as someone who has never lived anywhere tectonically unstable and who’s never even smelled west coast air, you motherfuckers are carved from granite just posting through the shifting of the earth and i am glad to infer/sincerely hoping everyone’s okay. how in hell do you just live like this‽ - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

threnody.bsky.social • 384 days ago

as someone who has never lived anywhere tectonically unstable and who’s never even smelled west coast air, you motherfuckers are carved
from granite just posting through the shifting of the earth and i am glad to infer/sincerely hoping everyone’s okay.

how in hell do you just live like this‽

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katie.bzky.team•384 days ago

we have fun

sarcasmorator.bsky.social•384 days ago

It’s not like a fire or flood. You can’t stop it, can’t predict it, can’t escape it. Might as well post through it.

zombieboof.bsky.social•384 days ago

Every place has their thing. Ground shakes a little in CA? Eh, whatever, but when we got that storm a few months ago? Busiest grocery day since early Covid, people FREAKED THE FUCK OUT, but to people who get storms every year, we were like crying children who'd never seen a spider before.

threnody.bsky.social•384 days ago

i lived in the middle of nowhere ohio for like a year. just below the snowbelt. and they got half an inch of snow and the reaction was about as organized and effective and frantic as day-of hurricane katrina. there were cars in ditches! grocery stores got looted! half an inch of snow!

parsnip.bsky.social•384 days ago

constantly fascinated that like 70% of bluesky appears to live in the greater la area

mckeenphotos.bsky.social•384 days ago

20% in Aotearoa New Zealand

olimnz.bsky.social•384 days ago

If not more!

ladude.bsky.social•384 days ago

It felt big to me!

parsnip.bsky.social•384 days ago

it was a 4.6 (or 4.7) in western malibu up toward the west valley!

ladude.bsky.social•384 days ago

Yep. I’m in the South Bay, and it was something.

threnody.bsky.social•384 days ago

i do not live in your time zone and deeply resent the fun you have while i am unconscious. however, you can keep your cracking earth.

parsnip.bsky.social•384 days ago

it's been so long since the last Big One, with so many years of "we're overdue for The Big One" reminders, that the anxiety about it has mostly faded, the apocalypse will come when it comes

convolver.bsky.social•384 days ago

Yeah, that was kind of our attitude in NOLA, and, well…

parsnip.bsky.social•384 days ago

i mean i have a go-bag and all that! and it's not like human activity is making them worse lol

roastedcauliflower.bsky.social•384 days ago

Except in Oklahoma (fracking)

ouisequitur.bsky.social•384 days ago

dad voice "we really needed the wiggle"

bunzerton.bsky.social•384 days ago

OH SHIT YOURE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE BIKE PATH. sorry. The Wiggle is amazing. THE BIG ONE WIGGLE - ok, im with you now.

bunzerton.bsky.social•384 days ago

Hey wait the wiggle is awesome. 3% grade, baby. MOAR WIGGLE

parsnip.bsky.social•384 days ago

i caught myself thinking "we needed this" during this week's storm but we absolutely did not

ouisequitur.bsky.social•384 days ago

probably not all at once yeah

thesewphist.bsky.social•384 days ago

After Christchurch we started talking about the little ones as farts here. Letting off a little bit of pressure, hopefully putting off the next big one for a bit longer.
This message was transmitted from within a couple of hundred metres from the “Wellington” fault line.

leavittalone.bsky.social•384 days ago

Peter Watt literally moved away from the PNW after being involved in some seabed research in a “it May happen tomorrow it may happen in a thousand years but Vancouver Island is gonna snap in half”

angelchrys.bsky.social•384 days ago

My interest in moving to the PNW took a nosedive after learning about that. Made the tornadoes and oppressive summer heat in KC seem positively survivable.

leavittalone.bsky.social•384 days ago

The plates up there are turbo fucked in a unique way, one of them is getting sucked under the other in some fashion

wtdore.bsky.social•384 days ago

https://sasquatchbooks.com/books/full-rip-9-0-2/

parsnip.bsky.social•384 days ago

i only recently learned about the fully inhabited inner ocean island clusters up there and all i can think is "why would you do that"

daveanthony.bsky.social•384 days ago

Yeah, that area is seriously fucked when it hits. Thrust fault no bueno.

amandabf.bsky.social•384 days ago

"I like to live on the edge!" says the girl in Seattle, looking at this research and over her shoulder at Mt. Rainier.

parsnip.bsky.social•384 days ago

do you mean that literally

nothingfromnada.bsky.social•384 days ago

Humans can get used to damn near everything. People don’t evacuate frequent hurricane zones until it’s a confirmed category 4.

genex17.bsky.social•384 days ago

I live in Cali, but tornadoes are in my nightmares.

threnody.bsky.social•384 days ago

genex, do not be fooled by my omission: i am also afraid of tornadoes. if anyone is skeeting through a tornado, i will have a similar reaction.

villainoflegend.bsky.social•384 days ago

I'll keep y'all posted when they do strike.

kirithekangaroo.bsky.social•384 days ago

its crazy to me that some people are that casual about earthquakes. never experienced any tectonic activity in my life and the idea of living right on a plate margin is horrifying to me 😭. if the ground below me started shaking i would probably cry.

pyrholidon.bsky.social•384 days ago

Tornados and hurricanes are a lot scarier tbh.

threnody.bsky.social•384 days ago

to be clear, i think their attitude is probably the sensible one but i’m just a scared girl who would prefer to never get out of her toasty bathtub on a continental plate that is swaddled in bubble wrap.

katie.bzky.team•384 days ago

for the most part it's nbd because usually it's just a mild little shake which is scary but then it's done within a few seconds

threnody.bsky.social•384 days ago

i mean, people can get used to literally anything & i certainly don’t think, like, y’all should be more afraid (since worrying doesn’t steady the earth), but it just seems so incomprehensible to a northeastern girl who used to occasionally deal with 10 feet of snow or a month below 0° but that’s it.

katie.bzky.team•384 days ago

see 10 feet of snow is unfathomable to me lol

threnody.bsky.social•384 days ago

katie, to be honest? i *loved* it. one year, they called the national guard to clear streets. i didn’t have a snow shovel & took a bunch of acid & stole the racist neighbors’ dirt shovel to dig my car out & i had to start by standing on the roof. and finding what was car and what was hollow snow.

adhdgobl.in•384 days ago

"worrying doesn't steady the earth"

My therapist has been telling me that for years but I do not believe him.

threnody.bsky.social•384 days ago

yeah, you’re right to fight back. stand up, slap him in the mouth, and shriek *i can do better!*

threnody.bsky.social•384 days ago

i’m glad it was a small one.

futureed.bsky.social•384 days ago

Big, close earthquakes are terrifying.

Most earthquakes are a jump scare and a few more seconds of WTF.

After that, meh.

lostinberkeley.bsky.social•384 days ago

It's just not something you think about because there's not much the individual can do about it. Being prone to having a city burn down because someone tossed a cigarette butt out of their car window or PG&E didn't do maintenance on their wilderness lines for 70 years is way more of a threat.

ac927.bsky.social•384 days ago

Keeps you on your toes. There is always such strange energy for about 24 hours after a quake.

gearhook.goblin.horse•384 days ago

Listen— you post through it or the earth’s maw yawns open and consumes you whole. There is little in between. I, personally, have made peace with the Earthen Abyss, lol

rszasz.bsky.social•384 days ago

You ever feel an 18 wheeler drive past? Most of the time it just feels like that if you can feel it at all. Then if a big one hits it's just "holy fuck" and then checking if anything is broken.

coelliptic.bsky.social•384 days ago

They're almost all inconsequential so you get used to them, but I still feel a quick snap of fire in my veins when it happens as my body prepares me for mayhem