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Chad Lucas

@chadgalucas.bsky.social
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Dad, writer, tall person | award-winning middle grade author | chadlucaswrites.com

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I gave my youngest nephew a copy of A Fishboy Named Sashimi by @dansantat.bsky.social for his birthday this weekend, and my sister-in-law texted to say he’s already read it twice and sent me a picture of him reading it in a restaurant. Score a win for the Book Uncle
A Fishboy Named Sashimi, a graphic novel by Dan Santat
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Book adaptations aside, *very* few shows do hour-long episodes well, and a lot of shows sacrifice their quality on the mistaken logic that more is better. There’s a reason the first seasons of Ted Lasso and Stranger Things were much better than following seasons when the runtimes bloated.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s so productive and efficient, the two most important things in the universe!
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
90 per cent of book-related emails I get now are AI scams, but I got one recently from a teacher that seemed legit, so I did 10 minutes of sleuthing to verify, wrote her back, and never heard from her again because it’s probably lost in her spam folder. We have broken basic email communication.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/hype...
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Ted Lasso S4 finale cuts short Ted having a hard talk with his son to give us Rebecca and Higgins doing Scooby-Doo shenanigans instead, and that’s the show’s issue in a nutshell. It’s frustrating because there’s still a decent show buried amid the disconnected subplots and tonal whiplash.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah. And to your earlier point, "women can be kooky billionaires too" was so much less interesting than a deeper exploration of the actual challenges of a women's team would have been.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I liked this season more than 2&3, but the show still has major focus and tone problems. There was a great half-hour show about the women's team buried among all the frustrating subplots like interminable Roy/Keeley drama and the cartoon character that was Zelda.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AI threatens to sever our connection with each other, but it's also threatening the necessary process of pushing through a hard thing to discover something rewarding on the other side. Removing the hard part is being pitched to us as a blessing, but it's a curse.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Everyone's dunking on the "AI can read to my baby" techbro by pointing out it's a joy to read your kids, and it is! But some nights it's not. You're tired. They're on your nerves. It feels hard. Yet that's when good parents do it anyway, and often find joy in it anyway.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s not even 9 am and for the second day in a row I’ve had to dodge a driver who was fully prepared to plow through a marked crosswalk I had entered. This one was turning right and didn’t even glance to her right to check for pedestrians until I yelled at her.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’ll happily take the Dodgers over the Braves. It’s always a win when the fans who still do racist chants go home.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The big villain reveal in the Veronica Mars season 2 finale was so bad it ruined the whole season *and* threw in a "twist" that retroactively sabotaged the series' single greatest episode from season 1
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning’s commute has been an adventure (first bus broke down, hustled to catch another, got stuck behind another bus breakdown on the bridge) but there is a young guy on this bus who’s so into his music that he’s air-drumming and he is bringing me joy
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When I was five I read the Disney storybook version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at my best friend’s house, and when I got to the last page it scared me so badly I dropped the book and immediately ran home. My poor friend had no idea what was going on. I had nightmares for days.
The cover of the Disney storybook version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A scared man holds onto his horse while being chased by a headless horseman holding a flaming pumpkin.
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LuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026
Wemby is something else, man
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This album is awesome. Listened to it for the first time today and immediately hit repeat
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I took a knee in the thigh playing basketball yesterday, and the hills of Halifax are putting me through it this morning.
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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Truly, what a gift to have been able to cheer for George Springer and Max Scherzer as Toronto Blue Jays.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That’s a bummer if she used AI and didn’t write it herself. But she did share it from her Instagram page. I guess the question is which narrative is more real: the version created on social media from a brief video clip, or the one endorsed by the actual person in the clip?
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The mom in question has answered with a brilliantly written piece explaining why everyone judging her husband based on one viral clip has it all wrong and should rethink their instincts to jump to conclusions. themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
themomoftheyear.substack.com
I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Kail @vivotranquil0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This was poignant, beautiful, and also sad. Reactionary viral culture hardly allows for nuance, depth, or understanding. Kudos to her for defending her family and damn she's a good writer
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I already own more totes than I need, but I still might need this one
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This was the most fitting end to the 2026 Blue Jays’ playoff hopes: losing a winnable game by going 1-for-14 with runners in scoring position. Maybe next year, if we get baseball next year.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reed looks like he’s having a serious quarter-life crisis
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Such a bummer. This show was great.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“What even is this?” he asked. And then, “1.4 megabytes? How did you save anything on it?” And I regaled my teenager, who is younger than the existence of the iPhone, with tales from ancient days of yore
A teenage boy holding a 3.5-inch floppy disk from the Ancient Times
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A lot of people do seem more emboldened to get in other people's faces lately.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There have also been more than usual on Spring Garden approaching people at bus stops, which is annoying.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a great example of how trying to do the wishy-washy both-sides thing doesn't work. He could have stood up to Robert Kraft and lost a couple of tour dates but earned respect. Instead he's cooked his whole tour and his reputation.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The loss of shared reality feels like a crisis that keeps accelerating. There have always been people who refuse to face reality (like with climate change), but from Trump to COVID and now AI it seems like the fractures are growing bigger and faster.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is a great way to answer this question. It’s never a serious question and it doesn’t deserve to be treated seriously.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was fresh out of university, four months into my reporting career on 9/11. I spent that week writing about some of the 8,000 Americans who ended up in Halifax when planes were grounded. Our city converted schools and community colleges to take care of stranded travellers.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s honestly kind of a miracle that I’ve never done it before.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Even better, my teenager is going out with friends and volunteered to pick up the van while he’s out. I get to stay home, he gets to tell his buddies a funny story about his dad, they get to razz me mercilessly the next time they’re at my house, everyone wins
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I can hop back on a bus in a bit. I’m only about a 10-minute ride from the terminal at this time of day, so it’s not too bad. I’m mostly annoyed with myself, but less hangry now that I’ve eaten dinner. It was a weird afternoon!
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Welp, it finally happened: I made it home on the bus before I remembered that I drove to the terminal this morning to avoid the rain. In my defence, being held up for a while on Barrington by a fistfight in the middle of the street threw me off.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is perhaps the best piece of journalism i have ever been involved with
How long have you known Alix Harrow?

Wait, that’s her name? 

Yep.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
True, it's possible. I do school visits as an author and I had a boy ask me my net worth once. (Me: if you're asking if writing books makes me rich, absolutely not)
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The other likely option is that an actual human 15-year-old did not write that post. Everything about it reeks of AI, including the profile pic. How many teenagers are paying for verified accounts on X?
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just sent mine out for the last first day. It still feels a little surreal. Was joking last night that I will not miss the barrage of September emails
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When I was 16/17 I listened to Cassandra Wilson's cover of "Harvest Moon" almost every night before I went to sleep. Her voice is so soothing yet so haunting. One of my all-time favourite singers, and a tremendous loss.
youtube.com
Harvest Moon
YouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Godspeed to you and your inbox.
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Time is a wild concept and it has fully come for me now that my baby is six feet tall
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There was one year we had kids in three different schools and by the time we got to mid-September with individual teachers mailing curriculum outlines I gave up and sent them to a School folder where some sit unread to this day
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I appreciate that schools make an effort to communicate! But… so many emails
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Chad Lucas @chadgalucas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Kids 3&4 start Grade 12 tomorrow, and while I have sentimental feelings about that, I am already dreaming of a September when I don’t get dozens of back-to-school emails and portal login reminders
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