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
Joined June 2013
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Alex Maskill retweeted
You can always tell when something in Britain has been pedestrianised because the chat swaps from “if those feckless disabled scroungers can walk to the kitchen, they can get a job” to “what of the poor, ailing disabled who need to be driven directly to the shop doorstep?”
Alex Maskill retweeted
"Other than 2018, the Workers’ Party is six for six. You start to understand why the Brazilian right longs for a return to authoritarianism. They can’t win."
The US State department straight up sent two officials to get Flavio elected, seems like the horse may have bolted on Matty's suddenly urgent standard for democratic self-government
Right that's supposed to be limited to the State Department and the CIA, it's not supposed to be this broad-based
There's a transatlantic thing here where any issue a candidate breaks from media-political consensus on is one they're "obsessed with" no matter what they actually devote their time to. The same thing came up with Mamdani during the campaign.
Almost nobody in British institutional media is intellectually fit to do anything except to backslap each other which is unfortunately the only real thing required of them
Unfortunately this is how it always goes in famous cities all over the world. Knocking down unique things in cool areas to sell generic upscale real estate marketed with the idea that the area is a cool place with unique things.
New on TSUNDOKUBLOG: 2025 下 Akutagawa co-winner 「叫び」, @hatakeyamaushio’s novel about love, opium and the overwhelming weight of historic memory.
It's such a tell about lack of insight. Like do they think Lynch would have nothing more interesting to say about The Apartment than they do about their favourite "interesting taste" posture?
Alex Maskill retweeted
[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,
I really liked 「時の家」 - did I like it enough to justify importing the new Gunzou though...
『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
Alex Maskill retweeted
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.
I just recently read ATB, it's part of a streak of Japanese language novels I've been reading and it really has been a standout among them
Most questions are more interesting than Iain Dale gives them credit for, that's the burden of being a dullard