Feed: sizeof(cat)
Title: 2025 in review
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:23:01 +0000
Link: http://sizeof.cat/post/2025-in-review/
 
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Friend, it’s real, even if it ends. I’ve had people who left me or who I left, 
some hate me now, some I’ll still say hello to, once in a blue moon. These 
people are no longer actively in my life, but the time[2] spent with them is 
still important to me. I carry them around with me, reminding me that at some 
point in my life that person cared. That there was a brief moment[3] in time 
where I wasn’t insufferably alone. It’s comforting.
 
I’ve also had a lot of deaths[4] happen in my life too. It kind of feels like 
that. Remembering people for the wonderful lives they had and lived, the time I 
had with them before they passed. I cherish it. That’s what losing someone is 
like. Most people feed so much on the end result, the messy break-up, the hate 
for someone who was once important to you, the bridge of friendship burning as 
bright as the sun. But important are the times before that, the times when you 
valued another human life with more conviction than your own self.
 
It’s a beautiful thing.
 
Best
 
  * Movie watched this year: Close Your Eyes, 2023[5] (that’s where this 
  article’s cover image is taken from, Ana Torrent and José Coronado).
  * Movie released this year: nothing.
  * Music album listened this year: Luck and Strange by David Gilmour.
  * Song of the year: nothing.
  * Book read this year: The New Demons, by Jacques Ellul.
  * Video game played this year: Minecraft.
 
Worst
 
  * Everything else.
 
Most listened songs
 
I’ll let iTunes.app speak for itself:
<b>Artist</>                       <b>Title</>                  <b>Plays</>
David Gilmour                Scattered              931  
Linkin Park                  Leave Out All the Rest 902  
Papa Roach                   Carry Me               875  
The Montgolfier Brothers     Journey’s End          677  
Archive                      Again                  586  
Alexander Hristov & Wallmers Let’s Go Retro         401  
Sirotkin                     Выше домов             391  
Linkin Park                  Jornada Del Muerto     364  
Twenty One Pilots            Car Radio              290  
Porter                       Cuervos                285  
 
Movies watched
 
I watched 98 movies this year, the oldest was The Great Dictator, 1940, by 
Charles Chaplin, and the newest was Close Your Eyes, 2023, by Victor Erice.
 
From my current list of 198 favorite movies[6], 10 of them were watched or 
re-watched this year.
 
Website
 
  * 34 articles[7], 52,185 words worth, down from 42 articles and 38,195 words 
  in 2024.
  * used 2,6GB of disk space, up from 1,33GB in 2024.
  * more website statistics[8].
 
Others
 
  * I’ve stopped using modern computers and phones, most of the computing time 
  is spent on a 2004 iMac G5, a 2005 iBook G4 and I use a Nokia 808 as my only 
  phone[9].
  * I launched the Café[10], a small private and invite-only community for 
  people to share their thoughts, ideas and experiences.
 
Plans for next year
 
  * Spend at least 70% less time online.
  * Downsize.
 
It’s getting to me, all the anger, all the envy, all the resentment. I open a 
web browser and 90% of content I see is just self-victimisation and despair. No 
one has a positive vision of the Future, no one is happy with the Present and no
one respects the Past. I value compassion and modesty but it’s hard not to be 
influenced by the vitriol that I’m exposed to every day, it just makes me so 
unhappy.
 
Most people today are relentless in complaining about the world and hating other
groups of people, but couldn’t ever offer you a better system or way of life 
that remedies our problems today. They feel valid for complaining and whining 
all the time.
 
Links: 
[1]: http://sizeof.cat/post/2025-in-review/img/2025.jpg (image)
[2]: http://sizeof.cat/post/yesterday/ (link)
[3]: http://sizeof.cat/post/moments/ (link)
[4]: http://sizeof.cat/post/misses/ (link)
[5]: http://sizeof.cat/post/favorite-movies/#close-your-eyes (link)
[6]: http://sizeof.cat/post/favorite-movies/ (link)
[7]: http://sizeof.cat/archive/#2025 (link)
[8]: http://sizeof.cat/statistics/ (link)
[9]: http://sizeof.cat/uses/ (link)
[10]: http://sizeof.cat/cafe/ (link)

