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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 12/02/2026

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 daniel-saunders.com/posts/lists/...

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My Year in Reading, 2025

Challenging stale histories through fresh narratives, and how new worlds are formed.

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 10/01/2026

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

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 09/01/2026

Real men eat balls drenched in milk

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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

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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

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 08/01/2026

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/...

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Year in Review, 2025

A look back at the exhasuting but resilient year that was 2025.

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 08/01/2026

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/...

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Year in Review, 2025

A look back at the exhasuting but resilient year that was 2025.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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...

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.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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.

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 04/01/2026

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

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 04/01/2026

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

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 02/01/2026

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

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 28/12/2025

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

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 22/12/2025

My container for knowledge is way bigger than yours bro

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 20/12/2025

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

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 08/12/2025

Watched "You've Got Mail" last night and it seems like this movie is about a sociopathic obsessive cyberstalker from a sex pest family who ruins a woman's career and then gaslights her into entering a controlling relationship with him. Romantic!

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 04/12/2025

Expropriate the trillionaire infants while they're helpless

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 04/12/2025

Chat what is rise and grind hyperproductivity capitalism as a personality

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 03/12/2025

Lo, he comes on AWS descending

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 02/12/2025

Happy Tuesday! Have some pie for breakfast, you deserve it. 🥧 ☕ 🦉

SURE, THERAPY IS NICE, BUT HAVE YOU EVER TRIED:
[Picture of cherry pie] Giving yourself an extra little treat
[Laura Palmer screaming] Screaming so loud it echoes across dimensions
[Picture of Nadine] Remembering who TF you are]
[Dale Cooper] A 3 coffee day
[Pine trees] Bonding with the spirits in the trees
(BOB holding a cup] Drinking more water

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 01/12/2025

Time to procrastinate important end of the year tasks (at least for 3 days) by naively brute forcing algorithms and data structures I have never studied! But hey a solve is a solve I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

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Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 28/11/2025

While you all were simping for turkey, we were reveling in the glories of Levantine Thanksgiving

A dark wood table handsomely laid out with green placemats and plates for 4 people, with numerous Levantine foods.

Printed menu card for "Levantine Thanksgiving, November 27, 2025." Main items include Kofta B'siniyah, Salatat al-Bundura, and 'Arz mae al-Baharat.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 27/11/2025

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

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It’s been a very hard year - Andy Bell

Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year...

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 26/11/2025

I love it when normal people make fun of tech/web stuff, even though it's what I do. Because usually they are right, most of it is cringe and full of itself

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

he’s the creator of Flask. he’s literally the creator of Django. you dipshits he invented Zoop. better watch how you talk to the actual inventor of Peebo

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 26/11/2025

Whether or not this feature is being used for AI, it sure has made me way lazier in what I let in and keep around in my email. I just turned it off, which removes the multi-inbox auto sort thing, and what was 10 unread emails jumped to 19K 😳

Gmail inbox showing 19,274 unread emails

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 24/11/2025

People are rightfully dunking on this, but "Economist writer thinking capitalism is synonymous with human nature and not a historically contextual mode of production" is like their whole thing isn't it

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 19/11/2025

The 20 year olds in this article are like "Orthodoxy is so masculine bro" and they converted because they got scared of a woman preaching at a Methodist church

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 19/11/2025

Youtube Music's "Forgotten Favorites" list will literally be one of my most-listened-to albums of all time and something new I added two weeks ago

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Can we fix this problem that did not happen with something that does not exist?

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 05/11/2025

I love that they used the Yuri Gagarin "GLORY" poster like it's not the coolest fucking image ever. Well done, New York!!

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 01/11/2025

As a true Angeleno, I have waited until game 7 of the World Series to start caring. (I hope the Jays win so we don't get 24 hours of fireworks!)

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 01/11/2025

I shocked myself by unexpectedly beating Silksong. I honestly had no idea I was on the final boss

Silksong game completion screen: play time 37h 53m 29s

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 02/10/2025

You mean the insolent, emotionally stunted men who have made careers out of trolling their own communities are increasingly comfortable showing their true fascist colors since Jan 2025? What a surprise

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

HITLER CONCERNS what are you people doing dude

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 06/08/2025

We are rapidly approaching the Luddite uprising / Butlerian Jihad for AI because the grifters peddling it are transparently contemptuous of actual skilled labor. You think people who have invested their whole lives in a profession are just going to walk away?

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

Screenshot from Niemöller's Wikipedia entry, which reads:

"I find myself wondering about that too. I wonder about it as much as I regret it. Still, it is true that Hitler betrayed me. I had an audience with him, as a representative of the Protestant Church, shortly before he became Chancellor, in 1932. Hitler promised me on his word of honor, to protect the Church, and not to issue any anti-Church laws. He also agreed not to allow pogroms against the Jews, assuring me as follows: "There will be restrictions against the Jews, but there will be no ghettos, no pogroms, in Germany."

I really believed, given the widespread anti-Semitism in Germany, at that time – that Jews should avoid aspiring to Government positions or seats in the Reichstag. There were many Jews, especially among the Zionists, who took a similar stand. Hitler's assurance satisfied me at the time. On the other hand, I hated the growing atheistic movement, which was fostered and promoted by the Social Democrats and the Communists. Their hostility toward the Church made me pin my hopes on Hitler for a while."

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I actually think that it is fine for the left to say that actually, biologically essentialist views are not a project that we are interested in engaging seriously with, and that is the case both for race essentialism and sex/gender essentialism.

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 01/08/2025

You don't meet with the opposing side in a class war b*tch

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