Notices by simon gray (simon@mastodon.star-one.org.uk)

@goatsarah @ajlanes Nothing on the Banqiao Dam Failure, though, innit, if we’re talking human-made water structure problems

@goatsarah @ajlanes Oh, I’m not remotely bothered, or easily upset, if it helps. I’m just having a chat on the worldwide super global internets.

@ajlanes @goatsarah I guess the questions boil down to whether it was simply a burst pipe inside the confines of the tunnel (not great but not terrible), or if there’s a an actual crack in the tunnel (very terrible) — it *looked* like the latter from the footage, but it wasn’t clear so could have been the latter. But even one burst pipe in a tunnel raises the possibility of other pipes in the tunnel bursting at some point, depending on why it burst.

@ajlanes Yes, I’d heard later that it was the fire suppression system. Still, a tunnel that floods, under a river — not great, is it? (Although they resumed services this morning, the affected tunnel was still closed, so still a bit more serious than a dripping pipe)

@goatsarah But apparently only through one of the two tunnels — the affected tunnel was still closed this morning at least

I’m obviously but an humble ethnomusicologist and digital strategist-practitioner rather than a civil engineer, but the footage of the HS1 Thames Tunnel on the news showing it flooding — that doesn’t to me look like heavy rain flooding it from one portal or the other, that looks like the actual infrastructure of the inside of the tunnel itself having been compromised.

That’s not a suspension overnight whilst They pump it out, that’s the entire section of the line being closed Until Further Notice. Is there still slow track which the Eurostar can go around it on remaining, or has that been completely reällocated?

@goatsarah I’m not worrying about catching a fungal infection, I’m cracking a joke :)

@goatsarah Well it was a work of fiction after all…
(Though my understanding is that as far fetched a work of science fiction as it was, the science part of the fiction was surprisingly reasonably solid)

Cordyceps mushroom powder supplement — what could possibly go wrong taking that? https://amzn.eu/d/274IxVg

Woman’s Hour this morning had an item that was trailed on the Today programme as being about ‘who did you have pictures of on your bedroom wall when you were a teenager?’.

Myself, I had a picture of a ZX81 and the floorplan for Dounreay nuclear power station.

@suetanvil @LilahTovMoon

@evan @Mastodon @austinkocher @Gargron — This is all grand (it is), and I don’t want to burst the balloon of how good it is this place is taking off, but I do feel honour-bound to mention that Usenet, FidoNet, and various other public messaging platforms from 30+ years ago also worked on the decentralised / federated / ‘nobody owns it so nobody can take it away’ principles of ActivityPub / Mastodon