Peter Sillin
@psill.bsky.social
“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
The Appalachian Mountains are the same mountains as the Scottish Highlands and the Norwegian fjords. They just got separated when the continents drifted and the Atlantic filled in.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The Appalachian Mountains are the same mountains as the Scottish Highlands and the Norwegian fjords. They just got separated when the continents drifted and the Atlantic filled in.
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This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
This is why i follow @unusualwhales.bsky.social
your whales must be seen before they can be killed
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is why i follow @unusualwhales.bsky.social
Maine at its best.
Would make a great chef’s challenge show.
Would make a great chef’s challenge show.
These Maine chefs are taking on a cooking challenge: Feeding a community in need
These Maine chefs are taking on a cooking challenge: Feeding a community in need
For chefs like Eric Bufo at Wayside Food Programs, using donated and rescued ingredients to provide restaurant-quality, seasonally driven meals is an everyday test.
www.pressherald.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Maine at its best.
Would make a great chef’s challenge show.
Would make a great chef’s challenge show.
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I've been saying for a while that when a real conspiracy emerges the Conspiracy Theory Complex will be some of the least interested people in it, because the point of the Conspiracy Theory Complex is not to discover conspiracy but to create rationales to justify untenable beliefs.
Alex Jones on encountering actual gay frogs: “NOTHINGBURGER it’s a Nothingburger on Top of Bottom Nothingburger!”
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I've been saying for a while that when a real conspiracy emerges the Conspiracy Theory Complex will be some of the least interested people in it, because the point of the Conspiracy Theory Complex is not to discover conspiracy but to create rationales to justify untenable beliefs.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
What the OP and the policymakers have in common is a misunderstanding of feudalism as a society ruled by lightly taxed landowners who hold disproportionate political power to dominate and extract wealth and labor from their inferiors.
OP and policymakers just disagree about worthiness of goal.
OP and policymakers just disagree about worthiness of goal.
While I get this person means that Republicans are attempting to usher in a very bad, unequal form of government, I literally have no idea why this could be read a "feudal" or what people think "feudal" means at this point. (This is quite aside from the fact that feudalism never existed ofc.)
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What the OP and the policymakers have in common is a misunderstanding of feudalism as a society ruled by lightly taxed landowners who hold disproportionate political power to dominate and extract wealth and labor from their inferiors.
OP and policymakers just disagree about worthiness of goal.
OP and policymakers just disagree about worthiness of goal.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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This is a ridiculous adorable story.
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is a ridiculous adorable story.
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"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
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cough JAMES DAVID VANCE, HE’S TALKING TO YOU cough
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
cough JAMES DAVID VANCE, HE’S TALKING TO YOU cough
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Palate cleanse. Some humans are terrible, but more of us are great.
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Palate cleanse. Some humans are terrible, but more of us are great.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
This is a good life
We had people over for food and baseball 23 times between the opening of the playoffs on September 30 and last night. What a joyful thing that was.
November 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is a good life
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If you have a loved one who's been "doing their own research" on TikTok (or, really, anywhere) about whether the Earth is round, you could try showing them this article instead. ⚛️🧪🔭 physicsworld.com/a/fighting-f...
Fighting flat-Earth theory – Physics World
Rachel Brazil explores ways in which the physics community can best combat unscientific thinking, such as the belief the Earth is flat
physicsworld.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If you have a loved one who's been "doing their own research" on TikTok (or, really, anywhere) about whether the Earth is round, you could try showing them this article instead. ⚛️🧪🔭 physicsworld.com/a/fighting-f...
Goose meme: Which principles? WHICH PRINCIPLES??
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Goose meme: Which principles? WHICH PRINCIPLES??
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This must be what it’s like to meet Odin when you enter Valhalla. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
October 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This must be what it’s like to meet Odin when you enter Valhalla. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
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Thank you National Hurricane Center, NWS and flight crews working to warn us about #HurricaneMelissa even as the government remains shutdown
October 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Thank you National Hurricane Center, NWS and flight crews working to warn us about #HurricaneMelissa even as the government remains shutdown
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I came across this from that other place, written 12 days after J6 and two days before Trump was evicted and Biden took over. We are in the trouble we’re in because Trump was not held accountable for his crimes, particularly inciting a ldeadly insurrection. Accountability is key for our future.
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I came across this from that other place, written 12 days after J6 and two days before Trump was evicted and Biden took over. We are in the trouble we’re in because Trump was not held accountable for his crimes, particularly inciting a ldeadly insurrection. Accountability is key for our future.
One uncle used to design corn mazes like this
October 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
One uncle used to design corn mazes like this
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Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
This is literally the argument that VP of the Confederacy Alexander Stephens gives in his famous Cornerstone Speech. (I know Serwer knows this).
my favorite thing about this story is he's like "I was just kidding about the nazi thing" and then they note that at several points he unironically says nazi shit like "The founding fathers were wrong that all men are created equal … We need to reject that part of our heritage,”
October 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is literally the argument that VP of the Confederacy Alexander Stephens gives in his famous Cornerstone Speech. (I know Serwer knows this).