Alex (@ptaktestkitchen) joins us in the woods of online for a lovely picnic, complete with Smokey Bear barbecue buckets. For this feast, we have a TikTok channel hosted by a guy who really, really loves ants, Tim Pool's emo music video and Jeff Bezos proving to all the haters and losers that he can eat a burger like a no...
2022-09-09 10:02:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we revisit a subject we last discussed two years ago: Tiktok Witches.
What factors have led to the rise of a magick subcommunity on Tiktok? Does every girl just have a witch phase, or is this a sign of something darker? Why does Tim Curry in the Worst Witch look like a sexy Tony Blair?
As an amuse-bouche, we take a look at Footballer Paul Pogba's admission to the police tha...
This week Annie Kelly of the QAnon anonymous podcast joins us to talk about how, even among all the shit in the news, it turns out basically every library in the country is about to be inundated with abuse and violence, as the ‘grooming/pedo’ panic sweeps the nation. A number of libraries across the country, including one ...
2022-09-02 08:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post(FIXED THE AUDIO)
This week, we take a look at Quinn Shepherd's recently-released social media black comedy, Not Okay. The film tells the tale of a young journalist who finds social media success after she uses photoshop to claim to have been present at a terrorist attack, the travails of being a young woman thrust into massive mainstream popularity, and her attempts at leveraging this po...
2022-08-30 08:32:58 +0000 UTC View PostEd (@bigblackjacobin) returns to the pod this week to discuss his recent article about a new TV show which aims to make light entertainment out of footage captured on Amazon Ring Cameras, and what developments like this suggest about Amazon's ambitions as the leader in surveillance tech, and how neighbourhoods have changed as a result of its invasive cameras being part and parcel of existing in...
2022-08-26 00:14:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Phoebe is joined by Michael Hing (@hingers), a co-host of the excelled Free To A Good Home podcast. You can listen to their show, here: http://freetoagoodhomepodcast.com/
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Ph...
Phoebe and Hussein watch the new Channel 4 mini-series, "The Undeclared War", which speculates on a near future in which the UK faces a severe cyber attack which "shuts down the Internet" and forces the country to face the reality of cyber warfare. The gang talks about what it gets right and what gets lost in clunky, strange dialogue. We also talk about the way the show frames mental heal...
2022-08-19 10:25:50 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're joined by author and journalist Hari Kunzru, author of The Impressionist, Transmission, and Gods Without Men, to discuss his latest novel, 'Red Pill'.
The novel is an exploration of radicalisation, online culture, the alt-right, sanity, and history. A writer signs on for a three-month retreat in Berlin and finds himself extremely micro-managed, finding solace in watching a...
2022-08-16 11:29:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we take a look at the final two candidates for Leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. In many ways this can be seen as a showdown between two extremely distinct posting schools, and we can learn a great deal by observing how these two relate to Online.
From Liz's suggestion to create a second internet for kids, to Rishi's increasingly desperate and poorly...
Hey all,
Apologies for the mistake in the episode upload earlier - unfortunately this seems to be a technical mishap too. This will mean that the bonus episode this week will not be released today, but instead, will be released on SUNDAY.
Apologies from all of us for this, but hope that you nonetheless understand - it's a great episode and we can't wait to let you all hear it.
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This week we are joined by Kyle Chaka, contributor to the New York Times and co-founder of Dirt, a newsletter about digital culture, to discuss how the algorithm on social media sites invisibly shapes the language, content, and even posting styles most prevalent. We use the example of Instagram's current insane attempt to become Tiktok 2 by pushing hard for a more video-based content economy, a...
2022-08-09 11:07:55 +0000 UTC View PostKatie (@k80way) returns to the pod this week to discuss how the Thin Blue Line guys are handling the fall out of the recent Uvalde school shooting, and how some of them seem to be struggling to steal army valour as even their most ardent supporters begin to critique them. We talk about how this is changing the way cops engage...
2022-08-05 09:40:35 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we take a retrospective look at the movie Enemy of the State, a Will Smith / Gene Hackman vehicle about the dangers of government surveillance, as the entire force of the NSA is brought to bear against a single man for being tangentially involved in an embarrassing incident for a politician.
This episode does not feature a plot summary, this is a long conversation about a movie...
2022-08-02 08:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined this week by returning champion Magda Taylor, a writer whose work you'll probably be familiar with through MEL magazine.
Magda talks to us about the "Female Dating Strategy" subreddit, which, while having been called 'RedPill for Women' by some outlets, represents an understandable cynicism of...
It's the Tory Leadership special babey! We've brought on Alan White, the editor of Politics Home, to look at this through the only lens that matters: how well do the potential leadership candidates post?
On the docket today: Kemi Badenoch hacking a Labour MP's website; Penny Mordaunt's attempt to introduce kinder emojis; and just why has the entire election become about whether you can say t...
This week, we're joined by returning champion Jathan Sadowski from the This Machine Kills podcast to discuss Elon Musk's attempts to epic bacon post his way out of signing a multi million dollar contract with twitter, Check in with the Mypillow g...
2022-07-22 09:12:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by returning champion and friend of the show James Vincent to discuss his new book, 'Beyond Measure; the hidden history of measurement'. The book tells the story of how measurements developed throughout the course of human history, and how these relatively innocuous-seeming aspects of our life did not arise wholly naturally, were in fact designed by people, and how what ...
2022-07-20 10:14:14 +0000 UTC View PostReal heads will remember the first ever episode of Ten Thousand Posts we recorded. The audio was horrible, Phoebe was recording from a phone in a bowl, there were times when Hussein had no idea what she was saying as the line went flat. Nevertheless, we spoke about the most important post, arguably, of the 2010s - one that still underpins much of Twitter discourse today, and set the blueprint f...
2022-07-15 11:42:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we are joined by Cameron Wilson of Crikey News to discuss his quest to find the guy pictured in the classic 'Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point' clickhole article and frequently shared reaction meme. Join us on...
2022-07-12 09:51:30 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Bonus episode, Phoebe is joined by close personal friend of the show, Milo Edwards of Trashfuture and Masters of our Domain, to discuss the very specific kind of posting native to the website Quora. Quora is a questions-and-answers website a la Yahoo answers, but somehow more unhinged.
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2022-07-08 10:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Bonus episode, Phoebe is joined by Rax and Amber from the Low Culture Boil podcast to discuss posting, the generational divide in attitudes toward privacy online, and at the end whether or not Demons are real (they are).
This episode started out with a plan and ended up just being a long-form chat between friends. So make yourself a cup of tea, pull up a chair, and listen t...
2022-07-01 11:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Phoebe's audio is a wee bit blown out for the latter half of this episode. By pure decibels it's much quieter than P.E's but it feels like a wall of sound. Don't trust your lying ears it's not that loud
On this week's bonus episode, we are joined by P.E. Moskowitz, author of Rabbit Hole and the Mental Hellth newsl...
This week, as part of her continuing revenge on Hussein for making her watch, in her words, "a cartoon", Phoebe has forced him at gunpoint to watch a few episodes of this year's Love Island.
But, we can't do it alone, so joining us this week is culture writer Emma Garland! You can find Emma on twitter at 2022-06-21 18:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's bonus episode, we've heard your demands and finally- JUST THIS ONCE- acquiesced. Morbius is a fascinating example of a movie so awful and uninteresting that it became an object of ironic enjoyment. Posters managed to convince Disney to reopen the movie in cinemas, only for it to pull in about 80 dollars per cinema on average on it's reopening weekend.
Joining us to talk abo...
2022-06-17 10:11:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're rejoined by Andrew Law (@IllyBocean) from Boontavista to discuss the recent 'Am I The Asshole' post about the couple cancelling the catering at their wedding to afford a visit from Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and to go into depth about the ...
2022-06-14 11:57:37 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's bonus, Hussein talks to Matt Dagher-Margosian, founder of Asia Arts Tours and the host of Arts of Travel Podcast, to talk about how activist groups and workers have used digital tools to advance material causes in Thailand, China, and India. Matt talks about how these movements - many of which were relativel...
2022-06-10 12:54:22 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined again by writer and podcast host Clive Martin (@thugclive) to talk about a recent article he wrote for The Face, on digital homogeneity and the expansion of influencer aesthetics into everyones day to day lives. We talk about how influencer aesthetics that are present in almost every social experience also serves ...
2022-06-07 09:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe Guardian's media editor Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) joins us this week to talk about covering the "Wagatha Christie" trial, and what happens when Barristers working in the highest court of the land, don't understand what posts are, or how to decipher the meaning of a cry-laugh emoji. While the trial was fairly low stake...
2022-06-04 12:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
Due to some family-related things, I am away from my desk and won't be able to release the bonus episode until tomorrow morning. It's a *really* good one and I'm very excited about it - apologies for being unable to give you some Friday treats, but Inshallah you'll get the premium slop first thing tomorrow morning.
Best,
HK
Friend of all the shows Alex Ptak (PtakTestKitchen) joins us on the pod, with some treats and delights to explain to us. On this episode, we talk about what it means to be a "wiseposter", Alex talks us through a weird tiktok channel making extremely low quality horror content that gives you the ick, and we round up b...
2022-05-31 10:04:05 +0000 UTC View Post