Hell yeah this is a great thread!

Every year around this time I do the same thread and it has been a lot of fun. Tell me something you did in 2025 that you're proud of that you want everyone to know about. Did you write a book? Did you get a promotion? Did you survive the year? I want to spend the end of the year celebrating you.

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

This remains true.

Currently obsessed with the way Mitski enunciates the word "constantly" on Geyser.

Tell me your favourite Kate Bush song and I will invent a fact about you.

Holy shit

“I used to think fascists were bad, but then one of them got through a whole interview without unhinging their jaw and swallowing me like a snake”

I guess it’s time for are facists that bad? What if they smile, or put on a sweater, or exercise self control by not saying racial and ethnic slurs for sixty whole seconds?

"Doesn't the lounge look nice now that I've tidied and swept?" I asked the dog as I was popping her nightly pill down her gullet. She swallowed, looked at me - straight in the eyes - and then hocked up a wad of spit onto the floor. Without breaking eye contact.

Tell me your favourite Kate Bush song and I will invent a fact about you.

I wonder if any organisations in Cape Town offer financial literacy courses for adults. The gaps in my knowledge are chasms.

A man with the loveliest smile let me into traffic earlier and it was such a mood booster. The tiniest, most fleeting human interactions can make such a difference to one's day.

I thought I was depressed but I just needed a haircut.

Unsolicited dik-dik pic.

🥺🥺🥺 The whale fall 🥺🥺🥺

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If I'm ever murdered and become the subject of a true crime podcast, please know that anyone who describes me as "lighting up a room" is lying.

And this remains relevant: yes, Musk grew up here, and it's absolutely played a part in shaping him into...that. But he left decades ago for North America, where something even darker and more dangerous grew from the vile building blocks of his childhood and adolescence.

Tapping the sign again.

Could everybody please stop wishing for Musk to be sent back to South Africa? I promise we have enough rich white racists who have a worrying amount of influence.

Podcast host: "He was so handsome he could have easily been on the cover of GQ." I Google the Adonis in question:

Have you met men?

If I'm ever murdered and become the subject of a true crime podcast, please know that anyone who describes me as "lighting up a room" is lying.

A perfect album from the 90s, you say? Don't get me started.

"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns." - Octavia E. Butler

My sweetheart dog would have turned 14 tomorrow. She's been gone for about five months but sometimes I think I can still hear her snorting happily, clicky-clacking around the house.

I'm really fucking tired of being urged to see the humanity in people who don't view me as human.

I was going to kill the dog because she woke me from a nap demanding a snack, but then I discovered a bag of nacho chips I'd forgotten about in the snack cupboard, so I've decided to spare her life.

It is that community which made - makes - us 'fit,' in evolutionary terms. The fact that we will pack bond with the roomba and apologize and feel bad when we accidentally kick it? That's us. That's the most human you can be.

"henlo mum wot do?"

Hey, wow, I got to watch Shawn Colvin play Polaroids live in concert this year. 🥺❤️

What gave you courage in 2025?

It truly is a world gone topsy-turvy when I find myself routinely siding with the Pope.

It truly is a world gone topsy-turvy when I find myself routinely siding with the Pope.

Dear Ameicans, Thank you for your concern. However, please direct your support to the people of Greenland, rather than their colonizer.

Tim Curry, 1975

*stares South Africanly at the screen*

A song by The Corrs popped up on shuffle and I said, "Aw they were so wholesome" out loud, becoming briefly but genuinely emotional about, I must reiterate, The Corrs.

"henlo mum wot do?"

'I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.' Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America.

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

Just remembering when my mum visited me at varsity and absentmindedly picked up a Bondage Fairies comic one of my housemates left lying on the kitchen table. 😶

i know if we put a sad muscular woman in a silk shirt and had her fight people with a sword 22 episodes a year we could heal this world

A song by The Corrs popped up on shuffle and I said, "Aw they were so wholesome" out loud, becoming briefly but genuinely emotional about, I must reiterate, The Corrs.