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Geoffrey Cubbage
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Social Justice Worrier

Personal account; tweets are not representative of any employer (but are often nerdy about Chicago and/or local government)

It’s pronounced “Blewski”

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Here's a list of works that entered the public domain today. web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
web.law.duke.edu
January 1, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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hownottodraw.bsky.social
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!
a screenshot of text from a website. it reads: The History of the January 1 Birthday The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.
January 1, 2026 at 1:30 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Swearing allegiance, just to feal something.
thetattooedprof.bsky.social Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 20h
Painting the walls, just to teal something
greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 20h
Playing the glocken, just to spiel something
December 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
The weather app has been saying another hour of sleet for at LEAST three hours now of beautiful, sparkling, fat-fluffy-flake snow, and while that’s certainly an improvement I would love to know how many more inches of this stuff they’ve failed to predict.
December 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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jaseomcn.bsky.social
New Irish Folklore Commission Schools’ Project where kids have to preserve vanishing online culture by interviewing elder Millennials
December 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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geftokingmongoose.bsky.social
Who Forgot to Put the Silverware Away: A Knives Out Mystery
December 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
Harold Washington Library alongside foggy skies.
Wet downtown sidewalk next to subway stairs going downward. There are also street poles with lights. In the backdrop is a large library building with a green roof and other buildings in the distance.
December 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Did not expect to get up this morning and discover I’d been rickrolled by Rian Johnson. Hell of a way to start your day.
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 3d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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clark and a pigeon is next
December 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Lady Sackville’s Lover
soundingline.bsky.social Walkin' In A Winter Wonder Dan @soundingline.bsky.social · 4d
What book is Aragorn reading? Wrong answers only.
Aragorn reading a book in Rivendell and glaring at Boromir
December 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Guess we’re gonna need some…

…

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…callipygean calipers 😎
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d
I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article

!!!!

And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY

!!!!
How a bigger-looking butt could be a sneaky sign of autism and ADHD
Your backside might reveal a thing or two about your brain.
nypost.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Say it with me:

👏 The 👏 tree 👏 stays 👏 til 👏 Epiphany 👏
December 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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laurie-merrell.bsky.social
we as a nation contain multitudes (these are all stamps you can buy right now from USPS)
A screenshot of four labeled stamp designs in an online store. The top left shows a black and white portrait of William F Buckley Jr. The top right is a green illustration of a Luna moth. Bottom left is a blue and white illustration showing a person on horseback called "Boston 1026 world stamp show". Bottom right shows a bunch of characters from SpongeBob SquarePants in color.
December 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Pantone’s color of the year, “Cloud Dancer,” a grimly neutral white, advertised with an equally grim and equally neutral image of a person clad all in white against a backdrop of clouds.
December 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Remember: posting is for Fun Times, not for Thought Crimes!
joeyneverjoe.bsky.social Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 6d
The California State Threat Assessment Center, a centralized fusion center that disseminates gathered intelligence to local and federal police (incl. DHS), was unsurprisingly watching the campus protests closely in May last year. Social media surveillance provided a good chunk of the intel.
II. Ongoing Demonstrations or Encampments in California UC Santa Cruz – 14 – 17 June Commencement (U) 5 May – 4:00 PM: Social media account state UC Santa Cruz has declared war against Jews, Israel, Christians, and Law enforcement while mentioning individuals who donated to President Biden campaign and a KKK image X (U) 5 May – 4:00 PM: Social media account express anger at the request by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) demanding a boycott of Hillel, a Jewish institution. X (U) 5 May – 10:00 AM: The encampment at UC Santa Cruz is looking for donations of helmets and goggles among other materials. Instagram (U) 5 May – 10:00 AM: Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Santa Cruz is calling for the university to cut ties with organizations that support Jewish culture, education, and community. X University of Southern California – 8 – 11 May 2024 Commencement – Status: Individual school and department ceremonies proceeding as normal; Main Stage ceremony cancelled. (U) (U) 5 May – 4:00 PM: Social media account states that USC would rather brutalize their own students than divest from Israel while showing a video of officers at the encampment this morning. X (U) 5 May – 10:00 AM: LAPD leave alumni park at USC after cleaning the Gaza Solidarity encampment. Protestors leave area. No arrests were made. X (U) 5 May – 10:00 AM: More than 100 LAPD officers surround encampment during protest at USC. X
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
I would swear I went to a whistle packing event named one of the answers that was apparently not the right answer (tortured phrasing to avoid spoilers), but other than that, proud to be among the many Too Online Chicagoans of 2025!
Results page showing 19 out of 20 questions correct on the Chicago Local News Quiz 2025
December 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Thank you for your email. I am not available today, as I am hunting the wren. I will get back to you as soon as possible.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wren_Day
Wren Day - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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tomel.bsky.social
So, The Nutcracker is an Isekai, right?
December 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Another Christmas classic.
December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
I made a new sticker
a circular image of Cary Grant in the pink robe from bringing up baby looking long-suffering with the words no ai! only gay sigh on top of it
December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
Time once again for this all-time
Christmas banger:
Screenshot of an old Tumblr post from user brainstatic. Text reads: I want a Santa movie where he's actually Saint Nicholaos of Myra. Three kids run away from home and find a portal to the Council Of Nicaea in 325 AD. Then the kids watch him debate the promulgation of canon law. In the end they return home and tell their parents that presents aren't important so long as Pentecost is counted 50 days after Easter on the Roman solar calendar and not the Jewish lunar calendar. And the kids tell their parents the whole story and the dad is like "those kids and their imaginations." But then he sees a piece of paper in the dog's mouth and goes "whatcha got there boy? Is that... orders from the Holy See that the schismatic bishop Meletius is to remain in Lycopolis and keep his episcopal title but the ecclesiastics ordained by him must again receive the laying of hands? But…how?" And then he gazes off to the sky and you hear a light jingling of bells and then a voice over goes "Ho ho ho! The baptisms performed by the Paulian heretics are invalid! Merry Christmas!"
December 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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misterjayem.bsky.social
Who wants to do British whippits?
Cans of No More Tea Bags brand aerosol tea
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
geoffreycubbage.bsky.social
God bless us, every one.
priscillapage.bsky.social priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · Dec 24
Toshiro Mifune in his Christmas sweater photographed for Eiga Star magazine, c. 1950
black & white photo of Toshiro Mifune when he was approximately 30 years old, looking dapper as hell, standing up & leaning against a mailbox, cigarette in his right hand - wearing a v-neck Christmas sweater (over a collared shirt, with slacks) with 3 sections: top and bottom is dark with a pattern of tiny white Christmas trees, middle is white with two reindeer standing on either side of a snowflake. black & white photo of Toshiro Mifune when he was approximately 30 years old, looking dapper as hell, grinning and sitting down so his black dress shoes and patterned socks are visible - he's wearing a v-neck Christmas sweater (over a collared shirt, with cuffed slacks) with 3 sections: top and bottom is dark with a pattern of tiny white Christmas trees, middle is white with two reindeer standing on either side of a snowflake.
December 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I spoke with Block Club about our little Christmas album a handful of journalists and I released last week. Hear @mauriciopena.bsky.social crush the vocals on "The Christmas Song," me returning to my Midwest emo roots, and an original from @ctoner.bsky.social.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/22/c...
Chicago Journalists Swap Bylines For Basslines In New Christmas Album For Charity
The Chicago Media Chorus, a group of local journalists and editors, dropped their first Christmas album this week to raise money for StreetWise and spread holiday cheer.
blockclubchicago.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM