@spopalzai

I hate it here

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Joined May 2010
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I finally brought together my love for content design, data visualization, and extreme metal. Third World Thunder is an archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground. At the core are the dispatches - long-form pieces I'm writing from interviews. Around them are eight interactive ways into the scene: timelines, a map of who played with who, every release ever made, the whole thing rendered as a night sky. First two dispatches are up here: thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…

Third World Thunder

An archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground — the bands, releases, lineage and stories of the scene, 1994–2026. Metal music in Pakistan, told by the people who lived it.

thirdworldthunder.shaheryarpopalzai.com
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Forgot to share this here but I've started publishing band histories on Third World Thunder. First up is a one of Pakistan's first death metal supergroups Hell Dormant. One album and they were done. Full album uploaded too. Read here: thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…
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Third World Thunder is also on Instagram now: instagram.com/thirdworldthun… Next article drops soon!
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vx-underground
@vxundergroundJun 13
Literally the worst cable management I've ever seen in my life
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This is going to be the greatest cover story of all time!
Decibel Magazine@dbmagazineJun 10
Decibel Celebrates 40 Years of THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE: THE SOUNDTRACK! Pre-Order Our New Issues NOW! decibelmagazine.com/2026/06/…
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Sana Shah@shaahsanaJun 6
Slick and data focused, this is the shit that one wants to be known for. You can write a paper on this; publish it in a journal.
Shaheryar Popalzai@spopalzaiJun 5
I finally brought together my love for content design, data visualization, and extreme metal. Third World Thunder is an archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground. At the core are the dispatches - long-form pieces I'm writing from interviews. Around them are eight interactive ways into the scene: timelines, a map of who played with who, every release ever made, the whole thing rendered as a night sky. First two dispatches are up here: thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…

Third World Thunder

An archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground — the bands, releases, lineage and stories of the scene, 1994–2026. Metal music in Pakistan, told by the people who lived it.

thirdworldthunder.shaheryarpopalzai.com
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Shaheryar Popalzai@spopalzaiJun 5
I finally brought together my love for content design, data visualization, and extreme metal. Third World Thunder is an archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground. At the core are the dispatches - long-form pieces I'm writing from interviews. Around them are eight interactive ways into the scene: timelines, a map of who played with who, every release ever made, the whole thing rendered as a night sky. First two dispatches are up here: thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…

Third World Thunder

An archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground — the bands, releases, lineage and stories of the scene, 1994–2026. Metal music in Pakistan, told by the people who lived it.

thirdworldthunder.shaheryarpopalzai.com
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Justine Moore
@venturetwinsMay 28
Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file
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Internet of Shit
@internetofshitMay 20
please just keep my food cold
Polymarket
@PolymarketMay 11
JUST IN: Samsung upgrades its smart refrigerators with Google Gemini to recognize more than 2,000 foods.
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Why is this so funny 😭
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doomer
@uncledoomerApr 27
(me after accidentally deleting everything) "yeah dude i dont know what happened, claude just like, went rogue"
R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalertsApr 27
🚨#BREAKING: According to reports, a Claude powered coding agent using the Cursor tool allegedly went rogue, wiping a company’s production database along with its backups in just 9 seconds, raising serious concerns
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ClaudeDevs
@ClaudeDevsApr 23
Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found. All are fixed in v2.1.116+ and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.
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Gene Meyer@GeneMeyerLOLApr 15
“Fuck yeah dude.” -Me agreeing with someone in order to get out of a conversation
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Gene Meyer@GeneMeyerLOLApr 13
Never posting Deftones on my story ever again:
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Banger translation
GNN
@gnnhdofficialApr 12
مشہور زمانہ قاتل کی آئس کےنشے میں اینکر کو دھمکیاں ! سڑکوں پر اپنا جگا ٹیکس شروع کر دیا ! #ParkingMafia #Corruption #Pakistan #WorldNews #InvestigativeJournalism #Police #TrafficPolice #Scandal #BigBreaking #TrendingNow #ViralNews #Expose #NewsUpdate #UrbanIssues #Accountability #IllegalParking #PublicIssue
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@Le_Sabre54Apr 11
FinancialJuice
@financialjuiceApr 11
Iran and US expert teams are exchanging texts - Tasnim
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Pehalwaaan@PehalwaaanApr 10
About this week
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@Le_Sabre54Apr 11
Pakistan right now.
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Tamkenat@TamkenatMApr 11
Chachu’s opening speech at the Islamabad Talks! 🤌🏽
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Ryota Kanai
@kanairApr 10
Great to see this on X. This is something I created during my PhD time 20 years ago.
DaVinci
@BiancoDavinciApr 1
This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.
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