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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 · 04/02/2026

communists don't want to take your toothbrush, we want ONE (1) universal toothbrush design which everyone can have for free and never think about again

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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

In terms of resolutions for 2026, I've only got one

On top of that, I’m officially in my late 30s, and I feel the rapid approach of a “give no fucks” attitude to the wide world of nonsense that seems to be everywhere in our present moment. It’s time to rise above the slop and focus on what really matters. Although it’s important to recognize that the interrelated material effects of tech enshittification, political destabilization, and regular climate disaster all require collective action to effectively oppose, I feel increasingly called to do everything in my personal power to “de-enshittify” the world around me.

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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

Forget the Rose Parade, can we just do this every New Year's Day?

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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

Which includes Tai Chi and going to therapy. Still need a good cardio workout 😅

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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 · 24/12/2025

The time of the sea-goat is now. Bunker down in the storm and get ready to realize all of your earthly ambitions (reading books and solving crossword puzzles)

Me coyly eating ice cream from a waffle bowl

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

These puzzles are really fun, but the moment they become unsolvable without the arcane knowledge of some complex geometry algorithm is when it's time for me to go back to crosswords

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

Ok I think I'm tapped out after this one. The complexity of p2 was way beyond me. I finally solved by visualizing the shape and using my human ability to break out of the system to get an answer I've completed "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/9

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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 · 10/12/2025

This one nearly did me in... but we live to fight one more day (already saw Day 9 is supposed to be even harder 😮‍💨) I've completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 09/12/2025

Uh oh Day 8 feels like a bad day to fall behind on

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

We decided to watch it because we had just seen a video about the interior design actually haha

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

Also all of the casual references to older men preying on younger/underage women in their own households, what the fuck were the 90s man. Oh wait

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

The face you make when you're definitely not terrified to realize that the man who has been lying to you for months and who refused to leave your house when told is your magical anonymous internet crush

Meg Ryan's character crying at the end of You've Got Mail when she sees Tom Hanks' character

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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 · 08/12/2025

Starting to feel the groove of the puzzle styles, and relying more on regex matching is a quality of life improvement!

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 07/12/2025

I set myself up pretty well in part 1 with a map of splitter locations, so I only had to modify a few things to accommodate part 2. I've completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 07/12/2025

Beautiful design for a beautiful text!

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 07/12/2025

Math is fun! I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 05/12/2025

Math sucks I've completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 05/12/2025

Turns out this is a really bad idea when `lower` is a 15-digit number lol Still stuck on #AdventOfCode day 5, part 2 but brute force is not the way to go in this lifetime

Some Go code looping through the lower and upper bounds of a set of numbers

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

This was an instance where I knew *what* I had to do for part 2 fairly early, but it took me a while to actually get there I've completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4

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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 · 04/12/2025

Part 2 HURT I've completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

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

Lo, he comes on AWS descending

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Daniel Saunders @daniel-saunders.com · 02/12/2025

Fun one! Part 2 was a little intimidating, but once I wrapped my head around it, it wasn't too bad I've completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

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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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