Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
The scientific article is here, it is open-access.
The scientists are working with local people to figure out how to propagate silphium. Both in ancient times and under modern conditions the plants have to be fenced off from domestic livestock, who find them exceptionally tasty. Reading the paper, it becomes clear how such a valuable plant could die out: it takes about 10 years for it to grow to the point where it sets seeds, and it reproduces only once before it dies.
Zepotha will never be Goncharov because when it comes down to it, tumblr culture is collaborative, while tiktok culture is merely iterative, and those are not the same thing.
Op I refuse to let your tags stay in the tags cause THIS!!!!!
Everyone's so upset about what's going on on my normal and functional space ship.
Excellent you can join ranks with that one doctor who this story made late for surgery
Read about my normal and functional spaceship to absolutely destroy your sleep schedule
This happened to me with their (now finished) serial novel Curse Words, and then their (currently unfinished) story Charlie MacNamara, Galactic Ace when I caught up to Curse Words while it was still in progress.
Simply put, it’s just a thing that happens when it comes to reading Derin’s stories.
I've been reliably informed by many, many readers that these stories are specifically crack for ADHD people who usually have difficulty reading and I HAVE NO IDEA WHY. That's such a random demographic.
Look it happens
Do you have to do surgery tomorrow? No? Then how bad could it be to start reading.
#me watching horror movies: noooo why would you open the door covered in warnings not to do that!#me reading thos blog post: I should start reading time to orbit
You should do it, nothing will go wrong. You are the master of your sleep schedule and will get plenty of rest. It'll be fine.
#I am one sentence in and my suspected adhd brain started to fucking. VIBRATE#what the FUCK#I am so happy and am going to get a normal amount of sleep tonight
Ahaha yes another one
Join the ADHD Reader Army
Congratulations, you did invent time travel after all! Unfortunately, instead of the Soviet moon conspiracy thing, all it’s good for is warping your readers several hours into the future.
... I'll take it.
Because that's the ideal time to start reading the story
Congratulations for creating an infohazard for ADHD people specifically
Op I would like you to know the only reason I stopped reading was because loud ass fireworks went off
That was Thor trying to save you
why did i start reading this??? i swear it was like 15 minutes for me but 3.5 hours in reality. it’s 2 am. wtf
Derin I have failed a test because of this post. I was going to study, saw this, and spent the next 4 hours reading
You probably shouldn't have done that.
Facebook deleted this almost immediately. It's almost like the ultrawealthy don't want us knowing or talking about what's at stake.
ate a pear so delicious it made me go ‘oh this is the height of hedonism actually’ so I drew my satyr about it
feeling greatly outnumbered in my principled (read: spiteful) stand against paid subscriptions
one time i saw someone posting in the tag about how they were about to play DE for the first time and they were intending to post about every potentially triggering thing they came across. they got about as far as "body horror images including the main character's portrait!" and stopped posting.
the decent was very brief with a sudden stop at the end
*clenching my fists so hard i’m breaking the skin of my palm* i am so normal about this podcast
I don't know if it's the depression speaking but these days I find it incredibly hard to enjoy anything about the Internet.
Literally every website has become a thousand times more inconvenient, bloated with promoted or recommended shit, stupid UI/UX changes pushed by out of touch billionaires.
The tipping point this week was Google changing the regular "Web - Images - Videos - Etc." tabs with fucking stupid ever-changing search suggestions, making the site a thousand times less accessible and so much more annoying to use
I'm tired. I want forums back. I want ugly html pages that give useful information back. I want to connect with other Internet users in a meaningful way again. Fuck modern corporate UI design. Fuck social media. I want out.
carpenter is easily one of the characters ever. traumatized. betrayed by everyone. throwing hands with gods left and right. loves pancakes and capuccinos. has a limp. killed people. shes even aroace