My Year in Reading, 2025 Challenging stale histories through fresh narratives, and how new worlds are formed.

In what has become one of my favorite annual traditions, I wrote about my 2025 year in reading through a series of short(ish), interwoven essays
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communists don't want to take your toothbrush, we want ONE (1) universal toothbrush design which everyone can have for free and never think about again

"if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you"—Terry Eagleton paraphrasing Herbert McCabe

Real men eat balls drenched in milk

tweet SOON the people of Greenland will be free Attached is a video clip of a huge shopping street in snowy Greenland filled to the brim with cars on snow shoes, with the Northern Lights in the background

There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides

Year in Review, 2025 A look back at the exhasuting but resilient year that was 2025.

It's been a hell of a year (and week, JFC), but I found some time to reflect on it with a year in review post daniel-saunders.com/posts/notes/...

On top of that, I’m officially in my late 30s, and I feel the rapid approach of a “give no fucks” attitude to the wide world of nonsense that seems to be everywhere in our present moment. It’s time to rise above the slop and focus on what really matters. Although it’s important to recognize that the interrelated material effects of tech enshittification, political destabilization, and regular climate disaster all require collective action to effectively oppose, I feel increasingly called to do everything in my personal power to “de-enshittify” the world around me.

In terms of resolutions for 2026, I've only got one

Year in Review, 2025 A look back at the exhasuting but resilient year that was 2025.

It's been a hell of a year (and week, JFC), but I found some time to reflect on it with a year in review post daniel-saunders.com/posts/notes/...

The Trump administration has repeatedly targeted small and politically disempowered populations—Haitians, Somalis, trans people—in order to justify abuses of power. But its abuses of power are not limited to those communities. What the government can do to the most vulnerable among us, it can also do to you.

The shooting in Minnesota is a reminder that while authoritarian governments may justify abuses of power by directing them at scapegoats or vulnerable populations, the goal is ultimately to deploy them against anyone they wish to www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Chat Geo Political Travesty

By this token, Vance should have to stand trial in Venezuela for crimes against the Bolivarian Revolution

Funny how the nations with the strongest ties to Third Worldist/anti-imperialist traditions are the most clear-eyed about imperialism and self determination

You have though, for months as the US has said it was killing fishing people for being drug traffickers and Maduro is a narcostate president, and for years as the US has bipartisanly sanctioned the country to sap its ability to function unless it bends to US designs. Wake up folks!

another morning when it’s an existentially shameful thing to be an american huh

Forget the Rose Parade, can we just do this every New Year's Day?

Such a moving, unflinching, inspiring speech. Mayor Mamdani setting the socialist bar for every city in this country let's gooo

A visceral realist poet

Daniel sporting new rose-water clear glasses frames, which complement his warm skin tone.

New frames who dis

God rest ye merry COMMA

Which includes Tai Chi and going to therapy. Still need a good cardio workout 😅

My HS football coach/PE teacher was the same 50-year old guy who said things like "pain is weakness leaving the body" and who showed up to a student awards ceremony with a black and blue face from getting destroyed in a bar fight. So I just do whatever is the opposite of him

Me coyly eating ice cream from a waffle bowl

The time of the sea-goat is now. Bunker down in the storm and get ready to realize all of your earthly ambitions (reading books and solving crossword puzzles)

Excerpt from Bolaño's The Savage Detectives: "December 23: Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I'd rather not talk about it, because I didn't understand it."

What up I turned 37 yesterday

My container for knowledge is way bigger than yours bro

The Bank of America Lectures in Natural Theology are going about as well as you would think

These puzzles are really fun, but the moment they become unsolvable without the arcane knowledge of some complex geometry algorithm is when it's time for me to go back to crosswords

Ok I think I'm tapped out after this one. The complexity of p2 was way beyond me. I finally solved by visualizing the shape and using my human ability to break out of the system to get an answer

I've completed "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/9

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

This one nearly did me in... but we live to fight one more day (already saw Day 9 is supposed to be even harder 😮‍💨)

I've completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8