for a later follow-up post! 😉</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94184896","date_published":"2026-07-17T18:39:38+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":"2026-07-17 18:39","date_timestamp":1784313578,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94171580","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> The homemade feature would be even better – no need to connect to an external service.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94171580","date_published":"2026-07-17T14:09:31+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":"2026-07-17 14:09","date_timestamp":1784297371,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94164322","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> I hope this means that Auphonic integration with Wavelength will continue in the new version. That’s a really nice feature. (And I’m eager to start micro-podcasting when the new Wavelength is released.)</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94164322","date_published":"2026-07-17T11:38:51+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":"2026-07-17 11:38","date_timestamp":1784288331,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94110930","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> We absolutely do <em>not</em> have to build those data centers. Maybe we should, maybe we shouldn’t, but we don’t have to. We could live without them. The world’s biggest and most predatory corporations, like the world’s most predatory politicians, always say “We have no choice.” But the first step towards making the right decisions is realizing that we can choose.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/ayjay/94110930","date_published":"2026-07-16T14:50:19+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":"2026-07-16 14:50","date_timestamp":1784213419,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}}]}