This week, we're joined by Sirin Kale (@thedalstonyears), a writer for The Guardian, GQ and Vogue, to talk about Nextdoor - the billion dollar app that has taken over local neighbourhoods, and has its own wikipedia section entirely dedicated to 'racial controversies'. We dis...
2021-10-12 10:05:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Hussein & Devon watch episodes 2 and 3 of Serial Experiments Lain, in which we learn more about "the Wired", its relationship to the 'real world' and all the weird things happening to Lain as she modifies her computer and does e-girl shit. Plus, who are the Kights? What is the Acella pill? What is up with Lain's weird digital voice? We also talk about Chiaki Konaka's descen...
2021-10-08 13:04:32 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's episode we're joined by Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) , co-host of The Content Mines podcast and someone who actually has a "day job". We talk about our experiences working in several #content factories, as we ask ourselves - what *is* content, actually? At a time when everything from news and art, to games and entertainment, are organised through platforms, is a better term needed ...
2021-10-05 08:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's episode, we're joined once again by Will Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) to talk about why the British government - having decided to fully give up on governing- has been stocked to the brim with Posters. From Nadine Dorries falling for every Facebook conspiracy you can think of, to Liz Truss and her #love of #hashta...
2021-09-28 18:26:27 +0000 UTC View PostLook, a lot of things happened in England recently and, in order to understand them we once again consult the podcaster's Oracle, Nate Bethea (@inthesedeserts) to try explain it to us. In this episode, we talk to Nate about Nicki Minaj posting weird British voice notes to Boris Johnson, her cousin's big balls, and what this tells us about vaccine posting more broadly.
We then go on to dis...
2021-09-21 01:38:08 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's bonus episode, Hussein once again forces Phoebe to watch Cartoons, despite her insistence that she is above them. We watch the first episode of Serial Experiments Lain, the 1998 cult anime series "Serial Experiments Lain", written and produced by Chiaki Konaka (who, it turns out, also wrote the first series of Digimon). We talk about the ideas of the series as it emerges in the f...
2021-09-17 10:45:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt has come to our attention that some of our early episodes were "difficult to listen to". Maybe it was because of bad audio and remote recording, or, more likely, that very few people in society have Chad Ears. In any case, we've decided to revisit some classic episodes, not only with clear eyes and USB mics, but also with greater knowledge of the Way of the Post.
Welcome, to REBUILD O...
This week were joined by national treasure Annie Kelly (@Annieknk), a writer, academic researcher and UK correspondent for the QAnon Anonymous podcast, to talk about how we should be talking about radical online subcultures like Incels. We discuss the...
2021-09-07 11:33:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by returning guest and friend, Jathan Sandowski (@jathansandwoski), from the very good podcast, This Machine Kills . We talk about Jameela Jamil's recent comments regarding Leftist strategy in preparation for socialism, which, in this case, means making #content and doing #posts for socialis...
2021-09-03 00:09:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by friend of the show Alex Ptak (@PtakTestKitchen), of Pod Damn America and Ballin' out Super fame, to revisit the Posting Hall of Fame to revisit some classic posts that ask some important questions. We talk about whether Deadbeat Dads are the real victims of Children who simply have bad vibes, Shanley's "Stop Appropriating Daddy" tweet as ahead of its time in predictin...
2021-08-31 10:53:34 +0000 UTC View PostWe finish off our Matrix series by talking about the final instalment of the Matrix trilogy. The Matrix Revolutions. We're joined by Sophie (@theymersophie) from the Youtube channel Curio once again, as we talk about the end of Neo's poster's arc, in which he saves Zion by simply *talking* to the en...
2021-08-27 12:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by Owen Jones, a writer, broadcaster and columnist at The Guardian, to talk about why everyone keeps getting mad at his posts, and why he trends once a week on Twitter for the most mundane things. Crucially, we examine what happens when you fully transcend your body and become a symbol in digital space upon which people project all their fears and anxieties onto, and how...
2021-08-24 09:48:24 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to the Ten Thousand Posts Movie Club! Sit back and relax, and remember, if you insist on filming the screen with your phone, *at least* set it to 180px.
We're joined by Sophie (@Theymersophie), host of the Youtube channel Curio, and can also be found on the table-top podcasts Rolling With Rainbows and...
Welcome back to the Ten Thousand Posts *Movie Club*! Get your favourite movie theatre snack (may I suggest some refried beans and a tin of Tilapia?), relax and enjoy.
This week, we're joined by Andrew Law (@IllyBocean) from the BoontaVista podcast,...
2021-08-17 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined this week by friend of the show Olga Koch (@Rocknrolga) to talk about all the weird reply guys she keeps having to deal with in her DMs, and crucially, why Reply Guys have become more and more unhinged. Have the parasocial boundaries simply become more vague and translucent, or have platforms - which encourage us to *constantly reply* to things, mean that the noble art of being a r...
2021-08-10 13:24:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It is with great pleasure that we once again enter The Phrenology Zone on this week's bonus episode, after Hussein found someone with an even weirder theory of gender than friend of the show Bevvie.
We're once again joined by Devon (@Devon_OnEarth) to discuss "Son of Man", a disciple of Bevvie (and Lord Baphomet), who, after spending a long time in Flat Earth circles, has now decided to...
In the second part of this series, we're joined by writer and critic Rachel Connolly (@RachelConnoll14) to talk about why "The Main Character" no longer exists, and how platforms incentivise us to not only be the Main Character, but to also cast ourselves as heroes valiantly conquering our enemies by any means possible. No better is this shown than in the recent spate of Villain origin movies, ...
2021-07-23 12:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, Hussein and Phoebe talk about two important online videos that went viral, made their protagonists the original "main characters" - but each one dealt with the virality, celebrity, surveillance and subsequent bullying in different ways - and what that might tell us about how we understand 'virality' now. We talk about the 'Star Wars Kid', video and Rebecca Black's "Friday", how...
2021-07-09 12:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to another edition of the Ten Thousand Posts Film Club!
This week, we review the 2010 film "The Social Network", directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. We discuss whether the film correctly predicted the ideological problems of Facebook that are dominant in the discourse today, as well as the stuff that the film misses (spoiler: surveillance!) as it chooses to fo...
Check out part 1 of this episode, with comedian and cool guy Nish Kumar here: https://tenthousandposts.podbean.com/e/the-tragedie-of-dominick-cummings-ft-nish-kumar/
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In Part 2 of our series on the nation's Postradamus, Dominic Cummings, we're joined by re...
In this week's *bonus* episode - and solo episode (Phoebe sends her apologies)- Hussein speaks to writer, philosopher and posts understander Tom Whyman (@Healthuntodeath), author of "Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster", out with Repeater Books.
We talk about the "big cums" tweet, and how it shows a melancholy mendacity of concept...
Comedian, writer and all around cool guy Pope Lonergan joins us on the pod to talk about what's going on in the current "war on woke", and in particular, why there seems to be so many old, divorced people such as uhm, Laurence Fox, trying to build a career off the back of it, only to find themselves struggling to keep up with the media cycle. As a result, they keep doing weird, kind of outdated...
2021-05-14 00:41:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we're joined by journalist and writer Jenna Mahale (@jennamahale) to talk about "Depression Memes" - a subset of memes that, while expressing hyper-personalised social and psychological experiences, are often far more relatable and universal than the memes that litter our Twitter and Facebook pages. What does the growing popularity of these memes, both as shareable ...
2021-04-30 09:02:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Part Two of our exploration into all the weird and bizarre posts of the first year of Covid! We're once again joined by Person of Podcast Milo Edwards to look back on all the odd behaviour that emerged as everyone was confined to their homes and computer screens.
In this episode, we look back on those beautiful moments when everyone was policing each other's bookshelves, how ...
Hey, so it seems like cops are bad? In this week's episode, we speak to Katie Way, a writer at VICE and the newsletter and All Cops Are Posters to talk about all the weird posts that police officers seem to be doing, both in the UK and the US. What's up with the Thin Blue Line? Why are police officers trying to steal troop valou...
2021-04-01 23:38:30 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's bonus, we talk to Riley (from Trashfuture, obviously, but also The Bottlemen) about why all our social feeds are clogged up with either facist political content, or weird and grotesque food videos. Turns out, it also comes from fascist roots! Riley talks to us about Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian fascist futurist who believed that pasta was making Italian men soft and lazy...
2021-03-16 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In this week's bonus episode, we speak to friend of the show Jathan Sadowski, co-host of the very good podcast This Machine Kills (@machinekillspod), about why Facebook tried to cancel Australia simply for posting too hard. What does this suggest about the future of Facebook as a platform, and does the new deal between Platforms and news outlets in Australia actually benefit journalists? (spoil...
2021-03-02 12:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Some killer content for you this week:
First up, our Premium episode for subscriber kings only, with guest agitprop extraordinaire Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) of the ThisMachineKills podc...
2021-03-01 20:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Afternoon Hogs!
Honestly, I think this latest episode is one of 10K's best so far. If it had a place in the SocioSexual Pyramid, it would definitely be an Alpha.
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We have been told that apparently, there are many different kinds of "guy". At the top of the Guyrarchy sits a mythical being known as the "Gigachad". Nobody k...
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