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New Year, New You

Sybarite’s Ins and Outs for 2025

Hold it together, baby

Adeline Dimond
Sybarite
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8 min readDec 31, 2024

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Smith and Wesson revolver, decorated by Tiffany’s 1893 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access Program

Welcome to the second installment of Sybarites Ins and Outs for the upcoming year. I’m proud of last year’s list, although it just skimmed the surface of ins and outs and offered no explanation as to why something was in or out. It “trusted the reader,” blah blah etc. and forth. It was also wrong about Augustinus Bader skin cream.

This year, we’re going deeper over here at Sybarite HQ. We’re going to indulge ourselves and explain the ins and outs, which really means that we are allowing ourselves a rant or two, the absolute lowest form of online discourse. And by “we” I mean “me.” I, Adeline, am gonna rant.

I’ve earned this. I never rant because I hold myself to certain writing standards, and while I’m proud of this, I am also denying myself a simple pleasure: yelling at people I don’t know about things that I pretend to know about.

Everyone else does it. For instance, the internet is lousy with hot takes about what the election of Trump means by people who haven’t cracked a history book since 8th grade. (See, the rant is ramping up already). It will either be a “golden age,” (LOL) or the Third Reich (also LOL). If people get to write this dumb dumb stuff with a straight face then I get to rant about stuff too, at least…

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Adeline Dimond
Adeline Dimond

Written by Adeline Dimond

Federal attorney, writing thought crimes on Medium. To connect: Adeline.Dimond@gmail.com

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