“It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other..."

#OTD in 1859 'On the Origin of Species' was published. We have a few different editions in the library @thembauk.bsky.social but we are privileged to be custodians of an early edition gifted to (a mystery) someone by Charles #Darwin himself

📖BS.15/D

Also everyone go follow 6/7ths of my D&D party!

DM: @tattoosandbones.com
Sneaky murder elf: @sargent.bsky.social
Disaster cleric: @takethatdarwin.bsky.social
Beer nerd dwarf: @drerinmac.bsky.social
Mom friend (revenge arc): @adverbia.bsky.social

Our orc needs an invite code 😅

I have been informed that what we do here is “skeeting.” This feels… good. It rolls off the tongue as well as “tweet” does, and it calls to mind skeet shooting, an activity where people lob clay discs into the air so they can be destroyed by ALF porn.

Not one person on Bluesky has asked why monkeys still exist.

I fall to my knees, my fingers clutching at the sun-dappled earth. The air feels electrified with hope. Truly, this is the promised land: a land where the muckraker can set down his burden, as there is no muck to rake.

It worked! Everyone welcome @takethatdarwin.bsky.social!!

One of my favorite humans and one of my favorite half-elves-that-also-kinda-have-an-evil-squid-in-their-head-thanks-to-terrible-life-choices!

I'm so close to having my whole D&D party here.