Cuba
@cubarhodes.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 He/they. Enby. Deceptively weighty. Music and art and other stuff. https://linktr.ee/cubaRhodes
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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.
Poe country/western companion-to-Tom's-Crossing album when
February 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Poe country/western companion-to-Tom's-Crossing album when
In Nussbaum's Cue the Sun she documents how season 1 of The Apprentice culminated in Trump saying the winner was clear because "no one would believe if the n*gger won"
All forward motion in his public career should have ended there but no one in that room did anything. They're all culpable imo
All forward motion in his public career should have ended there but no one in that room did anything. They're all culpable imo
One of the things making so many men uncomfortable with ✨guilt by association✨ around the Epstein files is the knowledge *they* have about men with whom *they're* associated who hurt women, and about whose behavior they've never, not once, considered doing anything.
February 4, 2026 at 11:43 AM
In Nussbaum's Cue the Sun she documents how season 1 of The Apprentice culminated in Trump saying the winner was clear because "no one would believe if the n*gger won"
All forward motion in his public career should have ended there but no one in that room did anything. They're all culpable imo
All forward motion in his public career should have ended there but no one in that room did anything. They're all culpable imo
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I think it is worse to give CBS/Paramount money than it is for new Star Trek to cease production
Star Trek has been an important part of my life as long as I remember
I think it is worse to give CBS/Paramount money than it is for new Star Trek to cease production
Star Trek has been an important part of my life as long as I remember
I think it is worse to give CBS/Paramount money than it is for new Star Trek to cease production
January 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I think it is worse to give CBS/Paramount money than it is for new Star Trek to cease production
Star Trek has been an important part of my life as long as I remember
I think it is worse to give CBS/Paramount money than it is for new Star Trek to cease production
Star Trek has been an important part of my life as long as I remember
I think it is worse to give CBS/Paramount money than it is for new Star Trek to cease production
I love when I whine about something
(I'm listening to appalachian spring but it feels like it's missing a layer of rhythmic interest)
and a friend solves it for me
(watch the ballet you fool)
(I'm listening to appalachian spring but it feels like it's missing a layer of rhythmic interest)
and a friend solves it for me
(watch the ballet you fool)
February 3, 2026 at 12:34 PM
I love when I whine about something
(I'm listening to appalachian spring but it feels like it's missing a layer of rhythmic interest)
and a friend solves it for me
(watch the ballet you fool)
(I'm listening to appalachian spring but it feels like it's missing a layer of rhythmic interest)
and a friend solves it for me
(watch the ballet you fool)
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"All these journalists with meticulously sourced articles and fact checking standards? A mere smear campaign. This random substacker named Balls McGee has conclusively pieced together the truth that exonerates me."
February 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM
"All these journalists with meticulously sourced articles and fact checking standards? A mere smear campaign. This random substacker named Balls McGee has conclusively pieced together the truth that exonerates me."
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i remember being a kid and being very excited about being an adult and being able to experience cool mature adult things like understanding what Doonesbury was about and now I am an adult and almost all media I experience that is aimed at me sounds like they're talking to a toddler.
February 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
i remember being a kid and being very excited about being an adult and being able to experience cool mature adult things like understanding what Doonesbury was about and now I am an adult and almost all media I experience that is aimed at me sounds like they're talking to a toddler.
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Repeat after me:
Hate watching still counts as watching, hate watching still counts as watching
Hate watching still counts as watching, hate watching still counts as watching
February 2, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Repeat after me:
Hate watching still counts as watching, hate watching still counts as watching
Hate watching still counts as watching, hate watching still counts as watching
we deserve to live in a world where larry david has nothing legitimate to complain about
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
February 2, 2026 at 6:17 PM
we deserve to live in a world where larry david has nothing legitimate to complain about
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With Great Power Comes Great Smolness of Bean
A fundamental problem with this country is that you have less responsibility, transparency, and duty as you gain more power when it should be the opposite. The Supreme Court gets to be very secretive for no good reason. Cops get a monopoly on violence and have near total immunity when they use it.
February 2, 2026 at 2:26 PM
With Great Power Comes Great Smolness of Bean
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When Paul Simon won album of the year in 1976 he said and I quote: "And most of all, I'd like to thank Stevie Wonder, who didn't make an album this year,"
Do we think they know that people other than Stevie Wonder put out music from 1974 thru 1977?
Stevie really should've put out a record in '76, because I'm assume he would've won.
Stevie really should've put out a record in '76, because I'm assume he would've won.
February 2, 2026 at 5:28 AM
When Paul Simon won album of the year in 1976 he said and I quote: "And most of all, I'd like to thank Stevie Wonder, who didn't make an album this year,"
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This photo made me understand class in America in a way that I was unable to process before seeing it. The rich enjoy class solidarity on a level that is unimaginable to most people.
January 31, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This photo made me understand class in America in a way that I was unable to process before seeing it. The rich enjoy class solidarity on a level that is unimaginable to most people.
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Something I learned from Judith Herman's work that is worth remembering as the discussion continues:
Sexual violence is a kind of violence, not a kind of sex
Sexual violence is a kind of violence, not a kind of sex
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Something I learned from Judith Herman's work that is worth remembering as the discussion continues:
Sexual violence is a kind of violence, not a kind of sex
Sexual violence is a kind of violence, not a kind of sex
February book club post!
This month we’re reading Maya Angelou’s influential book of memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which was published in 1969. The memoir covers the first seventeen or so years of the author’s life, ending around 1945.
This month we’re reading Maya Angelou’s influential book of memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which was published in 1969. The memoir covers the first seventeen or so years of the author’s life, ending around 1945.
February 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM
February book club post!
This month we’re reading Maya Angelou’s influential book of memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which was published in 1969. The memoir covers the first seventeen or so years of the author’s life, ending around 1945.
This month we’re reading Maya Angelou’s influential book of memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which was published in 1969. The memoir covers the first seventeen or so years of the author’s life, ending around 1945.
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Still thinking about the mirror test and how fear can be the engine behind some failures to see ourselves
July 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Still thinking about the mirror test and how fear can be the engine behind some failures to see ourselves
"though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42683/...
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42683/...
Saint Francis and the Sow
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is…
www.poetryfoundation.org
January 31, 2026 at 6:22 PM
"though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42683/...
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42683/...
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why does everyone have a goatee
January 30, 2026 at 7:22 PM
why does everyone have a goatee
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“It would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples...by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them.”
Orwell was talking about war, but it’s also the way the tech economy functions
Orwell was talking about war, but it’s also the way the tech economy functions
January 30, 2026 at 5:39 PM
“It would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples...by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them.”
Orwell was talking about war, but it’s also the way the tech economy functions
Orwell was talking about war, but it’s also the way the tech economy functions
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Change in Headline
January 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Change in Headline
As Obergefell is placed on the chopping block, I'm thinking about how Merton said, "If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin."
We can't afford to be satisfied with the populace finding us agreeable. We never could.
We can't afford to be satisfied with the populace finding us agreeable. We never could.
January 30, 2026 at 12:52 PM
As Obergefell is placed on the chopping block, I'm thinking about how Merton said, "If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin."
We can't afford to be satisfied with the populace finding us agreeable. We never could.
We can't afford to be satisfied with the populace finding us agreeable. We never could.
what if hot burrito #1 had literally any other lyrics
January 30, 2026 at 12:36 AM
what if hot burrito #1 had literally any other lyrics
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I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.
January 29, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.