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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

95% of the time someone posts something containing the word “humans”—making a claim about what what we all do, or have done in our long and varied history—you can disregard it.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great band name AND album cover

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Peter Thiel sees number on receipt; eyes bug out of head)

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing I learned from this is the likely origin site of the 1918 global pandemic was… Kansas?? See more: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why, I have in fact heard Choosin’ Texas! I have not, however, heard it anywhere other than a retail environment.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“I don't see how 2026 could possibly be anything other than "2018 + $5/gal gas" easy: gas goes to $6

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tip for jobseekers: don’t drink iced coffee during your interview. Instead hydrate—and demonstrate resourcefulness—by drinking from a nearby flower vase.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I found one problem with this list. The best TV show of the 21st century is and remains: Lodge 49

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not knowing your own address seems more of a billionaire issue than an AI issue though

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What a fun and edifying way to find out what % of people know what a legal executor is

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Which I’m bringing back the Patrick O’Brian quote of the day, concerning urination

‘It is well known that I am an urinator,’ said Stephen, looking at him firmly, ‘and in recent hours I have felt a great moral pressure on me to dive.’ It was quite true: no one had openly suggested anything of the kind, and after Hairabedian’s fate no one could decently even hint at it, but he had observed many low-voiced conferences, and he had intercepted many glances directed at his diving-bell, now stowed upon the booms – glances as eloquent as those of a dog. ‘So with your permission I propose descending as soon as John Cooper shall have reassembled the bell. My plan is to attach hooks to the openings in the galley’s deck, which being hauled upon will break up the floor-boards, revealing all that lies below. But I need a companion, a mate, to help me with the necessary manoeuvres.’
9-Treason's Harbour, ch.6, paragraph 156

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Libertarian Party of NH is truly a world-historical collection of weird dummies

NHLP tweets saying "we openly support the assassination of basically every elected democrat in New Hampshire / Bit if you don't have the balls to do that then you should probably vote Gap" and "if you want to light Democrats on fire, please do / is that what you're going to do? / Or are you going to pretend you are while sitting at home and doing nothing at all?"

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I need to come clean about something: I always thought the “gas fires of the refinery” line in Born in the USA was “gas prices, the refinery” (doesn’t make sense, I know.) anyway I wanted a gif of Bruce singing the words “gas prices” but it doesn’t exist; never existed. Would have been cool though

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Underrated how much phones + noise-cancelling headphones have transformed the experience of chores. Mowing the lawn is now an actively pleasant activity for me.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Planet Fitness says they will kick more than a million people off their memberships because some of them "never come in"

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s unreasonable to expect your kid to go pro, or even get a financial athletic scholarship. But it’s actually not *that* unreasonable to think sports might give them a leg up in admissions, as the varsity blues scandal revealed. Which is part of the problem. The “coach’s list” needs to go away.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apropos of nothing: defamation suits have become our society's main way of deterring flagrant lying about people, and so it's destabilizing when you have someone wealthy enough to eat any defamation judgment—even a world-historically large one—without batting an eye.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

freaking fascinating. For an extra fun fact I'll add this study uses dynamic time warping, a statistical technique originally developed in the 1970s for speech recognition: medium.com/@markstent/d...

medium.com

Dynamic Time Warping

An introduction

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I remember when Phil uncovered all the methane leaking from greater Boston's ancient gas pipes. Now here's another non-CO2 greenhouse gas.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TLDR: Buzzfeed published someone pretending to be Nathan Fielder in one of their listicles

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Somberly honoring this spooky season by pronouncing RustOleum like mausoleum

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Presented without commentary, from the Buzzfeed listicle “Professionals Who "Read" People For A Living Reveal 21 Common "Tells" People Have No Idea Abou

“17. "I’m a business consultant. I graduated from one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades. I help struggling small business owners make it in this competitive world. A couple of years ago, I met this woman who was a CEO at one of the most exciting tech startups in the world with millions in backing from hedge fund investors. For her privacy, I’ll call her Eliza. When I first sat down to talk with Eliza, the most important thing was to establish some trust with her. One of the first things she said to me was that she was 'engaging with me as a human,' which made me question if she was engaging with me as a human. When I pressed a little more, she insisted, 'I am being real with you,' which, again, raised some concerns about whether she was being real with me. Eliza is in jail for fraud now. I should have trusted my first instincts."
—u/MadoneOnMobile”

Excerpt From
“21 Secret Tells From Bartenders, Security Officers, And Other Professionals Who "Read Strangers" For A Living”
Angelica Martinez
BuzzFeed
https://apple.news/ArMlEzu_LR96neFQyZhGFvA
This material may be protected by copyright.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m guessing this is just a Medicare/Medicaid mix up but still should by all rights torpedo a candidacy in one of the oldest states in the nation. (I say “should” bc of course in real life it probably won’t matter)

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’d like to see Sunn o))))) (sp?) in concert… but only if I can lie down

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the funnier possibilities stretching out before me is that I wind up selling my 2020 bolt at a profit

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today is in the running for the best weather I have ever experienced in Massachusetts

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I bought an EV (in part) due to the jacked up gas prices caused by the Trump admin in Iran, but if Canada jacks up my electricity even further (again, due to the Trump admin), what do I do? I guess a solar roof… fitted out with heavily tariffed Chinese panels? At a certain point you have to laugh

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This relates to a weather emergency back in January but I do worry about this kind of thing in the context of devolving US/Canada economic relations

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Had trouble putting my finger on what his facial expression reminded me of. Then I realized it was this:

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He’s been moving backwards, destroying past presidents’ diplomatic achievements. And now he’s reached Clinton.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Me when my plane flies past the Island of the Sirens

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this is like one of those wireframe diagrams showing how gravity warps the space-time continuum

three wire diagrams of the sun, a neutron star, and a black hole warping the space-time continuum

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this is like one of those wireframe diagrams showing how gravity warps the space-time continuum

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nothing to add except I was a bottom-level science textbook editor at Pearson during the great de-Plutification and it was a Tremendous Pain in the Butt

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My man you work for a guy whose followers wear his mark on their foreheads

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You gotta think the ol’ Nixon exit-and-pardon is looking more and more attractive

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Need to talk about the Peter Gabriel thing in Silo, which kind of felt like that time Apple put U2 in everyone’s iTunes… except they did lay the groundwork for it in prior seasons, so it came as a pretty fun Easter egg. (But I happen to like PG, so maybe I’ve just been pandered to.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“You see this magnificent FBI badge? I earned this badge with my own hard work, passed the exams myself, worked like the devil to get this position. But do they call me MacGregor the FBI agent? No."

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ben’s hollywood self when he thinks about his Boston self:

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Theory (we know what that means)" buddy you very literally do not know what that means

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