This is DEFINITELY the fault of that stone marten that shorted out the power feed to the Large Hadron Collider in 2016 and forked the time line: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/01/512854650/worlds-most-destructive-stone-marten-goes-on-display-in-the-netherlands
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/112859355300277819
@cstross Timelines are always forking. Problem here was the LHC trapping those timelines into a bound state with us leading to random inter-timeline superposition at really inconvenient moments.