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Cave Cattum

@fgcallari.bsky.social

Father, son, holy ghost candidate. Computer visionista, former visual effects nerd. Now I drone, you drone, we all fly drones.

created November 14, 2024

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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

2/9/2025, 3:41:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Did Vance go to visit him yet?

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2/9/2025, 2:52:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Man, didn't know they gave those tests in the cockpit, and while flying too.

2/9/2025, 2:41:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Botox 'n' fillers, with Ketamine and coke, Hateful prayers and Strong tobacco smoke Fascists in masks With guns shoo-oo-ting These are just some Of her favorite things...

2/9/2025, 2:36:31 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 4:13:22 PM | 17 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Grink Was Here (@thegrink.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To → And I Will Never Speak To You + I Do Not Want To Hear
1/9/2025, 10:19:36 PM | 344 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

That's Darwin Awards material.

2/9/2025, 1:46:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

The sad part is that Marinetti would just as likely be strung up as a pervert by this crowd of imbeciles on chatgpt-roids.

1/9/2025, 11:57:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

NI!

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1/9/2025, 11:55:05 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

locked. As i said, near panic, nearly sat down screaming, then I turned the umpteenth corner that looked like all the other corners and saw the blessed elevators at the end of this hallway. I ran out. Spent three more years living and studying in Montreal, never set foot in the Poly again.

1/9/2025, 10:19:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

walking I found them again. So yeah, I was looping around without realizing it. All the the time I was calling "Hello oooooh? Anyone here?" to no avail. And then I started going irrational, my pace more frantic turning around hallways that looked all the same. Tried opening doors, but all were

1/9/2025, 10:13:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

that floor). I started looking for the elevators or stairs more systematically. This floor was _large_. If you are familiar with Montreal you know how big the building of the Polytechnic is. After a while I felt I was going in circles. Dropped some pencils had in my pack to check, and after more

1/9/2025, 10:07:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Strangest thing: the doors were unmarked, no signs nor numbers. I looked around for an exit sign, a floorplan sign, but there were none, zero. OK, this is weird, I thought, maybe they are renovating this floor (they were, it was later explained to me, and the elevator was not supposed to stop at

1/9/2025, 10:03:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Realize something was wrong and this wasn't the ground floor I had entered earlier. So I start walking back to the elevators, take 2 or three more turns, no elevators. Just another hallway like the previous ones, similarly lit, like doors (all closed), like wall paint. Deserted. Then I noticed the

1/9/2025, 9:58:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Pushed the wrong button down without noticing. I was reading the paper that was being presented at the seminar, and was thus distracted when the doors opened and I walked out. Kept walking away from the elevators, then turned when I didn't see the exit, and it took me two or three more turns to

1/9/2025, 9:55:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

I was there to attend an evening seminar given by Joshua Bengio or one of his students (can't remember, it was the winter of 1995), but left halfway through, not feeling well. Might have had a fever, which could partly explain my subsequent confusion. Anyway, got into an elevator by myseld and

1/9/2025, 9:51:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Today someone mentioned visiting the Polytechnic in Montreal, and I had a flashback to a terrifying experience of getting lost in an empty and labyrinthine basement level there. By the time I found the exit, after about an hour of going in circles, I was as near panic mode as I've ever been.

1/9/2025, 9:46:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

The shine on the eggs is carefully crafted with a basting brush to blend the spit of all 12 members of the chef's crew. The sous-chef and saucier each worked on artisanally crafted loogies for the sides.

1/9/2025, 9:31:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Tramslation: - Trump sells worthless bytes for real $$$, at a known price set to guarantee him a handsome profit. - The price remains high while Trump is still selling, and suckers with MAGA hats still have enough life savings to dump. - Two days later it craters forever. Press prints 1-2 sobs

31/8/2025, 10:40:38 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted

Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.

30/8/2025, 6:55:23 PM | 6360 1334 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

He looks like once reingested, twice vomited gorgonzola cheese with a topping of mummified pubes.

30/8/2025, 3:00:09 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted

Good news everyone we can all go back to shitting in the drinking water for freedom

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29/8/2025, 8:21:12 PM | 3085 455 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

28/8/2025, 2:33:05 PM | 17407 6796 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy's Decameron

28/8/2025, 4:14:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

North Korean TV called, the want royalty payments or will sue her for blatant plagiarism.

27/8/2025, 3:40:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

There will be a free and fair (as usual, at least) 2026 election for Congress or, to put it simply, there won't be a Congress. There might be "something" sitting in the Capitol in DC, but it won't be owed allegiance by people born free and endowed by their creators with certain unalienable rights.

25/8/2025, 1:17:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.

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24/8/2025, 1:09:49 AM | 4452 1618 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

You see, they like to thinks of themselves as the mythical Spartans warriors. And just like the real Spartan warriors, they believe that sex with prepubescent boys is hot and builds character. These people are weird. Avoid them like the plague. Fight them when they become dangerous.

24/8/2025, 6:48:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Everything Trump Touches Dies.

24/8/2025, 6:41:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

A rare photo of Hitler preparing for negotiations with the Allies in April 1945.

A screenshot from the movie Downfall, parodying JD Vance's malicious ignorance of history
24/8/2025, 6:20:21 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

And these WW2 negotiators, JD, are they in the room with us now?

24/8/2025, 6:00:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

J.D. Vance tomorrow: "If you go back to WW2 it's pretty much clear that all the Nazi wanted was higher tariffs on imports of undesirable human beings, and a warrior ethos in their tough-on-crime policies. Oh, and they liked couches too."

24/8/2025, 5:51:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Having a fascist propaganda motto from the 1930 on your cap is weird too

Image of an Italian fascist monument built in the 1930s. It shows the Roman Eagle, an ancient Roman symbol appropriated by fascist propaganda. The text at the bottom says
24/8/2025, 5:13:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

The sad part is that they could even talk with the semi-retired folks in Pasadena CA who still run the Voyager mission, and they'd be delighted to explain how they STILL use 1970 tech to talk to a spacecraft flying beyond the edge of the solar system. But no, that'd be woke.

24/8/2025, 3:45:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Hei @grok, tell me like I am a 20 year old right-wing idiot, how did the North manage to win the Civil War before machine guns and tanks were invented?

24/8/2025, 2:40:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Is Rufo: * Filippo Marinetti, but with no style? * Giovanni Gentile, but with no education? * Joseph Goebbels, but with no charisma? * Achille Starace, but with no power? The last three didn't end well, especially uncomfortably so for the last one. Just sayin'...

23/8/2025, 6:16:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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23/8/2025, 1:29:21 AM | 10498 2998 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Dante's "contrapasso" mandates that Dobson will henceforth and for eternity be sodomized by endowed female-looking daemons. Sorry-not-sorry, I don't make the rules.

22/8/2025, 3:15:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

"Pan con burro" means Bread and butter in Italian Bread with donkey in Spanish

21/8/2025, 12:48:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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20/8/2025, 4:44:31 PM | 5492 1320 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Followup letter: "Dear Attorney General Pam Bondi: Some asshole has stolen your stationery and is sending bogus demand letters with your name. Kindly prosecute this federal crime at your earliest convenience."

20/8/2025, 2:29:25 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

But..but...YouTube 'fluencer says that tuberculosis bacteria from raw milk have benefits!! They make the survivors stronger!!! And everyone should get a little listeria once in a while to flush the pipes like with Listerine, but natural.

17/8/2025, 5:32:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sansu The Cat (@sansuthecat.bsky.social) reposted

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." - Abe Lincoln, 1859

16/8/2025, 1:53:01 PM | 829 258 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted

Disgusting.

15/8/2025, 8:48:54 PM | 1391 325 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted

ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up.

14/8/2025, 9:36:44 PM | 5021 2226 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) reposted

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador. on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

14/8/2025, 5:51:12 AM | 2295 856 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted

Ok this is my laugh for the night.

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12/8/2025, 1:29:25 AM | 14590 3400 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Sophomore, n.: Someone who knows not enough to do anything useful, but just enough to be dangerous, and is constantly amazed at their own ability to discover or invent novel things, such as, boiling water.

9/8/2025, 2:00:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted

And he’s working on it with Elizabeth Holmes.

8/8/2025, 9:27:01 PM | 441 61 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Talarico (@jamestalarico.bsky.social) reposted

Ken Paxton just filed a lawsuit to remove me from office. But this seat doesn’t belong to him or me — it belongs to the people. My message to Ken Paxton: Come and take it.

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8/8/2025, 8:23:25 PM | 12441 3954 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

DOCTORS W/O BORDERS: “‘This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing’ draws on medical data, patient testimonies — what has been branded “aid distribution” (secured by 🇺🇸 armed contractors) is institutionalised starvation & dehumanisation.” www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...

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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Elon Musk and Luke Farritor took care of the short-term massacre already, now it's time for pandemic-scale killings.

6/8/2025, 3:06:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Good question at the end. Please read. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

5/8/2025, 1:46:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

Here’s a 🔥🔥exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.

4/8/2025, 2:03:03 PM | 18205 5910 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

No. We don't lawfully do "cruel and unusual punishment" in this country. That's something that fascists and trumpis wet-dream of.

4/8/2025, 5:06:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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3/8/2025, 12:48:02 AM | 18593 5625 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Unusual Whales (@unusualwhales.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services

3/8/2025, 4:12:02 AM | 1198 168 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

2/8/2025, 3:05:40 PM | 6733 2325 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kvconner.bsky.social (@kvconner.bsky.social) reposted

In this “well-researched guide,” two of the world’s most respected scientists reveal the forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement—and offer “powerful ideas about how to fight back” (Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun)"

2/8/2025, 5:33:31 PM | 28 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

I lived in Palermo, Sicily, during the Second Mafia War, and never saw anyone whine as much as these scared-cat Republicans. Bet half of them go to sleep hugging their Teddy-AR.

2/8/2025, 3:20:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't wait to see all those algebraic geometry engineers submitting their 'what I accomplished this week' emails to Elmo.

1/8/2025, 9:40:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Comic relief from LinkedIn

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Profile picture southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) reposted

Donald Trump took away your Medicaid to build himself a gilded party room two acres in size.

1/8/2025, 12:26:10 AM | 2603 673 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

31/7/2025, 11:55:18 PM | 34802 10089 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

What is the difference between the White House and a boiler room engaged in pump-and-dump / insider-trading schemes?

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Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."

29/7/2025, 7:40:32 PM | 11567 2446 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Picked this up from a Little Free Library case. Man, I knew that Clancy's storytelling had gone from bad to worse in his later years, but this is actual raw sewage: page after page of stereotypes, racially biased cliches and a sprinkling of misogyny to flavor it up - and not even a compelling story.

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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Debate-me crew arguing that No True Scotsman can possibly hate JD Vance being launched at your feed in 3-2-1... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true...

29/7/2025, 5:27:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Separating guns from idiots would be a fair starting points, methinks...

29/7/2025, 1:46:36 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Same guy who called the Jan 6th rioters "peaceful protesters"? This guy?

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28/7/2025, 5:53:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

This particular therapy kept Italian fascists out of power for more than 50 years, though it's been failing lately. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazzal...

27/7/2025, 8:59:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social (@jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

There is a cure for this affliction.

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Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Endless grift with a side of cruelty @jojofromjerz.bsky.social

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Profile picture More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted

Contrary to popular belief you don’t have to be a pedo to be an elected Republican, but it obviously doesn’t hurt

27/7/2025, 2:20:42 AM | 2731 638 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Not happy? That's Azazello-stage pissed off.

27/7/2025, 2:59:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

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Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Trump got impeached the first time after trying to get Ukrainian prosecutors to smear his Democratic rival. Now he’s using a U.S. prosecutor to try and get Ghislaine Maxwell to smear a bunch of Democrats. Same corrupt criminal, same playbook.

27/7/2025, 12:40:14 AM | 10314 2371 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

CARTOON OF THE DAY (By John Deering)

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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

The scare quotes are superfluous. He is a Christian. The variety of Christianity he professes is only closer to the creed of the Dominican monks who tortured Jews and Muslims alike in the Spanish Inquisition. Christians don't get to forget 2000 years of horror and hypocrisy by quoting two parables.

26/7/2025, 1:37:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Full self-driving salmonella coming real soon now.

26/7/2025, 12:50:58 AM | 31 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Please, for the good of humanity, someone hand Mr. Thiessen a time machine so he can go talk to Mr. Alessandro Volta in 1800

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Profile picture Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted

We are all Jay Powell.

24/7/2025, 11:03:07 PM | 2170 466 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

Yes … what have we become?

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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Google, 1905: "Entschuldigung, Doktor Einstein, the Berne Patent Office is not a verified academic institution, guess your annus mirabilis will have to wait"

21/7/2025, 1:17:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) reposted

You've probably seen news recently about the Israeli military deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians seeking food and water at aid sites. Because it's difficult to truly grasp how often these war crimes are taking place, here is a thread of some distinct incidents since June 1. 🧵

20/7/2025, 11:18:44 PM | 554 257 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

A primer for the civically ill-informed.

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20/7/2025, 5:37:06 PM | 19037 6690 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted

DOGE took over the US Digital Service; what lessons can we learned from the civic tech movement that it eviscerated? @emilytav.bsky.social & Kathy Pham compiled a history of the the creation of USDS, and describe an alternative vision of govt tech. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/revisiting...

17/7/2025, 1:08:11 PM | 118 50 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Proudly brought to you by The Company for Carrying out an Auto Repair of Great Advantage, but Nobody to Know What It Is

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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

Meaning, not stopping Reconstruction until it had been as successful as denazification in Germany? Sure at least for 2-3 generations. Just hanging Lee and Co.? Not so sure. The Italians hung Mussolini upside-down, but the fascists never stopped trying to come back.

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Profile picture Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted

We could’ve had common sense gun regulations, but instead, we have drones following active shooters through our children’s schools…

16/7/2025, 4:17:04 PM | 2218 686 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted

Narrator: “That is not data.”

14/7/2025, 11:21:08 PM | 755 96 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted

DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni says Drew Ensign made a false statement to Judge Boasberg during a hearing on Alien Enemies Act removals. If Reuveni’s right, it wasn’t the only time Ensign misled the court. Ben Wittes explains: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

=Menu LAWFARE Two weeks after this exchange, in an episode that does not appear in Reuveni's account, Ensign again appeared before Judge Boasberg and was asked specifically a put what he knew during this period of the adjournment. Boasberg asked him:
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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

He's auditioning for the post of Grand Holder of The Presidential Toilet Paper Roll at Trump's upcoming petit lever.

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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social)

Figuring out how to make free phone calls from a payphone, then prank random people.

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Profile picture Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) reposted

This man is a pet groomer in Iran. I don’t know anything about this particular kitten, but there are many street cats in Iran, and Iranians often take them in — so pet groomers always have lots of customers. Wait for the last couple of meows.

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Profile picture Cave Cattum (@fgcallari.bsky.social) reply parent

The king should bestow a knighthood on him, or even a lordship. Trump is stupid and impulsive enough to accept it on the spot. Then a D-majority congress would have the fastest impeachment process ever.

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