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   Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:27:43 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

   Once you start running, you won't stop. There is no refuge, no place to hide from the brewing storm. Earth is our only haven, and we have set it alight.

   Any force that works to alienate and divide us is anti-human and wants us all dead. Escapism is one of those forces. There is no escape from our fate, only denial of the terrifying truth:

   No person is safe until all people are safe. We will weather the storm together or not at all.

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:27:58 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     The fire in LA is a warning; a preview of future calamity.

     You can either stand your ground now and fight Nazis, or run and try your luck with endless natural disasters, plagues, droughts, and famines.

     Choose how you'd rather die.

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:28:56 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     • James Smith 💾

     @Floppy Exactly. The idea that *some* people will get through it doesn't make up for all the people who won't, especially when the entire situation can be avoided.

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     James Smith 💾 (floppy@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:28:58 JST James Smith 💾

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     @malcircuit I hate when people make that argument. OK, fine, maybe humanity has been through worse before, but it *was not a nice process* for those involved. Because we've survived before doesn't make it a good idea.

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:29:00 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     For anyone unaware of our genetic heritage as a species:

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngest_Toba_eruption#Toba_catastrophe_theory

     When people say "humans have been through worse" when talking about global warming, I don't think they realize just how little that reassures me.

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:29:01 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     Perhaps someone said this during the human population bottleneck event tens of thousands of years ago, when we were reduced to a few thousand people at most on the entire planet.

     Maybe an eldritch god heard it and made it so — an ancient bargain to stave off the end of the world.

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:29:05 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     I don't say that as a sort of hope, or aspiration, or prayer. It's not even a statement of fact.

     It is a promise; a curse. Ignore or defy it at your own peril.

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:29:16 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     No person is safe until all people are safe. We will weather the storm together or not at all.