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🔑 Members Only Paper Report: Social Media's Scam Age, Parasocial Media, Old Internet Fieldnotes

Oh, whoa! Content?!

July 24, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Mailbag #13: Tinky Tiny's Post-Party Palooza

We respond to your questions and comments! – ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable 📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com 🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st – Cool Things! * The Mobile Phone Museum * Low Tech Magazine * SpaceHey.com

July 23, 2026

🔑 Members Only: A Dramatic Reading of "Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge on the Straights"

A 3,686 word dramatic reading

July 22, 2026

Never News: searching for something real

Hello one and all and welcome back to Never News, the every-two-weekly newsletter that I, Producer Georgia, lovingly write for you. Since the last time we spoke, the air has turned to ash and it's now dangerous to eat berries and lettuce in the ole U.

July 17, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Posting From the American Car [Archive Pull]

Originally published on April 26th, 2024, enjoy this episode where Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video.  – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable * Or email us at theneverpost at gmail

July 16, 2026

🆕 Never Post! The Happiest Car On The Internet

Georgia talks with automotive journalist Rory Carroll about the memetic rise of the Renault Twingo, its debut on the racing game Gran Turismo, and what the popularity of this dorky car says about online car culture. – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice

July 09, 2026

🆕 Never Post! A New Type of Grief: Inheritance Posting

Senior producer Hans Buetow and contributing producer Kurt White tackle a new type of post - people making content out of the things they inherit from dead people. They talk with Nikki from Dad’s Vinyl Stash, and speculate about whether or not these new posts are leading to a new

July 03, 2026

Never News: Don't do it, little girl!

The summer is here, the heat dome has taken over my fair city, and I have become more ice cream than woman. The other night, I took myself to see The Rose Of Nevada and it was amazing - for those who, like me, crave movies that have texture and color

July 03, 2026

🆕 Never Post! What Happens When Search Goes Full AI

Producer Audrey talks with Mols Sauter and Erin Kissane about what AI hallucinations actually are – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable * Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Links * French spies break with Palantir * Palantir should be

June 25, 2026

🍹💀 Memberdrive Streamweek and Member Feed Update

It turns out we're on vacation this week.

June 18, 2026

Never News: All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go

Hello and bonjour to all! It's Producer Georgia reporting to you on a sweltering, outrageously humid day here in beautiful Chicago, Illinois with the newsletter you crave. I refuse to complain about the heat - my skin is hydrated, my curls are hydrated, there's water, water everywhere.

June 12, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Burnt Toast Audio Says “Fuck Your Levels” [Archive Pull]

RIP 🎧 users

June 11, 2026

🔑 Members' Only Team Chat: The Partiful Don't Start Till I Log In

Oh dang, this place got both leftsies *and* rightsies?

June 10, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Did The Feed Ruin Taste?

Georgia talks to New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka about the state of personal taste on our algorithmic feeds. When popularity reigns supreme and it feels like everything is an ad online, how do we trust our own personal taste?  – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail

June 04, 2026

👹 DOOM STREAMIN' DEMON😎

And also an editorial meeting!

June 03, 2026

Slow Post: Fatal Portrait

Fall asleep to the soothing sounds of Wikipedia.

June 02, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Why Does Everything Run Doom?

Mike talks with two game designers, a nuclear physicist and sound artist about how the iconic videogame became what it is today: something that runs on every piece of technology (and increasingly: biology) known to man – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice

May 28, 2026

Never News: making a mess

Helloooooooo everyone! Welcome to Never News, the every-two-weekly newsletter that I, the elusive chanteuse known as Producer Georgia, write to you with my two gorgeous hands. Hark! We are offering an amazing Independent Media Collective subscription bundle, where you can subscribe to us, Aftermath, Rogue, and Rascal all

May 22, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Computer Says Kiss

On the increasing prevalence of AI features across dating apps

May 21, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Members' Only WIGOH: intpeosrthtkprtgfib💔 (iykyk)

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE????

May 20, 2026

🆕 Never Post! The Internet Is A Megadungeon [Archive Pull]

Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy Mike's conversation with Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet. – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable * Or email us

May 14, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Hunting for Trash in Disneyland

Contributing producer Rose Witmer and her sister Maggie explore the nature of collecting — specifically, collecting Disney branded enamel pins — in an age where social media dominates hobbies across the board, and clicking "purchase" is easier than hunting for something IRL.  – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave

May 07, 2026

🆕 Never Post! How Hard Is It To Stop Using American Tech?

Mike talks with the German Federal Center for Digital Sovereignty’s Head of Open Source Product & Delivery about Digital Sovereignty and the process of divesting the German state from American technology products.– * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable

May 01, 2026

Never News: the ghost in the machine

Hello hello one and all! Producer Georgia here on May 1st to deliver you the newsletter you crave. BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE, a crucial declaration: we're currently running an amazing Independent Media Collective subscription bundle, where you can subscribe to us, Aftermath, Rogue, and Rascal all at once for

May 01, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Why No One Wants to Hard Launch Their Man

Georgia speaks to writer, researcher, and academic Carolina Bandinelli about embarrassing boyfriends and the online culture of cynicism, shame, and blame that has spread throughout the modern dating scene. – * Vogue — Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? Find Carolina * Her website * Her study on dating apps and marketized love – * Call us

April 23, 2026

Never News: Music To My Ears

Hello hello to one and all. Producer Georgia here with a Friday newsletter for all to enjoy. I'm writing this as the 1997 film Batman & Robin plays in the background. Robin just whined to Batman "sometimes counting on someone else is the only way you'

April 17, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Georgia Gets Banned From Hinge Forever [Archive Pull]

Originally published on May 22nd, 2024 in our episode Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places, enjoy Georgia's segment where she investigates the walled garden of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result.  – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a

April 15, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Should You Trust MrBeast With Your Money?

Business and finance journalist Kit Pulliam examines MrBeast Financial, a soon-to-be-launched financial services platform spearheaded by MrBeast — A.K.A Jimmy Donaldson — himself. But what does it mean for this one, rich (is he rich?) YouTuber to own a bank (is it a bank?)? And how did

April 10, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Mailbag #12: We're Not Built For This

We respond to your questions and comments! – ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable 📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com 🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st - Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and

April 07, 2026

Never News: The Webby-ning

Hellooooooooo angels! It's me, Producer Georgia, here to give you the news you crave on a sunny April day here in wonderful Chicago, Illinois. Normally I save music recs for the end, but a few days ago was Trans Day of Visibility and I'll take that

April 03, 2026

🆕 Never Post! News Post: A Primer on Torrenting

In the latest installment of Terms & Conditions, Georgia chats with author, professor, and digital piracy expert Aram Sinnreich about torrenting. Peer-to-peer file sharing isn’t new, nor is the legal controversy surrounding it. But what is torrenting? Why does it have such a marred reputation, and what

April 02, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Lolcows and the Internet's "Digital Freakshow"

Executive Producer Jason Oberholtzer speaks to Dr. Jess Rauchberg about how the lolcow — a vulnerable Internet persona interacting with an unreliable and often malicious audience — relates to contemporary politics online and historic medieval spectacle. – Find Jess Rauchberg: * The lolcow paper – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail

March 26, 2026

Never News: Guilty pleasures

Hello divas!! It's me, Producer Georgia, greeting you on what must be our third fool's spring in Chicago. At what point does it just become spring? Or am I meant to take away the lesson that spring is simply a season where I am doomed to

March 20, 2026

🆕 Never Post! The Disappearance of Tween Fashion [Archive Pull]

Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Georgia's segment talking to Professor Elizabeth Wissinger about how the social internet helped erase an entire fashion demographic — namely, tween fashion for girls.

March 19, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Members' Only Team Chat: We Won't Make Videos And You Can’t Force Us

The team discusses the onslaught of video podcasts, and pledges their never-ending fealty to audio-only podcasting once and for all.

March 17, 2026

🆕 Never Post! When The Taliban Turned the Internet Off in Afghanistan

Contributing producer and Kabul-based journalist Ali Latifi tells the story of a roughly 48-hour period, at the end of 2025, when the Taliban turned off the entire internet in Afghanistan.– * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable * Or

March 12, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Members' Only Team Chat: We Thought We Were Gonna Talk about Hard Drives But Then Hans Made The Team Confront Their Mortality

The team discuss how they feel about their digital storage habits. And their previous online selves. And the existential dread of forgetting.

March 09, 2026

Never News: Tricks of the Trade

Hello one and all, it's me Producer Georgia here with the biweekly news you crave. But before we get into ANY of that, an exciting new offering for you. We at Never Post have been helping put together a worker-owned collective of independent, internet-y media organizations.

March 05, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Not What You Know, but How You Know: Science Communicators Roundtable

Mike talks with science communicators Alex Dainis, Trade Dominguez and Joe Hanson about what it’s like trying to do their job in today’s information environment. * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable * Or email us at theneverpost at

March 05, 2026

Never News Bulletin: WELCOME GARBAGE PEOPLE

Well, well, well. There I was, staring across the misty moors of my crumbling, Gothic estate communing with the dark forces that keep me bound to this accursed place, when an incredible piece of news broke me out of my reverie. It looks like we've been getting some

March 02, 2026

🆕 Never Post! News Post: On the Impending Silicon Goods Shortage

When the chips are down...

February 26, 2026

Never News: The Clownery Continues

Good morning angels! It's Producer Georgia here from an unseasonably warm Chicago, Illinois with the newsletter you crave. And may I remind you that now is a great time to become a member!! You get ad-free episodes and my hard-won respect and admiration. Just go to

February 20, 2026

🆕 Never Post! What Kind of Place is the Internet?

If not body, why so many feels...

February 19, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Pornhub Goes SFW

HELLO TO ALL! We've got an SFW episode for your ears. Today, Senior Producer Hans Buetow digs into the data from the 2025 Pornhub Year-in-Review, and wonders aloud to sexual wellness educator Courney Brame, and co-founders of SWR Data, MelRose Michaels and Mike Stabile - what’

February 12, 2026

Never News: You're all gold medalists in my heart

Hello one and all! It's me, Producer Georgia, here once again with your prescriptive dose of Never News. The winter Olympics are here, and I for one will be watching the U.S. singles women's figure skating competition with the rabid, obsessive attention of a woman

February 06, 2026

🆕 Never Post! Posting Disease, with Bijan Stephen [Archive Pull]

Well well well! We've got a special, fabulous, and dare I say topical episode for you today. Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, we're sharing Mike's

February 05, 2026

🆕 Never Post! News Post: Is It Time To Delete TikTok?

Hello from what feels like January 37th. Today, Mike delivers the news you crave, and then he, Hans, and Georgia discuss – you guessed it – TikTok. Now that the app has brokered a sale to stay operational in the United States, what does that...mean? Is it worth sticking around to

January 29, 2026

Never News: 🥇LET THE NEVER POST OLYMPIAD GAMES BEGIN 🥇

[You wake to find yourself lying in the middle of a weed-infested field. Standing up, you realize that you are on the lawn of an old, forgotten colosseum, its gravel track unkempt, the decaying marble stands of its amphitheater empty. In the center of the field, the only evidence

January 22, 2026

Never News: How to help people in Minnesota during the ICE occupation

Hi everybody, it's Producer Georgia. You're still going to get your regular newsletter in your inbox later today. But first, I wanted to offer up another, smaller newsletter-type thing for you in light of what's going on in the Midwest right now. I

January 22, 2026

🆕 Never Post! State of the Pod: 2026

Checking in on finances, audience, and upcoming changes

January 14, 2026

🆕 Never Post! What Is Going On In Minnesota

How fraud and ICE came to dominate the headlines from Minnesota

January 10, 2026

Never News: New Year, Same Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the new year from me, Producer Georgia. We haven't even gotten into the double digits in January yet, and already news events have continued to pummel us with unflinching severity. And there will be more – you know this, I know this. But there will

January 08, 2026

🆕 Post-Mortem: 2025!

We celebrate our guests for what they’ve seen and mock them for what they missed; we celebrate the year for what it brought us, and damn it for what it did to us.

December 31, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Posting from Inside

Jeremy Busby, and the tenuous case of internet access from prison

December 17, 2025

Never News: Sunday Edition

Hello angels! It's me, Producer Georgia, offering you a weekend edition of Never News for your hungry brains. It's in the single digits over here in Chicago, which always happens but never fails to shock me every year. For this edition of the newsletter, I offer

December 14, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Mailbag #11: Someone To Tell Us How To Be

We respond to your questions and comments!

December 10, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Don’t Do It Yourself

Unless you know what you're doing.

December 03, 2025

🆕 Never Post! The Year I Learned to Pay Attention

Choose life

November 21, 2025

WiGOH Extra: Coverd

Mike wants to know what is going on with Coverd. Enjoy! Or don't! I'm not the boss of you!

November 17, 2025

Never News: 5, "six seven," 8!

Hi, hello, and howdy to all of you out there in cyberspace. It's me, Producer Georgia, penning this entry of Never News from my desk on this blustery, gray November day here in Chicago. Are you aware of just how easy it is to become a monthly, paying

November 14, 2025

🎃🔪 Pumpkin Carving Live Jack o Lantern Jubilee 👻☠️ Stream Archive

November 14, 2025

Memberdrive Streamweek™ 2025 Archive

A playlist of every video from our Memberdrive Streamweek™ in August 2025

November 12, 2025

🆕 Never Post! When We Fight We Win

On © trolls and cheating boyfriends

November 05, 2025

Never News: Halloween Dispatch

[To call this place a pumpkin patch wouldn't be entirely true. All around you in the field are the grinning, illuminated faces of hundreds of jack-o-lanterns, their innards already hallowed out and their flesh already carved. As you weave through the vines, you can make out

October 31, 2025

New Slow Post: Naitō Nobunari

October 28, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Practical Magic: A Witch’s Guide to Etsy Witches

Eye of newt, episode of podcast…

October 22, 2025

Never News: Pumpkins to be Carved

[You've been wandering through the catacombs for what must be hours by this point. Every path looks just like the last – the same damp ground, the same oppressively low ceiling, and with nothing but your lit torch to guide you through the dark. And flanking you, human bones,

October 17, 2025

🆕 Never Post! A.I. and New American Fascism

Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?

October 09, 2025

Never News: The Haunting Returns

[You awaken on the floor of a strange room with a high, vaulted ceiling. Surrounding you blaze dozens of candelabras, casting the space in a warm glow that dances across the stone walls. How did you get here? And...why does it feel like you've been here before?

October 02, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Mailbag #10: Bring Back Ringbacks

Your questions and comments make us happy

October 02, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Is It Even Possible To Ban A.I. In The Classroom?

A show in three acts

September 26, 2025

Never News: A Vermont Bulletin

Greetings beautiful people! It's me, Producer Georgia. By the time you read this, I will be traversing the autumnal splendor of Vermont, where I have come to witness the beauty of love (I'm at a friend's wedding). But nothing will keep me from delivering

September 18, 2025

🆕 Never Post! The Pornstar Cassandras of Our Internet Era

Plus - is that post a vibe, or can I eat it?

September 10, 2025

Never Post: Back to business

Hello angels! Miss me? It's Producer Georgia back with a regularly-scheduled newsletter for your enjoyment. But I am NOT done telling you about how easy it is to become a member, to tip us, and to gift a membership! Just head over to neverpo.st and click

September 05, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Where Are My Flying Cars?: A Team Chat

What future tech were we promised by childhood media that has yet to arrive?

September 03, 2025

🆕 Never Post! The Cat and Mouse Game of Age Verification Online

Plus! A What (?!) Is Going On Here recorded LIVE during the Memberdrive Streamweek

August 27, 2025

THE FINAL DAY OF LIVESTREAM WEEK!!

Well, well, well - if it isn't you again! Today marks the FINAL day of our livestream week extravaganza. As always, you can find us at twitch.tv/theneverpost and you can find the schedule of the week's programming here. And in case you didn't

August 22, 2025

Livestream Week Day 4? It's More Likely Than You Think!

Friends, enemies, and everything in between! Hello and welcome to the busiest, most jam-packed day of our Livestream Week! As always, you can find us at twitch.tv/theneverpost and you can find the schedule of the week's programming here. And in case you didn't

August 21, 2025

Livestream Week Day Three Baby!!!

What up freaks! It's day three of our Livestream Week for the member drive! As always, you can find us at twitch.tv/theneverpost and you can find the schedule of the week's programming here. And in case you didn't know, it is OUTRAGEOUSLY

August 20, 2025

Livestream Week Day Two: COMMENCE!

Hi lovelies! Today is day two of our Livestream Week for the Member Drive! As promised, I (Producer Georgia) am here to tell you what's on the docket today, what you missed yesterday, and what exciting things are happening with the drive. THE STATE OF THE DRIVE AND

August 19, 2025

Never News: Livestream Week BEGINS

Hello beautiful people! Today is the first day of our Livestream Week of madness and excitement!! As a reminder, this is a week where, for five days in a row, the Never Post team (along with some 👀special guests👀 ) will play games, record segments, and digitally hang out with you

August 18, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Assigned Male At Login

And: RSS Feed Me, Seymour! A Terms & Conditions segment about the ultimate webfeed format.

August 13, 2025

Never News: MEMBER DRIVE STREAM WEEK COMETH

Hello angels! Today in the newsletter, I'm going to break down everything you need to know about our MEMBER DRIVE STREAM WEEK EXTRAVAGANZA!!!! [DEAFENING AIRHORN SOUND] As you already know, we're in the middle of a member drive. Did YOU know that you can become a

August 08, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Mailbag #9: Don't Livestream at The Club

Is AI Mike coming for Real Mike's Job?

August 06, 2025

Authoritarians vs Wikipedia with Stephen Harrison — Extended Cut

An extended cut of the Authoritarians vs Wikipedia segment from the episode "F*cking Around, and Finding Out" with Stephen Harrison.

August 04, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Rescuing Public Datasets the U.S. Gov't Deletes

Also! Brainrot, and the future of public media in the US...

July 30, 2025

💸 Never Post Funding Announcement

The whole point of runways is that they end, I guess...

July 28, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Ringtones and Customization: Summer Yapfest 2025

An episode-long staff round-table about device customization with special guest Meghal Janardan.

July 16, 2025

Never News: A Grecian Bulletin

Hello beautiful people! It is I, Producer Georgia, here to provide you with a very special and slightly different installment of Never News. As you read this, I am in Greece, likely eating feta cheese, drinking ouzo, and standing in the shade like the sun sensitive creature of the night

July 10, 2025

TikTok's Leftovers Hours with Matt Pearce — Extended Cut

For members only: an extended cut of Georgia's interview with Matt Pearce about Cameo, from the segment "TikTok's Leftovers Hours".

July 09, 2025

One Particular Toothpick with Mike Masnick — Extended Cut

For members only: an extended cut of Mike's interview with Mike Masnick about Section 230, from the segment "One Particular Toothpick".

July 03, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Betting On Whatever

So I don’t look back in anger.

July 02, 2025

Never News: hydrate or die-drate

Hello hotties! If you, like me, are underneath the wrath of the Heat Dome that is cooking a good half of the United States right now, I offer you a very sweaty, very sunscreen-covered "hello." To the rest of you I say...what's it like

June 26, 2025

New Slow Post: Robbinsdale, MN

June 25, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Ohhhhh I Wanna Dance With Somebody

With somebody who knows what’s going on here...

June 18, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Mailbag #8: I will not become food for monsters

We talk about what you said about what we talked about (which was probably about some stuff you said)

June 14, 2025

Never News: a recession-indicating newsletter

Hello to you beautiful beauties! The time has come once again for me, Producer Georgia, to bring you Never News, the every-two-weekly newsletter than I pen with my very elaborate quill. If you'd like to become a member and get access to our bonus content I

June 13, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Reanimator: AI and Shared Histories

Immediate and eternal, but not beautiful

June 06, 2025

Never News: Looking closer

Greetings all and welcome to Never News, the every-two-weekly newsletter that I, Producer Georgia, type out with my delicate writer's hands for you to enjoy. Let's jump in, shall we? Some Internet aperitifs... Watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time! More horrible

May 29, 2025

🆕 Never Post! Hentai and the Post-Platform Internet

Hentai and tariffs and KOSA OH MY!

May 23, 2025