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Wil Sterling

@shadowvasterra.bsky.social
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I named a boat once. Clinical researcher in Oncology, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Cell and Gene Therapy. Giant nerd and repository of useless knowledge.

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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 13h
Noice
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 13h
I blame the raw milk
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 13h
Ladies and gentlemen, the Phillies
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 17h
You done fucked up when the PPA is on the right side of an issue
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Billy Penn at WHYY @billy-penn.bsky.social · 20h
The Academy of Natural Sciences museum closed its doors on Sunday. Philadelphians say the fight to save the historic institution isn't over. billypenn.com/2026/09/26/a...
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Philly rallies to save Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia supporters rallied outside the Academy of Natural Sciences ahead of its planned Sept. 30 closure, urging Drexel to keep the museum open.
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explore.org @explore.org · 30/09/2026
Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone has a Hussein
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shut every fraternity down.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨🚨Emergency protest🚨🚨 The Drexel board will be at the constitution center in Old City (525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106) from 5-6. We're asking Drexel to disaffiliate from the Academy of Nat Sci to allow them to negotiate what's best for them w/o Drexel interference. Be there.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote a bit about the two university museums slated for closure. There is *still* time to do something about each! 🧪🦖
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A tale of two university museums: there is still time to save the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Sternberg Museum
September 2026 has been a pretty dispiriting month for American paleontologists. In early September, Drexel University gave a surprise annou...
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 28/09/2026
In the steady rain Sunday evening, many protesters shouted angrily about Drexel University’s seeming coolness. They hoped and urged for a miraculous resurrection. “Don’t let Drexel off,” some chanted. “Tell Drexel to get out of the way.” 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Endsinger That’s it, that’s the skeet.
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Death By Mage @deathbymage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can't unsee it
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.
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★🏳️‍🌈 KISMET 🏳️‍⚧️✧( 18+) @kiingkiismet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anyone in the US can sign this -- Drexel University's president wants to close the Academy of Natural Sciences, which has over 19 million one-of-a-kind natural specimens that are very important to our natural history. #drexeluniversity #philly save-the-academy.org
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We don't stop calling the mayor until she's outside making a speech at the museum.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Call them.
Sarah points at you angrily
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“We reinvented margin trading from first principles and nothing will ever go wrong with it”
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Forty years later and Transformers in the theater still rocks.
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Co-Evolution of Navigation and Propulsion Technology in the Chiss Ascendancy During the High Republic Period
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
*looks at brains in mirror* Okay which one of you is the asshole with anxiety, and which one of you is the asshole with ADHD
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lmaoooooooooooooooo
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One person signed up today. One. We need more help!!
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Paul adore le Canada @paulfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fake species ID reading as follows: North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe
Backhoe fili-comedens
AKA "Big Yellow Fiber Finder", "That $%#@*&^"
Continent:
North America
Habitat:
Mostly urban, occasionally sighted in suburbs or rural areas
Diet:
Fiber optic cables primarily, although it will consume other cables such as power lines when hungry
Weight:
5800 - 11000 kg
(approx. 13000 - 25000 Ibs)
Known for its inexhaustible appetite for buried fiber optic cables, this invasive species has multiplied across North America in recent years. A relative, the European Fiber-Seeking Backhoe, has also emerged across the Atlantic, although it has evolved to be smaller than the North American variety due to smaller European roadways. Scientists are still seeking a means to reduce the multiplication of this species; since current regulatory methods are proving ineffective, limited hunting permits are being proposed.
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Oops”
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The fucking what now
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh were huffing the *fume* fumes.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "brain of a fucking potato on this guy"
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey Philly! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum Sept 25-27. It’s the museum’s last weekend (for now!) Sign up here to help docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A flyer with dinosaur bones and beetles and butterflies that says help save the academy volunteer this weekend. Help us hand out flyers the Museum to get more people involved in the fight and save the Academy of natural sciences volunteer at.  Save-the-academy.org
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For Earth 🌍 , Wind 🌪️, and Fire 🔥 Day—we never forget the 21st night of September—here is a depiction of the Four Elements in a manuscript from Bruges, 1470-1480, fr. 137, fol. 1r. (© BnF) : « Dieu Créateur et Ovide avec l’œuf » @labnf.bsky.social. See: journals.openedition.org/crmh/13890?l...
manuscrit fr. 137, fol. 1r.

(© BnF) : « Dieu Créateur et Ovide avec l’œuf »
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Help a good cause out gang
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3446 is no one of consequence.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed
Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
IN. THE. FUCKING. NICU.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well we had a good week folks but let’s pack it in and start over on Monday.
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Somebody go wake up Hicks”
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Saints Row is just a parade of absolute bullseyes.
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There really was something in the water on the set of Chuck.
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Brian Barrish @brianbarrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MALALA SAYS GO BIRDS
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My favorite part of the magical unity moment was watching all the poor high school kids from my part of the township ship out to die in Iraq and Afghanistan while the rich part sat back and had competitions on who could be more racist.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026
I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.
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Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Rom Quotes Karl Marx: Workers of the World Unite
Alt: Rom Quotes Karl Marx: Workers of the World Unite
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I need about $1000 to rent a sound system and stage, which we have a connection for. I tried finding people with ones to borrow, but nothing is strong enough to carry sound
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The rally at the academy is getting bigger to the point that I need to rent a proper sound system & stage. really good problem to have. Would anyone be down to help cover that 😬 When I called the city they said to expect 400-500: my little amp’s not gonna cut it for eek givebutter.com/SupportSAS26
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