jamieholm.bsky.social
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And also because its very existence as a threat to some livelihoods stems from mass theft of those people’s hard work without agreement nor compensation.
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Get rich quick schemes got too easy to spot, so big-tech came up with ‘bypass the ten thousand hours of work it takes to turn inherent appetite into inherent flair’ scheme instead.
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It’s a throwback to when social media wasn’t a place you went to sell yourself, but to learn about yourself, when it was more about connection and contact than clout.
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Two decades ago, I acquired a hardback copy of Ночной Дозор (Nightwatch) by Sergei Lukyanenko.
My Russian doesn’t go much further than asking for directions to a hotel and ordering a couple of vodkas.
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Something like Hycote clear lacquer spray paint, the type you use on alloy wheels. Do multiple very light coats.
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There’s a place in Swindon that sells ideas mail order. Old fashioned service; cutting edge ideas. You get a thick Manila envelope through the letterbox at the start of every month. It saves me from all that thinking and contemplating I used to do. Exclusive, of course, so can’t say much more 😉
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The future El*n M*sk wants has no bugs or birds.
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Can’t imagine Adam Curtis films having the same impact as a long form essay.
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Love the simplicity of this.
My own take: bsky.app/profile/jami...
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Not delicate. Human.
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the old school tie brigade have gone from pretending corruption didn't happen in their ranks to ignoring corruption happenning in their ranks to wearing their corruption like a fucking badge of honour in a few short years
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If Rishsi Sunak becomes aware of this, you know he'll promote Larry to a ministerial position in the next reshuffle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(...
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I'm the new minister for ambiguous cognitive concepts.
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… the wealthy owner who wants for nothing but may in the future feel the 'need' for profit.
For some reason that eludes me, furries are prevalent in all of these spaces.
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…earned their place, or got lucky and found one of the discarded library cards out on the town square and snuck in to have a look, and it feels nice when it’s not deathly quiet and the 'odd' people are safe here, for now, but there is an anxiety about the Nazis getting invited and about…
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…out of place for using a mouse to do things that you know 'they' consider should be done by typing the correct syntax into a command line interface.
BlueSky is an exclusive invite only library where, between long silences, meaningful things are said to an earnest audience that have…
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Mastodon is a cyberpunk themed internet café full of nerds calmly discussing which version of Linux is best, where the screens on their hacked laptops flash with Firefox tabs opening and closing, flying between instances using keyboard shortcuts, where you are welcome but feel…
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…and they are oblivious to the staff, working for same furtive corporation that owns Instagram, eavesdropping on their conversations and selling any gleaned gossip to unscrupulous salesmen who are always there, trying to persuade the old folk to spend money.
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…and don’t get fat, who never argue, and who never show you who they really are.
Facebook is an old people’s home where irrelevant and senile old folk reminisce about wars in which they did not fight and complain about taxes that they largely don’t pay…
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…their presence makes you deeply uncomfortable.
Instagram is a glass-walled gym in a shopping mall, dominated by a high-end travel agency used by people younger, richer, and better looking than you, people who have well-behaved pedigree pets with glossy coats, people who somehow eat cake…
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