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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 28/04/2026

if you're feeling overwhelmed right now, please be aware that a new cosy moomin game came out on switch yesterday and it's full of tiny neurodivergent creatures who are also unsure whether they're sad or just hungry

Dialogue from new @hypergames.no game Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth. In a barren snowy landscape, a winter being says "empty inside"

Dialogue from new @hypergames.no game Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth. In a barren snowy landscape, a winter being says "no talk. eat."

Dialogue from new @hypergames.no game Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth. In a barren snowy landscape, Moomintroll says "so... the hollowness you're feeling is... hunger?"

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 30/03/2026

I don't like those things either tbf, I want a life I don't need to dissociate from and one heavily imbalanced in favour of leisure and community

An interview in The Times with the headline: "M&S boss: I don't like holiday switch-offs and work-life balance talk" with a picture of said boss looking like an underperforming striker posing for a Sky Sports Premier League line-up in a supermarket aisle

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 23/11/2025

apps texting me like fuckboys on MDMA part 14,728

Screenshot of an email, with text that reads: "Log in to Trello before 24 November 2025...
We noticed you've been away for over two years. We miss you, but we get it if you've moved on."

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 05/10/2025

this is just an r/dreams fan account now

A post from the r/Dreams subreddit. The text reads: 'King Henry the 8 exhibited signs and symptoms of syphilis' followed by a contented smile emoji. The image is a stock photo of an egg slicer being used to slice a hard-boiled egg.

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 01/10/2025

I'm not interested in your MBTI, tell me what choices you made at the end of 1000xRESIST

A screenshot taken from the video game 1000xRESIST, depicting a young woman sat near a tree, bathed in a circle of blue light. A text box indicates a character called 'The Youngest' saying: "I remember obsession."

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 30/09/2025

I'm very sorry to report that reddit is now the best social media

Screenshot of a Reddit post with the headline 'beating jesus christ up', and the main body of text which simply reads 'what does it mean to beat up jesus christ in my dreams'

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 07/09/2025

I'm generally a supporter of restorative justice but I don't believe these people can be safely rehabilitated into society

A Hinge (dating app) prompt that reads 'Don't hate me if I... Skip the queue on spotify when I have to play an absolute banger'

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 03/09/2025

Oh that was indeed fun (and new) to me, thank you!

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 24/08/2025

I don't know what the Crab Museum is going through right now, but I am ready to take up arms and fight as they navigate forwards, and possibly sideways, through this moment of darkness

An Instagram post from the Crab Museum account. The image depicts an orange and black crab visible in the rear view mirror of a car, which is driving down a misty country lane. The header text reads: 'The road to fascism is paved with people telling crab museums to stay in their lane'

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 18/08/2025

It's just time to accept that there's an entire generation whose brains have been toxified by mold and that's why they've become obsessed with hating trans people and speedrunning divorce

A picture of Jordan Peterson with the headline 'Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold'

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 17/08/2025

I've already promised to lend my copy to two friends after telling everyone how good it is! It's beautifully written - this is one of my favourite lines from any piece of critical theory ✨ (looking forward to reading more of your work when I get time too!)

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 12/08/2025

I have a friend who is obsessed with this film and I bought them DEBS stickers a few years back - immediately forwarded this piece and they adored it!

Various items, including a water bottle, covered in stickers featuring artwork from the cult film DEBS

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 06/05/2025

I wish Modi nothing but the worst but also congratulations on successfully negotiating with all 17 UK prime ministers from the last three years

A picture of Keir Starmer and Narendra Modi shaking hands, accompanying a headline from The Guardian: "UK and India agree ‘landmark’ trade deal after three years of negotiations"

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 06/05/2025

I've been excited to read this one for a while and it is predictably superb, a conversation that deserves to be yelled over the endless, tinny chit-chat of the culture wars

A copy of the book 'Post-Work' by Helen Hester and Will Stronge on a coffee table, next to a yellow British Tea Power mug

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 06/05/2025

just vibing in the darkest corners of heaven wbu

A woman (Lune from the video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) stands in front of a sky lit up in various hues, a crumbling fortress lying just ahead in silhouette

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 06/05/2025

Popped out to the shops in my cutest blue nails and Disco Elysium hoodie this morning and realised I've grown into the adorable lil weirdo I was born to be 💙

The author stood awkwardly in a doorway, gazing into the camera

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 25/04/2025

I can tell that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is going to take much longer to complete than it should due to the amount of time I just spend gazing at it in awe

A still from the video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, featuring a partially silhouetted figure against a background of coral-red trees, blue skies, and towering architecture

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 15/04/2025

Can I interest you in an atrocious, non-boosted GW32 bench owing to Bournemouth suddenly remembering how to keep a clean sheet against the team who rinsed Liverpool last week?

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 30/03/2025

On the train from the city to the sea, yesterday

A woman in a green baseball cap gazes out at the sea through a train window

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 20/03/2025

Actual picture of @laurablomvall.bsky.social checking her phone tomorrow and realising that it's 4.22am as I suggest for the third time that we get up to watch the Severance season finale

Britt Lower as Helly R in the Apple TV series 'Severance': "They were scary. The numbers were scary."

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 16/03/2025

funny that, because it was new labour's embrace of national CBT programmes as a means of decentring our suffering from its deeply political roots - rebranding it as an illness that we each need to 'work on' - that got us here, an irony that seems lost on Wes

The Guardian news headline, Sunday 16th March 2025: "Wes Streeting: there is an overdiagnosis of mental health conditions"

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 08/03/2025

this venue now also accommodates ritual child sacrifice and scythed chariot races

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 23/02/2025

Still thinking about that glorious Half Waif show in London last weekend

Nandi Rose Plunkett standing on stage, holding an ornament with multi-coloured maypole strands hanging down

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 04/02/2025

Oh my god, Foxing, The Hotelier and now Mannequin Pussy in the space of three weeks is going to destroy me physically and I cannot wait

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 03/02/2025

The Hotelier are my favourite band in the entire world and I cannot explain how stupidly excited this has made me right now

A tour poster detailing the upcoming UK / Europe tour of rock band The Hotelier

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 02/02/2025

One finger under a cute marmoset

A tiny baby marmoset holding onto someone's finger

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 27/01/2025

Lifeblood above Generation Terrorists?

Meme of Celine Dion on the telephone with the caption 'je téléphone à la police' (I'm calling the police)

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 15/01/2025

You're going to love Disco Elysium so much. Australia initially banned it because, well, they're losers / narcs

A screenshot of the following text: 'In an explanation on the official Australian Classification website, the board said classification had been refused because the game deals with "matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults"'

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 30/12/2024

agent: I've got a big new job for you buddy, real creative subtitles guy: as long as it's not another creature feature where I'm just describing different clicking noises the aliens make for 2 hours haha agent: .... subtitles guy: .... agent: real creative

A still from 'A Quiet Place: Day One' with the sound caption '[HEAVY, RHYTHMIC WARBLING]'

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 30/12/2024

Not enough throaty whickering in modern horror, if you ask me

A screenshot from the movie 'A Quiet Place: Day One' (2024). The sound caption reads '[FAINT, THROATY WHICKERING]'

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 29/12/2024

popped into tesco earlier and they'd apparently sold out of moon charts??? thank god they had some left in better foods

'Moon phase calendars' wrapped up with rubber bands in a wicker basket, retailing at £6.99

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 19/12/2024

I'm coming out of my grave and I'll be doing just fine (went to Père-Lachaise to visit Colette)

Me looking appropriately moody and gothic at Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris

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Matthew Neale @matthewgneale.com · 13/12/2024

Sank a billion hours into Octopath Traveler II and Sea of Stars; completed my annual replays of FFVII and IX (and gave up on Rebirth 30 hours in); truly fell in love with NieR: Automata and Disco Elysium. More RPG goodness in 2025 pls!

My Playstation Wrap, revealing an obscene number of hours poured into Octopath Traveler II

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