Joe Vilas
@jhv.bsky.social
Geek. @jhvilas on birdsite. @[email protected]. Durham NC. Likes food & drink. Good at sitting on butt & wasting time on the net.
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me, ~20 years ago: "I'm a computer information science major, why is an ethics course part of my core degree requirements?"
me, today: "ah"
me, today: "ah"
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 AM
me, ~20 years ago: "I'm a computer information science major, why is an ethics course part of my core degree requirements?"
me, today: "ah"
me, today: "ah"
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According to this form you can upload 5Gb files.
FBI is soliciting tips on threats to the immigration enforcement operation codenamed "Catahoula Crunch"
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
According to this form you can upload 5Gb files.
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Not the biggest thing right now but my cheap La Quinta motel in Kenner - heart of the Latino community - blacks out MSNBC because we can’t expose visitors to the radical center-left
I forgot they do this in red states
I forgot they do this in red states
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Not the biggest thing right now but my cheap La Quinta motel in Kenner - heart of the Latino community - blacks out MSNBC because we can’t expose visitors to the radical center-left
I forgot they do this in red states
I forgot they do this in red states
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Would that institutions cared enough about the human rights of trans people to risk the destruction of their institution rather than comply with fascist bigotry. But again and again, we see people and institutions unwilling to take on great risk for the sake of of trans people's rights.
December 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Would that institutions cared enough about the human rights of trans people to risk the destruction of their institution rather than comply with fascist bigotry. But again and again, we see people and institutions unwilling to take on great risk for the sake of of trans people's rights.
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Every single city they've done these operations in have Black mayors. LA, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans. 3 of which are Black women. This isn't a coincidence.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Immigration Operation Starts in New Orleans
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Every single city they've done these operations in have Black mayors. LA, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans. 3 of which are Black women. This isn't a coincidence.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
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“mormons are christians but catholics aren’t” - don’t tell me we can’t innovate anymore in this country
Today in Schism:
Robert Griffin III claims the committee is “persecuting Christians” by ranking Notre Dame ahead of BYU
Robert Griffin III claims the committee is “persecuting Christians” by ranking Notre Dame ahead of BYU
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“mormons are christians but catholics aren’t” - don’t tell me we can’t innovate anymore in this country
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December 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Good morning. ICE apparently can't satisfy its desire for matériel domestically, so it needs to go to Canada to buy equipment to go to war on people in the United States. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ICE
ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm | CBC News
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb bla...
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Good morning. ICE apparently can't satisfy its desire for matériel domestically, so it needs to go to Canada to buy equipment to go to war on people in the United States. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ICE
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Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.
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Fun fact: my district extends from Austin, all the way to the Louisiana border. My parents, who live 2 miles away from me, live in a different district. My work, which is 9 miles away, is located in yet ANOTHER district. The Sonic that’s 5 miles away, you guessed it—a FOURTH district.
To give you an idea of how ridiculous the gerrymandering in Nashville is, here’s our district. They diluted a third of Nashville into a rural area about 50 times as large that extends north to the Kentucky border and about a third of the length of the state to the east.
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Fun fact: my district extends from Austin, all the way to the Louisiana border. My parents, who live 2 miles away from me, live in a different district. My work, which is 9 miles away, is located in yet ANOTHER district. The Sonic that’s 5 miles away, you guessed it—a FOURTH district.
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It's still going, and it's hypnotic.
A radio station here in Minneapolis is stuck -
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cities971.iheart.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's still going, and it's hypnotic.
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Sources close to the president's family say that Maduro will be forgiven and left in power if he, like Hernández before him, can produce 400 tons of cocaine.
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Sources close to the president's family say that Maduro will be forgiven and left in power if he, like Hernández before him, can produce 400 tons of cocaine.
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lol holy shit
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
lol holy shit
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Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
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His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
Trump on Walz: "You look at what he's done with Somalia where Somalia, which is barely a country -- they have no anything, they just run around killing each other. When I see somebody like Ilhan Omar, I always watch her, for years I've watched her complain about our Constitution ... "
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
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Judge Howell's decision begins by clarifying a piece of constant misinformation coming out of the Trump admin: "[V]iewing all immigrants potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong."
![Consequently, viewing all immigrants
potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong. Second, immigration
policy is indisputably important and “can affect trade, investment, tourism, and diplomatic
relations for the entire Nation, as well as the perceptions and expectations of aliens in this country
who seek the full protection of its laws.” Arizona, 567 U.S. at 395 (citing
Harisiades v. Shaughnessy, 342 U.S. 580, 588-589 (1952)). Treating all immigrants potentially
subject to removal as if they were criminals highlights the Supreme Court’s wise caution that
“[p]erceived mistreatment of aliens in the United States may lead to harmful reciprocal treatment
of American citizens abroad.” Id.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreide72g5jbeaiorowmo2bvwqusjnrzzzybgfdbpn4hem3ad3xzcnoi@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Judge Howell's decision begins by clarifying a piece of constant misinformation coming out of the Trump admin: "[V]iewing all immigrants potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong."
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So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.
The good news is Republicans in Congress are shitting their pants right about now
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.
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Took my kid’s pet 🐀 to the nonprofit Odd Pet Vet.
Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?”
Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years
Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍
Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?”
Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years
Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Took my kid’s pet 🐀 to the nonprofit Odd Pet Vet.
Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?”
Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years
Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍
Mid apt kid says “um, why is there a tortoise walking down the hall?”
Vet: oh that’s Bling, he’s had free rein of this place for 14 years
Me: protecc bling at all costs 😍
It's like a Mary Celeste for our time, except the ship disappeared too. I'm still fascinated with it. I hope someone finds something.
Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume over 11 years after plane went missing
Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume over 11 years after plane went missing
The country’s transport ministry said the search would resume on 30 December and confirmed that US robotic company Ocean Infinity would take part
The search for the missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 will resume this month, over a decade after the plane was lost, Malaysia’s transport ministry has announced.
In a statement on Wednesday, the transport ministry said the search would resume on 30 December, and confirmed that US robotic company Ocean Infinity would take part in a search of the seabed that would run for 50 days. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
It's like a Mary Celeste for our time, except the ship disappeared too. I'm still fascinated with it. I hope someone finds something.
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
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my grandmother used to lovingly refer to a French 75 as “the cocktail we used to defeat the Huns”
The French 75 is the most delectable mistake
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
my grandmother used to lovingly refer to a French 75 as “the cocktail we used to defeat the Huns”
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Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
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a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?
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Ballroom delenda est
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Ballroom delenda est