The Sunday Digest 099
The Sunday Digest 099
“Trains start to move, bells start to ring, the seasons we had don't mean anything."
Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you. Or, if podcasts are more your speed on Sundays, we’ve got that too.
Sunday Read: The Desperation of The Instagram Photo Dump
by Kyle Chayka for The New Yorker
As much as I loved paging through The New Yorker cartoon coffee table book as a kid, I’ve somewhat soured on them ever since they allowed a bitter Deadhead to write negatively about Dead & Company. But with that irresponsible journalism (and my personal biases) aside, I was quite amused by this week’s Sunday Read from them.
Of course, you all know Instagram has allowed users to now post twenty photos in a single album. I recently took advantage of this and thought I knocked it out of the park — until I read this column that brewed some hesitation. Here’s an excerpt:
Like trends in fashion, the dominant style of social media oscillates between aestheticized perfection and aestheticized mess, between minimalism and maximalism. One precedent for the Instagram dump was the Facebook album of the late two-thousands, a time when online content was less carefully curated because it was still meant for a small audience of real-life friends. If you posted, say, thirty very similar photos from a party the night before, after uploading them with difficulty from a D.S.L.R. camera, you could bet that everyone who saw them would sift through the pile to hunt for themselves, their friends, and evidence of drama. Later, with the popularization of Instagram and the proliferation of various content flowing through our feeds, social media became more of a broadcast system, reaching strangers as well as friends, and we became more self-aware, and thus more surgical, about what we posted.
My actual feelings? Post whatever the hell makes you happy. Judging others for their Instagram presence is very 2019.
Read in full here (and if you’ve used all your free New Yorker columns this month, opening it in an incognito window worked for me).
The Sunday Haiku: Bad Breath On The Way Home
Ugh, what do I want?
“Lox, dill cream cheese, onion.”
Do you have a mint?
New Episode › Retail Therapy 088: 2024 Fall Fashion
Browns, leathers, and chore coats — oh my! Year after year, our Fall Fashion episode proves to be one of our biggest strengths. This year, we went through the trends we're seeing, specific pieces we're into, trends we're avoiding, and everything in between. Put on your barn coat over your cropped tee and settle in. Disclaimer: We put a lot on the screen so your experience will be furthered by watching on YouTube if you'd be so kind to subscribe.
Listen to Retail Therapy on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube (see above), and anywhere else podcasts are found. And a reminder to follow Retail Therapy on Substack!
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