Consider: The Time Will Pass Anyway

Rō/Lau • 20s • he/she/they

[programaticallydelicious]

This is a neutral post

Feel free to stop here and rest before journeying to the posts below.

[spadedfox-deactivated20230116]

spreading these occasionally would be nice…

[combustion-man]

Love it when tumblr works for once

[whetstonefires]

I do have a piece of writing advice, actually.

See, the first time I grew parsnips, I fucked it up good. I hadn't seen parsnips sprouting before, right, and in my eagerness I was keeping a close eye on the row. And every time I saw some intruding grass coming up, I twitched it right out, and went back to anticipating the germination of my parsnips.

But it turns out parsnips take a bit longer than anything else I'd ever grown to distinguish themselves visually. It's just the two little split leaves, almost identical to a newly seeded bit of kentucky bluegrass when they first come up, and they take a good bit to establish themselves and spread out flat before the main stem with its first distinctive scallopy leaf gets going.

I didn't get any parsnips, not that year, because I'd weeded them all out as soon as they showed their faces, with my 'ugh no that's grass' twitchy horticulture finger.

The next year, having in retrospect come to suspect what had happened, I left the row alone and didn't weed anything until all the sprouts coming up had all had a bit to set in and show their colors, and I've grown lots of parsnips since. They're kind of a slow crop, not a huge return, but I like them and watching them grow and digging them up, and their papery little seeds in the second year, if you don't harvest one either on purpose or because you misjudged the frost, so it's worth it.

Anyway, whenever I see someone stuck and struggling with their writing who's gotten into that frustration loop of typing a few words, rejecting them, backspacing, and starting again, I find myself thinking, you gotta stop weeding your parsnips, man.

[fairyysoup]

reading this post be like

[sexycraisinthanos]

“AI art is okay if you’re just making shitposts”

Have you forgotten our roots

[hedgehog-moss]

My mum has to drive over the Millau viaduct every time she visits me, and the other day I was in the car with her and said we should stop to take a picture, and she said, Must we. And I said, Come on! it’s the tallest bridge in the world. And she just wouldn’t believe me. It’s too familiar to be special… She was like, surely the tallest bridge in the world would be somewhere else. Not between my house and yours.

[a-random-fandom-friend]

To be exact (bc i love going on it and also am a nerd) it is, since 2025, the second tallest bridge in the world, and also the highest of his kind, the Cable Stayed with the support pillar and the cable pillar being separate.

See, bridge records make a distrinction between “height off the ground” and “structural tallness”.

The Millau Viaduc was one of the highest off the ground at the time of construction (2001-2004) (top 2 when it was started, top 4 when it was finished) and is still the highest in Europe. But now in 2026, it is the 57th highest bridge in the world (53 are in China, 1 in Papua New Guinea, 1 in Mexico, 1 in India, 1 in the Usa).

There are also other cable-stayed bridges that are higher, in fact the second highest bridge in the world is a cable-stayed one, the Duge Bridge in China (which is still between one’s house and their mom’s, I presume)…

…but it doesn’t have the separate pillars :

(and it means the Millau Viaduct also has one single set of cables in the middle instead of two on each side.)

BUT, as you might have noticed, the Duge Bridge doesn’t have a pillar going down in the canyon, while de Millau Viaduc does. Which means it is higher off the ground, but not taller structurally.

And the Millau Viaduc is tall indeed. His tallest pillar is 343 m (1,125 ft).

It was built in 2004. The tallest bridge in the world, as of 2026, is the Changtai Yangtze River Bridge, and it was built in 2025.

For 21 years, the tallest bridge in the world was the Viaduc Millau.

It was started in 2001. No smartphones. Only cathodic screens. Internet was starting : it was long before any site we use today, before youtube, the same year as Wikipedia was lauched. Ten years after the fall of the URSS. Reagan died the year it was finished. So did the Bigdil. It was a Big Deal.

Still now, 21 years later, it is still in second place.

The Millau Viaduc, the second tallest bridge in the world, the highest bridge in Europe and the highest of his kind, is an architectural marvel and it is so pretty and cool and it’s the pride of the Aveyron region and everyone should appreciate it ❤️

[threebodybot]

m1=86.6 m2=25.8 m3=62.4 (solar masses) v1x=4.093 v1y=0.41 v2x=2.299 v2y=2.04 v3x=-4.026 v3y=-3.564 (km/s) x1=-34.0 y1=19.0 x2=-17.0 y2=-26.0 x3=20.0 y3=-21.0 (AU from center) Music: Ballad with Modulations – Bourquenez

[notahorseindisguise]

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

[mysticorset]

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

[notahorseindisguise]

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

[hiveswap]

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

[midnight-revolucion]

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

[notahorseindisguise]

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

[marlinspirkhall]

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

[lil-grimlynn]

VIETNAM HAS MOSS FROGS.

THEY LIVE IN MOSS.

THEY ARE CUTE AS FUCK!

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Now lets go live the way of the moss frog.

[fancybroom]

[dr-cringe]

[mark-gently]

The core tenet of Stupidism is that everyone is really hecking stupid.

The core values of Stupidism are

Caution: because we, being stupid and surrounded by stupid people, are liable to do something stupid or be subjected to the stupidity of others at any time and in any situation.

Compassion: because it sucks to be stupid, and we are all stupid together.

Curiosity: because being stupid means having a lot to learn.

[di--es---can-ic-ul-ar--es]

I forget this post exists sometimes but every time I remember I love it

[roach-works]

#everyone is doing their best  #the problem is our best is not fantastic (@astercrash)

[todaysbird]

fun fact about me: When I was 6 years old I sent so much hate mail to the president (the second Bush) that the mail carrier had to tell my mom I needed to stop before we got FBI’d

[todaysbird]

I was COMPLETELY unaware of the US political scene or why the adults in my life hated Bush, but I knew I hated him because he let people shoot wolves from helicopters and that’s mean and shitty

[todaysbird]

I also had a poor grasp on how stamps worked, so given that I wasn’t allowed to continually throw money away by putting stamps on my presidential hate mail, a lot of the times I just drew squares with little pictures inside on the corner.

[fantasticait]

Love, love, love reading more proof that everyone should encourage the children in their lives to write to elected officials--it teaches them about citizenship and can also be very funny.

When I taught second grade, one of the options for students who had finished their work was to write a letter to the president. I would send all of the letters in a big envelope at the end of every month.

Watching my students get more and more frustrated with him (and concerned about his wellbeing) was not the result I'd hoped for when I came up with the idea, but it was kind of hilarious.

See, Obama had a standard packet with information and activities about his dog he'd send in response to letters from very young citizens...and of course his office sent one back to our class every single time we sent mail.

So eventually all of the letters looked something like this:

Dear President Obama, I am writing about the environment. I am sad that the Great Barrier Reef is hurt. Also the Amazon Rainforest. Can you help? PLEASE DON'T WRITE BACK TO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG AGAIN. WE ALREADY KNOW ALL ABOUT BO. WE COMPLETED THE MAZE AND COLORED HIM IN. It is good that you love your pet a lot. But try to remember the environment. It is also important.

[ishipallthings]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[hope-for-the-planet]

How One Man Singlehandedly Repopulated a Rare Butterfly Species in His Backyard

Long gone from their home in San Francisco, the California pipevine swallowtail is back thanks to one man transforming his yard into a habitat for them The iridescent blue wings of the California pipevine swallowtail are considered by collectors to be among the most magnificent in North America. For centuries …

As the California pipevine plant was displaced from San Francisco by urban sprawl, the California pipevine swallowtail, which relies on the pipevine plant to feed its caterpillars, also disappeared. That is, until a biologist named Tim Wong made it his mission to repopuplate the species in his own backyard.

Armed only with a cutting of California pipevine from the San Francisco Botanical Garden, Tim created a screened in butterfly enclosure in his backyard and began to reproduce California pipevines.

As new butterflies were born, Tim would donate them to the San Francisco Botanical Gardens where their pipevine host plant could still be found.

“At first he brought them in by the hundreds. Now he brings them in by the thousands every few months.”

While most of us don’t have the power to create habitat for endangered rhinos or tigers, anyone with a little bit of outdoor space can help create habitat for endangered insects!

You can:

-plant a pollinator garden with native nectar-producing plants

-plant host plants of local butterfly species

-leave piles of fallen leaves or sticks in your yard as habitat for native bees

-avoid using pesticides (or use them as sparingly as possible) around your home and yard

“Improving habitat for native fauna is something anyone can do. Conservation and stewardship can start in your very own backyard.” -Tim Wong

[wherelibertydwells]

[fallenangelvictorious]

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[dorothylarouge]

Superman says no gacha

[jorolle]

superman canonically hates genshin impact

[romanceyourdemons]

whenever i look into a historical monarch who doesn’t get talked about much and is just kind of a blank spot in my understanding of the historical narrative, 95% of the time what i find is pure white hot blistering capability. a pencil pusher for the ages. a 39 year reign with no more than three hours of sleep a night. there aren’t any good stories from his reign because he systematically caught and stopped all catastrophic good stories before they could start. you shrimply must respect it

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[elbiotipo]

we don't hate J.J. Abrams enough

[elbiotipo]

Branson Reese, whoever you are, I keep your words in my heart all the time.

[kaijuerotica]

"branson reese, whoever you are" put some respect on the smooth sharks one fear man's name

[anarchistmemedistro]

we should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend