Jacob Grier
@jacobgrier.bsky.social
I make books, drinks, and magic in Portland, Oregon. Founder at Seabird: https://seabirdreader.com/ Read my books: https://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/books-by-jacob-grier/
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Jacob Grier
@jacobgrier.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Huge influx of new people, so this seems like a good time to do an introduction. Hi! I'm a writer in Portland, Oregon. You probably followed me because of political posts but in happier times I write a lot about spirits and cocktails.
ICYMI, we debuted our new @seabirdreader.bsky.social newsletter this weekend. Lots of links worth reading, most (but not all) of which have nothing to do with the USA's long political train wreck.
Happy Seabird Sunday! Today we're launching our brand new newsletter, Tidings, highlighting some of the most interesting links shared on Seabird from the past week. Check it out, subscribe, and join us on the app to share your own writing and recommendations!
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TIDINGS: Seeing red
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November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
ICYMI, we debuted our new @seabirdreader.bsky.social newsletter this weekend. Lots of links worth reading, most (but not all) of which have nothing to do with the USA's long political train wreck.
Tidings, the Seabird newsletter highlighting links shared by the community on our app, debuts today. Check it out!
Happy Seabird Sunday! Today we're launching our brand new newsletter, Tidings, highlighting some of the most interesting links shared on Seabird from the past week. Check it out, subscribe, and join us on the app to share your own writing and recommendations!
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TIDINGS: Seeing red
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November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Tidings, the Seabird newsletter highlighting links shared by the community on our app, debuts today. Check it out!
If one of my upcoming flights gets cancelled because of the shutdown, fingers crossed it's the one that would leave me stranded in Paris.
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If one of my upcoming flights gets cancelled because of the shutdown, fingers crossed it's the one that would leave me stranded in Paris.
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Introducing Tidings, our new newsletter rounding up interesting links shared by the Seabird community. If you've enjoyed our Sunday posts here on Bluesky, you'll want to subscribe! Look for our first edition this weekend.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The history of the corkscrew through the eyes of a collector, from @saveur.com:
www.saveur.com/culture/vint...
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Inside the Wild and Wonderful World of Vintage Corkscrews
How one man’s collection of vintage corkscrews became a decades-long obsession, in this excerpt from Bee Wilson's "The Heart-Shaped Tin."
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November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The history of the corkscrew through the eyes of a collector, from @saveur.com:
www.saveur.com/culture/vint...
www.saveur.com/culture/vint...
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Let's take it to the stage! I'll be out west for the next couple of weeks, talking about the Comic Book History of the Cocktail. Here's the list, but note I'll also be in Mystic, Connecticut signing books this Saturday (Nov.8), & at Ticonderoga Club in Atlanta Nov. 24th. Come on down and say howdy!
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Let's take it to the stage! I'll be out west for the next couple of weeks, talking about the Comic Book History of the Cocktail. Here's the list, but note I'll also be in Mystic, Connecticut signing books this Saturday (Nov.8), & at Ticonderoga Club in Atlanta Nov. 24th. Come on down and say howdy!
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@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on the anti-authoritarianism of James Gunn:
www.vulture.com/article/jame...
www.vulture.com/article/jame...
James Gunn’s American Project
He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.
www.vulture.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on the anti-authoritarianism of James Gunn:
www.vulture.com/article/jame...
www.vulture.com/article/jame...
I've never seen the real Stonehenge but I've now been to the replica Stonehenge a couple hours from Portland on the Washington side of the Columbia.
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I've never seen the real Stonehenge but I've now been to the replica Stonehenge a couple hours from Portland on the Washington side of the Columbia.
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It's Seabird Sunday, our weekly roundup of intriguing links shared by the Seabird app community. First up, @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net makes the case bringing proportional representation to the US House:
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Want to End the Gerrymandering Wars? Embrace Proportional Representation
Trump has triggered a particularly fierce round, but the logic of war is inherent in a winner-take-all system
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November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's Seabird Sunday, our weekly roundup of intriguing links shared by the Seabird app community. First up, @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net makes the case bringing proportional representation to the US House:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/want-to-en...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/want-to-en...
Read this reporting from CJ on just one example of the cruelty the Trump administration is inflicting on a Portland family.
Latest: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on October 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record.
But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...
But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...
A Portland family says their dad was wrongly arrested by ICE. Now he's lost in immigration detention.
ICE arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland. Now he's lost in immigration detention as his family fights for answers.
reason.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Read this reporting from CJ on just one example of the cruelty the Trump administration is inflicting on a Portland family.
This is true, and I know from experience that they will do this even if they're picking you up at midnight from the terminus of the Naked Bike Ride. (Fortunately we packed clothes, or that might have been an awkward ride home.)
AAA really will come pick up your bike, they aren’t lying.
The driver, when we arrived at Belmont Wheelworks, asked if he could take a picture, saying “It’s my first bike!”
The driver, when we arrived at Belmont Wheelworks, asked if he could take a picture, saying “It’s my first bike!”
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This is true, and I know from experience that they will do this even if they're picking you up at midnight from the terminus of the Naked Bike Ride. (Fortunately we packed clothes, or that might have been an awkward ride home.)
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3 innovations coming to the ordinary zipper:
www.carryology.com/liking/the-c...
www.carryology.com/liking/the-c...
The Company That Zips the World | YKK's Ninety-Year Obsession
When it comes to zippers, one brand dominates. Learn how obsessive commitment to being better helped YKK quietly take over the zipper world.
www.carryology.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
3 innovations coming to the ordinary zipper:
www.carryology.com/liking/the-c...
www.carryology.com/liking/the-c...
Tried something new and only slightly terrifying last night: playing guitar and singing in public for the first time ever. Had zero intention of doing this when I took up guitar a few years ago, but it's pretty fun! Glad to have a supportive open mic night here (Covers Only at Atlantis Lounge).
October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Tried something new and only slightly terrifying last night: playing guitar and singing in public for the first time ever. Had zero intention of doing this when I took up guitar a few years ago, but it's pretty fun! Glad to have a supportive open mic night here (Covers Only at Atlantis Lounge).
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From a @talkingpointsmemo.com series looking back on 25 years of digital media, @espiers.bsky.social on the blogging era:
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What Made Blogging Different?
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...
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October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
From a @talkingpointsmemo.com series looking back on 25 years of digital media, @espiers.bsky.social on the blogging era:
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Lots of good reads from the @seabirdreader.bsky.social community this week!
It's Seabird Sunday, our weekly roundup of interesting links shared by our users in the Seabird community. First up, from @nautil.us, a look at the extreme work of saturation divers:
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The Divers Who Stretch the Limits of Human Biology
The Diver Who Witnessed His Own Death: The most dangerous job on Earth is at the bottom of the sea.
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October 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Lots of good reads from the @seabirdreader.bsky.social community this week!
Man, I realized I lost an item today that can only be replaced by one seller in Canada, and now this happens.
Breaking News: President Trump said he would raise tariffs on Canada by 10% over an ad, paid for by the province of Ontario, that used Ronald Reagan’s words to denounce tariffs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Man, I realized I lost an item today that can only be replaced by one seller in Canada, and now this happens.
Don't be fooled, that's just smoke from the burning city distorting the light.
You can tell this city is a disaster area
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Don't be fooled, that's just smoke from the burning city distorting the light.
Altria is on the list, so now you have another motivation to quit smoking.
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White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics
Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Altria is on the list, so now you have another motivation to quit smoking.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...
The theme song from Terriers is super catchy and one I still listen to on its own merit:
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October 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The theme song from Terriers is super catchy and one I still listen to on its own merit:
open.spotify.com/track/20a9Q4...
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Changing our motto from "the city that works" to "the city where there's just literally nothing happening".
I was in Portland a week ago and there’s just literally nothing happening. It’s not a matter of opinion, it’s not a perspective thing, it’s reality versus a world Trump is inventing in his head so he can seize dictatorial authority
Trump: "I look the other night, Saturday night, Portland is burning to the ground and these people are saying it's just friendly stuff. The whole place is burning to the ground. So we'll take care of that one. That's like an insurrection more than it is anything else. Portland is crazy."
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Changing our motto from "the city that works" to "the city where there's just literally nothing happening".
It's amazing that one city can be burning to the ground for five years straight.
Trump: "I look the other night, Saturday night, Portland is burning to the ground and these people are saying it's just friendly stuff. The whole place is burning to the ground. So we'll take care of that one. That's like an insurrection more than it is anything else. Portland is crazy."
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's amazing that one city can be burning to the ground for five years straight.
Got an exciting aquavit delivery this week, one I didn't know I'd ever get to try: all the way from Tasmania, making this easily the southernmost aquavit made anywhere in the world, and flavored with locally foraged botanicals that are completely new to me.
October 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Got an exciting aquavit delivery this week, one I didn't know I'd ever get to try: all the way from Tasmania, making this easily the southernmost aquavit made anywhere in the world, and flavored with locally foraged botanicals that are completely new to me.
Becoming "the manosphere's favorite magician" is admittedly a marketing approach that has never occurred to me.
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The Manosphere’s Favorite Magician
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October 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Becoming "the manosphere's favorite magician" is admittedly a marketing approach that has never occurred to me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...