Stephen

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Car & car industry obsessed. Numbers/data nerd. Addicted to information & learning. Love sports [esp stats], travel, design, tech, history, craft beer. Proud Philly boy🔔 dreaming of West Coast living🌵⛰️🌊

Autistic & 🩷💜💙

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Generic. Could be a contract design from an anon Chinese manufacturer. Nothing Audi about it. And the interior is just as blah. Garden variety Hyundais & Kias have similar interior style @ a far lower price point - including quilted seats. Why would one buy it?

The Audi A4 Is Dead, Long Live the New Audi A5www.motor1.com Audi discontinued its compact A4 sedan in gas form. In its place, a new Audi A5 sedan.

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Assistant to the Regional Hitler

The Cadillac of minivans

🚨 Mint Dustbuster Alert 🚨 #weirdcarbs m.facebook.com/marketplace/...

Fun fact: the actor who played young JD Vance in that movie is from my current town [same as Taylor Swift]. Despite his acting pedigree he also worked @ the local Giant. Always asked how my day was going. Polite young man. And he's a car nut. Here are pics of his '66 Mustang. Related: fuck JD Vance

Stop w/new features when the basics are bad. I'd like YTM to not serve up the same 12 starting songs every time it comes up w/playlists curated from what should be thousands of data points I've provided. Or play stuff from only three bands when I key related items. Also, new music discovery sucks.

YouTube Music is testing an AI-generated radio feature and adding a song recognition tool

YouTube Music is testing an AI-generated radio feature and adding a song recognition tooltcrn.ch YouTube Music is introducing two new ways to boost song discovery on its platform. YouTube announced on Monday that it’s experimenting with an AI-generated conversational radio feature, and rolling out a new Shazam-like tool to help users discover the…

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Trying to figure out a way to turn my writing into income and I think maybe first I need to figure out how to turn my writing into cocaine.

I like live music a lot. I've been to a lot of concerts & festivals. I've seen many acts. This man was one of them. In all the shows I've seen, I never came away more impressed re: the show I got vs the show I expected. Billy Idol was AMAZING [HFStival 2005]. Nice tribute. She was cool. So is he.

RIP to Dr Ruth. and no one can top the tribute to her currently up on Billy Idol’s insta story.

Choices were made

Let's change the topic and talk about art. So Van Gogh's did a few self portraits. Here's one.

Nick Castellanos hit a home run today by the way. IYKYK

Ooooff

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Time for a drink.

Luckily I JUST renewed all of our passports. So that's good!

6pm Friday. Still @ my desk @ a job I took bc I needed FT $, purpose & hoped it'd help w/autistic burnout, but FUCK I hate it. Regret taking it now realizing mgmt has no desire to fix a horrid data environment. I need: a beer, a sustainable career enabling success, a life rethink. Time is fleeting.

Hey Google ... play "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65

crank up Never Ending Story amigos, it’s a V16T here to kick off our whole dang Friday rmsothebys.com/auctions/mo2...

Every article and opinion piece by the New York Times now

LOL-in-horror moments of new @nytimes.com puff piece on Elon Musk: Reporter dutifully reciting Musk's BS about buying Twitter to "test how a citizen-led government that rules by consensus might work on Mars," and not realizing "selective breeding" is Nazi eugenics. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...

Thermonuclear Blasts and New Species: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Colonize Marswww.nytimes.com SpaceX employees are working on plans for a Martian city, including dome habitats, spacesuits and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm.

My oldest child now car spotting & having a better time of it this week than Dad. This 348 Spider was spotted in her summer job parking garage. I like the burgundy color. It's successor - the 355 - is the last of the likable Ferraris to me.

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QOTD: how many times has this car been stolen since this photo was taken?

Today’s calendar is killing my OCD. Why July 10th? Is today particularly askew?

Google notifications helping me out because they know I'll never see a 400Z in real life

Homemade shrimp scampi over fettuccine, artisan bread, mixed greens, tomatoes & feta. And some cold ass Pinot Grigio. The only thing that went right today.

So I asked our sales person about how to factory order or secure an allocation unit for a car...

In the "12 Angry Men" remake Matt would like to play Juror #8

I'll just say this once and then move on: It baffles me that you guys find this frippery attractive. 🤷‍♂️ The "spindle grille" is just cynical luxury car deep grille bandwagoning, and it looks like the Autodesk jockey sneezed while drawing the headlights...

This is a boring Zoom meeting

This summer is awful. And this warning is playing catch-up. We already hit 108° before they issued it. The forecast models can't keep up.

Tercel

I'm convinced this is still the most beautiful car on sale today, even seven years after its launch. Here's a fun question...if this gorgeous 2024 Lexus LC 500h were badged a *Toyota*...what would it be called?

Loses points for not going full Clark Griswold. I mean the idea is RIGHT THERE. Had they done it, it might be the only CT I approve of. Also, think I'm definitely winning the weird car Bluesky "haven't seen one yet" game.

A sad announcement & a big mistake. If it's old? Buy & hold.

Dead: The Gas Porsche Boxster and Caymanwww.motor1.com The duo won't be around for 2025, and the Macan with combustion engines will be retired in 2026.

The Phillies' injury situation & the combo of pitching & offense falling apart is better at this point in the season than in the playoffs. [They call this cope]

What a British GP. Keir Starmer has already made things better. Labour! 🇬🇧