quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small ♡ 1 y since honeymoon w/ husband ♡ 1 y as library clerk and 3 y job TRR stock went from $4 to $16 ♡ Completed CAS at Syracuse University with 4.0 ♡ Bought 2nd house ♡ HRT 0.26 ml/week ♡ 8 songs on Tidal/4 games on Cloudflare

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

Religion offers no shared basis for debate and is therefore ultimately poisonous to pluralistic democracy, but solidarity…. Solidarity is good. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-god-of...

In less than a week, I will be sworn in as the next mayor of New York City. It was only possible because of the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign. Here’s a story about one of them, my mother.

do I know anyone going to the mayoral inauguration on Dec 1?

As far as politics go, Mamdani starting his victory speech with a Eugene Debs quote was a top 2025 moment.

"It’s a pretty bleak state of affairs... if, even at the 'best' job available, you can’t get stable hours & your bosses can crush you when you dare ask for better." A bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why almost 4K baristas are on strike.

Solidarity.

As it happens this is exactly the argument of a bunch of angry white dudes who seethe with fury because I have had a very successful 20 year career in mainstream science fiction publishing and they haven't. It's an intriguing hypothesis and I wish them joy with it.

Organizing with fellow workers in my union. Even if the world keeps going to shit I can see worker power grow before my very eyes.

If today is any indication, 2026 will be horrible, especially for randos telling you why you shouldn’t like something cool

Same as 2026: Spite. I have a *lot* of unfilled graves to piss on.

Just had to cancel my health insurance for 2026. Premium went from $53 to $569.79 monthly. Credit: Republicans and their asshole naked emperor.

"Our Annual Year 2025" is funny.

This is utterly insane. So...peak 2025 energy. If we get through the next 12 months without the Yanks nuking themselves or someone else, we might have a fighting chance to not go extinct.

Please welcome “Ass Phrenologists” to the 2025 year-end Freakonomics convention. They’ll be receiving the award for horny in rationalism

So when is the right going to tell us this isn't about race

💯% early 00s was the era with the right level of tech & human input. Didn't feel all this endless looming anxiety.

I kind of miss 1998 myself. Oh man.. bookstores and cyber cafes!

The kid who liked the ipod with buttons the other day was on to something.

I still think cell phones like this should have been a thing

Geocities from 1997

Internet before the great website cuckening

The only time I read this phrase was a comment about James Cameron's Avatar franchise. Is it a right-wing talking point or something?

This too, is the cultural impact of Avatar

this is dork shit, man. it's 2025. these are movies made by James Cameron. You do not have to operate on a fandom axis. They're just action/adventure movies that people objectively see in large numbers. That's it. It's fine. It's ok. People don't even read TV Tropes anymore

"Does Avatar have any cultural impact?" The greatest thread in the history of forums, locked after 12, 239 pages of heated debate.

I’m very pro box office Jim. It’s hilarious how like blatantly anti Iraq war it was

i wish coppola directed megalopolis like avatar

Some of us have both

I watch their classics channel so this stinks for me personally

I didn't even know there still existed an actual music video channel and I would have happily subscribed had I known it was available gosh that would be a much better background program to have on while I'm doing stuff than like? I dunno, office reruns

This is like when TLC stopped actually being the learning channel.

Watched the first Gremlins movie and got to experience the Phoebe Cates chimney story in the broader context of the film and now believe more than ever that she deserved an Oscar for it

It’s rated PG which is amazing because it would have freaked me out as a kid in 30 different ways lol

So was Poltergeist!

Poltergeist, Temple of Doom, and Gremlins...Spielberg is directly responsible for the PG-13 rating.

Why the fuck does Peacock even exist if I can't watch Knight Rider and the A-Team on it

You can watch CAPRICA but not BSG. How's that for a slice of fried shit

this caked up barbie would kill a 1990’s child

Damn, that ass is autistic as hell.

This is what you get when you follow this thread all the way down and that is because it is the right answer.

what bothers me most the end of the current group of Stranger thing episodes is that it reinforces this toxic nostalgia that things were better in the past, and normies treated everyone well. I grew up in the 80s and 90s: the f slur was thrown around non stop around cis men. The idea that....

....shared trauma could lead pre-teens and cis male adults to put aside nonstop homophobic programming is quaint at best and pernicious at worst. Hop, Murray and steve would have freaked out at the coming out.

This is low key why I can't bring myself to watch it after finishing season 1. It feels SO dishonest.

I did actually stop during the Stranger Things S5:P2 finale and told my sister that the wokest thing on TV was not a woman or a POC woman etc but a man crying for like 10 minutes straight and that it would never have happened in an actual 80s show/film

You couldn't make the Spice Girls today. Every one would be "Woke" Spice Yuuuuuuup ^

okay i'm usually easy-going but retro discourse is now completely out of control if a system that came out in 2025 can now count as retro