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Shaheryar Popalzai

@spopalzai

PubTech @ the Plus alliance. I do stuff with AI I guess. 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

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.

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Josh Billinson
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Republicans: [one day out from a possible midterms wipeout] The president: Have you ever noticed I look like Elvis
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Can't even say NFP should've stuck to writing about music because yikes that shit was worse
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Why so accurate? 😂
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64GB RAM just for Google Docs because I can
Valuetainment (@valuetainment) profile pictureValuetainment
@valuetainmentOct 30
NEW: Sam Altman says it’s “quite terrible” for everyday people to own RAM, arguing it belongs in data centers.
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rat king 🐀
@MikeIsaacOct 30
average sunn 0))) show
Eric Bernhagen (@eric_bernhagen) profile pictureEric Bernhagen@eric_bernhagenOct 29
16 speakers two subwoofers with megaphones full volume and microphone direct feedback loud bass challenge
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Doctor Nemesis has to be the creepiest mutant. Mfer just casually pulling mushrooms off his head and handing em over
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Cordyceps Jones is alright tho
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Let's goooooo
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Metal Injection (@metalinjection) profile pictureMetal Injection@metalinjectionOct 23
Looks Like Meshuggah Is Teasing Something Big For Their 40th Anniversary metalinjection.net/news/look…
Looks Like Meshuggah Is Teasing Something Big For Their 40th Anniversary - Metal Injection

Looks Like Meshuggah Is Teasing Something Big For Their 40th Anniversary - Metal Injection

Anyone have any guesses?

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Was really tempted to go up a tier for more Grok Bot usage but it's been really underwhelming so far. Fast but lots of errors and I always need to run factchecks too
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I love you @claudeai please give me access to Duet
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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

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@spopalzaiOct 16
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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Been inactive here for so long I don't even know what I should be posting anymore
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Or if I should be posting at all?
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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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@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 (@dbmagazine) profile pictureDecibel 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 (@spopalzai) profile pictureShaheryar 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

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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