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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 15d

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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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Thomas Harvell-DeGolier, ABD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 20d

So can someone explain waffles?

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 19d

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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Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals

As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 18d

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

Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch

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

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20d

It’s funny because it’s true

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

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 20d

...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. 👋🏻

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 20d

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.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 21d

Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles

Waffle with berries & powdered sugar on floral plate

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20d

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.

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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 21d

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

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 21d

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...

Electrek @electrek.co · 21d

2026 Buick Electra EREV arrives 190 miles of EV range and an affordable price

Buick has had the best EV name in the business for decades, but an electrified Electra sedan hasn’t been offered in the US — yet. While everyone is fretting about the death of the Federal EV tax credit, Buick has been working on a new extended-range EV for China that offers usable range and entry-luxe features at an affordable price. more…

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 21d

It's National Name Your Car Day!

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

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

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rbnc @rarebutnobodycares.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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The Car Factoids @thecarfactoids.bsky.social · 22d

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’…

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 22d

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.

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 22d

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

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The Car Factoids @thecarfactoids.bsky.social · 23d

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…

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23d

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.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 23d

Fuckin yikes, man

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Team Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 23d

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

Lexus the Relentless Pursuiit by Chester Dawson

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Bill @ The Crittenden Automotive Library @crittendenauto.bsky.social · 24d

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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