Luke Yoquinto

@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social

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yoquinto.com MIT AgeLab Books: * Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn * Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging

a website text search for "USAID" with zero results
a website text search for "death" with zero results
an email headline from Netflix reading "Don't forget to finish Detroiters"
The lighting display in question: giant spotlights pointing everywhere into the night sky
a gif from Freaks and Geeks featuring a young Seth Rogen saying "space blows"
"As a meteorologist, you can think of it this way: we didn’t “forecast” the meteor. We diagnosed it after the fact using satellite flashes, lightning-mapper data, radar signatures, eyewitness reports, and eventually NASA’s analysis."
Conan O'Brien holding a Mighty Mighty Bosstones CD
Calvin and Hobbes walking in the snow, Haines saying “that lesson certainly ought to be inapplicable elsewhere in life”; Calvin replying “I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification “
The arrival of Admiral Snape and Captain Hallowell to eat their mutton with the Aubreys cut the conversation short, but it was not a great while before Stephen was on the subject once again. Sophie had whispered him to join her early, and as the three sailors were intent upon fighting St Vincent over again, shot by shot, it was not at all difficult for him to come away to the drawing-room while they were setting nutshells up in line of battle, and to come away with the certainty of a long, quiet interval before him. 5-Desolation Island, ch.2, paragraph 103
Madam,’ replied Stephen, ‘I repeat that I know nothing of the Stock Exchange: I could not readily distinguish between a bull and a bear. I only say that if your friends’ advice is based upon their persuasion that peace is to be concluded within the next few days, then you should perhaps reflect that they may be mistaken.’ 11-The Reverse of the Medal, ch.6, paragraph 3
The sailors, happy to be released from Fallopian tubes and biliary concretions, spoke of sperms they had seen within the Straits, Jonahs they had known, the horrible fate of ships in which Jonahs had sailed, and Jack’s party ended in an even more civilized way, moving from the sea to the land – plays seen, balls attended, and a furlong by furlong account of a fox-chase in which Mowett and Mr Ferney’s hounds would certainly have come up with their quarry if he had not plunged into a field-drain as darkness came on. 10-The Far Side of the World, ch.3, paragraph 90
Bombus ternarious, a bumblebee with two brown-orange stripes on its abdomen
‘My hands have now regained the moderate ability they possessed before I was captured,’ observed Maturin, ‘but his have gone on to a point I never thought he could reach: his hands and his mind. I am amazed. In his own way he is the secret man of the world; but I wish his music were happier.’ 17-The Commodore, ch.3, paragraph 109
Superman being sworn in as president on the cover of a comic book from the early 90s iirc
A vhs of the very real movie Shazam starring sinbad
A picture of sculptures of foxes disguised as monks, one from Japan and one from Denmark. Below, someone responds “it was a global problem”
She provided the following data about the three No Kings protests: “At No Kings 1 (June 14, 2025) the median age was 36, at No Kings 2 (Oct. 18, 2025) the median age was 44, and at No Kings 3 (March 28, 2026) it was 48. Clearly, it’s getting older.”
Crowd of maga hats
Marvel's the Thing, weeping on the ground, saying "a thing"
In the dune font: Fiona Apple When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring There's no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo, you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right
“Teenage mutant ninja turtles” in the dune font
a screencap of a Marketplace listing for a "Vintage Raytheon frisbee. 25 years old," a claim belied by the fact that the frisbee says "September 14, 1980" on it.
George costanza playing real-life frogger
As screenshot of Jamie Hector from Bosch saying “I’m not talking about those Florsheim clodhoppers you wear”
As screenshot of Jamie Hector from Bosch saying “I’m not talking about those Florsheim clodhoppers you wear”
RFK Jr and Don Jr in a field holding falcons
A motorboat decked out with trump flags
As screenshot of Jamie Hector from Bosch saying “I’m not talking about those Florsheim clodhoppers you wear”
Jamie Hector on “Bosch” saying “I’m not talking about those Florsheim clodhoppers you wear.”
A Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin asks his dad for a traffic safety slogan, and his dad replies "Sure! Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!"
A Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin asks his dad for a traffic safety slogan, and his dad replies "Sure! Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!" (Calvin then says he'll go ask his mom.
The cover of The Night Manager by John Le Carré. Cover features a tiger behind bars.
Endless colonnade at suny Albany
Various civic groups have self-organized to help them. Food banks deliver groceries. People donate money to pay rent. Doctors finish their shifts and then make house calls. The governor told us about a group of doulas who make secret home visits to deliver babies to mothers who cannot go to a hospital, because DHS agents view health care facilities as abduction traps. Think about that: You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical. It is your lived reality. It is America.
Ilhan Omar's attacker with his mystery syringe.
Hello, this Gordon of the Violent Femmes and I've just been locked inside my house, so I can't go out and get my bus and stuff and get up there by one 'clock. I'll...Someone's coming over to rescue me so... it wasn't my fault, my parents had locked me in. So I'll get there whenever I can. Maybe I'll try calling Victor at his house or something like that. O. K., ah bye
Pics of the famous "The Dress" whose color nobody could agree on. Similar in color to Trump's tan/suit/bruise on his hand.
A white cat with her face pressed flat against a vent in the wall
A screencap of side-by-side headlines. The first is, "Scientists Discover Oldest Poison on 60,000-year-old arrows." The second is, "The best way to get a restaurant reservation? It's an old one."
Leonardo da vinci’s Ginevra de Benci
A 19th century drawing of an “electric belt” designed to deliver jolts of all-healing electricity directly to men’s genitals
stephen miller making what I can only describe as the Trump mouth shape with his lips
A cozy yet spacious room filled with plants and books
A bumblebee tuna ad showing a deliriously self-satisfied woman eating forkfuls of straight tuna right out the bag in an office setting. Text reads "your snack meal can bee better."
A visual metaphor for money being lost from households in the years leading up to a dementia diagnoses. A leaky pipe stands in for these households, with possible leaks stemming from rational decisions in response to dementia in the household (eg home renovations, medical expenses, reduced income due to caregiving); as well as new patterns made more likely by cognitive impairment, including bad spending habits, scams, and financial mismanagement.
Gold-painted banquet-hall chairs
NYT headline reading: 'Hypercharged' Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court
In fact, selectivity itself, and how we go about enforcing it, represents one of the more powerful, pernicious ways that our educational winnower squanders human potential. Slotting the best students into highly sought-after seats is, in its way, an admirable goal—after all, we should make the most of our limited resources. But the way we pursue that goal is built on a set of glaring assumptions: that our potential as learners is both knowable and fixed, more or less for life, perhaps starting as early as birth. These ideas, though highly debatable, comport with how most of us think about intelligence: If you’re smart now, you’ll still be smart in ten or twenty years. Or, as Lewis Terman, the father of American intelligence testing, wrote in 1919, “the dull remain dull, the average remain average, and the superior remain superior.”
A Bluesky post reading: Cancelled Disney+, Hulu, & HBO Max on Wednesday evening. It took some doing because the webpage was having issues (later learned that was because so many people were getting on it to cancel!) i’ll be donating the savings to our local PBS affiliate and our local community radio station
screenshot showing disney+ account being cancelled
A drawing of Isca the Unbeaten.
Ad for leaded "ethyl" gasoline that uses an optical illusion involving a unicorn to make the point that leaded gasoline is better
Still from the simpsons where Mr Smithers claims to Mr Burns that a booing crowd is saying “boo-urns”
Quartz headline: Trump is poised to put more big stamps on the economy this week
Van Halen album cover featuring Atlas holding up the world, bearing the letters VH.
Taraxian • 3d ago I don't think any real band would've appreciated being called corny radio pop by Lois but I absolutely think that The Mighty Crabjoys is a reference to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and "The Impression That I Get" would be Clark's favorite song that expresses his whole philosophy in life
Corey Glover of the band Living Colour singing "I tell you 'one and one makes three'"