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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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November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Well, it is a name invented by Shakespeare so it has excellent dramatic flair.
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Absolutely. I think people also get away with it because they can tell themselves that “smart” is a positive portrayal. Same thing that happens in stereotypes of Jews.
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
👁️ 👄 👁️
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It isn’t. I guess I’m just… surprised sometimes at the difference between how the people in the other democratic contexts I’m most familiar with—American, French, Israeli—are all seemingly far more likely to be politically engaged than the British people I know.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sorry, Britain, not the UK, especially since 1066 was long before the union of those crowns and the Glorious Revolution was when England, Scotland, and Ireland were still legally separate kingdoms, even if de facto not.
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I think you’re right. I think there’s a prevailing narrative of the UK as unconquerable (since 1066 and please ignore William III occupying London with Dutch troops) and, because of this, incapable of being oppressed. There’s no founding revolution like in many countries.
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In a lot of World War II-period media, the Japanese have an infiltrator role (often with comparisons to rats) that plays to anti-immigration sentiment at the time and of course manifested in Japanese-American interment. I think that engine of history is still running under the hood sometimes.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I promise I won’t tell anyone if you decide to salt your saltines.
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Homie, I dunno how else to say this except that you have the coziest eye contact.
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s kinda sad to see.

I know a lot of British people just on account of teaching English in Europe. They’re most of the people at the office for that. And I feel like the baseline political consciousness is just so low. I feel like I follow their politics better than most of them.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
There’s barely household-name figures that fought for rights in Britain to the same extent an American can at least name-drop Martin Luther King, Jr. Maybe Florence Nightingale as a go-to suffragette but she’s not nearly as big and really primarily known for other things.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I wonder if English history leads to rights being taken for granted. Aside from the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution, England (sorry, we know which is normative country for setting discourse standards in the UK) has never really had a recent rebellion that overturned the government.
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Incredible cozy vibes there!
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Nah. You leave funny comments.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Tantalus in Tartarus over there sounds like.
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Yeah, I think also a lot of that is taboos that were unbroken. Like Trump was the first ever to try to meaningfully disrupt the transfer of power and he has been far more open with things you’re not supposed to say. All the people in the office played within certain confines that are disrupted.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM