Jacob Lassin

Jacob wearing Real Central NJ hat.

Got merch from the only professional sports team to represent where I’m truly from. Soccer club Real Central NJ.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Babel just felt so pedantic by the end.

I’ve read the first 30 or so pages and it’s grabbing me.

I finished Memories of Ice last night. Started reading them after watching a YouTube video about them (can’t remember whose video). I had never heard of them before but am now hooked.

Anyone on here I can talk to about the Malazan books?

What book is this from?

What are some of those basic nuts and bolts?

Where do you write and organize them?

For a move or just better clarity?

Proud to also have a chapter in this volume.

Perfect Open weather!

Well, didn’t expect that.

HULKENBERG!

My hometown!

That cover image is incredible.

The intro for Joey Chestnut is incredible.

Whoa, Ukraine just removed citizenship from Met. Onufry of the UOC (MP). This is going to have huge repercussions in Church politics.

IU's Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian programs were among the best in the world, a gem of American academia that nurtured numerous giants, including Stephen Cohen. Now almost all of them are abolished, including PhD programs. What an unmitigated disaster.

Glad to see coverage of this cultural politics issues that are too often overlooked.

Happy 6th anniversary to me submitting my dissertation.

Oh yes! There was a bowl of them for anyone to take. Different sash colors and all.

A small 3D-printed figurine of Jesus.

@secondhandsacred.bsky.social Check out what was on offer at my dentist’s office.

Probably the piece of speculative fiction I think about the most that and Riddley Walker.

The Hair-Carpet Weavers

Posing with students in front of Ivangorod on the Narva side.

Back to the office after teaching an awesome three-week course in the Baltics with a great group
of students.

Hotel key made of wood

Estonia is the future, my hotel key is made of wood.

There’s been a lot of excellent books on Eastern Christianity released and announced in the past year; an ongoing thread:

a.co/d/i9AU5o4

The Pacers are far and away the most likely professional sports team that I am likely to forget exists.

Was listening to this yesterday and just breathtaking how wrong all the assertions were.