Why Do Something Fun If I Can Panic Over Nothing Instead!

why do something fun if i can panic over nothing instead!

summer thunderstorm wya

Scene of the Deluge, 1820, Theodore Gericault

Medium: oil,canvas

“On Friday evening, people in southeast Berlin felt the ground below them move. The 1.4 magnitude tremor was felt at precisely 8:58 pm in the evening, at the same time as Florence And The Machine were on stage at the Tempelhof Sounds festival in Berlin’s now-shuttered Tempelhof Airport, prompting people to wonder whether the outdoor event with 60,000 attendees was truly an earth-shattering show.

Florence And The Machine’s set-time was at 8:30 pm, and looking at the setlist, about a half-hour into the show, it’s a good bet that the band was playing either the classic, “Dog Days Are Over” or the emphatic “Free” off of the new album, Dance Fever. German outlet rbb|24 reports that someone at the show indicated, “…There was a moment around 9 pm when quite a few jumped at the same time. You could also feel the vibrations on site.” Could this really have caused such an impact? Data scientist Jens Skapski seems to think so.

“The signals probably go back to a concert. We don’t usually have earthquakes in Berlin, that’s why I wanted to know more about it,” Skapski told rbb|24. According to the rbb|24 report, “Three private seismological stations in the immediate vicinity of Tempelhofer Feld registered an above-average deflection, 1.4 on the local magnitude scale.” It lasted close to a minute, which makes it more of a tremor and not necessarily an earthquake. Skapski adds that “It’s equivalent to a small earthquake,” but that, “A natural earthquake would be shorter and with a higher frequency.”

So while we already knew that Dance Fever was a banger of an album from Florence Welch and company, this takes it to a whole new level.”

Byline | Adrian Spinelli, Uproxx, June 13, 2022. 

https://uproxx.it/dp7a2pt 

What can we do, as citizens of tumblr, to help the meme ecosystem?

Feed native memes by reblogging them. Remember, your attention is the largest portion of their diet!

Encourage native memes to adapt to new habitats by applying them to different types of post. Perhaps your own personal thoughts can provide vital habitat for a native meme you hadn't considered!

Encourage offshoot memes to grow in your blog. Your "I agree" could be an "oh worm" or even "big worm"! The more diverse memes that a given phrase has as ancestors, the more it benefits the environment.

Allow memes that use camouflage to exist in your blog. They can't surprise anyone if they're never given the chance!

Don't feed invasive memes. When you see a Chad, Nordic Man, or other invasive meme, don't reblog it! If you find yourself about to reference one, try to think of a native meme to use instead.

Revitalize endangered meme populations by establishing symbiosis with more common ones

Fight against commercial hunting, trapping, and harvesting of native memes. If you see a tumblr meme on a t-shirt or mug, find out if it was ethically sourced.

Florence + the Machine, “The Bomb,” from Dance Fever (2022).

now you come back every summer

like a carnivorous flower