Post by @amenonsen@flipping.rocks

2026-08-27 10:02 UTC

It feels surreal to be cooking and baking and eating ice cream and doing various normal things while knowing the magnitude of the disaster that&#39;s unfolding in Nepal, barely a stone&#39;s throw away in the larger scheme of things.

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@amenonsen@flipping.rocks 2026-08-27 10:37

Aside: We had a GLOF here in Uttarakhand just last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Uttarakhand_flash_flood Much smaller scale than the one in Nepal now, but a widespread disaster nonetheless, and just one more piece in a long-brewing pattern of climate change-induced problems in the Himalayas.

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@anna@mathstodon.xyz 2026-08-27 11:11

@amenonsen@flipping.rocks 💔

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@ramkay@mastodon.social 2026-08-27 12:10

@amenonsen@flipping.rocks For decades others & we among them have been warning that disasters beyond immediate knowledge and comprehension will come. Everyone laughed, Of course they did - gandalf stormcrow they said. Today we are in an imperfect storm, a perfect storm is predictable, we are now at a time when nothing is working in sync - wars, political instability, anthropogenic induced changes, climate changes - the consequences are simply unpredictable & will continue to happen without warning.

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