Cuba
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🏳️🌈 He/they. Enby. Deceptively weighty. Music and art and other stuff. https://linktr.ee/cubaRhodes
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Listened to "Someone in a Tree" this morning for the first time in a few years
It was a source of comfort when I was really (really) struggling to trust myself and my experience of Very Bad Things that many close to me declined to support me through
It was a source of comfort when I was really (really) struggling to trust myself and my experience of Very Bad Things that many close to me declined to support me through
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Listened to "Someone in a Tree" this morning for the first time in a few years
It was a source of comfort when I was really (really) struggling to trust myself and my experience of Very Bad Things that many close to me declined to support me through
It was a source of comfort when I was really (really) struggling to trust myself and my experience of Very Bad Things that many close to me declined to support me through
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Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
Seeing as the discourse is discoursing about what is political (and what is legible as being political) why not let Adrienne Rich weigh in
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/03...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/03...
![Excerpt from interview between Kate Waldman and Adrienne Rich
Waldman:This collection seems more overtly political than some of your previous work. At the same time, it is deeply personal, especially when it explores the costs of speech and the creative act for the poet. Do the personal and the political go together for you? Have they always?
Rich: I’m not quite sure why you see Tonight No Poetry Will Serve as more overtly political than my other books. The split in our language between “political” and “personal” has, I think, been a trap. When I was younger I was undoubtedly caught in that trap—like many women, many poets—as a mode of conceiving experience.
In 1969 I wrote, “The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political” (“The Blue Ghazals,” in The Will to Change [1971]). Writing that line was a moment of discovering what I’d already begun doing. Much of my earlier poetry had been moving in that direction, though I couldn’t see it or say it so directly.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ws7245sibjkbm3jgmzjpsbb6/bafkreiesgwtoen432a6ay5nhazc53xennyww2j73vzb3rsm3wapm47giti@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Seeing as the discourse is discoursing about what is political (and what is legible as being political) why not let Adrienne Rich weigh in
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/03...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/03...
In time,
you will come to regard my questioning
with a certain pained
amusement; in time, get so
you would hardly find
it possible to live without
my joke and me.
you will come to regard my questioning
with a certain pained
amusement; in time, get so
you would hardly find
it possible to live without
my joke and me.
February 8, 2026 at 9:14 PM
In time,
you will come to regard my questioning
with a certain pained
amusement; in time, get so
you would hardly find
it possible to live without
my joke and me.
you will come to regard my questioning
with a certain pained
amusement; in time, get so
you would hardly find
it possible to live without
my joke and me.
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I hate everything about this AI "writing" thing, but just to pick one top line from this: YOU DON'T WIN AT WRITING YOU DIPSHIT. THAT'S NOT A THING.
I'm going to win.
February 8, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I hate everything about this AI "writing" thing, but just to pick one top line from this: YOU DON'T WIN AT WRITING YOU DIPSHIT. THAT'S NOT A THING.
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
No one at work has asked me about the Superbowl this year and if I had to list reasons to work at a library I would definitely include this
February 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
No one at work has asked me about the Superbowl this year and if I had to list reasons to work at a library I would definitely include this
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There’s a lot in this part of the release to shake you up, but the trafficking victim who apparently authored it crossing out ‘woman’ in Sylvia Plath’s poem and substituting ‘girl’… I won’t soon forget that.
February 8, 2026 at 1:05 PM
There’s a lot in this part of the release to shake you up, but the trafficking victim who apparently authored it crossing out ‘woman’ in Sylvia Plath’s poem and substituting ‘girl’… I won’t soon forget that.
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It sounds like if you tried to record a Goo Goo Dolls song on a Speak & Spell
February 8, 2026 at 1:38 AM
It sounds like if you tried to record a Goo Goo Dolls song on a Speak & Spell
maybe someone who isn't gene clark will one day make music but for now there's just gene clark
youtu.be/ekPG0Ph7PqY?...
youtu.be/ekPG0Ph7PqY?...
In A Misty Morning
YouTube video by Gene Clark - Topic
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
maybe someone who isn't gene clark will one day make music but for now there's just gene clark
youtu.be/ekPG0Ph7PqY?...
youtu.be/ekPG0Ph7PqY?...
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Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
"ABC and Disney don't seem to know what to do with The Muppets."
lol lmao
Perhaps this is because the goal was never to *do* anything with them, just to buy out the competition?
lol lmao
Perhaps this is because the goal was never to *do* anything with them, just to buy out the competition?
February 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
"ABC and Disney don't seem to know what to do with The Muppets."
lol lmao
Perhaps this is because the goal was never to *do* anything with them, just to buy out the competition?
lol lmao
Perhaps this is because the goal was never to *do* anything with them, just to buy out the competition?
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This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
February 7, 2026 at 3:55 PM
This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
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@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this
January 31, 2026 at 2:40 PM
@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this
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Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic
“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.”
“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.”
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods
“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”
“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”
Discworld QOTD, from Men At Arms
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic
“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.”
“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.”
Listened to "Grand Ennui" about twenty times this morning, the inevitable consequence of making a joke about Nesmith yesterday, and I just wanna say if you don't know the First National Band trilogy you're missing out
youtu.be/0cYb4sOAp6A?...
youtu.be/0cYb4sOAp6A?...
Grand Ennui
YouTube video by Michael Nesmith - Topic
youtu.be
February 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Listened to "Grand Ennui" about twenty times this morning, the inevitable consequence of making a joke about Nesmith yesterday, and I just wanna say if you don't know the First National Band trilogy you're missing out
youtu.be/0cYb4sOAp6A?...
youtu.be/0cYb4sOAp6A?...
Did a full on leo dicaprio pointing at the tv when I saw Michael W. Twitty on Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Black and Jewish in America just now
February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Did a full on leo dicaprio pointing at the tv when I saw Michael W. Twitty on Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Black and Jewish in America just now
*cues up Do the Collapse*
César, The Yellow Buick, 1961
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136459
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136459
February 6, 2026 at 12:34 AM
*cues up Do the Collapse*
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To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
February 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
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It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
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Many men learned to have a completely messed up relationship with women and their own sexuality and conflate thoughts with actions and women with sex dolls, but none of that is caused by having a high libido or finding most women you meet attractive.
February 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Many men learned to have a completely messed up relationship with women and their own sexuality and conflate thoughts with actions and women with sex dolls, but none of that is caused by having a high libido or finding most women you meet attractive.
nothing but respect for *my* Headquarters
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
nothing but respect for *my* Headquarters
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everyone says google is broken, but I just tried to google the lyrics for the song "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls and I learned that Olivia Rodrigo has synesthesia so it seems to be working well enough.
February 4, 2026 at 1:26 PM
everyone says google is broken, but I just tried to google the lyrics for the song "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls and I learned that Olivia Rodrigo has synesthesia so it seems to be working well enough.