2009-2024 Sic transit gloria mundi. Formerly: Raconteur. Cultural, political, science, tech, #EV, #LGBTQ, British cars. "Plucky + good fun". @FateTours.
Hudson Valley + NYC
Joined February 2009
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It's been 15 years, but it's time to quit. Find me on Blue Sky for the kind of random musings I used to tweet. I'll put more serious #EV content on LinkedIn.
No more posts. And I won't respond to messages any longer. This explains why better than I could.
theatlantic.com/technology/a…
"X has always had a Nazi problem. But something is different today.
"Heaps of unfiltered posts that plainly celebrate racism, anti-Semitism + outright Nazism are easily accessible, perhaps even promoted by the site’s algorithms.
"Musk amplifies horrendous conspiracy theories"
After watching the racism dial turn further and further on this site, I decided to try and publicly make as definitive a case as I could. We're so far past the point of no return that I'm out of excuses for myself. Been a good 15+ year run. Bye! theatlantic.com/technology/a…
Trump Media (which trades as DJT) started today up more than 17 percent. But by early afternoon, trading had to be halted after a massive sell-off.
It ended the day losing more than 18 percent from its peak, one of the stock's worst-ever selloffs.
Huh.
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
John 'legacy blue check' Voelcker retweeted
Tired of the election map? The yellow states in this map are where you can legally own a raccoon.
R.I.P. Quincy Jones.
The man had so many musical accomplishments that it's hard to pick just one. But this routine always makes me grin—for multiple reasons, including his "Soul Bossa Nova."
youtube.com/watch?v=zd11cRul…
Friend sent me this image, raving over the Citroen DS.
As far as I know, this vehicle does not exist. Probably AI.
But correct me if I'm wrong?
Absolutely, positively, totally, definitely a car I'd never heard of: the 1994 Lada Samara Bohse Safari.
hemmings.com/stories/find-of…
Well! HERE's one for the @NYTimes haters amongst us.
"New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it"
Oooff.
presswatchers.org/2024/05/ne…
Tax filings show Florida’s legislative chaplain has been paid for years by the Fellowship Foundation, aka The Family, a secretive Christian group that sent a member of Congress to bolster Uganda against blowback from its new #LGBTQ+ death penalty.
Oh.
jonathanlarsen.substack.com/…
Kamala Harris on SNL cold open: great.
Trump spox: "Kamala Harris has nothing to offer the American people, so she's living out her warped fantasy cosplaying w/elitist friends on Saturday Night Leftists as her campaign spirals down the drain."
LOLOLOLOL.
youtube.com/watch?v=e6Funs6y…
Whereas Subaru says 97% of its cars sold in the last 10 years are still on the road.
So, Ferrari wins ... for those 3 people in the world who cross-shop for the long term? LOL.
motorauthority.com/news/1144…
A new peer-reviewed study led by Sydney-based researchers Stephen Woodcock + Jay Falletta finds the time it would take for a typing monkey to replicate Shakespeare's plays, sonnets + poems would be longer than the lifespan of our universe.
Well then.
bbc.com/news/articles/c748km…
In Iowa.
IN IOWA.
I N I O W A , F F S.
desmoinesregister.com/story/…
Dept of FAFO: College kid tells Jason Kelce his brother Travis is a "f****t" for dating Taylor Swift.
Kelce calmly grabs the kid's phone + hurls it onto the ground, smashing it ... and then picks it up, depriving the kid of his YouTube video.
(Brits: The word is NOT 'f*ckwit')
I wondered what the alloy 300SL would sell for. Now I know.
motorauthority.com/news/1144…
