Ten Thousand Posts

This week, we take a slight break from discussing the horrors of the internet to talk about their Autumn grievances, including the shut down of local parks in order to host fireworks displays for the pleasure of influencers.  We also talk about Remembrance Sunday, as Hussein tries to convince Phoebe that the poppies have become bigger and brighter, and what It might suggest about the nation’s inab...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! You can find the rest on  our Patreon , alongside hundreds of hours of interviews, TV, Movie, and Book reviews, as well as general musings. ------ Friend of the show Oobah Butler returns to talk about his latest documentary,  How to Make a Million in 90 days.  Live from New York, Oobah tells us about the murky financial world he stumbled upon while making the...

This week, we talk about what the decaying internet means for regular people – especially those who rely on janky, corporate owned hosting platforms to maintain archives of their work, or cherished old memories.  Alexis and Helen outline the scale of the problem, and explain why, despite its  urgency, few tech companies are interested in the work of preserving and conserving our data.  We then tal...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! You can find the rest on  our Patreon , alongside hundreds of hours of interviews, TV, Movie, and Book reviews, as well as general musings. ------ Fighter and journalist Tom Usher returns to the show this week to explain how far right politics took over Mixed Martial Arts, and the unique media strategy employed by the UFC to quash dissent and insert itself as...

This is a preview of a bonus episode. To listen to the full episode, subscribe for as little as $5 at : patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. ----more---- Author Eliza Clark comes back on the pod as we look back on Charlie Kirk’s memorial, and what its theatrics and flamboyance tells us about Trump’s second term, and the general direction of the right. We talk about the performances – including fireworks a...

This week, we're joined by the novelist Hanna Thomas Uose to talk about her debut work Who Wants To Live Forever , published by Brazen/Hatchette. Hanna and Hussein talk about the central theme of the novel – the desire to extend one's life, and ones time being alive – and how it reflects contemporary anxieties on ageing, the melancholy of elder millennials, and the idea of being 'useful' under cap...

We've unlocked this week's episode due to its popularity on the Patreon . There are lots of other great episodes there, and you can subscribe starting at $5 a month, which also helps us run this show without ads or editorial interference. -------- This week, our pal November returns to the show to talk about going on her first Live Action Roleplay (LARP). She tells us about the hobby, This week, o...

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the entire episode on our Patreon for as little as $5, which helps us to support this show with advertisements.  ----more---- Writer and journalist John Merrick returns to the show to talk about the recent 'Unite the Kingdom' rally in London, and what it tells us about the actual size of Britain's far-right. We talk about the links between the far-ri...

Journalist and Author Cameron Wilson returns to the show this week to talk about his new book, Conspiracy Nation: Exposing the Dangerous World of Australian Conspiracy Theories, co-authored with Ariel Bogle.  Hussein and Cameron talk about the conspiracies, both mundane and over-arching, that have gripped British and Australian political culture, and how the platform-based internet turned fringe c...

This is a preview of a bonus episode. To listen and support our work, subscribe on Patreon .  Writer and podcaster Clive Martin returns this week to talk to us about the UK’s summer of chaos, a host of new, uniquely British social media characters have emerged online during this time, and why the rest of the world seems to be so fascinated by them. We also talk about the weird energy espoused by B...

Author and podcast host Rax King returns to the show to talk about SLOPPY: Or doing it wrong, Rax’s newest essay collection, which explores, among many other things, sobriety, self-improvement, regret and forgiveness. We also talk about her formative years online, and how it shaped the person she is today. Rax talks about the multitude of times she got yelled at online for making jokes and mundane...

Comedy writer, producer and author Josh Gondelman joins us on the pod this week to talk about his life online, and how it shaped his career and adult life. We talk about Josh’s early experiences lurking on hip hop forums, and how it informed his tastes in music and culture. Josh also reminisces being on Twitter in the early 2010s, where freedom to experiment led to career opportunities, and stints...

This week, we’re joined by Dr Jazz Tehara, a clinical psychologist and lecturer based in the UK, to talk about the proliferation of AI in the therapeutic process, and the ways in which it might be undermining established therapeutic practices, to the detriment of patients and clinicians. We focus on two recent stories – one of a woman whose AI convinced her that her psychotherapist was in love wit...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! You can find the rest on  our Patreon , alongside hundreds of hours of interviews, TV, Movie, and Book reviews, as well as general musings. ------ Tech journalist and friend of the show Chris Stokel-Walker returns to talk about the Online Safety Act, and why its roll out now means you can’t brew Kombucha without submitting your passport details to Reddit first...

Mattie returns to the show to talk about her early memories on the internet, and how it shaped both her work, and her posting. We talk for a surprising amount of time about Labubu, digging into its lore, as well as working out how to spot a fake one. We then talk about about Mattie’s latest graphic novel, ‘Simplicity’, which examines cults, communities and what it means to go and find yourself.  P...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! You can find the rest on  our Patreon , alongside hundreds of hours of interviews, TV, Movie, and Book reviews, as well as general musings. ------ This week, our pal November returns to the show to talk about going on her first Live Action Roleplay (LARP). She tells us about the hobby, what the LARP community looks like, and how it accommodates newbies and vet...

Sociologist and political economist Will Davies joins the show to talk about his recent forays into Faragist TikTok, and what it tells us about Britain’s online habits, and how it’s influencing contemporary politics. Will talks to us about how the For You Page became the dominant organisational system for using social media, and how this has created an anti-social environment. He also explains how...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! You can find the rest on our Patreon , alongside hundreds of hours of interviews, TV, Movie, and Book reviews, as well as general musings. ------ Can you believe it's already been 5 whole years since we first got together on a sunny July morning in Lockdown to talk about Eric Garland's game theory thread? We can't, and we needed to be reminded by instagram to...

Rebecca returns to the show to talk about her recent attempts to reclaim her attention from screens and notifications, and whether it’s truly possible to build an attention span at all. We discuss the developing literature and research around attention, and what is meant when we talk about focus, delve into the great debate on declining literacy rates & whether we are heading toward a ‘post-li...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! check it out on our reasonably-priced patreon!  ----- This week, just the lads discuss Jesse Armstrong's directorial debut, the 2025 movie 'Mountainhead'. Four app billionaires sequester themselves in a mountaintop mansion as online misinformation brings the world to its knees. How will this affect their friendship, and more importantly, their net worths?  ---...

This week, we're joined by friend of the show and returning champion Eleanor Janega , as well as her 'We're Not So Different' podcast co-host Luke Waters, to talk about Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine Abbess. Known for her religious visions, and the writing, sermons and music that emerged from them, Hildegard is often considered a polymath, and as one of the founders of german scie...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Listen to the whole thing on our Patreon! ----- This week, Hussein and Phoebe catch up on stuff happening online. They talk about Catturd (pronunciation TBD) ending his friendship with Elon Musk over politics and what this tells us about how the verification system is going. They also talk about addressing their screen time for the sake of their kids, and reme...

Miles returns to the show this week to talk about why so many people are starting to treat Chat GPT as a deity, and are willing to sacrifice their friendships and intimate relationships so they can worship the computer. Miles talks about the people who have lost their loved ones to LLMs and the work it takes to bring them back from the brink, why tech companies are unwilling to stop this from happ...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check it out  on our Patreon ! ------ This week, Hussein and Phoebe bravely battle through their various illnesses and brainworms to talk about Jordan Peterson’s staging a battle against 20 atheist teenagers and losing, and whether Peterson can even exist in the current right wing media environment. They also talk about Grok’s weird ethnic fixations, and why,...

We’re joined by journalist and author Bridget Read, to talk about her new book, “Little Bosses Everywhere : How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America”.  Bridget talks to us about the long history of Multi Level Marketing (MLM),  its place in American mythmaking and how the Direct Selling industry was able to acquire political power and influence, which continues to help them evade regulation, as well...