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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TV licence to be extended to the water-filled and so refractive section of any full or half full water bottles
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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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Dipped in here to see reaction to Carson Nobel – a series of very silly rote culture war execrations. X also seems to have invented a new figure, the subliterate literary influencer/grifter. Anyway, this is from Carson's sublime Isaiah sequence. It's great.
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A very good piece of reporting. What it makes clear is the yawning gap that is already opening up between Burnham's stated ambitions and the political capacity of the teams he has put in place to help him actually realise them. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Times like this really make it clear how the British political press sees its goal as making itself as central as possible to the career arcs they assume the politicians they cover are on, to the point where it goes beyond description and into dictation. The "political cycle".
Does Zack Polanski have to go? Greens at the crossroads after Holborn and St Pancras - by @LexyTopping
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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me writing the worst novel of all time in 2004: he's a 2020s defense contractor executive with a baby face, mullet, and a wispy ballsack beard. his company is named after a sword from Lord of the Rings, loves to wear Hawaiian shirts, and hates divorce. his name is Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey reveals the startup he'd build today: oxytocin doping to end divorce
"I would try to end the tragedy of divorce with oxytocin doping for marriage counseling."
"We understand mammal pair bonding pretty well. There's a lot of people who want to stay together. Most of the people who don't want to stay together should stay together, especially for their kids."
"And we can, if people think SSRIs are fine, which they're not, but if they were, then oxytocin doping to stay together is definitely fine."
"It's the mammal pair bonding chemical. There's things you can do to increase the uptake, and it's very well understood. Also, totally unregulated, which is great. Unregulated spaces are a lot easier to do. You can go buy a kilogram of oxytocin on Sigma Aldrich Chemical Supply right now, and if you do that, maybe you won't die alone."
"It's pure biology. It's used for women who don't bond with their kids, and now for women who don't bond with their husbands. It's also used for kids with various neurological issues, some kids with autism who struggle with pair bonding."
"The cool thing is it's a self-reinforcing loop. We understand that very well. Unlike most drugs, it doesn't form a chemical dependency. It actually unburdens you from a chemical dependency."
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GUY WHO IDENTIFIES AS 'HIGHLY AGENTIC': I can't believe the normies aren't using their AI agents to complete the daily crossword
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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