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🏳️‍🌈 He/him. Enby. Bloomington, IN. Music and art and other stuff. https://linktr.ee/cubaRhodes
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my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Ever since Tim McVeigh, US leaders have pretended all this right-wing domestic terrorism is made up of “lone wolves." They’re not. They’re foot soldiers. Violence like the Minnesota shooting is what Trump wants—he wants an opposition too scared to stop him. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-s-no...

Why am I asking myself if old guy customer with pistol tucked in his pants makes me more uncomfortable than customer in his 30s with pistol in holster Why am I encountering different genres of open carry guy within ten minutes of one another Aagh

Big news for my employment and, according to a friend, nature

All I want is to breathe youtu.be/YO7N2tFb0X8?...

yes they are. they are christians and you have to deal with that

I don't think it's useful to call a politician putting himself in the path of getting arrested by Trump's ICE agents a "stunt." Putting your body on the line isn't simply a stunt. Confronting the agents of the state in order to protect an undocumented New Yorker isn't simply a stunt.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

Can the AI bubble burst already so we can get back to calling enemy character behavior in games "AI"? I'm tired.

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror. “We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

I told Marc how my dad quoted from Meatloaf's "For Crying Out Loud" at his retirement How he was moved to tears by it I said it was ridiculous Marc said he thought I liked Meatloaf So maybe I feel the same yes and no toward my dad and Meatloaf Except I'll still listen to Meatloaf sometimes

bro they're playing your leitmotif pizzicato. there's a slow clarinet lurking beneath it. you better not be about to betray me right now i swear to god bro

#HappyFathersDay

In case nobody has said so already: You don't have to like Father's Day You don't have to like your father

Happy Father's Day!

War and Rumors of War, clouds of Poison in The sky and Poison in The soil O lord How I wish There was a Better ending to This joke youtu.be/cEIFQiWOEHg?...

You said don't get equipped with that acid if you don't wanna be changed like it changed me

Worth rereading this from Clint Smith readwildness.com/19/smith-peo...

it is really weird that publishing decided that instead of having a marketing budget, writers should just become cult leaders

From now on, the only answer to “how are you going to pay for it” is “by not starting an inactive war against Los Angeles”

Not everything gets a "what if" this dramatic, but here's something that began its life on a banjo (and may return there after I've learned from the boops and beeps) soundcloud.com/cuba-rhodes/...

Not my favorite but probably my most played

Again I say Jeff Tweedy is history's greatest lyrical enjamber I know we should be grateful / Everything is falling apart youtu.be/2X1xrmTaIfw?...

Also I want to be bad at them if I'm bad at them? Doing things and having things are separate experiences. I enjoy doing things

sigma: x, you're never gonna believe this mega man x: you have a new big huge body that looks like complete shit? sigma: i have a new big huge body that looks like complete shit

11 authors I've read more than 5 books by Stephen King John Steinbeck Laurie R King Maureen Johnson John Green N K Jemison Chuck Wendig Thomas Merton Yuval Noah Harari David Sedaris Augusten Burroughs

Returned to this thought apropos of Post's 30th anniversary

But doesn't it feel good to stay alive? youtu.be/W1oGyxLtqok?...

What this means is that we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into retrocomputing.

Sad to hear of Brian Wilson's passing His work has been so inspirational in so many ways, but the courage to write a chorus that's just "Sometimes I feel very sad" is perhaps the most impressive to me

I'm not a citizen I'm not a citizen youtu.be/gvQFgcvlMts?...

Interesting to me (and I don't imagine it's a coincidence) one of the metaphors in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous is addicts as jaywalkers, and I haaate it lol

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

How does it sound to you That I will be this way forever And if I change it cannot be completely? youtu.be/ZImOL9-h0Tk?...