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Darwin was a real one. (thelemmy.club)
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[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 169 points 3 months ago
[-] TerrabyteMarx@quokk.au 10 points 3 months ago

"It is like confessing a murder"- on the implications of telling his friends about his theory. That was an interesting read thanks

[-] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

wow this is like actually nicely written, it's easy to scroll and read, it's better than doomscrolling

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 154 points 3 months ago

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

[-] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure there have been people who hate barnacles more than Charles Darwin after they've been keelhauled.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 13 points 3 months ago

Yeah well you mainly hate the captain after that, if you survive to hate anything

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

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

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

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

does it though? it looks like your link has the same issue as mine

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters%2FDCP-LETT-3272.xml
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

charles darwin hated those too apparently

[-] dumbass@piefed.social 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] goldenbug@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

I'm 10 of September, 1860

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

And yet, you write. Curious.

I have a timed close-book exam today so I am of course 1 Oct 1861

[-] dumbass@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

I'm not happy about it.

[-] SSETranquility@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

11 March 1958 clockin in. Hate me some variety

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Bold to pick a date 70 years after his death. In that case, I'm 1993 Darwin, rolling in his grave at the launch of the Darwin Awards.

[-] SSETranquility@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Hahahaha opps the fartographer got me

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 38 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a regular programmer today.

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 29 points 3 months ago

Actually he sounds like a top-tier programmer today

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 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)

[-] TomMasz@piefed.social 34 points 3 months ago

I'm detecting a theme here.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

Generally, he was not a fan of things

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

He did love eating every new animal he ran across.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 27 points 3 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.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

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

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

He has that kind of egg head

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 months ago

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

[-] aln@lemmy.world 18 points 3 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

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

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

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

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Guess his wife was into tiktok challenges

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

Somebody should have just given him a Snickers.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Fuck bees though.

Dumb bees and their dumb honey.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 months ago

You leave the bees alone or prepare to catch some hands my good sir and/or madame. Wasps can get fucked tho

[-] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

It's hip to fuck bees.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I am very poorly today.

Poorly what?

Poorly everything.

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

He sounds like he needs to take a cold shower.

[-] Blade9732@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was actually making a joke about the hydrotherapy he used to treat his condition. It involved getting doused with cold water. I don't think anyone caught my joke.

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

Big Darwin mood

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Same list for me every morning before the coffee.

[-] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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