Ten Thousand Posts

On this week's episode we're joined by Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) , co-host of The Content Mines podcast and someone who actually has a "day job". We talk about our experiences working in several #content factories, as we ask ourselves - what *is* content, actually? At a time when everything from news and art, to games and entertainment, are organised through platforms, is a better term needed to differentiate creative output in digital space? And, crucially, how is human communication affected by the abundance of content, optimised specifically to please Mark Zuckerberg?

On this week's episode, we're joined once again by Will Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) to talk about why the British government - having decided to fully give up on governing- has been stocked to the brim with Posters. From Nadine Dorries falling for every Facebook conspiracy you can think of, to Liz Truss and her #love of #hashtags, the Conservative party have decided to simply cover all aspects of poster's brain - a strategy which, oddly enough, seems to be working.

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Look, a lot of things happened in England recently and, in order to understand them we once again consult the podcaster's Oracle, Nate Bethea (@inthesedeserts) to try explain it to us. In this episode, we talk to Nate about Nicki Minaj posting weird British voice notes to Boris Johnson, her cousin's big balls, and what this tells us about vaccine posting more broadly.

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It has come to our attention that some of our early episodes were "difficult to listen to". Maybe it was because of bad audio and remote recording, or, more likely, that very few people in society have Chad Ears. In any case, we've decided to revisit some classic episodes, not only with clear eyes and USB mics, but also with greater knowledge of the Way of the Post. 

This week were joined by national treasure Annie Kelly (@Annieknk), a writer, academic researcher and UK correspondent for the QAnon Anonymous podcast, to talk about how we should be talking about radical online subcultures like Incels. We discuss the limitations of mainstream media in being able to conceptualise the positions of these groups, why we need a language that can articulate the non-existent boundaries between 'online' and the real world, and why extra forms of surveillance and policing aren't the answer - not least because the radical elements derive from real world material conditions. In that vein, we also talk about vaccine posting, and the weird, demonic stories coming out of conspiratorial sections of Twitter which, while pushing anti-vaxxer narratives, might actually be an example of posters trying to outdo each other for the euphoric rush of retweets and online notoriety. It happens to the best of us!

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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. 

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