Georgia talks with beauty reporter and critic Jessica DeFino about the capitalistic excesses of
“self-care” online; Mike talks with Today in Tabs’ Rusty Foster about logging off. Also: UNBOXING.

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The Horrors Persist, But So Do The Little Treats

Find Jessica:

• jessica-defino.com
• The Review of Beauty newsletter

Segment Links:

• Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light – WorldCat
• Studies on retail therapy — here, here, here and here 

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Touching Trail

Find Rusty:

• Rusty on Bluesky
• Today in Tabs
• Today on Trail
  
  
• Would you pay to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would - The Conversation

Most of the TikTok users (64%) and almost half of the Instagram users (48%) were prepared to pay to be off them, so long as others were off them, resulting in average valuations across all users of minus US$28 for TikTok and minus $10 for Instagram.

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

NoOne kneads us again of earth and clay,

noOne conjures our dust.

Noone.

Praised be thou, NoOne.

For your sake we

want to flower.

Toward

you.

Psalm, by Paul Celan 

Trans. Pierre Joris

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