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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Things I have liked recently: K-pop Demon Hunters, Arcane, Holly Humberstone. Please, what are some other good things I should know?

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just want to say that I don’t like Jon Ossof and I’m already bummed by his anointing.

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Brianne Jacobs @briannejacobs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As colleges and universities implement AI for educating students, we must remember that AI cannot truly teach, and relinquishing this responsibility would be to ignore the spark of God in every one of our students. open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...

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Teachers Cannot be Replaced by AI, or What I Learned from Roger Haight, SJ

By Brianne Bell Jacobs

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Man. What a disappointment, coming back to this dud after 30 years.

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Somehow this is not the pitchbot

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Final book of The Dark Is Rising

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm doing an author talk at the local library. Come! Ask questions! Talk shop! 8/12/26 7PM Register here: norwoodlibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/tal...

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Talking Craft w/ Local Author Thomas Bulen Jacobs

Morrill Memorial Library is excited to host local author Thomas Bulen Jacobs for

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I’m almost done with this one. Forgot it won the Newberry too

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“Some stories are day stories…” One of my favorite opening lines from the inimitable @ceciliatan.com One of my new favorite books, with such a light touch. Lovely, sweet, mysterious.

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/o... ““Catching one’s thoughts as they arise is a lot more difficult than it sounds,” she said. “I suspect that fiction writers develop the ability to watch their own thoughts arising in the course of writing.””

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An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day | Michael Pollan

What novelists can teach neuroscientists about consciousness.

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My mom has my old copies in her attic somewhere - I must have gotten them in the 90s. It’s funny to be reading them 30 years later and see what I remember correctly versus what I interpolated over the years. Stands up, though, it’s so so good.

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Would love to see an analysis of which police departments saw higher than usual requests for time off today. Why? No reason.

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you're in or near Beverly, Massachusetts this Wednesday, July 8 at 6 PM, swing by @copperdogbooks.bsky.social to join me and @ceciliatan.com for the launch of The Mystery of the Bitten Peach

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

good point consider picking up CYBERSCION by @tbjacobs.bsky.social & THE MYSTERY OF TH BITTEN PEACH by @ceciliatan.com for half off and nominating purposes or, you know, pay full price to support indie SFF if you got those kind of dollars 💸

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Fantastic cover: Greenwitch by Susan Cooper #thedarkisrising

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Read this as a kid and am now borrowing my son’s copy. #thedarkisrising

Cover of the book Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Story about St. John's College, my alma mater, in Chronicle of Higher Ed (you can usually get a free article or register for free!) www.chronicle.com/article/st-j... #SJCA #Annapolis #GreatBooks

chronicle.com

St. John’s College Is Weird. Maybe Yours Should Be More Like It.

Its Great Books approach is anachronistic, and spreading.

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I’m not crying. It’s just been raining on my face.

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

My only question is: does it end well? Not happy. I’m thinking of the number of shows that kind of limp to an unsatisfying end.

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

aeon.co/essays/the-r... “…because genuine literacy is a training in disinterestedness, in generously reflecting on the meaning of chosen expressions.”

aeon.co

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

@noahkahan.bsky.social somehow finding even higher heights with The Great Divide. Fucking hell, 10/10 perfection. I’m not given to hyperbole or false praise. This album is a masterpiece.

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Thinking of calling the sequel to Cyberscion... Cyber2cion

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Currently reading Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

@jvl.bsky.social coming for Douthat in today's Triad from @thebulwark.com is what I live for

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

From the incomparable @briannejacobs.bsky.social A theology of gender flourishing

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Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We did a book launch! @esther-alter.bsky.social moderated a conversation with cyberpunk savant @robotleblanc.bsky.social whose knowledge of the genre blew my mind. So much fun, a great venue at Side Quest Books.

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