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2026 3

  1. Culture Study + Cult of Mommaxxing
  2. Culture Study + Bama Rush S05 + All Your Personal Style Questions, Answered
  3. All the Good Stuff You're Missing on Culture Study

2025 184

  1. If you're missing the Culture Study Gift Guide....
  2. Your Next Procrastination Read...
  3. Did You Miss Something in Your Sunday Routine?
  4. On Patreon: FIFTH ANNUAL CULTURE STUDY SOUP EXTRAVAGANZA
  5. A Soggy Post-Halloween Expanse of Links & Recs
  6. Friday Thread [OVER AT PATREON]: Where Do You Live and Why Do You Love it?
  7. BIG NO-KIDS ENERGY
  8. Big News: Culture Study is Moving to Patreon!
  9. What Kin-Building Actually Looks Like
  10. Friday Thread: What Do You Accidentally Know a Lot About?
  11. That's a Rich Text (2025 Edition)
  12. Definitive Media Texts of Your Micro-Generation
  13. Ballerina Farm Goes Full Wellness Brand
  14. What's Hitting You Where It Hurts?
  15. How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days
  16. Tuesday Thread: Soundtrack to Autumn
  17. Know Your Dads
  18. Friday Thread: Your First Memory of Beauty
  19. Shape the Future of Culture Study!
  20. What's Really Going on With Those Elaborate (Parent-Decorated) College Dorm Rooms?
  21. What Are You Cooking/Assembling for Weeknight Dinner?
  22. The Unexpected Melancholy of Nicole Kidman's Divorce
  23. OCTOBER OPEN CHAOS THREAD
  24. I Promise This Will Change The Way You Think About Partnership
  25. Why Other People's Screen Time Annoys You
  26. Tuesday Thread: Your Morning Routine
  27. A Massive Pile-Up of Links & Recs
  28. Friday Thread: Your Relationship With Sports
  29. The Unexpected Benefits of Starting a Niche Anne of Green Gables Podcast
  30. Tuesday Thread: Actually Good Etsy Shops
  31. Culture Study Friendship Matchmaker, Vol. 2: Local, Online...More-Than-Friendship
  32. Friday Thread: What List Would You Like To See When You're Dead?
  33. The Scandal of Modern Rehab
  34. The Blessed Return of WHAT ARE YOU READING?
  35. The Reaction is Asymmetrical
  36. Friday Thread: A Little-Known Fact About Your Industry
  37. What Makes a Recipe Go Viral (and Other Contemporary Food Mysteries)
  38. What Are You Watching (in September??)
  39. The Futile Search for the Bullsh*t-Less Job
  40. Friday Thread: What's Your Relationship With Your Given Name?
  41. One Gwyneth Episode to Rule Them All
  42. What Do I Do With [X] Thing I've Been Saving?
  43. An End-of-Summer Blowout of Links & Recs
  44. What Have You Learned About Your Body (That You Wish You Learned Much Sooner)?
  45. How a Collaborative Pianist Organizes Their Days
  46. Playlist Thread #3: Songs To Stare At The Ceiling To
  47. A Life With Less Pleasure Reading
  48. Friday Thread: What Are You Struggling With That No One Else Sees?
  49. Meet Wound Man
  50. Very Good Bags
  51. Five Years
  52. Let's Hear Your Ideas For Future Friday Threads!
  53. What Bama Rush Means in 2025
  54. Tuesday Thread: Non-Fiction Concierge
  55. An Invitation to Think Differently About Addiction Treatment
  56. A Place For All Your Garden Questions (and All Your Garden Wisdom)
  57. The Unexpected Benefits of Starting a Small-Scale Dahlia Operation
  58. The Ridiculously Interesting World of American Accents
  59. What Are You Watching?!? (in August)
  60. A Perfectly Grilled Corn on the Cob of Links & Recs
  61. Friday Thread: AUGUST OPEN CHAOS THREAD
  62. Update: The Ultimate Summer Reading Book Report (Including Melody's Romance Corner)
  63. Playlist Thread #2: Concentration Music
  64. A Fascinating Look at How a Hair Stylist Organizes Their Days
  65. Friday Thread: How Have You Grown?
  66. Extremely Detailed Greek Islands Notes
  67. (Recent) Life-Changing Purchases, Schedule Changes, Philosophical Shifts, and Habits....Small and Large and Medium-Sized
  68. Whiskerology!
  69. Friday Thread: What Were Your Parents Right About?
  70. The Great Feminist Exhaustion
  71. Playlist Thread #1: Workout/Pump-Up Songs
  72. The History of The Onion You Didn't Know You Needed
  73. It's Peak Summer ADVICE TIME!
  74. Why Is Katy Perry So Embarrassing?
  75. What Are You Reading (In July?!?!)
  76. An Overstuffed Summer Bouquet of Links & Recs
  77. No Really, How Do We Fund the Art We Care About *Right Now*?
  78. What To Make When It's Too Hot To Cook
  79. The Cost of Being Undocumented
  80. Friday Thread: How Are You Reinventing What You Do For Work?
  81. An Obituary for Reading the Internet
  82. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching? (In June)
  83. The Dress Designer Who Gave Women Pockets — And So Much More
  84. Friday Thread: Big Birthday Feelings
  85. The Ultimate Summer Reading Post
  86. Culture Study Classifieds, (Nearly) Summer Solstice Edition
  87. Teen Mags, Dead Girls, Cults, and Calorie Tracking
  88. Friday Thread: Your Favorite Part About Being Queer (in 2025)
  89. How the NFL Sells Flag Football to Bougie Parents
  90. Tuesday Thread: Your Favorite/Most Influential Class
  91. How An Engineering Grad Student Organizes Her Days
  92. Friday Thread: How To Start Doing Something (With a High Barrier to Entry)
  93. Just a Little Midweek Love Letter
  94. How 2000s Culture Messed Us Up
  95. Tuesday Thread: 'Old' Movies & Show Kids Actually Like
  96. What If Managing Wasn't Miserable?
  97. Culture Study Local Friendship Matchmaker, Volume One
  98. The World Has Always Been On Fire
  99. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Working On??
  100. Just a Superb Collection of Links & Recs for Your Three-Day Weekend
  101. Friday Thread: What Do You Lie About (Just a Little)
  102. What Was The Summer Vacation?
  103. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching???
  104. A Beautiful Conversation That Will Shift Your Thinking About Parenting
  105. Friday Thread: Analyzing Your (Childhood) Family Vacation
  106. What Do We Do With All This Consumer Rage?
  107. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading?!? (in May)
  108. What It Feels Like to Be a Caregiver *Right Now*
  109. Friday Thread: MAY OPEN CHAOS THREAD
  110. The Most Infuriating Friendship Hack
  111. Unlocking the Allure of Tate McRae
  112. The Culture Study Job Fair
  113. The Best Book I've Read This Year
  114. Friday Thread: Your Sliding Doors Moment
  115. The Pitt is a Show About
  116. Tuesday Thread: Podcast Concierge
  117. A Bursting Spring Meadow of Links & Recs
  118. The Smallest Hill You'd Die On
  119. Hundreds of Culture Study Readers cook *Tenderheart*
  120. Tuesday Thread: Your Three Foundational Books
  121. How A Gardening Ceramicist Organizes Their Days
  122. Specific Ways You're Preparing to Protect Yourself & Your Community
  123. What Are We Actually Talking About When We Talk About Intensive Parenting?
  124. Tuesday Thread: How to Buy / Sell / Acquire Anything Secondhand
  125. One Way to Live Near Friends
  126. The Much-Heralded Return of ADVICE TIME
  127. How a Cookbook Gets Made
  128. What is Millennial Hobby Energy?
  129. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching???
  130. Gentlemen of the Woods
  131. Friday Thread: Small, Kind Things
  132. Are People Bad At Their Jobs....or Are The Jobs Just Bad?
  133. Tuesday Thread: Work Lunches That Require NO EFFORT
  134. An Endless Daffodil Field of Links & Recs
  135. What Are You Doing On Hard Mode?
  136. "This Book Occurs At the Exact Place Where the Far-Right and Far-Left Meet"
  137. Culture Study Classifieds, In Like a Lion
  138. How Not To Write A Book
  139. Future Friday Threads Ideas?!?!
  140. Culture Study Book Concierge, Genre Edition
  141. The Easy Connection of Cookbook Club
  142. Friday Thread: Perfect Imperfections
  143. The Irishification of Pop Culture
  144. Tuesday Thread: What Are You *Not* Buying on the Internet
  145. You Haven't Even Begun to Portal
  146. Friday Thread: Wedding Planning Concierge
  147. How an Audiobook Narrator Organizes Her Days
  148. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching?!? (Help)
  149. Once Yearly Sale + A Much-Welcomed False Spring of Links and Recs
  150. Friday Thread: Non-Traditional
  151. Homes for Living!
  152. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Working On?
  153. This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World
  154. Friday Thread: FEBRUARY OPEN CHAOS THREAD
  155. Ask a Divorced Person (in 2025)
  156. What Are You Reading (in February)???
  157. The Fascinating (and Surprising) History of Women Drivers
  158. Low Stakes Thread: Parasocial Pet Relationships
  159. The Heart of Dad Culture
  160. Who Else Is Feeling This In Their Body
  161. Tuesday Thread: The Best Corners of Reddit
  162. Welcome to Dinner Music
  163. How We Decide Where To Build Our Lives
  164. The Loneliest Decades of Our Lives
  165. Tuesday Thread: Donation & Volunteer "Concierge"
  166. A Cozy Winter Storm of Recs & Links
  167. Friday Thread: Later Loves
  168. A New Kind of Forensics
  169. Tuesday Thread: What Games Are You Playing?
  170. How I Write Culture Study
  171. Advice Time! Advice Time!
  172. American Bulk
  173. What Are You Watching?
  174. The Social Media Sea Change
  175. How and What Are You Learning as an Adult?
  176. How to Help People in LA *Right Now*
  177. The Wild and Banal Future of Celebrity Gossip
  178. What Are You Reading?!? (In January)
  179. Blake Lively Reshoots the End of Her Story
  180. The Most Beautiful Swim You've Ever Taken
  181. The Case Against Budget Culture
  182. Culture Study Classifieds, Heart of Winter Style
  183. A Calming Low Winter Sky of Links & Recs
  184. This Week's Podcast Ep is REALLY Good + Friday Open Chaos Thread

2024 225

  1. A Culture Study Mirror
  2. How Do You Fall in Love with the In-Between?
  3. Your Interesting Friend
  4. How to Be a Joiner
  5. Tuesday Thread: Your Comfort Watch
  6. Posting Less
  7. Friday Thread: How Are You Planning For Your Senescence?
  8. A Different Way To Think About Ideas on the Internet
  9. Tuesday Thread: What Music is REALLY DOING IT FOR YOU
  10. “Why Am I So Stoked About Surprise Legumes??"
  11. When Did You First Feel Like *Yourself*?
  12. A Brief Theory of the Modern Gift Guide
  13. It's Time for the 2024 HOLIDAY GIFT CONCIERGE!!!
  14. One Gift Guide to Rule Them All
  15. Why Is It So Hard to Make a Good Blockbuster?
  16. What Are You Reading (In November)??
  17. The Very Best Culture Study Advice
  18. What Do You Wish People Were More Curious About?
  19. Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy
  20. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching?
  21. An Exquisite Panorama of Links & Recs
  22. How Do You Balance Responsibilities To Yourself/Your Kin & Your Wider Community?
  23. How to Show Up For Your Friends Without Kids — and How to Show Up For Kids and Their Parents
  24. Tuesday Thread: How Do You Know When To Quit?
  25. Abusers In Plain Sight
  26. What I'm Reading, Post-Election
  27. This is How Much America Still Hates Women
  28. I'm Just So Mad
  29. FOURTH ANNUAL SOUP EXTRAVAGANZA
  30. The Messy Thicket of Change
  31. Friday Thread: OPEN CHAOS THREAD
  32. The Secret to a Hobby-Filled Life
  33. Is BookTok Actually About Reading?
  34. Tuesday Thread: Where are you buying/finding art?
  35. The Burdens of Social Mobility
  36. Friday Thread: Ideas for Future Threads!!!
  37. "The Kids Are Too Soft"
  38. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading (In October?)
  39. A Fall Bounty of Links & Recs
  40. Friday Thread: How Your Childhood Informed Your Thinking Re: Kids
  41. That's (Another) Rich Text
  42. Tuesday Thread: Music Concierge + New Music + How Do You Listen To More Music JUST GENERALLY
  43. So Much You Don't Know About The C-Section
  44. The Glorious Return of ADVICE TIME
  45. What Makes Women Clean
  46. Make the Case: BEST SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
  47. Cultivating Non-Romantic Intimacy
  48. Friday Thread: Theories of Resilience
  49. Post-Reunion Emotional Hangover + Midweek Bits & Bobs
  50. The Feminine Draw of Contemporary Conspiracy
  51. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching (in October?)
  52. The Deep and Beautiful Offerings of Being Alone
  53. Friday Thread: What Do You Do With All These Photos
  54. The Secret Lives of Option-Less Wives
  55. What Are You Reading (In September)???
  56. An Expanding Accordion of Links & Recs
  57. Friday Thread: What Have You Resisted Trying (And Then.....Actually Liked?)
  58. "I Found All Sorts of Dirt Immediately"
  59. How Did You Get Your Job?
  60. White Celebrity and Rituals of Civility
  61. Friday Thread: Your Relationship to Birthdays
  62. Midweek Bits & Bobs + Midweek Thread
  63. Princess Kate's Gauzy Post-Chemo Narrative
  64. The Opulence and Liberation of Maximalism
  65. Friday Thread: Underrated and Unsung Travel Gems
  66. Cooking in the Age of Infinite Recipes
  67. Culture Study Classifieds! (Summer Edition)
  68. Did Your Parents Have Friends?
  69. Friday Thread: The Best Day of the Calendar Year
  70. Guess What Private Equity is Doing to Childcare
  71. Tuesday Thread: Television Concierge
  72. Extremely Detailed Dolomites Notes
  73. Friday Thread: Things Worth Being Bad At
  74. Becoming Little Shell
  75. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading, August Edition
  76. Here's a Bama-Free Expanse of Links & Recs
  77. The Power Funnel
  78. How Hazing Endures Behind Fraternity Doors
  79. How Greek Life Stayed Segregated at Bama.....Until 2013
  80. Inside "The Machine"
  81. Welcome to Bama Confidential
  82. Four Years
  83. Friday Thread: How Do You Manage Money With Someone Else?
  84. A Former Trad Wife on What It Actually Takes To Leave
  85. "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not To Lose Myself In It."
  86. Friday Thread: Olympics Feelings + Free-For-All
  87. A Unified Theory of Glen Powell
  88. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Creating?
  89. The Myth of Making It + Ballerina Farm Thoughts
  90. Friday Thread: What Makes a Good Boss?
  91. Midweek Bits & Bobs + What I'm Reading re: Kamala
  92. Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'
  93. Culture Study Culture Club: Best/Worst Political Memes
  94. An Expansive Ocean (at Perfect Temperature) of Links & Recs
  95. Friday Open Chaos Thread
  96. How to Make a Bouquet
  97. The Quiet Glory of (Continued) Aging Into Athleticism
  98. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching, Peak of Summer Edition
  99. What’s Hiding Inside Those Moody Kitchen Cabinets
  100. Friday Thread: What You've (Recently) Learned About Yourself
  101. How To: Dahlia Cuttings
  102. Bad Advice
  103. What Are You Reading: Summer Genre Fiction Edition
  104. Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things
  105. Strong Vacation Opinions, Loosely Held
  106. The Resilience Myth
  107. Friday Thread: The Nicest Thing
  108. Garden Study Open Thread
  109. Big Jeans Feelings
  110. How People Are Making Friendship Work *Right Now*
  111. Culture Study Culture Club: 40 Best Songs of 2024 (Thus Far)
  112. A Perfect Corn on the Cob of Links & Recs
  113. Friday Thread: Life Skills
  114. Gardening To Get To Know a Very Specific Piece of Land
  115. What Happened to People Magazine?
  116. Tuesday Thread: Clothes Maintenance & Repair
  117. Reimagining Boyhood
  118. Friday Thread: What is Going on With Kids' Allowance?
  119. This Year's Container Combos
  120. The Invite Was Already in My Mailbox
  121. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading?? (June Edition)
  122. Welcome to the Houseplant Clinic
  123. Friday Thread: ADVICE TIME, Summer Style
  124. Year One Lawn Removal
  125. "Women Are Drowning in Responsibility"
  126. Tuesday Thread: Your Transcendent Concert Experience
  127. Ten Years Out of Academia
  128. Friday Thread: Help Me with a Tricky One
  129. Are Millennials the Most Nostalgic Generation?
  130. Garden Tried & Trues
  131. An Extraordinary Intergenerational Friendship
  132. Tuesday Thread: *Newsletter* Concierge
  133. A Long Weekend of Links & Recs
  134. Friday Thread: The Return of MIND-BLOWING FACTS
  135. What It's Like to Manage a Winery Culinary Garden
  136. What is Anne Hathaway Trying to Tell Us?
  137. Culture Study Classifieds! (Spring Edition)
  138. The Manicurist's Daughter
  139. Friday Thread: Menopause Brain
  140. Midweek Bits & Bobs
  141. Behind the Scenes: Planting 500+ Dahlias
  142. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching? (In May)
  143. When You Think of Your House Like a Machine
  144. Very Specific Cleaning Questions, Asked and Answered
  145. Weeds Are Not a Moral Failing
  146. How My Household Makes Cleaning (Less) Work
  147. Your Cleaning Story
  148. The Ring Around the Toilet is Not a Moral Failing
  149. That's Not How Stains Work
  150. Friday Thread: What You Wish Had Endured (And What You Wish Hadn't)
  151. Down and Dirty Soil Blocking
  152. Belated Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading??? (Plus: What I'm Reading For My Next Absorption Vacation)
  153. The College Student Keeps The Score
  154. An Everlasting April Shower of Recs & Links
  155. Friday Thread: What IS a Hobby, and What is YOUR Hobby, and How Do You Make Space for It?
  156. Spring Patience + Garden Study Seed/Tuber Exchange
  157. Taylor Swift and the Tortured Poets Aesthetic
  158. When Your Profession is On Fire
  159. Tuesday Thread: The Article, Profile, or Interview That STICKS WITH YOU
  160. The Trouble with Passion
  161. "Beyoncé Knows How To Talk Without Talking"
  162. Friday Thread: Everything You Know (and Need To Know) About Eldercare
  163. Garden Study Tuber/Seed Exchange
  164. "I Resonate With That" [NAILS ON CHALKBOARD]
  165. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Making When You're So Hungry You Could Eat Your Own Arm
  166. Coming Out Republican
  167. Friday Thread: Spring Time ADVICE TIME
  168. The Return of Garden Study!
  169. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching? (In April)
  170. The Great Teen Babysitter Shortage
  171. Friday Thread: Things You Thought Were Universal That Were....Very Much Not
  172. Lose Yourself In This Interview
  173. Tuesday Thread: How Do You Find Good Stuff to Read on the Internet?
  174. Myths of Grit and Passion
  175. Friday Thread: Figuring Out Sources of Self-Worth
  176. Come Drink From the Stanley Cup
  177. Tuesday Thread: Secular Hymns
  178. A Spring Immensity of Links and Recs
  179. Friday Thread: Your Ideas for *Future Friday Threads*
  180. The Dark Heart of Individualism
  181. Tuesday Thread: It's Yet Again Time for WHAT ARE YOU READING?
  182. Welcome To Your Colonoscopy.....AGAIN
  183. Friday Thread: What Has Your Body Taught You — and What Hasn't It?
  184. The Unraveling of a Royal Fairytale
  185. Tuesday Thread: What Are You *Not* Buying (On the Internet)
  186. A Wild and Shimmering Life
  187. Friday Thread: TikTok Best Practices
  188. Culture Study Goes Full ACOTAR
  189. How Do You Find a Good [Insert Profession Here]?
  190. Inside the Dahlia Wars
  191. Friday Thread: How Does Your Household Organize Labor?
  192. Whose Bodies Get Studied
  193. Tuesday Thread: YOUR WALK-OUT SONG
  194. Once-a-Year Sale + A Plentitude of Links & Recs
  195. How Do You Make Email and Texts Steal Less Time?
  196. What's Bradley Cooper's Deal?
  197. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching?
  198. Show Up For Yourself First
  199. Friday Thread: The Praxis of Solitude
  200. Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
  201. What Are You Reading: Genre Fiction Edition
  202. The Case for Detracking
  203. Friday Thread: What's Keeping Us Out of Others' Business?
  204. Taylor Swift and the Good Girl Trap
  205. Tuesday Thread: New-To-You Music
  206. The Gnome Trail
  207. Friday Thread: Tell Other People About Your Work
  208. The Anti-Airbnb-Space
  209. Culture Study Classifieds! (Winter Edition)
  210. An Atmospheric River of Links and Recs
  211. Friday Thread: The Feel of Your Young Adult Years
  212. The Curious Return of 2000s Music
  213. Tuesday Thread: How (and when) do you swear?
  214. True West
  215. Friday Thread: Rituals and Routines
  216. How Did You Buy Your House? (Or Make Another Big Purchase)
  217. Tuesday Thread: TV/Movie Concierge
  218. The Right Kind of Busy
  219. Friday Thread: Big Life Movements
  220. How Much Should I Track My Kid?
  221. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading?!
  222. A Theory of the Modern Exclamation Point!
  223. Friday Thread: How Do You Talk About Money With Friends?
  224. Who Actually Talks About Student Loans — And How
  225. Tuesday Thread: "Old" Music Teen You Loved & Made You Feel VERY COOL

2023 219

  1. Your Top 5
  2. The Pernicious Laziness of Paw Patrol
  3. Recs & Links To Get You Through the End of the Year
  4. Friday Thread: Thank God It's Advice Time
  5. The Problems of Modern Philanthropy
  6. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching, what's good, what's weird, what's missable?
  7. One Significant Adult
  8. Friday Thread: Your Moral Educator
  9. The Absorption Vacation
  10. Tuesday Thread: Recipe & Cookbook Concierge
  11. The Dolls of Our Lives
  12. Friday Thread: Low-Key Brags
  13. The Root of Over-Meeting Culture
  14. Tuesday Thread: About Time for WHAT ARE YOU READING
  15. The Culture Study Podcast
  16. A Different Sort of Ritual
  17. Friday Thread: What's Hard and Heavy About These Months?
  18. Big Future Garden Energy
  19. Culture Study Podcast Subscriber Promo Code!
  20. Introducing the Culture Study Podcast
  21. Tuesday Thread: HOLIDAY GIFT CONCIERGE
  22. Gifts and Links and Gifts and Links and Gifts and Links and Gifts and Links
  23. Let's Go Community Shopping
  24. Tuesday Thread: Perfect Staple Clothes
  25. The Cost of Free Land
  26. Friday Thread: Questions You Wish You Could Ask Previous Owners/Builders of Your Home
  27. You Only Like the Beginning of Things
  28. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  29. How I've Changed My Thinking About Burnout
  30. Friday Thread: Typologies
  31. NEW BOOK COMING YOUR WAY!
  32. A Deep Dive Into #RushTok Fashion
  33. Tuesday Thread: Podcast Concierge
  34. The Friendship Dip
  35. Friday Thread: Narratives for Getting Older
  36. Butts: A Backstory
  37. Tuesday Thread: Sounds Like Fall
  38. A Glorious Full Fall Day of Links and Recs
  39. Friday Thread: WHAT ARE YOU READING + **HELP PLAN THE CS PODCAST**
  40. A Different Way to Think About Student Success
  41. Classifieds, Culture Study Style
  42. Are You In The Portal?
  43. Friday Thread: What's Your Job's Problem?
  44. Garden Study Thread: BULBS
  45. There is Nothing Magical About Forgiveness
  46. Tuesday Thread: How Has Your Internet Changed?
  47. How Millennials Grew Up and Got Old
  48. Friday Thread: Things That Make You Feel Old
  49. Appreciation Post: Begonias
  50. The Rise, Fall, and Remaking of the #GirlBoss
  51. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching??
  52. Taylor Swift Likes to Work
  53. Friday Thread: The Best Sacrifice You Ever Made
  54. Montana Cottagecore in Zone 4/5
  55. "Am I A Classhole?"
  56. THIRD ANNUAL FALL SOUP EXTRAVAGANZA
  57. Links Up and Down and Around and Around
  58. Friday Thread: Your Anxiety Dream
  59. Putting the Garden to Bed
  60. Community Roadblocks
  61. Tuesday Thread: What Game Are You Playing?
  62. “American Motherhood Felt Like That: Like a Plan Devised by Men.”
  63. Friday Thread: Coolest, Weirdest, Best Hobbies
  64. "There is no trauma in my garden"
  65. How to Kid-Proof Your Friendship
  66. Tuesday Thread: A Book That's Changed You
  67. The Value of a Polaroid Summer
  68. Friday Thread: *Future* Friday Threads
  69. Cutting Back + Powdery Mildew Patrol
  70. The Specific Catharsis of 'That Guy"
  71. Tuesday Thread: What are you drinking?
  72. The New Out-of-State Recruit
  73. Friday Thread: What Made You Change Your Mind?
  74. How to Chaos Garden
  75. #TradWife Life as Self-Annihilation
  76. Tuesday Thread: What in the world are you watching???
  77. An Infinity Pool of Links & Rec
  78. Friday Thread: THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF ADVICE TIME
  79. Your Garden Gear
  80. The Sterile World of Infinite Choice
  81. Tuesday Thread: Your VHS Tapes
  82. Pretty White Moms in Their Pretty White Houses
  83. Friday Thread: Absolutely Dreadful
  84. Crappy Gravelscaping & Rescuing Plants from Demo Zones
  85. That's a Rich Text
  86. Tuesday Thread: Immaculate Condiments
  87. Culture Study Meets Bama RushTok
  88. Friday Thread: What does it mean to be happy?
  89. Approximately One Billion Things I Learned About Growing Dahlias This Year
  90. Three Years
  91. Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  92. A Different Way to Think About Screentime
  93. Friday Thread: A Different Conversation about Renting
  94. A Less Judgy Route to Native Plant Gardening
  95. The Particular Pleasure of the Internet Rec
  96. Tuesday Thread: Purchase That Was Going To Solve All Your Problems (And Didn't)
  97. Doggish Days of Summer Links & Recs
  98. Friday Thread: Simplest Pleasures
  99. Container Gardening Explained, Pt. 2
  100. The Workday "Dead Zone" is a Fake Problem
  101. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading?
  102. Where's My Rest Badge?
  103. Friday Thread: How You Want to Be Parented
  104. The Practiced Patience of Gardening with Kids
  105. Tuesday-ish Thread: What To Watch Concierge
  106. Barbie Answers Oppenheimer
  107. What Community Do You Have, What Community is Missing?
  108. Friday Thread: Your Childless Experience
  109. Garden Mistakes Were Made
  110. How Your House Makes You Miserable
  111. Tuesday Thread: Culture Study Thread Rec You've Loved
  112. Tenderhearted
  113. Friday Thread: Divorce Feelings
  114. The Glory of Square Foot Gardening
  115. Tuesday Thread: What are you cooking?
  116. The Thread Vibes Are Off
  117. Hot and Summery Links & Recs
  118. Friday Thread: Your Ideas About "Hard Work"
  119. Consider the Ornamental Grass
  120. The Fascinating History of Feminist Restaurants
  121. Friday Thread: Pivots
  122. Container Gardening Explained, Pt. 1
  123. Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
  124. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading?!?
  125. Welcome to Garden Study
  126. Friday Thread: Mundane Errands You Low-Key Love
  127. Moby Dyke
  128. Tuesday Thread: Music Concierge
  129. Get Ready for Some Real Fibroid Talk
  130. Friday Thread: Your Favorite (Family) Photo
  131. Memoir of a Broken Safety Net
  132. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching?
  133. An Ever-Expanding Oasis of Links and Recs
  134. Friday Thread: Your Favorite Part About Being Queer
  135. This Will Change the Way You Think About Ambition
  136. Tuesday Thread: The Unoptimizable
  137. Hometown's Finest
  138. You or Someone You Love
  139. The Optimization Sinkhole
  140. Friday Thread: What's Essential to Your Living Space?
  141. Beauty Culture is Hustle Culture
  142. Tuesday Thread: The Best Song of the Summer
  143. A Largesse of Links & Recs
  144. Friday Thread: THE RETURN OF ADVICE TIME!
  145. How Do We Think Beyond Our Own Existence?
  146. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading?
  147. This is Not Just a Post About Dog Grief
  148. The Worst, Worst Week
  149. Getting Rid of "You Should Be Grateful"
  150. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  151. How to Decline
  152. Friday Thread: What is your brain working on?
  153. How to Have the Fat Talk
  154. Tuesday Thread: A Kitchen Implement/Trick That's Actually Changed Your Cooking Life
  155. What Fandom's "Found Families" Tell Us About Our Hunger for Community
  156. Friday Thread: How Do You Understand the Economy?
  157. The Wages of Overwork
  158. Tuesday Thread: Regional Food Delights
  159. Henfluenced
  160. Friday Thread: Specific Care Advice
  161. How to Write an Email
  162. Tuesday Thread: What Game(s) Are You Playing?
  163. A Veritable Cornucopia of Links & Recs
  164. Friday Thread: Ideas for Future Newsletters
  165. No Seriously, What is Intelligence?
  166. Tuesday Thread: Book Concierge
  167. You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You?
  168. Friday Thread: How Do You Meet People (Romantically) IRL?
  169. Why Are (White) Men So Unambitious?
  170. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  171. A True Bounty of Recs & Links
  172. Friday Thread: When did you start reading (or re-start reading) the news?
  173. The Jews of Summer
  174. Tuesday Thread: Most Perfect Places You've Stayed
  175. What It Actually Takes to Make a Living Making Jewelry
  176. Friday Thread: Letting Go
  177. Ms. Petersen Went Up the Mountain Herself
  178. Tuesday Thread: What are you cooking?
  179. To Read, To Try, To Revisit, To Actually Watch
  180. Friday Thread: Going Alone
  181. "You can only write at the speed of your own self-awareness."
  182. Tuesday Thread: Characters Who Shaped You
  183. Got That Coffee Klatch Invite
  184. Friday Thread: The Pettiest Thing You've Ever Done
  185. What Teachers Really Think About All Those Spirit Days
  186. Tuesday Thread: What 2022-2023 Movies Have You Seen?
  187. Sick Week, New Look
  188. Friday Thread: ADVICE TIME, FEBRUARY EDITION
  189. The Tyranny of Faux Self-Care
  190. Tuesday Thread: The Triumphant Return of What Are You Reading??
  191. The Work is Not Enough
  192. Friday Thread: A Person You Love
  193. Trickle-Down Agriculture
  194. Tuesday Thread: What would you tell your younger self about love?
  195. Is Everything an MLM?
  196. Friday Thread: Good Jobs
  197. An Interview with a Living Vampire
  198. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  199. The Anxious Style of American Parenting
  200. Friday Thread: Organizing/Smoothing/Simplifying Your Online Life
  201. A Different Way to Think About “Quarterlife”
  202. Tuesday Thread: The First Great Song You Chose on Your Own
  203. Get Your Hot Hot Links!!!
  204. Friday Thread: A Childhood Artifact
  205. Layoff Brain
  206. Tuesday Thread: The Case for the Most '90s Movie EVER
  207. The Wondrous World of Escape Room Design
  208. Friday Thread: Caregiving
  209. Culture Study Challenge: One Small Community Thing
  210. Tuesday Thread: Podcast Concierge
  211. When Did Fitness Become a Luxury Item?
  212. Friday Thread: All the Places We Live
  213. What You Don't Know About the HarperCollins Strike
  214. Tuesday Thread: Reads Outside Your Norm
  215. Archiving Your Teen Self
  216. Friday Thread: Recs No One Asked For
  217. Gentrification is Inevitable (and Other Lies)
  218. Tuesday Thread: Songs to Stare at the Ceiling To
  219. The Week to Nowhere + New Year, New Links

2022 196

  1. Friday Thread: Lost & Found of 2022
  2. Unruly Sainthood
  3. Friday Thread: Untraditional Traditions
  4. Screaming on the Inside
  5. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching (and what should you watch this coming week?)
  6. Themes of a Year (2022)
  7. Friday Thread: What kind of friend are you?
  8. You Don't Need To Get Married or Have a Kid To Have a Party
  9. Tuesday Thread: Your Go-To Quick-Fix Meal
  10. Thinking Through "Time Spent Alone"
  11. Friday Thread: FUTURE FRIDAY THREADS, PLZ HELP
  12. There are Stories in the Data!
  13. Tuesday Thread: WHAT ARE YOU READING?? (Plus Belated Sunday Links!)
  14. Reading is Important to Me and I Will Prove It
  15. Friday Thread: Perfectionism, Ambition, Achievement
  16. What Would a Beloved Economy Look Like?
  17. Tuesday Thread: Gift Concierge
  18. Links and Gifts and Gifts and Links and and and
  19. Tuesday Thread: What are you creating/hobbying, broadly defined?
  20. Who Gets "Quality" Leisure?
  21. Friday Thread: What's the best thing about your specific age?
  22. How Did We Get So Obsessed with Streaks?
  23. Tuesday Thread: Aspirational and Nostalgic SNAX
  24. A Shortcut for Caring for Others (and Being Cared For Yourself)
  25. Friday Thread: What keeps you from asking for help?
  26. "It isn’t old fashioned or outmoded. It is vital. It is indispensable."
  27. A Theory of Sprawling Holidays
  28. Friday Thread: Filters Wanted
  29. Running While Black
  30. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)?
  31. The Pattern of Pretendianism
  32. FRIDAY THREAD: WE'RE GONNA TRY AN OPEN THREAD
  33. How an Idea Becomes a Podcast
  34. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  35. Brad Pitt and the Stink of Sad Smut
  36. Friday Thread: What Did & Does a Babysitter Cost, What Did/Do They Do, Why Does it Matter?
  37. Why Are Bosses So Miserable?
  38. Tuesday Thread: Scary Not Scary Movies
  39. "Academia Gives Me Hope"
  40. Friday Thread: Your Dream Name
  41. The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
  42. SECOND ANNUAL FALL SOUP EXTRAVAGANZA
  43. There is No Timeline to Grief
  44. Thinking Through the Calendar
  45. Belated Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  46. When Music is Torture
  47. Friday Thread: WTF is this Resistance to Care Infrastructure
  48. Pressing the Bruise
  49. Tuesday Thread: Childhood Material Culture
  50. Olivia and Harry and Angelina and Liz
  51. Friday Thread: RETURN OF ADVICE TIME
  52. Are Kids' Sports Reformable?
  53. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)?
  54. Whole Lotta Links
  55. Friday Thread: Severing Digital Ties
  56. “Sexuality education is a form of social justice education”
  57. Tuesday Thread: Your Sex Education
  58. Queering Sex Ed
  59. Friday Thread: State of the Relationship(s)
  60. "Leave before there is nothing left to leave."
  61. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  62. "Every single day I wake up filled."
  63. Friday Thread: Make Your Case for the Best and Worst Micro-Season of the Year
  64. Wealth is the Missing Piece
  65. Tuesday Thread: What are you making/crafting/creating, very broadly defined?
  66. A little bit of patience
  67. Friday Thread: What is family wealth?
  68. The Beginnings of Student Debt Jubilee
  69. Tuesday Thread: Card Games & Assorted Memories
  70. A Quick Note on 'Quiet Quitting'
  71. What to Actually Do About an Unequal Partnership
  72. Tuesday Thread: PUMP UP SONGS
  73. Two Years
  74. Friday Thread: Buying Things
  75. Inside the Complex "Social Lab" of PE Class
  76. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)?
  77. Links 'Til The Cows Come Home
  78. Friday Thread: Kindness to Your Childhood Self
  79. Ask a Divorced Person
  80. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  81. The Solace, Despair, and Disinformation of Long Covid Internet Communities
  82. Friday Thread: What happened to your hometown(s)?
  83. The Quiet Glory of Aging into Athleticism
  84. Tuesday Thread: Teen Heartthrob Edition
  85. "This country isn’t made for us, even though it’s built on our land."
  86. Friday Thread: Alternative Universe You
  87. How to Show Up For Your Friends Without Kids — and How to Show Up For Kids and Their Parents
  88. Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  89. Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the Antiquities Theft Task Force
  90. Friday Thread: How You Care for Your Friends Who Aren't Parents
  91. Tuesday Thread: How You Became Important to Someone Else's Kid
  92. "Raising children is not an individual responsibility. It is a social one."
  93. Friday Thread: Your Favorite Street
  94. So You've Decided to Bungle Your Company's Flexible Work Plan
  95. Tuesday Thread: All Your Questions and Answers and Favorite and Most Surprising Parts About the Culture Study Discord
  96. Endless Summer, Endless Links
  97. Friday Thread: Your Crappiest or Best Experience with Bureaucracy
  98. Where can you talk about ~mom stuff~ that isn't Facebook?
  99. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading?!? (not on the internet)
  100. Your State Will Not Save You
  101. Friday Thread: Future Friday Threads
  102. Why don’t politicos look like the rest of us?
  103. Tuesday Thread: What are you cooking???
  104. The Case for Lunch
  105. Friday Thread: Your Sublime Outdoor Place
  106. "My dude, who do you think the working class is?"
  107. Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money
  108. Friday Thread: The look and feel of a healthy democracy
  109. What if you got to write the sort of books you were desperate for as a teen?
  110. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  111. A House Story
  112. Friday Thread: Home Tricks & Tips & Hacks
  113. That's a Stress Response
  114. Tuesday Thread: Fav Summer Reads
  115. Ask AHP Anything
  116. Friday Thread: A Space to Grieve
  117. This is What Happens When You Live Under Minority Rule
  118. Tuesday Thread: What are you making/crafting/creating, very broadly defined?
  119. The Normalization of "Working Through Covid"
  120. Friday Thread: The Source of (American?) Ambition
  121. “Don’t Get Chicked”
  122. Belated Tuesday Thread: Your Wild Travel Story
  123. Mega Super Links
  124. Friday Thread: Collectables
  125. “Identity isn’t a passport into a community”
  126. Tuesday Thread: Your Comfort Watch
  127. Houseplants as a Means of Black Joy and Queer Resistance
  128. Friday Thread: What are you listening to?
  129. "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
  130. Tuesday Thread: Why Abortion Matters
  131. The Librarians Are Not Okay
  132. Friday Post: Body Feelings
  133. "The Body is Trustworthy"
  134. Tuesday Thread: Fat Representation
  135. On Loving a Company That Doesn't Know How to Love Me Back
  136. Friday Thread: Return of Advice Time
  137. How do we build a new understanding of what constitutes “good” sex?
  138. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading?? (Not on the internet)
  139. The Expanding Job
  140. Friday Thread: What Would An Assistant Do?
  141. Culture Study is Hiring!
  142. The Secrets of the Plant People
  143. Friday Thread: Your Beloved Furniture
  144. The Feast of Severance
  145. Tuesday Thread: Podcast Concierge
  146. Links to Infinity and Beyond
  147. Friday Thread: Time Regrets
  148. What Does an Infrastructure of Care Actually Look Like?
  149. Tuesday Thread: What are you cooking?
  150. Forced to Care
  151. Friday Thread: Teen You on TikTok
  152. "This is More Severe Than a Vibe Shift"
  153. Tuesday Thread: Your 2021 Movie
  154. The Past and Potential Future of the Summer Care Scramble
  155. Friday Thread: Nemesis, Earned and Otherwise
  156. What If This Is Just the Way Things Are Now
  157. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  158. A Case of Zoom Dysmorphia
  159. Friday Thread: The Particulars of Your Place
  160. Tuesday Thread: Your First Music Video
  161. The Age of Houseplants
  162. Friday Thread: Irrational and Rational Brand Loyalty
  163. "We Are More Than a Lesson"
  164. Tuesday Thread: Your Indoor Plant Story
  165. Links as Far As the Eye Can See
  166. Friday Thread: Listening
  167. The RomCom is Dead, Long Live the RomCom
  168. Take Over Culture Study for a Week
  169. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)??
  170. Welcome to Colonoscopy Land
  171. Friday Thread: What you actually *did* understand when you got older
  172. The Horror, The Horror of the Peloton Not-Even-Plateau
  173. Tuesday Thread: Who Are You Following?
  174. This Party Sucks, Why Haven't We Left
  175. Friday Thread: What Non-Fiction Would You Write?
  176. The Edenic Allure of Ballerinafarm
  177. Belated Tuesday Thread: Your Inherited Recipe
  178. The Baylor Influencer Twin Sex-Positive Glow-Up
  179. Friday Thread: Your Favorite Part of Getting Older
  180. "What joy it is to be open-hearted, with all its misery. What devastation not to be."
  181. Tuesday Thread: A Perfect Album
  182. January Link-a-saurus
  183. Friday Thread: Tell us about your (chosen) family
  184. What You Don't Know About Family Estrangement
  185. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  186. The Rot of Candy Crush and The Rest of Wordle
  187. Friday Thread: Return of ADVICE TIME
  188. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)???
  189. Why No One Can Hear Parents Screaming
  190. Friday Thread: How did you find your person?
  191. Tuesday Thread: Your Online Community, Past or Present
  192. How to Build a Rugged, Resilient Society
  193. Friday Thread: What (smallish) change would have (largeish) effects on your quality of life?
  194. "I had been hating my body like it was a job for years and I wasn’t happier, healthier, or thinner. I was just…tired."
  195. Tuesday Thread: What [INSERT MEDIA/FOOD/LIFE ITEM HERE] are you excited about this year?
  196. New Year New Links

2021 193

  1. A Feelings Post
  2. Friday Thread: Try a Little Gentleness
  3. The Trouble with White Women
  4. Tuesday Thread: What are you cooking?
  5. The Particular Power of the Lancing Celebrity Profile
  6. Friday Thread: Oh No We Are Going to Talk About Having Kids
  7. The Topography of Wellness
  8. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching???
  9. Themes of a Year (2021)
  10. Friday Thread: What Makes a Good Internet Comment?
  11. “Now, it’s my turn to talk.”
  12. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading (Not on the Internet)
  13. Get Those Sweet Sweet Links
  14. There is No Earning a Holiday Meal
  15. Tuesday Thread: Thanksgiving Best Practices
  16. How Our System Revenges Rest
  17. Friday Thread: Leaning Out
  18. An Academic-Turned-Critic Explains Her Path
  19. Tuesday Thread: Your Favorite Cover, B-Side, Rarity, or Lost Song
  20. You Do Not Need to Sell This Life Today
  21. Friday Thread: Gift Concierge
  22. What It Means to Ride at Any Ability
  23. Tuesday Thread: Your Media Concierge
  24. The Subtle Look and Overwhelming Feel of Today's Misogyny
  25. Friday Thread: What is going on with the resistance to family leave?
  26. That's a Big, Poorly Camouflaged Red Flag
  27. Tuesday Thread: Your Movie Star
  28. "The System is Financially Gaslighting Us"
  29. Friday Thread: Shocking Your 14-Year Old Self
  30. How to Become Your Own Influencer
  31. Belated Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  32. Sunday Links, We've Got Links
  33. Friday Thread: Most Confident
  34. The Ideological Battlefield of the "Mamasphere"
  35. Tuesday Thread: URBAN LEGENDS
  36. What's That Feeling? Oh, It's Fall Regression
  37. Friday Thread: What is your relationship with being alone?
  38. How to Actually Build a Better Boss
  39. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)???
  40. The Language of Ambiguous Grief
  41. Friday Thread: True Partnership
  42. Blue Marriage and The Terror of Divorce
  43. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  44. The Worst of Both Work Worlds
  45. Friday Thread: Infinite Recommendations
  46. The Counterintuitive Mechanics of Peloton Addiction
  47. Tuesday Thread: FALL SOUP EXTRAVAGANZA
  48. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
  49. Friday Thread: MIND-BLOWING FACTS
  50. Jesus and John Wayne and Mel Gibson’s William Wallace from the Movie Braveheart
  51. Tuesday Thread: Onscreen Romance
  52. The Myth of the Productive Commute
  53. Friday Meta-Thread: Future Threads
  54. What Got Left Out of LuLaRich
  55. Tuesday Thread: Childhood Television Memories
  56. Against Kids' Sports
  57. Friday Thread: Where to start?
  58. Meet Generation Disaster
  59. Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  60. Links
  61. Friday Thread: SCAMS
  62. The Final Frontier of the Text Inbox
  63. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)??
  64. A Different Sort of Economy Story
  65. Friday Thread: In Memoriam
  66. From Burnout to Radicalization
  67. Tuesday Thread: Your Favorite Moviegoing Experience
  68. The Problems Solved by Debutantes
  69. Friday Thread: Elder Care + More Finance Questions
  70. The Parameters of Peloton Celebrity
  71. Tuesday Thread: What are you cooking?
  72. One Year
  73. Friday Thread: Heirlooms, Heavy & Cherished
  74. Your Own Harriet
  75. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  76. "The antidote is always turning deeper towards each other."
  77. Friday Thread: Grieving
  78. You're Still Exhausted
  79. Tuesday Thread: Your Absolute Favorite Non-Fiction
  80. Welcome to Money Advice (For the Rest of Us)
  81. Friday Thread: How to Make Friends
  82. The Master's Trap, Part Three
  83. Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  84. The Master's Trap, Part Two
  85. Friday Thread: Update us on your place
  86. The Master's Trap
  87. Tuesday Thread: Your Favorite Genre Reads
  88. What It Feels Like to Lose Your Favorite Season
  89. Friday Thread: Stereotypes + Where is my midweek newsletter?
  90. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  91. Who’s Afraid of the Four Day Work Week?
  92. Friday Thread: 3 Changes
  93. We've Got Links
  94. "Part of owning my own brand also means owning my age"
  95. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)??
  96. "Nobody is owed forgiveness"
  97. Friday Thread: Your finance questions
  98. Unpacking the Nap Dress
  99. Tuesday Thread: What first made you *feel things*
  100. Towards a Unified Theory of Peloton
  101. Friday Thread: Untaught History
  102. "Eating disorders are for white girls."
  103. Tuesday Thread: Which show is (or is not) worth revisiting?
  104. The Back to the Office Maximum
  105. Friday Thread: An Animal You Think About A LOT
  106. "This is de facto segregation. It’s not mandated by racist laws like those that existed prior to the 1950s. But it’s a segregated reality."
  107. Tuesday Thread: The Sound & Look of Summer
  108. "I never dreamed of owning anything."
  109. Friday Thread: Pride
  110. Belated Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  111. Just because your early career was hell doesn't mean others' has to be
  112. Friday Thread: Your Ideal Aging Scenario
  113. The Millennial Vernacular of Getting Swole
  114. Tuesday Thread: What are you cooking?
  115. The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia
  116. Friday Thread: Return of Advice Time
  117. Belated Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)??
  118. The Soft Power Brokers of Classic Hollywood
  119. The Familect of Culture Study
  120. Friday Thread: What is rest?
  121. The Shopping Cure
  122. Tuesday Thread: Your Clothing MVP
  123. Not a Crisis, But a Reckoning
  124. Friday Thread: What work would you do if your industry was required to treat you with respect?
  125. "In reality TV defined by renovation, the self becomes settled."
  126. Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  127. That's What the Money Is For
  128. "I’m giving myself permission to want a thing that I’m apparently not supposed to want."
  129. spring link-up
  130. Friday Thread: Post-Grad Trajectory and What Made It Possible
  131. The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy
  132. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  133. Subscribers Only: How to Access Sidechannel
  134. No One Told Me Being Middle Class Meant Wearing My Retainer Forever
  135. Friday Thread: Explain the United States
  136. Tuesday Thread: What are you cooking? [And an announcement!]
  137. Against “Feel Free To Take Some Time If You Need It"
  138. Friday Thread: Your Car Story
  139. I Regret to Inform You I Have Once Again Written About The Baylor Influencer Twins
  140. Tuesday Thread: Your Favorite Place to Travel
  141. behind the scenes of a 5000 word draft
  142. Friday Thread: Advice Time
  143. The Future of Remote Work is the Opposite of Lonely
  144. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)???
  145. a loose essay in figures
  146. Friday Thread: What ill-conceived and rash decision turned out the best for you?
  147. "The food movement became the wellness culture, which is just diet culture rebranded by Gwyneth Paltrow."
  148. Tuesday Thread: Who's your most interesting family member?
  149. what demoralization does to teachers
  150. Friday Thread: What ran in your family until it ran into you?
  151. A Changing Same
  152. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Watching?
  153. consider the quasi-commune
  154. Friday Thread: Educational Regrets
  155. "I just think the idea of being young and carefree no longer applies to our current reality. I feel old and weary."
  156. Tuesday Thread: What specific food item has carried you through the pandemic?
  157. The Anti-Church of Glennon Doyle
  158. Friday Meta-Thread: What prompt do you want for a Friday Thread?
  159. No I'm Not Ready
  160. Tuesday Thread: What Classic Movie Would You Recommend to Absolutely Anyone
  161. Imagine Your Flexible Office Work Future
  162. Friday Thread: What have you changed your mind about?
  163. apparently it’s not enough for 45 million people to know this
  164. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  165. The Pretendians
  166. Friday Thread: Weird Neighbors
  167. Two Guys from Montana Choppin’ It Up
  168. Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  169. Britney Should Get Ten Hours
  170. Friday Thread: Your Gathering
  171. The Great Unbundling
  172. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)???
  173. Thirteen Years & Three Months of Trying to Make Armie Hammer Happen
  174. Friday Thread: When and how did you realize that money makes money?
  175. the diminishing returns of productivity culture
  176. Tuesday Thread: What are you cooking?
  177. gaming, in kids' own words
  178. Friday Thread: What are you (working on) letting go?
  179. Tuesday Thread: Who are you following?
  180. The Secret to Getting a Vaccine Appointment
  181. Friday Thread: Which celebrity is living rent-free in your mind?
  182. Wednesday Thread: What are you reading *on the internet*
  183. "Parents deserve so much more when it comes to the ways video games are discussed in our popular media."
  184. The Errand Friend
  185. Friday Thread: Small Acts
  186. "We bumped elbows as he was leaving. That is the sum total of physical contact I've had with any human being since March 4th."
  187. Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
  188. what it means to pandemic, solo
  189. Friday Thread: How to Resist Productivity Culture
  190. How to Work Through a Coup
  191. Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)?
  192. is it a resolution or is it capitalism
  193. Friday Thread: Small Hopes

2020 87

  1. Favs
  2. you are beloved and worthy of rest
  3. Friday Thread: One Dumb Thing That's Made Your Life Less Dumb
  4. Bro Culture and Empire in Decline
  5. Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  6. Too Many Meetings
  7. Friday Thread: What is "company culture"?
  8. Who gets the office, who gets the kitchen table
  9. Tuesday Thread: What are you *watching*?
  10. The Call of The Long Winter
  11. Friday Thread: What piece of writing/music/art best encapsulates your place
  12. The Mom Does It
  13. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading (not on the internet)
  14. "People are scared of that word"
  15. Food Work
  16. Tuesday Thread: What You're Reading (On the Internet)
  17. job lock and the debt plot
  18. Friday Thread: Who is failing?
  19. "Our collective courage is flagging and there is no time for that."
  20. Tuesday Thread: What are you listening to?
  21. You Still Need to Have the Conversation
  22. Friday Thread: What is the middle-class?
  23. "Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."
  24. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading (not on the internet)
  25. your attention
  26. it is not going to feel how you want it to feel
  27. Tuesday Thread Pt. 2: Primal Screams, Fears, and Frustrations
  28. Tuesday Thread Pt. 1: Delights & Distractions
  29. email is a failed state. time for a coup.
  30. Friday Thread:
  31. how not to feel like crap right now
  32. Tuesday Thread: What are you *watching*?
  33. how email became work
  34. Friday Thread: What is a "secure" job?
  35. when you realize you're on the wrong side
  36. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading (on the internet)
  37. why office workers didn't unionize
  38. Friday Thread: The COVID-Shaped Wedge
  39. there will be no v-shaped recovery from the first female recession
  40. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Listening To?
  41. you're still not working from home
  42. Friday Thread: What's interesting about your state/province/territory?
  43. the ideological banality of #heelsupharris
  44. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading (not on the internet)
  45. so much time and none it to grieve
  46. Friday Thread: What Old Internet Do You Miss?
  47. the lifestyle blog voter
  48. Tuesday Thread: What Are You Reading (on the internet)
  49. quarantine grooming
  50. Friday Thread: What's driving QAnon?
  51. the contours of clergy burnout
  52. Inaugural Tuesday Thread: What are You Reading?
  53. as the smoke clears
  54. "may her memory be a revolution"
  55. Burnout Events
  56. Friday Thread: COVID-Sparked Life Changes
  57. how taste gets made
  58. what a strike is for
  59. Friday Thread: Ways to Rest
  60. habituation to horror
  61. vocational awe
  62. Friday Thread: Your town/city/state/country and wtf is going on
  63. living in someone else's Portland narrative
  64. welcome the covid influencer
  65. Tell Me What to Write About
  66. between f**ked and a hard place
  67. how does your ugly garden grow
  68. the glory of the rollcall
  69. Some Personal News: Welcome to Culture Study
  70. deep normalness
  71. taking stock
  72. scattered
  73. why the small protests in small towns matter
  74. not a fairytale of productivity
  75. what sort of sacrifice it will demand
  76. foreword
  77. authority vacuum
  78. the pandemic is not your vacation
  79. grieving our lives as they once were
  80. act accordingly
  81. i don't know how to make you care about other people
  82. you could call that a burnout cure
  83. redeveloping a relationship
  84. the millennial/gen-z strategy
  85. what a hobby feels like
  86. expands to fill the space it's given
  87. the wages of productivity

2019 39

  1. presents to myself
  2. a privilege to eat slowly
  3. thanking me for a small cry
  4. paying for civilization
  5. what happened to the taupes
  6. where the tension comes from
  7. a shortcut to stability and joy
  8. i love recommendations
  9. hilariously, clumsily, grossly visible
  10. an expectation of gratitude
  11. how a book gets scheduled
  12. what great inconvenience
  13. who cheats and why
  14. that's a first draft
  15. that pink ring in the toilet bowl is not a moral failure
  16. parenting burnout
  17. what happens when you subtract the internet
  18. oh no all my earnestness in one place
  19. stacey's dad is a bad dad
  20. gutting a pile of books
  21. i loved that sadsack sh*t
  22. offended, on offense
  23. links, we've got links
  24. LARPing your job
  25. there’s no other way things could be
  26. you know what language is code for?
  27. is everything an MLM
  28. "We became the Main Street media, because our office is on Main Street"
  29. this land is your land
  30. switching between inboxes until i pass out
  31. Part 2: What to Wear When You Don't Want People to Hate You
  32. What to Wear When You Don't Want People to Hate You
  33. it is what it is
  34. you're not alone, and it's your not your fault
  35. “That name you know, it’s very important here.”
  36. hanging out with your own mind
  37. it's that simple
  38. how millennials grew up and burned out
  39. new year old reading

2018 14

  1. digital reading hygiene
  2. the cumulative effect is 'lying'
  3. certain vs. seeking
  4. what we actually missed
  5. the face of julia
  6. Two days later
  7. not your transcription robot
  8. this week's best
  9. an American tragedy
  10. what I wasn't arrested for
  11. the shame is ours
  12. #metoo is working
  13. inside the vault
  14. burn burn burn