Jacob Bacharach
@jacobbacharach.bsky.social
Novelist, critic, books about crooks.
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Christmas cactus is going wild.
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Christmas cactus is going wild.
Obsessed with many things about this listing, but the matching custom cornices on the study window and as a bath-curtain accessory is, as they say, "sending me."
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Obsessed with many things about this listing, but the matching custom cornices on the study window and as a bath-curtain accessory is, as they say, "sending me."
Looks like they broke the internet again!
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Looks like they broke the internet again!
my Passion,,,, is for textures
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
my Passion,,,, is for textures
Hello, beautiful
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hello, beautiful
"What if none of this was a good idea to begin with?"
I reviewed Enshittification, and the internet, for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
I reviewed Enshittification, and the internet, for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?
Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification” is premised on the idea that we created a technological marvel and then corporate greed ruined it. But what if that is not the case?
newrepublic.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"What if none of this was a good idea to begin with?"
I reviewed Enshittification, and the internet, for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
I reviewed Enshittification, and the internet, for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Still the best, and only, American city.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
How this major city became one of America’s most affordable for homebuyers
While there are many yardsticks for calculating housing affordability, the western Pennsylvania city stands out as uniquely livable.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Still the best, and only, American city.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
I wrote a sonnet about scaring my kid about Zohran Mamdani:
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I wrote a sonnet about scaring my kid about Zohran Mamdani:
Embrace Huáxià
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Embrace Huáxià
They're calling it America's most harmonious facade.
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
They're calling it America's most harmonious facade.
I wrote a sonnet about a toilet in the White House.
November 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I wrote a sonnet about a toilet in the White House.
Such people there are living and flourishing in the world—Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made.
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Such people there are living and flourishing in the world—Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made.
The thing about great design is, you have to urn it.
October 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The thing about great design is, you have to urn it.
Few are brave enough to say so, but Tom Cruise did some really excellent physical comedy and slapstick work in The Mummy.
October 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Few are brave enough to say so, but Tom Cruise did some really excellent physical comedy and slapstick work in The Mummy.
Leaving aside my misspent youth, when I hiked the Inca Trail last year we drank coca tea every morning and I chewed coca leaf anytime we went over 10K ft elevation (so basically all the time), and honestly the stuff is great and extremely effective.
October 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Leaving aside my misspent youth, when I hiked the Inca Trail last year we drank coca tea every morning and I chewed coca leaf anytime we went over 10K ft elevation (so basically all the time), and honestly the stuff is great and extremely effective.
As usual the FT cuts through the breathless reporting with a sobering dose of what's actually transpired and transpiring.
on.ft.com/3W4IQUt
on.ft.com/3W4IQUt
Trump’s Gaza plan hinges on security force yet to take shape
Thornier second stage of US president’s proposal includes Hamas’s disarmament and Israel’s withdrawal
on.ft.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
As usual the FT cuts through the breathless reporting with a sobering dose of what's actually transpired and transpiring.
on.ft.com/3W4IQUt
on.ft.com/3W4IQUt
Extraordinary that in this entire article, the Democrats just do not appear. And that's not unfair of the author or the Journal!
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear
Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.
www.wsj.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Extraordinary that in this entire article, the Democrats just do not appear. And that's not unfair of the author or the Journal!
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
They say to me, Bacharach, what's your passion? And I say, without hesitation: coffering. Coffers are my passion.
October 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
They say to me, Bacharach, what's your passion? And I say, without hesitation: coffering. Coffers are my passion.
facades,,,, r my passion
October 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
facades,,,, r my passion
Genuinely LOL'd
October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Genuinely LOL'd
Finally some good news.
on.ft.com/46R901O
on.ft.com/46R901O
Have we passed peak social media?
As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away
on.ft.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Finally some good news.
on.ft.com/46R901O
on.ft.com/46R901O