#2025inreview — Public Fediverse posts
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Here's my 毫无参考价值的 boring ass weee 购物总结……
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Ein kurzer Rückblick auf das letzte Jahr auf der großen Leinwand (und dem etwas kleineren Fernseher)
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Morning Folks. This morning, I dive down a bit of a guilty pleasure rabbit hole as I talk about the YouTube channels that were important to me in 2025. I watch a lot of YouTube, or more specifically, I have videos playing in the background while I do other things. These channels are ones that I rarely miss.
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Morning Folks. This morning, I dive down a bit of a guilty pleasure rabbit hole as I talk about the YouTube channels that were important to me in 2025. I watch a lot of YouTube, or more specifically, I have videos playing in the background while I do other things. These channels are ones that I rarely miss.
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Morning Folks. This morning, I dive down a bit of a guilty pleasure rabbit hole as I talk about the YouTube channels that were important to me in 2025. I watch a lot of YouTube, or more specifically, I have videos playing in the background while I do other things. These channels are ones that I rarely miss.
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Morning Folks. This morning, I dive down a bit of a guilty pleasure rabbit hole as I talk about the YouTube channels that were important to me in 2025. I watch a lot of YouTube, or more specifically, I have videos playing in the background while I do other things. These channels are ones that I rarely miss.
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Morning Folks. This morning, I dive down a bit of a guilty pleasure rabbit hole as I talk about the YouTube channels that were important to me in 2025. I watch a lot of YouTube, or more specifically, I have videos playing in the background while I do other things. These channels are ones that I rarely miss.
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It is finally time for me to talk about the #Games that were important to me as part of my #2025InReview series. I am pretty certain, though, that my list looks nothing like most of the best games lists, but these were games and game events that were important to me personally.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/08/2025-in-review-the-games/
#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #2025 #2025Review #YearInReview #GamesOfTheYear
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It is finally time for me to talk about the #Games that were important to me as part of my #2025InReview series. I am pretty certain, though, that my list looks nothing like most of the best games lists, but these were games and game events that were important to me personally.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/08/2025-in-review-the-games/
#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #2025 #2025Review #YearInReview #GamesOfTheYear
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It is finally time for me to talk about the #Games that were important to me as part of my #2025InReview series. I am pretty certain, though, that my list looks nothing like most of the best games lists, but these were games and game events that were important to me personally.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/08/2025-in-review-the-games/
#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #2025 #2025Review #YearInReview #GamesOfTheYear
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It is finally time for me to talk about the #Games that were important to me as part of my #2025InReview series. I am pretty certain, though, that my list looks nothing like most of the best games lists, but these were games and game events that were important to me personally.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/08/2025-in-review-the-games/
#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #2025 #2025Review #YearInReview #GamesOfTheYear
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It is finally time for me to talk about the #Games that were important to me as part of my #2025InReview series. I am pretty certain, though, that my list looks nothing like most of the best games lists, but these were games and game events that were important to me personally.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/08/2025-in-review-the-games/
#ARPG #MMO #MMORPG #VideoGames #2025 #2025Review #YearInReview #GamesOfTheYear
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Morning Folks! This morning, I am continuing my #2025InReview series, this time talking about the #movies that impacted me for some reason. I also do something a bit experimental, where I recorded a really quick one-shot, unedited narration track after finishing with the post.
Let me know if that is something you dig.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/06/2025-year-in-review-the-movies/
Narration Track
https://aggronaut.com/narrationtracks/20260116-blog-narration.mp3
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Morning Folks! This morning, I am continuing my #2025InReview series, this time talking about the #movies that impacted me for some reason. I also do something a bit experimental, where I recorded a really quick one-shot, unedited narration track after finishing with the post.
Let me know if that is something you dig.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/06/2025-year-in-review-the-movies/
Narration Track
https://aggronaut.com/narrationtracks/20260116-blog-narration.mp3
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Morning Folks! This morning, I am continuing my #2025InReview series, this time talking about the #movies that impacted me for some reason. I also do something a bit experimental, where I recorded a really quick one-shot, unedited narration track after finishing with the post.
Let me know if that is something you dig.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/06/2025-year-in-review-the-movies/
Narration Track
https://aggronaut.com/narrationtracks/20260116-blog-narration.mp3
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Morning Folks! This morning, I am continuing my #2025InReview series, this time talking about the #movies that impacted me for some reason. I also do something a bit experimental, where I recorded a really quick one-shot, unedited narration track after finishing with the post.
Let me know if that is something you dig.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/06/2025-year-in-review-the-movies/
Narration Track
https://aggronaut.com/narrationtracks/20260116-blog-narration.mp3
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Morning Folks! This morning, I am continuing my #2025InReview series, this time talking about the #movies that impacted me for some reason. I also do something a bit experimental, where I recorded a really quick one-shot, unedited narration track after finishing with the post.
Let me know if that is something you dig.
https://aggronaut.com/2026/01/06/2025-year-in-review-the-movies/
Narration Track
https://aggronaut.com/narrationtracks/20260116-blog-narration.mp3
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For those that don't like math, this house was built in 1850!
This amazing home featured a fresh 2020s renovation, tons of space, and an upstairs balcony with tremendous view of the creek winding through acres of land.
All just a few minutes from downtown Centerville!
#thewayrealestateshouldbe #ashlar #ashlarre #kylesasser #dayton #beavercreek #oakwood #riverside #centerville #springboro #washingtontownship #2025inreview #1850home #175yearsold
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Good Morning, folks... even though I have already posted a bunch today. This morning on the blog, I am continuing my #2025InReview series, and this time I am talking about the #television and #anime series that I liked and disliked enough to talk about last year.
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2025 年终总结 https://blog.douchi.space/2025-in-review/?utm_source=douchi.space
身体上比去年更健康了，一些小毛病都好了不再受病痛困扰。物质上也四平八稳有惊无险，报复性消费主义一年之后现在又有点疲劳了。精神上就走一步看一步吧，自从解决了身份问题之后这四五年里一直隐隐约约的存在主义危机也时不时跳出来刷一下存在感。忙的时候厌班，闲的时候存在主义危机虚无主义抬头 nothing matters。人怎么都 35 了还不知道想过怎样的人生呢。
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Here it is: a blog post recapping 2025. Not really a list of books I read because I didn't keep track really, and almost exclusively read poetry and picture/board books anyways.
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resumão de 2025. escutei muita coisa antiga e nova também #lastfm #2025inreview
Semaninha: https://piuvas.envs.sh/semaninha/
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Sacrificial offering of 2025 to the new year #nye #2025InReview
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I haven't written about the books I read in December on my blog yet, but since it's a new year, I thought I'd list my fiction books of 2025 before I get too far into the excitement of a whole new reading year.
I'm going to list five books in English and three books in Japanese in the order that I read them in each language. They are not ordered preference. In theory, books that I read later in the year should be more likely to make these lists because the memories are fresher, but actually for both languages, there are books from pretty early in the year, which kind of impresses me.
Interestingly, there are also books that I can look at my reviews and know that I loved them immediately after finishing, but that all I remember about them is that I liked them a lot. Those are books that I would recommend and potentially read again someday, but clearly they didn't resonate enough to be top reads for the year. The books in these lists are the ones that still echo, that are still tangible to me. Loving the experience isn't enough. These books changed me, and that's something interesting to think about, but maybe for a different post, so on to the lists!
English:
- A Song for Wild Cats by Caitlin Galway
- Valid by Chris Bergeron (tr. Natalia Hero)
- Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Local Heavens by K.M. FajardoJapanese:
罪の余白 by 芦沢央
東京ハイダウェイ by 古内一絵
ピリオド by 乃南アサ -
"Yet the biggest disappointment of 2025 may well have been not what Trump did but how so many let it happen. Trump has always been a mirror for other people’s souls, an X-ray revealing America’s dysfunction. If this was a test, there were more failing grades than we could have imagined."
#Trump #2025inreview #healthcare #science #research #CancerResearch #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants #children #starvation #healthcare #Putin #WhiteHouse #ballroom
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"Empowering the world’s richest man to cut off funding for the world’s poorest children. Welcoming Vladimir Putin on a red carpet at an American Air Force base. Razing the East Wing of the White House, without warning, on an October morning. Alienating pretty much the entirety of Canada.
Your list might be different from mine. There is so much from which to choose. And that is the point."
#Trump #2025inreview #ElonMusk #children #starvation #healthcare #Putin #WhiteHouse #ballroom
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"A partial catalogue of the horrors of 2025 that not even the most prescient Trump-watcher could claim to have fully predicted: gutting cancer research in the name of expurgating diversity programs from the nation’s universities. Shutting the door to refugees—except for white Afrikaners, from South Africa."
~ Susan Glasser
#Trump #2025inreview #healthcare #science #research #CancerResearch #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants
/1https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/donald-trumps-golden-age-of-awful
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My Top Artists of 2025
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This year I ran 750 kilometers, walked 1850 km, and took 4.72 million steps.
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2025 in review: doing my small part to document an experiment in national self-harm
I had thought that 2017’s introduction to President Trump’s chaos, corruption and cruelty would be an adequate preparation for the 2025 sequel that American voters ordered up in a vote that I may never be able to understand fully. I was wrong.
That foolish choice has given us “this moral slum of an administration,” to quote noted liberal squish George F. Will: fascism-curious contempt for Constitutional limits on presidential power, trampled human rights at home and abroad for the sake of a racist and isolationist agenda, a pointless ransacking of useful government agencies that among other costs has probably left hundreds of thousands of people dead overseas, economically and scientifically ignorant policies like up-and-down tariffs and ordering obsolete coal power plants to stay online while trying to strangle offshore wind power, the most openly corrupt White House in history, and a cringe-inducing cult of personality that invites comparisons to North Korea.
I also did not expect so many Republicans to hold their political manhood cheap and sign off on even the stupidest ideas of their Dear Leader, which is how we now have a Confederacy-whitewashing, war-crime cheerleader lording over the Department of Defense and a science-denying quack hijacking the Department of Health and Human Services.
Nor did I predict that we would see so many tech CEOs not only nod politely but grovel for favor before this administration.
(To judge from the beatings that Republican candidates have received in elections this year–in particular, in the state of my birth and in the state of my choice–many Trump voters also didn’t expect this state of affairs and can no longer endorse it.)
My own lot this year seems strikingly easy: I haven’t had to learn what tear gas smells or tastes like, had my job DOGEd out of existence, or seen friends or family members thrown into a foreign gulag. Nor have I had a single client ask me to go easy on this administration in a story or edit my copy to ensure that I would.
I have had the usual struggles of freelancing, both in the sense of managing my time and in terms of managing my client relationships (I did much better at selling to Fast Company but once again dropped the ball with AARP). But I learned a lot, found purpose in sharing what I learned even when it was bad news, and had some fun along the way–including rides on such interesting modes of transportation as a Zoox robotaxi, Arc and Candela battery-electric sport boats, and the USPS’s duckface Next Generation Delivery Vehicle.
Out of the hundreds of stories I wrote this year, these 10 stand out to me as I look back at my own 2025.
- In February, I returned to a topic that I’ve been covering since 2018 in a post for PCMag documenting 8K TV’s embarrassing lack of appeal to consumers who smartly value price above resolution specifications.
- After years of meaning to tee off on Venmo’s horrible privacy settings, I finally wrote that piece in April for Fast Company–in the process, learning that even privacy professionals can miss some of that payments app’s data-leaking defaults.
- In June, I made my first appearance in the Virginia Mercury to write about Richmond’s overdue recognition that ceding online tax prep to Intuit and its ilk in 2010 was a dismal failure. It feels great when you see a gap in news coverage of where you live, then fill it yourself.
- In a July post for PCMag, I broke down how the GOP’s fossil-fuel fetishists were killing off the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits for clean-energy purchases–and how many states still had not put in place their own mechanisms to claim some of these expiring incentives.
- I wrote a great many posts about Trump announcements, and each time I tried to provide useful context to help readers judge them independently. Among all those, I particularly like the unpacking of Trump’s “AI Action Plan” that I did in a post later in July for PCMag.
- Sitting down to talk to some managers of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference’s network for PCMag yielded a small lesson about the need for a little empathy in information security.
- In September, I returned to Berlin’s Stasi Museum for the first time since my 2018 introduction to it and had to point out to PCMag readers how I now saw uncomfortable parallels with certain aspects of American politics today.
- Reporting a story for Worth magazine published online in September about the energy use of AI data centers opened my eyes to how certain AI providers don’t want to talk about where they get the electricity for these sprawling facilities or how they plan to avoid stiffing existing ratepayers in the process.
- I spent more time than I expected finding people willing to talk about how the Trump administration’s indifferent and sometimes inept approach to cybersecurity is weakening the nation’s defenses, but that piece finally ran in Fast Company in October.
- Also in October, Fast Co. ran my longest story there yet about how Amtrak’s NextGen Acela remains stuck on previous-generation infrastructure–and how high-speed rail projects throughout the U.S. have been held back by an unwillingness to steal the best practices of other countries.
AI figured in much of my coverage and played an even larger role in my side hustle of moderating panels at conferences. That technology may be eating away at the underpinnings of my industry, but in the short term it has been a boost to my traveling on other people’s money.
This year, those trips and the ones I bankrolled myself introduced me to four new airports and one country, also taking me farther east from home than I’d ever traveled before. I liked seeing new places, making new connections there, and running into old friends along the way, but as ever I especially liked coming home after each of these often-tiring adventures.
(You can see a map of those flights after the jump; just looking at that may make you feel tired.)
I created the map below at the Great Circle Mapper site, following the instructions Tiffany Funk first shared in 2016 at the One Mile At A Time blog. The predominant shade of blue represents flights on United Airlines and codeshare and same-itinerary flights on Azul, GOL and Lufthansa; other colors, some of which may be difficult to differentiate, represent Alaska Airlines and Lufthansa (other hues of blue); American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Swiss International Air Lines, and Turkish Airlines (various shades of red); Qatar Airways (burgundy); and TAP Air Portugal (green).
#2025InReview #abuseOfPower #AI #businessDevelopment #businessTravel #conferences #freelance #freelancing #Trump #Trump20 #yearInReview
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2025 in review: doing my small part to document an experiment in national self-harm
I had thought that 2017’s introduction to President Trump’s chaos, corruption and cruelty would be an adequate preparation for the 2025 sequel that American voters ordered up in a vote that I may never be able to understand fully. I was wrong.
That foolish choice has given us “this moral slum of an administration,” to quote noted liberal squish George F. Will: fascism-curious contempt for Constitutional limits on presidential power, trampled human rights at home and abroad for the sake of a racist and isolationist agenda, a pointless ransacking of useful government agencies that among other costs has probably left hundreds of thousands of people dead overseas, economically and scientifically ignorant policies like up-and-down tariffs and ordering obsolete coal power plants to stay online while trying to strangle offshore wind power, the most openly corrupt White House in history, and a cringe-inducing cult of personality that invites comparisons to North Korea.
I also did not expect so many Republicans to hold their political manhood cheap and sign off on even the stupidest ideas of their Dear Leader, which is how we now have a Confederacy-whitewashing, war-crime cheerleader lording over the Department of Defense and a science-denying quack hijacking the Department of Health and Human Services.
Nor did I predict that we would see so many tech CEOs not only nod politely but grovel for favor before this administration.
(To judge from the beatings that Republican candidates have received in elections this year–in particular, in the state of my birth and in the state of my choice–many Trump voters also didn’t expect this state of affairs and can no longer endorse it.)
My own lot this year seems strikingly easy: I haven’t had to learn what tear gas smells or tastes like, had my job DOGEd out of existence, or seen friends or family members thrown into a foreign gulag. Nor have I had a single client ask me to go easy on this administration in a story or edit my copy to ensure that I would.
I have had the usual struggles of freelancing, both in the sense of managing my time and in terms of managing my client relationships (I did much better at selling to Fast Company but once again dropped the ball with AARP). But I learned a lot, found purpose in sharing what I learned even when it was bad news, and had some fun along the way–including rides on such interesting modes of transportation as a Zoox robotaxi, Arc and Candela battery-electric sport boats, and the USPS’s duckface Next Generation Delivery Vehicle.
Out of the hundreds of stories I wrote this year, these 10 stand out to me as I look back at my own 2025.
- In February, I returned to a topic that I’ve been covering since 2018 in a post for PCMag documenting 8K TV’s embarrassing lack of appeal to consumers who smartly value price above resolution specifications.
- After years of meaning to tee off on Venmo’s horrible privacy settings, I finally wrote that piece in April for Fast Company–in the process, learning that even privacy professionals can miss some of that payments app’s data-leaking defaults.
- In June, I made my first appearance in the Virginia Mercury to write about Richmond’s overdue recognition that ceding online tax prep to Intuit and its ilk in 2010 was a dismal failure. It feels great when you see a gap in news coverage of where you live, then fill it yourself.
- In a July post for PCMag, I broke down how the GOP’s fossil-fuel fetishists were killing off the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits for clean-energy purchases–and how many states still had not put in place their own mechanisms to claim some of these expiring incentives.
- I wrote a great many posts about Trump announcements, and each time I tried to provide useful context to help readers judge them independently. Among all those, I particularly like the unpacking of Trump’s “AI Action Plan” that I did in a post later in July for PCMag.
- Sitting down to talk to some managers of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference’s network for PCMag yielded a small lesson about the need for a little empathy in information security.
- In September, I returned to Berlin’s Stasi Museum for the first time since my 2018 introduction to it and had to point out to PCMag readers how I now saw uncomfortable parallels with certain aspects of American politics today.
- Reporting a story for Worth magazine published online in September about the energy use of AI data centers opened my eyes to how certain AI providers don’t want to talk about where they get the electricity for these sprawling facilities or how they plan to avoid stiffing existing ratepayers in the process.
- I spent more time than I expected finding people willing to talk about how the Trump administration’s indifferent and sometimes inept approach to cybersecurity is weakening the nation’s defenses, but that piece finally ran in Fast Company in October.
- Also in October, Fast Co. ran my longest story there yet about how Amtrak’s NextGen Acela remains stuck on previous-generation infrastructure–and how high-speed rail projects throughout the U.S. have been held back by an unwillingness to steal the best practices of other countries.
AI figured in much of my coverage and played an even larger role in my side hustle of moderating panels at conferences. That technology may be eating away at the underpinnings of my industry, but in the short term it has been a boost to my traveling on other people’s money.
This year, those trips and the ones I bankrolled myself introduced me to four new airports and one country, also taking me farther east from home than I’d ever traveled before. I liked seeing new places, making new connections there, and running into old friends along the way, but as ever I especially liked coming home after each of these often-tiring adventures.
(You can see a map of those flights after the jump; just looking at that may make you feel tired.)
I created the map below at the Great Circle Mapper site, following the instructions Tiffany Funk first shared in 2016 at the One Mile At A Time blog. The predominant shade of blue represents flights on United Airlines and codeshare and same-itinerary flights on Azul, GOL and Lufthansa; other colors, some of which may be difficult to differentiate, represent Alaska Airlines and Lufthansa (other hues of blue); American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Swiss International Air Lines, and Turkish Airlines (various shades of red); Qatar Airways (burgundy); and TAP Air Portugal (green).
#2025InReview #abuseOfPower #AI #businessDevelopment #businessTravel #conferences #freelance #freelancing #Trump #Trump20 #yearInReview
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2025 in review: doing my small part to document an experiment in national self-harm
I had thought that 2017’s introduction to President Trump’s chaos, corruption and cruelty would be an adequate preparation for the 2025 sequel that American voters ordered up in a vote that I may never be able to understand fully. I was wrong.
That foolish choice has given us “this moral slum of an administration,” to quote noted liberal squish George F. Will: fascism-curious contempt for Constitutional limits on presidential power, trampled human rights at home and abroad for the sake of a racist and isolationist agenda, a pointless ransacking of useful government agencies that among other costs has probably left hundreds of thousands of people dead overseas, economically and scientifically ignorant policies like up-and-down tariffs and ordering obsolete coal power plants to stay online while trying to strangle offshore wind power, the most openly corrupt White House in history, and a cringe-inducing cult of personality that invites comparisons to North Korea.
I also did not expect so many Republicans to hold their political manhood cheap and sign off on even the stupidest ideas of their Dear Leader, which is how we now have a Confederacy-whitewashing, war-crime cheerleader lording over the Department of Defense and a science-denying quack hijacking the Department of Health and Human Services.
Nor did I predict that we would see so many tech CEOs not only nod politely but grovel for favor before this administration.
(To judge from the beatings that Republican candidates have received in elections this year–in particular, in the state of my birth and in the state of my choice–many Trump voters also didn’t expect this state of affairs and can no longer endorse it.)
My own lot this year seems strikingly easy: I haven’t had to learn what tear gas smells or tastes like, had my job DOGEd out of existence, or seen friends or family members thrown into a foreign gulag. Nor have I had a single client ask me to go easy on this administration in a story or edit my copy to ensure that I would.
I have had the usual struggles of freelancing, both in the sense of managing my time and in terms of managing my client relationships (I did much better at selling to Fast Company but once again dropped the ball with AARP). But I learned a lot, found purpose in sharing what I learned even when it was bad news, and had some fun along the way–including rides on such interesting modes of transportation as a Zoox robotaxi, Arc and Candela battery-electric sport boats, and the USPS’s duckface Next Generation Delivery Vehicle.
Out of the hundreds of stories I wrote this year, these 10 stand out to me as I look back at my own 2025.
- In February, I returned to a topic that I’ve been covering since 2018 in a post for PCMag documenting 8K TV’s embarrassing lack of appeal to consumers who smartly value price above resolution specifications.
- After years of meaning to tee off on Venmo’s horrible privacy settings, I finally wrote that piece in April for Fast Company–in the process, learning that even privacy professionals can miss some of that payments app’s data-leaking defaults.
- In June, I made my first appearance in the Virginia Mercury to write about Richmond’s overdue recognition that ceding online tax prep to Intuit and its ilk in 2010 was a dismal failure. It feels great when you see a gap in news coverage of where you live, then fill it yourself.
- In a July post for PCMag, I broke down how the GOP’s fossil-fuel fetishists were killing off the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits for clean-energy purchases–and how many states still had not put in place their own mechanisms to claim some of these expiring incentives.
- I wrote a great many posts about Trump announcements, and each time I tried to provide useful context to help readers judge them independently. Among all those, I particularly like the unpacking of Trump’s “AI Action Plan” that I did in a post later in July for PCMag.
- Sitting down to talk to some managers of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference’s network for PCMag yielded a small lesson about the need for a little empathy in information security.
- In September, I returned to Berlin’s Stasi Museum for the first time since my 2018 introduction to it and had to point out to PCMag readers how I now saw uncomfortable parallels with certain aspects of American politics today.
- Reporting a story for Worth magazine published online in September about the energy use of AI data centers opened my eyes to how certain AI providers don’t want to talk about where they get the electricity for these sprawling facilities or how they plan to avoid stiffing existing ratepayers in the process.
- I spent more time than I expected finding people willing to talk about how the Trump administration’s indifferent and sometimes inept approach to cybersecurity is weakening the nation’s defenses, but that piece finally ran in Fast Company in October.
- Also in October, Fast Co. ran my longest story there yet about how Amtrak’s NextGen Acela remains stuck on previous-generation infrastructure–and how high-speed rail projects throughout the U.S. have been held back by an unwillingness to steal the best practices of other countries.
AI figured in much of my coverage and played an even larger role in my side hustle of moderating panels at conferences. That technology may be eating away at the underpinnings of my industry, but in the short term it has been a boost to my traveling on other people’s money.
This year, those trips and the ones I bankrolled myself introduced me to four new airports and one country, also taking me farther east from home than I’d ever traveled before. I liked seeing new places, making new connections there, and running into old friends along the way, but as ever I especially liked coming home after each of these often-tiring adventures.
(You can see a map of those flights after the jump; just looking at that may make you feel tired.)
I created the map below at the Great Circle Mapper site, following the instructions Tiffany Funk first shared in 2016 at the One Mile At A Time blog. The predominant shade of blue represents flights on United Airlines and codeshare and same-itinerary flights on Azul, GOL and Lufthansa; other colors, some of which may be difficult to differentiate, represent Alaska Airlines and Lufthansa (other hues of blue); American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Swiss International Air Lines, and Turkish Airlines (various shades of red); Qatar Airways (burgundy); and TAP Air Portugal (green).
#2025InReview #abuseOfPower #AI #businessDevelopment #businessTravel #conferences #freelance #freelancing #Trump #Trump20 #yearInReview
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* I (re)discovered Warlords, a four player #Atari 2600 game. Still quite enjoyable nowadays. (Atari 50 collection)
* I enjoyed Halo 2 on my original #Xbox. Back in the days, I was a PC gamer and was not interested in console shooters (Xbox)
* I set up a cross-platform #Quake 3 LAN during a convention. 2 Mac Mini G4, a P4 PC and a #Dreamcast fragging to death
* I closed the year by playing Micro Machines 3 with some uni friends, on the very same #Playstation we played on 30 years agoIt was a good year in retrogaming :)
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For me, the highlights of 2025 involved #travel. First was my trip to Australia in late Jan/early Feb. Second was road trip on the US West Coast in late June/early July. On the US road trip, I was the guide and returned the favor for the road trip in Australia which fellow pilot/CFI @Leighton led for me. I made a video about the Australia trip, which included my first flights on an A380 and 787. https://avgeek.social/@ikluft/114137073945163804 #2025inReview #aviation #avgeek
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Some retro games I played a significant amount of time in 2025:
* I completed #Loom for the second time since the 90s, running it on @aaronsgiles 's Dreamm
* I played Zelda a Link to the Past for the very first time 🥰 (#SNES NSO)
* I played The Savage Empire for several hours. I was 10 years old when I got it, and was too young and not proficient enough with written English (486 PC #MSDOS)
* The good surprise of the emulated #Gamecube on #Swich2: Mario Striker. It's really a lot of fun with friends (NSO)🧵 1/2
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Some retro games I played a significant amount of time in 2025:
* I completed #Loom for the second time since the 90s, running it on @aaronsgiles 's Dreamm
* I played Zelda a Link to the Past for the very first time 🥰 (#SNES NSO)
* I played The Savage Empire for several hours. I was 10 years old when I got it, and was too young and not proficient enough with written English (486 PC #MSDOS)
* The good surprise of the emulated #Gamecube on #Swich2: Mario Striker. It's really a lot of fun with friends (NSO)🧵 1/2
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Some retro games I played a significant amount of time in 2025:
* I completed #Loom for the second time since the 90s, running it on @aaronsgiles 's Dreamm
* I played Zelda a Link to the Past for the very first time 🥰 (#SNES NSO)
* I played The Savage Empire for several hours. I was 10 years old when I got it, and was too young and not proficient enough with written English (486 PC #MSDOS)
* The good surprise of the emulated #Gamecube on #Swich2: Mario Striker. It's really a lot of fun with friends (NSO)🧵 1/2
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Some retro games I played a significant amount of time in 2025:
* I completed #Loom for the second time since the 90s, running it on @aaronsgiles 's Dreamm
* I played Zelda a Link to the Past for the very first time 🥰 (#SNES NSO)
* I played The Savage Empire for several hours. I was 10 years old when I got it, and was too young and not proficient enough with written English (486 PC #MSDOS)
* The good surprise of the emulated #Gamecube on #Swich2: Mario Striker. It's really a lot of fun with friends (NSO)🧵 1/2
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Some retro games I played a significant amount of time in 2025:
* I completed #Loom for the second time since the 90s, running it on @aaronsgiles 's Dreamm
* I played Zelda a Link to the Past for the very first time 🥰 (#SNES NSO)
* I played The Savage Empire for several hours. I was 10 years old when I got it, and was too young and not proficient enough with written English (486 PC #MSDOS)
* The good surprise of the emulated #Gamecube on #Swich2: Mario Striker. It's really a lot of fun with friends (NSO)🧵 1/2
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Alaska 2025 weather and climate high and low lights. Way too many to fit on one graphic; of course the severe and long lasting impacts from ex-typhoon Halong leads the list. This was another million acre wildfire summer, and Juneau had a glacier lake outburst flood in August. December was extreme in many areas: excessive snowfall in northern Southeast, damaging winds in Anchorage and the coldest December since 1980 in the Interior. @Climatologist49
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My 2025 art year in review!
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Some positive news stories to reflect on 2025
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/year-in-cheer-2025
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Seems like every app/service is doing year-end reviews/wraps/recaps these days. Here's some of mine for 2025 of DC Metro rides, flights, Steam gaming, and Spotify.
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Which photos did you take in 2025 that you consider to be your top four? #2025InReview #photography #TopFourPhotos
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sou muito feliz pelas pessoas com quem cruzei caminho em 2025, que confiaram no meu trabalho e oportunizaram mais experiencia pros próximos. Sinto que tô seguindo no sentido certo, bem menos inseguro de mim. Acertando, errando também, sendo neurótico algumas vezes, mas aprendendo bastante sobre quais posições quero me colocar (e não apenas profissionalmente). Ter vocês para dividir um pouco dessa minha vida torna a rotina menos desgastante e muito mais divertida 🤎
#artvsartist #artvsartist2025 #3dart #archvis #arquitectura #architecture #arquitetura #2025inreview -
Teknologiavuoden 2025 yhteenvetomme, olkaapas hyvät
...ja oikein hyvää tulevaa vuotta 2026!
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/12/31/teknologiavuoden-2025-yhteenveto
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Das Jahr 2025 beim Wahlberliner – und ein Hinweis, der uns am Herzen liegt #Unicef #PhotooftheYear #2025inreview #2026welcome #Democracy #Freedom #Freiheit und #Demokratie in #Gefahr #Menschenrechte #HumanRights #Children #ChildrensRights
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Podcast 2025: soddisfatto dalla top 5, di cui per altro molti sono (circa) anche qui nel fediverso: @ondarossa per Le dita nella presa, @europeanspodcast con account ufficiale(!), @ayoub per The fire these times
