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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
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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Replying to @tylekurner
Right like there was an opportunity to recognise the need for humility here
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Alex Maskill retweeted
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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Replying to @terrence_mccoy
Weird, why's that? Ah - all the crimes
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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."
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Alex Maskill retweeted
lmao this is so brutal
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Replying to @willmenaker
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
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Replying to @mattyglesias
Right that's supposed to be limited to the State Department and the CIA, it's not supposed to be this broad-based
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Replying to @SweatieAngle
you've burned the braincells so we don't have to
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Replying to @curtisdaly_
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.
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Replying to @roryisconfused
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
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Alex Maskill retweeted
end stages of a concerted campaign to delegitimise depression & anxiety as mental illnesses
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Replying to @ThatYuta
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.
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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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Replying to @regularaugust
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?
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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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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.
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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