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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 01/10/2026

Me: It’s October 1st! I can finally spend money on Halloween decorations! Costco: I am altering the year... pray I don’t alter it any further.

Alt text: A photograph of the Nashville Charlotte Ave Costco seasonal aisle full of Christmas decorations such as trees, wreaths, and ornaments. In the foreground is a five-foot-tall statue of an angel standing on a plastic pallet.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 01/10/2026

Me: September 30th to October 1st

A photograph of Joe Hills with unkempt hair wearing a black and white striped suit jacket over a green tank top

A photograph of Joe Hills with combed hair wearing a pumpkin jacket with matching tie over a button-down green silk shirt

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 17/09/2026

I have to shuffle a few things around to prepare for To Kill A Tango, so apologies for the shirt notice, but no stream tonight!

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 17/09/2026

I just went over there and it seems the press are providing continuous coverage.

A photo of a grocery store with a truck through it and a news crew outside

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 02/09/2026

Going to be late for today’s craft stream. What should have been a quick trip is now a wait of unknown duration for roadside assistance. Even if I’m not streaming, tips are always welcome via paypal.me/joehills

A photo of Joe Hills’s flat tire. A screw is sticking out of it.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 30/08/2026

It costs nothing to leave a quick review for Google Maps in the app store.

A screenshot of the Apple App store for iOS prompting the user to write a review for Google Maps. The review is for one star with the title “Uninstalled due to terrible GNIS policy” and the body text “The Lake America change is a second example that the creators of this app would rather demonstrate cowardice than editorial judgement. Uninstalled.”

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 15/08/2026

Me: “When we look through the Halloween section, please keep in mind that we don’t have space to store everything we want.” Also me: “we can make space for everything we need.”

A photograph of a green plastic skeleton in the trunk of Joe Hills’ car.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 06/08/2026

Tennesseans, don’t forget to vote today! There was no line when I arrived at my precinct, so you may be in and out quickly!

A photograph of Joe Hills with a sticker on his shirt. The sticker is red, white, and blue and reads: “I voted today”

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 22/07/2026

I don’t know if this counts as a card because it is on a paper towel instead of cardstock, but happy birthday!

A photograph of a paper towel that Joe Hills wrote on with ballpoint pen. The message reads “Happy birthday,
ShyNieke:
Thanks for all the creativity
you share with the world!”

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 10/04/2026

Setting up my gaming and coloring table for this weekend’s Gamers Outreach Charity event! The schedule is at live.hermitcraft.com

A photograph of a table with coloring sheets, TCG cards, and. Northstar Guitar with a Minecraft mosaic on the body

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 27/03/2026

This Sunday, HermitCraft is hosting a world tour with guests! We're welcoming some of the folks helping make the 2026 GFG weekend special! Join us as we tour our Season 11 world, announce our guests, and hype up our schedule of events for the Apr 11-12th charity weekend!

A digital flyer for the HermitCraft Season 11 World Tour & Gamers For Giving Weekend Schedule Announcement event. There is a screenshot of the HermitCraft season 11 shopping district. The event will be held Sunday, March 29th at noon PT, 3pm ET, and 8pm BST.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 08/02/2026

Tech CEOs claim that the AI Bubble isn’t real, but I know what I saw.

A photo of Joe Hills looking at an AI Bubble drawn by his kid.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 05/02/2026

Mark your calendars for the HermitCraft charity stream weekend benefitting @gamersoutreach.org on April 11th and 12th, 2026! Meeting up with my friends the last couple years to entertain y'all and help raise so much for children's hospitals has helped me appreciate how caring our community can be!

A 2024 photo of Joe Hills selfishly taking a selfie while his friends are trying to prepare for a charity stream.

A 2025 photo of Impulse and Skizzleman hosting a podcast on the Microsoft campus while Martyn, Jimmy, Joe Hills, Grian, Pearl, TangoTek, Cub, and Gem listen adoringly.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 14/01/2026

Join Cleo and I on our weekly crafts stream tomorrow at 8:30am Central as I attempt to fabricate a flexible hose to replace this decayed vacuum-cleaner part!

A photograph of a decayed vacuum cleaner hose.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 03/01/2026

If you missed the press conference, Rubio repeatedly said that folks need to take what Trump says seriously because he’s a man of action. Trump described the strike as, “one of the most precise attacks on sovereignty,” so I guess I’ll just hand this over to Oxford Dictionary of English.

A screenshot of the Oxford Dictionary of English entry for sovereignty, a noun, which is defined as the authority of a state to govern itself or another state OR as a self-governing state.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 14/11/2025

Sunday is the first #HermitCraft 11 Stream Day! You can get the schedule in your timezone at live.hermitcraft.com

A promotional graphic for the upcoming HermitCraft 11 Stream Day on Sunday, November 16th.

The schedule shows that Xisuma starts his stream at 10AM GMT, followed by Joe Hills at noon GMT, iJevin at 2pm GMT, and FalseSymmetry at 4pm GMT.

From 6pm GMT onwards, several additional Hermits will begin streaming all at once, including Cubfan135, Grian, GeminiTay, ImpulseSV, RenDog, and ZombieCleo. The Hermits who streamed earlier will also be returning for that group segment: Xisuma, JoeHills, iJevin, and False.

Localized times are available via https://live.hermitcraft.com/

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 30/10/2025

Halloween preparations are in full swing at the Hills house! Today my chat challenged me to capture Keralis’ energy in pumpkin form, and I think I may have succeeded!

A photograph of a carved and lit jack o’ lantern with large eyes and small pupils screaming.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 26/09/2025

HermitCraft Season 10 is shutting down at 7pm US Central Time on Tuesday, September 30th. I'll be streaming live with my friends at twitch.tv/joehills

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 17/09/2025

Howdy, HermitCraft guests! Here's a World Tour Guidebook highlighting a dozen mini-games and a few other points of interest on the server! Feel free to show these pages publicly with your viewers if you'd like to plan and build hype for your visit this Saturday!

The title page of the HermitCraft World Tour Guidebook for an event to be held Saturday, September 20th at 6pm BST.

There is a screenshot of the HermitCraft Worldspawn and text that reads, "Welcome, visitors! The guidebook highlights a few of the many fun things to experience on HermitCraft!"

The Overview page of server regions with the following descriptions for each:
1. Worldspawn
You'll log in here, meet up with your host Hermit, and we'll kick off with introductions and a guided tour of the server.

2. Shopping District
Need building materials?
You can shop until you drop in any of our eclectic and upscale retail establishments.

3. Gaming District
After the guided tour, there's tons of games to check out that you can only play on HermitCraft!
And also Rock, Paper, Scissors.

4. Hermit Holmdel
Want to claim a plot and start building?
Here's the place to create!

The mini-games map page. Games listed include:

"A. Dipple Drop
B. Dye-duction (Pearldle)
C. Ghastketball
D. HermitCraft TCG
E. Hungry Hermits
F. Mace Race
G. Metro Mayhem
H. Ravager Rush (Frogger)
I. Tennis
J. Scootball
K. Skizz's Pyramid (Parkour)

Beyond this map
L. Cub's Labyrinth (Parkour)
M. xB's Trident Arena"

This page shows screenshots of Cub's Labyrinth, a parkour maze with lava and ice. An infobox includes the following information:
"• Individual parkour
• Unlimited simultaneous players
• Takes as long as you like
• No cost"

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 13/09/2025

Yoo-hoo, big season blowout! I'm going live for a couple hours to work on my space telescopes on HermitCraft 10! Let's fix up the XRISM and maybe build some roof to keep it out of the snow! twitch.tv/joehills

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 05/09/2025

This Saturday, my spectacular spouse @badgerspanner.bsky.social and I will be celebrating our first wedding anniversary at 8:30pm CDT at twitch.tv/joehills Let's reminisce about the last year and look forward to many more!

A promotional image for Joe and Badger’s first wedding anniversary stream, to be broadcast at https://twitch.tv/joehills on Saturday, September 6th at 8:30pm CDT.

The image features the silhouette of the Nashville Skyline at the bottom as well as photographs of Joe and Badger together.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 01/09/2025

September 20th will be our big season blow-out World Tour with Guests! Join us for a server tour and mini-games!

HermitCraft World Tour with Guests, JoeHills & Jamal_ Saturday September 20th at noon CDT!

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 21/08/2025

Not me with my 1:12 slope ramps in Minecraft.

A screenshot of Microsoft's game Minecraft depicting Joe Hills standing on an ADA compliant ramp in front of a welcome center. The Welcome Center combines glass, logs, and stone in the US National Parks architectural style. A cow walks up the ramp.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 21/08/2025

Despite my earlier setbacks trying to re-paint colorful old thrifted beads, my abacus project continues! My attempt yesterday to fabric dye new wooden beads seems successful after three hours of soaking and 18 hours of drying!

A photograph of two wire loops of wooden beads. Each loop has fifty beads on it. Half the beads were died light blue and the other half were dyed denim blue.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 09/08/2025

If you’re walking to Tomato Art Fest, I’d recommend bypassing Russell Street—it is currently taken over as the parade staging corral.

A photograph of Russell Street in East Nashville. The street is packed with people preparing to march in the parade.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 26/07/2025

Hey, @zombiecleo.bsky.social, I bought the basis for an actual craft project for next Wednesday! I’ve gotta turn the green beads a new color somehow!

A photograph of damaged Melissa & Doug wooden beads being held by Joe Hills

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 23/07/2025

Lauryn: everyone will be dressed very goth, but wear whatever you want—you won’t embarrass me. Me, emerging in a black matrix-tab-collar button-down shirt and bright green shorts: is this Nathan Barley enough? Lauryn: you have to change. Me: that’s okay, my Baldur’s Gate shirt has a skull on it.

Aa photograph of Joe Hills in a D&D shirt at a concert venue

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 20/07/2025

Birthday update: Kate bought me the goth chicken jockey tequila.

A photograph of Joe Hills holding a tequila bottle with an inked illustration of a skeleton riding a chicken into battle. In the background there is a gift bag that says “Happy B-day!”

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 05/07/2025

Congrats to J.D. for the furthest throw at 12 feet and an inch! The table has barely survived!

A photograph of a beat-up table with duct tape holding its left leg together

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 05/07/2025

Table-flipping starts at 6pm! We’re at the canopy up the hill from the pool (outside lower Mayfield). Rules: 1. No running start 2. Feet must stay planted 3. Both hands under the tabletop 4. No twisting the table while throwing 5. One throw per contestant 6. Furthest throw wins! #playOnCon

A photograph of the 2025 PlayOnCon table-flipping contest throwing table. The table is decorated with the words “Play On!” as well as the first two notes of John Williams’ main theme to Steven Spielberg’s 4th of July Classic JAWS.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 17/05/2025

System President Dr. Gold: “as a father of two, I can attest that insanity is heredity, we get it from our children.”

A photograph of the UNL commencement stage. Dr. Gold is speaking.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 17/05/2025

Congratulations to the class of 2025! #goBigGrad

A photograph of the UNL class of 2025 as they take their seats at graduation

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 28/04/2025

Good morning, everyone! I'm jumping back on HermitCraft 10 for a couple hours! twitch.tv/joehills

A screenshot of Mojang's game Minecraft showing a long-distance view of the HermitCraft 10 server with Voxy mod's render distance set to 1024 chunks.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 26/04/2025

TGIF! Let’s place some blocks of sandstone (and sandstone block variants) on HermitCraft 10!

A screenshot of Mojang Studios’ game Minecraft, showing a long-distance view of the HermitCraft 10 world.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 04/04/2025

I considered making this clip my entire 1000th episode of HermitCraft to take the pressure off.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 11/12/2024

Today’s Federal preliminary injunction against Automattic included me on page 24! Thanks, Northern District of California, for making my evening! www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221...

A screenshot of page 24 of a Federal District Court injunction against Automattic showing Matt Mullenweg admitting retaliatory action against WP Engine for suing Automattic in response to a comment made by Joe Hills.
Joe Hills says: “What a choice, and what poor timing.
Companies that make breaking changes on holiday weekends aren’t going to earn much goodwill from developers.”
Mullenweg replies: “Nothing has broken. Perhaps WP Engine should have consider that before suing us.”

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 04/12/2024

Just updated my Patreon Minecraft SMP server to 1.21.4, and folks have already found a pale garden biome! If you're interested in joining a patreon community that keeps its flagship server on the bleeding edge of Minecraft updates, access to my servers starts at $10/mo at: patreon.com/joehills

A screenshot of Minecraft portraying a Pale Garden viewed from above with a portal in the treetops.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 30/10/2024

Are you ready for Halloween? My workspace is completely prepared for my pumpkin carving stream in about 40 minutes!

A photograph of a computer desk in a garage with a wooden folding chair and so much clutter that carving the pumpkin on the desk would be impractical.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 26/10/2024

Happy pre-Halloween Saturday! Have you been to the real pub The Ten Bells? My spooky spouse BadgerSpanner has! We’re are about to play horror game The Ten Bells for the first time! Anyone who tips can have their name written on a gravestone! twitch.tv/joehills

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 21/10/2024

Going live now for the next couple hours to play Satisfactory on the HermitFactory server with Hypno, Wels, and hopefully Xisuma at twitch.tv/joehills

A screenshot of Satisfactory showing the aluminum plant with conveyor belts and roads running to it.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 21/10/2024

Good morning, y'all! It's shop month, so my next project is my calcite and tuff shop! Let's break ground on that this morning! I've got a two-hour stream starting right now at: twitch.tv/joehills

A screenshot of Minecraft showing a sign that reads “Future Home of @JoeHills’ calcite and tuff shop.” Behind the sign are several other shops.

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 19/10/2024

Happy Saturday! It’s shop month on HermitCraft so I’m doing some bonus streams to get work done on all of my shops! Streaming now for the next two hours at twitch.tv/joehills

A screenshot of Microsoft’s game Minecraft showing a concrete name tag approximately 80meters wide that reads “Hello my name is Lasertag.”

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Joehills.net @joehills.net · 17/10/2024

As a YouTube partner, I’m used to their YouTube Studio app suggesting awkward responses to my viewers’ comments—but their recent AI upgrades genuinely shocked me with this suggestion, to the point of wondering if I should e-mail @gruber.foo because this is bonkers. Actual screenshot:

A screenshot of the YouTube studio app, showing a commenter responding to Joe Hills’ 33rd episode of HermitCraft 10 by saying, “loving the extra sound effects. The breaking glass? chef’s kiss.” Below the comment is a suggested response for the creator which reads: I stole those from someone, but I don’t remember who.”

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