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Joel Stocksdale

@geekygearhead99.bsky.social

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Automotive Journalist at CarBuzz. Former News Editor for Autoblog. Nerding out over cars, video games and more. He/Him. Opinions are, of course, solely my own.

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · Jul 18

My feeling as I start properly scrolling the feed for the day

a group of people are gathered in a living room with a fire coming out of the floor

Alt: Troy from Community steps into his apartment with pizzas to find it on fire. Jeff is swinging a shirt to put it out. Pierce is on the floor after being shot and Abed and Annie are tending to him.

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 2h

That cover without the fearmongering does go pretty hard though

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 4h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 2h

Culture war won’t fight itself

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 14h

But I still want to know the thinking behind the body decisions

Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 15h

The Ann Arbor area has too many Cybertrucks btw

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 15h

I now really want to know the reason for these decisions, since the Evo VII WRC car was still very obviously mostly Evo body parts. Clearly there was more wiggle room for body work for that generation, but was there a space/aero/cooling advantage at the front? Why the taillights?

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 15h

Is still on Netflix right? Just hit play again

Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 15h

I was looking at some photos of the Mitsubishi Evo VIII based WRC car, and I noticed something odd. It looks like they actually used base Lancer taillights, not Evo ones. And then I noticed that the hood/grille and headlights appear to also be derived from the base Lancer, too, rather than the Evo

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII WRC from the front three-quarter angle

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII WRC from the rear three-quarter angle

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 16h

I learned this was a thing, and you need to also.

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Duel of the Fates - Kazoo Cover (Also known as 'Kazooel of the Fates [Festival Edition]')

YouTube video by Raindrops on Roses99

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 16h

How was it?

Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 17h

I’m always surprised at how much more widely adopted laserdisc was than I thought

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 19h

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 17h

And at some point it dawned on me that I was working the night of the daylight savings switchover, and I was so overjoyed when I realized I had an extra hour to finish. I think I was within an hour of the submission time when I turned it in.

Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 17h

Well I can’t match that, but I had a similar last minute research paper for a college class that I was working on at the start of November. I was in a hotel room in Vegas just before SEMA (got a pass from my internship employer). Was up all night, was getting a little despondent…..

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 17h

Mini Cooper S has still been kicking

Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 19h

Wait, TNG was released on laser disc?

Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 19h

Wait, you only JUST learned about it? It’s been out a couple years now in Europe. The colors and graphics are superb

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 19h

Like, it probably wouldn’t be successful, but I still kinda wish we got this in America

Daniel Bevis @denialvibes.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely day. Gave the Abarth a bath and took it for a spin 🧼🍂

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 19h

The hydragas suspension kinda scares me on the early ones though lol

Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 19h

Jumping spider: RAWR, I’m a ferocious apex predator. Imma kill you!
You: That’s just adorable

Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 19h

They’re such funny fuzzy things

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 1d

In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

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