the librarian from the discworld wants me to tell you that humans are APES, not monkeys. He doesn't want to tell you twice.

April 02, 2026 - 11:33 UTC

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Same word in French.
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La Planète des Singes is very existential they should remake it in black and white

youtu.be/ztzQUURcJws?si=ioBKjV4GvhheUxv1
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explain this
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“The tv series” of all things
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I cannot
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Did anybody get the number of that donkey cart?
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Fun development in evolutionary biology in the last few decades, the introduction and acceptance of cladistics which sorts apes as a subset of monkeys. With Cladistics everything is a subset of the broader evolutionary ancestor.
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Jaymes and I—for I also tell this to anyone I can trick into speaking with my on the street—are getting our arms ripped off.
Do as I also do, Jaymes, and carry emergency bananas to placate the librarian.
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Time to go take my fish for a walk. He's a terrier.
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i'm learning things. The librarian, however, is not impressed
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Tell the librarian from discworld that we're apes *and* monkeys
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I should not admit this, but my golden retriever boyfriend recently confidently told me that humans aren’t mammals—they’re primates like apes 🤦‍♀️
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Half right.....
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Apes are just a type of monkey
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They're primates, like monkeys, but they are not monkeys.
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Oh! Well explain this!
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I stand corrected. The librarian, however, is not impressed
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Thank you for your service
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Ook!
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Well obviously. We didn’t think anyone would make such a mistake. We’re correcting it right now
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Oook !
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