@AlexMaskill

Developer, writer, musician, game designer. Terry Pratchett First Novel Award winner. My novel The Hive Construct out now. 少し日本語が話せます。

 Brighton, England
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Joined June 2013
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New on TSUNDOKUBLOG: 2025 下 Akutagawa co-winner 「叫び」, @hatakeyamaushio’s novel about love, opium and the overwhelming weight of historic memory.
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keewa 🇵🇸@keewa22h
end stages of a concerted campaign to delegitimise depression & anxiety as mental illnesses
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Read the essay HERE: tsundokublog.substack.com/p/…
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[hearing random spotify autoplay song] this sucks what is this bio: As beloved by real music heads as they were overlooked by idiot morons, this visionary group made challenging music that many spoon-fed swine couldn't handle me: at the same time it's undeniably compelling,
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I really liked 「時の家」 - did I like it enough to justify importing the new Gunzou though...
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@gunzou_henshubuOct 23
『時の家』で芥川賞＆野間文芸新人賞を受賞した建築士作家・鳥山まことによる待望の新刊！『アウトライン』特別試し読み gendai.media/articles/-/1722… #群像

『時の家』で芥川賞＆野間文芸新人賞を受賞した建築士作家・鳥山まことによる待望の新刊！『アウトライン』特別試し読み

『時の家』で第174回芥川賞・第47回野間文芸新人賞を受賞した鳥山まことさんによる、受賞後初の単行本『アウトライン』が10月21日に刊行されました！発売を記念して、表題作「アウトライン」の一部試し読みを特別にお届けします。

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Tisya Mavuram@tmavuramOct 23
you just do it. I know everyone hates to hear that but there’s no secret. pick a book you’ll enjoy and put your phone in another room and do it even when it seems hard. and then do it as often as you can.
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@meadandjuniperOct 22
People who read books for fun in the big 26, genuinely how do you do it. I salute you your brain is made of sterner stuff than mine
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Damn, what a life, what a body of work, what a loss to literature.
朝日新聞読書面@asahi_bookOct 23
号外：作家の村上龍さんが死去。74歳。「限りなく透明に近いブルー」など（13:00） asahi.com/skh/202610230002.h…

作家の村上龍さんが死去、74歳　「限りなく透明に近いブルー」：朝日新聞

　「限りなく透明に近いブルー」で鮮烈なデビューを果たし、「愛と幻想のファシズム」など現代の社会や政治の姿を鋭く見つめる作品を次々と発表した作家の村上龍（むらかみ・りゅう、本名村上龍之助〈りゅうのすけ〉…

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Back when I had game dev aspirations this place was the holy grail. In reality there's no magic to studios, just to the great developers they burn through like it's nothing, but when you have a streak like these guys did for a time it does make you kind of a believer.
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@biowareOct 21
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New on Tsundokublog: between novel essays, a few notes on what's going on with the "japanese literary magazines" thing
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How much of my money are these people going to take between this and those Radical Japan box sets
Steven@StevenWallabyOct 16
Radiance Films finally putting out some early Tsai Ming-Liang movies here ah fuckin yeah
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TV licence to be extended to the water-filled and so refractive section of any full or half full water bottles
Chłoddy@OfSymbolsOct 17
TV licence to be extended to the thin transparent window on your kettle
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Rory McCarthy@roryisconfusedOct 13
I read and buy a lot of contemporary poetry but don’t write any and — not to brag — but I believe this qualifies me for a form of secular sainthood
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James@exhaustdataOct 14
About a century ago a British journalist wrote about a new technology that was going to change everything, and said that those against this technology were ignorant and “detest progress” because everyone would be adopting it. He was talking about the use of mustard gas in WW1.
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New on TSUNDOKUBLOG: Early 2025 Akutagawa nominee「トラジェクトリー」, @gwkhez’s exophonic novella about space, time and existential crisis as an English teacher in Japan
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Check it out here: tsundokublog.substack.com/p/…
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Co-signed by Tha Big Dawg himself
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James B@piercepennilessOct 10
Dipped in here to see reaction to Carson Nobel – a series of very silly rote culture war execrations. X also seems to have invented a new figure, the subliterate literary influencer/grifter. Anyway, this is from Carson's sublime Isaiah sequence. It's great.
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Jeremy Gilbert@jemgilbertOct 10
A very good piece of reporting. What it makes clear is the yawning gap that is already opening up between Burnham's stated ambitions and the political capacity of the teams he has put in place to help him actually realise them. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

‘If voters aren’t better off by the next election, we’re screwed’: Labour insiders voice fears over...

Some say party risks ‘looking twee’ by focusing on small fixes amid growing nervousness that budget lacks ambition

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Times like this really make it clear how the British political press sees its goal as making itself as central as possible to the career arcs they assume the politicians they cover are on, to the point where it goes beyond description and into dictation. The "political cycle".
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@PippaCrerarOct 10
Does Zack Polanski have to go? Greens at the crossroads after Holborn and St Pancras - by @LexyTopping theguardian.com/politics/202…

Does Polanski have to go? Greens at the crossroads after Holborn and St Pancras

Pressure is building on the party leader after byelection defeat, a damaging row over Zionism and polls that show him less popular than Nigel Farage

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