Just Joshin' #192 (2025 Year In Review)
1 Family Photo: Christmas Cards2025 was a good year, though not without its challenges. Sometimes it felt like running just to stay in place. Reflecting over these last dozen months, I think we can see a lot of growth. I'm grateful for another year surrounded by the love of family, both near and far. I am also for you, dear reader, wherever this message reaches you. Want to be added to our Christmas card list?
1 Dad Joke: ResolutionsSource: Old Joke+Nano Banana​ Highlights: 2025 and Beyond​52 things I learned in 2025 by Tom Whitwell​ Global deaths from air pollution are falling fast. Between 2013 and 2023 deaths per 100,000 fell 21%. Tens of millions of people are alive today who’d have died if pollution controls hadn’t worked.
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​ Chinese CO2 emissions fell by 1% in 2025, due to record solar power and falling coal use for energy generation.
​It's 2025. Time to talk about time by Tim Urban​ 2040, 2060, and 2100 are now closer to us than 2010, 1990, and 1950. ... NSYNC's "Tearing Up My Heart" came out closer to the moon landing than to today. ... If Back to the Future were released today, Marty would be heading back to the ridiculously retro year 1995. His teenage parents would be doing hilariously old things like talking on big cell phones and hanging out in AOL chat rooms. iamJoshKnox Highlights: 20252025 By The Numbers: Publications: 1 Essays: 2​ Presentations: 3​
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Family Photo: 6-7 Calvin and Lawrence challenged each other to yell 6-7 out the window all the way home. Your familiarity with 6-7 is a good litmus test for the degrees of separation between you and a six or seven year old. (or is it ligma?) In case you need to catch up: 6-7 was a line in a rap song, which was used in the mixtape of a professional basketball player (who was 6'7"). Another basketball player (not a professional, but big on YouTube) kept forcing 6-7 into video interviews, along...
Family Photo: Hold On Calvin and Lawrence were playing on the spinny thing at the park. Lawrence wrapped his arms around the middle bit while Calvin ran around gripping the outside bits, kicking his legs up to swing freely from the catharpins or whatever those bits are called. Part of me wanted him to be more cautious. The spinny thing spins up some pretty good momentum. If he let go, I didn't envy my future self returning home to explain how Calvin got scuffed up by centrifugal force. Part...
Family Photo: Playa del Carmen, México Over Christmas, we visited my brother and his fiancée in Playa del Carmen. They're nomads, but Mexico is their current port of call, so it seemed like a good idea to travel down and visit them for the holidays. Paul Graham has a line in an essay about how "What surprised you?" is the best sort of question you can ask someone coming back from a trip. Travel is a form of information gathering, and "What surprised you?" gets at "What new information have...