Also Swamp Thing!

To the moon!

I don’t know if I believe this anymore ☹️

Just wanted to say thank you for going!

Cool cool cool

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Lol, so much this, we’ve got two under 4 atm and I’m so glad we’ve got an IKEA couch they can beat on instead of some nice thing we’d be scared of them tearing up

I’ll tell you something not to get, Ikea, they certainly have a place but it’s not BIFL. I’ve been a little disappointed recently in how quickly our Malm is deteriorating.

I do not understand what is happening here at all, am I getting old lemmy?

Love this thread so much, so many good recommendations. Thanks everyone for sharing!

I read my first Ted Chiang this year! I think my favorite was his short story “Tower of Babylon”. It dragged a bit for me but “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” gave me a lot of food for thought with the current LLM mania. I’m looking forward to more.

My favorite “book” this year was Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee Omnibus which is a collection of a couple of his books. The world building, physics, vast timelines and very human characters really did it for me. I still love Ian Bank’s Culture Series more but the Xeelee Sequence has been a lot of fun, highly recommend (if you’re into sci-fi).

Honorable mention goes to Charles Stross, I finally read his Accelerando and while it didn’t trip my trigger as much I felt like it really captured something of our current zeitgeist and had a lot of great moments that will stick in my head for a while.

I just want to say I enjoy all the comments here

You mean the same stuff that’s on my spinach and in my poop?

I’m pretty sure the real issue is resource allocation, we have tremendous resources and the knowledge to use them, they’re just mostly owned by a very very small percentage of the population and the current system supports that, like it mostly has throughout history

I still have strong memories of a dish my mother used to make a few times a year that prominently included water chestnuts and the sinking feeling I would get as I took my first bite. Blegh

this is the way

yes but there are often deals that make it pretty cheap to grab a couple subs, just missed the black friday deals, might still be a few around

God it’s weird that 2025 was the year everyone got free Photoshop skills