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Bluesky’s CEO trolled Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW with a T-shirt. You can now buy it.

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UPDATE: Mar. 13, 2025, 3:15 p.m. EDT All sizes of Bluesky’s “A WORLD WITHOUT CAESARS” shirt sold out in less than 30 minutes. We’ve asked the company whether it’s planning a restock and will update this story if/when we hear back. Our original story follows.

The T-shirt heard around the World Wide Web can now be yours.

The social media platform Bluesky has begun selling a version of the shirt worn by its CEO Jay Graber at SXSW in Austin this week. Graber took the stage for a keynote session Monday in an oversized black tee bearing the phrase “Mundus sine caesaribus,” which is Latin for “a world without Caesars.” As Mashable’s Chance Townsend reported, it was a clear dig at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who infamously wore a similar shirt referencing a Roman ruler at the company’s developer conference last year.

As of Thursday afternoon, Graber’s shirt is now available for purchase for $40 in sizes small through XL at worldwithoutcaesars.com. According to the website, “Any proceeds benefit the AT Protocol developer ecosystem, the open network that Bluesky is built upon.”

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Graber’s shirt is a near copy of the one Zuckerberg donned for Meta Connect 2024 — same design, same typeface, but very different message. The Facebook founder’s original shirt read “Aut Zuck aut nihil” (“Zuck or nothing”), a spin on the Latin phrase “Aut Caesar aut nihil” (“Either Caesar or nothing”). Zuckerberg has seemingly spent several years chasing an obsession with the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar.

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Mashable has reached out to Meta for comment.

Townsend reported that Graber doubled down on her anti-tech exec messaging in her SXSW keynote, emphasizing the value of open-source, decentralized platforms like Bluesky.

“If a billionaire tried to ruin things, [Bluesky] users could just leave — without losing their identity or data” Graber said.

Bluesky launched in 2023 as an invite-only platform and quickly took off as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. As of March 2025, it has over 32 million users.



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