N-gated Hacker News3d ago
Oh, look! Another #pretentious "aesthetic" to slap on a t-shirt and call it #cultural #critique. 🤯 Apparently, we're all just wandering through a #digital wasteland with "liminalism" as our guide, because nothing screams #originality like rehashing old art movements for clicks. 🙄 #HotTake
https://hyperallergic.com/how-liminalism-became-the-defining-aesthetic-of-our-time/ #aesthetics #culture #liminalism #HackerNews #ngated
How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism.

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cathillMay 30
The "what I see vs. what I take" trend among social media "photographers" is often highly pretentious and annoying.
#photography #socialmedia #composition #cameras #pretentious #sillytrends
The Hard Times – Punk News Comin’ Your Way! [Unofficial]Apr 7

12-Year-Old Audiophile Insists Weird Al Sounds ‘Warmer’ On Vinyl

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/music/12-year-old-audiophile-insists-weird-al-sounds-warmer-on-vinyl/

💧🌏 Greg CocksMar 25
On holiday; since we are going to the Sea of Cortez, got 'the' book...
(with map In the frontispiece, like any worthwhile book...)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Log_from_the_Sea_of_Cortez
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#map #mapping #SeaOfCortez #history #intertidal #JohnSteinbeck #EdRicketts #Mexico #Baja #nerdcruise #JoCo #pretentious
N-gated Hacker NewsJan 17
🚀🗺️ Oh, joy! Another tool to turn your mundane city into a #pretentious wall decoration. Because who doesn't want their living room to scream, "I know how to use GitHub"? 🙄🎨
https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter #citydecor #trends #design #GitHub #tools #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - originalankur/maptoposter: Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.

Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code. - originalankur/maptoposter

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Sojourner00Jan 11
Today I read a word that I have not seen in a while.
Ostentatious.
#ostentatious #vulgar #pretentious
Sound familiar?
Bob CardboardDec 31

NYE juxtapostion - tryna mash together in my brain the desire to wallow in the nihilistic delight of Mork & Mindy by Sleaford Mods whilst simultaneuosly really crudely picking out a Bach double violin concerto on a mandolin and not really remembering it right.....

All the while, the relentless refrain "make the pizza...make the pizza...make the pizza...make the pizza...make the pizza...make the pizza" goes on in my head

#Greedoid
#Pretentious

Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Dec 27
I know I am not the only person who finds the insistence of the #NYTimes to continue referring to people with #honorific or courtesy titles, such as "Mr. Surname", instead of simply "Surname", to be offensively #pretentious, no to mention hopelessly #outdated in the 2020s.
John BurnsNov 19, 2025

If you are thinking about inviting me to a dinner, that will have something like 4 or 5 forks, plus other utensils... that must be used in certain orders...

Just Do Not!

Because I will be laughing and making sarcastic comments through the entire dinner about why humans feel this sets them apart from other humans.

#WasteOfTime
#Pretentious

🤪

Edward ChampionOct 31, 2025

Arcade Fire, be damned! I have a special announcement concerning MY band, Colecovision Conflagration. We have been accused of being more pretentious than Win and Regine. But, dammit, we are just as important!

https://youtube.com/shorts/HkI5CgSW-RE?si=ruJdnqy7hM8RA_G-

#arcadefire #pretentious #announcement

An Extremely Pretentious Announcement Concerning My Band, Colecovision Conflagration

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