Jacob Siefring
@jsief.bsky.social
public library worker. editor @ the empyrean series. translator of some books (FR->EN). ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com
Lights Out for Moon
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Lights Out for Moon
sad to lose our neighborhood's home hardware at the end of this month. rent hikes
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
sad to lose our neighborhood's home hardware at the end of this month. rent hikes
i am kind of sick of building, finishing, installing shelving but at least we now have more shelves. am aware the finish needs retouching, soon to come. (some, not all, shelves pictured.) live in a little house with lots of studf, you’ll need lots of shelving
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
i am kind of sick of building, finishing, installing shelving but at least we now have more shelves. am aware the finish needs retouching, soon to come. (some, not all, shelves pictured.) live in a little house with lots of studf, you’ll need lots of shelving
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I wrote a novel about American politics, American Candide, because I'm too dumb to know that you'll never make money telling people they're even dumber than oneself.
Published by Rosarium Publishing, a very cool indy publisher on the side of the angels.
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#Voltaire
Published by Rosarium Publishing, a very cool indy publisher on the side of the angels.
indiepubs.com/products/ame...
#Voltaire
March 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I wrote a novel about American politics, American Candide, because I'm too dumb to know that you'll never make money telling people they're even dumber than oneself.
Published by Rosarium Publishing, a very cool indy publisher on the side of the angels.
indiepubs.com/products/ame...
#Voltaire
Published by Rosarium Publishing, a very cool indy publisher on the side of the angels.
indiepubs.com/products/ame...
#Voltaire
if you snag a first printing of this, you will be able to savor the rare typo “transalion” in the concluding “editor’s note”
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November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
if you snag a first printing of this, you will be able to savor the rare typo “transalion” in the concluding “editor’s note”
asterismbooks.com/product/stur...
asterismbooks.com/product/stur...
ah yes, the typo, the mark of literary authenticity & the confirmation of my humanity
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
ah yes, the typo, the mark of literary authenticity & the confirmation of my humanity
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Paranoia Runs Rampant in Exclusive Preview of HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER, Now Available from Oni Press!
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Paranoia Runs Rampant in Exclusive Preview of HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER, Now Available from Oni Press! - Daily Dead
Imagine reading The Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, or Encyclopedia Brown through a David Lynch lens and you'll begin to get an idea of what it's like to turn the pages of Hobotwn Mystery Stories. Set in...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Paranoia Runs Rampant in Exclusive Preview of HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER, Now Available from Oni Press!
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Just in case my U.S. followers need to track down a turkey for Thanksgiving, here's a helpful guide in a November 2012 blog post by Yours Truly, with insights on the behavioral ecology of wild turkeys on a Georgia-coast barrier island (Cumberland). 🧪🦃🐾
www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...
www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...
Tracking Wild Turkeys on the Georgia Coast
Of the many traditions associated with the celebration of Thanksgiving in the U.S., the most commonly mentioned one is the ritual consumption of an avian theropod, Meleagris gallopavo, simply known…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Just in case my U.S. followers need to track down a turkey for Thanksgiving, here's a helpful guide in a November 2012 blog post by Yours Truly, with insights on the behavioral ecology of wild turkeys on a Georgia-coast barrier island (Cumberland). 🧪🦃🐾
www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...
www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...
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baby it's cold outside... in the vacuum of space. and i have the only remaining plasma rifle
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
baby it's cold outside... in the vacuum of space. and i have the only remaining plasma rifle
the old grey mare literary review™️
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
the old grey mare literary review™️
one isn’t really supposed to be awake at this hour, and yet
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
one isn’t really supposed to be awake at this hour, and yet
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So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
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Heller Altarpiece (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewald/heller-altarpiece-detail-1511-2
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Heller Altarpiece (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewald/heller-altarpiece-detail-1511-2
we can partake of a little self-inflicted melodrama… as a treat
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
we can partake of a little self-inflicted melodrama… as a treat
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Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
OTTAWA, ON ― An alarming new study out of the University of Ottawa suggests that years of recommendations to learn a new language in order to stave off cognitive decline may in fact have the opposite ...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
i am not a male mouse so i am sure there is nothing to worry abt here
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
i am not a male mouse so i am sure there is nothing to worry abt here
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
a great essay on life, music, relationships
This is an essay I wrote about music and grief and sunsets and water and grief and brothers and grief. It’d mean a hell of a lot if you set aside a little time to read it.
The Consolations of Waterloo Sunsets
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The Consolations of Waterloo Sunsets
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November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
a great essay on life, music, relationships
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How magical to be a voice in a far away forest on the day ghosts walk the earth…
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
How magical to be a voice in a far away forest on the day ghosts walk the earth…
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
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On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
one time in 7th grade (1997) my english teacher (ms. bruns, an epic character) gave us an excerpt of f. scott fitzgerald’s essay on his process of alcoholic collapse (« the crack-up ») to scrutinize, & i wonder what she was thinking
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
one time in 7th grade (1997) my english teacher (ms. bruns, an epic character) gave us an excerpt of f. scott fitzgerald’s essay on his process of alcoholic collapse (« the crack-up ») to scrutinize, & i wonder what she was thinking
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Eating genoa cake and thinking of ol' Paul Metcalf
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Eating genoa cake and thinking of ol' Paul Metcalf
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"an ideot whose whole amusement consisted in looking at, & talking to a clock – which he supposed to be alive – "
(ST Coleridge, Notebooks, 1796/7?)
(ST Coleridge, Notebooks, 1796/7?)
![An ideot whose whole amusement consisted in looking at, & talking to a clock – which he supposed to be alive – / the Clock was removed – / he supposed that it had walked off – & he went away to seek it – – was absent nine days – at last, they found [him], almost famished in a field. – He asked where it was buried – for he was sure it was dead – / he was brought home & the clock [put] in its place – his Joy – &c. He used to put part of every thing, he liked, into the clock-case.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ipimtycqe4ygljjb5tnw3it/bafkreihodhovleoj2gc3xz3sti4cx24fya5kxgpiwatitlumudzrjr3upi@jpeg)
September 1, 2024 at 11:59 AM
"an ideot whose whole amusement consisted in looking at, & talking to a clock – which he supposed to be alive – "
(ST Coleridge, Notebooks, 1796/7?)
(ST Coleridge, Notebooks, 1796/7?)