Cugel the Clever

@cugel.bsky.social

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Seattle-based software engineer with an interest in urbanism and global affairs. Anti-fascist; statist social democrat. Advocate of the Butlerian jihad. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🇺🇳

Emily Wilson bluesky post 7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).
A Ken Klippenstein post reading "Graham Platner's durability shows that the era of smoothgroined politicians is coming to an end.". A thumbnail displays Ken from the Barbie movie.
A cartoon of an angry goose yelling while chasing a man. Panel 1: "What kind of geese?" Panel 2: "What kind of geese, motherfucker?"
A dim and decaying train tunnel veering off to the left, light giving away to absolute darkness.
A bearded man in a turquoise shirt and a khaki blazer stands in a mysterious room beside the title text: "BeyONd bELIef: FAct or fiCtiON"
An intersection with a pedestrian island
A Google Maps listing for a Tesla showroom in Seattle, WA. It indicates the location has permanently closed.
An interesting cloud formation colored by the sunset.
A three-panel meme: 1) a young man says, "I wrote a unit test." 2) a woman asks, "Of the implementation or a mock?" 3) the young man replies, dejected, "A mock."
A cat on a leash in a park watches a foraging squirrel, which eventually bounds away.
A mass of protesters
A fake, AI-generated yearbook page containing many obvious anatomical errors and bizarre names
and dude complaining about the Democrats
Russia's only aircraft carrier at dock, spewing black smoke from an uncontained fire.
The flight map of helicopter N741C circling Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
A classic cartoon meme in four panels. Panel 1: Person 1 says "Dems say economy gud for all 'mericans but me no do good. Why Dems dirty liars?" Panel 2: Person 2 says "I'm sorry to hear that. But have you considered that you're not representative of all Americans?" Panel 3: Person 1 thinks Panel 3: Person 1 gets angry
A dumbo declaring regurgitating the right-wing narrative about Democrat ownership of the TikTok ban.
A zoomer yelling at a confused Joe Biden, consoled by TikTok and a smug Donald Trump
A tortoiseshell cat lounging atop a closed laptop.
A plane sits on an airport tarmac, accumulating snow under inclement weather.
FlightRadar map indicating a King County Sheriff helicopter circling over Seattle
A Tesla store with plywood over its windows.
A cat perched in a cat tree
The Android news feed displays an article about Garmin watches. It uses the phrase, "dropped a load of new features". Below it, the feed displays an ostensibly-related tshirt on Etsy, upon which is printed "Just dropped a load."
A news article from NBC with the misleading headline: "Minneapolis housing program and Kentucky sheriff accused of killing judge."
The Google Weather app displaying an "AI weather report" which restarts the data below in uselessly ambiguous terms.
A cat playing with a slipper
A sandal with the toe area of the sole barely still attached.
Simpsons character Lionel Hutz presenting a business card he's marked up with a pen, changing "Safe. No combat." to "Safe? No, combat!"
A cat in a wooded park looking toward the camera. Behind her, actors start to assemble on the stage.
A sidewalk scene. On the right, a leashed cat gazes longingly at, on the left a pair of hungry pigeons.
A sidewalk tableau with a leashed cat on the right looking frustratedly at two pigeons on the left.
A sliced bagel lies on a cutting board, slices separated, face-up, and covered in schmear. In the background, two uncut bagels are stacked in front of glass containers containing schmear.
A hacked traffic sign reading "Free Gaza" on Seattle's Westlake Ave
Detectives Harrier Du Bois and Kim Kitsuragi from the game Disco Elysium striking a pose as a dynamic duo