(Also sorry for giving you a 7-HOUR series as part of my recc - it’s not like you have anything else going on in your life 
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Here are a few of my current favs!
Culture Study: reader question format conversations on various (pop) culture things. Quality varies, if you know a lot or have strong opinions on the subject I find I don’t always appreciate those eps as much. Sort of scratches the old Call Your Girlfriend itch, but more topic focused.
Decoder ring: You’re Wrong About, before you’re wrong about was a thing. Also pop culture focused, fun explorations of various phenomena/events.
David Tennant Does A Podcast: David Tennant interviews various celebs, charmingly.
Switched On Pop: analysis of pop music! Great, except that one guest who was Mega Wrong about my favorite pop punk/emo bands!
Articles of Interest: fashion history! Very radiolab style, but very fun.
If Books Could Kill/Maintenance Phase/you’re wrong about: unfortunately I love everything Michael Hobbs does, including a podcast on shitty thought leader books with that lawyer guy.
The Dream: I liked the first season on MLMs, the 2nd one on life coaches wasn’t quite as compelling. They’ve switched to a general regular episode podcast, which I haven’t caught up with, ymmv
Sentimental Garbage: I got really into the Continental Garbage summer episode series, one of my favorite podcasts formats: two good friends chat about stuff. Haven’t caught up to the regular format, but have enjoyed the few regular format episodes I’ve listened to. Movies/books discussions.
Gastropod: foodie podcast, mostly entertaining, occasionally grating. Very in the radiolab/NPR highly polished style.
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I also love Culture Study and anything Michael Hobbs has done. Also have started to feel that way about Katie Gatti Tassin, I would recomend The Money With Katie Show ( most recent episode with economist Kathryn Edwards was awesome and surprisingly hopeful somehow about current events) & Diabolical Lies.
Money-related: Inside out Money & Liz gets Loaded, occasionally the Mindful FIRE podcast
Corporate Gossip can be a little hit or miss, and I am regularly surprised by how much I enjoy The Lazy Genius.
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Criminal - best true-crime show out there. Does a variety of types of crimes, historical and contemporary, from different perspectives (victim, investigator, perpetrator). Also Phoebe’s voice is very pleasant to listen to.
Clotheshorse - the business of clothing and how capitalism makes clothing suck. Rather long winded but fascinating (and depressing).
Missing Witches - started being about witches (self-described and otherwise) from history, added contemporary interviews, now is mostly interviews and witchcraft-adjacent stuff. Focused especially on queer and BIPOC folks, though the hosts are both white cis women.
You Must Remember This - “the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century.” Movies, actors, filmmakers; the current season is about directors who got weird at the ends of their careers.
Gender Reveal - fun interviews with trans people. Asks the question “in your ideal world, what does the future of gender look like?”
Ink in Your Veins - interviews with writers about their processes and what their lives look like day to day. Rachael is simply a delight.
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Normal Gossip - the host tells an anonymized gossip story sent into her to the guest of the week. Very light and fun.
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Same. As a full on atheist, an author who first published with a Christian publisher and regularly talks about her church events would not be my anticipated vibe. But she’s great. Love most of her stuff. Never feels preachy or anything, very inclusive, very thoughtful lady.
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Just have to +1 this, it’s so good. It is not true crime like other true crime—not trying to like, solve cold cases on Reddit or anything. More of a real reporter vibe. Phoebe is also a masterful interviewer
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is an organic/natural mattress worth the upgrade? I’m trying to more conscious when I buy new items and I don’t know if it’s just green washing or actually beneficial.
I’m looking at the Silk and Snow mattress and some other ones with wool content, but Silk and Snow is the only one I can go try in person in BC.
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Personally, I try to avoid flame retardants because of the various concerns there, so for me it seemed worth it. Lots of time spent on a mattress.
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yeah that’s why I was leaning towards some wool content!
this is probably where I should admit that I’ve been using hand me down mattresses my whole adult life and have never really thought about the materials in a mattress.
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We did that for a very long time too! Rite of passage maybe lol.
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I have gotten 3 LinkedIn requests in the last 2 days, just about a week or so after unlinking from about 200 connections (I’ve been retired 10 years).
Any idea if my culling made my bio seem more “active” or something?
I already hate LinkedIn (free version) almost as much as I hate Facebook.
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In my experience yes, it does. You can pause your account if you want to, and then it will stay dormant until you unfreeze it.
But, genuine question from me: why keep it if you have no intention of returning to work? In my opinion it’s worse than Facebook because it’s entirely performative (by design), whereas FB can have some authenticity (depending on the person).
*New username, old person (we’ve met IRL).
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I have just kept it as a way to be able to contact some people. Not for work opportunities (yuck!), but people I met through my work or school.
But I probably will delete it soon (ish).
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I only got a LinkedIn account to find someone, which I successfully did. I should probably delete it, but I don’t care all that much about it.
I get random inquiries about whether I’d like a job, though. Lol
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Some users’ avatars have a vertical black line with a red circle to the right. This mark is in the lower right hand corner of the avatar. Does that signify anything in particular? Just curious.
That designates Oh My Dollar Patreon supporters! https://www.patreon.com/ohmydollar
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Thank you!
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A while back I read about a to-do list method. I can’t remember whether it was here or somewhere else. It might even have been on a podcast or video. But it was something like, make your list and start at the top. Go down until you find something you want to do more than the first thing. Keep going until you’ve found the thing you want to do most at this particular moment, then do it. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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I mean, my father-in-law swears by “do the easiest thing first so you’re always doing the easiest thing” sounds kinda like his method to be honest. I’m quite sure he’s posting no self-help videos though
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