Geoffrey Cubbage

@geoffreycubbage

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” He/him

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Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· 18d

Bloki.

Sky Sports article headlined “Tom Hiddleston ‘excited’ for Man City v Arsenal Clash,” with a picture of the actor’s smiling face superimposed over a smaller image of some footballers doing football things I dunno I’m not a football bloke. Unlike Tom Hiddleston!

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· 18d

Speech bubble meme. A screenshot of Jimmy Stewart in “Harvey,” depicting his character turning to speak to (depending on your interpretation) either a six-foot-plus invisible white rabbit or a barely-functional alcoholic’s hallucination thereof.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· 18d

Screenshot from Neon Genesis Evangelion, showing a screen reading “Blood Type: Blue Angel Detected”

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· 20d

Cover of “Moby-Dick,” with a crudely edited speech bubble to make it appear as if the book itself is speaking the quoted post.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· 20d

Halfway into the Aubrey-Maturin series and I am increasingly confident that literally everything in these books is about either Boats or Gender, and the stuff that is about boats is mostly actually about gender, too.

Screenshot of an excerpt from “The Far Side of the World” by Patrick O’Brian, discussing make-and-mend day aboard a Royal Navy ship, with highlighted text reading:

“…a bearded hand who had served under his father and who in the natural course of events was now acting as his sea-daddy…”

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· 27d

Update: well that’s wild y’all. Filter on top is a clean, unused one fresh out of its packaging. Filter on bottom was the same when I installed it yesterday evening; this is what it looks like after roughly 24 hours of HVAC in Chicago’s blanket of wildfire smoke.

Photo of two HVAC filters. The top one is clean white, while the bottom is a dark, dingy gray.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· 29d

Wild to me that in this day and age there are still people who will insist there’s no homosexual subtext in the Aubrey-Maturin books.

Screenshot of text from “The Surgeon’s Mate” by Patrick O’Brian, with the following section highlighted for emphasis:

“The town is crammed with soldiers, and I could only get one room between us at the Goat.”

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· Jul 14

Watching Lindsey Graham’s sister being appointed to serve out his term from Chicago like

“First time” meme: a man with his head in a noose turns towards the next man on the gallows, asking “first time?” with a wry little smile.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· Jul 9

Speech bubble meme, but instead of a character appearing to speak the quoted post it is a screenshot from a Fox News broadcast with a large chryon reading “CLOUD SEEDING” accompanied by an image of a passenger jet with very visible contrails against a clear blue sky. The speech bubble is positioned so as to imply that the quoted post is being spoken by the plane.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· Jul 9

I'm sorry what

First of two screenshots of text from the linked article, with text reading:

"Moraff works closely with his fiancée, Leanne Fan, whom he met while working for Sanders in 2020. The pair recruited Platner and Sage together last year. And Moraff, who is affiliated with different consulting entities, including Dark Forest LLC and Independent Campaigns LLC, has hired staff to travel the country to look for other working-class candidates to back."

Second of two screenshots of text from the linked article, with text reading:

"Fan, according to those who have worked with the couple, at times tries to smooth over any tensions between Moraff and staff. Her engagement ring opens up to a tiny comb that she has used to brush Moraff’s beard."

The bit about the beard come has been highlighted for emphasis, because, and I repeat myself here: I'm sorry, WHAT?

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· Jun 28

“Enjoy Safely” my brother in Christ I ordered a pizza with giardiniera on it.

Photo of the corner of a grease-stained pizza box. It had been sealed, presumably for our peace of mind, with a piece of tape labeled “ENJOY SAFELY!”, now broken.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· Jun 15

This test is Kaji erasure, but within that limitation I’m pretty happy to double-double on “messy bitches with a heart of gold.”

Results sheet from a “Neon Genesis Evangelion” test, like those old internet personality quizzes but I guess fairly recently put together? Whatever, it’s NGE themed, so it’s obviously for geriatric millennials either way; anyway my results came up tied with 85% matches for Kaworu and Misato, with <50% scores everywhere else. As the post says, tho, there is no Kaji result, so manslutting is seriously underrepresented in the data.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· Jun 5

Transition lenses are fine, actually.

Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech,” a famous painting of a man standing to speak at a public meeting; used memetically to suggest someone speaking boldly or presenting an unpopular truth.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· May 25

*chuckles wryly in Illinoisan*

“First time?” meme — a still from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” depicting a man with a noose around his neck and a wry smile, turning to ask someone next to him on the gallows “first time?”

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· May 25

letting slower-growing weeds choke out your grass so you just have to go out and play golf with the weed whacker a couple times a year

Panel from “Watchmen” depicting Dr. Manhattan vaporizing Rorschach, memetically used to indicate a final escalation in a series of explosions, galaxy-brains, what have you (or simply the total obliteration of something quoted, shared, etc.)

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· May 21

Did not expect @annleckie.com’s latest to speak to me QUITE so directly and personally, but here we are. (“Radiant Star” — it’s good, check it out!)

Photograph of a book, open to a chapter headed “Ocean,” text of the first paragraph reading:

I greatly fear that if I spent the next paragraphs detailing the operation of Ooioiaa’s water treatment and reclamation facility (or, more accurately, facilities—there were of course three separate systems, one for each precinct), you would find it tedious. And even if you, specifically, were to say to me, “But no! I am fascinated by water treatment systems and would in fact appreciate the information,” I would strongly suspect that you were something of an outlier.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· May 19

Marvel’s Wolverine (from the first cover of his comic book series, depicting him popping his claws on one hand and beckoning with the other and kinda…leering, I would say is the word, definitely leering at us here), with a speech bubble crudely edited into the image to make it appear as if he is speaking the quoted post.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· May 17

Portrait of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (patron of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men during Shakespeare’s time), with a speech bubble crudely edited in to make it appear as if he were speaking the quoted post.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· May 10

Audrey II, the carnivorous plant from “Little Shop of Horrors” (1986 movie version), with a speech bubble crudely edited into the image to make it appear as if the plant is speaking the quoted text.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· May 4

Arthur Rackham illustration of Siegfried from Wagner’s ring cycle, looking joyfully as he brandishes a sword. (He does indeed meet a woman who’s not his aunt, eventually, but it doesn’t go well for anyone involved.)

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage· Apr 30

Damn I rolled up on this one all ready to make a joke about “Arlo Guthrie doesn’t look THAT much like Ron Jeremy” but it uh did not hold up on fact-check.