My top 5 reads of 2025. 📚💙 #booksky

I finished The Manticore a week ago or so. I read Fifth Business last year and liked it a lot so I had high expectations for this one. For some reason though this one was a bit underwhelming while I was reading it. 1/2 📚💙

‘You thought this a few years ago, now you say something else,’ I reply, ‘Do you think I’ve worked so hard, all these years, to say the same thing and not be transformed?’ submittedforyourperusal.com/2025/12/12/w...

Every Friday is Black Friday at BDP.

"You mustn't feel sorry for me. Don't you see I'm happy at last — free — free! — freed from the farm — free to wander on and on — eternally! Look! Isn't it beautiful beyond the hills? I can hear the old voices calling me to come..." Robert: Act 3, Scene 2 ~Eugene O'Neill #books #literature

I know someday, you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky But why, why, why can't it be Oh, can't it be mine?

For anyone looking for #giftideas a pair of good slippers is hard to beat. These I got for Christmas last year or the year before and they are great. www.glerups.com/products/the...

This is a fun and interesting little book. A bit of a noodle scratcher at times. This one's as "sprawling" and intricate as Inherent Vice but not quite as funny and entertaining imo. Still good though. I'll keep going with Pynchon. 1/2 📚💙

Looking forward to seeing Das Boot at the cinema next week. They're showing the 3,5 h director's cut. We have this small cinema in town with a beautiful art deco inspired room. They even serve food and drinks and this evening's special is German sausage with potato salad and sauerkraut. 😅 #moviesky

"What I’m gravitating towards is work that feels more distinct. People who are off doing their own thing, on blogs or standalone websites." thejaymo.net/2025/06/08/3...

This month let's start a movement away from social networks. #nosocialsnovember Get ye to the blogiverse with 15% off your first year of pika.page using code NOSOCIALSNOVEMBER.

This is kinda interesting. I made my kids do something away from the screens, so they colored some. On the left is what our 14 yo did (she has normal vision) and on the right what the 11 yo did (she has #achromatopsia).

"I don't even mind people who disagree with me politically. I just don't want them to talk to me about it." This guy is great! youtu.be/p6QtnoNFVgw?...

A small Lofoten tourism group announces they're shutting down their guides and possibly going bankrupt thanks to the loss in revenue from chatbots that steal and rephrase their content None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros. www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...

"This project is in effect as of now." 263 pages in (40% of the book) and the main plot is about to kick off! Lol I think I expected this to be a bit more plot driven. It's what I imagine scrolling Wikipedia after listening to Joe Rogan talk about conspiracy theories would be like. 😅 #booksky

Went down a little rabbit hole of pics of iconic male actors smoking cigarettes. Man, a filterless cigarette stuck in the corner of the mouth, especially on some b&w old time iconic dude is a cool as hell look. If it weren't for all the negative sides to it, I'd be smoking in a heartbeat! 😅

"It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction the product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer." - Patrick Radden Keefe #NowReading #booksky

I don't remember the last time a text held my attention from beginning all the way to the end like this one. @michaelrance.bsky.social www.michaelrance.news/p/dancing-at...

“It can often seem that those in power don’t want us to enjoy making things for ourselves — they’d prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.” — David Byrne

The Surrealist Fiction of Dino Buzzati www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

"We trained our young men for victory...but they don't quite know how to act in defeat. We told them they were brighter and braver than other young men. It was a kind of shock to them to find out that they aren't a bit braver or brighter than other young men." The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

This is a striking painting!

I really like the first two albums by Spiritworld, but I don't know what happened on this one. I straight up lol'd when he started singing on the last song! 😅 The first two albums are still good though. #nowplaying

These came in the mail the other day. I've wanted to read the Eco for a long time, but I'm really looking forward to the Rachilde. Don't really know that much about it, other than that it may have inspired Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse which is one of my favorite movies. @wakefieldpress.bsky.social

“Writers must oppose systems. It’s important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments. Writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us.” -DeLillo #books thepointmag.com/criticism/fo...

Every time I take the oat milk and see this label, my brain goes "shake meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, shake me my friend!" Every. Single. Time.

Hm, this is a little interesting. I'm currently reading In the Heart of the Country and the other day the line "we might as well be living on the moon" stuck out to me. #NowReading #books

"Practice practical feed hygiene. Cull the retweet and muzzle the metric. Tend your inbox and your timeline always pruning what does not nourish inspiration’s bloom." thejaymo.net/2025/07/12/2...

"My problem is that by the time I understood a little bit about life, I was well on the way to fucking burnout." www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

This I always find interesting and thought provoking. It's easy to forget that most things people are dealing with are either themselves complex processes or connected to complex processes. It's easy to assume that things are linear. It's about good decision making. www.noemamag.com/measuring-a-...

A few more days of this before it's time to get back to work.

There's a park just a couple hundred meters from our house which the city made/built a few years ago. Besides planting quite a few trees and bushes they turned most of it into #prairie and I'm loving it! The density of the grass and flowers and seeing all the insects is so satisfying. 🤤

Italy is great, as expected. Buzzati is exceeding expectations. What a book! It's stirring up feelings and memories from my early childhood up to recent events in my life. It's not a heavy read. It is a bit melancholy, but most of all thought provoking. Quality read. #NowReading #books

You can now read an extract from Walter Siti's Paradise Overload in @grantamag.bsky.social! We'll publish Brian Robert Moore's translation of this Italian classic in 2026. granta.com/my-poor-pare...

"The group, which seeks...damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing "the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve" its earnings goals." do you have a moment to discuss the Good News of dialectical materialism? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

I wrote about design system teams and morale. pjonori.blog/posts/design...

"Mice: How can you learn not to worry? Y.C.: By not thinking about it. As soon as you start to think about it stop it. Think about something else. You have to learn that." dianedrake.com/wp-content/u...

I have yet to read a book by John Gray that I don't like. He is as thought provoking and sobering as ever. Not for the fainthearted. #NowReading

"Of course you got to have some, but there's a middle ground between take everything and destroy all the native forests or just live in a shoebox. There's a middle ground somewhere." youtu.be/WEz3187qjqs?...

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington

Now this is a neat little #movie. It's been a while since I had a similarly engrossing move experience. All I knew before watching it was that it was a bit mind bending and that you should go in not knowing anything about the premise. It's worth it. #MovieNight

"The unfed mind devours itself." Gore Vidal

This makes it so obvious that they are selling odds. They are selling numbers. People give them their hard earned money and they get a number in return. Like a 1.18, or 2.5, or maybe even a 2.88.

This painting is rad af!

I'm about a third into Trust by Fukuyama and it's quite interesting overall, particularly the description of parts of traditional Chinese culture and its effects on society and economy is very interesting. #NowReading #books

Souls on the Banks of the Acheron Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, 1898

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