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.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Beneath it, we carve out our neon dreams and dystopian fantasies. This is the Cyberpunk Thread, a digital alleyway where art bleeds into reality, and reality is as mutable as the code that binds us.
What You'll Find Here
> art
> cosplay
> cityscapes
> architecture
> gadgets
> weaponry
> cybernetics
Jack in. Plug your consciousness into this shared hallucination. Whether you’re a console cowboy, a street samurai, or a netrunner tracing the data lines of the megacorporations, this thread is your sanctuary.
Welcome to the future, chummer.
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/
only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE
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I've been diving back into old emo/screamo after not listening to a lot of it for over ten years. I'm keeping a record of things I've been listening to in this thread so that maybe I won't forget all the obscure records this time around.
She's an Indonesian artist based in Singapore. Her work is erotic and sexually charged but not explicitly pornographic for the most part. I'm going to be dumping a lot of her stuff so I want to make sure you know she has a store and you can find her everywhere.
https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/shop/spriscillart
https://ko-fi.com/stephaniepriscilla
https://twitter.com/spriscillart92
https://www.tiktok.com/@spriscillart
https://stephaniepriscillart.tumblr.com/
https://superrare.com/stephaniepriscilla
https://www.instagram.com/stephaniepriscilla
https://foundation.app/@stephaniepriscilla
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.
Is it because of my inadequacy as a programmer?
Recently had the chance to dive into the world of teledildonics for the first time, and I’m genuinely excited about the possibilities this technology opens up.
For those who haven’t heard of it before, teledildonics is a fascinating field of technology that allows for remote interaction with sex toys via the internet. Essentially, it lets you connect with someone on a physical level, even if you're miles apart. Imagine sending or receiving sensations from your partner through a device—it's like bridging the gap between virtual and physical intimacy.
as an aesthetic genre, emerged alongside its musical counterpart in the early 2010s. It is characterized by a distinctive visual style that often incorporates elements of early internet culture, 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, glitch art, and surrealism.
Let's listen to Veins Real Cold by Contact Lens while we view this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X11Va9D9K6M
Sad Boys is a music collective from Stockholm, Sweden; formed by Yung Lean, Gud, and Sherman. The group is associated with fellow Stockholm artists Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital, and Whitearmor making up the members of art and music collective under the name of Drain Gang, formerly Shield Gang, formerly Gravity Boys.
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
It's my personal pastebin -- a modified instance of pinnwand. The uploads will automatically expire.
https://code.goeshard.org
It's a demo for an interactive character creation experience in what could be a choose your own adventure of some kind if it was finished. It has a nice interface, an audio engine, and pretty colors. It can save your character in the browser. That's about it.
https://vertigo.goeshard.org
You can walk around a procedural generated maze smashing barrels, MAN!
Each refresh the maze will be different.
https://raycast.goeshard.org/
Not much going on other than that but it's pretty cool I guess if you're interested in raycasting algorithms.
https://github.com/divSelector/raycast/
I learned to do it from this https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html
Might as well use this site to link to my stuff since no one else is gonna use it:
https://xp.goeshard.org
Endless popup game. Fully traversable file system in the command prompt. Nostalgia vibes. You can load up mp3s from your computer to play on Winamp.
Practice your aim or something.
This is a terrible game prototype inspired by games like Vampire Survivor. It's not very good but I made it and you can try it out in your browser.
https://fester.goeshard.org/
Just kill stuff, collect the silver drops, get upgrades when you level up. I made it pretty easy since there is no point in making a shitty, unfinished game difficult.
If you're having trouble, try putting one point onto bullet_damage and every other point into fire_cooldown until you are able to easily kill anything. Grab a max_hp upgrade if you're close to dying. Then increase your bullet_scale and oscillation and whatever else you want.
If you have any ideas what I could do to make this better, feel free to let me know and I might come back to it.