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Daniel Villarreal

@getvillarreal.bsky.social

660 followers 2.6K following 260 posts

Hybrid queer witch-rad fae satyr 🧚🏽‍♂️🐏 journalist gaymer 🎮 pun-loving wrestler 🤼 psych & film slut + antifa (come & get me, Trump) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹☮️♎️☯️👾 Sex work is real work 💃🏽🕺🏽 PDX via TX 🤙🏾🤠 UBI. Now @ LGBTQ Nation (past work @ Vox, Vice, Newsweek, NBCNews, etc). 📝

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 15h

I totally judge people for their tattoos and other kinks, but I daren’t say it out loud bc #SexPositive but like, ummm… ewwww no 😜

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OTTR 🦦 @maxxquin.bsky.social · 16h

i gayed the pray away

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 16h

I have a weird thing, that when I take a seat at a restaurant, bar or any room, I wanna sit in a seat that allows me to view the crowd and the door. Safety? Neurosis.

Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 18h

Whoa! The xylophone! Hurrah to Japanese punk ingenuity 🇯🇵🗾👺🎎

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 21h

And it’s in English! 😺 not scary but definitely a stylish and modern take on the gay coded Wilde tale

Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 21h

Bring her back will eff you up. Barbarian is pretty good. The Italian version of Dorian Gray is neat. The remake of Nightmare on Elm Street has overt chomo vibes. Companion was fun…. Just a few ideas

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feral streep @seanpaulmahoney.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 3d

😜

a woman is saying i wanna see the receipts .

Alt: Whitney Houston is saying i wanna see the receipts .

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 3d

Happy National Coming Out Day! 🌈🚪🕺🏽 I shared my own coming out story, if you’re curious.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/i-wa...

I was a self-loathing teenage closet case who was too scared to touch another boy - LGBTQ Nation

I begged God to make me straight because I didn't want to turn into Dr. Frank N. Furter from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 6d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 7d

a woman with her eyes closed and her mouth open is wearing a white shirt .

Alt: an animated GIF of a tan-skinned woman with long black hair in a white t-shirt looking down and then looking at the viewer as she says, “girl, same.”

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re wondering why I didn’t respond to your last email apologizing for ending our friendship after years of us not talking, it’s because I still love you very much and am worried about getting pulled back into your maelstrom. 🌊⛈️☔️

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 8d

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MaritNathalie71 @mns71.bsky.social · 7d

What's the point of these hearings when no one is forced to answer questions posed to them, gets away with being obscenely rude & lie like a rug when they do say something w/o being fact-checked and corrected to their faces?!
#Cartoonish

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 7d

Zeb Atlas

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 7d

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day

You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · Apr 6

TALK TO "MY DOCTOR" LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN

THERE ALWAYS SAYEN TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR BUT I DONT KNOW ANY ONE WHO HAS "A DOCTOR" LMAO LIKE IF THEY POP THERE BACK OUT THEY MIGHT GO TO A DOCTORS OFFICE TO BEG FOR A MRI, BUT THE DOCTOR AINT SENDING THEM CARD'S AFTERWARDS LOL ,IMAGINE IF YOU GOT "CHECK UP" WHERE YOU GO IN TO THE DOCTERS IF THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU, ONE TIME I WENT TO THE DOCTERS AND THE MOTHER FUCKER OPENS UP WEB MD, LIKE I DIDENT DO THAT BEFORE I CAME IN , SO JUST SAVE US ALL SOME TIME AND LET WEB MD GIVE ME ANTIBIOTICS, IF THERS NO EFFECTIVE MEDICAL CARE FOR MOST OF THE COUNTREY THEN JUST LET ME BUY THE PILLS DIRECTLY FROM THE PILL STORE!!!!! IM TIRED OF THE LAW BINDING AND NOT PROTECTING ME!!! IF I AINT GETTING PROTECTED THEN DONT BIND MY ASS MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!! IF WERE DOIN THE POCALYPSE THEN LEGALIZA ALL DRUG'S AND GIVE ME THE RADIOACTIVE BEANS FROM FALL OUT!!!!! ILL EAT A DAMB GIANT ROACH IF IT MEANS I NO LONGER HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE WORD "DEDUCTIBLE" AND DA TEXT SAYS "TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR , IM AMERICAN, I DONT HAVE A DOCTOR, WHEN I GET SICK OR HURT I GO TO A BUILDIGN THAT USE TO BE A PIZZA HUT, AND I PAY A GUY $176 TO CALL ME FAT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 10d

The body is a gateway to the mind is a gateway to the body. I will worship at the altar of physical beauty, which is internal as well as external, so I may know myself, my sensuality, and my capability more fully. This is part of Lady Aphrodite’s message to me.

A statuette of Aphrodite shows her clothed, rising from a clam shell, her hands in her hair as a dolphin adores her from the water at her feet

Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 11d

Making peace
with my body 🧘🏽‍♂️

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11d

Justice Jackson is obviously correct. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE are now illegally going to have their status terminated early — as every court other than the Supreme Court has found so far.

Not a single word of justification from the Justices in the majority to justify this. NONE. Not one.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11d

Sotomayor and Kagan would deny the application.

Jackson, alone, writes, accusing the majority of "privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our Government has promised them."

Our lower court colleagues have already chosen the obvi-ous—i.e., least disruptive and most humane-answer to that question.? So, this stay application presents us with an antecedent decision: whether the Government's interest in terminating TPS right now is so urgent that this Court, rather than the able judges currently exercising jurisdiction over the matter, should be the one to decide those individuals' interim fate. See Noem v. Doe, 605 U.S. .
(2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting from grant of application for stay) (slip op., at 7-8); see also Magnum Import Co. v.
Coty, 262 U. S. 159, 164 (1923) (explaining that "this Court requires an extraordinary showing" before it will override the stay decision of a lower court, rendered "with a much fuller knowledge [of the case] than we can have"). Only if the Government demonstrates such a time-sensitive need should we even consider vetoing the lower courts' unanimous judgment about the most equitable interim status.
The Government has made no such showing. Yet, for the second time in this same case, the Court grants it the

JACKSON, J., dissenting
extraordinary relief it seeks. We once again eschew re-straint—ignoring the need for exigency or any other prudent threshold limitation on the exercise of our discretion— and wordlessly override the considered judgments of our colleagues. We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible.
I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand.
Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly misjudges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families' pleas for the stability our Government has promised them. Because, re-spectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Daniel Villarreal @getvillarreal.bsky.social · 13d

@clarkrogers.bsky.social he’s back… same screen name as you said