OwenTMar 8
Natasha  🇪🇺
A reminder that we all have terrible days, Charles Darwin too.
Feb 13 at 9:00amWeb
Show threadHeatherMJFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay Not a happy chap apparently
Show thread☁️ Adrenalinda ,,,Feb 13
@HeatherMJ @Natasha_Jay there are years between these entries of frustration.
Show threadThe Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉Feb 13
@HeatherMJ @Natasha_Jay It's not gross societal injustice that's the problem. It's bees. Bees are the real evil.
Show threadAlexa FontanillaFeb 13
@ApostateEnglishman
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Happy birthday...
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept.
Show threadSolarbird Feb 13
@Natasha_Jay i so feel 1 october 1861
Show threadKaty SwainFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay I would take "Languid and Bedeviled" as the title of my autobiography if I could be bothered to write it.
Show thread🌸May Blossom🌸Feb 13
@katyswain @Natasha_Jay we are all languid and bedeviled on this blessed day 🙏
Show threadJhooperFeb 13
@katyswain @Natasha_Jay my autobiography will be titled "I Will Never Finish This Stupid Thing" and then never come out.
Show threadMayor of Nerdocrumbesia 🏡Feb 13

@katyswain but, you hate writing autobiographies too. right? 😜

@Natasha_Jay

Show threadKenny ParkFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay I may have had my low points, but I've never hated bees.
Show threadοὐ φροντὶς - Tim GoodwinFeb 13

@KennyPark
Same, although I do detest clover with every fibre of my being.

@Natasha_Jay

Show threadCarl MyrlandFeb 13
@KennyPark and what on earth did clover ever do to Charles? @Natasha_Jay
Show threadwolf **rika   Feb 13
@Natasha_Jay reads a bit like my commit messages some days 
Show threadRenke MeuweseFeb 13

@Natasha_Jay the entire letter with the bees is amazing:

My dear Lubbock

I beg a million pardons. Abuse me to any degree but forgive me— it is all an illusion (but almost excusable) about the Bees.2 I do so hope that you have not wasted any time for my stupid blunder.— I hate myself I hate clover & I hate Bees—

In Haste to catch evening post | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin

Show threadJuffo-WupFeb 13

@Natasha_Jay

Those quotes hate my day.

Show threadSin VegaFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay
Show threaderinaceusFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay “I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before.” – Charles Darwin, after studying barnacles for years.
Show threadOzzelot Feb 13
@erinaceus
Informed hate is the most intense hate.
@Natasha_Jay
Show threadEniko FoxFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay charles darwin was a hater just like me 😭
Show threadmsxFeb 13

@Natasha_Jay are those for real?

Humanity never changes 😂 I'll personally start to use the languid and bedeviled thing

Show threadRatsnake Games 🔞Feb 13

@Natasha_Jay "i am very stomachy"

same

Show threadblueorangeblueFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay CD is my hero and it makes me happy to read these
Show threadsentientspongeFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay Same. Fuckin' clover.
Show threadIan K TindaleFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay he goes on a bit, doesn’t he
Show threadkamikatFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay I have never related more to a historical figure
Show threadJoan of Contention 😷Feb 13

@Natasha_Jay Am ...

Am I ... Charles Darwin ..?

Show threadMx. Eddie RFeb 13
@clickhere @Natasha_Jay
Some days we are all Charles Darwin.
Show threadJoan of Contention 😷Feb 13
@silvermoon82 @Natasha_Jay This is as true as it is profound, and I thank you.
Show threadPeter BrownFeb 13

@Natasha_Jay he wasn’t first with evolution. But he was the first with enough money to self-publish a book on it

He came to Edinburgh University, dropped out of his course but saw the work that was being done there on evolution.

Robert Chambers was the first to write on evolutionary theories, but he wrote anonymously and published in England so as not to offend the church https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Chambers_(publisher,_born_1802)&wprov=rarw1

Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) - Wikipedia

Show threadJessicaFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay I'm going to start using “very stomachy”
Show threadsamiamsamFeb 13

@Natasha_Jay

i feel this

in my bones

Show threadEveryday.Human DerekFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay
Yawn….. I’m getting there it takes me awhile to get my engine warm for some reason.
Show threadAlexa FontanillaFeb 13
@EVDHmn
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Theory of Evolution
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution declared that species survived through a process called "natural selection," where those that successfully adapted or evolved to meet the changing requirements of their natural habitat thrived and reproduced, while those species that failed to evolve and reproduce died off.
Show threadAlexa FontanillaFeb 13

@EVDHmn
Through his observations and studies of birds, plants and fossils, Darwin noticed similarities among species all over the globe, along with variations based on specific locations, leading him to believe that the species we know today had gradually evolved from common ancestors.

Darwin’s theory of evolution and the process of natural selection later became known simply as “Darwinism.”

Show threadAlexa FontanillaFeb 13

@EVDHmn

At the time, other naturalists believed that all species either came into being at the start of the world or were created over the course of natural history. In either case, they believed species remained much the same throughout time.

Show threadEveryday.Human DerekFeb 13
@AlexaFontanilla2024
I watched a video about a 40 year study on the finches. Blew my mind. 🥰
Show threadEveryday.Human DerekFeb 13
@AlexaFontanilla2024
Wasn’t he a lmk member of the linnean society?
Show threadScale TheoryFeb 13

@Natasha_Jay

Trickle up science; ever wonder how inventions happen? It’s learning, a trickle up science called evolution.

Show threadScale TheoryFeb 13

@Natasha_Jay

Wow, he and I had so much in common.

These aren't just bad day comments; they're almost every day thoughts. I could tell everyone evolution is the result of vibrational stimuli at the atomic level, but who would believe me? -f (Visible Spectrum) = No Eyes.

How long did it take Darwin's theory to sink in, heliocentric, animals are intelligent...? Just not "head" advanced enough yet to know more I guess. I hate everyone...and writing...

Show threadMichael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲Feb 13
@Natasha_Jay #IAmCharlesDarwin
Show threadC.T. McGinnisFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay My favorite:
Show threaddavidhanzlikFeb 13

Every once in awhile you come across a post where the replies are predictably schadenfreude.

They did not disappoint, keep grinding fellow terrible day havers. We'll get better together 🫂❤️😆

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesFeb 13

@Natasha_Jay

Darwin would be a great doomscroller.

Show threadChristopher BurtonFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay What a sour puss! 😆
Show thread●Feb 13
@Natasha_Jay That's basically every Steely Dan song right there.
Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤Feb 13

@Natasha_Jay
Thank you for providing #altText!

#altText4All!

Show threadNNWest 🏳️‍🌈Feb 13
@Natasha_Jay Charles Darwin would have done numbers shitposting on #Tumblr
Show threadNNWest 🏳️‍🌈Feb 13
@Natasha_Jay I take it back. Charles Darwin *is* doing numbers shitposting on #tumblr
https://www.tumblr.com/april132009/808400878099922944/compliations-of-additions-i-enjoyed
Reblog by @april132009 · 10 images

💬 0  🔁 2766  ❤️ 4110 · compliations of additions i enjoyed

Tumblr
Show threadSu_GFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay
Poignant. Poor Charles. “I hate every wave of the ocean.” 🌊
Show threadKevin GranadeFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay this has improved my impression of darwin a thousandfold.
Show threadAuscandocFeb 13
And he sometimes got it wrong…
Show threadJohn DetersMar 5
@auscandoc KERNING!
Show thread🌈 breaking ranks.Feb 13
@Natasha_Jay for me today obv it's September 10th in 1860
Show threadCrazypedia won't ComplyFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay so relatable 😅 these are social media posts beofre social media
Show threadMoritz BartlFeb 13

@Natasha_Jay

Hmm.

"In The Descent of Man, Darwin argued that evolution made man “superior” to woman. For Darwin, that superiority largely played out in the intellectual and artistic realm. He wrote: “If two lists were made of the most eminent men and women in poetry, painting, sculpture, music—comprising composition and performance, history science and philosophy … the two lists would not bear comparison.” Spencer echoed Darwin’s sentiments and went further, postulating that in order for the human race to flourish, women must devote their lives to reproduction."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-tried-take-down-darwin-180967146/

The Woman Who Challenged Darwin's Sexism

How a preacher with no scientific training ended up writing the first feminist critique of Origins

Smithsonian Magazine
Show threadMegatronicThronBanksFeb 13
@Natasha_Jay His 'Big Book' - Origin - nearly broke him!
Show threadJamesKFeb 14
@Natasha_Jay @lydiaschoch “Stomachy”. My vocabulary has expanded!
Show threadTeagueFeb 18
@Natasha_Jay hilarious
Show threadHugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Mar 4
@Natasha_Jay Obviously, all that travelling and studying stuff got to him in the later years.