[2026-09-24 06:12:22] [INFO] ================================================== [2026-09-24 06:12:22] [INFO] Starting cycle #3268 — r/middleclasshq (10/31) [2026-09-24 06:12:22] [INFO] Time: 2026-09-24 06:12:22 [2026-09-24 06:12:22] [INFO] ================================================== [2026-09-24 06:12:22] [INFO] Fetching posts from r/middleclasshq... [2026-09-24 06:12:22] [INFO] → Fetching Reddit listing: https://oauth.reddit.com/r/middleclasshq/hot [2026-09-24 06:12:23] [SUCCESS] → Reddit OAuth fetch OK (25 image posts) [2026-09-24 06:12:23] [INFO] → Found 25 image posts [2026-09-24 06:12:23] [INFO] → Running Supabase cleanup (records older than 100 hours)... [2026-09-24 06:12:24] [INFO] → No Supabase records older than 100 hours to delete [2026-09-24 06:12:24] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: $15 pizza turning into $36 at checkout is actually... [2026-09-24 06:12:24] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: they really remember the paycheck and forget what ... [2026-09-24 06:12:24] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: wait so the government can just… sell groceries for less... [2026-09-24 06:12:24] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (122292 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:24] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:25] [INFO] Processing: wait so the government can just… sell groceries for less... [2026-09-24 06:12:25] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-24 06:12:25] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-24 06:12:27] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1790230345_o0sKjqvcm.webp [2026-09-24 06:12:28] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: wait so the government can just… sell groceries fo... [2026-09-24 06:12:28] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: wait so the government can just… sell groceries fo... [2026-09-24 06:12:30] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: And they get a tax break for "donating" millions 🙄... [2026-09-24 06:12:30] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (391165 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:30] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:31] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-24 06:12:31] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: This 2055 math surprised me way more than i expect... [2026-09-24 06:12:31] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Without workers the world would stop functioning, without bi... [2026-09-24 06:12:31] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (420585 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:31] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:32] [INFO] Processing: Without workers the world would stop functioning, without bi... [2026-09-24 06:12:32] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-24 06:12:32] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-24 06:12:34] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1790230352_7suldyp8j.webp [2026-09-24 06:12:35] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: Without workers the world would stop functioning, ... [2026-09-24 06:12:35] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: Without workers the world would stop functioning, ... [2026-09-24 06:12:37] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: If cutting fares was this easy, what have our taxes been fun... [2026-09-24 06:12:37] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (111031 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:37] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:38] [INFO] Processing: If cutting fares was this easy, what have our taxes been fun... [2026-09-24 06:12:38] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-24 06:12:38] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-24 06:12:39] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1790230358_ad7rTeNXm.webp [2026-09-24 06:12:39] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: If cutting fares was this easy, what have our taxe... [2026-09-24 06:12:39] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: If cutting fares was this easy, what have our taxe... [2026-09-24 06:12:41] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: somewhere along the way the American dream got a s... [2026-09-24 06:12:41] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: nothing humbles you faster than checking the total... [2026-09-24 06:12:41] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: It’s not that houses are incredibly expensive. It’s that our... [2026-09-24 06:12:41] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (61973 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:41] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:42] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-24 06:12:42] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Gas prices in rural Alaska have SKYROCKETED to over $9 PER G... [2026-09-24 06:12:42] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (94859 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:42] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:43] [INFO] Processing: Gas prices in rural Alaska have SKYROCKETED to over $9 PER G... [2026-09-24 06:12:43] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-24 06:12:43] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-24 06:12:44] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1790230363_m0jNePQ9b.webp [2026-09-24 06:12:45] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: Gas prices in rural Alaska have SKYROCKETED to ove... [2026-09-24 06:12:45] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: Gas prices in rural Alaska have SKYROCKETED to ove... [2026-09-24 06:12:47] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Proof that whenever you try to live a little outside your ta... [2026-09-24 06:12:47] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (618676 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:47] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:49] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-24 06:12:49] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: middle class parenting is just watching tiny charg... [2026-09-24 06:12:49] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Taxes upon taxes on already taxed things... [2026-09-24 06:12:49] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (62899 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:49] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:49] [INFO] Processing: Taxes upon taxes on already taxed things... [2026-09-24 06:12:49] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-24 06:12:49] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-24 06:12:51] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1790230369_HlvF9HM_j.webp [2026-09-24 06:12:51] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: Taxes upon taxes on already taxed things... [2026-09-24 06:12:51] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: Taxes upon taxes on already taxed things... [2026-09-24 06:12:53] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Workers' share of the economy keeps shrinking... [2026-09-24 06:12:53] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (29377 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:53] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:54] [INFO] Processing: Workers' share of the economy keeps shrinking... [2026-09-24 06:12:54] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-24 06:12:54] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-24 06:12:55] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1790230374_xOiexsL_d.webp [2026-09-24 06:12:55] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: Workers' share of the economy keeps shrinking... [2026-09-24 06:12:55] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: Workers' share of the economy keeps shrinking... [2026-09-24 06:12:57] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: Making ‘good money’ and still one bad Tuesday away... [2026-09-24 06:12:57] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: You're either renting a house, or renting money to buy a hou... [2026-09-24 06:12:57] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (46418 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:57] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:58] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-24 06:12:58] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: That's a massive change in affordability without changing th... [2026-09-24 06:12:58] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (53652 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:58] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:12:58] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-24 06:12:58] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Everyone in the nation lived in harmony until inflation atta... [2026-09-24 06:12:58] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (460201 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:12:58] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:13:00] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-24 06:13:00] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: Aging has officially been turned into a pay-to-sur... [2026-09-24 06:13:00] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: Optimizing life for maximum peace and the "least a... [2026-09-24 06:13:00] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: For what we used to call...a starter house... [2026-09-24 06:13:00] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (498768 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:13:00] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:13:01] [INFO] Processing: For what we used to call...a starter house... [2026-09-24 06:13:01] [INFO] → Ollama classified as US politics (1); converting to WebP... [2026-09-24 06:13:01] [INFO] → Uploading WebP to ImageKit... [2026-09-24 06:13:03] [SUCCESS] → ImageKit upload OK: https://ik.imagekit.io/pngserver/reddit-images/reddit-1790230381_wbWC9Su_C.webp [2026-09-24 06:13:04] [SUCCESS] → Supabase insert OK: For what we used to call...a starter house... [2026-09-24 06:13:04] [SUCCESS] ✓ Saved: For what we used to call...a starter house... [2026-09-24 06:13:06] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: nothing raises the rent like the same floor in eve... [2026-09-24 06:13:06] [INFO] Downloading for politics check: Playing With The House's Money? ...... [2026-09-24 06:13:06] [SUCCESS] → Image downloaded (450395 bytes) [2026-09-24 06:13:06] [INFO] Checking US politics (Ollama Cloud: gemma4:31b-cloud)... [2026-09-24 06:13:07] [INFO] → Not US politics (Ollama: 0); recording title in SQLite only [2026-09-24 06:13:07] [INFO] → Skipping duplicate: We're begging to afford being normal again... [2026-09-24 06:13:07] [INFO] → Processed: 7, Skipped: 18 [2026-09-24 06:13:07] [INFO] ================================================== [2026-09-24 06:13:07] [INFO] Cycle #3268 (r/middleclasshq) completed at 2026-09-24 06:13:07 [2026-09-24 06:13:07] [INFO] ================================================== [2026-09-24 06:13:07] [INFO] Publishing cycle log to WordPress...