Ten Thousand Posts

This is a preview of a bonus episode! listen to it, along with our archives, on our patreon! This week, we’re joined by academic and author Will Davies, to talk about his attempts to ask and answer one simple question: WTF is LinkedIn? In a recent newsletter, Will argues that LinkedIn, as one of the last remaining text-first platforms, has been able to sustain a style of posting that other platfor...

This week, Hussein is joined by Tom and Greg from Blood Work, to talk about the 2010 film Four Lions, written and directed by Chris Morris. The boys talk about their impressions watching the film in their youth, and revisiting it as an adult, in the aftermath of the failed War on Terror. They talk about the film as a reflection on ageing and mid-life crises, a satire on the concept of the “good Mu...

This week, we're revisiting friend of the show Michael Owen, as we review the Amazon Prime series Meet The Owens. We're joined by football writer and commentator Nooruddean Choudry, to discuss what makes Michael Owen such an interesting and special character in the Ten Thousand Posts stable, recall some of our favourite lines from the series, and once again, revisit his peculiar interests in film...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! listen to the whole episode, as well as our extensive backlog, on our Patreon! This week, writer Sarah Manavis joins us to talk about the growth of Celebrity Book Clubs, and why celebrities, fashion houses, brands and influencers are using books to sell products, and in some cases, pivot their social media strategies. We talk about why talking about books onli...

This is an unlocked bonus episode! Find the original post, as well as our extensive backlog, on our patreon! Writer and editor Stephen Buranyi joins the pod this week to talk about his latest feature, which explores the shadow economy driving food reviewers and the restaurants who love and loathe them. Stephen talks about the evolution of the food influencer, their distancing from being considered...

This week, the lads examine Sydney Sweeney’s new advertising campaign, and look at how the betting industry is expanding and taking celebrities with them, and what that says about the future of American soft power. They also talk about George Bush (the gouache painter) and the final stage of 9/11 memeification. Phoebe also recalls a story of telling a fellow parent a fun fact. ------- LEBANON AID...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Find it, along with our extensive backlog, on our patreon! Writer and editor Stephen Buranyi joins the pod this week to talk about his latest feature, which explores the shadow economy driving food reviewers and the restaurants who love and loathe them. Stephen talks about the evolution of the food influencer, their distancing from being considered critics, an...

This week, we’re joined by social affairs journalist Eve Livingston, to talk about her latest long-read, exploring the growing number of self-described ‘Hikikomori’ in Britain. Eve talks to us about how harder economic pressures, alongside an expansive, all encompassing internet, is making it easier for some young people to live isolated and detached lives, and in many cases, even prefer doing so....

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Find the rest on our patreon! This week, we’re joined by journalist and author Amelia Tait, to talk about the early moments of life online that shaped who she is today. We talk about early MSN messaging and the ways that print-outs could be weaponised against your childhood opponents. We also talk about Amelia’s latest article in the New Statesman, which inves...

In this unlocked bonus episode from March , Josh returns to the podcast to talk about the Theatre of Cruelty, and the Trump administrations use of ICE agents to create bizarre viral content for its diminishing base of supporters. We talk about how the administration’s content strategy has changed since 2016, and how it’s had to change to adapt to aimless scrolling and lowered attention spans. We a...

This week, Hussein talks to reporter and editor Sasha Baker, about their recent investigation into the anonymous X accounts that seem to be informing and directing the UK’s approach to housing asylum seekers and refugees. Sasha talks about the accounts that have direct communications access to senior Members of Parliament, and use it to disrupt official channels of communication online. Sasha also...

This is a preview of a bonus episode. To listen to the full episode, subscribe for as little as $5 a month on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/10kpostspodcast   ------- This week, we’re joined by Conrad Qulity-Harper, editor of the newsletter Dark Luxury, and formerly a writer and editor at GQ. We talk about the dark side of the luxury industry, and the changing relationships between the luxury...

This week, Annie returns to the podcast to talk about her podcast miniseries, Truly, Tradly, Deeply.  We talk about the diversity of ‘tradwives’ as expressed online, their relationship to broader conspiratorial movements like QAnon, and how they fit into the governing ambition of the political right. We also discuss how the online content made by tradwives has changed over the past few years as th...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check it out, and our extensive backlog of bonus episodes, on our patreon ! This week, we talk about Andrew Tate’s sartorial choices upon getting arrested, and how their garish aesthetics are part of their attention-grabbing strategies. Phoebe also talks about her time watching The Odyssey, the lacklustre backlash against the movie among right-wing online chum...

This week we’re joined by friend of the show Mattie Lubchansky to talk about the epidemic of AI posters filling every small town, village and hamlet, and what it suggests about the state of local advertising today. We try to figure out how to describe the aesthetic of AI posters, why their maximalism has become so ubiquitous, and  how they are offshoots of the “dead internet” - an online environme...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check it out on our patreon! This week, we’re joined by Bloomberg senior reporter Amanda Mull, to talk about the FIFA World Cup and the way it’s been watched and interacted with online. We talk about the significance of the 2026 cup taking place in America, awhy the Trump administration doesn’t really care about football & the ways that international influ...

This is an unlocked bonus episode! Find the original, along with our extensive backlog, on our Patreon! Our friend Niamh joins us on the pod this week to talk about the recent ‘Unite The Kingdom’ rally in London, and the way that the far-right are embracing and incorporating AI into their visual language and political organising. Niamh also talks about her recent article, which profiles a devout P...

Recorded during the height of the most recent heatwave, Jon from Horror Vanguard joins us to finally decide if Franz Kafka was a Poster. A German-speaking Czech Jewish man born in Prague, which at the time was part of the Empire of Austria-Hungary, Kafka is well-regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century literature, producing novellas, novels and short stories, almost all of w...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Listen to the rest on our Patreon! This week, we’re joined by tech and culture writer Kat Tenbarge, founder of Spitfire News.  We talk about the moment she got into trouble online while pretending to be Lucifer on a Tumblr advice blog, her experiences in fandoms combining British and American sci-fi shows from the 2000’s, and how fan culture have changed and s...

This week, novelist and screenwriter Sufiyaan Salam comes onto the pod to talk about TENET, Christopher Nolan’s take on the spy thriller genre that continues to confuse audiences. Hussein and Sufiyaan talk about TENET as Nolan’s passion project, how his take on time travel makes the film unique, and whether you can watch a film to experience it, without thinking about it too much. Sufiyaan also ta...

This is a preview episode. To listen to the full episode, subscribe for as little as $5 a month at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast . ----more---- This week, Hussein talks to writer, author and tech critic Paris Marx about how the global shortage of hardware has led to a surge in prices of most electronic devices, and have also made them worse in quality. They also talk about how this has led to th...

This week, we’re joined by writer, academic and creator John Duncan to talk about the effects Large Language Models are having on academic writing and research. John talks about the growing number of AI hallucinations that are appearing in academic papers and articles and what it reveals about the poor working and pay conditions of academics in the UK and around the world. John also talks about th...

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the entire episode by subscribing on Patreon at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast ----more---- Our friend Niamh joins us on the pod this week to talk about the recent ‘Unite The Kingdom’ rally in London, and the way that the far-right are embracing and incorporating AI into their visual language and political organising. Niamh also talks about her re...

This week, we’re joined by novelist Jackie Ess to talk about her early online experiences and how it influenced her writing and craft. Jackie talks to us about constructing semi-fictional characters on Twitter, and what happened when an academic journal took it at face value. She also talks about how her posting has changed over the years, and how much of her life online incorporates playing the p...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! You can find the rest of the episode on our patreon! This week, Hussein and Phoebe discover and read  Andrew Tate’s poetry from his newsletter, talk about the ongoing collapse of Redpill influencers in the Manosphere, and what might come next. They also talk about the general slop crisis on Substack, and the challenges this poses to the company as it hopes to...