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Dennie Edwards

@dennieedwards.bsky.social

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General car and tech nerd. Hot Wheels and Matchbox addict. Former GM/Saturn auto technician. Technical writer open to work in the transportation industry. Occasional automotive content writer. Posts expire regularly. #weirdcarbs

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · Aug 8

Definitely feeling like Marty in that BTTF alternate timeline.

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Basic Apple Guy @basicappleguy.com · 4h

iCloud launched 14 years ago today, giving users 5GB of free storage. Fourteen years later…

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 5h

Fiero?

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Alex Kwanten @sportzagato.bsky.social · 6h

Spied in the wild: a mint #Suzuki X-90. Showroom fresh, really, even if every old car can look dreamy in the rain.

#WierdCarBS #SuzukiX90

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 7h

Rallied a stock 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE on dirt tires in the GT7 weekly challenge and got 2nd place. 🤣

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 13h

Today in why not to buy a Tesla.

Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 13h

There's also a Price is Right channel that streams for free on Pluto TV. It's fun to see all the new cars from the '70s and '80s.

Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 15h

Nearly 20 years off the market, time is definitely not on their side.

Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Looks great! Love the early second-gen F-bodies.

Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Is the 500E the most amazing automotive collaboration ever?

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Ben Subeck @bensubeck.bsky.social · 16h

There’s just something about a 500E 🥵

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 16h

a man with a beard and a mask on his face is standing in front of a tree .

ALT: a man with a beard and a mask on his face is standing in front of a tree .

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Team Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 16h

I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea
I know it’s a bad idea

but

www.cog-classics.com/volkswagen-p...

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe?

Kia's electric van was spotted in the US again, but this time it looks a little different

Is Kia’s electric van finally coming to the US? The Kia PV5 was caught testing with a unique design, hinting...

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 18h

This is a big EV selling point for me, especially living in a hurricane-prone area.

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 18h

“Kia said the starting in Germany for the PV5 will be €38,290, making it significantly less expensive than the ID Buzz, which starts at €49,998 in Germany for the five-seat, short-wheelbase model and rises to more than €75,000…”

That is an enormous price advantage for Kia. How can VW compete?

Kia to challenge VW for leadership in the full-electric people mover niche

The Kia PV5 prioritizes modularity and affordability, while the retro-styled VW ID Buzz leans heavily on iconic design heritage.

www.autonews.com

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 19h

Leaving Twitter, 10 years of history, & 7000 followers was quite easy in the end.

I knew after the election result that Elon would become unaccountable to the law, and suspected someone would be rifling through my DMs.

So I got my archive, had a few drinks at dinner in NOLA, and nuked my account.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 18h

“While the standard Charger Daytona EV rides on a 400-volt architecture and maxes out at 670 horsepower, the Banshee was supposed to have an 800-volt architecture and a two-speed transmission...and while the company never confirmed horsepower figures, estimates put it around the 1000-pony mark.”

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 1d

Cargill makes a great point here. Cinemas lost a lot of Dads in the pandemic. We upgraded our home theater systems and we got comfy as FUCK; even with big “cinema experience” blockbusters, for all but the biggest event movies we’ll wait for Blu-ray. Take risks on NEW stories for new generations!

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't rocket science, Hollywood. When you make movies for Gen Z & Alpha, they pay to see them. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S opened to $80M WITH a day & date streaming release on Peacock. When you make movies for their dads, those dads have a choice between the theater or their bitchin' home theater.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is pointing at something with the words gonna get me a new york slice on the bottom

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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 1d

The hot-rod Saturn guy I covered on Jalopnik ages ago is still doing wild, old-school-vibe mods to plastic-fantastic Saturns and I love it: www.instagram.com/p/DPpfkDujAv...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 1d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Play the lottery?

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Dennie Edwards @dennieedwards.bsky.social · 1d

So looking forward to this new book “Future Boy,” from Michael J. Fox.

Great Scott! 'Future Boy' Audiobook Will Feature 'Back to the Future' Scenes and Music (Exclusive)

The audiobook version of Michael J. Fox’s new book 'Future Boy' is out Oct. 14, and includes interviews with former costars and archival audio from the movie. Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Rober...

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