Ten Thousand Posts

Poster‘s Politburo ft. Alex Ptak

This 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 predicting what political discourse on Twitter would end up becoming, and Simply Red's strange hierarchy of "cool ethnicities", which also includes "british working class musicians" and "Jamaicans" coming in at number 3. Sadly, Italians did not make this list. 

We also talk about Tristan Tate's post on Millionaire Mindset, in which the pinnacle of showing your wealth is to order the components of a McDonald's meal separately and to keep circling around the drive thru in your Maserati. 
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You can follow Alex's podcasts, Pod Damn America and Ballin' Out Super on Twitter.
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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).  Subscribe to our Patreon for fortnightly bonus content at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

[PREVIEW] There Is No Spoon [Part 3] ft. Theymersophie

This is a preview of a bonus episode. You can listen to the entire episode on Patreon at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

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We 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 enemy and defeating a big baby in the battle of ideas.   We also talk about the legacy of the Matrix and how it is interpreted and misinterpreted, and what the effects of the film's ideas might mean for the upcoming Matrix sequel. Finally, we discuss how concepts explored in the trilogy have influenced tech guys today in the dumbest ways possible - including and especially Elon Musk, his fixation with Roko's Basilisk, and whose main take away from the Matrix films was that we should all be building machines to wipe out the human race. Sounds good!

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).  If you enjoyed this podcast, please do consider subscribing to our other projects, including Trashfuture, Masters of Our Domain and Kill James Bond. 

The Owen Jonestown Massacre ft. Owen Jones

This 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 you can do nothing to stop thins because it's key to how platforms ascertain their fictitious value. 
We also talk about Pandemic discourses (remember when the maids were hard?), the state of the British media and their obsession with posts, and why, in the heat of an online debate, you should never, ever, show off about your theology PhD and self-published guitar albums. 

[PREVIEW] There Is No Spoon [Part 2] ft. TheymerSophie

This is a Preview of a bonus episode. You can listen to the full episode at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

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Welcome 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 Dice Funk, to talk about the second installment of the Matrix trilogy: The Matrix Reloaded.

Released in 2003, the Matrix Reloaded had received mixed reviews - with most saying that its storyline was too complex and convoluted. It was mocked by Justin Timberlake and Will Ferrell at the MTV movie awards, and generally was seen as being unable to live up to the reputation of the first. But, in a recent video essay, Sophie and Sarah Zedig argue that not only is this criticism unfair - but the sequels are actually, good! 

In this episode, we talk about what the Wachowskis were trying to explore in the sequel movies, how Reloaded in particular is a much better exploration of posting and the dynamics of posting than the first, as well as the overt Transness of the franchise. Plus, we talk about Neo as a poster, Agent Smith as a reply guy, and how we would all actually love to live in a gooey pod.

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You can listen to Sophies speech at the Trans Rights Rally in London here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k5sPji3Y7g

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There Is No Spoon ft. Andrew Law

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, to talk about the first Matrix movie. Released in 1999, the film is considered a cinematic masterpiece, not least because many of the predictions and thoughts explored by the Wachowski sisters are not only prescient today (we live in a simulacara, am i right, fellas?), but also show aspects of the kind of internet we could have if it wasn't just a playground for Facebook advertising. I want my posts dojo, Zuckerberg! 

Alongside this, we talk about our favourite parts of the movie, why the film is really all about a gamer who constantly gets tricked by a troll while simping e-girls, and, crucially, why its *completely fine* to bully a child if they are Australian.

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You can listen to Part 2 of this series, where we talk about the Matrix Reloaded with @theymersophie, on Patreon! Subscribe for $5 at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.
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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).

 

 

Don't Reply To My Wife! ft. Olga Koch

We'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 reply guy has been tarnished by wannabes and imitators, unappreciative of the delicate social boundaries reply guys must navigate in order to retain their posting privileges? Hussein posits a theory about Reply Guys: That, as we are now all reply (and quote tweet) guys, the originals have been forced to innovate the form in bizarre, unexpected and overtly crude ways. 

We also talk about Flora Gill's "Porn for Children" post, and how it was more powerful and revealing than she knows - and what it illustrates both about hornyposting, and how we talk about sex on the internet more generally, and crucially, all the things we actively choose to be in denial about. 

[PREVIEW] Last QAngleIn Paris (Part 2) ft. Devon

On this week's bonus episode, we once again enter Da Phrenology Zone to discuss a new poster who is so obsessed by gender that they demand to measure your skull, and crucially, your Eye Gap.  Why is this poster declaring what gender people *really* are based on the shape of bowling balls? We're still not entirely sure - but what is clear is that his logic isn't too far removed from the mainstream British press....
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Machine Learning & Growing ft. Richard Seymour

This week, we're joined by writer, broadcaster and activist Richard Seymour (@leninology) to talk about his book, "The Twittering Machine", which explores why so many people continue to use platforms like Twitter, despite it making them more miserable, angry and afraid. Richard talks to us about the limits of conceiving of social media use as an example of Addiction or psychosis, but similarly, how our use of Twitter might illustrate desires for our own self destruction, an inherent thirst for conflict and violence, and crucially, how neither of these things is necessarily good for the Left in terms of organising and collective action. We also, once again, talk about one Twitter addict who, having taken a break from live-tweeting his beef with Dan Hodges, has come to the support of Britney Spears. 
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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). Subscribe to us at Patreon for fortnightly bonus content : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

Drillico ft. Alan White

This week, we're joined by journalist and magician Alan White (@Aljwhite), who is the Editor-in-Chief of Politics Home, and the former Lord Justice of Twitter (according to his bio). We discuss the most important issue of our times: Are Clowns a subset of Magician? It's an important question which tackles the conception of 'audience' that underpins the current culture war in the Magic Circle, between old school, guarded Magicians and their younger TikTok friendly counterparts. Hussein also comes out as a CERF, with his own gatekeeping over what constitutes a Clown in the context of the Now You See Me franchise.

Later, we talk about Andrew Lilico, a once moderately respected British economist who is now mainly known for his weird tweets, that range from whether or not you can marry an Alien in a Catholic church, to his fantastical scenario in which two low-level English cricketers are put on trial for calling the Home Secretary a pedophile on Twitter. Lilico is one of the best examples of Poster's Brain we've seen, and Alan tries to explain why this might be reflective of a broader trend of former think-tank people who, having realised nobody reads their reports or cares what they have to say, have simply decided to be posters instead. 

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[PREVIEW] You Are The Main Character (Part 2) ft. Rachel Connolly

In the second part of our Main Character series, we talk to writer and critic Rachel Connolly (@RachelConnoll14) about the evolution of "The Main Character", and how social media platforms incentivise us to create Hero and Villain arcs for people we don't actually know, but are convinced cannot and should not ever be redeemed.

We talk about two recent articles she wrote to explore this phenomenon, including one exploring how and why Film Studios can't stop making villain origin stories that rationalise all their actions, and how this tendency has basically come out of Online Discourse. 

You can listen to the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/you-are-main-2-54023345