Ten Thousand Posts

X, Marks and Bots ft. Zoë Grünewald

This week, we’re joined by political journalist  Zoë Grünewald, who talks to us about the attempts to regulate and rein in X in the UK, and whether the state has the ability to regulate an AI system like Grok. Zoë also explains why some MPs are unwilling to let go of their accounts, even as the platform gets overrun with abusive and ra...

My Life In Posting: Jacob Hawley

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 ...

Patriotic Business Opportunity (Part II) ft. Eliza Clark

CONTENT WARNING FOR 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, contin...

Welcome to the Slop Century ft. The Quorators

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 declar...

10K Posts Film Club : A Very Jonas Christmas

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 Br...

Touch Grass: Shrimpin' Ain’t Easy ft. Imogen West-Knights

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, ...

Post In The Shell ft. Kill The Computer

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 Bri...

Locking in at the Posting factory ft. Niamh McIntyre

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 add...

10K Posts Book Club: Gilded Rage ft. Jacob Silverman

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 ...

Re-Joyce! And again I say Re-Joyce! Ft. Josh Boerman

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 facin...

Autumn Alman-yap

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 b...

Diary of a CEOobah ft. Oobah Butler

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 documentary, filled with bored fintech CEOs and finance guys devoid of any real ideas, and desperate to make as much...

An Archive of One’s Own ft. Alexis Durante-Tierney & Helen Vogelsong-Donahue

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 t...

Bringing a knife to a cage fight ft. Tom Usher

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 a dominant political force in America. Tom talks about the way violence and suffering has been exploited by the Trump administration...

Patriotic Business Opportunity! ft. Eliza Clark

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 and pyrotechnics – during the procession, how streaming enabled it to produce monetise...

This Immortal Coil ft. Hanna Thomas Uose

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 ...

A Government of Groypers ft. John Merrick

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-right of the street, the online worlds they are immersed in, and how much of the latter influences emerging far-right polit...

The Last Bunnings Snag Outta Naarm ft. Cameron Wilson

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 Au...

Saluting the Mini Roundabout ft. Clive Martin

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 British online content, and how ...

My Life In Posting: Rax King

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 tim...

My Life In Posting : Josh Gondelman

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 ...

He's in LacAInian Chat Rooms posting Dreams ft. Dr Jazz Tehara

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 ...

Oi, got a license for that post? ft Chris Stokel Walker

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. Chris talks to us about the politics of the Online Safety Act, what it means for the future of internet access, and how it sets ...

My Life In Posting ft. Mattie Lubchansky

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 c...

Touch Grass: LARP ft. November Kelly

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, 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 accommod...

For You Politics ft. Will Davies

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...

10K Posts 5 Year Anniversary Q&A

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 even realise. So, to celebrate, we gathered questions from our loyal listeners, and today we're finally getting to the bottom of: W...

How to Fix Your Attention Sp- ft. Rebecca Jennings

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 ...

REMINDER: Submit your questions for the 5 year Q&A

Hey all,

Just a reminder, we'll be recording this Q&A tomorrow, for release next week. If you have a question or a thought, and would like to submit it, please do so before 4pm GMT tomorrow. The form to submit your question is below (or you can use the comments in Patreon to submit a question).

Thanks!

HK

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10K Posts Film Club: Mountainhead

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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 importan...