Cuba
@cubarhodes.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 He/they. Enby. Deceptively weighty. Music and art and other stuff. https://linktr.ee/cubaRhodes
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So maybe it's your body of work/your persistence and not individual pieces that are gestures of hope? And maybe it's the existence of bodies of work and not your body of work, idk
February 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
So maybe it's your body of work/your persistence and not individual pieces that are gestures of hope? And maybe it's the existence of bodies of work and not your body of work, idk
My experience of your work does bear out 1 I think? But partly the sort of meta of it. Living in Alaska plenty of people felt if it was warm enough to snow it couldn't be *that* cold
The times I have made bleak work were always still times I could make work, and that was a comfort
The times I have made bleak work were always still times I could make work, and that was a comfort
February 12, 2026 at 10:20 AM
My experience of your work does bear out 1 I think? But partly the sort of meta of it. Living in Alaska plenty of people felt if it was warm enough to snow it couldn't be *that* cold
The times I have made bleak work were always still times I could make work, and that was a comfort
The times I have made bleak work were always still times I could make work, and that was a comfort
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This quiz will guess your favorite rock with just one simple question ("what's your favorite rock?")
February 9, 2026 at 5:49 PM
This quiz will guess your favorite rock with just one simple question ("what's your favorite rock?")
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We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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We’ve all had days where we’ve woken up, forgotten to brush our teeth, and closed all El Paso airspace for an hour instead.
February 11, 2026 at 2:21 PM
We’ve all had days where we’ve woken up, forgotten to brush our teeth, and closed all El Paso airspace for an hour instead.
posting a final panel of a Little Nemo every day unless I don't
February 11, 2026 at 12:05 PM
posting a final panel of a Little Nemo every day unless I don't
I liked Doctor Sleep well enough, but Life of Chuck felt to me like it didn't understand the text it was adapting?
February 10, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I liked Doctor Sleep well enough, but Life of Chuck felt to me like it didn't understand the text it was adapting?
"Mummy says the World is still my Oyster and I believe her"
This is a bit?
Please?
This is a bit?
Please?
February 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
"Mummy says the World is still my Oyster and I believe her"
This is a bit?
Please?
This is a bit?
Please?
World's best combination jam/trap group
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
World's best combination jam/trap group
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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
posting a final panel of a Little Nemo every day unless I don't
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
posting a final panel of a Little Nemo every day unless I don't
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Anyway, Sondheim didn't make me cry today but he'll probably get me next time
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Anyway, Sondheim didn't make me cry today but he'll probably get me next time
I don't think anybody gets to live a life without suffering, and I'm not grateful for the kinds I've had. I am grateful to have learned to navigate it more humanely though. For myself and others
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I don't think anybody gets to live a life without suffering, and I'm not grateful for the kinds I've had. I am grateful to have learned to navigate it more humanely though. For myself and others
Anyway, the song gave me a way to frame witness/experience as something that matters even as it's sidelineable or discountable
Even if he didn't remember it, my experiences changed my life. Accepting that allowed me to forgive myself for navigating the change in regrettable ways
Even if he didn't remember it, my experiences changed my life. Accepting that allowed me to forgive myself for navigating the change in regrettable ways
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Anyway, the song gave me a way to frame witness/experience as something that matters even as it's sidelineable or discountable
Even if he didn't remember it, my experiences changed my life. Accepting that allowed me to forgive myself for navigating the change in regrettable ways
Even if he didn't remember it, my experiences changed my life. Accepting that allowed me to forgive myself for navigating the change in regrettable ways
The other party is an alcoholic who was often blackout drunk and denied any memory of abuse. It's not better or worse if that's true; it's just differently awful
The difficulty of being disputed and disbelieved was what actually made things worse
The difficulty of being disputed and disbelieved was what actually made things worse
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The other party is an alcoholic who was often blackout drunk and denied any memory of abuse. It's not better or worse if that's true; it's just differently awful
The difficulty of being disputed and disbelieved was what actually made things worse
The difficulty of being disputed and disbelieved was what actually made things worse
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".
Said in alt text but fgot to say in text text, this is Robert Hayden
February 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Said in alt text but fgot to say in text text, this is Robert Hayden
I think it's okay to struggle with legibility but much less okay refuse to grant something credibility
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
I think it's okay to struggle with legibility but much less okay refuse to grant something credibility
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...
posting a final panel of a Little Nemo every day unless I don't
February 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM
posting a final panel of a Little Nemo every day unless I don't
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.