We're joined this week by writer and academic Amelia Horgan, author of Lost In Work, which is published by Pluto press. We talk about the recent drama with Reddit's Anti-Work sub, and the complications of defining anti-work movements, especially in relation to white collar digital labour jobs and the work of fuelling the content economy. Amelia talks about how we might conce...
2022-02-08 09:37:08 +0000 UTC View PostWe're going back to where it all started....back to the Matrix!
We're once again joined by the podcast oracle, Sophie (@sophie_frm_mars) to talk about the new Matrix movie, in which Neo and Trinity find themselves in a new Matrix - a Matrix *within* a Matrix, where everything has bisexual lighting, Neo is sad and drinks a lot of tiny coffees. We talk about why this was a reluctantly made...
We take our first steps into the world of "tiktok" this week, as Magdalene Taylor (@magdajtaylor), a senior writer at MEL magazine, talks us through the West Elm Caleb discourse, and what happens when pile-ons, projections and participatory posting are co-opted by brands on social media platforms. Indeed, what happens when ...
2022-02-01 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPhoebe couldn't be on the bonus this week, so Hussein sits down with Travis from QAnon Anonymous to talk about what's been going on with Q guys since Jan 6th, the splintering of its factions as they descend into even weirder conspiracies, and their relationship to posting - in which being online is not just an addiction, but a sense of duty. Travis explains how, when it comes to QAnon, posting ...
2022-01-28 11:27:17 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're rejoined by Andrew Law (@IllyBocean) from Boontavista to talk about the kooky characters of Australian Twitter. This includes a guy who believes he is solely responsible for trending topics, people who are *really* into voluntary lockdow...
2022-01-25 13:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostFellas, is it gay if you shed a tear? That's the subject of most of today's episode, as we attempt to dissect a thread in which a kind of trad (?) woman tries to make the argument that men shouldn't cry because she doesn't find it attractive, and then tries to walk back on it, then double down on it, all while people are getting mad at her throughout. The lesson? Once your tweet gets retweeted ...
2022-01-21 11:29:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we finally have to address the big ape with laser eyes smoking weed in the room and is worth over £5 million for some reason. Yes, we are talking about NFTs, the crypto economy, and what's driving this accelerated faith that bored apes and lazy lions are apparently going to rescue capitalism from itself. We're joined by Ryan Broderick ( 2022-01-18 12:21:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang is back to finish this goddamn series about girls who love being on the computer. We talk about episode 7 and 8, in which, as Lain discovers more about herself and her relationship to the Wired, the mysterious group of hackers known as the Knights are, for some reason, killing their fans for being a little bit too into them. Then, as Lain sort of gets to grips with the idea of a digita...
2022-01-14 11:18:43 +0000 UTC View PostIn our first new episode of 2022, we're joined by 10k Posts LA correspondent and leading Wifethropologist Miles Klee (@milesklee), to check in on what's going on with wife guys. We go over some of the classics (curvy wife, cliff wife, cheese wife) and discuss some of the new developments in the Wifing world (Alarm clock wife, Coffee Shop pronouns wife). Crucially, Phoebe makes an incorrect pred...
2022-01-11 11:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi! This is just a quick message to say thanks to all our patrons, listeners and supporters over the past year, and we hope you had a great New Year.
We really appreciate your support for our show, and are really glad you're enjoying it so far. We have some big plans for 2022, and plans we need to follow through on (eg. Discord) - announcements for those will come shortly.
In th...
We close out a year of Posts with friend of the show Nish Kumar (@Nishkumar), as we each bring a favourite post, tweet or column and explain why it bests defines this strange and absurd year. From right-wing talk show hosts who keep getting bested by sweet treats, to the emergence of the Woke Taliban (in a very literal sense), what were the themes of 2021's tweets? Why did things feel so strang...
2021-12-28 13:19:42 +0000 UTC View PostAll of us got the novel coronavirus, so this week, Hussein hung out with Jake Flores (@feraljokes), comedian and host of Pod Damn America, to talk about Christmas posts, and the broader 'war on Christmas' which seems to come earlier and earlier every year. We talk the origins of the War on Christmas - first, in response to liberalism, then to anti-Muslim sentiment, and now, being framed as a wa...
2021-12-24 12:50:10 +0000 UTC View PostAll of us have/had the novel coronavirus, and because it's Christmas, we decided to watch a low-energy Neflix film. This week, we're joined by friend of the show Olga Koch (@Rocknrolga) to watch LOVE HARD (2021) a movie in which Netflix confuses its algorithms to produce something that should have been made in 2013. With ...
2021-12-21 11:29:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by writer and artist Liara Roux (@Liararoux), the author of "WHORE OF NEW YORK: A CONFESSION" which is out now with Repeater Books. We talk a bit about the book, and its themes around love, collective activism, the dangers of surveillance tech, and what emancipation means today. We then talk about t...
2021-12-17 12:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by friends of the show Mattie (@Lubchansky), associate editor at The Nib, to talk about the history of webcomics, comic artists and writers having to think about being content creators before the rest of us did, and what happens when comic panels end up being cut out of the strip, decontextualised...
2021-12-14 13:04:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're rejoined by friend of the show Sophie (@sophie_frm_mars) to once again revisit an old episode of the show. We go back in our Tenet time machines to the lockdown days of 2020, and the first instances in which JK Rowling went full 'mask off' with the gender stuff. We talk about the weird politics of the Ickabog, the Death of the Author, JK Rowling's post-Harry Potter need to contr...
2021-12-10 12:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by James Vincent (@jjvincent), a senior reporter at The Verge who writes on AI, Machine Learning and the development of robots. We talk about the ongoing meme of fake Boston Dynamics videos, and why watching videos of humanoid robots - real and fake- constantly seems to freak people out, and how much Boston Dynamics is aware of these viral videos. We then talk about digi...
2021-12-07 11:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post* We have unlocked this episode to begin the year, due to current events and also that it was a good and fun episode. New episodes - free and premium- will resume from next week*
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This week, we talk to Gizmodo reporter Shoshana Wodinsky (@swodinsky), who covers the business of data, and is one of the leads on Gizmodo's ambitious project to make the Facebook Papers pu...
This week, we're rejoined by Ed Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin), a writer at Vice and a co-host of the podcast This Machine Kills, to talk about ConstitutionDAO, another crypto thing that claims to be emancipatory and revolutionary, but also seems to really benefit the rich for some reason? We then go on to talk about the Metaverse, and why Facebook's announcement of their weird virtual boardroom...
2021-11-30 13:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to the Otaku Zone! This week, we're back to talking about one of the most incomprehensible anime series ever made, Serial Experiments Lain, as we follow Lain's journey into the Wired. We ask questions such as "Where is Lain getting all these new server units from?" , "Why is her Dad spying on her behind a door like a nonce?" and "What's up with that weird little girl with no eyes?"...
2021-11-26 12:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Nate (@inthesedeserts) comes back on the Posts Pod to tell us about some internet history, and this little forum you might have heard of called "Something Awful". Following the death of Something Awful's founder, "Lowtax", Nate tells us how the forums shaped much of contemporary internet culture, ranging from terms like 'doxxing' and the ubiquity of trolls, to Lolcats, gifs, and uh, ...
2021-11-23 11:31:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by academic researcher Sam Hoadley-Brill (@deonteleologist), who has been diligently following the most influential posters in America, who have successfully weaponised 'critical race theory' through relentless posting. Sam talks to us about how posting strategies created a lexicon in which CR...
2021-11-19 14:19:51 +0000 UTC View PostA quick note from us: There were some technical difficulties at the end of this episode, so the closing section of this show was not recorded, sadly. We will revisit the section when Juliet comes back!
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This week, we're joined by writer and broadcaster Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) to talk about the "Very British Problems" twitter account. Set up in 2012,...
Welcome to the 10kposts Film Club, a series where we watch movies that tried to predict what internet culture would be like, and how much they got right or wrong.
Joining us this week are Rob and Jamie from @PodcastingisPraxis. This is the second part of our review of THE NET, a 1995 movie starring Sandra Bulloc...
A Note from us! We are now producing WEEKLY bonus episodes. That means you get 2 episodes of the podcast a week, one for free, and the other, for subscribers only. At the end of this month, subscribers above $10 tier will also get access to the discord channel, which will have a bunch of cool stuff on there. You can subscribe to us for as little as $5 a month at: 2021-11-09 00:21:42 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by journalist and tech writer Aisha Gani (@aishagani) to talk about proposals to 'ban anonymity' on social media as part of the British government's Online Safety Bill, and to discuss how much of this - in practice - would be extending the British government's expansive and secretive counter-extremism strategy, mu...
2021-11-05 10:47:10 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to the Ten Thousand Posts Film Club!
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This week, we're joined by Rob (@CountRthe) and Jamie (@anxietycowboy) from Podcasting Is Praxis, to talk about th...
This week, we're once again joined by Miles Klee (@Milesklee) to talk about author posting, and namely, Joyce Carol Oates. From the disgusting Keyboard tweet and the posts of her unwashed toes, to lamenting the Halloween decorations of her neighbours, we ask - what *is* Oates Posting? How is Joyce Carol Oates so good at it...
2021-10-26 11:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by comedian Rajiv Karia (@RajivAKaria) as we talk about whether we actually enjoy TV shows anymore, or whether we just get mad at people who don't like them. We talk about how we are all part of fandoms, whether we like it or not, and how posting about shows influences how they are written, produced and marketed - something that is most clearly evident in "no conte...
2021-10-22 11:35:40 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Hussein and Phoebe are joined by tech writer and journalist Chris Stokel Walker (@stokel), the author of Youtubers : How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars and TikTok Boom: China, the US and the Superpower Race for Social Media.
We talk about what a "Platform" actually is, at a time when Facebook is under heavy criticism ...
2021-10-19 09:37:40 +0000 UTC View Post