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
Ask if you want Discord.
Blog: https://livinginthelongueduree.com
Ask if you want Discord.
Preparing for impact on this goofy 107,000-person subreddit I moderate mostly alone.
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Preparing for impact on this goofy 107,000-person subreddit I moderate mostly alone.
Hey, I hope things get better!
It snowed here if you like that sort of thing.
It snowed here if you like that sort of thing.
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Hey, I hope things get better!
It snowed here if you like that sort of thing.
It snowed here if you like that sort of thing.
Today in 1718 we lost Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, that most feared of pirates. We’ll never forget the lit fuses in his hair and the acceptance of a royal pardon only to go back out at it again.
We miss you.
Raiding on the high seas just isn’t the same.
We miss you.
Raiding on the high seas just isn’t the same.
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Today in 1718 we lost Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, that most feared of pirates. We’ll never forget the lit fuses in his hair and the acceptance of a royal pardon only to go back out at it again.
We miss you.
Raiding on the high seas just isn’t the same.
We miss you.
Raiding on the high seas just isn’t the same.
Eclipse jumpscare!
Actually though, good to know and I’ll keep that in mind!
Actually though, good to know and I’ll keep that in mind!
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Eclipse jumpscare!
Actually though, good to know and I’ll keep that in mind!
Actually though, good to know and I’ll keep that in mind!
For Transgender Day of Remembrance, the “Did you know…” section on English Wikipedia is entirely dedicated to facts about transgender people, especially violence against them. Go check out some of these links.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
For Transgender Day of Remembrance, the “Did you know…” section on English Wikipedia is entirely dedicated to facts about transgender people, especially violence against them. Go check out some of these links.
Trying to register online for my Egyptian visa for when I arrive in Cairo a month from tomorrow and their government website seems utterly allergic to loading a page.
So I’m gonna take it the djed-pillar is not actually some ancient wireless transmission device like the pseudoarchaeologists say.
So I’m gonna take it the djed-pillar is not actually some ancient wireless transmission device like the pseudoarchaeologists say.
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Trying to register online for my Egyptian visa for when I arrive in Cairo a month from tomorrow and their government website seems utterly allergic to loading a page.
So I’m gonna take it the djed-pillar is not actually some ancient wireless transmission device like the pseudoarchaeologists say.
So I’m gonna take it the djed-pillar is not actually some ancient wireless transmission device like the pseudoarchaeologists say.
Some of the writers at BBC really learned about what they like in regards to romance it seems. Good for them.
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Some of the writers at BBC really learned about what they like in regards to romance it seems. Good for them.
Temperature hit freezing this morning in Paris so in my usual morning walk there was a fine coating of frost over all the plants in the parks. Here’s a nice emerging winterscape from the Bois de Boulogne.
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Temperature hit freezing this morning in Paris so in my usual morning walk there was a fine coating of frost over all the plants in the parks. Here’s a nice emerging winterscape from the Bois de Boulogne.
I’mma be real, homies. I really don’t know what to do with comments like this.
Saturn’s a baby-eater, I suppose, so there’s a dick-sucking joke to be made, but I don’t feel obligated to pretend that a vague statement about the planets with an appropriated Hindu-Buddhist term is meaningful.
Saturn’s a baby-eater, I suppose, so there’s a dick-sucking joke to be made, but I don’t feel obligated to pretend that a vague statement about the planets with an appropriated Hindu-Buddhist term is meaningful.
![[picture of Bill Clinton from one of my recent meme posts]
R Michelle Urdang
@michelleurdang.bsky.social
“Saturday is ruled by Saturn; past life karma.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nmvmrqm7o2p4ookku6dyrsn/bafkreihysmqgujbctwpvfnhtgtdqreuggjhg4kqxroe6tqvidb5mot6dvq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I’mma be real, homies. I really don’t know what to do with comments like this.
Saturn’s a baby-eater, I suppose, so there’s a dick-sucking joke to be made, but I don’t feel obligated to pretend that a vague statement about the planets with an appropriated Hindu-Buddhist term is meaningful.
Saturn’s a baby-eater, I suppose, so there’s a dick-sucking joke to be made, but I don’t feel obligated to pretend that a vague statement about the planets with an appropriated Hindu-Buddhist term is meaningful.
Captain James Cook.
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Captain James Cook.
“You can’t just make up new pronouns for yourself. 😡”
Qin Shi Huang: “Actually as First Emperor of China, I will be calling myself zhèn in the first person and that’s just for me. I will also be burying you alive like all the other smartasses.”
Qin Shi Huang: “Actually as First Emperor of China, I will be calling myself zhèn in the first person and that’s just for me. I will also be burying you alive like all the other smartasses.”
![朕
1. (imperial) I; my (similar to the Royal we; reserved for use by the emperor since the Qin Dynasty)
2. (literary) omen; sign
3. (Cantonese) alternative form of [sorry, this is a Cantonese exclusive character and not on my keyboard] (zam6, “classifier for smells”)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nmvmrqm7o2p4ookku6dyrsn/bafkreidb3um6yf6ivc2s62xnsymuhktq3bo7earlqqdt57c7mwgzv5szau@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“You can’t just make up new pronouns for yourself. 😡”
Qin Shi Huang: “Actually as First Emperor of China, I will be calling myself zhèn in the first person and that’s just for me. I will also be burying you alive like all the other smartasses.”
Qin Shi Huang: “Actually as First Emperor of China, I will be calling myself zhèn in the first person and that’s just for me. I will also be burying you alive like all the other smartasses.”
Stolen Facebook content.
![“I was this many years old when I found out there were two living presidents in the picture.”
[photo of Bill Clinton at his desk]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nmvmrqm7o2p4ookku6dyrsn/bafkreidevvsq5nusg3d7f5nzvvv57onampmm3is4yq7g5v76o3a5tsuvba@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Stolen Facebook content.
‘Sup, Bubbel buddies?
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
‘Sup, Bubbel buddies?
Relevant Taoist parable.
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Relevant Taoist parable.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Happy exploding whale day, Oregon homies!
💥 🐋
💥 🐋
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Happy exploding whale day, Oregon homies!
💥 🐋
💥 🐋
Normal Discord interaction.
![يعقوب خان (me):
Apples are good.
Robert Teaches:
What about STDS?
يعقوب خان:
Sexually transmitted diseases?
Robert Teaches:
Yeah, I got one from an Izmiri femboy.
[gif of Turkish flag]
يعقوب خان:
Rough. It would be odd to have a positive opinion of STDs or think of them in the vein of apples.
Robert Teaches:
On the bright side, it’s proof you got with an Izmiri femboy.
Mmm. Mmm. Mmm!
يعقوب خان:
Meh.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nmvmrqm7o2p4ookku6dyrsn/bafkreie5r2zdafa7b6zl4g623eo72nix3ynlca7bdouvjmpkq3mzvjflb4@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Normal Discord interaction.
Me flipping upside down and going immobile after someone taps the glass.
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Me flipping upside down and going immobile after someone taps the glass.
I walked a different way than usual this morning and found some Nazi-style sculptures outside the sports complex in Puteaux. On looking into it, the left was by Gaston Cadenet in 1943 and the right by Guy-Charles Revol in 1945. Both very alike to Arno Breker in style. Lingering fascist art.
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I walked a different way than usual this morning and found some Nazi-style sculptures outside the sports complex in Puteaux. On looking into it, the left was by Gaston Cadenet in 1943 and the right by Guy-Charles Revol in 1945. Both very alike to Arno Breker in style. Lingering fascist art.
I am ready.
(Stolen from a Reddit comment.)
(Stolen from a Reddit comment.)
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I am ready.
(Stolen from a Reddit comment.)
(Stolen from a Reddit comment.)
This comically bad French flag on this (I think) fascist sticker I saw in Boulogne-Billancourt today really captures AI being the visual language of fascism.
I’m curious though if anyone else knows what’s going on here with these two stickers.
I’m curious though if anyone else knows what’s going on here with these two stickers.
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This comically bad French flag on this (I think) fascist sticker I saw in Boulogne-Billancourt today really captures AI being the visual language of fascism.
I’m curious though if anyone else knows what’s going on here with these two stickers.
I’m curious though if anyone else knows what’s going on here with these two stickers.
Dunningkrugodon among the bones of the old giants. It is their world now.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Dunningkrugodon among the bones of the old giants. It is their world now.
The nature of the death of online learning is oft-debated.
![Discord screenshot of me (General Secretary Jacob Khan).
“The slow burn of a massive pseudohistory industry.”
[image representing the Deccan Traps, with dinosaurs on the ground in front of erupting volcanoes]
“The sudden and tumultuous domination of the internet by AI.”
[image of the K-T impactor hitting the Earth while pterosaurs fly by]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7nmvmrqm7o2p4ookku6dyrsn/bafkreidu7ypmuylyw7pvpigolz6lefayjvyxojf7og4wd6grbenhebcgdi@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The nature of the death of online learning is oft-debated.
📜 🪶 Sir, I write to you with the utmost urgency and to be carried by the fastest horse.
New York is going to elect Zohran Mamdani, a practitioner of the religion of the Turks.
Have the youth no memory of the Barbary Wars? How will our merchants carry out their trade duties? A Tripolitan plot!
New York is going to elect Zohran Mamdani, a practitioner of the religion of the Turks.
Have the youth no memory of the Barbary Wars? How will our merchants carry out their trade duties? A Tripolitan plot!
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
📜 🪶 Sir, I write to you with the utmost urgency and to be carried by the fastest horse.
New York is going to elect Zohran Mamdani, a practitioner of the religion of the Turks.
Have the youth no memory of the Barbary Wars? How will our merchants carry out their trade duties? A Tripolitan plot!
New York is going to elect Zohran Mamdani, a practitioner of the religion of the Turks.
Have the youth no memory of the Barbary Wars? How will our merchants carry out their trade duties? A Tripolitan plot!