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Cake day: February 3rd, 2026

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  • There are a lot of things that we as an animal like or don’t like due to evolutionary benefits.

    For example we don’t like the smell of excrement because those that didn’t, stayed further away from it and caught less diseases.
    Another good example is snake and spider phobias, those innately scared of venomous creatures survived more often than those that enjoyed their company.

    I’m 100% that roaches (and relatives) fall into this category as well. We find them slightly disgusting because those that did, killed them and lived with less diseases than those that thought that they were cute.

    Butterflies on the other hand posed no threat to us and remind us of flowers that were evolutionarily important to us (interest in agriculture).

    Killing cockroaches is self defence. Killing butterflies is murder.








  • This is pretty dark at the same time.

    As hippos don’t hang around in places where trees lose their leaves in autumn, or don’t even have an autumn in the first place, the world looks quite barren and dead around the hippo.
    However, the hippo is so self centred that it doesn’t pay attention to the dieing world around it, instead it only admires it’s own reflection.

    A dreadful metaphor to our current world.

    Don’t look up.