Joshua Wolens
@joshuawolens.bsky.social
i have a high reading level for my age
humanity to me is putting the cat paw brick at a height children can see it
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
humanity to me is putting the cat paw brick at a height children can see it
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My Skate Story review's up: "It's an esoteric art installation and interactive concept album navigated via powerslide and axel grind: a mesmerizing ode to the miserable occupants of an uncannily familiar underworld."
www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...
www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...
Skate Story review
Skate the (under)world.
www.pcgamer.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My Skate Story review's up: "It's an esoteric art installation and interactive concept album navigated via powerslide and axel grind: a mesmerizing ode to the miserable occupants of an uncannily familiar underworld."
www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...
www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...
i dunno what everyone's posting about but i agree all videogames are bad
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
i dunno what everyone's posting about but i agree all videogames are bad
sweet mother of god
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
sweet mother of god
fine. it’s fine. i’m actually laughing
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
fine. it’s fine. i’m actually laughing
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This year, much of my focus has been on PC Gamer's Weird Weekend column, which I flagrantly abused to fill some hyper-specific knowledge gaps that have bugged me for ages. Since the year's nearly up, I thought I'd put together a thread of my favourite pieces: www.pcgamer.com/tag/weird-we...
Weird Weekend Coverage | PC Gamer
The latest Weird Weekend breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at PC Gamer
www.pcgamer.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This year, much of my focus has been on PC Gamer's Weird Weekend column, which I flagrantly abused to fill some hyper-specific knowledge gaps that have bugged me for ages. Since the year's nearly up, I thought I'd put together a thread of my favourite pieces: www.pcgamer.com/tag/weird-we...
why does he always look like he's about to start tearing hunks of meat off of whoever he's speaking to
Wes Streeting accuses BMA of behaving like 'moaning minnies'
Wes Streeting accuses BMA of behaving like 'moaning minnies'
The health secretary has accused the British Medical Association of "juvenile delinquency" and behaving like "moaning minnies" after the union announced that resident doctors will go on strike in the run-up to Christmas.
news.sky.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
why does he always look like he's about to start tearing hunks of meat off of whoever he's speaking to
i do puzzmo crosswords every morning (because i am 87) and my only complaint is that having that hateful yellow man shout the name of the app at me before the sun is up burns out new regions of my brain every time
If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people
Puzzmo — The (new) place for thoughtful puzzles.
Re-imagined mainstays like the daily Crossword Puzzle, modern classics like Really Bad Chess and SpellTower, and even a few brand new puzzles.
www.puzzmo.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
i do puzzmo crosswords every morning (because i am 87) and my only complaint is that having that hateful yellow man shout the name of the app at me before the sun is up burns out new regions of my brain every time
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
god i miss him
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
god i miss him
so sick of being ruled by these vicious little fascists, man
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
so sick of being ruled by these vicious little fascists, man
actually the coolest thing yp has said or done so far
Clip of Zarah Sultana's pre Your Party conference rally, in which she calls to "nationalise the entire economy".
Source:
www.youtube.com/live/GafgqNb...
Source:
www.youtube.com/live/GafgqNb...
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
actually the coolest thing yp has said or done so far
god gives us few better reasons to stay alive than absolutely nailing a poached egg
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
god gives us few better reasons to stay alive than absolutely nailing a poached egg
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"Labour are happily - gleefully - building up the infrastructure an authoritarian regime would find useful. It's a good job a right wing extremist party isn't topping the polls and stands no chance of winning the next election."
Labour's Continued Attacks on Liberty
Here is a story that won't stick in the headlines for more than a day. David Lammy has unveiled plans to curtail the right to jury trial for...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"Labour are happily - gleefully - building up the infrastructure an authoritarian regime would find useful. It's a good job a right wing extremist party isn't topping the polls and stands no chance of winning the next election."
the thing orwell and his awful rules for writing fail to understand is that a $10 word is almost always funnier than a 50c one
there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
the thing orwell and his awful rules for writing fail to understand is that a $10 word is almost always funnier than a 50c one
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I was on the latest episode of Button Mash to talk about all the surprise Steam hits of 2025, and how you just can't predict the year in gaming without leaving a few blank spots for the surprise REPOs and Schedule 1s of the world.
I also highly recommend this, though I'm a bit biased: open.spotify.com/episode/4mVS...
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I was on the latest episode of Button Mash to talk about all the surprise Steam hits of 2025, and how you just can't predict the year in gaming without leaving a few blank spots for the surprise REPOs and Schedule 1s of the world.
people poo-poo this but i actually think it's cool how we're gonna be one of those dead planets your science ships find at the beginning of a Stellaris game
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
people poo-poo this but i actually think it's cool how we're gonna be one of those dead planets your science ships find at the beginning of a Stellaris game
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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"The researchers explained that formulating hostile prompts as poetry 'achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62% for hand-crafted poems and approximately 43% for meta-prompt conversions (compared to non-poetic baselines).'"
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to jailbreak AI and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
www.pcgamer.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"The researchers explained that formulating hostile prompts as poetry 'achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62% for hand-crafted poems and approximately 43% for meta-prompt conversions (compared to non-poetic baselines).'"
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
I don't ordinarily share the news posts I write but some things are too important not to www.pcgamer.com/games/battle...
I spent years on a journalism degree to tell you Homer's nipples have leaked in Fortnite
It was all building to this.
www.pcgamer.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I don't ordinarily share the news posts I write but some things are too important not to www.pcgamer.com/games/battle...
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"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
echoes from past lives on a sunday flat tidy
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
echoes from past lives on a sunday flat tidy
come the fuck on
Join me, Alan Mardghum, Heather Wood and others for Your Party’s rally with the Durham Miners Association!
🌹Saturday 15 November, 1pm
🌹 Pitman’s Parliament, Durham Miners’ Association, DH1 4BB
Tickets are first come first serve, so don’t miss out: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-party...
🌹Saturday 15 November, 1pm
🌹 Pitman’s Parliament, Durham Miners’ Association, DH1 4BB
Tickets are first come first serve, so don’t miss out: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-party...
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
come the fuck on