rhiannonstone

Sic gorgiamus

Queer bicycle lover, felt artist, bird-looker, amateur radio operator, and disaster response worker in a love/hate relationship with the computer.


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

colors fill the sky and true night falls across the whole of the earth. all the edifices we have built to keep darkness away spark and fade out, as our global shield twists and buckles under the strain of the sun's exultation. without it, no life would have arisen; we owe our existence to it, and now our downfall too, as the wires we've strung across the earth sing as violin strings played by the planet's invisible bow, arcing and crackling. transformers driven into saturation heat, trip, catch fire; breakers slam open, and the carefully timed lockstep dance of power synchronization collapses, isolated islands guttering and blowing out like candles in a gale

all our methods of mass and distance communication fade away, and we are left to talk with our neighbors, or contemplate alone. humanity's lot was always to huddle together in the darkness. we had forgotten it.


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the only power generation left is whoever had the foresight to cover their solar panels and unplug them, and the FCC certification for the ability to perform under electromagnetic interference becomes the founding document of the global religion

You should look up "Miyake events". They have happened not too infrequently in recorded history, and they're at least an order of magnitude worse than the Carrington event, but we have no real idea what causes them.