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Wil Sterling

@shadowvasterra.bsky.social

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

created July 24, 2023

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Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social)

I knew we were forgetting something

2/9/2025, 11:52:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's worse is the guy simply could have gotten out and lifted the car into the space.

1/9/2025, 9:49:54 PM | 66 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

I need a twenty on James Franklin Hyneman immediately

1/9/2025, 8:39:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please tell me we didn't light 95 at Cottman on fire again

1/9/2025, 6:59:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Definitely Philadelphia.

1/9/2025, 6:57:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social)

This radicalized me the first time I read it (many) years ago.

1/9/2025, 5:12:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taka Hanazawa (@takahanazawa.bsky.social) reposted

Happy Labor Day, comrades

4/9/2023, 2:54:50 PM | 459 179 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social)

Just went past a Wawa that somebody turned into a freaking car dealership. Philadelphia man, glorious and insane Philadelphia

31/8/2025, 8:10:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) reposted

As far as apologies go "i'm a dumb ass, i'm embarrassed, please help me to be better" is a good one!

31/8/2025, 4:49:58 PM | 537 56 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Effin' Birds (@effinbirds.com) reposted

A painting of a bird beside the text
31/8/2025, 2:08:01 PM | 359 68 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

We wore your damn hats

30/8/2025, 12:21:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On a fuckin kazoo

30/8/2025, 12:16:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sploot to assert dominance

30/8/2025, 12:14:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hornswagglers breathing a sigh of relief at the moment.

30/8/2025, 1:42:21 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Lord of the Rings Online (@officiallotro.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 1:24:01 AM | 38 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

So you’re saying there’s a chance

30/8/2025, 1:36:56 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social)

It’ll make Kissinger’s departure look like an Amish barn raising narrated by Werner Herzog.

30/8/2025, 12:40:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Casual eleven mana meta thirty years ago

29/8/2025, 8:01:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Vallely (@pjvphotography.bsky.social) reposted

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
28/8/2025, 4:18:28 PM | 41660 10326 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture No Context College Football (@nocontextcfb.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 11:57:26 PM | 128 46 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

I unplug for 36 hours and Morty goes and switches careers to battery.

27/8/2025, 6:44:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Physical inactivity coming in swinging.

27/8/2025, 5:52:30 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 4:45:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

turns out prosecutors can not, in fact, indict a ham sandwich

27/8/2025, 2:34:43 PM | 324 40 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social)

Guys I found the @mementomorty.bsky.social signal

A wall full of jars of pickles, with a big marquee that says PICKLES
25/8/2025, 9:58:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shwarmonger in chief

25/8/2025, 1:09:55 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Genghis Khan, famous negotiated settlement guy.

24/8/2025, 11:42:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stryker Rashid is a supporting member of Saw Gererra’s cell and you can’t convince me otherwise.

24/8/2025, 8:48:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

Technically Big Trouble in Little China would also qualify

24/8/2025, 2:28:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stretching the genre a little bit, but Yojimbo

23/8/2025, 10:08:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not saying being patted down into a rectangle and then run through an industrial tastiness extruder would fix me, but I’m also not saying it wouldn’t.

23/8/2025, 9:29:10 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Big buckets of love right there

23/8/2025, 9:25:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can walk a mile faster than that, yeesh

23/8/2025, 7:04:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is Dwigt Rortugal erasure and I will not stand for it.

23/8/2025, 11:52:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hard drives!

22/8/2025, 3:43:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

“Cataline received a bag of chips, therefore he must die. In this oration I will…”

22/8/2025, 1:19:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

And also birb friend

21/8/2025, 9:32:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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IN THE SUN???

21/8/2025, 5:35:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trapdoor regs have been ruled unconstitutional sadly. That one’s kosher.

21/8/2025, 5:34:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just wait till we get to the subject of sports

21/8/2025, 5:34:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not having a childhood will mess you up like that

21/8/2025, 5:31:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

Just fuckin @ me next time Tim Onion, jeez.

21/8/2025, 5:26:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Damien C-C (@dccc-phd.bsky.social) reposted

new (research scientist) sicko just dropped

21/8/2025, 5:06:23 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social) reposted

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY! For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!) DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS) act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

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21/8/2025, 1:47:30 PM | 498 294 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture "Pre-emptively Squeezed" Ella Tailor $140/$400 (@garaktailor.com) reposted

Good morning

perfect baby hippo Moo Deng Screaming captioned
20/9/2024, 2:37:32 PM | 442 82 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

The varieties of mods that get made for the different franchises provides an interesting (and batshit terrifying) window into that.

21/8/2025, 12:19:27 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

And I suspect an equal level of quality from the final product here.

21/8/2025, 12:10:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Spruce goose ass boatplane

21/8/2025, 12:09:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

some one offers u a bag if potato chips and there are no potato chips in the bag what kind of sicko does that

20/8/2025, 11:52:26 PM | 1828 175 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

Thats actually how you sign the boston accent

20/8/2025, 11:28:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nic McConnell (@mcconnell.bsky.social) reposted

This is a pretty good bit

20/8/2025, 2:26:13 PM | 9278 3267 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh hello

19/8/2025, 9:09:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social)

I need a twenty on the temperature in hell please

19/8/2025, 7:40:24 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have one response to folks who claim that, and that is to embed a copy of Monstrous Regiment in their parietal lobe.

19/8/2025, 7:32:04 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

They really did just fridge Cyrus in that Trailer didn't they.

19/8/2025, 6:42:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Radioactive. Shrimp. C'mon now

19/8/2025, 5:31:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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BIG BOAT STUCK (in port)

18/8/2025, 11:50:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Been looking for that one for the last hour

18/8/2025, 11:43:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The scrunchies were feeling insecure.

18/8/2025, 6:15:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Interleaved rounds of boxing and chess. Winner by KO or checkmate, whichever comes first.

18/8/2025, 6:05:11 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh god here comes South Philly

18/8/2025, 5:44:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/8/2025, 5:31:57 PM | 519 86 | View on Bluesky | view

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@loweringthebar.bsky.social oh this is all you buddy

18/8/2025, 5:06:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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UPDATE: The Racoon has been vanquished The dryer works again The fence is (mostly) done I’ll take the win I guess

18/8/2025, 2:37:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s not very effective…

18/8/2025, 2:29:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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IN THIS ECONOMY?

18/8/2025, 2:28:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait I didn’t pack my flying shoes

18/8/2025, 1:32:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Immediate reaction:

18/8/2025, 1:26:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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New “landscape vs portrait” discourse just dropped

18/8/2025, 1:12:38 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’re not helping dipshit.

18/8/2025, 12:26:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aram ➡️ PaxU (@aramvartian.com) reposted

Lower Decks just won TWO Hugo Awards. Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Star Trek—Lower Decks: “The New Next Generation.” Best Graphic Story or Comic: Star Trek—Lower Decks: "Warp Your Own Way."

17/8/2025, 4:15:06 PM | 33 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

The lamp stays on

15/8/2025, 11:23:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Get Klauss in here with the forklift *stat*

15/8/2025, 11:00:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Still better than an earworm

15/8/2025, 4:39:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Helluva time for my keys to go AWOL

15/8/2025, 3:35:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy birthday Sam!

15/8/2025, 3:12:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can travel to literally whole different worlds in the span of an hour and change. Radically diverse cultures with different loved experiences, but who are populated by fundamentally awesome people who want a good life. And the food. My god the food.

15/8/2025, 2:23:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jeff knows what he did

15/8/2025, 2:19:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Foxes In Love (@foxes-in-love.bsky.social) reposted

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green sits by himself in front of his computer, frowning in mildly annoyed disappointment. His thoughts hover above his head as narration. Green, in thought: They say
15/8/2025, 12:56:04 PM | 4057 845 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wil Sterling (@shadowvasterra.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh no, Q has motivational spite again

15/8/2025, 12:40:35 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t you dare trundle to Clearsky. You don’t need that trauma on a Friday.

15/8/2025, 12:24:17 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It took approximately seven seconds looking at the profile involved to go “oh…you’re one of *those* people”

15/8/2025, 11:57:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh it’s Bakula time

14/8/2025, 10:40:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Find the spooky gallery.

14/8/2025, 10:23:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That we can’t find nor were we aware of the existence of Have a post in my fence collapse cause of poor drainage from the adjoining property rotting said post. Need to replace said posts and half the fence. Get accosted by a raccoon *in my own damn kitchen* Oh and the dryer died.

14/8/2025, 10:23:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This week in THE HOUSE Saga: Discover that the idiot previous owners had cut a load bearing joist to install second and third floor plumbing. Get an electrician in to rewire some 220 outlets only to find that the ones on the second floor have an intermediate box to the fuse panel…

14/8/2025, 10:23:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TERF labeled batting 1000 tonight

14/8/2025, 10:18:32 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/8/2025, 2:47:47 PM | 644 115 | View on Bluesky | view

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He gonna be big mad today

14/8/2025, 2:07:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) (@chel-c-cam.bsky.social) reposted

EVERYONE TO THEIR DESIGNATED POSTING STATIONS THIS IS NOT A DRILL

14/8/2025, 1:42:21 AM | 91 26 | View on Bluesky | view

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100% Spock, who promptly gets yelled at by Bones while Kirk winks in the background

13/8/2025, 5:06:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Twenty minutes of feet would certainly have made an impression.

13/8/2025, 4:40:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gonna be honest I kind of forgot after he disappeared for four episodes

13/8/2025, 3:29:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My dude, this is a court that today advertised its intent to burn the rest of the voting rights act and salt the earth, and you think they won’t go after marriage equality? Go buy a fucking bridge.

12/8/2025, 9:44:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So that’s what, every majority minority district in the South about to get eviscerated?

12/8/2025, 5:48:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the "I got my PhD 23 fucking years later nerds" that I'm beaming at. Never too late to chase a dream.

12/8/2025, 2:02:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Laying odds this is some weird Threadnought knock on buffoonery

12/8/2025, 12:39:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have questions about the Ope Championship darth

11/8/2025, 11:12:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fantasy maps are goddamn awesome!

11/8/2025, 5:03:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well that’s terrible on a whole host of levels

11/8/2025, 4:20:42 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view