Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 116

I discovered this when searching for whether anyone had made a derivative of Walk Like an Egyptian, but about the Fremen sand walk.

So far the answer seems to be no.

Elmo meets the Gom Jabbar

youtube.com/watch?v=EHK5fBm1YW…

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

I see in the comments that at least one fedi discovered this video already over 9 months ago. 😁

Thank you all for your kind well-wishes.

It all went well for us personally. At the peak of the storm a window I thought was properly closed was suddenly slammed open by the wind, which was scary and briefly quite chaotic, but nothing was damaged and after fighting the wind for a few seconds I got it closed again.

As soon as it was down to T3 we took a walk. Walkways and bike lanes were blocked here and there by fallen trees.

Tonight we took a walk again and all lanes were already clear, any branches and trunks had been cut up and were neatly piled up along the sides.

Many of the trees still standing are more horizontal than vertical, but many have also already been reinforced with support legs and made to stand vertical again.

@Parker Oilar @Mdona @Kermode @chiasm @jay 🌺:disabled_heart:

Tired corporate social media: The algorithm is sus

Wired free social web: The algorithm is us

@Kermode This was at home, but sure, the office is at around the 40th floor.

Looking out the windows, at home or on the office, is not mandatory and definitely not something someone with fear of heights should do all the time. =)

I peek down occasionally as a form of acclimatization therapy.

I'm on around the 50th floor.

The swaying calmed down after an hour or so, and so did the noise. Rain will be coming and going for days, but we had a few heavy showers during the T8 tail end of the main storm.

2023-09-02 03:40 Downgraded to T8

2023-09-02 18:45 Downgraded to T3, businesses reopening.

Queue to Genki Sushi was incredibly long, so we're having Vietnamese food for dinner.

Retired health science professor Barbara Oppenheimer has had an interesting and fun summer.

She watched both movies and got the t-shirt. When she introduces herself she goes by her old nickname Barbie Oppenheimer and people think she's pulling their leg. 😊

slate.com/culture/2023/08/barb…

#barbenheimer

@Benjamin T A fellow HK fedi!

Feel free to hit me up on DMs if you'd like to meet.

@chiasm By now this one is as strong as 2018 Mangkhut. Back then it took half a year to a year for the city to clear all the trees and other debris.

It took two years to rebuild the seaside promenade in Tseung Kwan O, which was completely wrecked with concrete debris blocking the bike road.

They rebuilt it stronger and with better affordances for flood water, so presumably it can handle it this year.

Woah. No, that's not it. It's the building swaying, actually. That's where the quesy feeling is coming from.

Wow, this is really freaky.

2023-09-01 20:15 Raised to T10

The infrasound of the winds whipping the corners of our tower is actually making me feel a bit whoozy.

The center is not at its closest to us yet, so it will be growing stronger yet for a few more hours.

#hongkong #typhoon #saola

We're safe, but lots of colleagues came here this week from e.g. Singapore and Tokyo, for the first time since 2018.

They had booked flights home for early Friday ... but not early enough, as the T8 was raised at 02:40.

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…