Alex Graham
@finalcookie.bsky.social
"Dedicated here to the unfinished work."
IC Layout Designer, mini painter, photo taker, hopeless political junkie. He/Him, Transit, Housing and Liberalism booster.
IC Layout Designer, mini painter, photo taker, hopeless political junkie. He/Him, Transit, Housing and Liberalism booster.
Poughkeepsie Station
A shot from upstate New York, I've always found train stations to be so quietly grand.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
🎞️: Kodak Portra 400
#BelieveinFilm #film #photography #filmphotography #analog #amtrak #ridethetrains
A shot from upstate New York, I've always found train stations to be so quietly grand.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
🎞️: Kodak Portra 400
#BelieveinFilm #film #photography #filmphotography #analog #amtrak #ridethetrains
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Poughkeepsie Station
A shot from upstate New York, I've always found train stations to be so quietly grand.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
🎞️: Kodak Portra 400
#BelieveinFilm #film #photography #filmphotography #analog #amtrak #ridethetrains
A shot from upstate New York, I've always found train stations to be so quietly grand.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
🎞️: Kodak Portra 400
#BelieveinFilm #film #photography #filmphotography #analog #amtrak #ridethetrains
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Indeed there were many concerned, hand-wringing articles and X posts about "echo chambers" and how we were depriving ourselves of the wisdom of alternate viewpoints, all of which was easily decoded as I AM IMPORTANT AND HAVE IMPORTANT THOUGHTS WHY WON'T YOU ACKNOWLEDGE ME AND MY IMPORTANTOSITY
back when bluesky was still blowing up, wasn't bsky's self-moderation what the dipshits on the right complained about the most? like, those stupid bastards were actually for-real crying about censorship and suppression of free speech because so many of us blocked them.
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Indeed there were many concerned, hand-wringing articles and X posts about "echo chambers" and how we were depriving ourselves of the wisdom of alternate viewpoints, all of which was easily decoded as I AM IMPORTANT AND HAVE IMPORTANT THOUGHTS WHY WON'T YOU ACKNOWLEDGE ME AND MY IMPORTANTOSITY
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HELLO!
Twitter was relentlessly left-coded until Elon took over and EVEN THEN all the same people bellyaching about Bluesky now were bellyaching about Twitter literally up until November 2024 at which point we all decamped and they did their chip replacement.
Twitter was relentlessly left-coded until Elon took over and EVEN THEN all the same people bellyaching about Bluesky now were bellyaching about Twitter literally up until November 2024 at which point we all decamped and they did their chip replacement.
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
HELLO!
Twitter was relentlessly left-coded until Elon took over and EVEN THEN all the same people bellyaching about Bluesky now were bellyaching about Twitter literally up until November 2024 at which point we all decamped and they did their chip replacement.
Twitter was relentlessly left-coded until Elon took over and EVEN THEN all the same people bellyaching about Bluesky now were bellyaching about Twitter literally up until November 2024 at which point we all decamped and they did their chip replacement.
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I do appreciate @sodrock.bsky.social hammering this whole bullshit apolitical military stuff. If following the law becomes partisan then either you join the party of the law you are supposed to apolically follow or be forced by the other party to break it
What being an apolitical military professional does to a mofo
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I do appreciate @sodrock.bsky.social hammering this whole bullshit apolitical military stuff. If following the law becomes partisan then either you join the party of the law you are supposed to apolically follow or be forced by the other party to break it
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i think a lot about how the collapse of reconstruction was in the event a result of macroeconomic mistakes by republicans--the panic of 1873 leading directly to the corrupt bargain of 1877
i think it's funny how MAGA could have probably run the economy hands off while inflation came down and growth came up and won Gen Z voters but instead are likely going to be associated with moving voters back to the social democratic/democratic socialist Left
the comments to this Fox News article are so fucking funny, man
literally conservative boomers being like "yeah, fuck Gen Z"
www.foxnews.com/media/nikki-...
literally conservative boomers being like "yeah, fuck Gen Z"
www.foxnews.com/media/nikki-...
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
i think a lot about how the collapse of reconstruction was in the event a result of macroeconomic mistakes by republicans--the panic of 1873 leading directly to the corrupt bargain of 1877
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My pettiest grievance that doesn’t really matter at all and I have no hard feelings over is with the “save Lloyd center” people.
New things aren’t always evil. The building you live in rn was new once.
New things aren’t always evil. The building you live in rn was new once.
December 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My pettiest grievance that doesn’t really matter at all and I have no hard feelings over is with the “save Lloyd center” people.
New things aren’t always evil. The building you live in rn was new once.
New things aren’t always evil. The building you live in rn was new once.
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this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to file a lawsuit against a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao
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155mm for dictators, 155% tax rate for billionaires, $1.50 hot dogs for the public
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
155mm for dictators, 155% tax rate for billionaires, $1.50 hot dogs for the public
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Now we’re talking
155mm for dictators, 155% tax rate for billionaires, $1.50 hot dogs for the public
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Now we’re talking
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For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Airport Sunrise
First roll back of Phoenix II, much better than the first emulsion. Halation isn't as strong, and it's got better latitude. Love the grain, love the colors.
🎞️: Phoenix II
📷:Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
#BelieveinFilm #film #photography #analog #filmphotography #lovethemhalations
First roll back of Phoenix II, much better than the first emulsion. Halation isn't as strong, and it's got better latitude. Love the grain, love the colors.
🎞️: Phoenix II
📷:Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
#BelieveinFilm #film #photography #analog #filmphotography #lovethemhalations
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Airport Sunrise
First roll back of Phoenix II, much better than the first emulsion. Halation isn't as strong, and it's got better latitude. Love the grain, love the colors.
🎞️: Phoenix II
📷:Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
#BelieveinFilm #film #photography #analog #filmphotography #lovethemhalations
First roll back of Phoenix II, much better than the first emulsion. Halation isn't as strong, and it's got better latitude. Love the grain, love the colors.
🎞️: Phoenix II
📷:Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
#BelieveinFilm #film #photography #analog #filmphotography #lovethemhalations
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Honestly, where did this idea that good villains must be right come from? So many of the best villains have incredibly simple and wrong ideologies, they’re just well-realized ones.
the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Honestly, where did this idea that good villains must be right come from? So many of the best villains have incredibly simple and wrong ideologies, they’re just well-realized ones.
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SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE
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Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
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Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
January 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
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Watching this again with my kids, what a picture
Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Watching this again with my kids, what a picture
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Maybe the most 'I am someone the 20th century didn't happen to' post imaginable, in which you think that 'the far right take power' and the consequence is just that after five years, boom that's over but your preferred political outgroup is out of action.
We have to start thinking about what we want Britain to look like in 2034 after the far right have been in power. There will be no status quo to return to. Centrism will be stone cold dead.
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Maybe the most 'I am someone the 20th century didn't happen to' post imaginable, in which you think that 'the far right take power' and the consequence is just that after five years, boom that's over but your preferred political outgroup is out of action.
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if lizza wants my subscription money he should not just burn himself and nuzzi, but every other journalist who knew about this, by name. you’ve already put on the jacket, go ahead and throw a few more charges in it.
yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
So the editor of New York Magazine said there was no bias or ethical problems with Olivia's articles?
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
if lizza wants my subscription money he should not just burn himself and nuzzi, but every other journalist who knew about this, by name. you’ve already put on the jacket, go ahead and throw a few more charges in it.
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I always think of Tony Judt on this (though I'd hold the condescension and double down on the public university systems in the heartland)
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I always think of Tony Judt on this (though I'd hold the condescension and double down on the public university systems in the heartland)
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This is the thing that always inspiried me about the US public higher-ed system. That a country could be so wealthy that it can have schools where people build rocket ships under sports stadiums and somehow these are considered "unprestigious" to elitist snobs
I always think of Tony Judt on this (though I'd hold the condescension and double down on the public university systems in the heartland)
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is the thing that always inspiried me about the US public higher-ed system. That a country could be so wealthy that it can have schools where people build rocket ships under sports stadiums and somehow these are considered "unprestigious" to elitist snobs
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i feel like if it was just the crazy sex stuff this would be the take but there's a big "she consistently acted in ways that should have ended her career as a political journalist and nobody cared". like, she told the rfk jr campaign who was *her source* that was leaking stories from the campaign
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
i feel like if it was just the crazy sex stuff this would be the take but there's a big "she consistently acted in ways that should have ended her career as a political journalist and nobody cared". like, she told the rfk jr campaign who was *her source* that was leaking stories from the campaign
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Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
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I have been on Team RFK Was Decisive for a year now, which means I now must follow the franchise to its rebrand as Team Crucify This Bitch.
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I have been on Team RFK Was Decisive for a year now, which means I now must follow the franchise to its rebrand as Team Crucify This Bitch.
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Athens should have won :(
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Athens should have won :(