James Graham

I’ve finally set up a Mr Blue Sky account. semajmaharg.bsky.social rather than jamesgraham because unlike here I was not an early adopter. Seems like the least bad alternative so come join me I guess?

It’s been fun, but it’s time to delete this app.

The asymmetry, in asymmetrical warfare, is that the little guy can only really damage the big guy by getting him angry enough to self-injure

"[AIDS] is not being caused by a virus. It's not a virus... These people are dying because of 'poppers'... they were people who were part of a gay lifestyle... " "This is not a viral disease, but it's a disease that is environmental." - HHS Secretary Nominee RFK Jr /1

Netflix (2018): Thanks to stock value and a head start on streaming, we have more money than anyone to finance the white whale projects of Scorsese and Orson Welles, where box office receipts won't matter, only the art. Netflix (2024): Wanna watch a YouTuber fight an old man?

If it can be proved that it's not genocide that would be a huge relief. It would mean that it's only a huge massacre, mass killing and widespread slaughter In which case it would be OK.

The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012

Erk. I think RFK Jr basically broke BlueSky.

6’9”? Maybe we should sent Gary Barlow’s son over there

By contrast, I detest Wes Streeting but absolutely think he has an obligation to intervene in a policy debate that primarily will impact the NHS

@MattChorley She hates America. Otherwise she’d use US Letter.

Last week Kemi Badenoch read her questions from pieces of A5 paper. Today she had a sheet of A4, and folded it over so the next question was at the top. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Oh, the fucking irony…

That isn’t even a Shiba Inu. He can’t even get the meme right.

get to know your new republican cabinet

Just the most astounding couple of paragraphs. Pure oligarchy territory.

And yet I realise that I still crave the connection that platforms like this provide. So the most depressing thing about it is, well, me.

It’s not like I don’t see a value in a better moderated social media platform, it’s just that I can’t see how it won’t end up becoming a victim of its own success and turning into the cesspool Twitter became (not just due to the right, which is now on Truth).

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I joined 🦋, but I find the excitement people have about joining a new platform utterly baffling (posting here because I don’t want to burst people’s sincere bubbles). Personally, at this stage in the cycle, I just see it as a defeat.