• CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I dislike the framing of these questions so much. Like, name one thing you invented. The inbred french aristocrat that invented some fuckass thing wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire, you don’t get to claim that prestige.

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      “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould

      • fuckiforgotmypasswor [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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        stephen jay gould is badass. ive been relistening to his old lectures on the misappropriation and misunderstanding of darwin, and just random lectures on gallopogos snails and shit. hes one of the goats w/ sagan imo

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          Yes he is, and like him Kropotkin was one of my first entry-points into communist literature with Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution as a student of evolutionary biology.