Piero Castellano 🇪🇺

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He/him Photojournalist, biker, reader, writer: street photography, heritage, rights and struggle for them. Food&wine and their history. Italy, Mediterranean, Europe. 🧿 https://linktr.ee/PieroCastellano

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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.
Screenshot of an actual review of the Strait of Hormuz on Google Maps reading "Nice views but ive swam through way more impressive straits 🥱"
Lt. Andrei Bonovia, executive officer of the Soviet Alpha-class submarine Konovalov in "The Hunt for Red October" (1990), shouts at the Trump administration just before a world wide recession caused by their idiotic war destroys his submarine.
The screenshot of a tweet reading Adrian F. Pascal J @d...-21h tendollar @tendollardanny . 2d are you sunni catholic or shia catholic? Under a fake photo of a demonstration in Tehran with placards of Pope Leo
Cleavon Little as Sheriff Bart takes himself hostage in "Blazing Saddles" (1974), threatening to blow his own brains out if the racist people of the town blows his brains out
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
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. Picture: U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby, 46, reportedly summoned a top Vatican diplomat to a meeting at the Pentagon. Tom Nicholson/REUTERS
A woman in an Italian town watches a medium size car stuck in a narrow alley
Mammon, the evil god of wealth and greed, crushes the weak through his indifference to their plight.
The infamous Trump campaign 2020 press conference at Four Season Total Landscaping in Philadelphia
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
Institutional referendum results (excluding invalid votes) Republic 12,718,641 (54.3%) Monarchy 10,718,502 (45.7%)
A goldfinch perched on a rail by the sea.
"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
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.
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"
A goldfinch having breakfast with a dandelion from behind a (dirty) window and a mosquito net
A contingent of the Vatican's Swiss Guard, with armor, red-feathered morion helmets and very sharp halberds, deploying to remind any Trump administration ghoul trying to "educate" the Pope that anyone claiming to be Catholic owes obedience to the Vicar of Christ on Earth and has to accept the dogma of papal infallibility.
A reanimated horse enters its year 2026 carrying the White Wlakers Night King from Game of Thrones
A screenshot of my website page linked in the post, showing a mosaic of gallery thumbnails
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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."
A scene from "The Mouse That Roared" (1959) where different characters try to get rid an oval-shaped nuclear bomb that could wipe off continents launching it at each other like a football, until the main character (Peter Sellers) saves the day by touching down just beyond the border line.
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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
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.
The Captain and Tin Tin meme, with the captain saying "It's been a long Millennium!" and Tin Tin reminding him "captain, it's 1945!"
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
The Manneken Pis statue, symbol of Brussels and effective de-icing device
The poster of 1976 revisionist film "Robin and Marian"
A photo of the cast in Mel Brooks' short lived TV series "When Things Were Rotten" (1975)
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."
Don Quixote attacks the windmills Scan of a Gustave Doré Engraving from "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha" - 1863
A photo of Trump looking spooked by a turkey he was pardoning on Thanksgiving, and that he clearly could tell from a giraffe or a lion
Th cover of "The Bounty The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty" By Caroline Alexander
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.
A partial screenshot of a table on Wikipedia page about the Gävle goat (link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat) with the words "guarded by taxis [clarification needed]" highlighted closing of the I 14 Infantry Regiment.L Both the Natural Science Club and So After 8 days, goats burned down on the same night. 1992 and again on Fire / Fire rebuilt, and burned down on 20 Decem 20 December(7] of the three attacks was caught and se Committee was founded in 1992.[7][8] Guarded by Once more the goat was featured in th 1993 taxis[clarification needed] and the Swedish Home Survived Records, the School of Vasa's goat me (49 ft).[7][8] Guard 1994 Survived The goat followed the Swedish nationa for the World Championship in hockey. A Norwegian was arrested for attempti 1995 25 December Fire goat. It was rebuilt for the 550th annive County.[7][8] 1996 Monitored by webcams. [7] Survived 1997 Survived with damage Damaged by fireworks. The Natural S was attacked too, but survived with mi 1998 11 December Fire Burned down during a major blizzard,
A map of submarine cables and infrastructures on central Mediterranean seabed, marked with different colors and underscoring crucial chokepoints
A screenshot of a page from fairprice .com offering an aberration claiming to be potato chops flavored with carbonara -no, really!
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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;
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.'"
Map of the British Empire in 1922
Map of the Empire of Alexander the Great and his conquest course from Greece to India to Babylon in 334-323 B.C.
The Roman Empire (red) and its clients (pink) in 117 AD during the reign of emperor Trajan. (©Tataryn77 – Wikipedia)
"Calico Jack" Rackham, Charles Vane and Anne Bonny from Starz "Black Sails" are coming for me.
I woke up from uneasy dreams to endless charliebrownscrolling on My Bluesky feed. And on top of it, it's Monday, Charlie Brown.
The logo of Petrofina, known as simply Fina, a Belgian oil company that merged with Total in 1999 to form TotalFina, which after subsequent mergers has changed its name back to Total.
One senior ally of Starmer has been heard describing Larry the Cat, who has been No. 10’s “chief mouser” since 2011, as a metaphor for the British state — old, lazy, too pampered to do the job he was hired for (catching mice), yet unsackable due to a sense of fondness and tradition.
On Halloween people would mark nuts with lovers names and place them around a fire. Nuts that burned together meant happiness. Wait, they mean walnuts, right? They mean walnuts, right?
The familiar shape of Godzilla emerging from the Ligurian Sea to walk into Genoa's harbor, with its trademark historical lighthouse in the foreground.
A screenshot of Google dictionary and translation translating the Italian verb "pentire," which means "to regret," into Turkish as "pentire = pişman Suçluya tövbe" providing the useful example: "Posso farti pentire che tua madre abbia aperto le gambe. Annenin bacaklarını açtığina bile pişman ederim seni." which in English would be "I can make you regret that your mother did spread her legs."
A screenshot of the previous quoted tweet with the warning "spam" highlighted in red
An Instagram post sponsored by MBDA Group advertising MARTE ER, apparently a maritime superiority missile with long range deep strike capability.
The Russian submarine, the Novorossiysk, submarine, suffering from a fuel leak, was forced to remain on the surface. The vessel had been operating in the Mediterranean and was heading to a Northern or Baltic Sea port for repairs, as Russia cannot access ports in the Black Sea or Syria.
A view of Monte Nuovo, a 132 m volcano near Pozzuoli, Italy, where a persistent seismic crisis is testing people's nerves and buoldings' stability.