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[–] 169 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 154 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That's not even all of them, he also said "I hate a barnacle as no man ever did".

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  • [–] 66 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

    But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids8 & today I hate them worse than everything so farewell & in a sweet frame of mind, I am | Ever yours | C. Darwin

    https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters /DCP-LETT-3272.xml

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    oh weird, the link keeps getting mangled when I paste it.

    Try the link now, removing the space I added to make it valid

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

    Try the link now, removing the space I added to make it valid

    the space is still there though?

    https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters%2FDCP-LETT-3272.xml

    this works for me?

    EDIT: This is bizzare. the forward slash between letters and DCP keeps getting replaced by %2F

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    It seems lemmy doesn't like the direct letter url. But you can find it by searching: https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/search?keyword=DCP-LETT-3272.xml

    It seems like they have a bug where they should be doing a url deencode on the document id url parameter, but they aren't

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  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    Which Charles Darwin are you? I'm 23 jan 1863 Charles Darwin.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    11 March 1958 clockin in. Hate me some variety

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a regular programmer today.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago

    this post is a screenshot of https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/oh-my-god-how-i-do-hate-species-and

    see also https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-loathe-i-abhor-the-sea-and-all

    and https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/ (where you can search and read the full text of over 15,000 of Darwin's letters)

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'm detecting a theme here.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago

    "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees"

    I'm going to look for some kitschy artwork at the thrift store and make this into a "Live Laugh Love" style wall decoration.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    how is this not one of our meme picture things in the meme picture library yet?

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago

    Darwin was famously seasick, but also wanted to really look at birds and shit. Bad combination.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    Didn't he have the most amount of trouble with his hammock? I recall from the Dollop episode on him this dude couldn't get in our out of the damn thing like ever

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    "So, what didn't he hate?", I hear you ask.

    Worms. He loved worms. The man could watch them for hours.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Somebody should have just given him a Snickers.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Fuck bees though.

    Dumb bees and their dumb honey.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    I am very poorly today.

    Poorly what?

    Poorly everything.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    He sounds like he needs to take a cold shower.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Good News! Hot showers weren't common place with non royalty for another 50 years. Likely his only choice of shower was a cold shower.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Big Darwin mood

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Well you know what they say, do what you hate!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Same list for me every morning before the coffee.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago