Holy shit this site is dead. But that isn't going to stop me from posting one of my favorite Youtubers. He's one of the few currently active "modern" content creators that keeps old Internet humor alive. You can smell the breath of Something Awful distinctly and love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFJWGkNNAPY

Rising like a phantom from the skyline of Pyongyang, it’s a towering relic of retrofuturism, where ambition and reality collide. Constructed to be a symbol of power, it instead became a monument to an unfinished future. 105 floors of unrealized potential, forever suspended in time, a glitched masterpiece on the edge of a utopia that never came.

Step inside, where smooth elevator music echoes through empty halls, and pastel sunsets wash over distant horizons. This is the Ryugyong Hotel—where the past meets the future...

And where websites go to die.

Mastodon started as a cozy little refuge from Twitter’s endless political yelling—a place where people could share art, cat pics, and maybe actually have a chill conversation for once. It was like, “Finally, somewhere I won’t be bombarded with hot takes every five seconds!”

But slowly, the more “enthusiastic” voices found their way in. Extremists from all sides started carving out their own little corners, turning Mastodon into a maze of echo chambers.

Those cool niche communities? The peaceful social media dream? Well, it’s still there… somewhere. You just have to dodge the pockets of zealots treating it like Twitter, all eagerly shouting past each other.

Let's read the cyberpunk transhumanist comic book series written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Darick Robertson; it was published by DC Comics in 1997–2002.

> In college I stayed the night at these peoples' house after a party and waking up earlier than anyone else, I didn't have much to do except read the first issue of this comic. I remember liking it but I never saw it again and didn't think about it for a long time.

I'm going to be reading here. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Transmetropolitan

Cross over with the cyberpunk thread maybe? https://goeshard.org/main/0x000003/

Step back in time and immerse yourself in the charm and elegance of vintage and retro fashion.

From the glamorous 1920s to the chic 1970s and beyond....

Her career began during the 1970s New York City no wave scene as the singer and guitarist of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, which is the era of her work that I'm most familiar with.

This is the discography of that band:

https://lydialunch.bandcamp.com/track/baby-doll

You should listen while reading...

No Wave

It's noise music with the instrumentation and aesthetic of punk rock. The most interesting thing about it is that it occurred along side and was contemporary with the earliest 1970s New York punk and yet it sets the stage for every flavor of post-punk genre to come.

While 1970s punk might have started in dingy clubs with musicians that were not trying to blow up, it instantly became the commercially viable pop rock of the era. It's interesting that while that evisceration of punk culture was going on, there were extremely influential and authentic punk acts that would push the genre into the directions we would see develop further in the 80s.

As far as I see it, 80s hardcore music owes its entire existence to the no wave scene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_wave

In this thread, we're going to look at Lydia Lunch in 1970s New York.

refer to the transitional or transformative spaces that exist between distinct phases, states, or conditions. The term "liminal" comes from the Latin word "limen," meaning "threshold." Liminal spaces can be both physical and metaphorical, and they are often associated with ambiguity, disorientation, and a sense of being in-between.

do you guys like hooni from the webcomic "suicide boy"

We were talking about web comics with themes of depression on the other thread. I did like that one, and while I can relate with the anxiety-induced isolation of the character, I can't relate with the cuteness of it all. There is nothing cute about my life.

I wanted to share enough of this comic to show you what I mean.

sauce: https://tapas.io/episode/2381050