Dillatont
@dillatont.bsky.social
Perpetual dabbler. Baking, cross-stitching, music, video games, winter sports. Yearly supporter of Desert Bus for Hope.
My YouTube show “Bread After Dark”
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCEgOfUzCzzRd2PscjMKOnBg
My YouTube show “Bread After Dark”
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCEgOfUzCzzRd2PscjMKOnBg
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Dillatont
@dillatont.bsky.social
· Oct 4
This is framed and heading off to @desertbus.org for this year's #db2025 run! I am hoping that fans can celebrate a beloved Sega mascot's 30th anniversary, as is tradition!
Winter Games Fact #280: At the 2022 Winter Olympics, there were 10 events in the sliding sports (Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton). Germany won gold in 9 of them. The only thing that prevented their near sweep was Women's Monobob, where American Kaillie Humphries won gold and the Germans didn't medal.
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Winter Games Fact #280: At the 2022 Winter Olympics, there were 10 events in the sliding sports (Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton). Germany won gold in 9 of them. The only thing that prevented their near sweep was Women's Monobob, where American Kaillie Humphries won gold and the Germans didn't medal.
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Desert Bus wouldn’t exist without Child’s Play Charity. The bus started 19 years ago with the goal to raise money for the children, and @childsplaycharity.bsky.social has partnered with us for nearly as long (after they realized we weren't that weird....)
childsplaycharity.org
childsplaycharity.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Desert Bus wouldn’t exist without Child’s Play Charity. The bus started 19 years ago with the goal to raise money for the children, and @childsplaycharity.bsky.social has partnered with us for nearly as long (after they realized we weren't that weird....)
childsplaycharity.org
childsplaycharity.org
I am three winter games facts behind. Catch up day!
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I am three winter games facts behind. Catch up day!
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Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond.
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025
A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.
desertbus.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond.
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Winter Games Fact #279: The Czech Republic and Slovakia both won 1 gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics. While it's not much, 2 winter gold medals is actually as many as Czechoslovakia won from 1924-1992 COMBINED...a rare case of both countries performing better despite the separation.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Winter Games Fact #279: The Czech Republic and Slovakia both won 1 gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics. While it's not much, 2 winter gold medals is actually as many as Czechoslovakia won from 1924-1992 COMBINED...a rare case of both countries performing better despite the separation.
Winter Games Fact #278: American snowboarder Lindsay Jacobellis won her second snowboarding medal 16 years after her first. Jacobellis nearly won the first-ever gold in Snowboardcross in 2006, but fell while doing a trick and took silver. 16 years later, redemption finally occurred w/ a gold medal.
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Winter Games Fact #278: American snowboarder Lindsay Jacobellis won her second snowboarding medal 16 years after her first. Jacobellis nearly won the first-ever gold in Snowboardcross in 2006, but fell while doing a trick and took silver. 16 years later, redemption finally occurred w/ a gold medal.
Winter Games Fact #277: It's rare for a 100-year-old event a new country medal in any event, let alone two...but that's what happened in 2022 in Mixed Team Ski Jumping. Russia (AKA the ROC) won their first ski jumping medal with a silver AND Canada won their first ski jumping medal with a bronze.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Winter Games Fact #277: It's rare for a 100-year-old event a new country medal in any event, let alone two...but that's what happened in 2022 in Mixed Team Ski Jumping. Russia (AKA the ROC) won their first ski jumping medal with a silver AND Canada won their first ski jumping medal with a bronze.
Winter Games Fact #276: On to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, which were held just 6 months after the 2020 Summer Olympics due to the COVID pandemic. Six month gap in Olympics used to be normal, but this was the first time winter games were six months AFTER instead of before the summer games.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Winter Games Fact #276: On to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, which were held just 6 months after the 2020 Summer Olympics due to the COVID pandemic. Six month gap in Olympics used to be normal, but this was the first time winter games were six months AFTER instead of before the summer games.
Winter Games Fact #275: Ester Ledecka won gold in two sports in the 2018 Winter Olympics, but did you know she wasn't even the only woman to win medals in two sports that year? Dutch speed skater Jorien Ter Mors won gold in long track speed skating (1000m) and bronze (3000 m relay) in short track.
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Winter Games Fact #275: Ester Ledecka won gold in two sports in the 2018 Winter Olympics, but did you know she wasn't even the only woman to win medals in two sports that year? Dutch speed skater Jorien Ter Mors won gold in long track speed skating (1000m) and bronze (3000 m relay) in short track.
Winter Games Fact #274: Norway won 39 medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics, which stands as the current high mark in terms of number of medals won by one country at a Winter Olympics.
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Winter Games Fact #274: Norway won 39 medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics, which stands as the current high mark in terms of number of medals won by one country at a Winter Olympics.
Winter Games Fact #273: The South Korean women's curling team had an unprecedented silver medal on their home ice in 2018. Not only had South Korea never won a curling medal before at the Olympics, they had never won a medal at a World Championships in Curling, either. (And those are run yearly!)
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Winter Games Fact #273: The South Korean women's curling team had an unprecedented silver medal on their home ice in 2018. Not only had South Korea never won a curling medal before at the Olympics, they had never won a medal at a World Championships in Curling, either. (And those are run yearly!)
Winter Games Fact #272: Canadian ice dancers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue won their record 5th medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics, becoming the first figure skaters to do so. The team event was responsible for 2 of their 5 medals, but it was also their third straight games medaling in ice dance.
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Winter Games Fact #272: Canadian ice dancers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue won their record 5th medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics, becoming the first figure skaters to do so. The team event was responsible for 2 of their 5 medals, but it was also their third straight games medaling in ice dance.
Winter Games Fact #271: Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen won 5 medals (2 golds) at the 2018 Winter Olympics...and it arguably wasn't even her best Olympic performance! She actually won 3 golds at both the 2014 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and she also won 5 medals previously in 2010.
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Winter Games Fact #271: Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen won 5 medals (2 golds) at the 2018 Winter Olympics...and it arguably wasn't even her best Olympic performance! She actually won 3 golds at both the 2014 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and she also won 5 medals previously in 2010.
Winter Games Fact #270: North and South Korea fielded a combined women's hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but it's technically not the first time they competed together. Korea first competed at the 1948 Winter Games, about 8 months before the official formation of North and South Korea.
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Winter Games Fact #270: North and South Korea fielded a combined women's hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but it's technically not the first time they competed together. Korea first competed at the 1948 Winter Games, about 8 months before the official formation of North and South Korea.
Ngl, as a Guardians fan, it kind of hurts watching Shane Bieber give up the losing home run in the World Series. Biebs deserves better than that...
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Ngl, as a Guardians fan, it kind of hurts watching Shane Bieber give up the losing home run in the World Series. Biebs deserves better than that...
Remember, kids, you too can watch your favorite baseball team win the World Series. All you need is an owner willing and able to spend 350 million dollars and you're set!
November 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Remember, kids, you too can watch your favorite baseball team win the World Series. All you need is an owner willing and able to spend 350 million dollars and you're set!
Winter Games Fact #269: Home advantage matters more in sliding sports than most at the Olympics. An example of that happened at the 2018 Winter Olympics, with South Korea taking a silver medal in men's bobsleigh. It was the first medal won by any Asian country in any sliding sport.
November 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Winter Games Fact #269: Home advantage matters more in sliding sports than most at the Olympics. An example of that happened at the 2018 Winter Olympics, with South Korea taking a silver medal in men's bobsleigh. It was the first medal won by any Asian country in any sliding sport.
Winter Games Fact #268: Let's move along to the 2018 Winter Olympics, held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 2018 Winter Games surpassed 100 medal events, a first for the Winter Olympics. (For comparison, the first summer Olympics with over 100 medal events was in 1908)
November 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Winter Games Fact #268: Let's move along to the 2018 Winter Olympics, held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 2018 Winter Games surpassed 100 medal events, a first for the Winter Olympics. (For comparison, the first summer Olympics with over 100 medal events was in 1908)
Winter Games Fact #267: As mentioned before, the 2014 Winter Olympics were when the Dutch speed skating team went bonkers, winning 23 of the 36 medals available and finishing 5th in overall medals. For better context...less than 20 countries have more than 23 winter Olympics medals all time.
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Winter Games Fact #267: As mentioned before, the 2014 Winter Olympics were when the Dutch speed skating team went bonkers, winning 23 of the 36 medals available and finishing 5th in overall medals. For better context...less than 20 countries have more than 23 winter Olympics medals all time.
Winter Games Fact #266: Japan's Noriaki Kasai became the oldest ski jumping medalist in 2014 with an individual silver and a team bronze at age 42. It was his 7th (of 8!) Olympics and 20 years after his previous Olympic medal. (And he still competed in a World Cup event earlier this year at 53!)
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Winter Games Fact #266: Japan's Noriaki Kasai became the oldest ski jumping medalist in 2014 with an individual silver and a team bronze at age 42. It was his 7th (of 8!) Olympics and 20 years after his previous Olympic medal. (And he still competed in a World Cup event earlier this year at 53!)
Winter Games Fact #265: As of this writing, 2014 is the last Winter Olympics where Russia's team has been allowed to compete as Russia (due to a variety of reasons). A state-run Russian doping program was discovered later that year, and 4 of Russia's medals ended up being stripped after the fact.
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Winter Games Fact #265: As of this writing, 2014 is the last Winter Olympics where Russia's team has been allowed to compete as Russia (due to a variety of reasons). A state-run Russian doping program was discovered later that year, and 4 of Russia's medals ended up being stripped after the fact.
Winter Games Fact #264: Latvia won its' first-ever gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics, though they didn't find out about until 2017. The 4-man bobsleigh team originally won silver, but was eventually elevated after a Russian team was retroactively disqualified for a doping violation.
October 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Winter Games Fact #264: Latvia won its' first-ever gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics, though they didn't find out about until 2017. The 4-man bobsleigh team originally won silver, but was eventually elevated after a Russian team was retroactively disqualified for a doping violation.
Winter Games Fact #263: Podium sweeps don't happen often at the Winter Olympics. There have been 50 over the course of 24 Winter Games. However, 2014 was a rare year- there were 8 podium sweeps in Sochi, including 4 from the Dutch speed skating team. The previous high in one games was 5 sweeps.
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Winter Games Fact #263: Podium sweeps don't happen often at the Winter Olympics. There have been 50 over the course of 24 Winter Games. However, 2014 was a rare year- there were 8 podium sweeps in Sochi, including 4 from the Dutch speed skating team. The previous high in one games was 5 sweeps.
Winter Games Fact #262: Hockey is arguably the national sport of Canada, but it's fair to say that curling is a pretty big deal, too. In that case, then, 2014 is by some definitions Canada's most successful Winter Olympics, because they swept both hockey golds and both curling golds!
October 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Winter Games Fact #262: Hockey is arguably the national sport of Canada, but it's fair to say that curling is a pretty big deal, too. In that case, then, 2014 is by some definitions Canada's most successful Winter Olympics, because they swept both hockey golds and both curling golds!
Winter Games Fact #261: Women's Ski Jumping made its debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics, leaving Nordic Combined as they only remaining sport which is still just competed by men at the Winter Olympic Games.
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Winter Games Fact #261: Women's Ski Jumping made its debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics, leaving Nordic Combined as they only remaining sport which is still just competed by men at the Winter Olympic Games.