Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 3hI did the 9 favorite albums thing and I’ll never know peace again 3220
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I will never create a running playlist that’s coherent. That’s just not who I am as a person. 2240
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In woke 2.0 we get Gypsy Rose to change her name 3220
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hi yes do it and also check out the novavax if you haven’t because it’s a total game changer 4324
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Not enough people talking about Lily Juniper’s album, Bloom Gloom, which is wild because I told all of you to talk about Lily Juniper’s album, Bloom Gloom 271
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you don’t want to pay for videographers, do what I did and don’t say no when your sister’s husband’s dad asks if he can record your wedding, and then smile and nod when you get back the film with Christian contemporary songs playing over slo-mo shots 2211
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm not even kidding when I say watching Hayley Williams and Carly Rae Jepsen get better with each and every record has made aging way less scary. 1300
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every woman should be allowed to punch one person this week 58010
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sorry everyone. I did not know about the other Billy Graham. My mistake. 3130
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Explaining to my kid that he might have to answer some of his friend’s questions after he saw me earlier this week stabbing a trash bag in our bin using a paring knife duct-taped to a broom 6290
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In a sports complex with every beer and whiskey under the sun but try to find a single whole-sugar dr. Pepper and they will call the cops 5240
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sohla El-Waylly posted sheet pan eggplant parm and there was zero chance I wasn’t going to make it immediately 3340
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I don't know why she didn't come forward when it happened" (slamming my head repeatedly into a keyboard) "Well yeah but the police report changed" (keys begin flying off) "why don't we dox her and hear it ourselves" (the y key is embedded so far into my skull no surgeon can remove it) 0482
Reposted by Lindsay FickasThe Pomegranate @thepom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I bounced the idea for this essay off of my husband while we were making dinner one night. “I don’t know that Mom Rock is really a thing,” he said. “What do moms even listen to? Taylor Swift?” I don’t think he was very prepared for my gleefulness as he fell into my trap. @lindsayfickas.bsky.socialthe-pom.comIs There a Mrs. Dad Rock?Exploring whether there can ever truly be a “mom rock” 1124
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It low-key pisses me off when conservatives get into Halloween. No, you’ve got to commit to the Christian nationalism. Go do a hell house. Tell your children they can’t participate in the devil’s holiday. Talk about how Satan loves it when you put up witchy symbology. This holiday isn’t yours. 7696
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I am so excited to eat a burrito but the idea of cooking a burrito right now makes me want to die 4281
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Doing a turkey trot 10k in the most literal sense 4350
Reposted by Lindsay FickasAmy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Really loved this essay! Why are dad hobbies so often coded as cool while the mom counterpart is assumed to be "loser?" 1131
Reposted by Lindsay FickasKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist 8751981013
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’m over in The Pom today answering the age-old question: why isn’t there a mom rock? open.substack.com/pub/thepom/p...open.substack.comIs There a Mrs. Dad Rock?Exploring whether there can ever truly be a “mom rock” 4304
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If I’m being honest I’m just surprised Eric Schmitt knew the Hawks were the Atlanta NBA team 1252
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just tried to look for my streaming app by typing “Carly Rae Jepsen” into my phone which should have still worked tbh 1182
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Some of the people with substacks are people I think would best benefit from a confession booth instead idk 1261
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Starting a newsletter solely devoted to reviewing running socks and calling it “Let’s Talk About Socks, Baby” 6320
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Man, I shouldn’t have to say this, but someone processing the Cornell case isn’t the right time for you to do the “not all men” thing even if you add a cutesy “lol” at the end 6540
Reposted by Lindsay FickasFibonacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There's a kind of guy who's very very concerned about "sex trafficking" but not so much about "women being raped". 77511
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My favorite game is when I’m too lazy to search for a Wikipedia article when I’m already on a separate Wikipedia article so I just click on the blue nouns until I reach the article I wanted 4311
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dancing With the Stars is not nearly as gay as it needs to be 1190
Reposted by Lindsay FickasNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear: 81162547
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I cannot see the rest of the country liking Eric Schmitt any more than Missouri likes Eric Schmitt and people in Missouri fucking hate Eric Schmitt 3272
Reposted by Lindsay FickasJesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 29/09/2026every service dog should come with a smaller, pettable dog to run interference 0426
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Holy fucking shit I cannot stop screaming into a pillow over the rage I’m feeling over several former weird Christian twitter mutuals 201030
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Missouri greenway is such a cool project and I wholeheartedly support it and I can’t wait to see how it continues to grow and I’m so tired of following one of their trails only to be thrown out onto a random busy road and I am just so grateful to have it 1280
Reposted by Lindsay Fickaskeegan @franziamom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026a Showbread song makin the rounds has me again thinking how impossible it is to talk Christian rock: a lot of it was incredibly weird and cool bc of how cloistered it was, weird mushrooms growing in the absence of outside light. But the stuff people are nostalgic for is such shit 5151
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Carly Rae Jepsen is the only working mainstream artist who knows how much tenor saxophone to put in a song 1282
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As someone who works from home, I cannot tell you how many pairs of running shorts I’m going through right now 2190
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I guess I just didn’t relate to that song because she had different reasons for choosin’ Texas than I had for my choosin’ Texas 1140
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Another season of wearing this shirt to the theater only because I know my mom hates it 141974
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At the point where I only heat style my hair maybe once every two months? Which means every time I do, all I can think about is how boring of an activity it all is 1110
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh yeah. This is why I’ve started running myself like a border collie. 1180
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I painted my nails for the first time in months which is great news for the fetish person in my DMs who told me the other day they missed my painted nails 5330
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I love Succession. What do you mean I have anxiety because a woman said she was dialing in? 2120
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Teaching my child the ancient texts (why Karen O was crying in the video for “Maps”) 1250
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Everybody keeps asking “would you date a bisexual man” without answering the more important question: “how slutty is the mustache?” 1310
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sorry but I’m going to be annoying because she has 2500 monthly Spotify listeners and that feels downright criminal. Be a tastemaker. Listen to Lily Juniper. Tell your friends. 170
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m about halfway through this release, and wow. It’s so warm and light and intimate in all of the right ways. 040
