Reposted by Peter SillinKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is it, man. This is the good stuff. 1945468
Reposted by Peter SillinScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Apple "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.scientificamerican.comHow apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruitAnd how they might have helped save the future of American apples 401124389
Reposted by Peter SillinKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Elle Cordova on fonts is one of the great joys of social media. 0236
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If LeBron keeps it up, someday he’ll be known as the Carol St Clair Johnson of the NBA. 011
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026As 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 000
Reposted by Peter SillinChris Gloninger @climatechris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The 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. 10427219
Reposted by Peter Sillinlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I 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. 151862245
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” 010
Reposted by Peter Sillindillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 23/08/2026dudes will always find a way to rock 523027594
Reposted by Peter SillinJohn Morrissey @usltactics.com · 20/08/2026Diego Gonzalez from the halfway line! 0218
Reposted by Peter SillinRed Sox @redsox.com · 19/08/2026Payton Tolle takes on the Freedom Trail! Watch the full video on YouTube: bit.ly/3U3tNg1 0659
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Great 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. 010
Reposted by Peter SillinLouise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Is 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 252251546
Reposted by Peter Sillinelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026In 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... 1785641918
Reposted by Peter Sillinmike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026me after weeks of having the tv tuned exclusively to telemundo world cup coverage 532854
Reposted by Peter SillinNWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 20/07/2026Four goals in four games. Trinity Rodman is on a heater🔥 132325
Reposted by Peter SillinNew England Storm Center @nestormcenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Today'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 042
Reposted by Peter SillinBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026there we go bsky.app/profile/sick... 89211
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 13/07/2026In 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. 010
Reposted by Peter SillinDara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I think we all need a reminder of what the USMNT thinks the USMNT is about. bsky.app/profile/fbih... 3305
Reposted by Peter SillinMichael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Very cool WSJ article about the math geek in goal for the US team. www.wsj.com/sports/socce...wsj.comThe Harvard Data Nerd Defending America’s Goal at the World CupMatt 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... 0468
Reposted by Peter Sillinwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Ida Frosk, aka Ida Skivenes, a food artist from Norway, who makes and eats her own art #WomensArt #Tuesday 4578110
Reposted by Peter SillinShiv 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 472103344
Reposted by Peter SillinJosh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Scottish 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. 411696419
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This is pretty fun actually. I just went 72-10, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=OtA...82-0.com82-0Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0 000
Reposted by Peter SillinAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 02/06/2026now we're cookin with gas 315215
Reposted by Peter SillinLen Scales.bsky.social @lenscales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis). 520757
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I don’t really care for lobster. 🤷♂️ Not worth the effort imo. A lobster roll is fine. 000
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026There should be only one TXSEN debate and it should just be the two candidates eating increasing spicy salsas until one collapses. 131
Reposted by Peter SillinJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/05/2026Football trouble or Early Modern intrigue? 1344698
Reposted by Peter Sillinfravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 14/05/2026William Hawkins (1895-1990) American Artist 484996589
Reposted by Peter SillinThis Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 13/05/2026164 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 🗃️ 171444399
Reposted by Peter SillinRiver_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I think I just got served one of the best videos on parenting ever youtube.com/shorts/1iNWA...youtube.comStay til the end 😭YouTube video by Watch Way Play 273
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Do not miss the animation video of a 481m tsunami: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgA 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjordEarly 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... 000
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026O tricks Cyclops into losing GPS underground on 93 and getting Storrowed. 021
Reposted by Peter SillinChris Hutchinson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸🇮🇷 🕊️ @cahutch1990.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Great 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...youtube.comA Time For Burning (1966)YouTube video by National Film Preservation Foundation 272
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Imagine 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. 010
Reposted by Peter SillinMichael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The Bible does indeed talk about shitposting and the lesson is "don't you fucking dare" 115648
Reposted by Peter SillinMorgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Another 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...youtube.comSilas Frantz sets baby stroller mile record 🚨👶 (via @laneonerun)YouTube video by Bleacher Report 1103
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Yeah, 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. 000
Reposted by Peter SillinEddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi" 332557489
Reposted by Peter SillinT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I 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… 132
Reposted by Peter SillinMatthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026tfw ur priest is soft on crime 1316
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I will vote for any 2028 candidate who adopts this platform. 010
Reposted by Peter SillinAnkaret Wells @ankaret.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy. 20982323
Reposted by Peter Sillin👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant 84138963540
Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 08/04/2026This basically describes my Trumpy uncles. I want full repentance but they just have stopped talking about politics. 0288