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Peter Sillin

@psill.bsky.social
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“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”- Nietzsche, clicking “ignore screen time limit” for the 10th time that day

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is it, man. This is the good stuff.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.
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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Elle Cordova on fonts is one of the great joys of social media.
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If LeBron keeps it up, someday he’ll be known as the Carol St Clair Johnson of the NBA.
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn’t go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection. -Wendell Berry
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Chris Gloninger @climatechris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The M5.2 in Nepal wasn't an earthquake. USGS relabeled it "M 5.2 Landslide," depth 0.0 km. No quake trigger, no GLOF evidence, no rain reported below. A glacier snout appears to have failed on its own. Ice in rock joints loses up to 78% of its strength warming from −10°C to −0.5°C. Still frozen.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I guess I'll add that Dolly Parton is up there with Fred Rogers in terms of truly achieving what I think a Christian living their faith in public life should be like.
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Old guys still got it.
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“I tell you it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 23/08/2026
dudes will always find a way to rock
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John Morrissey @usltactics.com · 20/08/2026
Diego Gonzalez from the halfway line!
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Red Sox @redsox.com · 19/08/2026
Payton Tolle takes on the Freedom Trail! Watch the full video on YouTube: bit.ly/3U3tNg1
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Great opportunities for combined championships weekend. Human Exploration Rover and Mine Rescue seems like a natural two day event. Or Mock Trial followed by Pistol at dawn.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
me after weeks of having the tv tuned exclusively to telemundo world cup coverage
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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 20/07/2026
Four goals in four games. Trinity Rodman is on a heater🔥
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New England Storm Center @nestormcenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Today's storm caused problems on Maine's coast. A 90-passenger ship was pulled from its moorings in Rockland and collided with a dock in the harbor. Up to 5 people were knocked into the water during the incident. Tragically, a driver was killed when a tree fell on their car as well. #MEwx
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
there we go bsky.app/profile/sick...
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In 19thC Paris you could send messages to anyone in the city within an hour or two via a system of pneumatic tubes. They were called petits bleus after the color of the thin paper used.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I think we all need a reminder of what the USMNT thinks the USMNT is about. bsky.app/profile/fbih...
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Very cool WSJ article about the math geek in goal for the US team. www.wsj.com/sports/socce...
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The Harvard Data Nerd Defending America’s Goal at the World Cup
Matt Freese, who holds an Ivy League economics degree, came out of practically nowhere to secure the job as the U.S. national team’s starting goalkeeper—and his analytical approach has been integral t...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ida Frosk, aka Ida Skivenes, a food artist from Norway, who makes and eats her own art #WomensArt #Tuesday
Photo of a plate on which an image is created with food stuffs mimicing the painting The Scream, featuring a stylised person wirh mouth open under a dramatic sky
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"I don't call him Ronaldo I call him Cristiano here is only one Ronaldo and he wore 9 not 7" Henry just hit the hardest slide tackle of the entire world cup while standing in the studio
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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup made a side-trip to Fenway on Sunday and brought actual magic with them. It was such a delight and honor to get to accompany their singing.
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Getting closer
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is pretty fun actually. I just went 72-10, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=OtA...
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Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
now we're cookin with gas
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Len Scales.bsky.social @lenscales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis).
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I don’t really care for lobster. 🤷‍♂️ Not worth the effort imo. A lobster roll is fine.
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
There should be only one TXSEN debate and it should just be the two candidates eating increasing spicy salsas until one collapses.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Football trouble or Early Modern intrigue?
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
William Hawkins (1895-1990) American Artist
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
164 years ago, on the 13th of May 1862, Robert Smalls escaped slavery by capturing the steamboat 'Planter' and steering it through Confederate lines. The US Navy commissioned it as the USS Planter and appointed Smalls as captain, making him the first black man to command a US ship. #otd #history 🗃️
An article on Smalls published in Harper's Weekly, June 14, 1862
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I think I just got served one of the best videos on parenting ever youtube.com/shorts/1iNWA...
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Stay til the end 😭
YouTube video by Watch Way Play
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Do not miss the animation video of a 481m tsunami: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjord
Early in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run...
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
O tricks Cyclops into losing GPS underground on 93 and getting Storrowed.
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Chris Hutchinson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸🇮🇷 🕊️ @cahutch1990.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Great news! Just discovered that National Film Preservation posted "A Time for Burning." Much clearer than the old site it was on. This forgotten Academy Award nominee on the civil rights movement trail blazed cinema verité (e.g. The Office). And is profound. #hatm www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Pw...
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A Time For Burning (1966)
YouTube video by National Film Preservation Foundation
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Via Sportsnet
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Imagine breaking 2 hours in a marathon and not winning the race. There's a guy out there who has more sub-2 marathons than he does marathon victories.
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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Bible does indeed talk about shitposting and the lesson is "don't you fucking dare"
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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Another funny thing about the beer mile is that the beer mile world record and the stroller mile world record are basically identical. Having a child officially has the same effect on athletic performance as consuming 4 beers. Stroller mile record video is amazing: www.youtube.com/shorts/1i75Y...
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Silas Frantz sets baby stroller mile record 🚨👶 (via @laneonerun)
YouTube video by Bleacher Report
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yeah, zero chance you're going to slip a 4C heat spike past a forum of weather weenies. These traders have absolutely no idea who they're dealing with.
Prediction market traders and independent meteorologists in a French weather discussion forum flagged the data irregularities and questioned the results of the contracts, which attracted roughly $1.4 million in combined bets, according to Polymarket data.
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi"
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I can’t help but think of the contrast between Trump‘s war on Iran and Theodore Roosevelt‘s handling of an Anglo-German blockade of Venezuela in 1902. TR interpreted the Monroe Doctrine to mean Europeans could not seize land in the Americas. Then a dictator named Castro (yeah, I know) took power…
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
tfw ur priest is soft on crime
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I will vote for any 2028 candidate who adopts this platform.
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Ankaret Wells @ankaret.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This basically describes my Trumpy uncles. I want full repentance but they just have stopped talking about politics.
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