”Are you sitting uncomfortably?

[bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot]

@CiaraNi This is crazy, and yet not that surprising.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@Flatus 'a very extreme faith in the status quo' - that's a great observation, and a phrase I will be borrowing, thanks.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@folfdk @Flatus I've put it on my To Be Read list now

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@bodhipaksa Like so much today. I think we need a single word for the feeling 'Shocked, Not Surprised'.

This is going to stick in my mind's eye like an eyelash:

"Google Maps had hundreds of pictures, most of them being of the hotel while it was open, then very occasionally — like a sudden scene from a horror movie — there would be a picture of the mud avalanche that had destroyed everything."

[gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green]

@Flatus
Agreed. And a few short years ago, I would have considered myself part of that political centre
@CiaraNi

[magsamond@mastodon.ie]

@CiaraNi some sort of compass to find out way back 🧭

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@baoigheallain Ha no, Small Things Like These is a great book, but not exactly a comfort read.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@magsamond Yes indeed

[bytebro@mastodonapp.uk]

@CiaraNi

When you get to #TerryPrachett, I'll suggest Hogfather. They're all good, but that one gets quite deep.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@bytebro I read and reread them all the time, just always trying to make sure I have one unread one left. Agreed, Hogfather is great. I read it as a tradition every December.

[etchedpixels@mastodon.social]

@CiaraNi and in a dark corner of Arthur C Clarke's 2001 universe an ancient being of unimaginable power is going "See I told you we should have uplifted the damned bonobos instead"

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@etchedpixels Yes, and I don't doubt that the bonobos would have been the better choice