Jacob
@iacobuscaesar.bsky.social
I have an MA in archaeology and run a blog called Living in the Longue Durée about ancient history and whatever else. This profile is mostly funny observations about history and science.
Blog: https://livinginthelongueduree.com
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Jacob
@iacobuscaesar.bsky.social
· Jun 16
De-Extinction: A History
John Hammond: “None of these attractions are ready yet, of course, but the park will open with the basic tour that you’re about to take, and then other rides will come online six to twe…
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So I’ve completed my latest project: a run-through of the history of de-extinction, exploring the many methods that have been tried and treating it as a social phenomenon around science rather than just a snazzily marketed science topic. From Nazi cattle to modern questionable corporate claims.
I don’t believe in computers taking over the world because while I was talking about excavation experience in 2021 in a letter of interest, Google Docs red-underlined the year and said, “Did you mean: 2012?” I did not know there were invalid whole numbers.
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I don’t believe in computers taking over the world because while I was talking about excavation experience in 2021 in a letter of interest, Google Docs red-underlined the year and said, “Did you mean: 2012?” I did not know there were invalid whole numbers.
Our favorite couple came and floated over me today as I walked by their pond. Then they got to munching that delicious algae, yummy, yummy. I enjoy these two very much and I’m wondering if they’re beginning to recognize me at this point.
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Our favorite couple came and floated over me today as I walked by their pond. Then they got to munching that delicious algae, yummy, yummy. I enjoy these two very much and I’m wondering if they’re beginning to recognize me at this point.
Final verdict on Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age.
It is very good and the best coverage of the Pleistocene I’ve ever seen, though that’s what we expect out of Prehistoric Planet at this point. Any complaints I’ve had in live-commenting are real but don’t meaningfully negate the extremely high bar.
It is very good and the best coverage of the Pleistocene I’ve ever seen, though that’s what we expect out of Prehistoric Planet at this point. Any complaints I’ve had in live-commenting are real but don’t meaningfully negate the extremely high bar.
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Final verdict on Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age.
It is very good and the best coverage of the Pleistocene I’ve ever seen, though that’s what we expect out of Prehistoric Planet at this point. Any complaints I’ve had in live-commenting are real but don’t meaningfully negate the extremely high bar.
It is very good and the best coverage of the Pleistocene I’ve ever seen, though that’s what we expect out of Prehistoric Planet at this point. Any complaints I’ve had in live-commenting are real but don’t meaningfully negate the extremely high bar.
Time to watch Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age: The Big Melt, though I’m pretty sure I watched Ice Age: The Meltdown before. Anyway, live thoughts on the fifth and final episode of the season below this post.
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Time to watch Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age: The Big Melt, though I’m pretty sure I watched Ice Age: The Meltdown before. Anyway, live thoughts on the fifth and final episode of the season below this post.
Two of the little French kids I teach English to have taken to calling me variously either “America” or “Captain America” and saluting me as a greeting. I am not going to correct this at all because I love it.
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Two of the little French kids I teach English to have taken to calling me variously either “America” or “Captain America” and saluting me as a greeting. I am not going to correct this at all because I love it.
For various reasons related to previous conversations with friends, I regret to inform you all that my profile picture on Discord is now Oliver Cromwell in a universe where he discovers the Christmas spirit.
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
For various reasons related to previous conversations with friends, I regret to inform you all that my profile picture on Discord is now Oliver Cromwell in a universe where he discovers the Christmas spirit.
Starting Prehistoric Planet episode 4. Thoughts under here.
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Starting Prehistoric Planet episode 4. Thoughts under here.
Starting episode 3 of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age. Live thoughts under this post.
November 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Starting episode 3 of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age. Live thoughts under this post.
Cleaning the kitchen and I check my phone to see the friend group chat popping off with about 75 messages in the past ten minutes.
Top message: “People don’t realize it but the virginity meta is paying a prostitute so you get it out of your system and realize it’s no big deal.”
Huh, what a day.
Top message: “People don’t realize it but the virginity meta is paying a prostitute so you get it out of your system and realize it’s no big deal.”
Huh, what a day.
November 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Cleaning the kitchen and I check my phone to see the friend group chat popping off with about 75 messages in the past ten minutes.
Top message: “People don’t realize it but the virginity meta is paying a prostitute so you get it out of your system and realize it’s no big deal.”
Huh, what a day.
Top message: “People don’t realize it but the virginity meta is paying a prostitute so you get it out of your system and realize it’s no big deal.”
Huh, what a day.
By the way, not only is overkill hypothesis real but I did it. I ate every mammoth. I was hungry.
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
By the way, not only is overkill hypothesis real but I did it. I ate every mammoth. I was hungry.
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age episode 2 live thoughts begin under this post.
November 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age episode 2 live thoughts begin under this post.
Time to finally watch Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age!
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Time to finally watch Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age!
Helped a Mexican friend move in with her French friend and that friend’s Algerian husband. Never before have I practiced my Spanish, French, and Arabic in such rapid alternating succession. I feel pretty good about it though.
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Helped a Mexican friend move in with her French friend and that friend’s Algerian husband. Never before have I practiced my Spanish, French, and Arabic in such rapid alternating succession. I feel pretty good about it though.
Came across a post on this site saying there was evidence for something provided by “counterfactual history.”
Homie, alt-history has no objective analytical standards. You can’t use it for real historical evidence. It’s a fun mental exercise but it’s firmly a fiction genre.
Homie, alt-history has no objective analytical standards. You can’t use it for real historical evidence. It’s a fun mental exercise but it’s firmly a fiction genre.
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Came across a post on this site saying there was evidence for something provided by “counterfactual history.”
Homie, alt-history has no objective analytical standards. You can’t use it for real historical evidence. It’s a fun mental exercise but it’s firmly a fiction genre.
Homie, alt-history has no objective analytical standards. You can’t use it for real historical evidence. It’s a fun mental exercise but it’s firmly a fiction genre.
I know everyone likes that 1997 Anastasia movie but it glazes the Romanovs so fucking hard.
The entire Russian Revolution breaks out because Rasputin does a funny curse and not because… I dunno… a despotic regime that life was terrible under was something people were widely unhappy about.
The entire Russian Revolution breaks out because Rasputin does a funny curse and not because… I dunno… a despotic regime that life was terrible under was something people were widely unhappy about.
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I know everyone likes that 1997 Anastasia movie but it glazes the Romanovs so fucking hard.
The entire Russian Revolution breaks out because Rasputin does a funny curse and not because… I dunno… a despotic regime that life was terrible under was something people were widely unhappy about.
The entire Russian Revolution breaks out because Rasputin does a funny curse and not because… I dunno… a despotic regime that life was terrible under was something people were widely unhappy about.
Out here in France carving up the Turkey with the friends!
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Out here in France carving up the Turkey with the friends!
Invoking witchcraft to summon the Puritans of the semi-mythical first Thanksgiving so they can see the Christmas decorations already up and be triggered by such vile popery.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Invoking witchcraft to summon the Puritans of the semi-mythical first Thanksgiving so they can see the Christmas decorations already up and be triggered by such vile popery.
This is extremely cool but why do journalists covering archaeology have to do this?
“Archaeologists accidentally discovered…” HOMIE, they were excavating a 1500s Spanish adobe structure associated with the Coronado expedition. It wasn’t an accident that they found early modern material there.
“Archaeologists accidentally discovered…” HOMIE, they were excavating a 1500s Spanish adobe structure associated with the Coronado expedition. It wasn’t an accident that they found early modern material there.
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is extremely cool but why do journalists covering archaeology have to do this?
“Archaeologists accidentally discovered…” HOMIE, they were excavating a 1500s Spanish adobe structure associated with the Coronado expedition. It wasn’t an accident that they found early modern material there.
“Archaeologists accidentally discovered…” HOMIE, they were excavating a 1500s Spanish adobe structure associated with the Coronado expedition. It wasn’t an accident that they found early modern material there.
For the past month or so, my morning walking route has taken me past this one pond and in it are these two swans, who are always in different parts of the pond but reliably always together. They’re my favorite couple and I love seeing them every morning. What should I call them?
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
For the past month or so, my morning walking route has taken me past this one pond and in it are these two swans, who are always in different parts of the pond but reliably always together. They’re my favorite couple and I love seeing them every morning. What should I call them?
Hi, friends! I would like to give you some thanks! Please take one.
THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK.
THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK.
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Hi, friends! I would like to give you some thanks! Please take one.
THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK.
THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK. THANK.
Boop!
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Boop!
Just walked past a school and there were these food delivery guys offloading this big delivery while the most stereotypically dressed French chef stood outside an open gate to greet them and they were all talking and laughing like old friends. I love casually wholesome people.
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Just walked past a school and there were these food delivery guys offloading this big delivery while the most stereotypically dressed French chef stood outside an open gate to greet them and they were all talking and laughing like old friends. I love casually wholesome people.
Younger homies, I’mma be real. I lived in Jerusalem for a while so if you reply “67” in something at me, my brain’s gonna try to figure out why you’re referencing the Six-Day War, which is often shorthanded with the year there.
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Younger homies, I’mma be real. I lived in Jerusalem for a while so if you reply “67” in something at me, my brain’s gonna try to figure out why you’re referencing the Six-Day War, which is often shorthanded with the year there.
Actually, I’m not sure where this falls in relation to British revolutionary history.
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Actually, I’m not sure where this falls in relation to British revolutionary history.
Maybe this is selection bias but I feel like the UK people I know outside of specifically political circles react in far more muted ways to rights being revoked (juries, internet freedoms, etc.) than people I know from elsewhere. There’s this concerning complacency with democratic backsliding.
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Maybe this is selection bias but I feel like the UK people I know outside of specifically political circles react in far more muted ways to rights being revoked (juries, internet freedoms, etc.) than people I know from elsewhere. There’s this concerning complacency with democratic backsliding.