Thank you for being part of the very first Yearly Thing 2025 — a curated collection of 324 links from Weekly Thing issues 306-336, organized into ten themed chapters covering the year's most compelling ideas in technology, culture, and digital life. The Yearly Thing is an artifact: a way to hold a year of the internet in your hands while the links themselves inevitably rot. This POAP is its digital twin — proof that you were here, that you collected the 2025 edition, and that you're part of the Weekly Thing community. One physical artifact. One digital collectible. Both yours to keep.

This POAP celebrates the Reddit Revival of r/WeeklyThing, the subreddit companion to the Weekly Thing newsletter. It is awarded to readers who showed up, commented, and helped restart the conversation during the relaunch of the community on Reddit in December, 2025. By adding your voice to the thread of links, ideas, and curiosities, you were part of the r/WeeklyThing revival! Thanks for being there, commenting, and helping shape what this space can become next.

This token commemorates our time together on Ponder — a “quiet place for your group to talk” where we connected, reflected, and held meaningful conversations away from the noise. As of December 2025, Ponder will be shutting down. The team shared that this decision was made thoughtfully, so the company could focus on other products and next steps. Thank you for being part of this community — for the ideas, the exchanges, and the friendships. This POAP marks that chapter closing, and honours the spirit of open, thoughtful discussion that Ponder embodied.

This POAP is just for the 21 Supporting Members of the Weekly Thing that were part of the 8th Anniversary donation to Creative Commons to support there mission. The claim codes were distributed directly to each member via email.

This is a special token to commemorate the 8th Anniversary of the Weekly Thing by Jamie Thingelstad, established in 2017. This token is for subscribers of the Weekly Thing as of May 13th, 2025 and was distributed directly via claim codes in Weekly Thing 319. Five Year POAP: https://poap.gallery/drops/44270 Six Year POAP: https://poap.gallery/drops/126001 Seven Year POAP: https://poap.gallery/drops/173575

This POAP is made specially for the subscribers of the Weekly Thing to celebrate the 300th issue of the newsletter. The very first Weekly Thing was sent on May 13, 2017 and the 300th on November 9, 2024! The claim code was sent directly to each member that received the 300th issue. Related POAPs: Weekly Thing 200 POAP → https://poap.gallery/drop/11276 Weekly Thing Five Year Anniversary → https://poap.gallery/drop/44270 Weekly Thing Six Year Anniversary → https://poap.gallery/drop/126001 Weekly Thing Seven Year Anniversary → https://poap.gallery/drop/173575

This is a special token to commemorate the Seven Year Anniversary of the Weekly Thing by Jamie Thingelstad, established in 2017. This token is for subscribers of the Weekly Thing as of May 13th, 2024 and was distributed directly via claim codes in Weekly Thing 288. The art for this POAP was created by Daniel Sheldon (danielsheldon.eth) who I discovered via NiftyInk. Daniel found inspiration in the content of the Weekly Thing including travel, art, crypto, markets, theater, and tech. There is a peeled lemon as a memento mori, a reminder of impermanence. The quill represents knowledge and the sharing thereof. The layers that make up the background are made of photos of major tech hub cities like Tokyo and New York with filters and effects and an overlay in the shape of The Son of Man by Magritte, which was meant to be a silhouette and more about outward looking but also self-reflection. The Treachery of Images on the table (this is not a pipe) also by Magritte which is about NFTs and crypto, things not being what you think they are but also being so much more because of the power of ideas. https://weekly.thingelstad.com https://www.thingelstad.com https://danielsheldon.co.za https://nifty.ink/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Magritte Five Year POAP: https://collectors.poap.xyz/drop/44270 Six Year POAP: https://collectors.poap.xyz/drop/126001