James
Dad and entrepreneur living in Helsinki. Formerly CEO and founder of Skunkworks Games. Now building a new community platform to help people build a healthy reading habit. 🇬🇧 🇫🇮
Side project: bizjam.xyz
- I'm in the process of pulling a community of self-published authors, publishers, and marketers on WhatsApp. The topic is centred around book marketing and sales. Please get in touch if you'd like to be involved.
- How does one connect with the self publishing author community on Bluesky?
- Time to repost this since I've added a few new people to the list recently 👏
- I don't know if there's ever been a better time to leave Meta's entire family of products than today.
- Caribou is the best live act I've ever seen live and the race isn't even close. This Boiler Room set is incredible and doesn't even convey the sonic boom that is two drummers combining together with multi-instrumentalists in the way that Caribou does. I would LOVE it if they came to Helsinki.
- I saw a dead body last week. I'm 45 and had never seen a dead body before. Thankfully she was face down in the water and I didn't see the face, but even so I can't stop thinking about it and feeling sad for her. Drowning in a dark sea, alone and confused. What a horrible way to go.
- Swear to god, my kid is like a giant golden retriever that grew so quickly that it now weighs 30kg but thinks it's still 15kg and is as strong as a much older dog.
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- I didn't have "will root for Harkkonen scum" on my bingo card for 2024 but here we are.
- Roblox is fucking awful and should have a 13+ rating and you can't convince me otherwise. Similarly, Brawl Stars is awful and should have a 16+ rating and you can't convince me otherwise.
- I could absolutely murder a keema naan right now but you can't get them in Finland like... Anywhere.
- You have a chance to steal any ship from any sci fi franchise. What are you stealing and why?
- Every day I message the after school club to tell them that I am there to pick up my kid, 20 minutes before I even get there. And I still have to wait 20 minutes for him to come outside...
- I am strongly of the opinion that everybody forgot about Busta Rhymes way too quickly www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2j...
- Randomly remembering this kids' TV show from the 80s. Basically D&D on TV youtu.be/eU5pdZOA9vc?...
- I'm not often impressed by a movie trailer but this looks absolutely badass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvL...
- I don't have a conspiracy theorist mindset, but this really is disturbing. When his name was published all of his social accounts were still visible. For example I saw his Twitter profile when he only had ~1k followers. Now he has ~270k. They've done everything they can to shut down his message.
- Crazy how quickly The Adjuster's social media and his entire digital footprint has been shut down. Except Twitter, of course...
- Weekly mention of how good Dune Prophecy is. Desmond Hart is a 👌 baddie
- Warm shoutout to the developers of Wobbly Life, who keep on pumping out awesome updates to the game for absolutely free, no DLC, just pure fun
- Recently I moved from OSX to Windows 11 after 12 years and why is Windows so infuriating now? It's a constant battle just to stop it syncing everything to the cloud. I just want it all local, thanks! After a fight to remove the green OneDrive arrows, I now have a fight to remove the brown boxes...
- I actually think that Civil War was by far the best film I watched in 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDyQ...
- Mine was Metallica's Black Album tour in 1992. I was 13.
- Just came across this account making beautiful rotoscoped animations from life in Helsinki. I wonder if the artist is on Bluesky also? Here's the insta: www.instagram.com/northandart
- Man I'd really love to find the person at Google who coded this absolutely useless abomination and shake them. Shake their hand I mean. No violence on BlueSky. I just want to respect the person who coded that SO HARD.
