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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social

historians were far too skeptical about Suetonius's stories of the emperors is what I'm getting from this era

aug 26, 2025, 10:31 pm • 538 107

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social

He def thinks libs are dumping water into the ocean to raise the levels hes like two days away from making this thought explicit depending on if hes pressed

aug 26, 2025, 10:32 pm • 29 0 • view
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Bribleck @bribleck.bsky.social

Is the media ever going to report that this dude is psychotic or nah

aug 27, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Anonymous WPA Bureaucrat @charlesdeguava.bsky.social

Suetonius vindicated

aug 26, 2025, 10:37 pm • 11 0 • view
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social

still crazy my student pointed out how Tiberius's island was basically Epstein's Little St James completely unprompted

aug 26, 2025, 10:34 pm • 135 8 • view
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social

Holy shit

aug 26, 2025, 10:36 pm • 7 0 • view
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social

I'd warned him against being too free with his comparisons to modern life and I had to be like 'no, that one fits actually'

aug 26, 2025, 10:35 pm • 88 2 • view
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social

I mean, that was because it sounded too depraved to be real, which I think at this point we should know is not the barrier to confirmation in question bsky.app/profile/dhin...

aug 26, 2025, 11:31 pm • 36 1 • view
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social

I mean I might have to reread the section in question but that sounds rather like Tiberius actually bsky.app/profile/noon...

aug 27, 2025, 12:28 am • 13 0 • view
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nooneofcons.bsky.social @nooneofcons.bsky.social

I may be talking out of my ass, but I always got the impression, that besides the pedophilia, one of the reasons Tiberius went to Capri was to get away from dealing with anything to to with being emperor

aug 27, 2025, 12:31 am • 0 0 • view
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John @johnlk.bsky.social

Highlight of my "students comparison of something to modern life" is when my student said Gilgamesh and Enkidu were like Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in Step Brothers.

aug 26, 2025, 11:13 pm • 12 0 • view
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DHinrio @dhinrio.bsky.social

I thought the grooming rumours surrounding Tiberias were thought to be malicious gossip?

aug 26, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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nooneofcons.bsky.social @nooneofcons.bsky.social

Not quite, unless Tiberius felt the need to bring senators and client kings there for blackmail purposes

aug 26, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jeroen @newsjunkbadger.bsky.social

Wait, on his order, water reservoires in California had to be emptied right?

aug 26, 2025, 11:15 pm • 6 0 • view
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clarissasorenson.bsky.social @clarissasorenson.bsky.social

A reservoir that did not drain to LA and was storing water to be used in the summer dry season was released to drown farmers fields and *tada* that fixed the LA wildfires according to Trump

aug 26, 2025, 11:18 pm • 9 0 • view
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social

The reality was probably much, much stupider and more unbelievable.

aug 26, 2025, 11:12 pm • 2 0 • view
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Wallace Fard Dude @stork-sculpture.bsky.social

TIL California is pouring scarce water resources into a giant salty ocean because its Woke

aug 27, 2025, 12:23 am • 1 0 • view
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🎩🦐☕️🏰🪸🌊 @theshrimpening2.bsky.social

Caligula definitely did all that shit

aug 26, 2025, 11:33 pm • 5 0 • view
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La Li Lu Le Labubu @ryanwu2438.bsky.social

Horse senator horse senator

aug 27, 2025, 12:36 am • 2 0 • view
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🎩🦐☕️🏰🪸🌊 @theshrimpening2.bsky.social

aug 27, 2025, 12:40 am • 2 0 • view
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social

He's so fucking stupid

aug 26, 2025, 10:58 pm • 14 0 • view
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social

People are saying maybe even the stupidest to ever exist.

aug 26, 2025, 11:13 pm • 11 0 • view
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Meadowbrook @meadowbrook7953.bsky.social

Gavin should send a tweet. "10-4 sir, all the water valves have been turned back on."

aug 26, 2025, 11:40 pm • 2 0 • view
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jody @jodyshenn.bsky.social

Aye, Claudius

aug 26, 2025, 11:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Patrick Benatar @poormarlowe.bsky.social

The Twelve Caesars is so good

aug 26, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social

Absolutely!

aug 26, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view