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Happy Christmas everyone. What did you all get? I got 6 books:

The Physics of the Impossible (Michio Kaku)
1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
Mister B. Gone (Clive Barker)
Heart Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
You Get so Alone at Times that it Just Makes Sense (Charles Bukowski)

Anyways, happy holidays and see you all in 2026!!

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Books are the best presents - books are just the best, though. The books you mentioned all seem cool. I try to help give books to the county prison, so I'm glad to hear someone somewhere else is being given the same gift too. I feel like I've read Bukowski before, but I can't recall anything by him. I know he's well liked though. I don't think I've heard of any of those books otherwise. I was gifted a lot of books too, mostly funny stuff this year, like ridiculously cumbersome books. I also received an abridged version of a book, but that one actually kind of pissed me off to be given. Some general hygiene stuff too.

I think about going on the streets sometimes just because I want to be alone. I feel like I can't do anything anymore unless I'm alone and isolated. I'm sure your situation is hell. I don't want to say anything to minimize what you're going through. Such things always seem romantic to me though; when you're not allowed or able to do much of anything, it's much easier to start doing the things that actually matter. Maybe that's just because reading and writing are all that matter to me. I hope you find some solace in all the hours, me-anon. I hope you like playing Crystal too. I think those old Pokemon games have a lot of aesthetics that can't be seen unless you really stop and look really hard. I hope your own anon continues to stay there for you. Here's to Cyberpunk 2026. Maybe someone will write a cyberpunk prison novel for you to read.

yes, books are very good. I may be imprisoned but I can still live a life through literature. in my mind I am always free. I like to drink coffee and read, and I pretend I'm in some kind of never ending library/cafe. these books are fun Clive Barker is a great author, one of his I read recently during my incarceration as well is, Imajica. this is probably one of the best books I've ever read. I'm currently about half way through The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, this is also, a really good book.
and yes pokemon crystal is quite good, it surprised me so much when at the end you were able to also explore the Kanto region. I thought that was pretty cool.
but yea, there is something kind of romantic about being trapped away here ahhaha. in a way yes, I can spend my time reading and drawing, and I can listen to the radio, so its nice and peaceful. I've also gotten quite a lot better at drawing since being here, maybe I'll post some sometime :) also, here I'm away from all the suffering and hardships that came with cyberpunkbridges. in a way, I'm finally safe… although I do miss things like going outside. but maybe I will again someday. and I can still talk to you guys I'm not completely disconnected from the wired. and like I mentioned earlier in a way the prison industrial complex is kinda cyberpunk xD
I just want to heal from this life of trauma I lived. I hope maybe I'll end up in a psychiatric hospital, I wouldn't mind spending the rest of my life there in the hospital. I just want to be safe. the only thing that doesn't feel safe about this environment is that some of the people are still quite violent. nothing bad has happened yet tho, and I intend to keep it that way.

ooohh aahaha and I'm living the cyberpunk prison novel :3
[CYB3RPUNK PR1Z0NZ _2026] xDD

anyways~ happy cyberpunk 2026, we've made it so far!!!

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Would die for Me Anon

>>916
I respect the hustle but maybe try actual MLP-related sites/communities rather than random imageboards that will likely only bring you trolls

>>917
I've found the exact opposite to be the case. MLP sites are the least interested and most hostile, while I've got great people from some (non-mlp) imageboards.

I found more /kind/ memes U-U

>>7978
>>7979
Good morning anons!!! I love the idea, let's all be /kind/!

>How was your day, anon?

I didn't sleep much which is stupid because I have an overnight 6 hour train ride today that I am super excited about. Had to stay away from home early morning so I grabbed a bagel and coffee from the deli and now I am chilling at the public library. I should be more productive here but I am watching yt…

How is your day going? /kind/ly wishing everyone well :)

>>7980
Public libraries, coffee+bagel breakfast, and exciting train rides?! Sounds wonderful. Sorry to hear you didn't get much sleep. Update us though: what was this exciting train ride?

>How is your day going? /kind/ly wishing everyone well :)
Thank you! My day is going well. Was lucky that a housemate had made coffee, so got to start the day with one out in the inner hof of the complex we live in. There's a small patch of soild that I tended to last week, and a lot of little greenery is sprouting. And, I was even visited by a tiny little bird which I am now hearing singing from afar. I really hope it'll settle down here in the area!

I'm not awake, I've never not sleptwalked and drifted through life, and I still want nothing more than to disappear, to leave society and its hostility and competition and cutthroat social political gaming.

i'm feeling so nice it's crazy. like i feel so nice it's not even funny at this point

>I HATE EVERY PEOPLE
not me tho i'm nice :P

I don't like the term "dead internet" because the actual human body usage of the internet grows with every day. I know what you mean, though. The problem is that slop content is what everyone wants. This stretches back farther than the internet days, but the rise of the internet caused media production to skyrocket and I think that's really the defining innovation for current media. You used to only be able to make music with full setups and other people, but now you can record an entire orchestral arrangement in your bedroom. That is if you even care about using real instruments and don't just use an orchestral suite software like Vienna. Art used to be relentless and unforgiving, but now you can make any style of piece on a small surface area and undo your mistakes one thousand times, flip your image over and back around, mirror both sides, stretch and distort lines, so on. That's just two examples; AI is really just the next step in this process - remove the human limitations entirely and have a computer generate it. All the artists on Zwitter like to complain that AI lacks the human element, but most people don't care about the human element anymore. Basically every artist on Zwitter just makes furry anime fanart with no inherent meaning to it, barely even a signal of their love for the media or community or whatnot if there's anything, so no wonder a machine can reproduce it so well. Most people who complain about AI are doing it with a "it's literally HAL-9000" kind of mentality instead of actually looking at AI and forming opinions based on what it is really doing. Most people do not mind the things AI do, in earnest. This is not to say that AI is not extremely worrying. It's just that AI is not a malignant actor who has just surfaced but the most recent and blistering symptom of a sickness our society's had for at least fifty years. There is a certain futility to it due to all of this. You could remove every kind of artificial intelligence computing program from the Earth tomorrow, but the culture that devised it would remain.

Now, AI relationships are pretty particular. The reason for their existence and prominence eluded me for a while, but I realize now, I think. To put it concisely, we live in a society where the only thing liable to be even kind of nice to you is a program specifically designed to be nice to you. Finding solace in human beings has been rendered improbable. People turn to AI because they have nothing else to turn to foPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3032
i don't think art creation being easier is as much of a problem as you make it out to be, the problem with AI content is that it's at best kinda entertaining but it requires so little effort that people on social media will just pour out tons of it for people who only want to be mildly entertained for hours on end

bleh

hell yeah

>the idea of using technology to transcend into a higher being appeals to me
This might appeal to you, but if you are being perfectly honest with yourself, do you even believe that it's possible? And if you believe it's possible, what does that even mean, to be a "higher being"?
What you need is Jesus Christ, brother. There is no higher being than Christ, who is God in the flesh. Through Him, and only through Him you may become a "higher being", someone who is holy, righteous, loving, gentle, humble, merciful etc… This happens only, and ONLY through the grace of God, who is ultimately the source of all goodness.
In Him is also the peace and calmness you are looking for, together with the assurance that everything will be fine.
Read the gospel of John, brother, and really consider:
Is it possible that Jesus Christ of Nazareth truly is who he claimed to be? The living Son of God of the universe?
I testify and assure to you that He truly is.

>>354
I'm not really religious. and I don't think there's anything divine or whatever about the internet. I think it's a cool revolutionary thing that lets people connect and learn things together and can empower people to have experiences they may not have otherwise had, tho

>and that we're losing our touch with reality
Care to expand on this? Like, how do you conceptualize reality and being in or out of touch with it?

Personally, I am unsure how I feel about this whole thing.

On one hand, my animistic beliefs harmonize very well with my love for tinkering and understanding, and my experiments re-programming of xenophobia to xenophilia.

On the other, I have a growing sense of dread from the speed at which a lot of technology operates, and the growing rift between reliance on and comprehension of more and more advanced technology.

I'm trying to solve this by ways of technological degrowth without resorting to primitivism, combined with spiritual breadth and ecological grounding. Insha'allah we get planetarily stable ecosystmems for circuit boards and drugs, but my imagination is having trouble visualizing how we'll get there.

by living your life on the internet, your body becomes an afterthought. you can be anything you want to be online, so you're basically free of your body. this anti-materialist anti-body sentiment is what drives most of the world's religions, so i guess that's why you feel like using the internet enough could lead to a religious experience. once again lain ppredicted this

we are investigating on that …
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I remember this.

GMask

Interesting. Could be a cool effect to use in a collage.

update: submissions for #4 are still open, all good!
Make sure to check the link on top to read the zine… or to contribute ofc. we also have a discord channel with cool stuff, art events and anime watchparties :> more to come as well!