Jacob Siefring
public library worker. editor @ the empyrean series. translator of books (FR>EN). ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com
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- whenever i have to do something potentially embarrassing, i just think, “i have humiliated & embarrassed myself so many times, very well then!”
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- to my mild surprise my 14-year-old is playing “no surprises” on electric guitar. kind of impressive nonetheless
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- “Throughout the Zhou dynasty, the Chinese had a practice of burying slaves and wives alive with their deceased husbands and masters; this practice was known as ‘the living sepulture‘.” Max Massa in the notes to the Niu Sengru book
- huh, i saw something podcast-related, and i just remembered, i’m still a hater
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- Reposted by Jacob SiefringAll the stars are here: Brantley Gilbert, Brice Bradley, Gabby Babby, Bibb Glibsy, Slab Gabbert, Brice Bryce,
- Reposted by Jacob SiefringI've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.
- “GO TO HELL WITH YOUR MONEY, BASTARD. […] I WANT PUBLIC CONFIRMATION NOT TO GAVE PARTICIPATED IN YOUR GAME.” nice
- Reposted by Jacob SiefringBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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- i confess. the coolest undergrad courses i took were the following -freud, shakespeare, & dostoyevsky -astronomy -american history colonial to civil war -literature of the absurd -french, french, french
- An obscure nephew known as “Head-biter”; a ghost that can‘t be crushed; the etymology of “thing“ in Chinese, used originally to designate a “piebald cow”; the “dusty world” as the realm of sensory, illusory experience. Highlights from the notes to ‘An Account of Marvels and of Beasts’, tr. Massa.
- my spouse in the snow
- A wonderful graf in ‘An Account of Marvels and of Beasts’ by Niu Sengru, a writer from 9th century China (Tang Dynasty). Translated & commentated by Maxwell Massa, 356pp A nobleman attended by faerie children with fly whisk & scepter of rhinoceros horn Out in May. asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...
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- [grimacing] “Free AI training for all!” We try not to call attention unduly to one’s personal appearance, but this government official is indeed wincing & grimacing for the entirety of this video. Amazing, really
- BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
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- Reposted by Jacob SiefringWriting toward the endless horizon: Landscape with Landscape by Gerald Murnane roughghosts.com/2026/01/26/w...
- “The heart of my theory was this: I had pledged myself as a boy to New Australia, thinking I had pledged myself to Australia; and if Australia was hard to reach, New Australia might be infinitely more remote.” “The Battle of Acosta Nu”
- when a long out-of-print work gets reprinted & is the subject of a publicity campaign, you may enjoy a sublime aloofness from having the old, rarefied edition already on yr shelves
- Reposted by Jacob SiefringThe political/governing systems in Minnesota have failed so profoundly that ordinary people are strengthening their own communities against a predatory official force. Perhaps it's time to think beyond the political compact known as the "United States of America." New at FOREVER WARS:
- can anyone ID this hawk i spotted in Ottawa earlier today?
- my best guess is red-tailed hawk.
- Reposted by Jacob SiefringScottish headline of the day. "Accidentally" being a top notch inclusion. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- ah, fuck those fuckers
- In December, the Canadian government gave $1 million to Ottawa's JSI Telecom to commercialize AI-driven data analytics. JSI, a wiretaps and investigation support firm, had a banner year in U.S. government sales in 2025, including a big new contract with ICE. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...
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- 10/10 noise demonstration
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- After forty-four stories, hundreds of chapter endnotes, many hundreds of logographs, many fonts (to cover Sanskrit, traditional Chinese, Greek, & use of italics), three appendices… my work on ‘An Account of Marvels and of Beasts’ by Niu Sengru is almost done. Will upload a preview later today.
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- revisiting Jeremy Taylor via the Oxford/Clarendon Press anthology of 1930. Marvel at the delicacy, the outrageousness, the lushness of this description of a rose. Witness the rhetoric of eyewitness testimony. “But so have I seen a Rose newly springing from the clefts…”
- “’Am I not a great man?’ I cried, and then I began pacing up and down the room.” ‘Peter Lebrecht: A Tale Devoid of Adventures’ (1795), Ludwig Tieck, tr. Douglas Robertson. Out in May!
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- Reposted by Jacob SiefringThese are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
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- Reposted by Jacob SiefringImpossible to Say: A Review of Glantz (2025) — @jayinnismurray.bsky.social thevisionarycompany.net/2026/01/16/i...
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- well if it isn’t the 21st century information economy again
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- Reposted by Jacob SiefringWe all live in the desire of a far-off magic
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