Alright, so it seems like Reddit isn't doing a recapped this year or at least nothing has been announced.  Someone has created a Reddit Wrapped where you provide your public username and they produce something with Generative AI, so you know it's all made up, but what the hey - let's have a laugh!I almost spit my coffee out with this roast 😂: You own a 23-year collection of obsolete mobile

 Bluesky hasn't done an official wrap-up this year (did they last year?), but - as one might predict - someone on the internet has.  So, plugging in my public profile information, here's what I got fromI am not sure how accurate this is, but I don't know what to make of these stats... 🧐

GoodReads went all out this year (at least when compared to previous years), and gave me not only my large catalog of books read in 2025, but it also provided me with some summary cards in December about the books I read, and various comparisons with others users in the system. This year I guess I managed to read something that was popular with other people too (Careless People). And yes, the trend

My Flickr Year In Review isn't a lot to phone home about. I am actually surprised that I had over 1800 views of my photos.  I basically use Flickr as another backup for my phone's photo roll.  Maybe next year I should spend a bit more time seeing what friends and acquaintances post on Flickr and what else exists on this platform.  I think the initial concept of a photo-based social network

My Swarm Year In Review is rather bland and uninteresting. I didn't really travel all that much in 2025, so my major destinations were the dog park (at least my dog isn't unhappy 😂), super markets, work, and places that I went to for walks, runs, and just to touch grass. I think the farthest I went was to Maine to drop off a laptop to a colleague who couldn't make it to campus... Maybe 2026 will

 Alllllright!  I guess there was one more Year In Review for 2023! This one came in while I was on vacation overseas. It seemed interesting enough to post about.  I think March was my busiest month because I probably marked a whole bunch of past seasons of shows as "viewed" and the platform took that to mean that I watched them in 2023.  I wish there was a "watched when originally

 Admittedly, I don't drink much beer. I used to want to try out new beers a lot more the years before COVID, and in 2021 I decided to take a year off beer (and most alcohol for that matter).  This year I checked into Untappd 77 times, which isn't bad. Some was to drink old favorites, and other times to try out new flavors.

 Continuing on with my Year In Review for 2023, today I'll post some screenshots from stuff on Reddit.  Not sure what the algorithm picks up as important on that platform (there was some complaining that I noticed in December), but it's still mildly entertaining. WhitePeopleFacebook is particularly cringeworthy - sometimes you can't look away from a trainwreck...

At the end of  November, I decided to scale back a lot of my Twitter usage (no, I won't call it "X").  I've been using Fedica to cross-post across mastodon, bluesky, and twitter since this summer (and when threads becomes available, I'll post on threads too). Meanwhile I have 5 tabs open in the browser, and four apps on my old phone (now used like an "iPod touch" style device) that I use

 Well... I didn't think I'd be migrating from one Mastodon server to another one so soon (I just created the account this past spring!), but here we are! 🙄 I joined this particular server because it seemed like this was where fellow academics were going after they left Twitter (or while they were co-establishing their presence on Mastodon). I should have read the prohibitions a bit more carefully