Jon Callas
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Jon Callas
@joncallas.bsky.social
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Boffin, flâneur. Kubrick homage self-portraitist. Also cryptography, human rights, and stuff. Founded PGP, Blackphone, others; worked for DEC, Apple, SRI, ACLU, EFF, others. Was ShmooCon program chair for all twenty conferences.
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#NoKings in San José.
Sign reading "Not my first rodeo" with the famous photo of Dorothy Pitman Hughes and Gloria Steinem. Signs in San José reading, "Let me be known that in America the LAW is KING -- Tom Paine," "No Faux King Way," and "From SNAFU to FUBAR in less than a year." Sign in San José reading, "From SNAFU to FUBAR in less than a year."
June 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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#NoKings in San José.
Man wearing a Taco hat emblazoned with with "Cluck Trump," riding or wearing a chicken inflatable costume, ukulele around his neck. Taken in St. James Park, San José. Sign: "I bid 1 No Trump" with an X through a king of clubs affixed to the sign. Signs marching in San José: "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance" and "...for transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for Pretend Offenses," each from the Declaration of Independence. Person in a purple wizard costume with stars on their robe, gold borders, and sneakers. They are holding a sign reading "Curse I.C.E." and an American flag on it.
June 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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@mattlewishistory.bsky.social and @goingmedieval.bsky.social, thanks for this episode. @tamzen.bsky.social and I listened to it over dinner while enjoying cider from Posterity Ciderworks, which to us is like what we used to get when we'd visit Devon.
It's a can of Posterity Ciderworks McIntosh cider. Half a liter, and 6.25%. Tastes of the west country.
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Thank you all for a wonderful twenty years of ShmooCon. It’s been great, and a delight to bring you the program. Thank you and good night from us all.
January 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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It is begun, #shmoocon
Extreme closeup of a very large moose stuffie. Very large; the size of a dog one can ride.
January 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I picked up a brace of copies of Oathbreakers arrived (one to read, one to give away) from my local bookstore. Thanks, @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social !
The book Oathbreakers by Matthew Gabriele and David Perry. Two copies, stacked and offset slightly.
December 12, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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Closeup of a cat sleeping with its arm around the wrist of a person, snuggling close.
November 16, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Sheesh I don’t realize how early I was: #903!
Number 903
September 18, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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Here are my glowing petunias. Three second exposure on the first.
Petunias glowing green. White petunias in a clay pot
August 19, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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Please tell me more about this trend.
Closeup of cat sleeping. Head resting on their paw, tail wrapped around their head. It is cute. Very cute.
July 19, 2023 at 8:41 PM