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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

www.newsweek.com/fire-bull-se... “Massive Semen Explosion after Blaze Hits Bull Artificial Insemination Farm: Fire at Yarram Herd Services in Victoria, Australia described as ‘major blow’ for farmers.”

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah, I think that’s a good description.

Yarram Herd Services Committee vice chairman Aaron Thomas said the loss of 100 cryogenic cylinders of cattle semen will be a “huge blow” for the farmers.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can’t help but think of Harry Harlow’s deeply abusive isolation experiments with baby rhesus monkeys left with a mechanical artificial mother. It’s obviously not as extreme as that was but it’s really vile that there is an emerging type of parenting on a spectrum with this.

A baby rhesus monkey clings to a mechanical doll made to appear like a mother monkey in one of Harry Harlow’s “Pit of Despair” experiments.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The babysitting kids had a little disagreement today regarding basketball and then didn’t want to do anything, so I just started doodling mythical creatures and after a bit they joined me. They wanted me to take mine home so here they are if anyone else wants to get colored pencils and join me.

Two sheets of paper with colored-pencil drawings on them. On the left is a Chinese dragon reimagined as a wetlands animal. It hisses at the viewer, tongue out and head ornaments flaring. Its long body is mostly on the lightly vegetated beach but its tail moves visibly in the lake it has just exited. The lake has some lily-like blue plants growing in it. Next to the dragon’s serpentine body is a clutch of four golden eggs. On the right is an unfinished drawing of a kraken, imagined as a squid, which lifts and disassembles an early modern European ship above the surface of the water. The ship and the ten tentacles drip with water. The head of the animal is mostly submerged deep beneath the waves and has colossal red eyes.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think I’m gonna go with a different mythological figure but it’s crossed my mind so I’m putting it out there that Shiva in his depiction as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance, would be very cool to put together as a Halloween costume. Maybe in the future with more time for technical details.

Copper statue of Shiva as Nataraja from the late 900s AD of Tamil Nadu under the Chola Dynasty. He is depicted under a ring of flames dancing on the dwarf demon Apasmara. Shiva has four arms which hold his various symbols and are posed in elaborate active dance. He wears a crown and the locks of his hair fan out behind him.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[waking up at like 5:45 AM with an alarm set for 7:10] “Agh, I need more sleep.” 🧠 “You can check the Brazilian election results.” “No, I think I won’t get any more sleep if I do.” 🧠 “Yeah, but you have to know.”

Two comic panels of someone lying in bed trying to sleep before suddenly opening up their phone.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The vibes among the friend circle watching this happen.

Dr. Seuss:
INSURE YOUR HOME AGAINST HITLER!
Buy WAR SAVINGS BONDS & STAMPS

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Proto-Indo-European source of our word “oxen” (presumably originally referring broadly to male animals) possibly being etymologically interpreted as “besprinkler” is not funny but I find it funny. This bull is my finest besprinkler. Watch him besprinkle.

The prefix *uks-en- is possibly from the reconstructed root *uks- which has been translated as ‘to sprinkle’. It could also relate to ugw-, relating to ‘wet’ or ‘moist’. Therefore, *uks-en- could be translated to ‘besprinkler’. Another interpretation could take the en- root, meaning ‘onto’, into account, translating the term as ‘to sprinkle onto’.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was the mofo we were fighting with, albeit with a bigger head that was doing an uncharacteristic amount of biting. This image is from a June 22, 1912 edition of Popular Mechanics. One of the all-time greats.

Was Most Grotesque Animal

STEGOSAUR, WHO LIVED IN UTAH AGES AGO, IS A FREAK OF NATURE.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I fought a vintage Stegosaurus in my dream last night and it was this one.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Over at r/DankChristianMemes, they wanted an announcement post inviting people to celebrate human artistry over using AI-generated imagery and I was picked as writer for that. I needed a meme to act as header image so I decided to make a little homage to Christian art traditions.

The top features The Creation of Adam with God saying “Let us create man in our own image” and Adam responding “I, too, shall create.” What surrounds them is a collage of historical Christian art from around the world.

Images in the meme:

Top center: The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, created around 1512 for the Sistine Chapel.

Top left: The Archangel Michael by Guido Reni, a Bolognese artist working around 1630.

Top right: Angel of the Revelation by William Blake, working between 1803 and 1805.

Left: A folio showing Christ enthroned from the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the gospels created around 800 AD in Ireland.

Center top: St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, consecrated in 1626 and worked on by various architects.

Center lower left: The revered image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, representing a Marian apparition reported in Mexico City in 1531.

Lower middle center: A mosaic icon of Christ Pantocrator dating to the late 1200s and installed in the Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia.

Upper right middle: A Chinese painting of the Last Supper dating to 1938 by Chen Yuandu.

Lower middle right: An Ethiopian Orthodox icon showing St. George slaying the dragon, the crucifixion of Jesus, and the Virgin Mary, dating to the early 1900s.

Right: A Russian icon representing the Holy Trinity dating to around 1700 and created by Tikhon Filatiev.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What if nostalgic aesthetic but it’s called Frutiger Ediacaran for people who miss when the future seemed bright before the Cambrian (yuck, things with eyes)? Fishless fish-tank screensavers full of Charnia fronds and lively colors for reminiscing about the Avalon explosion 575 million years ago.

Smithsonian diorama showing various marine Ediacaran biota, most prominently the frond-like Charnia.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So this is trinitite, a glassy material primarily of quartz and feldspar, formed in the blast of the 1945 Trinity nuclear test. Crystal-rock-energy people, I wanna know: what would the mystical properties of trinitite be? Are its vibes really bad and evil? Or is it that good good rare super aura?

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oo, that thumbnail is really bad. It appears to be working with the already inaccurate Jurassic World model for Therizinosaurus, a relative of the new Kayrasaurus. Here’s a scientific illustration of Kayrasaurus by Connor Ashbridge. These were herbivores and very much not horror monsters.

Illustration of Kayrasaurus, a therizinosaur with smaller claws than some of its relatives and an elongated face with a smaller claws than beak.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of my online friends just sent me this picture and they said they have a gift for me when we finally meet. Holy shit, I am so excited for the Herbert Hoover socks. 💕 We’re going into the Great Depression with this one, homies.

A hand holds up socks labeled “President Herbert Hoover” with a picture of his face. A quote is present: “Progress is born of cooperation in the community—not from government restraint.” Below is Herbert Hoover’s signature. Behind my friend’s hand is a scenic natural field backdrop and a park-service sign is labeled “Tall Grasses and Open Skies.”

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know the LinkedIn imaginary-dialogue-flex post is a literary tradition and genre of itself at this point, but I do wonder, from a job-hunt perspective of course, if your lacking skills as a writer are actually something you should flaunt in this way. Where’s the hook, the emotion, the pacing?

HR: “Your expected salary is 90,000?”

Candidate: “Yes. The job posting mentioned a salary range of 75,000-1,00,000, and based on my skills, experience, and the responsibilities of this role, I believe 90,000 is fair.”

HR: “We’re going to offer you 150,000 instead.”

Candidate: “Isn’t that above your budget?”

HR: “Yes. From your résumé and your interview, we realized that you’re overqualified for this role.”

Candidate: “I didn’t expect this, to be honest.”

HR: “We want to benefit from and learn more from your experience and qualifications.”

Candidate: “Well, I thought you were going to reject me because I’m overqualified.”

HR: “No. The manager said we can’t afford to lose you to our rivals.”

Candidate: “I never thought I would come across this type of interview.”

HR: “Here is your offer. You should report on Monday!”

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook fed me this and my sleepy eyes thought it was spooky azhdarchid paleoart but then I realized it wasn’t.

Know Your Meme
@knowyourmeme

We can all go home. Bro found the stick.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mysterious. Anyway, we also have this early-1900s German Imperial army ceremonial sword.

German Empire sword leaning against entryway shelf while Agnès the dachshund runs by.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr5... So there’s this Ur III Dynasty Sumerian (21st century BC) poem called the Debate Between the Hoe and the Plow and it’s these two farming tools going off on each other about who’s better until the god Enlil himself favors the hoe. Straight fire.

O the Hoe, the Hoe, the Hoe, tied together with thongs; the Hoe, made from poplar, with a tooth of ash; the Hoe, made from tamarisk, with a tooth of sea-thorn; the Hoe, double-toothed, four-toothed; the Hoe, child of the poor, ….. bereft even of a loin-cloth (?) — the Hoe started a quarrel ….. with the Plough.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s a Prehistoric Kingdom achievement called Noah’s Park that requires having 2 of every animal species but I’m encouraging completionists to have 14 Megaloceros (kosher animal) and similar numbers of Yi, Archaeopteryx, and Microraptor (probably halakhically birds) as Noah was commanded.

Genesis 7:2-3 NRSVUE:

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate; and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the earth.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day to the best to ever do it, Alexander the Great. Depicted is the Stag Hunt Mosaic from a wealthy house in Pella, capital of ancient Macedon, around 300 BC. Many scholars think Alexander is on the right and his bodyguard and possible lover Hephaestion on the left.

Two naked muscular men in capes hunt a stag. The possible Alexander is on the right holding an antler with one hand while holding a sword in the other to dispatch the creature while the possible Hephaestion is on the left wielding a double-headed ax, which may reference his namesake Hephaestus. If this identification is correct, the dog attacking the stag may be Peritas.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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.

A Sumerian clay tablet documenting barley quantities and signed Kushim in the upper left in early cuneiform script.

Two inscribed characters on a vessel from the tomb of Iry-Hor, showing a rudimentary bird shape and the rough shape of the Egyptian character for a mouth.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

$Isaac Newton refracting light in a prism experiment.$

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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.

A mušḫuššu in golden-painted relief on the blue brick wall of the Ishtar Gate, as in the Pergamon Museum. The animal has the general stature of a lion with the head and tail of a snake and the talons and feathers of an eagle.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Agnès says nappy time. Hey, love you lots. Sorry the waters are rough but you’re a better sailor than you think I think.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Would you still love me if I was built like this?

1845 reconstruction of “Hydrarchos,” a busted sea monster skeleton made of multiple specimens of the prehistoric whale Basilosaurus to end up with a weird serpentine appearance.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I made this like five years ago because I was annoyed by interacting with these people.

Virgin Academic Historical Interest vs. Chad Picking Some State and Simping It.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Me vanishing into your hair.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We really gotta hammer in the basic fact that performative posturing on social media about how “wow, they didn’t teach this in school” is not educating people if the information itself is not of the quality to educate. Maybe try this map from the Smithsonian for groups in what is now the US.

A Smithsonian map of indigenous groups in what is now the United States shortly before colonization of given regions.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is why I evolve horse feet.

Horse foot evolution diagram showing Hyracotherium, Miohippus, Merychippus, and Equus.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My return to the apartment has made baby Agnès so happy. She was running back and forth excitedly and has been jumping at my legs. Now I’ve taken her onto my lap and she’s taken my left arm captive as a pillow.

Agnès the miniature dachshund puppy on my lap.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just finished reading After 1177 B.C. by Eric Cline, which follows up on his previous book with a discussion of how civilizations fared, recovered, and were replaced in the early Iron Age of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Solidly recommend and it does well to dispel the “Dark Age.”

AFTER 1177 B.C.
THE SURVIVAL OF CIVILIZATIONS

ERIC H. CLINE
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF 1177 B.C.

“A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful.”
—NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, bestselling author of The Black Swan

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sending this to your DMs to get your attention.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think Dryosaurus would be an excellent medium-sized domestication candidate. Muscular, not particularly dangerous, probably herdable, big dumb.

Dryosaurus elderae compared to a human and shown to be about 3 meters long.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The vibes here are like George III strolling into Parliament in 1783 and saying “we should change New York City to New George City because that will show them.” Trump’s mind space is so fucking strange. He might be deep enough in the slopverse to actually think he’s winning? Or not? I dunno???

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump September 2, 2026, 15:23 UTC

Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be “hotter” than ever before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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