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Happiness is driving on a twisty bit of blacktop in the middle of nowhere | sometimes inappropriate | perpetually sleepy | she/her | queer 💖💜💙 | let me drive your cars | #SaveTheManuals

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Celebrating the end of the month on this 237th day of January :)

(I love these so much)
A white hand holds a Cadbury creme egg. There’s a red and white houndstooth print blanket in the background
February 1, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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🎶Well, we all shine on. Like the moon and the stars and the sun🎶
A smallish capsized boat called the “Instant Karma” is leaning on its side, partially encased in ice. A drawbridge is seen in the background and the water between the bridge and boat flows freely (the ice went from the shoreline to maybe 50’ out)
January 30, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Excerpt from Adam Serwer’s story: “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.”
January 29, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Congress.gov states int’l airports are the “functional equivalent” of a border, although they don’t appear to specify a radius. Lack of specificity, the equivalency to the standard border rules, and just the way these assholes conduct themselves makes me think the radius is whatever they say it is
Congress.gov screenshot The Border and Its Functional Equivalent Searches may potentially take place along any segment of the United States' international border. Government officials may perform searches at or near the land borders shared with Mexico and Canada.144 Stops and searches may also be conducted at the "functional equivalent" of the border.145 Because people can enter the country at points other than along the border, courts have concluded that stops and searches conducted at the first point at which an entrant may practically be detained to be the functional equivalent of the border.146 This includes an airport where an international flight lands147 or the port where a ship docks after traveling from a foreign port.148 For instance, lower courts have determined that a pat-down of a passenger on a jetway departing on an international flight took place at the functional equivalent of the border149 and the search of a passenger arriving from a nonstop international flight at the Chicago O'Hare airport occurred at the functional equivalent.150 Additionally, post offices receiving international airmail are the functional equivalent of the border.151
January 27, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Your exchange came up in my feed like this and I was so confused
Skeet’s between Wiggles & Bee: Wiggles@callmemrwiggles.bsky.social I refuse to make clam chowder for the superb owl. Bee™️ @haillemmy.bsky.social → Replied to Wiggles I know where to get some locally. Say the word and it'll be in the mail.
January 26, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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But also this reminder about guilty pleasures
Screen grabs from an ep of “Northern Exposure”. Ruth-Anne tells Maggie “Maggie, there are two parts to guilty pleasure. If she's going to suffer the guilt, then she should at least enjoy the pleasure.” Maggie smiles in the last frame
January 21, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Personal Weather by Emily Skala The weather does not belong to you, the billionaire explains, chewing his cud of regurgitated fifties. I watch him on tv at the doctor's office as I wait for someone to mispronounce my name. The billionaire is not as tall as l imagined. I've read that he pays a robot to apologize to him every day, an apology laced with artificial humiliation sourced from real live humans who have actually felt shame. You've been getting free weather your whole life-you & all the other bottom-feeders, he announces. To correct this injustice, he's gone ahead & privatized the weather, but he's willing to sell it back to us cloud by cloud. I consider all the weather I have freely used. Rowing a canoe through lightning at Girl Scout camp. Sunburned summers of reading in a maple tree. All the Chicago blizzards spent digging out my car. The doctor calls me in & I carefully assemble my expression into the face of a person deserving of health care. He refers to me as Mom because I have revealed in my questionnaire that I would like to have a child. Mom is like a third person in the room with us. Not my mom, not me, but an entity unto herself, the me who might be, but threatens never to exist at all. Does Mom's rotting uterus spark joy? Would Mom pay $20,000 for IVF? Heavy rain begins outside, pummeling the daffodils for their hubris, & I consider what it would be like to be responsible for this. If I get in on the ground floor, someday my grandchildren may own their own April. In a future when butterflies are illegal. When bees are for patriots. When spring can be accessed through a pay-as-you-go debit card-that's when I will fully fuse with Mom. We will live together as a family somewhere in the void, breathing oxygen on credit, trying to imagine the existence of fog.
January 16, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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That scene in Children of Men where Clive Owen holds the newly birthed baby except the baby is the CES dancing robot
January 7, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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They better drive this fuckin’ thing
BaT listing for the 4,200-Mile 1997 Porsche 911 Turbo S that sold for USD $950,000
January 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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As is tradition: NYD is spent with a Twilight Zone marathon and Mr. Henry Bemis.

Every year I tell myself I'll stop watching right here. Every year I fail miserably 😭😭😭
TV screen showing a still from the Twilight Zone Episode “Time Enough At Last” starring Burgess Meredith Burgess Meredith. He’s seated on the steps of the former library, smiling and holding an open book close to his chest
January 2, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Goodnight, sweet princes 🫡🥹
Two metro card machines side by side in a subway station A metro card machine on a sidewalk
December 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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And taxes. I found a site that has this info, which could be helpful (but also means mailing things that require “date proof” during business hours which don’t always align with work schedules)
From https://www.currentfederaltaxdevelopments.com/blog/2025/12/8/usps-changes-to-postmark-date-system-taking-effect-december-24-2025 Ensuring a Postmark on the Date of Delivery To assure a postmark is applied on the same day a document is delivered to the USPS, individuals must utilize specific retail services. The final rule outlines the following methods: Request a Manual Postmark: Customers may present a mailpiece at a retail counter and request a "manual (local) postmark". This postmark is applied at the time of acceptance, so the date aligns with the date the USPS took possession. Postage Validation Imprint (PVI): When a customer pays for postage at a retail counter, the PVI label applied by the employee also indicates the date of acceptance. Certificates of Mailing: Customers may purchase a Certificate of Mailing, or use Registered or Certified Mail, to obtain a receipt that serves as evidence of the date the item was presented for mailing,. The rule explicitly warns that customer-applied pre-printed labels (e.g., from Self-Service Kiosks, Click-N-Ship, or meters) only show when postage was printed, not when the USPS accepted the item.
December 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Screenshot from “Love Actually” where the kid in the Octopus costume sits in the back of a car between Hugh Grant (the PM) and Martine McCutcheon (Natalie)
December 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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People continue to give me good life advice. Which I’m passing along to you should you need it :)
A DM that reads “Just fucking fucking do it”
December 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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There, i fixed it for ya 😌
Liz’s post so all the “don’t” mentions are scribbled out. It now reads: “i need it. I need it. i need it. i need it.” Because she does, in fact, need the Saab in the OPs post :)
December 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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When my niece visits, we play with cars (and other stuff, too). She likes to line them up then race them across the floor. There’s lots of giggling. Anyway, this last visit Dad took note, and got her a few of her own for Christmas. I'm an excellent influence on the children in my life 😌🤭
My niece, last summer, age 2, in a pink dress sitting on a rug and lining up cars My niece, age 3, in a green top & dark jeans lining up cars on a wood floor to be raced (that desperately needs refinishing but is adequately smooth for car racing lol) Text from my brother Photo: a hand holds a set of 5 hot wheels modeled after various F&F movie cars Him: someone liked a gift Me: oooh that’s a good assortment! Did you get (niece) cars since she liked playing with them here? Him: yep
December 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I made coquito. Merry Christmas to me :)
A white hand holds a double old fashioned glass in front of a lit and decorated Christmas tree. The glass is filled with creamy, yummy coquito (coquito is kind of like egg nog but better imho. It originated in Puerto Rico)
December 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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This popped up while I was looking for something and made me chuckle all over again.
A Facebook post (I’m no longer on there) that reads: Me: I am saddened by this WRX with *three* AAA stickers on the back. Then again, if you're gonna hoon, it's probably nice to have someone on call 24/7 My aunt: I dont understand anything you wrote except 3 AAA stickers. What language are you speaking
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Since I was a kid, I’ve known my grampa had a silly sense of humor. But I’ve spent the last few months digitizing his slides, photos, and film, and sometimes his little handwritten notes make me so happy.

“Niagara Falls forest” Sept 1976
A field full of high-voltage transmission/power lines, framed through a car window
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

(Being extra with this one b/c I had dad’s albums to physically flip through and I sometimes forget how good and diverse album art is!) (the train stays, idc!)
Six albums laid out in an old wood floor. Top to bottom, left to right: The Kinks Vol 2, Billy Joel Streetlight Serenade, Kraftwerk Autobahn, Jackson Browne Lawyers In Love, Manhattan Transfer Best of (a train, but IDC!), and Weather Report Black Market Kinks: small photo inset of the front of a white convertible with colorful stripes and the fellas sitting in/standing beside it Billy Joel: colorful drawing on a small town scene with some cars parked out front Kraftwerk: drawing of your view through the windshield of a car and the autobahn is before you with cars travelling in both directions Jackson Browne: drawing where a full moon takes up most of the space and a man with and oar sits atop a car that’s partially underwater Manhattan Transfer: drawing of an art deco(ish?) steam engine heading toward the NY skyline Weather Report: drawing of a vibrant village’s outdoor market scene with lots of people dancing and talking and there’s an old bus of sorts parked in the middle
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I did manage to find Dad’s X1/9 keys, which made me smile so it wasn’t all bad!
A white hand holding two car keys in the palm. One is all metal, one has a black plastic top. Both have “FIAT” embossed on them. There’s some misc blurred junk in the background
August 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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And J Ryan’s Yellowcar™️ which is both yellow and a car :)
Side view of a yellow Porsche 997 911 S with a white 111 racing number sticker on the door, parked at that big turnout up at Angeles Crest in Los Angeles
August 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Post something from your camera roll that comes up when you search yellow car.
Front 1/4 angle view of a Citroen Super Modified ice racing car with studded tires and a very large front spoiler/wing, parked on frozen Lake George in NY. Side view of a a yellow Pontiac Aztek in a parking lot near my Aunt’s house Side view of a yellow Lancia Delta HF Integrale driving on the street outside of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California Back 1/4 view of a yellow NSX parked in front of a giant (3 story?) black and white sculpture in Fosun Plaza at 28 Liberty in FiDi (Manhattan, NY). The back tail light says Acura, but the wheels and front badge (front not shown) are all marked with the stylized Honda “H”
August 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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1) Ah, the famous NYC boroughs of Harlem & Coney Island!

2) how many boroughs in total do they think there are?

3) the correct list, via the Beastie Boys :)

(It appears to be a UK-based operation)
Go CIty website Tour for NYC Boroughs: Brooklyn, The Bronx, Harlem, Queens and Coney Island “What's included Full-day bus tour of five of NYC's famous boroughs.” This makes me wonder how many boroughs total they think there are in NYC? Lyrics to the chorus of the Beastie Boys, “An Open Letter To NYC” [Chorus] Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten From the Battery to the top of Manhattan Asian, Middle-Eastern and Latin Black, White, New York you make it happen I’ve highlighted in yellow the actual 5 boroughs which are Brooklyn, [The] Bronx, Queens, Staten [Island], and Manhattan
August 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Showing up to an autocross event in Nomex hotpants and nothing else 😌
An ad Scanned from a 1977 Bayless Racing Fiat/Lancia catalog I found in the endless pile of papers. A woman, turned looking over her shoulder, wears a helmet, gloves, striped hotpants, and nothing else. She’s holding a tri-spoke steering wheel and her arm strategically blocks most of her side boob. There’s another steering wheel floating nearby and an Abarth scorpion drawing. It’s a catalog page so the rest of the text reads: BAYLESS RACING INC ABARTH STEERING WHEELS Abarth, grand-daddy of them all, continues to bring you only the very finest in steering wheels. Black leather, 14", three silver spokes embossed, naturally, "Abarth." Superb quality, superb feel ... from Abarth and Bayless Racing, Inc., connoisseurs of only the supreme for your import. Note: Abarth steering wheel available for all imports on special order. Specify year, make, model. 100% deposit required. [a very long list of model & part numbers]
August 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM