📏 The Weekly Measure: 2025 W52

We’ve made it to the final week of 2025. Originally I had a long post here whining about how awful this year was, and parts of it were awful, but realized this is not how I want to end this year. 2025 will not be getting the last laugh, I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me.

# Resolutions for 2026

# Less time on social media

Every year I say I need to divest myself from social media a bit and then don’t end up doing it. Make no mistake: social media is a great way to keep in touch with folks I otherwise would have fallen out of contact with years ago. I unironically enjoy scrolling through and seeing what my pals have been up to in this kind of passive sort of way, because I am famously very bad at returning messages. (We’ll get to that in a bit.) And I like that I can just hit the like button and shoot off quick replies. Social media is good, actually, and I think it would be pointless to sit here and tell you that I am going to ever stop using it.

But social media also has just. Some days, it make me feel like I’ve been run ragged just scrolling through my feed and notifications. Everything is happening so much and I get that people are talking about stuff like uspol or AI, these are important issues that deeply affect everyone. I get it, I’m not saying people should post less about that stuff for the sake of my comfort. But, man. I sure could stand to limit my doomscrolling. (I could also stand to get fewer annoying replies from randos who find my posts through Mastodon’s Global Timeline, but that’s a rant for another day.)

So instead of putting all my thoughts on social media and making everyone as miserable as I am, instead I shall spend…

# More time blogging

The biggest hurdle I have to blogging is that I need to sit down at my computer and make A Whole Blog Post, including title, featured image, description, etc. I may need to streamline my current setup a bit. But I really and truly do want to get back into blogging normally again, because it’s a lot more fun (not to mention easier to follow) than a thread of toots and Bluesky posts¹.

I still need to finish my little series on Eleventy plugin recs. I also would like it if these Weekly Measure posts came out uhh, weekly. 😅 Also had some ideas about starting a blog series about some of the manga I’m reading and the Japanese phrases I picked up from them. Not to mention finally get through all my backlog of Indie Tsushin work…

I have a lot of ideas for things, but the problem is that I tend to just spin my wheels and futt around on social media instead of get stuff done. Will 2026 be the year I finally get my act together? Let’s find out!!

# Go outside sometimes

I’ve recently started going to a public pool that is about a five-minute walk from my place. I am not a great swimmer² so I usually just end up power-walking laps through the water. It’s more about getting back into the habit of moving my body and going outside and encountering other people. Even if I never talk to another person there, I just feel a little less lonely being in a place full of other folks doing their own thing.

I’m also still trying to get a job. It’s been a whole long horrible process, and I don’t really want to get into it here because it would really drag down the mood. But suffice to say, I am still trying to find gainful employment.

# Talk to more people

I am horrible at replying to people’s messages on Discord etc. But I’m trying to get better!! So in 2026, please message me on Discord (renkotsuban) or Steam. If we’re mutuals on another platform, you can also ask me for my LINE or Signal IDs if that’s more your thing. I shall get better at replying to messages!!

# Make (more) zines

I’ll probably talk about this more in a later post when I have something to actually show for myself, but Daikon and I have some Ideas for new zines we wanna make and distribute at local events. 👀 We are both huge fans of RIOT so we are itching to try our hand at that kind of thing. (I also went to a little pop-up zine fair some time ago, I need to blog about that too aaaaa)

Those I think are the main resolutions I want to get to this year! I was going to write more but I got distracted with chores and now suddenly it is dark out and I need to get dinner started aaaaa, so I shall come back later to write more. In the meantime…

# Henry Time

Happy holidays from this little guy. Daikon bought him a whole crate of different snacks and has been giving him treat feasts almost every night.

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