Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social
Occasional moaning about cloud engineering but mostly cats.
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When I discovered the flip of this, my brain broke a bit - that a huge chunk of folks listen to longform video as an audio-only podcast, right? So it's all a spectacular waste of time for everyone.
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
When I discovered the flip of this, my brain broke a bit - that a huge chunk of folks listen to longform video as an audio-only podcast, right? So it's all a spectacular waste of time for everyone.
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Windows 98 starting up for the first time 🔊
December 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Windows 98 starting up for the first time 🔊
Happy Christmas day nerds. I hope your sleep is better than mine.
Happy Christmas eve nerds!
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Happy Christmas day nerds. I hope your sleep is better than mine.
Politics is selective quoting and the more selective the quoting the more politics it is.
Is this something?
Is this something?
December 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Politics is selective quoting and the more selective the quoting the more politics it is.
Is this something?
Is this something?
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Zoiks. That’s real bad.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Zoiks. That’s real bad.
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Smol Paul wants a hug
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Smol Paul wants a hug
The millennial urge to panic buy a graphics card just so you can play Unreal Tournament at 30,000fps.
December 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The millennial urge to panic buy a graphics card just so you can play Unreal Tournament at 30,000fps.
Just checking in on the website formerly known as twitter where Danny Finklestein has got the Catholic nazi to admit he would forcibly expel Muslims and Jews who refuse to give up keeping to kosher or halal diets.
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just checking in on the website formerly known as twitter where Danny Finklestein has got the Catholic nazi to admit he would forcibly expel Muslims and Jews who refuse to give up keeping to kosher or halal diets.
Transistor, that game is near perfect.
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2014, if you had one, and what you would say your favourite game of 2014 is now, if it differs
Localisations and early access count, remasters don't. Remakes depend
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations and early access count, remasters don't. Remakes depend
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
December 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Transistor, that game is near perfect.
Not entirely clear how someone can call themselves a patriot and refuse to defend the country they claim to love.
The Telegraph: now advocates for mutiny.
The enemy within.
The enemy within.
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Not entirely clear how someone can call themselves a patriot and refuse to defend the country they claim to love.
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I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology.
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology.
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
Thinking about it one of the reasons I'm so fascinated by the command line is probably growing up with Windows 95/98 mean't you dropped back to DOS fairly frequantly and it felt like computer archaeology.
Travelling back in time to fight dodge imp fireballs.
Travelling back in time to fight dodge imp fireballs.
December 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking about it one of the reasons I'm so fascinated by the command line is probably growing up with Windows 95/98 mean't you dropped back to DOS fairly frequantly and it felt like computer archaeology.
Travelling back in time to fight dodge imp fireballs.
Travelling back in time to fight dodge imp fireballs.
Valheim then
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart now
Although that's probably because I Ratchet it this year after finally getting around to buying a PS5.
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart now
Although that's probably because I Ratchet it this year after finally getting around to buying a PS5.
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2021, if you had one, and what you would say your favourite game of 2021 is now, if it differs
Localisations and early access count, remasters don't. Remakes depend
Full refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations and early access count, remasters don't. Remakes depend
Full refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Valheim then
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart now
Although that's probably because I Ratchet it this year after finally getting around to buying a PS5.
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart now
Although that's probably because I Ratchet it this year after finally getting around to buying a PS5.
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It’s just extraordinary that some people on the left continue to see this ignoramus as worth listening to. Imagine being nearly four years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, after all that’s been said, and still refusing to understand that speaking Russian doesn’t make a Ukrainian a Russian.
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It’s just extraordinary that some people on the left continue to see this ignoramus as worth listening to. Imagine being nearly four years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, after all that’s been said, and still refusing to understand that speaking Russian doesn’t make a Ukrainian a Russian.
Hades then
Doom Eternal now
Doom Eternal now
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2020, and what you would say your favourite game of 2020 is now, if it differs
(I will count two-way ties for either answer)
For a more comprehensive refresher than this grid: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
(I will count two-way ties for either answer)
For a more comprehensive refresher than this grid: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
December 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hades then
Doom Eternal now
Doom Eternal now
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New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Overshoot
What happens to politics, and the country, as net migration collapses?
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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"Joining the Customs Union would most likely be good for growth. But if we think it will save us from economic stagnation, we are suffering from a very British form of exceptionalism."
David Lawrence of @britishprogress.org argues that a Customs Union is not a cure-all for growth
David Lawrence of @britishprogress.org argues that a Customs Union is not a cure-all for growth
A customs union won’t fix Labour’s growth woes
The Government is, we are told, considering crossing its own red lines and rejoining the EU Customs Union. Indeed, according to one Cabinet source, this is “the only idea around” on growth.
Aside fr...
renewal.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"Joining the Customs Union would most likely be good for growth. But if we think it will save us from economic stagnation, we are suffering from a very British form of exceptionalism."
David Lawrence of @britishprogress.org argues that a Customs Union is not a cure-all for growth
David Lawrence of @britishprogress.org argues that a Customs Union is not a cure-all for growth
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PenguinRandomHouse are running a good COUNT ZERO deal with BookBub, US ebook price reduced to $1.99 from December 15 to December 20!
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
PenguinRandomHouse are running a good COUNT ZERO deal with BookBub, US ebook price reduced to $1.99 from December 15 to December 20!
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Ahmed al-Ahmed, righteous among the nations
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ahmed al-Ahmed, righteous among the nations
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
As Sunder has correctly pointed out our state religion is not "(Christianity, denomination may vary)" It's the Church of England and taking this position as a Catholic is an interesting one given the history of these islands.
Tomlinson confirms that this is the racist view which he advocates for both parliament and the civil service.
He says if Badenoch, Patel, Mahmood, Lammy or Miliband want to be in public service, they should emigrate to "their nation of origin" (even though they are British-born British citizens)
He says if Badenoch, Patel, Mahmood, Lammy or Miliband want to be in public service, they should emigrate to "their nation of origin" (even though they are British-born British citizens)
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
As Sunder has correctly pointed out our state religion is not "(Christianity, denomination may vary)" It's the Church of England and taking this position as a Catholic is an interesting one given the history of these islands.
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Monocausal-thesis pop-sci books are slowly poisoning academia. Discuss.
The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.
December 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Monocausal-thesis pop-sci books are slowly poisoning academia. Discuss.
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"This murder of Jews wouldn't have occurred if those Jews way over there hadn't done something to deserve it" is Nazi talk and you need to automatically report and block anyone who says it. Yes, even the cool leftists.
you know the Nazis also blamed the Jews for Kristallnacht, you can find many German diplomats expressing regret about the events followed by "but what can you expect when the Jews act this way?"
December 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"This murder of Jews wouldn't have occurred if those Jews way over there hadn't done something to deserve it" is Nazi talk and you need to automatically report and block anyone who says it. Yes, even the cool leftists.
The number of times I’ve been on holiday and stumbled on a memorial to some massacre of Jews.
I currently work on a street in London that used to be a Jewish ghetto until they were expelled by Edward the first.
The reminders are everywhere.
I currently work on a street in London that used to be a Jewish ghetto until they were expelled by Edward the first.
The reminders are everywhere.
I've written a piece about what I think some non-Jews don't understand about how Jews view security
www.jewishnews.co.uk/a-short-guid...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/a-short-guid...
December 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The number of times I’ve been on holiday and stumbled on a memorial to some massacre of Jews.
I currently work on a street in London that used to be a Jewish ghetto until they were expelled by Edward the first.
The reminders are everywhere.
I currently work on a street in London that used to be a Jewish ghetto until they were expelled by Edward the first.
The reminders are everywhere.