Mx Amber Alex (she/it)<p>Today at 11 AM, Germany ran its annual national alert day, where all emergency systems – sirens, cell broadcasts, emergency apps – send a test alert, in the form of a notification and a loud blaring alarm.</p><p>This was communicated weeks in advance on social media, radio, television, etc.</p><p>The tweets in the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Warntag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Warntag</span></a> hashtag:</p><ul><li>30% "it worked", with varying degrees of humour ("my condolences to all students who were woken up", "the cat just got a heart attack"</li><li>20% nazis ("the government demonstrates how much control they have over our phones!!!" and various mockery about the need for it, tons of ableist insults, conspiracy bla bla, etc)</li><li>10% "Alert: our Earth is overheating in front of our eyes" posts</li><li>40% "wait what? huh? what just happened? why didn't they inform us about this in advance?"</li></ul><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Warntag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Warntag</span></a></p>