17 favourite reactions to a doom-laden headline about ‘a catastrophic change that could alter absolutely everything’
In the nine years since 2016, the world has changed dramatically.
That year began with the tragic loss of David Bowie, followed by the massive Taiwanese earthquake, the EgyptAir plane crash, the killing of Harambe and the Brexit vote, before more or less ending with the election of Donald Trump. If we believed in curses …
In a world that now has Covid 19, a second Trump term, and a renewal of the Mrs Brown’s Boys contract, it’s no great surprise that we absorb ominous statements with the Alan Partridge shrug gif and go about our day. This Independent headline had an air of doom about it.
The article was about the latest modelling attempting to predict how the universe might restructure itself if it were to change from a false vacuum to a true vacuum – something for which scientists have no proof and very little way of finding proof.
Bluesky users weren’t worried about any of that. They just had fun riffing off the headline.
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Not now, catastrophic quantum machine! Read the room, yeah?
— Greg Jenner (@gregjenner.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Finally, some good news.
— George Conway (@gtconway.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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oh no! not the universe, undergoing a catastrophic change, that could alter absolutely everything, please not that, anything but that
— swaefastide.bsky.social (@swaefastide.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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BREAKING: The universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything, quantum machine shows
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Just undergone a catastrophic change that could alter absolutely everything. I’d give it ten minutes if I were you.
— Lev Parikian (@levparikian.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Puberverse.
— Stephen McGann (@stephenmcgann.uk) February 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Looks like these guys arrived just in time.
— Scott Gray (@scott1gray.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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shit, are they changing bin day?
bsky.app/profile/the-…— Glennyrodge (@glennyrodge.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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— Chris Orton (@chriso1.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM