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“I don’t think that I accepted that I wasn’t gonna die young until I was 26 or 27. I really don’t think I fully…when I was 14, 15, 16, 17–I mean I knew as sure as I know that I am wearing green shoes that I was going to die before much happened. It was a certainty for me. And I had shaken off the directly suicidal urge by the time I was 21 or 22, but I still was pretty sure I was going to die pretty young, it really felt like an inevitability. It takes a long time to realize no, you’ve changed…if you shared those feelings with people at some point you go, ‘well, I guess we’re going to stick around.’ And it’s a funky thing to admit because there’s a part of your inner younger self that kind of judges you for that.”

John Darnielle fucking me up with the single most relatable thing he’s ever said

hjarta-deactivated20260124

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

scienceoftheidiot

They existed *before beetles*

somethingaboutsomethingelse

spacedandelions

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

ignescent

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

sepdet

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.

modernvintage

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

greater-than-the-sword

When you're a kid you just take trees for granted. Then when you get to be an adult you realize that a fully mature tree cannot be created in an amount of time that fits in a convenient landscaping timeframe for love nor money nor all the powers of science. Then you realize that people are very very very cavalier about chopping them down

greater-than-the-sword

I just wanted everyone on the post to know that I'm in perfect understanding about having to remove a tree that's dead, dying, or badly damaged in such a way that makes it a hazard to safety, or was planted with poor foresight (eg. 1 foot from a structure) and you don't need to feel bad about that at all. And the rest of you I am commisserating

apocryphics

oh ok

gorps

exeuntstormtroopers

“Why would you stop in hell?” has changed my brain chemistry

catcrumb

I could be unhappy anywhere

dailyclassicart

Ferdinand Knab - "Seelandschaft bei Mondlicht"

weirdchristmas

dduane

…I’ll always reblog the frog.

actual-lich-queen

Counterpoint: Matsumoto Hoji, active c. 1875

empresstress13

That’s a compelling counterpoint

saltingthecookingwine

They both have such an expression, such a face!

omtai

oh log we’re really in it now

grickle14

Detective work.

nelc

A lot of times he'd just sit on the log going over the details of the case.

immortalbeingz

moreofahorse-deactivated2024121

I just need to nap for 72 hours. That’s all. I just need 148 hours of solid rest and then i’ll be fine. Just 296 hours of shut-eye. If I could just lay down and go to sleep for 592 hours…..