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
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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Bolsonaro literally fled on a narco-traffickers plane 🥲 Between the pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez in Honduras, refuge for Flávio from Brazil, and the close alliance with Ecuador’s Noboa, the Trump admin is proving itself to be the true ally of narco-terror in the region.
🇧🇷🇦🇷🇺🇸 O jatinho usado por Flávio Bolsonaro para fugir aos EUA pertence a um sócio do narcotraficante argentino Federico “Fred” Machado, atualmente preso nos EUA, segundo a Revista Forum. A aeronave em questão é o Gulfstream G400 de registro LV-JQW, voando pela Baires Fly.
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wake up babe, people are about to discover reading.
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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?”
Apparently if you are a plumber or a painter you won't be able to go shopping in Oxford Street anymore.
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"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."
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lmao this is so brutal
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end stages of a concerted campaign to delegitimise depression & anxiety as mental illnesses
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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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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.
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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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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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
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
TV licence to be extended to the thin transparent window on your kettle
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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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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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Co-signed by Tha Big Dawg himself
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