π Never Post! The Year I Learned to Pay Attention
Choose life
November 21, 2025All episodes
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, 2025Never 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, 2025ππͺ Pumpkin Carving Live Jack o Lantern Jubilee π»β οΈ Stream Archive
November 14, 2025Memberdrive Streamweekβ’ 2025 Archive
A playlist of every video from our Memberdrive Streamweekβ’ in August 2025
November 12, 2025
π Never Post! When We Fight We Win
On Β© trolls and cheating boyfriends
November 05, 2025Never 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 the outline
October 31, 2025
New Slow Post: NaitΕ Nobunari
October 28, 2025
π Never Post! Practical Magic: A Witchβs Guide to Etsy Witches
Eye of newt, episode of podcastβ¦
October 22, 2025Never 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 β 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
π Never Post! A.I. and New American Fascism
Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?
October 09, 2025Never 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
π Never Post! Mailbag #10: Bring Back Ringbacks
Your questions and comments make us happy
October 02, 2025
π Never Post! Is It Even Possible To Ban A.I. In The Classroom?
A show in three acts
September 26, 2025Never 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
π Never Post! The Pornstar Cassandras of Our Internet Era
Plus - is that post a vibe, or can I eat it?
September 10, 2025Never 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
π 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
π 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, 2025THE 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 atΒ twitch.tv/theneverpostΒ and you can find the schedule of the week's programmingΒ here. And in case you didn'
August 22, 2025Livestream 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 know,
August 21, 2025Livestream 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, 2025Livestream 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, 2025Never 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 πspecial guestsπ ) will play games, record segments, and digitally hang out with you
August 18, 2025
π Never Post! Assigned Male At Login
And: RSS Feed Me, Seymour! A Terms & Conditions segment about the ultimate webfeed format.
August 13, 2025Never 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
π 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 β 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
π 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
πΈ Never Post Funding Announcement
The whole point of runways is that they end, I guess...
July 28, 2025
π Never Post! Ringtones and Customization: Summer Yapfest 2025
An episode-long staff round-table about device customization with special guest Meghal Janardan.
July 16, 2025Never 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 β 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 β 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
π Never Post! Betting On Whatever
So I donβt look back in anger.
July 02, 2025Never 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 to
June 26, 2025
New Slow Post: Robbinsdale, MN
June 25, 2025
π Never Post! Ohhhhh I Wanna Dance With Somebody
With somebody who knows whatβs going on here...
June 18, 2025
π 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, 2025Never 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 mention below,
June 13, 2025
π Never Post! Reanimator: AI and Shared Histories
Immediate and eternal, but not beautiful
June 06, 2025Never 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 news from
May 29, 2025
π Never Post! Hentai and the Post-Platform Internet
Hentai and tariffs and KOSA OH MY!
May 23, 2025Never News: A Post-Webby's Debrief
Hello you beautiful angels! Welcome to this installment of Never News. The NP team are freshly back from the Webby's and I am ready to deliver you THE NEWS THAT YOU CRAVE! Let us begin. Some Internet aperitifs... Putting to bed the "5G is dangerous" theories
May 15, 2025
π Never Post! A Remembrance of Things Flash
You're never truly alone with Chat by your side
May 07, 2025Never News: The "No Fun" Era Begins
GOOD DAY TO ALL and welcome to Never News, the every-two-weekly newsletter I, Producer Georgia, make for you beautiful people who live in my computer. In case you missed our news, WE WON A WEBBY! But more on that later. First, it is time as always........FOR NEWS! GIRD YOUR
May 02, 2025
π Never Post! Roundtable: Is The Internet Driving You To The Brink?
Friends! A Very Special Never Post for you! In this one, Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their screen time stats and habits and what it even means to be informed. -- βοΈ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail π£οΈ Drop us a voice note via airtable
May 02, 2025
π Never Post! Smooth Moves
Charts, buttons, and whirring, oh my!
April 23, 2025Never News: Put It On The Credit Card
I'm going to yell at you about this again later on in the newsletter, but this is your PENULTIMATE reminder to vote for us at the Webby's for Best Live Podcast Recording! If we win this I will surely cry tears of joy, and wouldn'
April 17, 2025
π Never Post! Any Rigid Idea About Yourself Is a Prison
How does the internet help us become ourselves? Why is LinkedIn like that? And also: HANDS OFF!
April 09, 2025Never News: π£οΈ WE ARE NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY and other sundries
Before I begin delivering you the news in the way only I have perfected, LET IT BE KNOWN WE ARE NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY! Our live show episode from XOXO Fest (which you can listen to here) is nominated for Best Live Podcast Recording. I'll tell you more
April 03, 2025π Never Post! Mailbag #7: On Ads, The RSS Resurgence and More
Our thoughts on your thoughts about our thoughts
April 02, 2025
π Never Post! The Hardest Thing To Do Is Nothing
The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge, and Threats to Section 230 β also, Typing Tests!
March 26, 2025Never News: πΆ RadiotopiaaaπΆ
[SUDDEN EXPLOSION OF GLASS SHATTERING AS I LAUNCH THROUGH YOUR WINDOW IN AN EVEL KNIEVEL JUMPSUIT AND HELMET] Have you heard the news? Well, as your dedicated news deliverer I, Producer Georgia, will tell you: NEVER POST HAS JOINED RADIOTOPIA!!! [DEAFENING AIRHORN SOUND] Fine, okay, enough theatrics. But in case
March 20, 2025
π₯³ Never Post is Joining Radiotopia
As of today, Never Post is distributed by Radiotopia!
March 19, 2025
Cameo's Reputation Machine with David Mack β Extended Cut
For members only: an extended cut of Georgia's interview with David Mack, from the segment "Cameo's Reputation Machine".
March 12, 2025
π Never Post! F*cking Around, and Finding Out
It was the f*cking around of times, it was the finding out of times.
March 12, 2025
New Slow Post: Buile Shuibhne
March 07, 2025Never News: Eye on the Prize
Welcome one, welcome all to Never News, the every-two-weekly newsletter that I, Producer Georgia, pen for you with great reverence and humility. No time to dilly dally, on to the news! Some Internet aperitifs... In schadenfreude news, a Facebook group for Cybertruck owners (lots to say here already) showcases how
March 06, 2025
π Never Post! The Day The Vibes Died
Georgia talks with Matt Pearce about the info environment on Tiktok around its 12 hour ban in the US. The team asks WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. Also: Computer Whiz!
February 26, 2025Never News: IT IS FRIDAY ONCE AGAIN
[You wake up alone in a grand library, seated next to a fire in a leather arm chair. Around you are dark wooden shelves crowded with books, their gilded spines frosted with dust. On the other end of the room, framed by two oak cabinets, is an enormous, ovular mirror.
February 21, 2025
π Never Post! Mad Chat
Friends! Better late that later. A new episode of Never Post for you, finally. In this'n, Mike talks with artist, researcher and online harassment expert Caroline Sinders about blocking people online. Whatβs it for, and what kinds of feeling do we have when using it? Then, friend
February 14, 2025
Never Watch: Hackers
February 07, 2025
Touching Trail with Rusty Foster β Extended Cut
February 07, 2025Never News: Heart-shaped newsletter
[We find our narrator sitting criss cross apple sauce on the floor of her study. Around her are strewn scraps of paper in pink, white, and red, along with a variety of craft supplies: glitter glue, puffy paint, white and red lace ribbon, and so on. She's currently
February 06, 2025
The Horrors Persist, But So Do The Little Treats with Jessica DeFino β Extended Cut
February 06, 2025
π Never Post! Mailbag #6
Who on the staff spent the most time at the mall as a teen! And also: what ruins fun on the internet? The answer will not surprise you one bit! Listen wherever you pod, on the website, and members: ad-free in your brand spanking new private feeds! Enjoy! β βοΈ Call us
February 05, 2025
π Never Post! Hereβs Looking at You
Friends! Never Post is here again, fresh and ready for your ears. Georgia talks with politics and internet reporter David Mack about whether disgraced politicians are attempting to launder their reputations on Cameo. Plus, Hans finds out what it feels like to answer an unanswerable question about how many cameras
January 29, 2025
Never News: AUDIENCE SURVEY EXTRAVAGANZA!!
Hello angels! This week on the newsletter, I, Producer Georgia, am sharing with you some of the findings from our end-of-year audience survey. It was so helpful to hear from all of you about what you love about Never Post, where you think we should pay more attention, and how
January 23, 2025Never News: We're Back Baby!!!
[It's a cold, gray day, though not chilly enough to deter you from an afternoon walk across the grounds of this gothic estate. You've crossed through the woods, the vegetable patch, and finally the gardens, where you were flanked by the pupil-less, silent gaze of a
January 16, 2025
π Never Post! State of the Pod: 2025
To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of launching Never Post, Mike, Jason and Hans gather to talk about how it went; and to break down how many people listened, how much money changed hands, and what to expect from the show in 2025. Listen here on the website, and wherever you
January 16, 2025
π Never Post! Post-Mortem: 2024
Folks! An auspicious start to 2025! Here, for you, POST-MORTEM: 2024, a three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off one year, and welcome another. β * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable * Or email
January 02, 2025
π Never Post! The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself
Friends! A new Never Post for you, on this momentous day. Georgia talks with beauty reporter and critic Jessica DeFino about the capitalistic excesses of βself-careβ online; Mike talks with Today in Tabsβ Rusty Foster about logging off. Also: UNBOXING. Listen on the website, and wherever you get your pods.
December 18, 2024Never News: Seasons Spookings
On a snow-fallen night, in a house on a hill We see our narrator, stood on the sill Across the eaves of the windows, she's hung garlands high Though beautiful, they're...strange, though it's hard to say why At first they look lovely, panes
December 12, 2024
π Never Post! Leaving Social Media Roundtable
Friends! A new Never Post, just for you! In this one, Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind. Listen on the website, and wherever you get your pods. Members, an ad free version awaits you in your feed! β Take the Never Post Audience Survey! β * Call
December 04, 2024
New Slow Post: 1923 PGA Championship
December 02, 2024
Are We Dating the Same Guy? with Alice Marwick β Extended Cut
November 27, 2024π Never Post! Looks Great!
Friends! A new episode, cooked up just for you. Mike talks with Jon Greenaway, aka litcritguy, about the horror of online food videos; Georgia talks with Katie Notopoulos about why you canβt personalize your social profiles a la MySpace anymore; ALSO leaf crunches!Β Listen on the website, wherever you
November 20, 2024Never News: The cooldown tent
[A forest of evergreens. It's a sunny day, unusual for this time of year in the Pacific Northwest, and through the trees sunlight leaves a shimmering, dappled effect on your path. Around you are the sounds of life β percussive birdsong, the rustle of squirrels darting across branches. And
November 15, 2024
π Never Post! Don't Panic
Friends! Here is a new Never Post for you, slightly delayed. Mike talks about how and why some authentic media looks like it was generated by AI; Hans talks about KOSA β the Kids Online Safety Act β and how it is shaped by not one, but two concurrent moral panics. Also:
November 07, 2024
π Never Post! Mailbag #5
Friends! Listeners! Herein: Tori Dominguez-Peek, producer of To BRB or Not To BRB joins us, and we respond to your voicemails, voicememos and emails. Listen on the website, where pods are, and members β please find an ad-free upload in your feed. -- βοΈ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave
November 01, 2024Never News: A Halloween Haunting
[The exterior of a large Victorian mansion sat against an ink black sky. As you walk up the gravel path, you're flanked by dozens of lit Jack-o-lanterns, their faces ghoulish and grinning as they watch you pass. Approaching the house, you see standing next to the great wooden
October 31, 2024
π Never Post! A Feed to Call Oneβs Own
Friends! What for you but only the finest, most bespoke tales of Internet Exploration. A greatly, doubly themed episode for you on this beautiful near-Halloween Wednesday. First, Georgia talks with communications scholar and privacy researcher Alice Marwick about βAre We Dating the Same Guy?β groups, and how hard it is
October 23, 2024Never News: it's 11:11 somewhere
[Today, shockingly, we find our narrator not crawling out of a grave or summoning the dark energies beyond the veil, but in the grand entryway of her home. There she is, teetering at the top of a step ladder, dusting the curled arms of the large, elegant chandelier that hangs
October 17, 2024
Vulnerableposting, with Brooke Erin Duffy β Extended Cut
October 16, 2024
π Never Post! Our Dearly Decommissioned
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Never Post is the sun! In this, a new episode of Never Post: a tale of star crossed lovers. We visit the funeral for CrowdTangle, a social listening app that was used by disinformation and human rights
October 09, 2024
Member Cuts: What Is Going On Here? and Laser Eyes, with Don Caldwell
October 09, 2024Never News: Pumpkin Spice Newsletter
[You find yourself walking down a dirt path through the black, dense woods. Somewhere behind you, you can hear a bell tower tolling twelve, lonely tones - midnight. Why did you come here, anyway? It's hard to remember. But just now - what was that? A shape flitting
October 03, 2024
π Never Post! The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024
Friends! A Very Special Never Post for you this afternoon! In this ep, senior producer Hans Buetow leads a conversation with three makers and thinkers in the podcast space β Mia Lobel (Freelance Cafe, fmr. Pushkin Industries), Lauren Passell (Tink Media) and Ronald Young, Jr. (Weight For It). They perform a
October 03, 2024
π Never Post! Where I'm At Right Now
Well would you look at that, a brand spanking new Never Post for you all! In this episode, Georgia talks to Cliff Lampe, Professor of Information at the UMich School of Information about how Find My has become indispensable technology of friendship in a hypergamified social-media landscape. Then, Hans talks
September 25, 2024Never News: What hath the Eyes of Mr. Peanut seen?
[Imagine me clanging a very loud and unpleasant-sounding bell] HEAR YE HEAR YE! This is a reminder to you all that it is outrageously easy to become a member of our paid subscriber list, where you shall reap in the delights of extended segments! No ads on our episodes! An
September 19, 2024
Post from the Field: The Minnesota State Fair
September 16, 2024
π Never Post! Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise
Friends! A new Never Post for you on this fine, late summer day. It's a fun one: * Mike talks with Know Your Meme Editor-in-Chief Don Caldwell about the prevalence and decline of the Laser Eyes Meme, and the ever shifting place of internet memes in presidential election season
September 11, 2024Never News: Get out of my room!!
[Lit only by the ghostly haze of the moon, you see the mist-covered silhouette of a centuries-old graveyard. Passing through the wrought iron gate, you can clearly hear the wet chrk and slap of a shovel plunging into the earth. Someone is digging. And sure enough, at the base of
September 05, 2024
New Slow Post: Fruit Roll-Ups
September 04, 2024
π Never Post! XOXO Fest Live
Never Posters! Hot on the heels of those extended segments published earlier today, a new episode for you! This one? Extremely special! A recording of our first ever live show, performed on stage at XOXO Fest 2024. We hope you enjoy! Listen wherever you get your pods, in the member
August 28, 2024
#MemeingTheNews β Extended Cuts
August 28, 2024NeverNews: Dispatch from XOXO Fest
As you're reading this, Mike, Hans, Jason, and I (Georgia) are in Portland preparing for our liveshow at XOXO Fest on Friday! So hooray to the lucky ducks who are able to attend this historic and sure-to-be life-altering event β we'll be performing at Revolution Hall on
August 22, 2024
π Never Post! #MemeingTheNews
Happy Wednesday to you all! Here, thankfully, is a new episode of Never Post for you! This week, Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips about catching breaking news via internet memes. Also: Hit
August 14, 2024
Never News: Only Reddit Remains
BEFORE I GET INTO ANYTHING ELSE, a reminder to you all that it is profoundly easy to become an elite member of our paid subscriber list, where you shall reap in the delights of extended segments! No ads on our episodes! An AI version of my own voice helping you
August 09, 2024