Stephen

Reminder that Republicans literally cut Medicaid and SNAP to pay for a boost in military spending ahead of this.

I turned it off. Turnover city. 😒

starting to realize I'm not gonna be able to hold out. was hard enough when MLS stream-paywalled their shit. I might sometimes pirate on the high seas of digital distribution, but it's a hassle. the closer we get to Australia, the realization is setting in I'm gonna have to get AppleTV

goddamnit 😒

please buy this for me

[more meaningful if you understand the full context of the gif]

Every day I wake up hoping today is the day we see regime change. Oh no. Not there. Here. I hate this man & all those who support him.

worst person you know makes a good point dude

up next we have a live interview with Anthropic's CEO

Even at my advanced age [52] this is easy. After sobering up and hydrating, I'll snag myself both an LFA and a 2000GT.

Stephen's Stealth Stats update

12th Stealth R/T Turbo on BaT in the last 6 mo. Have to go back an additional 12.5 mo to find the next 12. They're listed @ 2x the rate in the last half year. Owners/speculators are making them YOUR problem before these complicated rare pieces become their problem 🤣

if you average in the A- grade for Lumen South [the former Levi's Stadium] the field grade rises to about a C

so there's that!

Touchdown!!!

It's incredible. It looks so small and light in a world that forgot what that is! It looks purposeful, intentional, and fun. I desperately want this to be based on whatever the next "Celica" is going to be.

I wanna take it out for expensive premium fuel, drive it hard, then cuddle with it.

The new Toyota WRC car that COULD be the next Celica

Nelson Muntz loves Andy Williams' "Moon River" encore

❤️

Delco proper!

[me, a 24 year product of Folcroft (8 yrs) & Ridley (16 yrs)]

thank you for the Blink 182 earworm

yeah ABS was usually an option on cars when offered in the later '80s, but Ford didn't even offer that [which likely would have come with rear discs as pairing ABS & drums was still uncommon]

the Scorpio had standard 4-wheel disc brakes with ABS in the US from day 1

normal person @ 1pm: working

me @ 1pm: paused working to contemplate why the Merkur XR4Ti, for all of its Euro performance roots, not only didn't offer ABS ever in its US run [thru '89], it never even had rear disc brakes. that turbo intercooled, OHC, RWD, full indy suspended machine had rear drums

LinkedIn 1 wk be like: you appeared in 32 search results, 10 ppl looked @ your profile & they were from *companies I look at*

7 days later: you appeared in 2 search results, 1 of those companies is Soylent Green & no one looked @ you

their data is lies lol, obvious when they are baiting you to use

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Stepmom #1 bought a dark blue 5-speed '88 LXi sedan. One of my favorite cars anyone in the family ever owned. I wasn't of legal driving age yet, but I loved driving it.

Mint Paseo drophead coupe’ 🤩

22-26 years on? Yeah pretty rare!

Wonder if those updates look as cribbed and bad as the front end. They mailed this in.

Ahh. Depends. Rental fleet managers would say yes!

The nose is

You missed key points. I said incongruent and branding themes were stolen.

This is fucking pathetic. Kia should sue DaimlerChryslerCerberusFIATStellantis. Pictured is a 2027 Chrysler Pacifica. It'll be coming to a rental fleet near you.

Kia Pacifica

grafting a new incongruent nose onto a 10 year old design. why is Stellantis alive?

YouTube video by General Obi Wan Kenobi My Cousin Vinny - Everything That Guy Just Said Is Bullshit.

after reading the speech highlights during lunch, I have a formal response to last night's SOTU

Everyone's attracted to different things. People who are attracted to conventional beauty can be dull.

Subaru SVX [Alcyone], ink on post-it, SGB 2025

Weird Subaru is best Subaru

When bored in a zoom meeting last year I doodled one!

Related to something your blog post mentioned, I thought the SVX was an attractive and arresting design at the time. While looking very "period" it's also aged really well.

The XT is my favorite Subaru design of all time. It's so fucking weird. Is it attractive? Doesn't matter. 😁