Ten Thousand Posts

[PREVIEW] Female, Divest, Sanction ft. Magdalene Taylor

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the entire episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast, where you can also listen to a bunch of other great episodes for as little as $5 a month.
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We'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 dating apps and algorithmic romance, and in turn, has spurned dozens of TikTok trends and phenomena, repackaging its 'central pillars' into shareable content that, uh, tends to really only apply to good looking people. Magda talks to us about one of these sub-phenomena, 'Sirenmaxxing', whether its actually a thing, and what it suggests about the way we think about online dating today.

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Ministerial Posts ft. Alan White

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 the word 'Mother' anymore?

You can find Politics Home at https://www.politicshome.com/

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

[PREVIEW] Sleeping in the Bed that Tech Made ft. Jathan Sadowski

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the entire episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.
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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 guy's latest venture, and finally talk about the recent trend of apple Airtags being used by abusers to track women. 

As always, it's a grab bag of the worst of modern capitalism- enjoy!

the original tweet by Hannah rose may can be found here https://twitter.com/Hannahrosemay_/status/1541606540552966144

and the follow-up article can be found here https://www.image.ie/living/culture/airtags-are-designed-to-track-items-not-people-but-thats-not-everyones-experience-455643

 

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

The Measure of an Angry Swan ft. James Vincent

This 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 is deigned worth being measured gives us an insight into the power structures at play. I wholeheartedly cannot recommend the book enough.

But first, we check in with old friend Elon Musk, in his head-to-head against the greatest poster of all time, Donald Trump.

You can find James on twitter at https://twitter.com/jjvincent

and find his book at https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

[PREVIEW] Rebuild of 10k Posts: The 9/11 of Posts ft. Devon

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the entire episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.
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Real 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 for how 'threads' are valued.

Today, we're launching the rebuild of this episode - not least so that people actually can understand what we were talking about. But also, we reflect on the thread's relevance today, and find out what happened to Eric Garland in the post-Trump era: One where, while his political mission has been (sort of accomplished), his real enemy, Edward Snowden, still remains at large in Russia.

The Worst Person You Know. ft Cameron Wilson

This 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 this journey of discovery- but first- Let's check in again with our old friend Jordan Peterson in another installment of the Jordan Peterson Report!

Find the original clickhole article at https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/

and Cam's article detailing his quest at https://slate.com/culture/2021/10/man-photo-clickhole-worst-person-you-know.html

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

[PREVIEW] Quora’s Folk ft Milo Edwards

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the entire episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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On 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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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

Stop Queering the Cookie Monster! ft. Eleanor Janega [UNLOCKED]

 

Eleanor (@goingmedieval) joins us once again to talk about this weird thing where TERFs and Trad guys seem to realise their visions of the future really aren't that different, and how following the same pathology of posts have allowed them to arrive there. We also talk about how Trads have successfully used the political purchasing power of TERFs to advance their own anti-feminist politics, in such a way that their online habits are basically a mainstay of politics now. Plus, we revisit friend of the show Greg Kelly, who once again is crying because the woke left are RUINING his favourite SWEET TREATS.

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

[PREVIEW] Tarts’ Summit ft. Rax King and Amber Rollo

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the entire episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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On 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 to the 10K Posts Tarts's Summit.

You can find Rax at https://mobile.twitter.com/raxkingisdead,
Amber at https://mobile.twitter.com/ambercrollo
And their podcast at https://mobile.twitter.com/lowcultureboil

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

What If Your Phone Was Spying On You? (It Is) ft. Shoshana Wodinsky [UNLOCKED]

We're joined by Gizmodo's Shoshana Wodinsky to talk about how tech companies are using the impending repeal of Roe v Wade as an opportunity to expand their surveillance apparatus and abilities, and how basically every smart phone is going to be used as a hyper-personalised surveillance device that will employ the combination of ad-tech, tracking and state surveillance to build a system that constantly monitors you, tries to sell stuff to you and, also, arrest you. Shoshana tells us some ways to work around this that are essential to do any form of activism. Also, we check in on Jordan Peterson, who has seemingly pissed off some of his fanbase who are dating women who aren't instagram models. 

You can read and share Shoshana's original article here: https://gizmodo.com/your-phone-is-a-goldmine-of-hidden-data-for-cops-heres-1843817740

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).