His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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"It is like confessing a murder"- on the implications of telling his friends about his theory. That was an interesting read thanks
wow this is like actually nicely written, it's easy to scroll and read, it's better than doomscrolling
That's not even all of them, he also said "I hate a barnacle as no man ever did".
I'm pretty sure there have been people who hate barnacles more than Charles Darwin after they've been keelhauled.
Yeah well you mainly hate the captain after that, if you survive to hate anything
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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oh weird, the link keeps getting mangled when I paste it.
Try the link now, removing the space I added to make it valid
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
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
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters%2FDCP-LETT-3272.xmldoes it though? it looks like your link has the same issue as mine
charles darwin hated those too apparently
Which Charles Darwin are you? I'm 23 jan 1863 Charles Darwin.
I'm 10 of September, 1860
And yet, you write. Curious.
I have a timed close-book exam today so I am of course 1 Oct 1861
I'm not happy about it.
11 March 1958 clockin in. Hate me some variety
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.
Hahahaha opps the fartographer got me
Sounds like a regular programmer today.
Actually he sounds like a top-tier programmer today
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)
I'm detecting a theme here.
Generally, he was not a fan of things
He did love eating every new animal he ran across.
"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.
how is this not one of our meme picture things in the meme picture library yet?
He has that kind of egg head
Darwin was famously seasick, but also wanted to really look at birds and shit. Bad combination.
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
"So, what didn't he hate?", I hear you ask.
Worms. He loved worms. The man could watch them for hours.
Guess his wife was into tiktok challenges
Somebody should have just given him a Snickers.
Fuck bees though.
Dumb bees and their dumb honey.
You leave the bees alone or prepare to catch some hands my good sir and/or madame. Wasps can get fucked tho
It's hip to fuck bees.
I am very poorly today.
Poorly what?
Poorly everything.
He sounds like he needs to take a cold shower.
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.
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.
Big Darwin mood
Well you know what they say, do what you hate!
Same list for me every morning before the coffee.
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