historians were far too skeptical about Suetonius's stories of the emperors is what I'm getting from this era
historians were far too skeptical about Suetonius's stories of the emperors is what I'm getting from this era
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
Is the media ever going to report that this dude is psychotic or nah
Suetonius vindicated
still crazy my student pointed out how Tiberius's island was basically Epstein's Little St James completely unprompted
Holy shit
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'
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...
I mean I might have to reread the section in question but that sounds rather like Tiberius actually bsky.app/profile/noon...
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
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.
I thought the grooming rumours surrounding Tiberias were thought to be malicious gossip?
Not quite, unless Tiberius felt the need to bring senators and client kings there for blackmail purposes
Wait, on his order, water reservoires in California had to be emptied right?
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
The reality was probably much, much stupider and more unbelievable.
TIL California is pouring scarce water resources into a giant salty ocean because its Woke
Caligula definitely did all that shit
Horse senator horse senator
He's so fucking stupid
People are saying maybe even the stupidest to ever exist.
Gavin should send a tweet. "10-4 sir, all the water valves have been turned back on."
Aye, Claudius
The Twelve Caesars is so good
Absolutely!