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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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…
livinginthelongueduree.com
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.
As a (pretty much entirely passing) bisexual, I wanna say that while that percentage of straight (British) women unwilling to date bi men is really high, I feel like it doesn’t affect dating that much because the type of person that gets the ick from queerness is incompatible with my values anyway.
66% of straight women are unwilling to date a bisexual man, our study finds ahead of #BiVisibility Day
% unwilling to date bi men
Straight women 66%
Bi men 15%
Gay men 11%
Bi women 10%
% unwilling to date bi women
Straight men 35%
Lesbian women 20%
Bi men 9%
Bi women 3%
yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
% unwilling to date bi men
Straight women 66%
Bi men 15%
Gay men 11%
Bi women 10%
% unwilling to date bi women
Straight men 35%
Lesbian women 20%
Bi men 9%
Bi women 3%
yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
September 22, 2026 at 7:47 PM
As a (pretty much entirely passing) bisexual, I wanna say that while that percentage of straight (British) women unwilling to date bi men is really high, I feel like it doesn’t affect dating that much because the type of person that gets the ick from queerness is incompatible with my values anyway.
No, I can’t do irrigation or writing. But I can paint in red ochre, hunt a mammoth, and fashion reparative adhesives from birch bark.
Kids these days are always on their pottery but back in my day we had to use a gourd. Do you know what a gourd is?
Kids these days are always on their pottery but back in my day we had to use a gourd. Do you know what a gourd is?
September 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM
No, I can’t do irrigation or writing. But I can paint in red ochre, hunt a mammoth, and fashion reparative adhesives from birch bark.
Kids these days are always on their pottery but back in my day we had to use a gourd. Do you know what a gourd is?
Kids these days are always on their pottery but back in my day we had to use a gourd. Do you know what a gourd is?
Social developments have occurred in Jacob’s life and he might crack open the book to learn some Catalan again.
Languages that I don’t encounter very often are an attractive trait if you wanna be my friend or lover, just so y’all know.
Languages that I don’t encounter very often are an attractive trait if you wanna be my friend or lover, just so y’all know.
September 22, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Social developments have occurred in Jacob’s life and he might crack open the book to learn some Catalan again.
Languages that I don’t encounter very often are an attractive trait if you wanna be my friend or lover, just so y’all know.
Languages that I don’t encounter very often are an attractive trait if you wanna be my friend or lover, just so y’all know.
Blessed goober creature.
Happy #WorldRhinoDay! 🦏
Here's a two-horned African rhinoceros depicted on the Nilotic mosaic from the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Praeneste. Palestrina Museo Archeologico.
Here's a two-horned African rhinoceros depicted on the Nilotic mosaic from the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Praeneste. Palestrina Museo Archeologico.
September 22, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Blessed goober creature.
Incredible.
@himmapaan.bsky.social’s ask shall be answered. The bit is drawn!
Behold, the definitely real and totally-not-just-a-joke new species of scansoriopterygid: Yi haw.
Behold, the definitely real and totally-not-just-a-joke new species of scansoriopterygid: Yi haw.
September 22, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Incredible.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Saw this article and told the roommate and the dog “new monitor lizard just dropped” and then @cascoclauda.bsky.social messaged me minutes later “new monitor lizard just dropped” because we have the same brain.
Saw this article and told the roommate and the dog “new monitor lizard just dropped” and then @cascoclauda.bsky.social messaged me minutes later “new monitor lizard just dropped” because we have the same brain.
A new Varanus species (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanidae) from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa
Varanid material from the Varswater Formation (Early Pliocene, 5.1 Ma) of Langebaanweg (LBW), Western Cape Province, South Africa, is described. The presence of Varanus in the LBW fauna was first r...
www.tandfonline.com
September 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Saw this article and told the roommate and the dog “new monitor lizard just dropped” and then @cascoclauda.bsky.social messaged me minutes later “new monitor lizard just dropped” because we have the same brain.
Saw this article and told the roommate and the dog “new monitor lizard just dropped” and then @cascoclauda.bsky.social messaged me minutes later “new monitor lizard just dropped” because we have the same brain.
Hello to the person who got banned by a different person on a subreddit for posting about Jewish financiers destroying the Ottoman Empire and then found me on Discord to message me an appeal and found me on Bluesky to ethnicity-check me when I was negative. No, I don’t believe you are not racist.
September 21, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Hello to the person who got banned by a different person on a subreddit for posting about Jewish financiers destroying the Ottoman Empire and then found me on Discord to message me an appeal and found me on Bluesky to ethnicity-check me when I was negative. No, I don’t believe you are not racist.
For years, this has been the only song I’ve allowed myself to listen to on September 21, by the way. It’s just on repeat right now.
Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changin’ the minds of pretenders while chasin’ the clouds away.
September 21, 2026 at 6:16 AM
For years, this has been the only song I’ve allowed myself to listen to on September 21, by the way. It’s just on repeat right now.
Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changin’ the minds of pretenders while chasin’ the clouds away.
September 21, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changin’ the minds of pretenders while chasin’ the clouds away.
Never mind: it’s got a disk-reading issue and isn’t gonna work so I gotta take everything down again so I can sleep.
Rate my setup: Nintendo Wii with Mario Kart Wii (2008). No desk or table so the TV is placed on the side of my bed. No working light besides a lamp in my bedroom. A TSA-taped shoebox supports the sensor for the Wii remotes. My material lifeways are already bunker-core.
September 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Never mind: it’s got a disk-reading issue and isn’t gonna work so I gotta take everything down again so I can sleep.
Rate my setup: Nintendo Wii with Mario Kart Wii (2008). No desk or table so the TV is placed on the side of my bed. No working light besides a lamp in my bedroom. A TSA-taped shoebox supports the sensor for the Wii remotes. My material lifeways are already bunker-core.
September 20, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Rate my setup: Nintendo Wii with Mario Kart Wii (2008). No desk or table so the TV is placed on the side of my bed. No working light besides a lamp in my bedroom. A TSA-taped shoebox supports the sensor for the Wii remotes. My material lifeways are already bunker-core.
A long time ago I started a subreddit called r/Meshitpostamia and it never took off so you all have to deal with this here from time to time.
What if we kissed in front of the Eanna temple of Ishtar? 😳 😳 😳
Baby, call me a votive figurine because you have me staring wide-eyed.
Are you a shaduf? ‘Cause when we dance, every dip and spin makes me feel refreshed.
Ur setting a Royal Standard for hot-girl Sumer.
Show me your Nippur.
Baby, call me a votive figurine because you have me staring wide-eyed.
Are you a shaduf? ‘Cause when we dance, every dip and spin makes me feel refreshed.
Ur setting a Royal Standard for hot-girl Sumer.
Show me your Nippur.
September 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
A long time ago I started a subreddit called r/Meshitpostamia and it never took off so you all have to deal with this here from time to time.
What if we kissed in front of the Eanna temple of Ishtar? 😳 😳 😳
Baby, call me a votive figurine because you have me staring wide-eyed.
Are you a shaduf? ‘Cause when we dance, every dip and spin makes me feel refreshed.
Ur setting a Royal Standard for hot-girl Sumer.
Show me your Nippur.
Baby, call me a votive figurine because you have me staring wide-eyed.
Are you a shaduf? ‘Cause when we dance, every dip and spin makes me feel refreshed.
Ur setting a Royal Standard for hot-girl Sumer.
Show me your Nippur.
September 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
What if we kissed in front of the Eanna temple of Ishtar? 😳 😳 😳
Baby, call me a votive figurine because you have me staring wide-eyed.
Are you a shaduf? ‘Cause when we dance, every dip and spin makes me feel refreshed.
Ur setting a Royal Standard for hot-girl Sumer.
Show me your Nippur.
Baby, call me a votive figurine because you have me staring wide-eyed.
Are you a shaduf? ‘Cause when we dance, every dip and spin makes me feel refreshed.
Ur setting a Royal Standard for hot-girl Sumer.
Show me your Nippur.
One of my friends is reading the Baburnama, the memoir of Mughal Empire founder Babur, and I guess Babur likes to insult his enemies by insulting their poetry, which is definitely very much a Turco-Persianate nobility thing, but I think that’s how politicians should continue to slam each other.
September 20, 2026 at 3:22 PM
One of my friends is reading the Baburnama, the memoir of Mughal Empire founder Babur, and I guess Babur likes to insult his enemies by insulting their poetry, which is definitely very much a Turco-Persianate nobility thing, but I think that’s how politicians should continue to slam each other.
So both of these guys get claimed as the oldest recorded person’s name in the historical record. Whose team are you on?
Kushim (𒆪𒋆; c. 3400-3000 BC), a signature on multiple accounting documents from the Eanna district of Uruk, or Iry-Hor (𓅃𓂋; c. 3170 BC), a possible pre-unification Memphite king.
Kushim (𒆪𒋆; c. 3400-3000 BC), a signature on multiple accounting documents from the Eanna district of Uruk, or Iry-Hor (𓅃𓂋; c. 3170 BC), a possible pre-unification Memphite king.
September 20, 2026 at 9:35 AM
So both of these guys get claimed as the oldest recorded person’s name in the historical record. Whose team are you on?
Kushim (𒆪𒋆; c. 3400-3000 BC), a signature on multiple accounting documents from the Eanna district of Uruk, or Iry-Hor (𓅃𓂋; c. 3170 BC), a possible pre-unification Memphite king.
Kushim (𒆪𒋆; c. 3400-3000 BC), a signature on multiple accounting documents from the Eanna district of Uruk, or Iry-Hor (𓅃𓂋; c. 3170 BC), a possible pre-unification Memphite king.
I choose you, mušḫuššu (𒈲𒍽)!
These spunky Mesopotamian guys are a combination of a snake, a lion, and an eagle and they are a popular decorative motif as a sacred animal of the Babylonian national god Marduk. Here depicted on Nebuchadnezzar II’s Ishtar Gate of Babylon around 569 BC.
These spunky Mesopotamian guys are a combination of a snake, a lion, and an eagle and they are a popular decorative motif as a sacred animal of the Babylonian national god Marduk. Here depicted on Nebuchadnezzar II’s Ishtar Gate of Babylon around 569 BC.
September 19, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I choose you, mušḫuššu (𒈲𒍽)!
These spunky Mesopotamian guys are a combination of a snake, a lion, and an eagle and they are a popular decorative motif as a sacred animal of the Babylonian national god Marduk. Here depicted on Nebuchadnezzar II’s Ishtar Gate of Babylon around 569 BC.
These spunky Mesopotamian guys are a combination of a snake, a lion, and an eagle and they are a popular decorative motif as a sacred animal of the Babylonian national god Marduk. Here depicted on Nebuchadnezzar II’s Ishtar Gate of Babylon around 569 BC.
By the way, if you’re in Paris and looking for an underrated museum, Mundolingua is wonderful. It’s a little museum dedicated to language that manages to have a ton of interesting stuff for how small the space is. Everything in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, and Arabic.
September 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM
By the way, if you’re in Paris and looking for an underrated museum, Mundolingua is wonderful. It’s a little museum dedicated to language that manages to have a ton of interesting stuff for how small the space is. Everything in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, and Arabic.
Some of y’all accuse me of being a Mongol apologist but maybe that’s just ‘cause you aren’t taking proper care of your horses and you treat women as objects.
Thank you Kublai Khan for stamping out the horny government officials. Order has finally been restored to the provinces.
September 19, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Some of y’all accuse me of being a Mongol apologist but maybe that’s just ‘cause you aren’t taking proper care of your horses and you treat women as objects.
You guys will never have as much game as me.
Hey, are you the leviathan in Psalm 104:26? Because I wanna frolic with you.
September 19, 2026 at 6:09 AM
You guys will never have as much game as me.
A while back in the Byzantine Discord server I was called Basileios Basilosaurus and that was a whole era. I ensured all the Eastern Roman Empire fanboys were familiar with this cool prehistoric whale.
Porphyrios secret third species (im)possibility.
Porphyrios secret third species (im)possibility.
I like Basilosaurus.
September 18, 2026 at 7:44 PM
A while back in the Byzantine Discord server I was called Basileios Basilosaurus and that was a whole era. I ensured all the Eastern Roman Empire fanboys were familiar with this cool prehistoric whale.
Porphyrios secret third species (im)possibility.
Porphyrios secret third species (im)possibility.
Would you guys, though?
September 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Would you guys, though?
I like Basilosaurus.
September 18, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I like Basilosaurus.
Hi, my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if you don’t know who she is get the hell o
September 17, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Hi, my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if you don’t know who she is get the hell o
I think the most frustrating thing about dealing with nationalists in history spaces is that they have no underlying fascination whatsoever.
All their energy is into whether or not some person or group shares a category with them and that must be the case to have self-permission to take interest.
All their energy is into whether or not some person or group shares a category with them and that must be the case to have self-permission to take interest.
Today in moderating an Islamic history space on Reddit: quality poster makes an excellently sourced write-up on how Amazigh peoples both resisted and participated in the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb and someone else rants in modmail about how this is erasing the Arab history of the region.
September 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM
I think the most frustrating thing about dealing with nationalists in history spaces is that they have no underlying fascination whatsoever.
All their energy is into whether or not some person or group shares a category with them and that must be the case to have self-permission to take interest.
All their energy is into whether or not some person or group shares a category with them and that must be the case to have self-permission to take interest.
Today in moderating an Islamic history space on Reddit: quality poster makes an excellently sourced write-up on how Amazigh peoples both resisted and participated in the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb and someone else rants in modmail about how this is erasing the Arab history of the region.
September 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Today in moderating an Islamic history space on Reddit: quality poster makes an excellently sourced write-up on how Amazigh peoples both resisted and participated in the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb and someone else rants in modmail about how this is erasing the Arab history of the region.