Joe Vilas

@jhv.bsky.social

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Geek. @jhvilas on birdsite. @jhv@triangletoot.party. Durham NC. Likes food & drink. Good at sitting on butt & wasting time on the net.

Lady Lucy Waffle-Pants, a mostly black & tan Corgi mix. Her paws have splashes of white. She's lying on a linoleum tile floor & wearing a peach & white plaid bow tie.
Buster, a tan & white Australian Cattle dog mix, makes a U shape with his tongue while sitting on my wife's chair. He's wearing a mostly orange collar with a blue & pink bow tie. Behind him are some house plants, liquor bottles on shelves, & more living room miscellany.
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Buster P., a tan & white Australian Cattle dog mix, stands on the arm of my chair & looks out an off-camera window. He's wearing an orange collar. Behind him is typical living room stuff, including my almost omnipresent pile of clean laundry.
"Lord Sweatpants" <@lordsweatpants.bsky.social> said: "You can’t hear a bicycle coming at you and at 25 mph, there is enough force there to kill you. Both vehicles and bikes are hazardous to pedestrians. I support bikes but they need to operate within traffic laws as everyone else has to."
A bogus personal injury lawyer billboard reads "Injured? Go fuck yourself You injured piece of shit Jacob Ernup • Attorney
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Simpsons meme -- Every accusation is a confession.
Buster, a tan & white Australian Cattle dog mix sits up & looks off camera. He's wearing a mostly yellow dog collar with a number of dog tags hanging off it. He's sitting on a muted multicolor blanket on a dark brown leather couch.
Buster, a tan & white Australian Cattle dog mix, stares at me from in front of my chair. He has golden eyes that match some of his fur. He's standing on our wooden living room floor. Behind him is living room stuff & pieces of destroyed dog toys.
I'd really enjoy seeing Ray Smuckles beat TF out of Greg Bovino. Stolen w/o permission from https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html Apologies to Chris Onstad.
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A couple of old Google emojis for people, but hugging. They look like gumdrops with faces.
Simpsons meme with Bart being asked to "say the line": Say the line, Bart! Every accusation is a confession Yaaaaaay!
Some burned out cars & 2 police at the site of a huge fire in Krokstadelva, Drammen, Norway. *Police crime scene investigators inspect the fire scene on Monday. Photo: Torstein Georg Bøe / NRK"
An NWS radar map showing an estimate of accumulated rainfall over the past 1 hour. The map is in color, with a color bar at the bottom left matching to numbers underneath of rainfall in inches from zero to 8 the area in the map is largely central North Carolina, with some of south central Virginia. One small blob of color to the left reminds me of Ireland's shape; the larger blob from the center to the right reminds me of Britain. I guess you had to be there. [shrug]
Map of absolutely horrifyingly high heat indices in Central North Carolina today.
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Beavis & Butt-Head meme. They talking & laughing. Subtitles read "Heh-heh, heh-heh" ¶ "He said "pipe".
NWS Raleigh weather radar screenshot showing a significant thunderstorm over Durham NC, with NWS advisories running from south of Sanford to north of Oxford.
A picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger with "The Crypt Keeper" from Tales from the Crypt.
A Simpsons meme. Panel 1: Bart's class asks him "Say the line, Bart!" 2: Bart says "Every accusation is a confession" 3: "The class says "Yaaaaaay!"
Screenshot of NWS Raleigh's storm total accumulation product, showing a band of rainfall from east of Saxapahaw to west of Zebulon, showing large amounts of rain — maybe as much as 6 inches in some places. A color coded scale is at bottom left. The screenshot is from 7 July 2026, but the rainfall is from both 6 & 7 July. There's no rainfall currently in that area.
A map of the area within a few miles of Downtown Durham NC, along with temperatures in °F. for personal weather stations in that area.
Buster, a tan & white Australian Cattle dog, rests his head on someone's arm inside a vehicle. He looks half asleep because he is doped up to the gills.
Reasons to live starter pack: To step on crunchy leaf Q-tip in ear feel good To feed pet Pasta To outlive your enemies Mom would be sad Trampoline is fun Funny pictures on the internet It will get better (trust) Then a bunch of those were crossed out, with reasons why they didn't work.
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Sign says "In this house, we believe: JD Vance is a fucking psychopath"
San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, with the Golden Gate in the background. The Palace of Fine Arts is a large domed structure, with ornate columns supporting the dome. A colonnade runs behind it with a pool in front.
A panorama of the surface of Mars. Thank you, NASA.
The Gorn from Star Trek (TOS) in episode "Arena." The Gorn is a reptilian-looking humanoid with green skin & multifaceted eyes. It appears above with some sort of colorful scarf around its neck. The background is a hilly, desert-like landscape with some dead trees.
A close-up of the edge of a large ceramic flower pot. A number of different sprouts are coming up in the pot but closest to the edge is a pair of small leaves with the stem hidden because it's coming out of the center of the leaf in back. A small whitish spot in the middle of the front is where the stem is on the back. You can see the leaf's veins radiating from that spot. Mixed organic matter, mostly dark, underlies all the sprouts.
A televangelist in a dark blue jacket, blue tie, & white shirt is praying on TV. Subtitles say "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me."
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Screenshot of NWS weather radar, showing rainfall & an apparent front from High Point NC to near Richmond VA. Some areas are highlighted in yellow because of the weather there or approaching.
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A color map of temperatures in the area within a few miles of downtown Durham, NC. The temperatures run from 97 to 109°F., with most being 100 or more. The map includes areas around Duke University & North Carolina Central University. A timestamp shows the map was screenshot at 3:40 p.m. EDT on 12 June 2026.
Screencap at 5:40 PM showing a small, sharp downpour of rain near central Durham NC.
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A still from a movie. As this is part of a film quiz, no more information will be provided.
Buster P., a tan & white Australian Cattle dog mix, stares at the camera & my face. He's wearing a collar with dog tags attached, along with a peach & white bow tie attached. Behind him is a bunch of living room miscellany, including liquor bottles.
A knockoff of Goofy is wearing a red & white hat. He's on a salmon background. Subtitles say "I'll fuckin do it again"
A Google Maps screenshot of White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, USA.
The cover of a copy of JG Ballard's High-Rise. The illustration portion shows a high-rise apartment building, but wired as if it has a detonator on the roof. At the bottom, it says 'A triumph of artistry and feeling' — The Times
The new Google Keep Notes icon. It's a screenshot from my tablet, & it's overly enlarged, but imagine it in a half inch square. It looks like a mushroom or a very distorted thumb up, 👍 or more likely a thumb down. 👎 I guess it's supposed to be a light bulb? The relevant part of the icon is a couple yellow blobs, joined & verging to pink & white in the center. It's on a square lozenge of white space. Behind that is my tablet's wallpaper — unrecognizable here but it's varying shades of black & gray.
A colorful map of North Carolina & adjoining areas, indicating rainfall amounts over the past week by color. It's a product of the Raleigh NC NWS office & NOAA. Associated text: National Weather Service Raleigh, NC National Weather Service Rainfall Totals since Thursday ●Totals have mostly been around a half inch to 2 inches in the northern Piedmont and northern Coastal Plain and 1 to 4 inches in the southern Piedmont, Sandhills and central/southern Coastal Plain. Locally higher amounts have occurred with the maximum observed total 5.94" in Clinton. ●Full list of observed totals: https://partnerservices.nws.n oaa.gov/products/cache/146 -2026/PNSRAH/60ca070c20 b4637df1a2b811a3c5f15b
Buster, a tan & white Australian Cattle dog mix, lies on our bed amid a profusion of differently colored blankets. A tiny bit of his peach & white plaid bow is peeking out immediately to the right of his head. Behind him is the rest of our bedroom.
A still from a movie. As this is part of a film quiz, no more information will be provided.
Buster, a tan & white Australian Cattle dog mix, sits on his "bed" on our brown leather couch. He's wearing a mostly yellow collar with a number of dog tags attached, along with a black & teal bow tie. He looks very alert, & is looking off-camera to a window that's behind & to the right of the camera's viewpoint.
A cylindrical double Old Fashioned glass (actually a candle holder) holds a canary yellow alcoholic beverage and several ice cubes. The bottom of the glass is still frosted from the freezer. The glass sits on a maroon waffle-weave cloth napkin on a side table made of some blond hardwood. Behind that is another side table with assorted stuff on it.
Buster P., a tan & white Australian Cattle dog mix, lies on a blue bathroom rug on a brown leather couch. He's licking crumbs off a handmade dark ceramic plate with attractively irregular glazing. He's wearing a mostly blue synthetic collar with green highlights & black plastic "hardware."
A montage of stills from a Simpsons episode. A scammer is trying to get money out of a bunch of Springfield residents at a talk. His speech, partially summarized in subtitling above, goes: "First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No sir. Our model is the trapezoid that guarantees each investor an 800% return…".
"Cancer Man" from the X-Files.
Buster, a tan & white Australian Cattle dog mix, stares at me from the floor. He's wearing a pink plaid bow tie on his collar. Behind him is a coffee table with some books on an undershelf. The floor has fluff from dog toys, along with several of those toys in varying states of, um, decomposition.
From the titles of a Monty Python movie: "We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked. "Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti... "We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked."
Carl from ATHF in a tank top, sweat pants, flip-flops, & a gold chain.
Jennifer Connelly in Dark City, singing into a microphone.