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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
here's the deal, the weekend is too short
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
wrote 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...
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On hypochondria
I 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...
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the intensity of jealousy I have over this score is probably similar to what lead to the bible explicitly forbidding coveting
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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...
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i quit reading and almost died
but tennis and reddit saved me
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 01/09/2026
“do you ever feel like a piece of shit?” or however that katy perry song goes
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
mustachioed 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"
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Pythagoras getting back to Greece after learning from the Egyptians:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In my day, $18 of Taco Bell was enough food to kill you.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would kill or die for Larry
A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT
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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 19/06/2026
checking the feed
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
getting emotional again in the bar thinking about community
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
me to any piece of technology: does that thing have any merle haggard on it?
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan @alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Reporting on certain aspects of homelessness without talking to anyone who is homeless is definitely a choice.
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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 2, Episode 7
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
baseball on the radio >>>>>
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vineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Until we start charging $7.99 a month to look at it, we will never unlock the full potential of The Moon
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 31/03/2026
I don't need TurboTax this year, I have this
A 1945 Income Tax guide
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
[ruins digestive system] a Fernet can fix this
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 23/03/2026
guy commissioning a bust of himself: how will you determine the shipping charges me: weigh a head of you
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
gift link
theatlantic.com
Doomscrolling Is Over
Now everyone is “monitoring the situation.”
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
my 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...
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In 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?
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
knowing this level of journalism exists makes me emotional and fleetingly hopeful
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
for what could "live más" mean if not exactly this?
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
a screenshot of two tiktok video comments that are expressing desire for a Jon Batiste Zelda jazz album. one of the users whose comment is shown in the screenshot is Suzyn Waldman Appreciator and the other is Nate
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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
My friend Brian wrote something really great and you should read it
type-click-type.ghost.io
Tell 'Em, Michael J. Fox
I'm going to make this about me, eventually, but not before we talk about how cool this was.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Oregon Public Broadcasting issued the coldest correction I’ve ever seen this week.
A photo of the mayor of the Dalles, Oregon staring wistfully out of the window at his the high desert down in the Columbia RiverLast week, OPB published an investigation into The Dalles' efforts to expand its water reservoir in the Mount Hood National Forest at the same time that Google expands its footprint in the city.
This week, The Dalles Mayor Richard Mays raised questions about OPB's reporting in a Facebook post that included a four-page letter from the city's retired public works director Dave Anderson.An in-depth, line-by-line review of the article in response to the letter found one error, which OPB has corrected and noted in the original story.
The projected monthly residential water rates are expected to go up 99% by 2036, not 7% as we originally reported.
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
most 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
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Jay Arnold @jayarnold.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Needed y’all to see this from the Tok
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
ok 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
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It’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
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
this piece by @amandamull.bsky.social is what really shifted my thinking re: breakfast www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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I Broke Breakfast
Americans eat a narrower variety of foods for breakfast than anyone else. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
brb adding "heavily engaged in Anheuser-Busch product research" to my LI profile college section
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
stuck 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!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/12/2025
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Me: 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: 🙂 ?
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 10/12/2025
Over 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...
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AI 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."
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
are 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
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
the 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).
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 19/11/2025
work 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
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
the ghost that haunts my house keeps bragging that he can go inside the microwave while it’s on, like i care
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
it 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
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
absolutely gutted but also used to extreme sorrow, Go Mariners. Can't wait to watch a good ass team run it back all next summer.
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✨ 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.
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
#seattle #mariners #alcs
Picture of Seattle, WA USA skyline looking north / northwest from T Mobile Park baseball stadium home of the Seattle Mariners. Space Needle is visible under a bluebird sky.
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lucas @octopustimemachine.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
being a Mariners fan is so surreal lol
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Crying screaming throwing up Normal feelings as a Mariners fan
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