lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026wrote about medical fear, and how my view of healthcare changed from reading @robdelaney.bsky.social tweets back in the day octopustimemachine.ghost.io/on-hypochond...octopustimemachine.ghost.ioOn hypochondriaI recently discovered that there’s another medical term for hypochondria. I don’t even remember what it is, but it’s what they wrote in my digital patient portal that’s specific to the for-profit heal... 002
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026the intensity of jealousy I have over this score is probably similar to what lead to the bible explicitly forbidding coveting 1401
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"It has been very hard to be in my life, rather than narrating it to myself and to others." blgtylr.substack.com/p/i-quit-rea...blgtylr.substack.comi quit reading and almost diedbut tennis and reddit saved me 000
Reposted by lucasamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 01/09/2026“do you ever feel like a piece of shit?” or however that katy perry song goes 1746
Reposted by lucasJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/07/2026mustachioed old man wearing derby hat, stopped at a red light in a 1964 volkswagen beetle: "i sure could go for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!" me, peeling out of adjacent lane in a 2026 mclaren gts: don't you mean a "pbj" 653836
Reposted by lucasMa$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Pythagoras getting back to Greece after learning from the Egyptians: 224565
Reposted by lucasTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026In my day, $18 of Taco Bell was enough food to kill you. 5172911254
Reposted by lucasJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I would kill or die for Larry 36174913960
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 22/05/2026getting emotional again in the bar thinking about community 000
Reposted by lucaslucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 24/08/2025me to any piece of technology: does that thing have any merle haggard on it? 011
Reposted by lucasAlexandra (Alex) Duggan @alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Reporting on certain aspects of homelessness without talking to anyone who is homeless is definitely a choice. 24312
Reposted by lucasvineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Until we start charging $7.99 a month to look at it, we will never unlock the full potential of The Moon 262019299
Reposted by lucasErnie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 31/03/2026I don't need TurboTax this year, I have this 1142
Reposted by lucasdan mentos @danmentos.com · 23/03/2026guy commissioning a bust of himself: how will you determine the shipping charges me: weigh a head of you 202945470
Reposted by lucasCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026gift linktheatlantic.comDoomscrolling Is OverNow everyone is “monitoring the situation.” 16218
Reposted by lucasKyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 18/03/2026my latest @newyorker.com column is on the AI industry's ironic obsession with "taste", a human capacity for a fundamentally anti-human technology www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...newyorker.comIn the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?A.I. companies are attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality. But has the online ecosystem become so polluted that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all? 1247
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 13/03/2026knowing this level of journalism exists makes me emotional and fleetingly hopeful 001
Reposted by lucasAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 20/02/2026for what could "live más" mean if not exactly this? 017339
Reposted by lucastreb @treblaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026My friend Brian wrote something really great and you should read ittype-click-type.ghost.ioTell 'Em, Michael J. FoxI'm going to make this about me, eventually, but not before we talk about how cool this was. 59724
Reposted by lucasJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Oregon Public Broadcasting issued the coldest correction I’ve ever seen this week. 218962
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 27/01/2026most other crafts you can practice don't involve quite so much self-loathing or The Madness, which means you gotta really love the woowoo aspect 010
Reposted by lucasJay Arnold @jayarnold.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Needed y’all to see this from the Tok 517640
Reposted by lucasJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though 131247349
Reposted by lucasweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 22/12/2025If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it 402182449
Reposted by lucasRick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9 818228245908
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 18/12/2025this piece by @amandamull.bsky.social is what really shifted my thinking re: breakfast www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...theatlantic.comI Broke BreakfastAmericans eat a narrower variety of foods for breakfast than anyone else. It doesn’t have to be this way. 120
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 15/12/2025brb adding "heavily engaged in Anheuser-Busch product research" to my LI profile college section 000
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 13/12/2025stuck in a perpetual loop of relearning that in fact some of my best writing comes from going on long walks, exercise and creative sustenance? fuck off! 000
Reposted by lucasjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/12/2025the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport 17888511292
Reposted by lucasBayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Me: bud can you stop eating grass please My dog, who has no concept of “eating,” only the constant exchange of sustenance and energy among all living things, not least of which, the unassuming blade of grass, which in its humility, communes directly with the sun: 🙂 ? 756986
Reposted by lucasErnie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 10/12/2025Over at @niemanlab.org, I take aim at Grokipedia and introduce a new photo of myself to the internet. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/ai-w...niemanlab.orgAI will probably force you to gate your content"Grokipedia seems to be working at a level beyond even aggregation — and, most daunting of all, it's run by the world's richest man." 0166
Reposted by lucassarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10/12/2025are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson 722801523
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 19/11/2025the following feed is v smart, and it's refreshing to see new things regarding presentation/ux from media, seems clear Verge is invested in serving its audience on multiple other fronts (e.g. ethics statement). 030
Reposted by lucasmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 19/11/2025work on the creative project that pays me money and that i am under contract for and that people like????? no thanks, im busy thinking about my creative project that im kind of bad at and somehow costs me money and that nobody asked for 52069144
Reposted by lucasYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 04/11/2025the ghost that haunts my house keeps bragging that he can go inside the microwave while it’s on, like i care 16663125
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025it turns out that, buried deep in the Etsy terms of service, all witches are bound by (and cannot supersede) the Ancient Curses. one of the most powerful happening to be the Ms world series drought. gonna need even stronger magic next year and I believe we'll find it #Mariners 000
lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025absolutely gutted but also used to extreme sorrow, Go Mariners. Can't wait to watch a good ass team run it back all next summer. 010
Reposted by lucas✨ Laas ✨ @whatabossislaas.bsky.social · 17/10/2025“We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.” Extremely poignant piece from Saeed Jones. 05810
Reposted by lucasMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Crying screaming throwing up Normal feelings as a Mariners fan 50114190