@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: Alright, here's one you guys can read too. Ryū Murakami's legendary 1976 Akutagawa-winning debut 「限りなく透明に近いブルー」 (translated as "Almost Transparent Blue"), a tale of sex, drugs, malaise and military occupation in post-AnPo Japan.
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Said last goodbyes to a good boy this morning ❤️
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🔎Al🔍@SweatieAngle
Sep 25
If you managed to get killed by this thing that’d be on you 100% that’s what you get for not respecting and making space for the modern performing dance arts
Nexus Point News
@NexusPointNews
Sep 25
Merged monster rehearsals for Zach Cregger’s ‘RESIDENT EVIL.’ 📷 Jakub Hudlický
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Shamelessly logged every episode of Histoire(s) du Cinéma individually on LB and then the main Histoire(s) du Cinéma listing when I finished.
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Connor Ewing@ConnorMEwing
Sep 22
Writing is fun. You endure hours of excruciating pain and self-doubt. But in the end, you’ve created something. And then you get to hate that thing.
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Peter Mitchell@_bezpilotnik
Sep 23
'Danny Tommo' is such a Martin Amis ass name, all "...Dave Tits ... Keith Racist ... no ... Steven Fishfingers ... no, no ... wait! 'DANNY TOMMO'. Ah hah hah, oh Marty babes you've still got it ... I can't wait to show this to Ian and the lads down at the Athenaeum later"
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Flying_Rodent@flying_rodent
Sep 23
15 years of brutal austerity + increasingly vile far right politics to secure the positions of parties enforcing it + world’s most poisonous media outlets = Years of fascist rioting with little or no government response
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Mr Demos of Pnyx@gem_ste
Sep 23
An explicit explanation from quintessential British establishment insiders that there is no such thing as democracy in the UK, that every PM is vetted for amenability and submission to the security state and vested interests.
Flying_Rodent@flying_rodent
Sep 22
Stumbled across this old one: former Chancellor George Osborne explaining that *of course* the security services wouldn’t have done anything unfortunate to dear old Emily Thornberry but, well, that Prime Minister? I’m afraid the spooks would not have tolerated that shit
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!!!!!! they admit it
Jason Kint
@jason_kint
Sep 17
woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Oh man I'm going to get nothing done next month
The Film Stage 📽
@TheFilmStage
Sep 17
A 12-film Kiyoshi Kurosawa series is coming to the Criterion Channel next month, featuring the rarely shown 'Door III,' 'Eyes of the Spider,' 'Charisma,' and both versions of 'Serpent's Path': thefilmstage.com/the-criteri…
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This was a very impactful news item. It highlights a new study on racial discrimination which describes how the Overtone window has shifted and discourses and behaviours which were once seen as extreme or racist are now part of everyday language and political and public attitudes
Channel 4 News
@Channel4News
Sep 15
Racial discrimination becoming part of everyday life – new poll reveals channel4.com/news/racial-dis…

Racial discrimination becoming part of everyday life – new poll reveals

A new study capturing the experiences of Britons of all backgrounds has found that many feel discrimination has become part of everyday life.

channel4.com
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there’s a new mike leigh out that’s supposed to capture real humanity with an unparalleled balance of political commentary, compassion, precision, humor, and sympathy
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New on TSUNDOKUBLOG: Kosagawa Chito's Early 2026 Akutagawa Prize winner 「ゾンビ回収婦」, an Al-era story about zombies, work, virtual reality and psychoanalysis in the metaverse
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For the daytime crowd: New on TSUNDOKUBLOG: @toriyama007's latter 2025 Akutagawa co-winner AND Noma Newcomer Award winner「時の家」, a decades-spanning story of architecture, impermanence and connection through craft.
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“BookTok doesn’t like Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams” is a real “Judge me by my enemies” situation in favor of Pratchett and Adams
barry pierce@BarryPierce
Sep 12
one of Gen Z’s greatest traits is that they are biologically manufactured to see this for the deep cringe that it is. it’s interesting how central Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett were to the BookTube of Millennials but are wholly absent from the BookTok of Gen Z.
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YOU are curious about Japanese novels. YOU HAVE MAYBE EVEN ENJOYED SOME IN TRANSLATION. YOU have seen translated Japanese novels taking off in the west, but YOU DO NOT READ JAPANESE.
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TSUNDOKUBLOG WE'RE LOOKING AT AKUTAGAWA CONTENDERS, MODERN CLASSICS, BOOKSELLERS FAVOURITES, AND MORE
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TSUNDOKUBLOG WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JAPANESE TEXTS, INTRODUCING YOU TO HOW THEY MAKE USE OF JAPANESE LANGUAGE TO DO THINGS AN AUTHOR CAN ONLY DO IN JAPANESE LITERATURE. IT WILL GET LOST IN TRANSLATION, SO FIND IT ON...TSUNDOKUBLOG
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