Zohar Jacobs
@zoharjacobs.bsky.social
Migrant Jewish intellectual, writer, historian, mystic | Fiction in Sunday Morning Transport, Analog, Asimov's & Clarkesworld | Oxford, UK
Compensations for the shortening days
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Compensations for the shortening days
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Oxford people - unity march from Cowley to city centre to unite against racism and division. Assemble at Templars Square 12.30, Sunday 16 November. Joining points for those unable to march all the way: Manzil Way 1.30, University Church High St 2.15.
Spread the word
Spread the word
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Oxford people - unity march from Cowley to city centre to unite against racism and division. Assemble at Templars Square 12.30, Sunday 16 November. Joining points for those unable to march all the way: Manzil Way 1.30, University Church High St 2.15.
Spread the word
Spread the word
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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A pretty bleak thing that GenAI is revealing is that a significant percentage of the population seems to have no interest in actually learning or doing anything. They want to ChatGPT their way out of hobbies, art making, everything... www.thecut.com/article/woul...
The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies
Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?
www.thecut.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A pretty bleak thing that GenAI is revealing is that a significant percentage of the population seems to have no interest in actually learning or doing anything. They want to ChatGPT their way out of hobbies, art making, everything... www.thecut.com/article/woul...
Autumn on St Giles a few days ago: red leaves in mid-fall.
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Autumn on St Giles a few days ago: red leaves in mid-fall.
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
I would like to point out that the International Space Station does contain documents. Almost certainly historic documents. This diagram is space archive erasure.
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I would like to point out that the International Space Station does contain documents. Almost certainly historic documents. This diagram is space archive erasure.
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My take on the inevitable poppy wars: white poppies are perfectly acceptable, as are none at all. But anyone who's read history will know that the original symbol of war's brutality, senselessness and meaninglessness is, of course, the red poppy.
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My take on the inevitable poppy wars: white poppies are perfectly acceptable, as are none at all. But anyone who's read history will know that the original symbol of war's brutality, senselessness and meaninglessness is, of course, the red poppy.
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
I could spend a long time writing about NASA and the space program, each book a different genre. Literary fiction, speculative fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir, history, biography...
Yes I have ideas for all of these.
Yes I have ideas for all of these.
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I could spend a long time writing about NASA and the space program, each book a different genre. Literary fiction, speculative fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir, history, biography...
Yes I have ideas for all of these.
Yes I have ideas for all of these.
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In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.
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Another addition to the collection - back to the early 90’s with a Eurostar poster
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Another addition to the collection - back to the early 90’s with a Eurostar poster
Reminding myself that I don't need to be well-informed about everything, particularly when I don't have a vote. I am not required to have a view on Zohran Mamdani. I don't need to know anything about Graham Platner besides the Nazi tattoo. The world will go on without my opinion!
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reminding myself that I don't need to be well-informed about everything, particularly when I don't have a vote. I am not required to have a view on Zohran Mamdani. I don't need to know anything about Graham Platner besides the Nazi tattoo. The world will go on without my opinion!
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Pet peeve: please stop calling people “diverse.” People themselves are not “diverse.” That’s a fundamental and really worrisome misunderstanding of diversity and politics (and humanity, really).
November 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Pet peeve: please stop calling people “diverse.” People themselves are not “diverse.” That’s a fundamental and really worrisome misunderstanding of diversity and politics (and humanity, really).
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The Artemis II crew legitimately posted this: 😂😂😂
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The Artemis II crew legitimately posted this: 😂😂😂
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
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Bangor station buffet. Something for everyone
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Bangor station buffet. Something for everyone
Do you happen to be interested in how artists cope with life under a repressive regimes? Brilliant poetry by Lev Ozerov about Soviet-era authors, composers etc, published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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Portraits without Frames
December 2018 selection for the NYRB Classics Book Club. We stopped and Shklovsky told mequietly, but clearly,“Remember, we are on our way out.On our way out.” And I recalled...the wall of books,all w...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Do you happen to be interested in how artists cope with life under a repressive regimes? Brilliant poetry by Lev Ozerov about Soviet-era authors, composers etc, published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
www.nyrb.com/products/por...
www.nyrb.com/products/por...
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I think we are actually going to get him formally removed from the succession by act of (multiple) parliaments. this would have been such exciting news in 1720
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles and evict him from royal residence.
October 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I think we are actually going to get him formally removed from the succession by act of (multiple) parliaments. this would have been such exciting news in 1720
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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The Bukhara Biennial is an illusion, an oasis in a desert of repression. Transforming unused caravanserais, madrasas, and one mosque into a maze of miniature galleries within the Uzbek city, there are moments when it is a beautiful, affecting, and wonderful mirage.
The Bukhara Biennial Will Break Your Heart
The work in Uzbekistan’s first biennial shimmers with the promise of culture as a connective tissue, while the autocratic government that funded it lurks in the shadows.
hyperallergic.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Bukhara Biennial is an illusion, an oasis in a desert of repression. Transforming unused caravanserais, madrasas, and one mosque into a maze of miniature galleries within the Uzbek city, there are moments when it is a beautiful, affecting, and wonderful mirage.
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(If I were writing British politics as an episode of The West Wing, I'd have Starmer activate the "Hail Mary" option of saying he'll rejoin the EU in a second term. Re-polarise the electorate along Brexit lines and hope the shifts in demographics/material reality force a winning coalition.)
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
(If I were writing British politics as an episode of The West Wing, I'd have Starmer activate the "Hail Mary" option of saying he'll rejoin the EU in a second term. Re-polarise the electorate along Brexit lines and hope the shifts in demographics/material reality force a winning coalition.)
A collation of 25 years of audio, video, photos, orbital ephemera and other documentation from the International Space Station – all in mission context. Utterly staggering in scale. issinrealtime.org
ISS in Real Time
Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.
issinrealtime.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A collation of 25 years of audio, video, photos, orbital ephemera and other documentation from the International Space Station – all in mission context. Utterly staggering in scale. issinrealtime.org
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Enormous news in literary arts philanthropy:
Literary Arts Fund, initiated by the Mellon Foundation in collaboration with Poetry, Ford, Lannan, Hawthornden, & other foundations, will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits & fiscally sponsored lit orgs & publishers over the next 5 years.
Literary Arts Fund, initiated by the Mellon Foundation in collaboration with Poetry, Ford, Lannan, Hawthornden, & other foundations, will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits & fiscally sponsored lit orgs & publishers over the next 5 years.
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Enormous news in literary arts philanthropy:
Literary Arts Fund, initiated by the Mellon Foundation in collaboration with Poetry, Ford, Lannan, Hawthornden, & other foundations, will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits & fiscally sponsored lit orgs & publishers over the next 5 years.
Literary Arts Fund, initiated by the Mellon Foundation in collaboration with Poetry, Ford, Lannan, Hawthornden, & other foundations, will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits & fiscally sponsored lit orgs & publishers over the next 5 years.