Jesus, looks gnarly
Pyroclastic lightning.
Quite rare.
Just hoping it doesnât start spewing lava.
Ashfall already over Manila some 50km away.
Expected to possibly reach Japan.
Mrs got a message from her cousin early this morning about an earthquake followed by the eruption starting.
Live news from Philippines.
Donât necessarily have to understand whatâs being saidâŚ
News crews are saying itâs too dangerous to stick around and are too vacating the area.
Ash mixed with sand and rain causing heavy sludge falling from the sky for miles around.
That contacts thing on FB that I mentioned before has been useful today.
Just checked in and seen a video posted by someone who says at 5am Philippine time the next quake will be stronger but a video now showing lava coming at the crater mouth.
Rad to be able to say âyeah I climbed that volcano and a few years later it eruptedâ
Itâs actually only a very short trek that follows a boat ride to it.
Iâve trekked up Mt Pinatubo too which is much more challenging and dynamic.
That thing erupted big time in 1991.
Taal is considered one of the smallest and Pinatubo was / is far bigger.
There are still buildings visible that are half buried in ash some distance away from that one.
Jesus how mental does this look?!?
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It is like a marvel or transformer style film where another world is brought to earth.
Does it not feel like the Earth is sending us a message with all this? weâve got to a critical point of cuntiness and maybe Mother Earth has decided to wipe and start again? I wouldnât blame her.
Itâs like nature has been watching what special effects departments have been getting up to before handing you its beer.
Volcano thread? Could go on long after this oneâs cooled down?
Who doesnât like a volcano?!
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Apart from residents of Pompeii. And Icelandic holidaymakers.
Or visitors to White Island in NZ.
Difference with Taal to most volcanoes is that it is lower than lots of the surrounding land so lava flow wonât gather pace as it comes down hillsides onto villages, it will run off into the surrounding lake.
Itâs just a question of whether it violently explodes because of a build up of pressurised gas needing to get out.
This is becoming less likely, fortunately as there seem to be lots of ventilation points.
Seeing the footage of birds caked in the ash and unable to fly, all of the trees being weighed down, pineapple crops all coated in grey dust and people having to keep routinely sweeping a heavy gathering of ash from their tin rooftops to prevent their homes from collapsing is the much less romantic reality for many.
Language doesnât matter here but you can see more localised issues than you will see broadcast in thisâŚ
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This headline also ignores the fact that there were no rigid categories relating to sexuality in the classical period, and that peopleâs intimate lives were much more fluid. Applying âgayâ to this scenario is a complete anachronism.
âBoiâ wasnât used in those times either, and 4chan was still new.
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Didnât people in ancient Rome just shag everybody, all the time, anyway?
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Not just anybody. Anything. If history is to be believed.
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A simpler time!
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