Ten Thousand Posts

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

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 us...

True Crime Is Rotting Your Brain ft. Emma Berquist

We're joined by the writer Emma Berquist (@eeberquist) to talk about a recent piece she wrote on the pitfalls of the True Crime boom, and how the explosion of true crime co...

Phoebe’s Reality Tv Club: Love in the Flesh (Episode 1)

Since Hussein promised Phoebe she didn't have to watch cartoons anymore, and he is an honourable man who sticks to his promises,  we're instead watching Reality TV. We watch the first episode of Love In The Flesh, a show in which photogenic b...

The Fandom Menace ft. Jessica Lucas

This week we're joined by Jessica Lucas (@jessicalucaswrites) from Input Magazine, to discuss the "Will White" fandom, something that does actually exist, and apparently consists on various Moms on TikTok going to war with each other. We talk abou...

Cringe Festival ft. Chanté Joseph

We're joined by writer and presenter Chanté Joseph, to talk about her recent VICE article on Cringe, and whether being cringe could in fact be a form of liberation. We talk...

Kony 2022 ft. Dipo Faloyin

We're joined this week by Dipo Faloyin, a journalist, senior editor at VICE and the author of "Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa".  In this episode, we talk about the legacy of Kony 2012 - one of the firs...

HK's Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain ep. 13 (The Finale)

We did it Joe! We finally got to the end of this series. On the final episode, Lain, who is now the defacto god of the internet, has to try figure out what to do with her powers, and, how to make the internet and the real world separated places ag...

Twitter Musk: A Fragrance For Losers ft. Paris Marx

This week, Paris Marx (@parismarx), host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast, talks to us about Elon Musk's near-take over of everyone's favourite website, ...

HK's Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain, E12

We're on the penultimate episode of this damn series, so we're joined by Devon to talk about Lain's final debate with the God of the wired - a debate she wins fairly easily?- causing the God to go sicko mode. We also talk about the real victim of ...

Poster’s Potluck #2 ft. Alice Caldwell-Kelly

Alice (@aliceavizandum) joins us this week to talk about some fun posts and TikTok's we found, and we also talk about the whole 'Libs of TikTok' debacle, and why the whole ...

HK's Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain E11

This week we're going back to Cyberia to talk about Lain's current adventures. In "Infonography", The God of the Wired explains more about Lain's purpose in the Wired, suggesting that she is simply a conduit to his rule over the world (women once ...

Gary, We Hardly Knew Vee ft. Münecat

This week, we're joined by Youtuber and Musician Münecat (@munecatmusic), to talk about venture capital influencer Gar...

He's Making A List, He's Checking It Once [Part 2] ft. Annie Kelly

In part two of our chat with Annie Kelly, a co-host of the podcast QAnon Anonymous, we talk about what's next for QAnon, and why we might see more Q theories make their way into environmental movements and Eco-Fascist tendencies. Because this epis...

Stop Queering The Cookie Monster! ft. Eleanor Janega

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 differen...

Bad News ft. Joe Bernstein

We're joined this week by Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) to talk about his recent Harper's long read on Disinformation and the commercialisation of fact-checking, misinformation reporting, OSINT, and its implications of how we understand news, informa...

Rescheduled Episode Release

Hi all,

Just a note that this week's free episode will be out tomorrow due to an emergency rescheduling.

Bonus episode will be out on Friday as usual, and normal scheduling resumes from next week.

Thanks! 

Poster's Potluck ft. Devon (Updates)

We decided to take a little break from *the discourse on main* this week, to sit as friends and enjoy the Poster's Potluck - where we each bring a few posts we thought were interesting, amusing or downright deranged - and talk about them at length...

Sunset & Vine ft. Oobah Butler

Were joined by Oobah Butler, a writer, satirist and host of MTV UK's Catfish, to talk about how scamming is embedded into basically every form of online culture, and how actuall...

He's Making A List, He's Checking It Once ft. Annie Kelly

We're joined this week by Annie Kelly, an academic and co-host of QAnon Anonymous (@AnnieKNK) , who talks to us about what QAnon is up to these days, and how they're taking the w...

😂 Live, Love, Cry Laugh ft. Huw Lemmey 😂

We're joined by writer and podcaster Huw Lemmey, author of "Bad Gays: A Homosexual History", to discuss his recent substack essay on the Cry Laugh Emoji, and its links to British 'banter' culture and cultural encouragement of cruelty. We discuss h...

Watching The War (Part 2) ft. Milo Edwards

Milo (@Milo_Edwards) joins us once again to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how its being presented online. In this episode, we talk about how the war has shaped the Russian internet, and whether Putin's plans to build a localised, dome...

Watching The War (Part 1) ft. Oscar Rickett

We're joined by Oscar Rickett (@oscarrickettnow), journalist and editor at Middle East Eye, to discuss the events taking place in Ukraine, and how we are viewing clips, vi...

HK's Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain, Layer 10

Hussein and Phoebe talk about SEL Layer 10, "Love", in which Lain finally meets The God of The Wired (just a guy) who tries to debate her about the existence of God and the necessity of religion. That's right, turns out even in The Wired you can't...

Poster's Grindset ft. Symeon Brown

This week, Hussein talks to journalist, producer and author Symeon Brown (@symeonbrown), about his new book "Get Rich or Lie Tryin' :Ambition and Deceit in the New Influenc...

HK's Anime Club Serial Experiments Lain, Episode 9

Clean Your Virtual Room ft. Charlie Warzel

We're joined by Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) , who writes the newsletter Galaxy Brain for The Atlantic, to talk a...

The Revolution Will Not Have A Brand Partner ft. Rachel Connolly

Friend of the show Rachel returns to the pod to talk about her recent Guardian piece on influencers, cynical activism and the limitations placed on protest movements when corporate-backed influencers jump on the bandwagon. We talk about how influe...

Nostalgic Vibeset ft. Aaron Thorpe (@Paradoomer)

This week, we're joined by Aaron (@Paradoomer) from The Trillbillies Podcast to talk about a recent essay he wrote about nostalgia, gritty reboots, hauntology, and the inability...

Jester Mindset ft. Milo Edwards

Milo returns to the poster's dome to talk about how and why comedians have become influencers and what this suggests about how we think about comedy and making jokes. We talk about how internet culture has changed comedy, and the way that comedian...

10k Posts Film Club: The Matrix Resurrections ft. Sophie (part 2)

Hussein and Sophie jack into the Matrix once again to complete the watch of the latest Matrix movie. Now that Neo is once again "out", we find out what happened to Zion after the humans-machines war, how the new Matrix is powered through tons and ...