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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 21:15:13 JST myrmepropagandist

   Last night our cable internet box randomly died. It’s totally fried and must be replaced. This happened just as my husband got home from work, waking me up to tell me the governor of NY had issued a warning about power outages during the Coronal Mass Ejection (there was a big solar storm last night) — basically I thought the world was ending and put my laptop in the oven. (it’s a faraday cage)

   I may have overreacted.

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     lampsofgold (lampsofgold@veoh.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 21:15:09 JST lampsofgold

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     @futurebird I’ve always imagined what a “dark sky night” holiday would do to people emotionally

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 21:15:10 JST myrmepropagandist

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     I had a dream the power went out in the Bronx and everyone went outside to look at the sky. Some people were scared because there was a sparkling arc of light above the silent black silhouettes of the buildings: but it was just the Milky Way and so few people had ever seen it with their own eyes (due to light pollution) that at first some thought it was the aura of a vast world ending solar storm.

     Børge repeated this.
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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 21:15:11 JST myrmepropagandist

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     It doesn’t help that my husband keeps calling solar storms “Carrington Events” which sounds much more ominous— especially if you know anything about the original Carrington Event— (telegraph lines caught fire due to a massive solar storm)

     It’s looking like the cable internet box going dead is just a huge coincidence— but can you blame me for freaking out?