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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching Dark and it appears to be a sci-fi melodrama about the two most incestuous families in Germany

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So glad I got to spend a good amount of time seeing my little guy back in May but it's been a pretty morose week

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've started a Japanese literature book diary blog! Hoping to get some info about these things out there into the anglosphere while also talking about what Japanese literary writers are up to tsundokublog.substack.com/p/introducin...

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INTRODUCING: TSUNDOKUBLOG

What's going in the wide world of untranslated Japanese literature?

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T. Benjamin White @tbenjaminwhite.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Animorphs, by @kaaauthor.bsky.social , has turned thirty. I believe it's the greatest accomplishment in juvenile fiction, telling a story that's unambiguously for kids while treating its audience and subject honestly. I wrote more about this here. open.substack.com/pub/composte...

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ANIMORPHS: The Greatest Achievement in Juvenile Fiction Turns Thirty

Or, how K.A. Applegate’s Masterpiece Taught Me to Read

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Having such an annoying time getting Amazon JP kindle books onto a device without wiping my Amazon UK books too that I'm now convinced that if they could the Amazon corporation would execute every bilingual person

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Hanging out with the world's best dog (16 years old, concerning kidney issues, nothing bad will happen)

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Got my next Japan trip all booked in (too late, a really cool opportunity unfortunately couldn't be made to work) and now I'm letting myself get big excited again

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Just overhead a kid pull off a "smells like updog" on the adult he was with. Clean as anything.

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Traitors is wild, the most melodramatic production design in the world over some business consultant in the middle of a game of werewolf doing a really banal confession cam

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The neighbourhood cats have figured out where our apartment is and have started meowing at the window to get my flatmate to come outside

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/12/2025

‘Psychoanalysis can help us better understand how the world, including our oppressors, works, and so what we might do about it, and them; and what wishes we might have for collective life, and which of these the reality principle demands we set aside.’ Amia Srinivasan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious

You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

My new years resolution is to get way better at reading when I'm not in the office now that I'm not in an office five days a week because jesus christ there has been a falloff

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US: Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It’s insane to talk through this shit out loud. “Children should starve because it might make their moms less likely to sleep around in the future.”

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Amazon delivery got hit with the "still arriving today"

Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner looking neutral overlaid with the same character looking furious

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/10/2025

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

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EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

(more intrigued than I've been in my life) apparently the new Luca Guadagnino film fucking sucks

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/08/2025

Anyway, my stance remains the same - never trust anyone in statement glasses

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Am I reading this right or is this senior party figure saying "the promise was to be Continuity Toryism but competent" AND "but now nobody buys competent part"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I wrote about Clarence Thomas's anti-intellectual, anti-trans concurrence in United States v. Skrmetti, and what it says about how far the right has fallen into conspiratorialism

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The Triumph of the American Moron

Clarence Thomas's anti-trans concurrence is the culmination of right-wing anti-intellectualism

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A great episode on a great book from one of my favourite incredibly niche podcasts

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

“ChatGPT, in giving my students an alternative to skill-building, hurts their ability to learn, but more than that, it kills the trust that any teaching relationship depends on.”

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Grave Robber-tson 🏳️‍⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 12/05/2025

this is not an exaggeration

graph showing% of daily mail print articles mentioning immigration closely correlated with the % of brits saying immigration is one of the most important issues

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 12/05/2025

Very Serious People who insisted the labour party of 2015-2019 was the most racist it had been ever are very very quiet at the moment

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

They're going to canonize Mike Ditka upon his death

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/05/2025

The real problem with Moldbug is that this kind of guy is, like the first type of guy you fought with on the internet in Web 1.0 forums, so people who grew up online know to ignore him, but the people who didn’t think he needs to be engaged with. He even looks the part.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Also, it's not like their ideas are confined to 4Chan any more, the kid trying to learn COBOL so he can starve millions of elderly people has the same beliefs as the old /pol/ posters

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Bits I'm predicting for the KJB Transporter episode: - absurdly fetishy Shu Qi kidnap scenes - "you just got transported" sounding too pleasant and like you got dazzled to be an action movie line - increasingly implausible "that's transport, he can use it" scenarios a la "is it a technical"

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It's always fun to read a classic novel with a lot of cultural impact and go "oh that's who this character I've heard about all my life is". Currently reading Les Miserables, finding out about this fella Jean Valjean, wild stuff

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

What this has reminded me of were some accounts on here who were like "Labour's going to get a larger vote share than Corbyn did in 2017 and Corbynites are going to have to explain that in a way that isn't cope" then they got fewer votes than 2019 and no explanations were forthcoming from them.

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Theoderic @theoderic.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The author of this brilliant analysis (“Stock go down but may go up”) likely earns more in a year than 25 school teachers

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I know that I'm well into "white people Wakanda" territory but I still get these momentary spikes where it's incredibly important to me that I have a ~¥1000 ramen bowl and a can of Georgia Emerald Mountain coffee be immediately available to me

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

my thoughts on the Chiefs getting wiped out: at the end of No Country for Old Men, Anton Chigurh, the psychopathic antagonist who was to that point less a man than a symbol of inevitability itself, is hit by another car while driving. Even fate’s avatars are not free from its whims.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"Selling Out Is Bad" is a valuable concept and despite all the baggage and bullshit and elitism it could contain it's actually really good to reinforce the ideal that having integrity when it matters, especially when it hurts, is what good/cool people do. Should be adapted instead of jettisoned.

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Trying to start reading a classic novel...so many kindle versions...multiple translations...best Audible reading synced to a public domain kindle version that sucks...praying for sweet release of deathhhhhh

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Every day I watch at least one movie and then explain to a group of several thousand Japanese strangers what I liked about it

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It's still funny to me that inasmuch as he had any ideology before his brush with American Medicare, Luigi's thing was applying Kaczynski thought to the Don Quijote sex toy aisle

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Blessed life of Dougie Jones continues. Ladies love a guy with a pure heart and an IQ of 60

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The Duolingo owl has a very insecure attachment style

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Alex Maskill @alexmaskill.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Twin Peaks Season 3 update: "Dougie Jones" rocks

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Longreads @longreads.com · 11/12/2024

“Literature seems to me – and I say this with no intention to denigrate theology, the ancient claimant to this title – the queen of the sciences.” @philipchristman.bsky.social, @plough.bsky.social #longreads www.plough.com/en/topics/co...

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Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?

Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/12/2024

I've been thinking about the shooter's Goodreads a lot. Almost exclusively, these are books that don't actually teach you anything, but rather are more like a kind of bizarre cosmetic surgery that makes your brain look smart to you when you look at it the mirror. Intelligence dysmorphia disorder.

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