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Brian Collins

@bcollins241.bsky.social
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Back home in Ireland, after many years living in Seattle.

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Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs.co.uk · 10/04/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Built on Effort, Remembered in Glory, The Andy Robertson Story
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 02/11/2025
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 11/10/2025
All your calls of the series-winning walkoff [Fox, Fox Deportes, KIRO, Radio Sol, WXYT, WDTW] (auto-transcribed & auto-translated)
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b𝚘օO𝚘ₒts @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"i just use it to generate ideas"
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I can
I can
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is so good... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/... #F1
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F1 at 75
A look back at 75 years of F1 history with Getty images.
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Nyhaven #Copenhagen
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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 01/03/2025
As Facebook doesn’t value moderating content responsibly, @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver has launched a useful website to help make your accounts less valuable to Meta, with steps on how to limit how your data is used for advertising. Visit: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com
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How to Change Your Meta Settings | Make yourself less valuable to Meta. Brought to you by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Dunmore East Harbour, Co Waterford #Ireland
Large fishing trauler in the dry dock of the harbour
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Waterford Castle Hotel on The Island. #Ireland
Front view of a 3 story Castle with a small wooden door in the middle
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Not the Seattle Mariners @mariners.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hey Folks - It looks like the real @mariners.com finally made it here to Bluesky! Let's give them a welcome!
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Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
First, here’s what we know about how and why Harris lost ground. Based on VoteCast data, we can estimate ~19 million people who voted for Biden four years ago stayed home. (40% of those voting in 2024 had voted for Biden in 2020, and 40% had voted for Trump. From there, it’s simple arithmetic.)
Votecast chart: Did you vote in 2020 for Biden (40%), Trump (40%), or someone else (2%)? (Did not vote: 18%)
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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵
Map showing the number of times a location has burned in SoCal and which kind of fire it was: one burning under Santa Ana winds, or one that was a summer, fuel-driven fire without Santa Ana winds. Malibu area had burned at least 8 times from 1900-2017, and has burned twice now since. Image from Kolden and Abatzoglou (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/19
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Fantastic views from the Hill of Tara across a clear Meath sky #Ireland
Green fields in the foreground with the Boyne valley in the background. Low sun in the sky
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Sam McGuire @sammcguire90.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A look at Arne Slot's role in Mohamed Salah levelling up this season. www.sportinglife.com/football/new...
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Has Arne Slot created the best version of Mohamed Salah?
Arne Slot has done the unthinkable.
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
“you will be visited by three spirits.” the three spirits:
3 bottles, tequila, ginger & Jameson black barrel
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there? National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call: 116 123 (Ireland) 0800 689 5652 (UK) 1-800-273-8255 (USA) 1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
One last walk by Lake Sammamish before the long trip home... the mountain came out to say goodbye.
Calm lake water with Mount Renier visible in the background on a gray day.
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The famous Gum Wall in #Seattle
Tens and tens of dripping chewing gum hanging on a metal rod
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Beautiful Salmon le Sac near Rosslyn Wa
Wenatchee river surrounded by evergreen trees with snow in the foreground
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Michael Snyder @seattlewxguy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Unreal paths of damaging winds, east of Everett, WA near Forest Glade, WA #wawx #bombcylone #weather #mountainwave #wind
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook) www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau.

The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Wet night in Clondalkin, the Round Tower lit up beautifully #Ireland
Round Tower lit up with green light on a wet night
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing
Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2011 with the headline "University in talks with Egypt over future of ancient mummy"Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2003 with the headline "UCC keeping 2.3 tonnes of uranium in basement store"
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We need to get Liverpool FC and the #Seattle sports teams on here!
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Brian Collins @bcollins241.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It's nice to be here!
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