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Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

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Hilariously, I am just now remembering that last night at 1am I jolted my husband awake b/c I was sure I heard prowler footsteps outside (we have a gravel yard) turns out it was the cat doing a big dig-scratch in our new stainless-steel litter box i can't wake this man up again for nothing

We call that “head of tribe” duty and the household member the least likely to be offed by an intruder at any time must take on the mantle. Recently my husband undertook a full (unclothed, Fiennes-style) house investigation when it later transpired a kombucha bottle had exploded in a cupboard.

Apologies for chortling - I realize there's nothing funny about home invasion, but the mental image is just too great. Your hubs was brave and strong, probably powered by his phenomenal gut biome!

I need my sleep or I get grumpy and ragey. So it depends - Don't want me confronting the threat? Let me sleep. Want me to choke slam the threat while biting its face off? *Wake me up*

Apparently, I’m going to be the party pooper who says “He doesn’t matter. The Heritage Foundation and Project 20 whatever is calling all the shots and will keep on doing so.” Sorry. #thetrutthisnotfunnay #partypooper #heritagefoundation

There'll be a run on the good stuff and you'll be left drinking swill at one of the greatest moments of your life. Don't let this happen to you!

If a celebratory bottle should happen to die while in the shelter, put it outside, but remember to tag it first for identification purposes.

I just asked my husband what his wishes were if there was news of, say, an aneurysm. He goes to sleep before I do. Did he wish to be awakened? Him: if it's yours, I expect you'll wake me. Otherwise, no. Me: You get up early, if there is overnight news, wake me. Immediately. We are so different.

It’s something I’ve thought about too many times. If I’m home when it happens, day or night, I expect people will yell out their windows and run outside to party. But what if I’m in the grocery store, or at a concert, or on a plane? Will there be an announcement? A celebration? Hope we find out soon

I almost never would say this but I want to be awakened the moment it happens and join the community of other freaks like me who will all go outside somewhere central to … ah, mourn.

My wife let me sleep when Kirk bit it and waking up seeing her ecstatic and saying the name Charlie Kirk was confusing as hell for a solid 20 minutes until my brain turned on I also learned of the queen's passing from a meme of Lain dancing to the radio being interrupted by the BBC broadcast

The number of out-of-office auto-responder emails that are going to amount to, "I am out, and I am absolutely blitzed, and should not be trusted with electronic devices or sharp objects, and I will be back in the office when I am good and ready, GOOD DAY!" I can't wait.

Instead of amber alert ringing on every phone it will be an “Orange” Alert. It will play the entire “Funkytown” song. Followed by fireworks on every street.

The best way to be prepared is to have the party planning done in advance, that way you can just book the restaurant and send invites right away.

I remember snoozing before waking up in Brooklyn on 9/11 when a friend called out of state & said "turn on the tv, any channel" & felt my heart sink before switching on ny1. The big beautiful announcement would be the opposite of that.

I thought this was going to be about War or something, but the comments are telling me it's about something way better. I'm sure I'll be shaken awake in such events.

I want to be woken up. But more, I want to throw some sort of party. 😁 Can we make it a national holiday? Something like "Migrant day," where we celebrate our history as a mixing pot for all the people of the world? A day where we celebrate difference and inclusion?

So funny. It’s really something when I can read a post like this and know exactly what it’s talking about without any real detail.

I want it to come to me unprepared. By the shrieks of joy I hear in the street, by waking up to No One Mourns the Wicked, by opening this app and seeing a post about it. Manifest. Destiny.

Good questions. I have my phone muted after a certain hour. If there is a special celebratory alert number we can all join, that would be awesome.

The only acceptable way for it to happen is for him to have a heart attack on live tv, shit himself so bad it pours out the sides of the Depends, then he faceplants down on the resolute desk in a pool of drool and bile Public and on camera PLEASE

A couple of days ago, I got an alert on my cell phone, when I was in the shower. I spent the time in there wondering what it was about. I wondered if they would set off an alert when that happened. Hopeful, but it turned out to be just about the weather. Bummer.

I have been sober for 9 years. I have 1 beer in my fridge and I will drink it the moment I find out the good news and then continue my sobriety for the rest of my life.

In 2016, it was the phone buzzing with incoming messages on the middle of the night. We got up, joined our adult children in the kitchen to commiserate around a bottle of whiskey. So announcement though, will call for Champaign and fireworks.

He was supposedly on a plane to Davos that turned around way earlier and in a weirder way than it should have. If I'm still up on on the news, the press pool has still not laid eyes on him.

I think the cheering, banging of pots&pans, honking horns, fireworks, and spontaneous street party filling the city will let me know, no matter what time It happens

i would joke that i'll buy out our whole local liquor store (which predominantly serves our local Korean karaoke spot) but i have no confidence that i'll be the first one there

I will slightly regret living in the woods on the Eastside on that day, but you can bet I'm heading to CapHill for the street party the next day/night

Thinking of this joke from my grandfather, for no particular reason…

Daniel Lenski@moxfyre.bsky.social

For those who don't get it, it's a riff on a classic Jewish joke… Ayatollah Khomeini goes to fortune teller, asks "when will I die?" Fortune teller thinks a while and says "it'll be a great holiday among the Jews." Khomeini furrows his brow. Fortune teller: "ANY day you die will be a…"

I want to awaken naturally on my day off, look at the light of the rising sun out my bedroom window, unlock my phone, cackle, and go back to sleep for another hour. 🫶 Tomorrow *is* my day off I'm just putting it out there.

If I'm in the middle of surgery, end it and wake me up please I gotta get out to wherever the nearest parade is.

I have champagne ready for IT HAPPENING. People better fecking wake me!! I like the mariachi band… and taco truck… let’s just have cultural festivals for the rest of the year!

I’m in Brooklyn and back when they finally announced Biden had won, I was cooking breakfast and suddenly heard screams and cheers outside. I hope that’s how I find out again 🙏

Wake up naturally, unlock phone, open the bottle of Roederer, give the cat food and candy, go back to bed with glass and bottle. Zip and play news on endless loop.

Silly me, I had to read through to understand that you DON’T mean, “Hey, babe - do you want someone to wake you up if I die suddenly, or would you rather enjoy potentially the last sound sleep of your life and find out in the morning?” Lol

I am hoping for: A series of Kleig lights completely surrounding my house. A hovering helicopter with loudspeakers says, "Kleig lights-You must have an important announcement!" The Kleig lights respond, "Just guess!" They carry on loudly until I can get a parade permit. Then it gets even louder.

Come over my house and kick the door down. Send me telepathy if I'm in a coma and I will awaken and dance in the streets in my hospital gown, ass out.

I want to awaken to the sound of church bells ringing and people singing in the streets and the popping of champagne corks and laughter Then I will go outside and join them. *sigh*

My husband just posited this to me and I misread what he was saying and I told him if something happens to him at work and it makes the news and I don’t have proof of life his ass is grass. However, when upon rereading I said, “just text me”. Lol

I’ve had too many times of picking up my phone and being told by a CNN news push my friends were dead. So … it’s understandable lmao In this case tho if IT HAPPENS™️, I’ll see it in the morning. Where upon the happy news I’ll open up my champagne.

I want to be awakened at 2am by the sounds of fireworks and cheering in the streets and hopefully my neighbors know a Mariachi band that can come out and celebrate with us.

My next door neighbor runs a taco truck (and they live on the corner!) I don’t know if they’d want to fire it up at 2am though. They’re usually up at 8am making birria and churros though.

I’m gonna guess they’d be willing to pull an all-nighter for the right reason and this would definitely be the rightest of all reasons. And That they own a taco truck AND live on the corner is poetry!

Having been through this recently if you are the friend/support person who has been on the end of life journey & no family involvement, just expect there will be if money is involved. Please have them make arrangements for their animals or you might get to “inherit” 2 cats to avoid euthanasia.

I'm pretty sure all the mariachi bands will be out on the streets immediately. It'll be like Pride and St Patrick's Day and SantaCon all in one, but all mariachi.