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Virtualis Habilis

@virtualis.bsky.social
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Bug nerd | Musician | Frequent émigré to virtual worlds | Charter member of the "look for the helpers" club | Vector-borne infectious disease expert and public health agency manager

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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
PSA: Please do shut the hell up about showing Iran where Trump lives (Mar-a-Lardo), because that's no better than Trump "joking" about a couple of CA cities that Iran can target. When you wrestle with the pigs, you get covered in mud. But the pigs like that.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The answer to "Have you no shame?" is a resounding "NO!", and always has been. The entire episode has a "Clinton Tarmac Meeting" vibe to it, and was clearly orchestrated in advance. Brian Beutler, on "Republican Disarray And The Second Failure Of McCarthyism" open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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Republican Disarray And The Second Failure Of McCarthyism
The missing ingredient, for now, is consequences.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cultural reference, FTW!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think we just found the Middle Eastern Chapter of the "Face-eating Leopard Party". Like Trump firing prosecutor after prosecutor since they are unable to do his bidding, his "contractors" are stiffing him. Dose of his own medicine, and all that.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Streisand Effect. Congrats, Robert Kraft and pro genocide supporters. You've just made Macklemore and his speech mentioning "Free Palestine" into a global issue, galvanizing the majority.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There seems to be a pattern of learning all the wrong lessons here: Cops with "punisher" phone screens, a dominance narrative LARP'ing the "Death Star", that "Born in the USA" is anything but an anti-war song, all showing a clear lack of critical thought. It's time we stopped bashing teachers.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're not calling you racist for noticing that our country has become dirtier and poorer, Mr. Vice President. We're calling you racist because of your always racist MO of blame-shifting. Q: Why do racists care that they are called racists?
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When you know, you know: Trump Claims He Was Falling Man — theonion.com/trump-claims...
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Trump Claims He Was Falling Man
WASHINGTON—Saying America could frankly be more grateful for the enduring image he provided, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was the previously unidentified Falling Man captured midai...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/08/2026
This is what we mean by saying that being one of the good ones won't protect you. Every gay and lesbian running to throw trans people under the bus are setting themselves up for exactly this. It won't end with us. nypost.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos nabbed by ICE in Louisiana
Controversial right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, a former spokesman for Kanye West, has been arrested by ICE at an airport in Louisiana.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Karen Attiah: The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.
Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is your daily Talarico: A lesson in nesting doll insults:
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Local man suggests jailing own boss.
Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is your regular public service announcement that if you have a problem with "biological men" in a locker room with young girls, then your problem is with sexually abusive men (a.k.a., pedophiles), and not trans people: www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/...
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Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia
Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Trump's "straight out casting" criteria governing cabinet appointments is going to become more apparent with every passing day, as incompetent sycophants are run off the ranch to be replaced by even more incompetent sycophants. It's what they do.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
RE: OpenAI Goes Rogue, "Hugging Face" is A.K.A. "Face Hugger". This is not going to end well. open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
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Troy Jackson Leads By 3 In New Maine Poll, OpenAI Goes Rogue, Rs “Preparing For The Bottom To Fall Out”
Let's keep calling the Senate to block Todd Blanche. Most important calls today are to Tillis and Cornyn - need to flood the zone everyone!
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Marcy Wheeler: Judge Kathleen Williams Hoists the Unitarians on Their Fraudulent Petards emptywheel.net/2026/07/14/j...
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Judge Kathleen Williams Hoists the Unitarians on Their Fraudulent Petards - emptywheel
Judge Kathleen Williams has laid out the problems with the Unitary Executive: Donald Trump can never be adverse to DOJ in any proceeding.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
John Pavlovitz: Graham Platner Reminds The Left Who We Don't Want To Be open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...
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Graham Platner Reminds The Left Who We Don't Want To Be
This sucks.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What we have here is a "Schrödinger's Senator": Is he alive, or is he dead? We'll never know for sure (until we open the box)...
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Jennifer Rubin's The Contrarian: Non-stories You Can Ignore open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Non-stories You Can Ignore
Two invented storylines can safely be disregarded.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 26/06/2026
Anyone who takes 10 years to figure out Trump is an idiot is an idiot.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"Move fast and break things" is not a new concept, and in fact is the MO for industrial polluters, and always has been:
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What "run gov't like a business" gets you. "Move Fast and Break Things" was never funny: Why Your Ribeye Now Costs $22, Thanks to DOGE open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/...
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Why Your Ribeye Now Costs $22, Thanks to DOGE
Trump and Musk fired the people keeping a flesh-eating parasite out of the cattle herd. Beef prices are up 16% and climbing.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The President Got Exposed — And So Did His Communications Team open.substack.com/pub/sofiakin...
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The President Got Exposed — And So Did His Communications Team
The Trump–Welker Interview, Explained by a Former Communications Staffer: What It Actually Reveals
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"But Did You Die?" open.substack.com/pub/rickperl...
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"But Did You Die?"
On trauma, rural life, and Graham Platner
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/05/2026
Mike Judge made Idiocracy as a warning. We treated it as a tutorial. A pro wrestler president, a gilded White House, a birthday party nobody wants to perform at — and a star burning bright right before it implodes. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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We're Living in Idiocracy — And the Credits Are Rolling
In 2006, Mike Judge released Idiocracy, a satirical comedy so niche that Fox buried it with almost no marketing or wide release. The studio apparently didn't know what to do with it, but we became it
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
When "May you live in interesting times" is both a blessing and a curse. Which is, always.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Why would ANYONE take Trump at his word that he's not gay? There's a non-zero chance he's deeply closeted. I've attributed his sick worldview to his upbringing in a dysfunctional family of wealth, but being deeply closeted might just produce the same result? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The King of Queens
President Trump loves “handsome” men, especially the muscular ones.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Jeff Tiedrich: James Talarico is a boss open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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James Talarico is a boss
and Ken Paxton fucking sucks
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
And rightfully so... Stephen Colbert gets the last laugh on CBS. www.salon.com/2026/05/27/s...
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Stephen Colbert gets the last laugh on CBS
CBS filed copyright notices against Colbert's viral "Only in Monroe" comeback. It backfired.
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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🧵 Folks, I’m tired… and I know a whole lot of us are tired. Our party isn’t perfect. Our leaders aren’t perfect. But there are people right now putting everything they have into standing up in this moment. Constructive criticism matters. Accountability matters.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Seeing how Trump reacts when anyone tells him 'no' is how we immediately know he’s a rapist.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump’s now deleted image will be resurrected in days. 😏
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Yesterday, a small child hugged me (Twice! The first was insufficient for my new friend!) at a pre-school event I was participating in, which has helped tremendously to restore my faith in humanity. Blessed be the children.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Further proof that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Even the most uninformed citizen has a pretty good idea what Netanyahu's objectives are, and always have been, because he's never been shy about it. What a shocker that Trump did not have a clue.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The ancient scrolls tell us that, in the Before Time, a president's admission that his administration had not considered the obvious likelihood of the war widening when they first attacked Iran would lead to immediate congressional hearings.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Because of course he does. Trump wants to bet on the horse when it has its nose across the finish line: "Trump Slinks Away From His Promise of a Texas Senate Endorsement" talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...
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Trump Slinks Away From His Promise of a Texas Senate Endorsement
Trump Unable to Save Republicans from Self-Imposed Damage in Texas Senate Runoff...
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It's no coincidence that NYC Mayor Mamdani recently demonstrated how government can work for the people via his genius public works snow shoveling project. It is a playbook for taking back our country from the people who think "government is the problem not the solution".
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We've all noticed that the women in Trump's orbit are absolute plastic freaks, but the men are just as freaky. Someone please explain how the "straight outta casting" guy picks beautiful men, but fake ugly misshapen women? I think you know the answer.
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Schrödinger’s Squirrel @scuffleuffagus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I have now been forced to agree with Joe Kent, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Rand Paul in the same week. <blinks twice> Send help. And snacks.
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Negan @rogernegan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
CLASS: The word of the day is "over-grifted". Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We are in "Ok, Jan!" territory now. Please note, if anyone is wondering what Trump's objectives are in every single thing he does every "waking" moment of the day (and night), it's the ubiquitous line at the end: "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! President DONALD J. TRUMP".
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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Martin Rowson on the deepening Middle East crisis @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hey! What happened to the so-called "Department of War(tm)", filled with awesome manly-man "Warfighters(tm)"?
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Michael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”
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Virtualis Habilis @virtualis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Q: Has any of these clowns mentioned what's going to happen to Markwayne Mullin's senate seat? Is he going to hold 2/3/4/infinite jobs at a time, like the other clowns? What the hell is with the name, anyway? Was "Johnwayne" already taken? Were his parents trying to spell Mark Twain and forgot how?
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Scientists discover the protein that malaria parasites can’t live without
Scientists have uncovered a crucial weakness in the malaria parasite that could open the door to new treatments. Researchers identified a protein called Aurora-related kinase 1 (ARK1) that acts like a...
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OldManLefty @jonbandit.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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