Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social
yoquinto.com
Science writer/researcher
Books:
* Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
* Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging
Science writer/researcher
Books:
* Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
* Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging
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Billy Corgan: I’m gonna write a song that repeats a metaphor over and over again about being a rat in a cage. All anyone will be able to think about is rats and cages, rats and cages.
Also Billy Corgan: I will name this song “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”
Also Billy Corgan: I will name this song “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”
December 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Billy Corgan: I’m gonna write a song that repeats a metaphor over and over again about being a rat in a cage. All anyone will be able to think about is rats and cages, rats and cages.
Also Billy Corgan: I will name this song “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”
Also Billy Corgan: I will name this song “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”
The hardest part of this whole debacle to believe? The notion that Miller enjoys music.
Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The hardest part of this whole debacle to believe? The notion that Miller enjoys music.
Vesuvius 🤝 Xitter
Turning brains to glass
Turning brains to glass
December 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Vesuvius 🤝 Xitter
Turning brains to glass
Turning brains to glass
The only people who subscribe to paramount+ are trekkies. I’m sorry to heap this responsibility onto their shoulders, because they are a kind and gentle people and they don’t deserve this. But the fate of the nation now rests in their hands.
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The only people who subscribe to paramount+ are trekkies. I’m sorry to heap this responsibility onto their shoulders, because they are a kind and gentle people and they don’t deserve this. But the fate of the nation now rests in their hands.
still waiting on my worrier dividend (I worry a lot) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Trump Announces ‘Warrior Dividend’ For Troops
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
still waiting on my worrier dividend (I worry a lot) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
If you can’t find me, it’s because I’ve been dragged down to Davy Jones’s locker by the hundred AAA batteries I sewed into my swimsuit
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you can’t find me, it’s because I’ve been dragged down to Davy Jones’s locker by the hundred AAA batteries I sewed into my swimsuit
“I mean, it’s one room, Michael. What could it cost?”
Trump has announced his ballroom will now cost $400 million.
This comes as Americans' health care premiums are set to skyrocket in the coming weeks.
This comes as Americans' health care premiums are set to skyrocket in the coming weeks.
December 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“I mean, it’s one room, Michael. What could it cost?”
Department Q was a very good season of television. One of the best I’ve seen actually.
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Department Q was a very good season of television. One of the best I’ve seen actually.
People forget that the matrix had this mysterious marketing campaign, so nobody seeing it opening weekend knew anything going in. Saw it on a whim that weekend (in what I recall to be a pretty empty theater). Teenage mind blown.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
People forget that the matrix had this mysterious marketing campaign, so nobody seeing it opening weekend knew anything going in. Saw it on a whim that weekend (in what I recall to be a pretty empty theater). Teenage mind blown.
Massie looks 100x more presidentially viable with a beard. It's doing a lot more for him that it did for Vance and Cruz. The way he's tacking against the MAGA current will also make him immune to a lot of Dem attacks in '28. What I'm saying is he's running.
Q: If DOJ doesn't release the files it has by next Friday, is there anything Congress can do to compel that to happen?
MASSIE: It's a crime if they don't. This is a new law with criminal implications if they don't follow it.
MASSIE: It's a crime if they don't. This is a new law with criminal implications if they don't follow it.
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Massie looks 100x more presidentially viable with a beard. It's doing a lot more for him that it did for Vance and Cruz. The way he's tacking against the MAGA current will also make him immune to a lot of Dem attacks in '28. What I'm saying is he's running.
Had an hour to kill in DC yesterday, so went to the Smithsonian and saw the only publicly viewable da Vinci in the western hemisphere?!? Turns out that’s something you can just do for free in Washington DC.
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Had an hour to kill in DC yesterday, so went to the Smithsonian and saw the only publicly viewable da Vinci in the western hemisphere?!? Turns out that’s something you can just do for free in Washington DC.
Google maps is also underrated as an accomplice killer of newsrooms. Part of how Craigslist takes over classifieds is that people had a way to easily find each other to complete those transactions.
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Google maps is also underrated as an accomplice killer of newsrooms. Part of how Craigslist takes over classifieds is that people had a way to easily find each other to complete those transactions.
This is an executive order. It's now called American Rules Football. You are all now NAUFL fans. Thank you for your attention to this matter!! Enjoy!
Trump: "When you look at football in the US, soccer -- we seem to never call it that, because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called football? We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff."
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is an executive order. It's now called American Rules Football. You are all now NAUFL fans. Thank you for your attention to this matter!! Enjoy!
US is far from the only place where climate change is making life uninsurable asia.nikkei.com/business/ins...
Southeast Asian insurers call for 'new model' after deadly storms
Industry says cyclones and other extreme weather are now 'structural risk drivers'
asia.nikkei.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
US is far from the only place where climate change is making life uninsurable asia.nikkei.com/business/ins...
The thing about the current "performative reading" preoccupation is that this Onion article is 25 years old theonion.com/man-reading-...
Man Reading Pynchon On Bus Takes Pains To Make Cover Visible
PHILADELPHIA–According to riders on the eastbound C bus, John Bolen, 23, made a conscious effort Monday to make the cover of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying Of Lot 49 visible to all on board. "Instead of ...
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The thing about the current "performative reading" preoccupation is that this Onion article is 25 years old theonion.com/man-reading-...
Assume 50% of mushroom species are poisonous. That means every time you eat a mushroom, you’re flipping a coin for your life. Hardly worth the risk seeing as how mushrooms in addition to being deadly… are also disgusting!
We need to do everything we can to encourage posts like this on bluesky. Terrible food opinions from big name sportswriters are genuinely the lifeblood of any social media app
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Assume 50% of mushroom species are poisonous. That means every time you eat a mushroom, you’re flipping a coin for your life. Hardly worth the risk seeing as how mushrooms in addition to being deadly… are also disgusting!
Why do these guys all make this particular facial expression?
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Why do these guys all make this particular facial expression?
This fall, all the Gen-Z-ers on TikTok can talk about is the Jaspercore aesthetic. "Goin' full jasp" is what they call it
It is time once again to embrace the Jaspercore aesthetic (based entirely around Michael Caine in Children of Men)
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This fall, all the Gen-Z-ers on TikTok can talk about is the Jaspercore aesthetic. "Goin' full jasp" is what they call it
It is time once again to embrace the Jaspercore aesthetic (based entirely around Michael Caine in Children of Men)
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It is time once again to embrace the Jaspercore aesthetic (based entirely around Michael Caine in Children of Men)
(Vance voice) Have you even said thank you yet for the scoldy elitism?
Between this and Sean Duffy and telling us to dress nicer on planes, I think we need fifty New York Times op-eds about the GOP's "scoldy elitism" problem.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
(Vance voice) Have you even said thank you yet for the scoldy elitism?
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This : MAGA :: the time Bob Dylan did that Victoria’s Secret commercial : Dylan fans
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This : MAGA :: the time Bob Dylan did that Victoria’s Secret commercial : Dylan fans
O no mamdani got him with the woke mind virus
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
O no mamdani got him with the woke mind virus
Dems should consider modifying section 230 to no longer protect platforms exerting this level of editorial control.
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Dems should consider modifying section 230 to no longer protect platforms exerting this level of editorial control.
I keep getting served these ads where this self-satisfied woman is eating forkfuls of straight tuna (?) right out the bag (??) in an office setting (???) as something the ad refers to as a "snack meal" (????)
I'm sorry Bumblebee but you're simply asking too much of me.
I'm sorry Bumblebee but you're simply asking too much of me.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I keep getting served these ads where this self-satisfied woman is eating forkfuls of straight tuna (?) right out the bag (??) in an office setting (???) as something the ad refers to as a "snack meal" (????)
I'm sorry Bumblebee but you're simply asking too much of me.
I'm sorry Bumblebee but you're simply asking too much of me.