Ten Thousand Posts

This week, we're joined by Julian Feeld (@julianfeeld), co-host of the popular QanonAnonymous podcast, to talk about the legacy of John McAfee, the guy who made his fortune on glitchy anti-virus software and, rather than becoming one kind of bizarre tech guy, decided to become another. In doing so, he was on the run after being accused of murdering a guy over a minor dispute, and evading US authorities after being involved in a cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scheme. During his time on the run, McAfee posted *a lot*. From thinly veiled messages about QAnon, to long diatribes about sucking his own dick and whether you could have consensual sex with a whale, he left this world as a Poster - truly, the death we all deserve. 

We also explain to Julian who "Lord Sugar" is, after, unexpectedly, he posted the perfect Tweet, and in so doing, shone a much needed light on the inner violence of old British guys, and the curious habit of keeping a list of guys you'd like to punch stored neatly in your front pocket.

Ten Thousand Posts is the show about about everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Drew (@Drewtopia_). For bonus content, subscribe to us on Patreon for as little as $5 a month: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

On this week's episode, we're joined by Alana Hope Levinson (@alanalevinson), a writer and media consultant, who was previously the Deputy Editor of MEL magazine.  We talk about the infamous "British Lad Hit With Chair" video, discussing, frame by frame, how it is a contemporary work of unappreciated art, and something that, at a time of oral histories, obsessions with backstories and milkshake ducking, couldn't exist today.----more----

We also talk about the history of men's magazines, and how they've struggled to conceptualise what a modern 'man' is today, leaving a vacuum that is currently being filled by Joe Rogan and hundreds of other podcasts trying to be Joe Rogan. Why have men's magazines failed in the content economy? And does it explain why so many former Men's Magazine editors in the UK are now just reactionary dipshits on Twitter?

In this week's *bonus* episode, we return to the 10kposts Picturehouse to gourge on tasteless popcorn, drink heavily watered down Monster energy, and watch the 2010 David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin movie "The Social Network". 

This week, Hussein Interviews Tom Victor (@tomvictor), author of ‘What Would Jurgen Klopp Do?’ as well as several good posts. We talk about what "Football Twitter" is exactly, how and why they clog up Twitter's trending pages every Saturday, and, in the absence of Football, operate similarly to other online fandoms - both in promoting their favourite teams, and harassing people.  If you've ever been called a Nonce by an account with the crest of a low-ranked Premier League team or an obscure footballer you don't recognise, this episode might clarify some things.

This week we have a classic 10k where we talk about some fun posts. We start off with Richard Dawkins being unable to understand Kafka's The Metamorphosis and then go onto Jeanette Winterson getting so mad at the publishing industry and its proximity to home decor that she burnt her own books.

This week's bonus is with James Allen-Robertson, a researcher on radical technology and cultures. He talks to us about the origins of Online Rationalism, early forums culture, and why so many of the rationalists now seem to only agree on one thing (mandatory phrenology in schools). How has this movement shaped the social web, and how exactly did it lead to a peripheral figure with a blog to become the UK Government's most senior advisor?

In Part 1 of our series on Dominic Cummings, the self-fashioned Svengali and largest government poster's brain, we're joined by friend of the pod(s) and the Home Counties' favourite stand-up comedian, Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar). 

This week, we're joined by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) to talk about her book Why Work Won't Love You Back, which is out with Hurst Publishers. We talk about how the 2008 financial crisis permanently changed the structure of work, normalising instability and precariousness and creating foundational struggle myths to justify paying people below minimum wage. We also talk about how these confrontations have played out online, in forms ranging from self-fashioned girlboss culture, to low-paid gig economy workers beginning to unionise and demand the very basic levels of dignity. 

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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 Drew (@Drewtopia_). For bonus content, subscribe to our patreon for as little as $5 a month: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast .

This week we're joined by writer and good poster Miles Klee (@milesklee) to talk about his ongoing war with Elon Musk, and specifically, how Elon stole a meme he made. Turns out, this isn't the only time Elon has stolen a meme! In fact, Musk not only has a basic boomer taste in memes, but he actively leverages it to inflate the value of his stupid companies that keep crashing into walls and blowing up while in mid-air. 

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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 Drew (@Drewtopia_). Follow us on Twitter at @10kpostspod. 

Good News! We have done a lucrative business deal with Nate and licensed a limited version of Alice / @AliceAvizandum (Posting Alice)  to come on the show this week, to talk about her infamous International Space Station tweet, and how it united Muslim Twitter and Gender Twitter in getting mad online. A rare combination!

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