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 dig...
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 ...
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 an...
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 ...
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 b...
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...
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 cap...
2022-01-18 12:21:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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...
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 W...
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 w...
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 Tal...
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 Christ...
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 ...
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...
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 re...
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 ...
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 fr...
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 bus...
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...
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 ...
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 intern...
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' th...
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 ...
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 @PodcastingisPra...
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 bun...
2021-11-09 00:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostWe'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 ...
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 2021-11-02 12:42:59 +0000 UTC
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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 dec...
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 influenc...
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.<...
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