Doomscrolling, Code-Switching & Our Apocalypse “Final Forms”

Amanda and Amelia kick things off with their weekly Turning vs Grinding check-in and a reminder to follow the podcast and leave a review (feed the algorithm gods, please!).

Amelia is grinding over the UK’s relentless grey weather, while Amanda reflects on something deeper: the exhaustion of code-switching as a person of colour.

From there, the conversation widens into the strange emotional whiplash of modern news and social media. One minute, your feed shows footage of war, the next it’s someone rating croissants. The girls ask: Have we become so saturated with breaking news that nothing shocks us anymore?

They unpack:

• The mental load of constant global crisis headlines

• How doomscrolling stresses the nervous system

• Why social media collapses tragedy and triviality into the same feed

• Whether we’ve lost the ability to process big events emotionally

They also debate whether anyone would actually survive a Walking Dead scenario — and why people would probably still try to go viral during the apocalypse.

The episode wraps with a Mood Management™ moment to help regulate doomscroll fatigue, along with a reminder of where to find the hosts online.