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.
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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 :(
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This list is—unfortunately—missing essential core texts of liberal political philosophy.
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This list is—unfortunately—missing essential core texts of liberal political philosophy.
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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Also Michael Fassbender is doing a Magneto hunts Nazis movie, I know I’ve mentioned this many times before but that’s because it’s a brilliant idea
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Also Michael Fassbender is doing a Magneto hunts Nazis movie, I know I’ve mentioned this many times before but that’s because it’s a brilliant idea
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I’m so sorry Michael Shannon but you have to play John Brown
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I’m so sorry Michael Shannon but you have to play John Brown
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You know what, maybe we don't want Idaho in Cascadia after all.
Trump’s approval collapses nationwide, turning several deep-red states negative — Economist tracker
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
You know what, maybe we don't want Idaho in Cascadia after all.
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Remember when the Russians called in bomb threats to polling locations in Georgia on election day and a bunch of people (all of whom we now know aren't based out of the US) cried "Russiagate" and then they did it again in Moldova?
It isn't always the Russians but it's really weird how often it's the Russians
Before Germany’s last elections, hundreds of combustion-engine cars had been vandalised, combined with pro-Green flyers left on site. State investigators now assume a Russian influence operation:
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Remember when the Russians called in bomb threats to polling locations in Georgia on election day and a bunch of people (all of whom we now know aren't based out of the US) cried "Russiagate" and then they did it again in Moldova?
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If you’re interested in the ongoing effort to make this happen you should come to White Owl Social Club from 4-6PM on December 13th! Cannot emphasize the amount that we would love to get you 🫵 involved to build an Inner Eastside for All! portlandneighborswelcome.org/events/2025-...
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If you’re interested in the ongoing effort to make this happen you should come to White Owl Social Club from 4-6PM on December 13th! Cannot emphasize the amount that we would love to get you 🫵 involved to build an Inner Eastside for All! portlandneighborswelcome.org/events/2025-...
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it’s why Obama won, he had that charisma
same for clinton
i wanted Warren too but i know people vote on CHA not INT
same for clinton
i wanted Warren too but i know people vote on CHA not INT
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
it’s why Obama won, he had that charisma
same for clinton
i wanted Warren too but i know people vote on CHA not INT
same for clinton
i wanted Warren too but i know people vote on CHA not INT
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It's so funny watching local California candidates take credit for housing made possible by state housing laws that they opposed. Not the first time this has happened!
This is rich. Connie Chan says she “built real affordable housing, not the Sacramento version that destroys our neighborhoods.”
She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵
She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's so funny watching local California candidates take credit for housing made possible by state housing laws that they opposed. Not the first time this has happened!
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Being a single issue voter is deeply immoral
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Being a single issue voter is deeply immoral