Ten Thousand Posts

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This week, we’re joined by Screen Rot’s Jacob Hawley, to talk about his early experiences on the internet, and how its shaped the way he lives online and off. He recalls experiences being yelled at by Dr Who fans, his fascination with the mundane observations made by British blokes on Instagram and TikTok, He also explains the great tragedy of Tom Skinner, the former Apprentice contestant now using mental health walks, a hypnotist and an army of men to try overturn the results of Strictly Come Dancing.

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Check out some of our previous Dilbert coverage here! https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cc2wb-13ad062

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSION OF CSAM

Novelist and friend of the show Eliza Clark returns to the show to talk about her fascination with Erika Kirk, and the ways that internet conspiracists have turned on her in such a short period of time. We also touch on the current controversy with Elon Musk’s X, after his AI, unsurprisingly, continues to generate abusive and degrading images of women and children, and fondly remember one of the best to ever do it, Twitter’s best poster, Mike Fossey. 

Listen to part one of this series, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patriotic-ft-141189511

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This is a preview of a bonus episode! check out the full episode here!

To mark out the end of 2025, and usher in the new year, we’re joined by our friends Alex Ptak and Jeremy Kalpowitz from The Quorators podcast.

We talk about some of the memorable moments of being online, including the last Bored Ape owner, Bryan Johnson’s endless erection experiments on his son, and Elon Musk’s Grok constantly declaring itself a fascist whenever it’s programmed to remind people how cool Elon is.

We also talk about the dominance of AI generated slop, how it’s influenced global politics at the highest level, and what it means when the most powerful people in the world constantly believe that a large woman is breaking glass bridges with a boulder. 

Check out Quorators here!

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

For our annual Holiday episode, we roll in the big TV, sit back, and watch as a magic Santa causes several terror attacks across international waters, in order to unite the Jonas Brothers, as they head home for Christmas. We talk about the stranger moments that occur in the film, the mystery of the “Bonus Jonas” brother, whether the Jonas Brothers put out a Christmas movie as a means to address post-divorce allegations.

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Find the rest, along with our extensive backlog of bonus episodes, here!

This week, writer and journalist Imogen West-Knights comes on the pod to talk about shrimp farming, the joys of looking after small, low-maintenance sea creatures, and what it’s taught her about caregiving. We talk about the slightly shady, online-based Shrimp economy, the community of shrimp owners, centred around the subreddit r/shrimptank, and how looking after shrimp has affected her real-life relationships.

Read Imogen’s article on Shrimp farming here: https://slate.com/life/2025/11/shrimp-pets-diy-aquarium-dog-grief.html

Purchase a copy of Imogen’s book, here: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/deep-down-the-intimate-emotional-and-witty-2023-debut-you-don-t-want-to-miss-imogen-west-knights/ecfdde4e4a08dc27?ean=9780349727097&next=t&

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This week, we’re joined by June & Caleb from Kill The Computer, to talk about the continued degradation of the internet, and the ways in which tech guys profit from enforced digital isolation and detachment. We also talk about “Grieftech”, the AI companies harvesting deceased people for data, and a recent livestream event hosted by Brian Johnson, which was guest DJ’ed by Grimes.

Listen & Support Kill The Computer here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/killthecomputer

Follow June & Caleb on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/killthecomputer.com

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This week the lads are joined by Niamh McIntyre, a Bureau of Investigative Journalism reporter focusing on Big Tech, to talk about her most recent piece in the BIJ, on how the X and Facebook algorithms can be gamed to generate revenue by Influencers using AI to create anti-migrant content. Please imagine a scream here long and loud enough to address that last sentence fully.

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

Jacob returns to the show this week to talk about his new book, GILDED RAGE: Elon Musk and the Radicalisation of Silicon Valley.

Jacob explains how the post-2008 economic environment allowed the tech industry to amass an enormous amount of wealth and political power, using access to cheap credit and government contracts to embed themselves into democratic institutions. He then explains how the ascendance of culture wars, addictions to posting online and deep seeded resentment led to the formation of a violent, reactionary politics that now dominates much of the Western world, and could threaten the very concept of democracy.



Purchase Jacob’s book here: https://www.foyles.co.uk/book/gilded-rage/jacob-silverman/9781399419987



Subscribe to Jacob on Substack: https://www.jacobsilverman.com/

Follow Jacob on X and Bluesky: @SilvermanJacob

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

Josh returns this week as we talk about Joyce Carol Oates once again DESTROYING Elon Musk in the battle of ideas, and what her observations online reveal about the true insecurities tech billionaires have now. 

We then talk about a New Yorker article trying to figure out if LLMs can actually think (Spoiler: no) and the struggles facing professional AI Boosters as they sense the bubble about the burst, and we mourn a man who has lost his last Ape. 

Listen to The Worst of All Possible Worlds: https://www.worstpossible.world/

Listen to Ill Conceived: https://illconceivedpodcast.com/

Follow Josh on Bluesky : @bosh.worstpossible.world

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

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PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

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 inability to truly reflect and mourn over its past.

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-You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine

-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla

-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also

-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches

--------

PHOEBE ALERT

Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here!

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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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).