london

it also looks absolutely terrifying.

it should be safely taken down with a controlled explosion, preferably when it's full of rich bastards!

assassination co-ordinates easily found on google!

i feel like a good movie abt the modern city deserted after the great eco-social catastrophe shd include a scene w/a sky pool all busted and forlorn and covered in toxic algae -- this is why i don't much mind "emblems of social inequality", social changes will change the meaning !!

SKY POOL SKULL PILES COLLAPSE
controversial ilxor calzino is in the news once more etc etc

there was a program on ch4 I think roughly roundabout about 2008, about what the world would look like post-humanity. Like how long before all the structural steel in skyscrapers starts oxidising and falling apart etc etc. It was bad not good with terrible cgi and corny nat geographic voiceover but I did enjoy it at the time.

was it this? with pete postlethwaite?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pft7f

no, I have seen that one as well. This one was purely about showing how long it takes buildings and infrastructure to turn into ruins. Even the Hoover Dam eventually fails and crumbles to pieces iirc

Life After People?

it might be, but there seems loads of episodes of that and I think this was a one-off. Or maybe it was condensed into one ep.

yeah I just checked + that was the one broadcast on ch4 at the time, it wasn't a one-off so perhaps one episode was enough.. lol

I think I saw the first episode and thought "So without humans around, everything falls into shit? Yay, we're awesome!!!" and then didn't watch any more episodes.

speaking of such matters, in the SF podcast ep that tracer and i did with ilxor 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek) a long age ago -- abt arthur c.clark's short story "the forgotten enemy" -- there is a line something like "on london's horizon something glittered in the mountains to the north", which reminds us that london's tall yet overlooked enemy has always in fact been primrose hill

less than 2 months until we're being kicked out by our landlord as he's selling. have put absurd amounts of energy into trying to find somewhere. no closer. if we haven't secured anything after the 3 viewings we have tomorrow it's close to panic stations. london rental market is unbelievably fucked and we're a childless dual-income couple in our 30s so it's yet more fucked for others. inching ever closer to team guillotine here lads

i thought this was meant to ease, not least because of all the people leaving because of brexit, followed by all the people leaving because they are now remote workers.

(my neighbour's rent was just put up by 17%)