Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 55mThe conclusion of yesterday's addition to The Library – “Georgey-Dear, Part 2 of 2” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/georgey-de...tetmancallis.substack.comGeorgey-Dear – Part 2 of 2. . . and pie 010
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 59mGood morning. From The Commonplace Book: “No ceremony that to great ones ’longs, not the king’s crown nor the deputed sword, the marshal’s truncheon nor the judge’s robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.” – William Shakespeare tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-4-...tetmancallis.substack.comOctober 4, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/albuquerqu...tetmancallis.substack.comAlbuquerque, 2000From the series, “Lightning” 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This week's addition to The Library – “Georgey-Dear, Part 1 of 2” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/georgey-de...tetmancallis.substack.comGeorgey-Dear – Part 1 of 2Puddin' . . . 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; pardon is still the nurse of second woe.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.1 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-3-...tetmancallis.substack.comOctober 3, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall: some run from brakes of vice, and answer none; and some condemnéd for a fault alone.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.1 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-2-...tetmancallis.substack.comOctober 2, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “The jewel that we find, we stoop and take it, because we see it; but what we do not see we tread upon, and never think of it.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.1 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-1-...tetmancallis.substack.comOctober 1, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 001
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win by fearing to attempt.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 1.5 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 30, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 001
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Giving in is not an option. . . . We don't roll over. . . . We are fighters." Melania Wanted My Silence. You Answered With a Megaphone. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/melania-wa...jojofromjerz.substack.comMelania Wanted My Silence. You Answered With a Megaphone.You met her spite with solidarity and my fear with a kind of love I still don’t have words for. I hope that sanctimonious shitheel understands how badly she screwed up. 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “As surfeit is the father of much fast, so every scope by the immoderate use turns to restraint.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 1.3 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 29, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, not light them for themselves: for if our virtues did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike as if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch’d but to fine issues . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 28, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Love that comes too late, like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, to the great sender turns a sour offence, crying, That’s good that’s gone. Our rash faults make trivial price of serious things we have, not . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 27, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/nob-hill-2...tetmancallis.substack.comNob Hill, 2008From the series, “Nob Hill” 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This week's addition to The Library – “FOMO on BLM” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/fomo-on-blmtetmancallis.substack.comFOMO on BLMIt's a privilege 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this; for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 4.3 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 26, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.” – Shakespeare tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 25, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 010
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “How mightily, sometimes, we make us comforts of our losses!” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 4.3 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 24, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 001
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “’Tis not the many oaths that make the truth, but the plain single vow that is vow’d true.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 4.2 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 23, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 3.5 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 22, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “One that lies three-thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 2.5 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 21, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 2.5 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 20, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/ptdf-6006tetmancallis.substack.comPTDF 6006From the series, “The Poison Dart Tree Frogs of New Mexico” 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This week's addition to The Library – “First Bundle of Documents (from The Olive Drab Footlocker)” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/first-bund...tetmancallis.substack.comFirst Bundle of Documents (from The Olive Drab Footlocker)They speak for themselves 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “War is no strife to the dark house and the detested wife.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 2.3 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 19, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Honours thrive, when rather from our acts we them derive than our fore-goers: the mere word’s a slave, debauch’d on every tomb; on every grave a lying trophy; and as oft is dumb where dust and damn’d . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 18, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, the place is dignified by the doer’s deed: where great additions swell ’s, and virtue none, it is a dropsied honour: good alone is good without a name, . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 17, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “He must needs go that the devil drives.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 1.3 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 16, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “The mightiest space in fortune nature brings to join like likes, and kiss like native things. Impossible be strange attempts to those that weigh their pains in sense, . . .” – Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 15, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky gives us free scope; only doth backward pull our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.” – Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 14, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “When thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast none, remember thy friends.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 1.1 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-13-2026tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 13, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“That’s how Trump views being president. Everyone owes him — not the country or the constitution or the law, but him — unconditional obedience. And look at what he demanded his obedient minions do: cheat like hell.” emptywheel.net/2026/09/11/w...emptywheel.netWe Do Not Swear Unconditional Obedience - emptywheelI only saw brief clips of the Trumpapalooza, but one of the few I saw brought me up short. And it should bring you up short too. 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/friday-nig...tetmancallis.substack.comFriday Night LightsFrom the series, “The Matadors” 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This week's addition to The Library – “Extinguisher (with Unpacking the Object)” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/extinguish...tetmancallis.substack.comExtinguisher (with Unpacking the Object)How it can be done 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 1.1 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 12, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This morning in The Gallery. "World Trade Center, Autumn 1990" -- The Twin Towers at Sunrise. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/world-trad...tetmancallis.substack.comWorld Trade Center, Autumn 1990The Twin Towers at Sunrise 001
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Full oft we see cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 1.1 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 11, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under they own life’s key: be check’d for silence, but never tax’d . . .” – 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 10, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief the enemy to the living.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 1.1 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 9, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with pity—they are virtues and traitors too.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘈𝘭𝘭’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 1.1 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 8, 2026Some Shakespeare with your breakfast 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “The closer that one offensive steps on another’s heels, the greater will be the enemy’s loss and confusion, and the less one’s own.” – Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘴 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 7, 2026Keeping up the momentum 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “If a man was hit, he knew that a Navy corpsman or an Army aidman would be at his side as soon as possible . . . The risks taken by the corpsmen, aidmen, and doctors in their concern for the wounded were . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 6, 2026Angels of the battlefield 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Three Public Speeches on Freedom “We are now two months from the American midterm elections, probably the most consequential election since the eighteenth century. Given that the presidency is held by an oligarch who wishes the bring our republic to an . . .” snyder.substack.com/p/three-publ...snyder.substack.comThree Public Speeches on FreedomSome Video Reminders Before the US Midterm Election 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/refoto-3017tetmancallis.substack.comReFoto 3017From the series, “Photographed Photographs” 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This week's addition to The Library tetmancallis.substack.com/p/entomologytetmancallis.substack.comEntomologyIt was a nice truck 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “By any rational standard, the most devastating cost of war is the lives of the men it kills and maims. In these terms, the price of Guam came high. In 21 days of battle Marine units of the Southern Troops . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 5, 2026Settling the accounts 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “In late afternoon [of 6 August 1944], while he was reconnoitering the site of a new CP near Ipapao [on Guam], the 77th Division chief of staff, Colonel Douglas C. McNair, was killed by a sniper. Colonel . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 4, 2026Keeping it in the family 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “The distance across the island is not far, as the crow flies, but unluckily we can’t fly. The nearest I came to flying was while descending the slippery side of a mountain in a sitting position. . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 3, 2026Flying at very low altitude 010
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “The assembly area for the Japanese attack force, principally men of 2/38, was the mangrove swamp in front of the 22d Marines. In apparent preparation for the assault, 𝘴𝘢𝘬𝘦 was passed about freely, and the . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 2, 2026Raise a glass on a good day to die 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"If you’re able to vote in person, we’d recommend you do so." Whistleblower: Single Barcode Error Will Stop Mailing 1000s Of Ballots For Trump’s Vote-By-Mail 'Sh*t Show, AKA ‘Yeah, That’s The Point’ open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...open.substack.comWhistleblower: Single Barcode Error Will Stop Mailing 1000s Of Ballots For Trump’s Vote-By-Mail 'Sh*t Show, AKA ‘Yeah, That’s The Point’Do you like voting? Well DO ya, punk? 000
Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Bundschu Ridge was one of those inherently worthless pieces of land which were emotionally remembered by the men who fought there in World War II . . . It was so situated that even a handful of well-hidden . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/september-...tetmancallis.substack.comSeptember 1, 2026The price of land 000