Victor Villas

Born at 356.42 ppm CO₂
🇨🇦 Living the good life in YVR
🇧🇷 Inner voice speaks in pt_BR
💻 Paying bills with software

me elsewhere

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  • Comment

    Mar 15, 2025, 5:47 PM

    created collection Brazilian Literature
    Books sorted by publication year. Curation based on notoriety and a small influence of personal taste.

  • Wants to read

    Mar 15, 2025, 5:47 PM

    wants to read Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

  • Finished watching

    Mar 11, 2025, 10:17 PM

    finished watching Who Are You? 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
    Some lovely bits and pieces, though I can't say I love the dialogues and the script. I'm not even sure I really got the message, the ending was a bit... abrupt.

  • Finished watching

    Mar 10, 2025, 11:00 PM

    finished watching The Neighbors' Window 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
    A superb short, specially well executed in the first half. Amazing how 10 minutes is enough to build a relatable relationship with the protagonists. The ending was a bit on the predictable cliché side given the development of the second half, and I wonder what kind of lesson would there be to this story if the neighbours relationship simply developed into one that embodied the modern ideals.

  • Comment

    Mar 4, 2025, 8:34 PM

    Every day reading and news starts an exercise of trying to make sense of the unreasonable.

    Is the strategy to dissolve the conspiratorial fame of conservatives by behaving so randomly dangerous that everyone else gets used to look for "dark money" and "cabal of elites" to process this madness?

    I'm already crafting meta-conspiracies.

  • Finished watching

    Mar 3, 2025, 8:37 PM

    finished watching I'm Not a Robot 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
    The best kind of science fiction, presenting the bare minimum technology context to support the ensuing drama. The tension buildup as she fails the tests, fails to find privacy and communicate, then dissolves tension into anger as she learns that she is a robot, the emotional crutches her partner seems to be dependent on, then despair as she realizes her shackles, it's all expertly conveyed with a sweet deal of "show, don't tell".

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 3, 2025, 2:38 AM

    wants to watch I'm Not a Robot
    2025 Oscar winner

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 3, 2025, 2:24 AM

    wants to watch No Other Land
    2025 Oscar winner

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 3, 2025, 1:17 AM

    wants to watch In the Shadow of the Cypress
    2025 Oscar winner

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 3, 2025, 12:31 AM

    wants to watch A Real Pain
    2025 Oscar nominee

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 2, 2025, 5:05 PM

    wants to watch Flow
    2025 Oscar nominee

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 2, 2025, 5:04 PM

    wants to watch Nosferatu
    2025 Oscar nominee

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 2, 2025, 5:03 PM

    wants to watch Sugarcane
    2025 Oscar nominee

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 2, 2025, 5:03 PM

    wants to watch Conclave
    2025 Oscar nominee

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 2, 2025, 5:02 PM

    wants to watch The Brutalist
    2025 Oscar nominee

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 2, 2025, 5:01 PM

    wants to watch The Substance
    2025 Oscar nominee

  • Wants to watch

    Mar 2, 2025, 5:01 PM

    wants to watch Anora
    2025 Oscar nominee

  • Comment

    Mar 1, 2025, 5:51 PM

    This ORTBO episode was to me the worst episode of both seasons so far, by a large margin. The directors seem to be losing the seriousness and gravity the first season had.

    —
    Severance Season 2 Episode 4

  • Comment

    Feb 28, 2025, 5:29 PM

    Fifth day in Brazil.

    Being an expat is ever stranger. I do feel home. The birds, the food, smiles, slangs, the plants, flowers, sand. The car I used to drive. Muscle memory kicks in. It all feels like it should. Even the clouds look as if they had been broken and are now fixed.

    But I also feel like a visitor. The heat, the traffic, inequality. It’s the same as always, but also worse than it was. It’s strange to so easily overhear, to invisibly connect so fast.

  • Wants to watch

    Feb 28, 2025, 2:34 PM

    wants to watch Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between The Lines
    A local celebrity in Vancouver, though I can’t say I’m a huge fan of most of his work really. It’s hard to separate what’s his design from what came from generic projects done by his company using his name.

  • Finished reading

    Feb 27, 2025, 6:41 PM

    finished reading Invisible Cities 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
    So humbling in its immense creativity and captivating writing. So immersive in its rendering of all that could be otherwise, the world of imagination and dreams and nightmares. So provocative in its resonance of the myriad lives of all peoples, all struggles and passions, laughter and cries. A book to feast upon as many times as I can afford in this life - it is said it's a different book every time you come back to it, and I'm already wondering what's it going to taste like next time.

  • Started watching

    Feb 22, 2025, 5:12 AM

    started watching Severance Season 2 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
    Started off nicely with a good continuation of the season one finale. Excited to see what’s coming.

  • Comment

    Feb 21, 2025, 4:46 PM

    “This government does not represent us”

    Yes it does, it’s literally called representative democracy.

    I have been there before (Bolsonaro), and while I get the chant, this cannot be used to excuse oneself from the consequences of these representatives.

    “I did not vote for this” isn’t a free pass, it’s the bare minimum.

  • Comment

    Feb 20, 2025, 10:47 PM

    Great piece.

    thewalrus.ca/common-sense-poli

    How to reconcile the anti-intellectualism that serves as a foundation for the denial of science with the apparent technocratic positivism behind the defense of tech oligarchs?

    The answer is grievance. of resentment. An angry bunch is an engaged bunch.

  • Comment

    Feb 20, 2025, 10:40 PM

    For anyone interested in reading a weekly curated best moments of humankind's wordcraft, the is buttondown.com/perfectsentences

  • Comment

    Feb 20, 2025, 10:37 PM

    Just saw @jsnell quoted from @upgrade reading @ingrid 's Perfect Sentences.

    It's so funny when these random cross-overs happen. Makes the web feel like a small place from time to time. Well, the group of cool people saying cool stuff might be in fact a small corner.

  • Comment

    Feb 16, 2025, 6:10 PM

    This Friday for the first time I took a from to . It's incredible. Beautiful scenery, downtown to downtown in 35 minutes, check-in in 20 minutes - quicker than BC Ferries as a pedestrian... The noise isn't as bad as I thought, but it's still a solid 90 dB so an earplug is welcome.

    The worst of it is the smell and the pollution from the fuel, and obviously the price. It's ten times the price of public transit for the route, but it's nearly ten times faster!

  • Comment

    Feb 15, 2025, 1:35 AM

    Unfortunately what I need isn’t really photography, which is what all three federated services deliver. My main needs are 1) Stories, 2) Highlights, 3) carousel posts mixing image and video. That’s the state of the art that would make an replacement for me.

  • Comment

    Feb 15, 2025, 1:30 AM

    Discovered another besides frequency.app thanks to @bluszcz

    The vernissage.photos and the Impressia iOS app. It looks like they were related but split in two separate projects? These seem even more focused on photography.

  • Comment

    Feb 14, 2025, 6:43 PM

    seems to have good momentum, as dan continues to churn out code at a wild pace.

    Still, it’s still quite not there as an Instagram replacement for me, and I’m afraid the project is competing for attention with Loops, the other project from same author.

    So I have been looking for alternatives, and today I found out about @frequency: open source backend is a mastodon fork, polished app, friendly and sensible maintainers. Following it closely 👀 mastodon.social/@jesseplusplus

  • Comment

    Feb 14, 2025, 2:18 AM

    My post is actually a page that I'll be trying (not too hard) to keep up to date:

    victor.villas/notes/now

    These days I decided that saying what I'm up to is more important than trying to state who I am.

  • Comment

    Feb 13, 2025, 9:19 PM

    Decentralized social media still has a lot of rough edges but the email analogy the concrete tips go a long way. video.fedihost.co/videos/watch

  • Comment

    Feb 13, 2025, 7:51 PM

    Stupid truck kills person, Mounties issue warning, people continue getting stupider trucks, police gets more budget.

    Just North America things. flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british

  • Comment

    Feb 13, 2025, 5:15 PM

    This is incredible. Super timely. I just watched a @fedihost podcast about the challenge of bringing I cities to the fediverse and this kind of grassroots effort is blowing my mind on its effectiveness. socialbc.ca/@chris/11398076397

  • Comment

    Feb 12, 2025, 4:30 PM

    Anyone out there working on Strava/Slopes/etc?

  • Comment

    Feb 11, 2025, 11:34 PM

    A little bit of trumpology doesn’t really calm my nerves but at least things that were incomprehensible horrors are now merely horrors.

    mastodon.online/@justinling/11

  • Comment

    Feb 11, 2025, 11:05 PM

    My Hummingbird by Canal arrived, and once again I have been duped by an product that simply doesn't deliver. It's not entirely garbage, but it's not what I signed up for. Very disappointing.

    How many more of these am I going to fall for before understanding that pre-ordering things is unnecessary risk... is a mystery that eludes my selfawarewolf.

  • Comment

    Feb 10, 2025, 11:43 PM

    Unfortunately NA motonormativity runs so deep that I won’t live to see this here. Maybe congestion pricing if I’m lucky. mastodon.nl/@rrustema020/11398

  • Media

    Feb 6, 2025, 7:29 AM

    Me and Aline side by side smiling in Whistler Village, the sun is out and the sky is a clear blue

    Happy as if it's sunny in Whistler

  • Comment

    Feb 5, 2025, 5:26 PM

    Winter cycling can be amazing.

  • Comment

    Feb 5, 2025, 4:11 AM

    OK, kind of giving up on for videos for now. Video format hassles and UI complications aside, I just realized that video posts are not federating and are not visible in the RSS feed.

    This combination is a dealbreaker for an replacement for me, so I guess I’ll be dumping would-be stories into Mastodon directly for a while to see how it goes.

  • Media

    Jan 30, 2025, 7:21 PM

    A view of the lake under a cold and cloudy gray sky

    Garibaldi Lake Trail

    #hiking #mushrooms #coldweather #graydays