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Tetman Callis

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Writer, artist, and flatulent old man.

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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 9h
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Ignominy in ransom and free pardon are of two houses; lawful mercy is nothing akin to foul redemption.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.4 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-15...
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October 15, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good but graciously to know I am no better.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.4 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-14...
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October 14, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “O place! O form! How oft dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming?” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.4 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-13...
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October 13, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.2 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-12...
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October 12, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Thieves for their robbery have authority when judges steal themselves.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.2 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-11...
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October 11, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/dp-21
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DP #21
From the series, “Dena’s Place”
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hello again. This week's addition to The Library – “Gnats” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/gnats
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Gnats
Get your buzz on
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.2 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-10...
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October 10, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself that skins the vice o’ the top.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.2 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-9-...
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October 9, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “That is the captain’s but a choleric word which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.2 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-8-...
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October 8, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “Great men may jest with saints: ’tis wit in them; but, in the less, foul profanation.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.2 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-7-...
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October 7, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “But man, proud man! Dress’d in a little brief authority,—most ignorant of what he’s most assured, his glassy essence,—like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep . . .” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-6-...
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October 6, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good morning. From The Commonplace Book: “It is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” – William Shakespeare, 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 2.2 tetmancallis.substack.com/p/october-5-...
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October 5, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The conclusion of yesterday's addition to The Library – “Georgey-Dear, Part 2 of 2” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/georgey-de...
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Georgey-Dear – Part 2 of 2
. . . and pie
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good 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-...
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October 4, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/albuquerqu...
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Albuquerque, 2000
From the series, “Lightning”
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This week's addition to The Library – “Georgey-Dear, Part 1 of 2” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/georgey-de...
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Georgey-Dear – Part 1 of 2
Puddin' . . .
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good 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-...
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October 3, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good 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-...
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October 2, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good 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-...
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October 1, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 30, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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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...
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Melania 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.
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 29, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 28, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'll need money first.
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 27, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/nob-hill-2...
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Nob Hill, 2008
From the series, “Nob Hill”
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This week's addition to The Library – “FOMO on BLM” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/fomo-on-blm
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FOMO on BLM
It's a privilege
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 26, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congratulations on your victory.
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 25, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 24, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 23, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The was my first thought when I saw the headline.
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 22, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 21, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 20, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/ptdf-6006
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PTDF 6006
From the series, “The Poison Dart Tree Frogs of New Mexico”
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This week's addition to The Library – “First Bundle of Documents (from The Olive Drab Footlocker)” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/first-bund...
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First Bundle of Documents (from The Olive Drab Footlocker)
They speak for themselves
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 19, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 18, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 17, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 16, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 15, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 14, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Good 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-13-2026
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September 13, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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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...
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We Do Not Swear Unconditional Obedience - emptywheel
I 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.
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This week's addition to The Gallery. tetmancallis.substack.com/p/friday-nig...
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Friday Night Lights
From the series, “The Matadors”
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This week's addition to The Library – “Extinguisher (with Unpacking the Object)” tetmancallis.substack.com/p/extinguish...
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Extinguisher (with Unpacking the Object)
How it can be done
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Tetman Callis @tetmancallis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good 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-...
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September 12, 2026
Some Shakespeare with your breakfast
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