jcb
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joshbelville.com | Portland, OR. I write things and make music sometimes. I play a lot of D&D. I don't know how else to explain myself to you.
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@joshbelville.com
· Nov 22
please don't look up at the sun today
YouTube video by Josh Belville
youtu.be
Good morning. I made another music video late last night, for a song I wrote in 2019. The song was inspired by the events, on a certain day, of a certain D. Trump. No, that's too obvious ... Donald T. youtu.be/CA9qDNk-tRE
It's 2050 and the US is embroiled in a 2nd civil war. On one side, the Pro-Gooners fight in mechanized goon suits which constantly jack them off, heightening their senses. On the other, the Anti-Gooners send SpecOps to execute any woman who shows even a hint of skin. Both sides are gambling addicts.
December 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It's 2050 and the US is embroiled in a 2nd civil war. On one side, the Pro-Gooners fight in mechanized goon suits which constantly jack them off, heightening their senses. On the other, the Anti-Gooners send SpecOps to execute any woman who shows even a hint of skin. Both sides are gambling addicts.
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I don't love that the future of this country hinges on a large enough majority of the population both realizing and recognizing that these chucklefucks get riled up over the dumbest stuff they've read online somewhere... but that does seem to be where we're at.
THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS
these fucking people. they pass laws to make sure every person with a screw loose who wants an Armalite can show up to the day care armed & ready to kill, then complain that the day cares are locked to protect the children inside
December 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I don't love that the future of this country hinges on a large enough majority of the population both realizing and recognizing that these chucklefucks get riled up over the dumbest stuff they've read online somewhere... but that does seem to be where we're at.
i want to write a version of moby dick where ahab is trying to avoid the white whale but it keeps showing up, like at the gym and on the bus
December 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
i want to write a version of moby dick where ahab is trying to avoid the white whale but it keeps showing up, like at the gym and on the bus
Feels almost cliche at this point but Paranoid Android absolutely wrecked my brain in a good way when I was 14. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiG...
December 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Feels almost cliche at this point but Paranoid Android absolutely wrecked my brain in a good way when I was 14. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiG...
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
Crock pot chili recipe attempt #2 from a recipe online. Now THIS is podracing I mean chili making. Key changes:
- tomato sauce instead of stewed tomatoes
- cocoa powder
- brown sugar
- sauteed onions
The end result is pretty dang good. Probably could add a little more salt but I ain't gonna.
- tomato sauce instead of stewed tomatoes
- cocoa powder
- brown sugar
- sauteed onions
The end result is pretty dang good. Probably could add a little more salt but I ain't gonna.
December 31, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Crock pot chili recipe attempt #2 from a recipe online. Now THIS is podracing I mean chili making. Key changes:
- tomato sauce instead of stewed tomatoes
- cocoa powder
- brown sugar
- sauteed onions
The end result is pretty dang good. Probably could add a little more salt but I ain't gonna.
- tomato sauce instead of stewed tomatoes
- cocoa powder
- brown sugar
- sauteed onions
The end result is pretty dang good. Probably could add a little more salt but I ain't gonna.
I've been wanting to do a Wire rewatch for ages and now I gotta do it. RIP Isiah! deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
Isiah Whitlock Jr. Dies: ‘The Wire’ Actor & Frequent Spike Lee Collaborator Was 71
Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr., known for his roles in The Wire, Veep, Your Honor and The Residence and a number of Spike Lee movies, passed away Dec. 30.
deadline.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I've been wanting to do a Wire rewatch for ages and now I gotta do it. RIP Isiah! deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
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If people do not regularly go to the theater, they forget how to do it and before long they are like “theator: is toilet?” and then when they see a theater they use it as a toilet due to that confusion and I would like to hear more discussion about this because of my high intelligence levels
December 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If people do not regularly go to the theater, they forget how to do it and before long they are like “theator: is toilet?” and then when they see a theater they use it as a toilet due to that confusion and I would like to hear more discussion about this because of my high intelligence levels
I forgot to update the title of this post. There is virtually no rundown on the newsletter this week, I'm so sorry. open.substack.com/pub/joshbelv...
The 2025 End of the Year Rundown, Sort Of
allegedly
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I forgot to update the title of this post. There is virtually no rundown on the newsletter this week, I'm so sorry. open.substack.com/pub/joshbelv...
This last season of stranger things is so bad, maybe they're just playing on the 80s trope of each movie sequel being aggressively worse than the last.
December 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This last season of stranger things is so bad, maybe they're just playing on the 80s trope of each movie sequel being aggressively worse than the last.
I'm gonna get hate for this but I do think there are stupid questions.
December 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I'm gonna get hate for this but I do think there are stupid questions.
after session zero, every online d&d group needs a session 0.5, which I am going to call the tech run, where you figure out your internet and a/v shit.
December 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
after session zero, every online d&d group needs a session 0.5, which I am going to call the tech run, where you figure out your internet and a/v shit.
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(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
oops i bought more steam games
December 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
oops i bought more steam games
hell yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyhY...
Castle Rat - WIZARD
YouTube video by CastleRatVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
hell yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyhY...
Amaaaaaazing.
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Amaaaaaazing.
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if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
Last night I dreamed that I was watching a nature documentary with my parents. We were watching a segment about the cumfrog of Australia. In one scene the frog is underwater and produces a bubble of air from its butt. The narrator called this a cum bubble and I immediately left the room.
December 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Last night I dreamed that I was watching a nature documentary with my parents. We were watching a segment about the cumfrog of Australia. In one scene the frog is underwater and produces a bubble of air from its butt. The narrator called this a cum bubble and I immediately left the room.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
Dang, this is sad. Say what you will about the franchise but the first Call of Duty really was great and set the standard for military fps games from then on. RIP
Devastated. Outside of consistently hearing him be very pro-player and anti-shitty corporate practices I can’t speak to Vince professionally, but personally he was such a down to earth, funny, warm person. The industry already feels far less bright without him.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Vince Zampella, co-creator of Call of Duty video game series, dies aged 55
Game developer, who was also involved in Medal of Honor and Titanfall, was killed in a car crash
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dang, this is sad. Say what you will about the franchise but the first Call of Duty really was great and set the standard for military fps games from then on. RIP
i will never trust a person who looks at the puppeteer, and not the puppet, when the puppet is talking.
December 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
i will never trust a person who looks at the puppeteer, and not the puppet, when the puppet is talking.
This week's newsletter is brought to you by @jesawyer.bsky.social's posts about the D&D in Stranger Things being "WRONG." I decided to learn why and why it being wrong sort of ruins Dustin's big bully scene. open.substack.com/pub/joshbelv...
Josh Rants about Stranger Things Again
"rant" is a strong term but i need the engagement, okay
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This week's newsletter is brought to you by @jesawyer.bsky.social's posts about the D&D in Stranger Things being "WRONG." I decided to learn why and why it being wrong sort of ruins Dustin's big bully scene. open.substack.com/pub/joshbelv...
I've been playing Last of Us for the first time and I'm genuinely surprised how much of the TV show was exactly like it. Except for that one episode with the gay couple, it's basically the game.
December 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I've been playing Last of Us for the first time and I'm genuinely surprised how much of the TV show was exactly like it. Except for that one episode with the gay couple, it's basically the game.
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Christians wear the thing that killed their god around their necks. What else would you expect?
December 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Christians wear the thing that killed their god around their necks. What else would you expect?