starting strong (and a month late)//

The Ubyssey's 2025 ins and outs

Now that we’ve had a month to settle and the flavour of the year has emerged from the soup of time and space, we at Ubyssey humour have sampled it and assembled a list of ingredients — I mean, ins and outs, to inform the cultural moment of 2025. No need to thank us.

Ins

  • Calling out fascism
  • Seeing friends at the gym
  • Subway sandwiches
  • Ryan Gosling
  • Lime green polka dots
  • Conversing with geese
  • French braiding French fries
  • Comically large utensils
  • Living at the bottom of a well
  • Holding your friends close
  • Resisting the governance of culture, discussion and information propagation by private entities through migrating to decentralized social networks federated through the ActivityPub protocol
  • Minecraft
  • Eating three balanced meals per day AND snacks
  • Free non-dairy milk
  • Using an RSS reader
  • Adding The Ubyssey to your RSS reader
  • Bonding with strangers
  • Doomed yet noble dreams
  • Being chalant
  • Memes from 2016
  • Fire emojis
  • Vegetable gardens
  • The Alphabet Song
  • Pimple patches
  • Cropdusting
  • Glasses that sit on your face in a slightly jaunty fashion
  • Fake crying to freak out your friends
  • Saying “freak” in every sentence
  • Writing reference letters as a mere child
  • Holding your friends close

Outs

  • Skipping class
  • Learning from your mistakes
  • Waking up before 10 a.m.
  • Ryan Reynolds
  • Friendship bracelets
  • The intersection of E 12th Ave and Victoria Dr
  • Minecraft YouTubers
  • Being "online"
  • Consensus reality
  • Knowing what’s going on
  • Acronyms
  • Solving problems
  • Prognosticating disaster
  • Chilling
  • Microphones
  • "Rizz"
  • Devil's advocate
  • Overpriced sweet treats
  • UBC Housing
  • LinkedIn
  • Musty lecture halls
  • Chipotle not FUCKING giving someone (me) a full scoop of chicken
  • Bass-boosted anything
  • Toddlers
  • Necessary phone calls
  • Trying to impress your manager at work
  • Netflix documentaries
  • Holding your enemies closer

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