[2026-09-17 01:01:17] [INFO] ================================================== [2026-09-17 01:01:17] [INFO] Starting cycle #2927 — r/middleclasshq (10/31) [2026-09-17 01:01:17] [INFO] Time: 2026-09-17 01:01:17 [2026-09-17 01:01:17] [INFO] ================================================== [2026-09-17 01:01:17] [INFO] Fetching posts from r/middleclasshq... [2026-09-17 01:01:17] [INFO] → Fetching Reddit listing: https://oauth.reddit.com/r/middleclasshq/hot [2026-09-17 01:01:18] [SUCCESS] → Reddit OAuth fetch OK (25 image posts) [2026-09-17 01:01:18] [INFO] → Found 25 image posts [2026-09-17 01:01:18] [INFO] → Running Supabase cleanup (records older than 100 hours)... [2026-09-17 01:01:20] [SUCCESS] → Deleted 1 Supabase record(s) older than 100 hours [2026-09-17 01:01:20] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: 89 cents for a burrito sounds completely made up now... [2026-09-17 01:01:20] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (177791 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:01:20] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:01:21] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-17 01:01:21] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: just saw this and i swear the tip screen is following us eve... [2026-09-17 01:01:21] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (141820 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:01:21] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:01:22] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-17 01:01:22] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: funny how everything went up except minimum wage... [2026-09-17 01:01:22] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (264832 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:01:22] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:01:23] [INFO] Processing: funny how everything went up except minimum wage... [2026-09-17 01:01:23] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:01:23] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:01:25] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606883_FX8QTkA-q.webp [2026-09-17 01:01:25] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: funny how everything went up except minimum wage... [2026-09-17 01:01:25] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: funny how everything went up except minimum wage... [2026-09-17 01:01:27] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: A prime example of what’s broken in America’s healthcare sys... [2026-09-17 01:01:28] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (94005 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:01:28] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:01:28] [INFO] Processing: A prime example of what’s broken in America’s healthcare sys... [2026-09-17 01:01:28] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:01:28] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:01:30] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606888_kdOYRAC1_.webp [2026-09-17 01:01:30] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: A prime example of what’s broken in America’s heal... [2026-09-17 01:01:30] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: A prime example of what’s broken in America’s heal... [2026-09-17 01:01:32] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: One in five workers do not have guaranteed paid sick leave, ... [2026-09-17 01:01:32] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (353550 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:01:32] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:01:34] [INFO] Processing: One in five workers do not have guaranteed paid sick leave, ... [2026-09-17 01:01:34] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:01:34] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:01:35] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606894_2ONwCnkfA.webp [2026-09-17 01:01:36] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: One in five workers do not have guaranteed paid si... [2026-09-17 01:01:36] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: One in five workers do not have guaranteed paid si... [2026-09-17 01:01:38] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: me cutting $14 of subscriptions while rent goes up $300... [2026-09-17 01:01:38] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (90471 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:01:38] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:01:39] [INFO] Processing: me cutting $14 of subscriptions while rent goes up $300... [2026-09-17 01:01:39] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:01:39] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:01:40] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606899_m9OIkYD3Q.webp [2026-09-17 01:01:41] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: me cutting $14 of subscriptions while rent goes up... [2026-09-17 01:01:41] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: me cutting $14 of subscriptions while rent goes up... [2026-09-17 01:01:43] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Trump Supporters Say We Have “Zero Empathy” for American Far... [2026-09-17 01:01:43] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (616771 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:01:43] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:01:44] [INFO] Processing: Trump Supporters Say We Have “Zero Empathy” for American Far... [2026-09-17 01:01:44] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:01:45] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:01:46] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606905_FCPvEeAE6.webp [2026-09-17 01:01:47] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: Trump Supporters Say We Have “Zero Empathy” for Am... [2026-09-17 01:01:47] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: Trump Supporters Say We Have “Zero Empathy” for Am... [2026-09-17 01:01:49] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: literally just living to suffer... [2026-09-17 01:01:49] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (391607 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:01:49] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:01:53] [INFO] Processing: literally just living to suffer... [2026-09-17 01:01:53] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:01:53] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:01:54] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606913_q_JzJRPQZ.webp [2026-09-17 01:01:55] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: literally just living to suffer... [2026-09-17 01:01:55] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: literally just living to suffer... [2026-09-17 01:01:57] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: mericuh lol... [2026-09-17 01:01:57] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (67088 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:01:57] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:01:57] [INFO] Processing: mericuh lol... [2026-09-17 01:01:57] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:01:57] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:01:59] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606917_KQOEvqSoc.webp [2026-09-17 01:01:59] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: mericuh lol... [2026-09-17 01:01:59] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: mericuh lol... [2026-09-17 01:02:01] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: This is the reason why the job market is bad... [2026-09-17 01:02:01] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (109825 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:02:01] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:02:02] [INFO] Processing: This is the reason why the job market is bad... [2026-09-17 01:02:02] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:02:02] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:02:03] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606922_xdaVTpqjr.webp [2026-09-17 01:02:04] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: This is the reason why the job market is bad... [2026-09-17 01:02:04] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: This is the reason why the job market is bad... [2026-09-17 01:02:06] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: remember when $20 actually got you lunch and chang... [2026-09-17 01:02:06] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Everything is up 50%+ in 7 years... [2026-09-17 01:02:06] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (105212 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:02:06] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:02:07] [INFO] Processing: Everything is up 50%+ in 7 years... [2026-09-17 01:02:07] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:02:07] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:02:08] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606927_je83Gxrr8.webp [2026-09-17 01:02:09] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: Everything is up 50%+ in 7 years... [2026-09-17 01:02:09] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: Everything is up 50%+ in 7 years... [2026-09-17 01:02:11] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Peter Thiel, not a fan of humanity? That tracks ...... [2026-09-17 01:02:11] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (263441 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:02:11] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:02:12] [INFO] Processing: Peter Thiel, not a fan of humanity? That tracks ...... [2026-09-17 01:02:12] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:02:12] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:02:13] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606932_jwrNSA7eQ.webp [2026-09-17 01:02:13] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: Peter Thiel, not a fan of humanity? That tracks ..... [2026-09-17 01:02:13] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: Peter Thiel, not a fan of humanity? That tracks ..... [2026-09-17 01:02:15] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Some classmates are grandparents. I’m still figuring out wha... [2026-09-17 01:02:15] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (137668 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:02:15] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:02:16] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-17 01:02:16] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Instacart’s AI pricing test could have added $1,200 a year t... [2026-09-17 01:02:16] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (161064 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:02:16] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:02:17] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-17 01:02:17] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Ah, the modern middle-class dream...... [2026-09-17 01:02:17] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (164643 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:02:17] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:02:18] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-17 01:02:18] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: cool so the starter home is now a retirement asset... [2026-09-17 01:02:18] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: life should not be this hard, this expensive.... [2026-09-17 01:02:18] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (190656 bytes) [2026-09-17 01:02:18] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-17 01:02:19] [INFO] Processing: life should not be this hard, this expensive.... [2026-09-17 01:02:19] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-17 01:02:19] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-17 01:02:21] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1789606939_Tymm5S7pM.webp [2026-09-17 01:02:21] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: life should not be this hard, this expensive.... [2026-09-17 01:02:21] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: life should not be this hard, this expensive.... [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: None of these are solutions.... [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: Bernie Sanders Wants to Kill the 40-Hour Workweek... [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: yeah let me cancel netflix that should fix the $60... [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: People think this will cause inflation.... [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: just saw this post today and now i’m scared to ask... [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: buyers can’t buy, sellers can’t sell, very healthy... [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: If you refuse to pay the people who built it, don’... [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] → Processed: 11, Skipped: 14 [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] ================================================== [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] Cycle #2927 (r/middleclasshq) completed at 2026-09-17 01:02:23 [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] ================================================== [2026-09-17 01:02:23] [INFO] Publishing cycle log to WordPress...