Captanne

@captanne.bsky.social

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NAFO fella, Prof historian, Veteran, ret military pilot C-12/5/22/21, JD from CUA, PhD from G’town. Native Washingtonian (DC). Opinions wholly, entirely and absolutely my own. I don’t interact during working hours.

Sam Neill as Reilly in Reilly: Ace of Spies, the real life James Bond
Ancient Vandals sack Rome in 456 AD, painting by Karl Briulov, “Genseric Sacking Rome”, (1836).
Painting by John William Waterhouse (1903) of Narcissus admiring himself in the pool. It’s called “Echo and Narcissus”.
Marco Rubio’s feet in gigantic shoes given to him by the President with the logo of the movie Footloose written over the bottom of the image. Credit to ‘Musik’ on FB, taken from Google.
Ann Telnaes 2017 Washington Post cartoon of a GOP logo elephant with its trunk up a little girl’s skirt.
Cockpit panel switch that says, “Chemtrails” with the switch in the on position.
This is a feral squirrel. Do not be fooled.
Swan on a nest on Lake Huron.
Kirk and Uhura kiss in the episode Plato’s Stepchildren
A naked man, who might be Tucker Carlson, stands with his arms spread wide in front of some sort of light apparatus that is focused on his manhood. For some reason, he and the machine are in the middle what looks like an airfield.
A black cat with a ruffle dances, plays the banjo and says, “If we live, we live to tread on kings.”
A grey and white tabby kitten.
Earthset taken by one of the astronauts on the Artemis mission. (Reed?)
Frank McPike from Wiseguy
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Jesus says, “I have nothing to do with this”.
Zelig movie marquis. Zelig was a Woody Allen movie about a guy who impossibly showed up in images throughout time with the most important people of those times. He was everywhere as an EveryMan with no rhyme or reason.
Image of Ann Telnaes’ classic editorial cartoon GOP logo of an elephant with its trunk up a little girl’s skirt.
Lincoln Memorial at night in yet another snowstorm for DC.
Queen Mina Delores the cat looking regal.
Hugh the cat is lying down in the sunshine.
Tabby kitten flaked out in front of the oscillating heater. Toe beans.
Elspeth the cat.
Image of Ted Cruz taking his seat on an airplane while Texas is about to be snowed in again.
Image of a Threads post with Ten Cruz taking his seat on an airplane while his PR people are defending his trip when Texas is about to be snowed in again.
An Ann Telnaes political cartoon depicting Sec’y Kristi Noem and the current President in puddles of blood while Lady Liberty says, « Get the fuck out of America » behind them.
An Ann Telnaes political cartoon depicting Sec’y Kristi Noem and the current President in puddles of blood while Lady Liberty says behind them, « Get the fuck out of America ».
Screen shot from Meriam Webster’s challenge on New Year’s Day - the word Intrepid.
A small grey kitten is peering out from under a table top Christmas tree lit with white lites. Her adorable little face is next to a tamte and a package. There is also a snow globe with a white owl in it.
A black and white piebald cat is standing on someone’s laptop in front of the screen. As cats do. Apropos of the OP, Hugh loves crab meat.
A cover of a book about how to pee your pants.
Tiny kitten looks through a window in a door, wanting to come out and play.
Evil puppet who betrays his ventriloquist from Twilight Zone.
Shutterstock image of an unpainted wooden puppet with a human hand controlling the strings.
Two cats lay on a table.
Cats play on a table.
A hand-made knitted pink pussy cat hat.
Image of the red tram at Detroit Metro Airport shuttling on the sky track above travelers below.
Paul Manafort, Lee Atwater and Roger Stone as young men.
New Yorker cartoon about Antifa.
New Yorker cartoon of a completely armored DHS or ICE storm trooper lying on a therapist’s couch. The therapist, sitting next to the couch, is asking, « Tell me, is Antifa in the room right now? »
Christopher Walken in character, wearing a t-shirt, a cardigan and holding a cup of coffee. His look is a very disapproving side-eye. His hair is completely straight up.
Screaming possum with The Beat Part of Waking Up is Screaming What the Fuck!
Left to right, young Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Lee Atwater.
Elspeth, a soft grey kitten, sits next to the basin taps.
Metro train at speed caught arriving at National Airport (DCA).
Sir Hugh Llewellyn in his lair agreeing with George! YAWP!
A grey kitten sits next to the water tap of a basin.
A hand made stained glass IDIC on someone’s living room wall. They bought it at a Star Trek convention in the 1970s.
Window sign, “Help Wanted No Irish Need Apply”.
Map of the Berlin Corridors used for flight from West Germany to West Berlin crossing over Soviet controlled East Germany before the Wall fell in November 1989.