Senior editor @theatlantic in culture and family
Joined February 2009
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Serena Dai retweeted
May 17
If you’re heading out for a summer vacation, The Atlantic’s writers and editors have suggested some page-turners to bring along. Our senior editor @ssdai chose “How to End a Love Story.” See more selections here: theatln.tc/F1oNT1mM
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Serena Dai retweeted
Mar 20
This "micro-cheating" bullshit does more harm to monogamous relationships than a million poly memoirs ever could. (Also: If someone accuses you of "micro-cheating" and dumps you, they did you a favor.)
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Serena Dai retweeted
Feb 26
"The ambiguity appeals to the essential paranoid fantasy of the internet, that a mass of similarly behaving others are conspiring against you, and that you are not one of them even though you do a lot of the same things." @DangerBrooks on "bros" theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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Serena Dai retweeted
Jan 13
“Heated Rivalry” might be a sign that audiences still have an appetite for sex scenes—when they actually serve a purpose, @fhill_official writes: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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Jan 13
I have joined the mass psychosis of Heated Rivalry fandom and honestly it was unexpected and I'm not sure what to do about it but I DID convince @fhill_official to write a piece about the sex scenes and man is it keeping me going
GIFT LINK!!
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11 Dec 2025
Apparently more employers are ghosting applicants AND more applicants are ghosting employers. It's rUDE but take a look at the history of manners and you'll understand why it's also so dark as hell
a great one from @hornygoatweedjr
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13 Nov 2025
Giiiiiiifft link to this piece on the history of how Americans have dealt with NUDITY (the casual, non-sexual, communal kind)
"Americans need to reimagine the naked body—seeing it not as a provocation, but as a natural fact of human life."
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3 Nov 2025
Booze is down and weed is up and that change is doing something to us as a country
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Serena Dai retweeted
22 Sep 2025
i went to the Tesla Diner and you'll be shocked to hear it wasn't very good! theatlantic.com/culture/arch…
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23 Jun 2025
This piece from @hornygoatweedjr convinced me to, at the very least, delete Instagram from my phone!!! It's funny and horrifying and one of my favorite pieces I've worked on this year
23 Jun 2025
Franklin Schneider has never owned a smartphone. And based on the amount of social and libidinal energy they seem to have sucked from the world, he’s not sure he ever wants to, he writes: theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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6 May 2025
Hello I wrote about the work of vibes masters
6 May 2025
Keith McNally’s new memoir is full of revelations, but one stands out, writes @ssdai—his portrait of the restaurateur as an artist: theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
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16 Apr 2025
This is a pro-Katy Perry take btw (:
16 Apr 2025
Space tourism is, at best, folly—silly, spectacularly wasteful, pointless by definition. And Katy Perry was the perfect celebrity to do it, @elcush writes: theatln.tc/c2Qz7Rwp
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14 Apr 2025
Ppl love to complain about Boomer grandparents (and I’m sure many are terrible!) but as a whole it turns out that American grandparents are doing more child care than ever
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14 Apr 2025
A dishwasher story to end all dishwasher stories (and hopefully, arguments)
14 Apr 2025
The internet is filled with dishwasher-loading advice. So why are so many people still arguing about how to do it right? @elcush investigates: theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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2 Apr 2025
"The culture tells us, simultaneously, that we should be in a couple and that we should feel whole all by ourselves. We should have a partner, but we shouldn’t want one." @fhill_official on the false cheer of "single positivity"
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17 Mar 2025
TV shows should have some plot... TV shows are not movies... like call me crazy but I do think this is a key part of the medium as a form of entertainment
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14 Mar 2025
In which I reveal myself to be a walking pile of red flags 🤡🤡🤡
14 Mar 2025
Throughout The Atlantic’s history, writers have interrogated their marriages (and divorces), @ssdai writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. “By putting themselves in control of what others hear, they try to make meaning of the life they’ve chosen.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
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