iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 18/09/2026

The map is here, and it's incredibly cool itiner-e.org

A screenshot from the itiner-e website, where an interactive digital map of the Roman roads network over 600 years is publicly accessible.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the ´90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains

The cover of David Bowie's album "Outside" (1995)

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 02/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat A traveling cat found hospitality in my garden, probably because word of meow let him know that feline wayfarers are welcome here.

A white(ish) cat sleeps on a bed of dry grass surrounded by green leaves

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 27/05/2026

I did it and the result is... shady.

You Got:
Logical Genius
You are a bot! Your logical and methodical mind shines brightly. With exceptional analytical skills, you tackle challenges with precision. Share your unique perspective with friends and show them how a bot thinks!

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 08/05/2026

The ritual. www.instagram.com/p/DYETdCACEI...

The statue of San Domenico di Sora wrapped in live four-lined snakes is carried in procession on the streets of Cocullo, L'Aquila, in central Italy's region of Abruzzo.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 18/04/2026

If you think you had a difficult week, remember that even the Strait of Hormuz has bad reviews...

Screenshot of an actual review of the Strait of Hormuz on Google Maps reading "Nice views but ive swam through way more impressive straits 🥱"

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 12/04/2026

"Do as he says, people, he's crazy enough to do it!"

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 09/04/2026

Nice try, Giorgia. www.yahoo.com/news/italy-m...

An AI generated image posted on X in 2025 by Elon Musk's man in Italy depicting Meloni and Elon Musk dressed as ancient Romans beside Donald Trump depicted like the traditional iconography depict Emperor Nero

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 08/04/2026

Are they going to appoint an anti-Pope who would call for a Crusade? www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offici...

A top Vatican diplomat was summoned to the Pentagon for a “bitter lecture” demanding that the Pope get behind Donald Trump, it has emerged.

Vatican officials briefed on the meeting told The Free Press that one of the Pentagon’s most senior officials summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre to meet in January—then told him that the United States has the military power to do “whatever it wants,” and that Pope Leo, the first American-born pontiff, “better take its side.”

The site writes that “as tensions escalated,” one U.S. official “went so far as to invoke the Avignon Papacy, the period in the 1300s when the French Crown leveraged its military power to dominate the papal authority.”
U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby, 46, reportedly summoned a top Vatican diplomat to a meeting at the Pentagon.
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U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby, 46, reportedly summoned a top Vatican diplomat to a meeting at the Pentagon. Tom Nicholson/REUTERS

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 24/03/2026

Drop a film that traumatised you as a kid

Still photo showing Juliette Greco as the main character in "Belphégor ou le Fantôme du Louvre" miniseries (1965), re-aired several times in the following decades to repeatedly traumatize kids who stayed up late, providing excellent source material for very creative nightmares in the rest of their lives

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 23/03/2026

The outcome is eerily similar to the 1946 institutional referendum. But back then, the turnout was almost 90%, in the first free vote after Fascism.

Institutional referendum results (excluding invalid votes)
Republic 12,718,641 (54.3%)
Monarchy 10,718,502 (45.7%)

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 22/03/2026

I'm following this debate as a layman and I find many arguments absolutely fascinating, but I think this settles it. We are often taught of Mengele and his likes and Nazi horrific experiments on prisoners, but Unit 731 is only known to historians. It was conveniently hidden in exchange for its data.

"After the war, twelve Unit 731 members were tried by the USSR in the 1949 Khabarovsk war crimes trials and sentenced to prison. However, many key figures, including Ishii, were granted immunity by the United States in exchange for their research data. The Truman administration concealed the unit's crimes and paid stipends to former personnel."
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 19/03/2026

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing. By @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

For the past 14 months, few foreign leaders have been able to acknowledge that someone without any strategy can actually be president of the United States. Surely, the foreign-policy analysts murmured, Trump thinks beyond the current moment. Surely, foreign statesmen whispered, he adheres to some ideology, some pattern, some plan. Words were thrown around—isolationism, imperialism—in an attempt to place Trump’s actions into a historical context. Solemn articles were written about the supposed significance of Greenland, for example, as if Trump’s interest in the Arctic island were not entirely derived from the fact that it looks very large on a Mercator projection.

This week, something broke. Maybe Trump does not understand the link between the past and the present, but other people do. They can see that, as a result of decisions that Trump made but cannot explain, the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by Iranian mines and drones. They can see oil prices rising around the world and they understand that it is difficult and dangerous for the U.S. Navy to solve this problem. They can also hear the president lashing out, as he has done so many times before, trying to get other people to take responsibility, threatening them if they don’t.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 17/03/2026

Of course they are also ready to take responsibility like Ike would, right? veteransbreakfastclub.org/ikes-d-day-f...

The message drafted by General Eisenhower in case of defeat on D-Day in Normady: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.
June 5"

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 01/03/2026

Apologies for the terrible quality, but do photos shot after surprising a gang of goldfinches munching on dandelions, freezing behind a (dirty) window and a mosquito net, a coffee cup in the right hand and slowly shooting with the phone in the left hand, still count as timeline cleansing? #birds

A goldfinch having breakfast with a dandelion from behind a (dirty) window and a mosquito net

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 24/02/2026

2026 is the year of the horse The horse:

A reanimated horse enters its year 2026 carrying the White Wlakers Night King from Game of Thrones

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 22/02/2026

I spent the weekend updating and reorganizing a large selection of my #photography portfolio for my website, feedback is welcome: www.pierocastellano.com/ph/portfolio/

A screenshot of my website page linked in the post, showing a mosaic of gallery thumbnails

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 01/02/2026

So far this one is my favorite www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Screenshot from the review linked reading "No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the horrific Melania emphatically isn’t it. It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne."

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 26/01/2026

"6.4. License to Others. You hereby grant other users a license to access, view, and use your Content, as enabled by one or more features of the Service." wetransfer.com/explore/lega...

Screenshot from WeTransfer Terms of Service at the link in the post, saying:
"6.3. License to WeTransfer. In order to allow us to operate, provide you with, and improve the Service and our technologies, we must obtain from you certain rights related to Content that is covered by intellectual property rights. You hereby grant us a royalty-free license to use your Content for the purposes of operating, developing, and improving the Service, all in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy.

6.4. License to Others. You hereby grant other users a license to access, view, and use your Content, as enabled by one or more features of the Service."

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 24/01/2026

"Always expecting me, but never expecting me to be expecting you."

Old adversaries

Sir. Your obituary (Jan 19) of Mr
Justice Blofeld rightly referred to his
fine sense of humour. When he first
sat in Winchester a barrister called
Richard Bond stood up to open the
first case. Mr Justice Blofeld began to
stroke the white ermine on the sleeve
of his High Court iudge's robes as if
stroking a cat. He then said with a
smile: "We meet at last. Mr Bond."
Sir John Royce
Clifton, Bristol

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 19/01/2026

"With Greenland Threats, Trump is Destroying the Western Alliance" @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social breaks down point by point Trump’s blackmail letter www.arcdigital.media/p/with-green...

Some call Trump’s threats against an ally “insane” or “mad king” behavior—and it is by traditional American values—but it fits an aspiring autocrat who called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “savvy” and “genius,” an anti-democracy narcissist who sees wealth and glory for himself as a paramount national interest, a liar who frequently screwed over business partners, a convicted criminal who thinks it’s unfair if laws apply to him, and a rapist who likes taking things without consent.

None of that was remotely hidden when Americans decided to elect him a second time.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 15/01/2026

UK sends a single military officer to Greenland to prevent Trump's invasion. The officer: www.aol.co.uk/articles/uk-...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as HRH Prince Andrew. Duke of York, in his Royal Navy uniform before it was stripped of his ranks and titles for being (allegedly...) a pedophile rapist

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 06/01/2026

To be fair, King Richard (Harris) wasn't exactly a flattering portrayal in Richard (Lester)'s "Robin and Marian" (1976)

The poster of 1976 revisionist film "Robin and Marian"

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 04/01/2026

If you have doubts about it, read this, and tremble. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Co...

Screenshot from the linked Wikipedia entry reading "The president will read from the biscuit the daily phonetic letters and the deputy director will confirm or deny if they are correct, confirming that the person is the president and the attack orders can be given. As commander-in-chief, the president is the only person with the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear-defense policy expert Franklin Miller argues that the president has almost singular authority to initiate a nuclear attack; while the secretary of defense is required to verify the order, they cannot veto it. Daniel Ellsberg argued that in practice, this authority has been delegated by the president to a number of military officers."

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 02/01/2026

You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job? It must suck to be the captain of a mutinous crew who wants to return to their Tahitian girlfriends.

Th cover of "The Bounty
The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty"

By Caroline Alexander

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 02/01/2026

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.

An image of a crosswalk, a clever device meant for safe crossing of pedestrians, but can also double as a deadly trap for bikers who stop to let said pedestrians walk across the street, while a car behind them waiting exactly for that does not even slow down.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 19/12/2025

Incidentally, quite a few undersea cables are in that general area.

A map of submarine cables and infrastructures on central Mediterranean seabed, marked with different colors and underscoring crucial chokepoints

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 16/12/2025

Please, can anyone suggest an app to open a PDF document that doesn't attempt to dumb it down for me every time that's longer than a paragraph?

A screenshot of a prompt on a pdf document opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader reading:
"This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using Al Assistant.

By using this service, you agree to the Adobe Terms of Use and Privacy Policy"

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 11/12/2025

Sure giving the US government the personal data they demand for an ESTA application (including DNA samples) means that it won't ever fall in wrong hands, right? public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf

Screenshot of the US DHS document listing requirements for ESTA visa waiver applicants:
3. Mandatory Social Media:
In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161
(Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other
National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social
media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The
data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social
media from the last 5 years.
4. High Value Data Elements
To comply with the January 2025 E.O. (14161), and the April 4,
2025, Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline
Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the
ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information
already collected in the ESTA application.
The high value data fields include:
a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;

Screenshot of the US DHS document listing requirements for ESTA visa waiver applicants:
ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information
already collected in the ESTA application.
The high value data fields include:
a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;
b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;
c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;
d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);
e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;
f. Family member dates of birth;
g. Family member places of birth;
h. Family member residencies;
i. Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;
j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;
k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 11/12/2025

I just saw this and suddenly I see the defensive posture against Saracen raids down in the Med and, Frankly speaking, the whole Crusades affair against those dark skinned, curly haired infidels sporting earrings and silk clothes, under a completely different light...

A screenshot of an old tweet by "historyinmemez" commenting "'We had to kill the Vikings, because they bathed and brushed their hair and our wives couldn't resist such sophistication' is a HELL of a take by Medieval English chroniclers." to the quoted text "One thirteenth-century chronicle attributed a slaughter of Danes by Anglo-Saxons in 1002 to the former's irresistability to the latter's spouses: 'The Danes made themselves too acceptable to English women by their elegant manners and their care of person. They combed their hair daily, according to the custom of their country, and took a bath every Saturday, and even changed their clothes frequently, and improved the beauty of their bodies with many such trifles, by which means they undermined the chastity of wives.'"

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