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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I say “I’m fine” a lot for someone who is grinding their teeth into chalk dust.
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I say “I’m fine” a lot for someone who is grinding their teeth into chalk dust.
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”it’s ableist against her geriatric husband to insult leavitt’s spread“ 🤡🤡
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
”it’s ableist against her geriatric husband to insult leavitt’s spread“ 🤡🤡
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With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?
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They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one
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star at 3 billion years old: i have so much light and warmth to share
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
star at 3 billion years old: i have so much light and warmth to share
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
star at 12 billion years old: when i finally get to die im taking all of you with me
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The nation’s top law enforcement official has been referred to as the ‘Make-a-Wish Director’ behind his back due to his many extravagant trips and activities, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Kash Patel’s behavior as FBI boss has earned him a new nickname, former agent says
The nation’s top law enforcement official has been referred to as the ‘Make-a-Wish Director’ behind his back due to his many extravagant trips and activities,
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The nation’s top law enforcement official has been referred to as the ‘Make-a-Wish Director’ behind his back due to his many extravagant trips and activities, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area.
Let us know what you hear.
Let us know what you hear.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area.
Let us know what you hear.
Let us know what you hear.
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They hated affirmative action because they believe they’re better and smarter than any non-white person, when in fact they’re utter mediocrities.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
They hated affirmative action because they believe they’re better and smarter than any non-white person, when in fact they’re utter mediocrities.
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The guy spends most of his adult life doing violence and accruing PTSD, has to flee his homeland suddenly to go into permanent exile here, and then we don’t give him a work permit or any resources
But sure it was the Cigarette Smoking Man what did it
But sure it was the Cigarette Smoking Man what did it
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The guy spends most of his adult life doing violence and accruing PTSD, has to flee his homeland suddenly to go into permanent exile here, and then we don’t give him a work permit or any resources
But sure it was the Cigarette Smoking Man what did it
But sure it was the Cigarette Smoking Man what did it
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OMG, it looks like the entire film version of
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss with a musical score by Pink Floyd is available for $2.99 to rent today. I know what I'm watching tonight.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss with a musical score by Pink Floyd is available for $2.99 to rent today. I know what I'm watching tonight.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
OMG, it looks like the entire film version of
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss with a musical score by Pink Floyd is available for $2.99 to rent today. I know what I'm watching tonight.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss with a musical score by Pink Floyd is available for $2.99 to rent today. I know what I'm watching tonight.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
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Satellite images of the Yasny launch site near Orenburg where Russian missile crashed recently
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Satellite images of the Yasny launch site near Orenburg where Russian missile crashed recently
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The FDA has provided no evidence of this. Something of this gravity would ordinarily be published in a journal reviewed by others. That’s the mostly likely reason they didn’t. It wouldn’t withstand scrutiny.
FDA commissioner says data showed 10 child deaths due to COVID shots reut.rs/4prwtyZ
FDA commissioner says data showed 10 child deaths due to COVID shots
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said on Saturday that data showed 10 children had died because of COVID-19 vaccination shots.
reut.rs
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The FDA has provided no evidence of this. Something of this gravity would ordinarily be published in a journal reviewed by others. That’s the mostly likely reason they didn’t. It wouldn’t withstand scrutiny.
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if trump dies of natural causes (do not fedpost in my mentions) before he finishes his term and issues blanket pardons, there's going to be very intense pressure from every direction on vance to cover their asses, but vance could probably get himself impeached for trying
Also, this is Stephen Miller's project and while I know JD Vance is on board with the racism he's the only scheming vizier who stands to have pardon power if Trump keels over on the toilet so you're betting a lot on one horse of the subsequent power struggle.
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
if trump dies of natural causes (do not fedpost in my mentions) before he finishes his term and issues blanket pardons, there's going to be very intense pressure from every direction on vance to cover their asses, but vance could probably get himself impeached for trying
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“That striped package with a blue flower,” says the Untappd description by a russian brewery
“That striped package” is a product by a Ukrainian salt manufacturer Artemsil in Soledar — a city your country has destroyed.
Business on blood as it is
“That striped package” is a product by a Ukrainian salt manufacturer Artemsil in Soledar — a city your country has destroyed.
Business on blood as it is
November 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“That striped package with a blue flower,” says the Untappd description by a russian brewery
“That striped package” is a product by a Ukrainian salt manufacturer Artemsil in Soledar — a city your country has destroyed.
Business on blood as it is
“That striped package” is a product by a Ukrainian salt manufacturer Artemsil in Soledar — a city your country has destroyed.
Business on blood as it is
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It's NEVER about "protecting children" and *always* about stripping away people's rights to privacy. 😠
Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual
www.eff.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It's NEVER about "protecting children" and *always* about stripping away people's rights to privacy. 😠
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i stumble upon things - Did the Original Cocktail Sauce contain Angostura Bitters?
alcademics.com/did-the-orig...
alcademics.com/did-the-orig...
November 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
i stumble upon things - Did the Original Cocktail Sauce contain Angostura Bitters?
alcademics.com/did-the-orig...
alcademics.com/did-the-orig...
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It takes me 3x as long to grade assignments now, because I have to explain gently and effectively why ChatGPT style writing is boring -- they swim in this stuff now even when they don't use the tools. Maybe no one has even told them their own voice matters, so that is down to us. 3/
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It takes me 3x as long to grade assignments now, because I have to explain gently and effectively why ChatGPT style writing is boring -- they swim in this stuff now even when they don't use the tools. Maybe no one has even told them their own voice matters, so that is down to us. 3/
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Ok. I promise this is the end of the great mac & cheese frenzy. I followed exactly the Bourdain recipe. Lots of Parmesan-Reggiano plus the usual cheeses. Noticeable bit of cayenne & dry mustard, whole milk, Worcestershire. Lots of stirring to make a béchamel. Wow. Delicious
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Ok. I promise this is the end of the great mac & cheese frenzy. I followed exactly the Bourdain recipe. Lots of Parmesan-Reggiano plus the usual cheeses. Noticeable bit of cayenne & dry mustard, whole milk, Worcestershire. Lots of stirring to make a béchamel. Wow. Delicious
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Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
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(The very best productions I've seen of it were done in repertory with Hamlet, with the same actors playing the same roles and the same staging, so it really does feel like that's what's going on offstage during the whole of Hamlet.)
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
(The very best productions I've seen of it were done in repertory with Hamlet, with the same actors playing the same roles and the same staging, so it really does feel like that's what's going on offstage during the whole of Hamlet.)
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Nobody outside this country is wondering, like the pundit class does, what was wrong with Kamala Harris.
Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.
Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.
November 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Nobody outside this country is wondering, like the pundit class does, what was wrong with Kamala Harris.
Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.
Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.
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Whitey McWhites screech about AIPAC and DEI, that they deem somehow misguided, just that they can enjoy holiday dinners with their Republican-voting loved ones, who empower other Whitey McWhites to take away the health care and civil rights of all Americans, particularly of Black people and women.
“Ask why people aren’t thrilled with Democrats?”
Oh oh I know the answer!!! Because the Democrat caucus’ with Blacks and Jews??? That’s why white America “chose” a racist criminal as their leader??
Oh oh I know the answer!!! Because the Democrat caucus’ with Blacks and Jews??? That’s why white America “chose” a racist criminal as their leader??
I think you might want to ask yourself why people arent thrilled with Democrats... considering all they ever do is enable Republicans.
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Whitey McWhites screech about AIPAC and DEI, that they deem somehow misguided, just that they can enjoy holiday dinners with their Republican-voting loved ones, who empower other Whitey McWhites to take away the health care and civil rights of all Americans, particularly of Black people and women.
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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The fact that TPUSA posted the entirely reasonable comments from the instructor here as coming from the “TRANS PROFESSOR” gives away the game.
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The fact that TPUSA posted the entirely reasonable comments from the instructor here as coming from the “TRANS PROFESSOR” gives away the game.
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always