Wrenji
@wrenji.bsky.social
Weird entity studying whatever I can get my hands on. Currently finishing my Digital Humanities degree. Occasional editor, artist and game designer. Any pronouns :)
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it's my 🎂 birthday 🎂 again so i have a discount code for the shop 💖 code BIRTHDAYBOY2026 for 10% off everything, i have a couple of new stickers and a sneaky little keychain preorder happening too 🎉
for the first time in a very long time....i have new stuff in the shop! chooshop.bigcartel.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:45 AM
it's my 🎂 birthday 🎂 again so i have a discount code for the shop 💖 code BIRTHDAYBOY2026 for 10% off everything, i have a couple of new stickers and a sneaky little keychain preorder happening too 🎉
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One of my favorite (and longest) #OTD threads. Stephen Hawking, glowing black holes, the Simpsons, and having to sit next to one of my childhood idols and explain their work to a group of curious colleagues. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Stephen Hawking was born #OTD in 1942. He developed theorems with Penrose that determine when general relativity produces singularities, established classical laws of black hole mechanics, and hypothesized that quantum effects cause black holes to radiate. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Image: Santi Visalli/Getty
Image: Santi Visalli/Getty
January 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM
One of my favorite (and longest) #OTD threads. Stephen Hawking, glowing black holes, the Simpsons, and having to sit next to one of my childhood idols and explain their work to a group of curious colleagues. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
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I think there's no person so hated by the ambitious of this world as Bryar Kosala, since those who fight viciously to grasp the reins of power can't forgive that she could rise so high & still be nice. She likes helping & is good at running things.
#TooLikeTheLightning
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@adapalmer.bsky.social
#TooLikeTheLightning
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@adapalmer.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM
I think there's no person so hated by the ambitious of this world as Bryar Kosala, since those who fight viciously to grasp the reins of power can't forgive that she could rise so high & still be nice. She likes helping & is good at running things.
#TooLikeTheLightning
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@adapalmer.bsky.social
#TooLikeTheLightning
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@adapalmer.bsky.social
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In an era where support for trans rights and LGBTQ+ in general was more tepid and understated, because people were afraid to upset bigots, GDQ decided they were going to be loudly, unapologetically inclusive. The result is one of the greatest communities in video games.
The extent to which Games Done Quick has helped to steer the larger speedrunning community - one of the most hardcore video game enthusiast subcultures there is - into becoming something so welcoming, inclusive and supportive astonishes me
January 6, 2026 at 1:43 AM
In an era where support for trans rights and LGBTQ+ in general was more tepid and understated, because people were afraid to upset bigots, GDQ decided they were going to be loudly, unapologetically inclusive. The result is one of the greatest communities in video games.
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This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
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blackout is an (almost entirely) asynchronous journalling game for two players about redacting, interpreting, & straining against the confines of language. it's played by creating & communicating through blackout poetry. playtest version with community copies out now satah.itch.io/blackout
December 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
blackout is an (almost entirely) asynchronous journalling game for two players about redacting, interpreting, & straining against the confines of language. it's played by creating & communicating through blackout poetry. playtest version with community copies out now satah.itch.io/blackout
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Folks doing some magical stuff with VRChat. Mindbending to think that Facebook spent tens of billions of dollars and still fell mile short of this.
Daytona USA VR Version 1.1.0 is available now!
(patch notes & additional info in replies)
vrchat.com/home/world/w...
(patch notes & additional info in replies)
vrchat.com/home/world/w...
December 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Folks doing some magical stuff with VRChat. Mindbending to think that Facebook spent tens of billions of dollars and still fell mile short of this.
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Manchmal, da hat man in der Berichterstattung - stille laute Helden. Einer davon war für mich 2025 Wolf. Aus Berlin. Er hatte uns 2024 zu unserer Folge zu Toiletten geschrieben, warum Frauen länger warten müssen. Ein danke, dass wir darüber berichtet haben: "Endlich. So wichtig". 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Manchmal, da hat man in der Berichterstattung - stille laute Helden. Einer davon war für mich 2025 Wolf. Aus Berlin. Er hatte uns 2024 zu unserer Folge zu Toiletten geschrieben, warum Frauen länger warten müssen. Ein danke, dass wir darüber berichtet haben: "Endlich. So wichtig". 1/5
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Oh this week? We discovered how plant roots twist, you know basic stuff. source.washu.edu/2025/12/plan... 🌱🧪
Plant science with a twist
Biology and engineering researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have uncovered the mechanism of plants’ twisting roots.
source.washu.edu
December 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh this week? We discovered how plant roots twist, you know basic stuff. source.washu.edu/2025/12/plan... 🌱🧪
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Apropos of the weekend's conversations, a thread of some of our pieces talking about archives and research practices, just from this past year.
We start with frequent contributor @kmfranseen.bsky.social
We start with frequent contributor @kmfranseen.bsky.social
“HAVE QUOTES ABOUT SALIERI”
How someone already convinced of a conspiracy theory reads non-conspiratorial sources.
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Apropos of the weekend's conversations, a thread of some of our pieces talking about archives and research practices, just from this past year.
We start with frequent contributor @kmfranseen.bsky.social
We start with frequent contributor @kmfranseen.bsky.social
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Interesting thread
I would like to articulate one of the BIGGEST misconceptions about cat breed genetics by talking about the NEBELUNG!
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
December 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Interesting thread
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I’ve not talked about the LLM bubble on here yet, as mostly I discuss technical rather than economic issues, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit. Especially while reading Carlota Perez’s Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Here are some thoughts.
December 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I’ve not talked about the LLM bubble on here yet, as mostly I discuss technical rather than economic issues, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit. Especially while reading Carlota Perez’s Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Here are some thoughts.
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this is a really good piece of writing and i am very glad i read it and i think you might be too.
LRT and this—lots of good writing on the subject of Ruin, lately. I wonder why! Probably good reasons, surely. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
this is a really good piece of writing and i am very glad i read it and i think you might be too.
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my favorite pieces from 2025
December 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
my favorite pieces from 2025
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I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral.
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
Amílcar Cabral: To Be Mountains, To Return to the Source of Power
Assassinated 20 January 1973. Yet still today we cry “Viva Cabral! Viva!”
folukeafrica.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral.
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
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i think art is good, and i think recognizing when artists are doing something new and weird is also good.
here's me losing my shit about fake video games for nearly 2 hours
youtu.be/5hkkCbxoaz0
here's me losing my shit about fake video games for nearly 2 hours
youtu.be/5hkkCbxoaz0
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
i think art is good, and i think recognizing when artists are doing something new and weird is also good.
here's me losing my shit about fake video games for nearly 2 hours
youtu.be/5hkkCbxoaz0
here's me losing my shit about fake video games for nearly 2 hours
youtu.be/5hkkCbxoaz0
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
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One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae) caught in the lamplight outside a hostel where we were staying in a dark pine forest in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees. Moons before, as a caterpillar it would have somehow found substance in miserly pine needles
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae) caught in the lamplight outside a hostel where we were staying in a dark pine forest in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees. Moons before, as a caterpillar it would have somehow found substance in miserly pine needles
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I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)!
Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)!
Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
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OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
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it is always so fun working on high areas of the map and fine tuning the beautiful vistas you see from up top :)
- work in progress!
(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social)
#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
- work in progress!
(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social)
#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
it is always so fun working on high areas of the map and fine tuning the beautiful vistas you see from up top :)
- work in progress!
(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social)
#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
- work in progress!
(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social)
#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame