Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly…

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So can someone explain waffles?

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

I think Bluesky could still be saved. Won't be, but could. They should hire me as Head of Comms. I could fix her (Jay)

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Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.

A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.

Jay D@@jay.bsky.team You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works crystal @cim.bsky.social your user base consists entirely of people who are willing to migrate from social media websites that turn on them

It’s funny because it’s true

...survive becoming just another propaganda-spreading, bot-infested troll site like X or Facebook. Especially since bots won't pay subscriptions.

Probably done after this Bluesky falls. I should use time spent doomscrolling on more productive endeavors, anyway.

See y'all in bookstores & museums. 👋🏻

Unless Bluesky changes their leadership and this direction on content moderation, they're headed down the path Musk & Zuckerberg took.

But this site is not big enough or profitable, and there are too few corporate brands/sports teams for people follow, and their base skews left so they won't...

Really sick & tired having to move from site to site when CEOs inevitably decide that free speech means protecting doxxing & harassment of persecuted groups by those connected to the powerful, and that there there isn't a trans person they wouldn't throw under a bus for a $ and mock while doing so.

Bari Weiss' only talent is telling billionaire oligarchs what they want to hear dressed as dangerous truth. Her obsequious sycophancy for the oligarchs and appeal to their existing prejudices is the only value she has. Without them propping her up, she wouldn't have a career.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

So many people have inspired me to be nothing like them.

Looks like they launched it as an EV sub-brand, announced in 2023 and the crossover Electra E5 first went on sale as a 2025 model in 2024.

Can't find anything on an Electra before that, but there's the language barrier and the new model might be crowding out any other search results.

Unable to ignore the marketing potential, Buick is using the Electra name on an extended-range electric vehicle.

We just won't see it here in the U.S. anytime soon.

Kinda want to convert a classic Buick Electra to an EV, if GM would make their equipment available to the aftermarket...

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

2024 Ford Maverick XLT in Terrain

Molly the M.U.L.E. from Deep Rock Galactic

It's National Name Your Car Day!

Here's Molly, my Ford Maverick, named for the load carrier in Deep Rock Galactic.

The artistic flare of a vintage racing poster. The jetlag I'm experiencing means I get to enjoy it at 1am 👌

Little Tikes Smart car.

These classic colors that made the whole Smart car thing worth it. Not Little Tikes approved advertising, but too good not to bend a post rule. This one even has appropriate wheels!

📸 credit: goodmorninggloucester.com/2023/11/24/m...

Factoid: Exotic though a Mustang II might’ve been in the UK back in 1978 it also typified the ‘Malaise Era’ of US cars which were slow, heavy & laden with dubious styling ‘features’…

I have the privilege of working with fed agency folks. They've been jerked around, forced to move, had offices taken, lost resources, put on leave, fired, re-hired, *shot at*, and now furloughed. Still they return each day to help make America a bit more informed, healthier, and safer.

1960 Chrysler Imperial Ad

1960 Chrysler Imperial Ad
📰 National Geographic, March 1960
#️⃣ #AutomotiveHistory #vintageadvertising #Chrysler

Factoid: Oct used to be ‘motor show month’ & here’s your reminder they’ll be plenty of such period ads over the next few wks.

Here’s a gd example from 1951 though for British show visitors this was a rare chance of seeing a TD as all but 1,656 cars of the 30k made headed overseas…

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

1979 Chevrolet Impala

1979 Chevrolet Impala

1979 Chevrolet Impala

1979 Chevrolet Impala

1979 Chevrolet Impala
📸 Bill Crittenden, 2010
📍 McHenry, Illinois 🇺🇸
#️⃣ #AutomotiveHistory #Chevrolet #MalaiseEra

now is as good a time as ever to read what I can only describe as the polar opposite to @niedermeyer.online’s “Ludicrous”, which is basically “Uncut Gems” for OEMs

the LS was and still is a completely insane engineering project and I will never not love them because of it

Benoit Treluyer & Yuji Ide Calsonic R-34 Nissan Skyline GT-R scale model

Benoit Treluyer & Yuji Ide Calsonic R-34 Nissan Skyline GT-R scale model

Benoit Treluyer & Yuji Ide Calsonic R-34 Nissan Skyline GT-R scale model
🎨 Builder Unknown, Tamiya kit
📸 Bill Crittenden, 2013
#️⃣ #AutomotiveHistory #Nissan #MotorsportHistory #scalemodel #modelcars

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a football player with the number 18 on his jersey is being tackled by another player Alt: a football player with the number 18 on his jersey is being tackled by another player

Kid's got hands. Highlight reel stuff in his first year.

Also the Ford family has owned the Lions since 1961, Sheila Ford Hamp is the family's current representative to the team. Daughter of Wm. Clay Ford Sr. The team plays at Ford Field.

Hyundai i30 N-Line

Hyundai i30 N-Line
📸 Martin Katler
#️⃣ #Hyundai

We strolled through a very walkable neighborhood last night (Piedmont Ave) and I picked this up at @pegasusbooks.bsky.social.

Check out the #Cadillac. 👇🏻