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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

Another year, another bunch of books.
I spend most of the year binging through thriller series that I had already had started in 2024.
The books I really liked were the newest book from the Slough House series, the spy novel The Persian, and Fundamentals of Software Architecture (even if I didn't finish it).
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2025 in books
Another year, another bunch of books.  I spend most of the year binging through thriller series that I had already had started in 2024.  The...

NFL Week 13: Five things we liked and didn't like, including the tush push officiated correctly, crazy catches

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-…

My love of MST3K is well documented, and I was really taken with Demon Squad when they covered it. A remarkable film for "no" budget.
I liked it so much I helped crowdfund the follow up, Tooth & Claw.
Finally got to watch it just before Xmas and it's great. Seek it out.
https://youtu.be/iGyw…

Just watched Predator Badlands. Contrary to what I thought, I liked the movie and it wasn't a cliché predator movie. Unexpected, I liked it.
#predator #PredatorBadlands #PredatorBadlandsMovie

This was actually more fun than I thought it'd be. I really liked the first "Nobody" but was concerned about the sequel, but it was super satisfying!
▶️ Nobody 2 | Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-5X2pt95cIo&si=jFLCk8H-hTV8SyeJ<…

Just found a YouTube video from 3 years ago about why the last season of Stranger Things will not be good. Lots of recent comments about how the OG video was right.
But I really liked the ending. Very weird. The haters seems to be a minority now?
#strangerthings

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: He liked to think so.
GROSE: [O.O.V.] And why did you come here?
AVON: I wish I knew. [Tarrant, Vila, Chesil, and Doran burst through the door.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/526 B7B3

Unsurprisingly, Friar Tuck is the most well-rounded and sympatetic character among the stock cast in Robin Hood (2025). He has a secondary role, but it's as if the whole story was retold from the viewpoint of his recollections. I very much liked the first season. Epic story - stock characters.
It's the complete opposite of A Song of Ice and Fire, where strong characters constantly turn the story into an evil, tiresome grinder to no end.

So I tested a split keyboard last week, and there were a few things that bothered me about it (more on that later) so I figured I would look for other keyboards...
Oh shit, rabbit hole!
I didn't find any split keyboard that I liked, and besides that they are super expensive! Like, I've paid less for computers than some of those keyboards cost.
So then I thought about building one, but that gets expensive as well, and...
1/n

I really liked the movie Edge of Tomorrow. I am pretty sure that the manga that this is based on is the basis of that movie.
#AllYouNeedIsKill #EdgeOfTomorrow #LiveDieRepeat

Read "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds, a story about some future space people investigating the demise of an extinct civilization.
Some of the people are software uploads or implants in other people's brains, or infectious biological agents and things.
The story is galactic in scale across time and space with good world building, a good tale weaving of elements together.
I liked the scene where the woman falling to her death in a lift-shaft remembered she was on a space-ship which only had gravity coz of engine thrust, so saved herself turning the engines off with a wrist controller.
Trouble is I came to it infrequently with long gaps and so struggled to keep track of what's going on quite a bit. Lots of different elements to keep track of.
My fault, should try and concentrate harder and remember things.
#reading #books #novel #alastairReynolds #revelationSpace

This week's theme is songs that made you realize why others liked an artist. As a young adult, I was perplexed by Björk. I dated a few women in the 90s who loved her and I was slow and uninterested in listening to much beyond my usual selection of punk and ska. And then I heard this song and my opinion shifted radically and has never gone back.
Björk, "It's Oh So Quiet" (1995)

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Skill 90/99
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I liked my 3rd guess, although a little unusual for me, it really locked down where the known letters had to go. Then I just had to fill in the blank

"Meta’s business is both supporting and profiting from organized crime, and at 10% of its revenue, it’s also kind of dependent on it... I can find no analyst commentary on Meta making sixteen billion dollars on fraud, because it doesn’t matter to them"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’

5 things we liked and didn't like from Week 12: Gibbs shines, Chiefs survive and parity ahead of Thanksgiving

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-12-five-…

"The Enshittifinancial Crisis", Ed Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’

I bought some Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 and OMG they are really good. I liked the original pixel buds I had but the noise cancelling on these is just astonishing.

To people who didn’t vote for Trump, his sweaty panic over the Epstein files is perplexing.
The president’s enthusiasm for sexual violence is no secret.
It’s been nine years since the release of the “Access Hollywood” video, in which he bragged about how he liked to “grab them by” the genitals.
In 2023 and 2024, two civil juries found that journalist E. Jean Carroll told the truth when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
The president has also made …

In 2025, Epstein showed MAGA who they really are
Trump is desperate to distract his base

A Building Full of Cats: up on the roof
I like cats. I like Little Kitty Big City, I like Pix the Cat, I even liked Blinx. If I like games with a few cats in, then I am almost certain to love games with hundreds of cats in, right? In this case, yes. A Building Full of Cats is a hidden object game where the objects are cats. Lots of cats.
…

It's Christmas eve and we showed my father Mario Kart again, but he's drinking alcohol as always, and he keeps getting better at it?? He never liked video games and he always sucked at Mario Kart when we played it in the past, but now that he's drunk he's even beating me and my sister at it?

It's the period between Christmas and New Year so its time for #39c3. This was a nice guide to how #fex_emu works. Their "hack" for dealing with memory ordering vs some game engines does raise an eyebrow or two. I would have liked to know more:

Would Cowboys keep well-liked position coach if they fire his boss Eberflus? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/26/dallas-cowboys-top-defensive-coach-aaron-whiteco…

Thank you to @…, who bade us party whilst it all burns down. #VivaLaDecadence!
1. System of a Down, “Shimmy”—https://youtu.…

Hey friends. Also a photo from my hike last Sunday. I came to this hut and tried a counter light. In summer there are usually quite a few people as you can buy some drinks there.
Now.. I had some time to play around with some perspectives. I just liked the silence in the photo. Especially as all others just quickly passed the spot without a lot of notice.
#photography

HC Sean Payton reviewing Broncos' win vs. Raiders: 'I really liked how the game unfolded' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/hc-sean-payton-reviewing-broncos-win-vs-raiders-i-really-liked-how-the-game-unfolded

If you liked The Drew Carey Show, you'll wanna hear all these CRAZY inside stories between Craig Ferguson & Diedrich Bader.

▶️ Diedrich Bader - Joy: A Podcast - Hosted by Craig Ferguson
https://youtube.com/watch?v=K_NEyohDGRM&si=L1cqHFvMhZZSriqo<…

If you wonder what Mamdani is doing, he knows how to speak to narcissists (basically it’s about flattery) to get what he wants for NYC.
Narcissists like Trump do not care about logic or sides or loyalty. They’re not fully formed people.
They care only about being liked, yet they can’t tell if someone genuinely likes them or they just pretend to; it’s also not important as they wouldn’t be able to comprehend the difference.

This looks nice! Sometimes we get really cool things posted when folks show up at Maker Forums to make their first post, and AxioCNC looks modern and has some potentially really helpful features. 🎉
https://forum.makerforums.info/t/made-a-free-…

Yesterday they've released SOLO Leveling: Arise Overdrive.
I kinda liked anime and game looked good, so I've tried it.
I was surprised, when in the middle of the fight everything stoped and I couldn't move / use any skills / attacks.
My surprise was even bigger when outisde of the battle I stopped moving for about 10(maybe 20) seconds.
Fights are perfect🤌, if it wasn't "always online" "feature" it would be really good game with great c…

It's February, Chicago, 1916, second-string kids from New Orleans, like The Stones at the Marquee, get there to fill a spot, it's fricken freezing, promoter gets overcoats from Sally Ann, all oversized. March lands a gig at Schiller's Cafe. Nick says to ramp it up, invents a new dance fitting the bustle. Gig is white band, lower East Side, what's chances that drunk in the back is Irish? Jazz it up boys, he shouts! Wtf? sez Nick, but he liked the sound of it…
By spring, every teen in Chicago was wearing an oversized overcoat. Louis told Papa Joe in '22 he couldn't play that stuff. Papa Joe said get your ass on that stage and blow.
#GodspeedBrewery may have a Schiller's Moment Wed Jan 28th 6-9 😊

KMFDM has a new record coming out next year, and I've been a KMFDM fan for quite a while... but their last couple (few?) albums I haven't liked. I was gonna make a snarky comment about this upcoming one but then today I hear the single and really like it. So what the hell do I know 😂
https://kmfdm.bandcamp.com/album/enemy

STMLT
I liked STMLT because the singer was cool looking and had a great voice and because there was a sax.
But they changed the singer and removed the sax so IDK if I like them anymore...

Occasionally, I log into LinkedIn purely to check messages. Sometimes, I find a promoted message or an ad, maybe a connection request. Usually, nothing. Content often feel fake, and it's often difficult to find content that I'm interested in there. Is it even a site for businesses to connect, and people find work any more?
Back when it wasn't owned by Meta, I used to enjoy Instagram. Now it feels like a shop. I still miss scrolling through the feed, discovering content from the people that I followed. Sadly, a lot of creators that I liked are still on there, and nowhere else.
Mastodon is pretty much my only online home now, and I'm very thankful for it!

[via William Gibson on BlueSky]

Well, I made my wife cry today. It was good though. She really liked the presents. Especially the Alex Merry print. #Christmas

"We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’

i never liked that song anyway

I never liked him, now I like him even less.
What next? An NFT?
"Tadej Pogačar has entered his crypto ambassador era"
https://escapecollective.com/tadej-pogacar-has-entered-his-crypto-ambassador-era/

Tadej Pogačar has entered his crypto ambassador era
Let's count some red flags.

If you liked the AppleTV series, Slow Horses, I recommend reading the books. There are some minor and some major departures. I just finished no. 7, Slough House. They haven’t got that far yet in the series. I’m thoroughly enjoying the books. I have to put them down at 9 o’clock, 2 hours before I go to bed. And I have to wait a few days, well, a week, between books. A sort of palate cleanse. More like decompressing, tbh. Herron pulled a switch at the end that floored me.

I particularly liked the summary "Understanding the Limits of Documentary Evidence". A #MustRead for #genealogy #familyhistory

What Happens When AI Analyzes a 160-Year-Old Murder Case—Without the Legend
For 160 years, the story of Tom Dula has been filtered through folklore, ballads, and legend.

Today at VU Amsterdam for the PhD defense of Shuai Wang. I really liked the traditional and formal procedure in the Netherlands how they conduct a PhD defense and the subsequent investiture of the new PhD.
#PhD #academiclife

RE: https://mograph.social/@compfu/115750948514598452
I finished "The Dig" after about 12 hours of playtime. I liked it, but it's a strange entry to the LucasArts canon: it has traditional VGA pixel art for most of the game with some sudden cel…

Too late for this trip: I was looking for a USB charger with an EU (Type F) plug. Seems selection is limited for products that will ship to the US. Any suggestions?
I’ve had good luck with Anker products, and found a charger I liked in their EU store, but when I went to check out that product (and most in their EU store) were not eligible to ship to a US address.
I’ll pick something up in Munich, but it won’t be exactly what I want. Surely there has to be a way to buy online and …

#BrandeRoderick as Leigh Dyer
with #JerryCroft who played himself on Baywatch 3 or 4 times. He published some magazines and liked doing bikini photoshoots.
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)

Kelsey Grammar was notoriously jealous of Moose, the dog on NBC's "Frasier", because people liked it more than him...
...which is possibly the most #Republican thing ever.
▶️ Trump's Pet Name for Stephen Miller? #KelseyGrammer's Dog Rivalry? | HIGNFYUS

First came artists. They made art. You could've liked it or not, but it had an impact of some sort, felt or not.
Then came designers. They had to make good works. They studied what good means and tried to master it. They didn't always succeed but they got better with practice and rarely produced real embarrassments.
Finally came engines and models. They just produced content. It had to be coming out daily. Few bothered to read it, let alone assess or judge it.

Just finished "Class Act" by Jerry Craft. An excellent follow-up to "New Kid", and it deepens the exploration of racism in "New Kid" in a lot of different directions. I think the aspect I liked most was the handling of class/race dynamics but also the different explorations of fitting back into neighborhood communities.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Considering to move back to Repetier Server from Mainsail.
I liked the native webhooks and MQTT Repetier had

Some more #fog ? It was a bit chill but veeerry silent.
I liked the mood there and how the bushes & trees vanished in the fog. Especially the dead tree at the end that looks like reaching out into the water.
Enjoy the silence 🙂
#photography

After a coworker told someone to just deactivate IPv6 ("it only makes problems, noone needs that, it should be scrubbed completely"), we got into a heated discussion over a distance of several desks and space dividers.
Coworkers without IT-background pulled up chairs, brought snacks 🍿 , played Godzilla sounds from their phones.
They probably didn't understand most of the technical terms we shouted at each other, but they liked to watch.

Bix was asked why he liked jazz.
He replied, "Because I don't know what's going to happen next, do you?"

The ongoing White House "renovation" continually reminds me of The Residence. Almost didn't finish it, as much as I liked #cordeliacupp. But I'm so glad I did. The last episode elevated the show from a whodunnit to a commentary on wealth and power. I watched the last episode while the East Wing was being demolished and this week? An absurd portrait display.

From a selection of 2099 tracks, this is my week's #MondayRandom10:
1. The Smashing Pumpkins, “Lily (My One and Only)”
2. Goldie, "Inner City Life”
3. Qoiet, “cursedOBJECT”
4. Pop Will Eat Itself, “RSVP”
5. Rocky Leon, “Billionaire”
6. Ronnie James Dio, “Love is All”
7. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Relax”
8 Robert Palmer, “Simply Irresistible”

Wanted to make a list of my favorite EPs from 2025- narrowed it down to a top 10, from over 200 I'd liked and documented this year. The list contains multiple genres & I've written a brief blurb about each. Most of these I've talked about here this year. Might be something here for everyone!
Mood Bored - Too Much? (shoegaze/alt rock from the Netherlands with great female vocals - Breeders, Pixies, that dog, Throwing Muses vibes)

I went and saw the "marcus mystery movie" last night. You don't find out what movie you're seeing until you see it. The movie started with two elderly people driving to their kids' house for a gender reveal party. One of them has terminal cancer but doesn't want the children to know, yet. It was around this point where I questioned if I made a good choice. 🤔
For what it's worth, I liked the movie. I never would have seen that otherwise but I liked it.

NFL Week 11: Five things we liked and didn't like, including Caleb Williams' evolution, star WR shines

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-11-caleb-williams-evolu…

When Lee and Yang suggested there's a fundamental difference between left and right, Pauli wrote:
"Ich glaube aber nicht, daß der Herrgott ein schwacher Linkshänder ist."
(I do not believe that the Lord is a weak left-hander.)
Two days later, Wu's experiment showed that Lee and Yang were correct!
-- @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social

Jacopo Bertolotti (@jacopobertolotti.com)
There is a infinite number of stories about Pauli being horrible to other (especially younger) Physicists. His word carried a lot of weight, so people were either psychologically crushed, or abandoned promising research lines just because he liked to be a assh@le.

So I’ve got a new gig of sorts. I’ll be a volunteer photographer for the city parks system. The task will be to take pics of folks participating in various programs in the parks and natural areas run by other volunteers, to try and capture that attendees are having fun, especially the kids. The difficulty level is that I’ve never liked photographing people. Go out of my way to keep them out of shots. I’ve done a couple events now, and still just feel intrusive. Hope it gets easier.

@…
I liked it a long time ago. It might be time for another read.
I just finished Neuromancer by @… , it is still great. The world and I have changed, which made it a different read.

i liked writing xhtml. I still write xml-compliant html.

Just finished "How I Made It to Eighteen" by Tracy White. It's a graphic novel with relatively simple art, but that ends up suiting the subject matter well: it's an autobiography focused on a stay in a mental hospital dealing with depression and bulimia.
It doesn't get as deep into mental hospital mechanics as I might have liked, instead focusing on the author's life, but in presenting both her own life, some flashbacks, and some perspectives from her friends, it's quite interesting. As is typical of real life, there's no neat resolutions to the various threads of interest because they're not imaginary plot lines constructed to wrap up neatly but instead are events that actually happened.
In any case as is par for autobiographical graphic novels, it was super interesting.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

The better #Midjourney gets in correctly generating multiple words in a row the more we lose an ancient skill: pasting an image into Word, typing text on top and saving a screenshot of the result to send as a Christmas card.
I liked the old ways better, mum!

Raiders Get Good News on Potential Pete Carroll Replacement https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/robert-saleh-head-coach-rumors-pete-carroll/

I really liked The Running Man. That was pretty good.

I didn't go to the mountains today but went for a little bike ride. In the shade it was a bit icy. This way, even boring forest roads are a bit technical. 😊
Liked it! I'm just wondering if I should try broader tires for these conditions 🤔. On the other hand, I didn't have any issues.
#cycling #mtb

Friday Links 26-01
First round of links for 2026. Everything is bad, so have some links to cheer you up.

I really liked the article about visibility, the one about Friday deploys, and sitting alone in a café … which I can relate to.
I am a big fan of Bill Nighy's podcast, that certainly will improve your mood.

For some reason, the random section is full of cassette tape related links.

Friday Links 26-01
First round of links for 2026. Everything is bad, so have some links to cheer you up.   I really liked the article about visibility, the one...

A fun blind taste test of 25 coffees by coffee tasting experts! Lots of opinions.
No surprise that not a single expert liked Starbucks.
▶️ Coffee Experts Blind Taste Test Every Supermarket Coffee | The Taste Panel | Epicurious
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CnB2tA_CTN

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- A Georgian Christmas
Donald Macleod visits the home of Jane Austen with historian Amanda Vickery to see how Georgian households liked to amuse themselves with music and games during the holidays.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nl9s

"Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74"
I always quite liked his music, even if it is outside my usual bubble.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/22/chris-rea-rock-and-blues-singer-songwriter-d…

When I was walking down from the mountains recently I noticed the frost on the trees and branches -- and some single leafs that were still around.
I really liked this extra touch of color in the grey surrounding. And that it's just a little detail on the huge mountain.
#photography #winter

Just finished "The Deep Dark" by Molly Knox Ostertag. An absolutely excellent graphic novel about monsters, childhood secrets, and how self-love refracts through romance.
I've liked other stuff by Ostertag, but this is definitely my favorite of hers so far.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Commanders request permission to interview Cowboys assistant for OC job https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/08/cowboys-te-coach-lunda-wells-interview-request-commanders-oc/8…

I was watching a YouTube video this morning where somebody was talking about a coffee app where you (the user) search for roasters in your area that you like and it shows you nearby coffee shops that use that roaster. You can then get a list of coffee's that you can buy from that coffee shop. It also has a journaling aspect to help you figure out what your favorites are. I kind of liked that idea.

"It's a very entertaining movie... [but] it's very hard to find actual baseball player that liked MoneyBall."
▶️ "MoneyBall" Movie Myth: The Real Story Behind Billy Beane, Brad PItt & The '02 Oakland Athletics
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xFkM7hsDAq

Welp it’s done, don’t think it got flagged since some people liked the DMs and sent a follow req so phew

Sunday: 2°C outside (felt like -1) and figured it was a good time for a hike in the woods, hills, and fields of #Bavaria on a trail I've been eyeing for a couple of years now. Muddy trails for about half the distance but easily negotiated.🚶‍♂️🌲
Would've liked if the walk was longer but 10.7kms felt good, especially after a 2-month break in any such activity.
#hiking #walking #health #Germany #Deutschland #nature

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I feel there weren't many options for my 3rd guess...nope just the one. And I really liked my 2nd guess.

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I liked today's word

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Well there went my streak of easy guessing, starting with the clues from my 1st guess. I just had trouble coming up w/ words that fit, for each guess (well except for the last).
Bot was not a fan of my 2nd guess, but really liked my 3rd one (*I* wasn't a huge fan of my 3rd guess 🙂 )