Mike Duncan
@mikeduncan.bsky.social
History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
I got some new glasses recently and the guy was about to start talking about the importance of the little special cloth and I was just like look man you know and I know I'm gonna use my shirt so lets skip this part
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I got some new glasses recently and the guy was about to start talking about the importance of the little special cloth and I was just like look man you know and I know I'm gonna use my shirt so lets skip this part
This is utterly beside the point but does my profile really show when I joined and say "Bluesky Elder" when I do a post? I don't see that when I look at it myself?
October 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This is utterly beside the point but does my profile really show when I joined and say "Bluesky Elder" when I do a post? I don't see that when I look at it myself?
oh sorry meant to drop a link to that today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Men do spend more time than women thinking about the Roman Empire — and World War II | YouGov
There are sizable differences in the amount of time that men and women spend thinking about historical topics, a recent YouGov survey finds — with men generally saying they spend more time than women ...
today.yougov.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
oh sorry meant to drop a link to that today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Also just to clear this up my pod comrade @dhmontgomery.com wrote up a poll back in the heyday of Men Think About the Roman Empire Everyday. It's not even close to true. Only like 4% of us are true Roman history sickos
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Also just to clear this up my pod comrade @dhmontgomery.com wrote up a poll back in the heyday of Men Think About the Roman Empire Everyday. It's not even close to true. Only like 4% of us are true Roman history sickos
We can't cede every space, topic, and platform to the Nazis just cause there are Nazis there. Sometimes we have to stay seated to maintain a beachhead of normal, cool, and good
October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We can't cede every space, topic, and platform to the Nazis just cause there are Nazis there. Sometimes we have to stay seated to maintain a beachhead of normal, cool, and good
I am simultaneously exhausted beyond comprehension and completely wired. I will now be putting on the Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra and will watch it until sleep comes for me. Or death. Whichever. Both fine
October 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I am simultaneously exhausted beyond comprehension and completely wired. I will now be putting on the Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra and will watch it until sleep comes for me. Or death. Whichever. Both fine
Ironically there is a person here who totally sounds like a moderately hallucinatory AI chatbot and it's not Kelsey
October 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ironically there is a person here who totally sounds like a moderately hallucinatory AI chatbot and it's not Kelsey
Oh yeah fascism then and now is absolutely a revolutionary movement. Just a right-wing one
October 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Oh yeah fascism then and now is absolutely a revolutionary movement. Just a right-wing one
When I go into detail moving through these things day-by-day week-by-week rather than just skipping from one Big Event to the next, I'm hoping the listeners take away that even a revolution is a slow moving process with lots of downtime and accumulation of small events
October 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
When I go into detail moving through these things day-by-day week-by-week rather than just skipping from one Big Event to the next, I'm hoping the listeners take away that even a revolution is a slow moving process with lots of downtime and accumulation of small events
I was for some reason supremely zen yday. Built a dresser while watching the game. We lost. OK. Tonight finally got to me and I spent the last two innings pacing nonstop
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I was for some reason supremely zen yday. Built a dresser while watching the game. We lost. OK. Tonight finally got to me and I spent the last two innings pacing nonstop
I'm only half kidding when I say my last remaining ambition is to get us on an episode of Nailed It. We made this exploding Nerds Cake the other day just for the hell of it
August 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I'm only half kidding when I say my last remaining ambition is to get us on an episode of Nailed It. We made this exploding Nerds Cake the other day just for the hell of it
Well as it happens me and my daughter do a lot of baking together so yeah it's prob gonna smell like cupcakes or cookies. But if you're in my house that means you'll get a cupcake or a cookie!
August 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Well as it happens me and my daughter do a lot of baking together so yeah it's prob gonna smell like cupcakes or cookies. But if you're in my house that means you'll get a cupcake or a cookie!