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Neil Briscoe
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Freelance car writer The Irish Times, CompleteCar etc. Dad, car nut, geek. Views my own. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 Profile pics courtesy PopBangColour & @[email protected]
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Gah! I need to bone up on this genus of car.

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November 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Always loved these…

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Streak 3🔥

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November 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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If you’re thinking of buying a new car in 2026, don’t do it until you’ve read this (with more categories to follow in the coming weeks…) Via @irishtimes.com

www.irishtimes.com/motors/2025/...
Best cars to buy in 2026: from family EVs to city runabouts
It’s time to put ourselves in the buyer’s seat, so here’s the first part of our suggested cars to buy in 2026
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November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Almost can’t believe I got that in one.

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Streak 2🔥

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November 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Cardle 3/5
Streak 1🔥

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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Blimey. I was nowhere near that.

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November 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Vaccines don't cause autism

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scientits.bsky.social Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 5d
Vaccines don't cause autism

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ephemerawoman.bsky.social Sarah Carter @ephemerawoman.bsky.social · 5d
Vaccines don’t cause autism.

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November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Boom.

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Streak 6🔥
Total Score 178
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November 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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I spent three guesses going ‘no, it can’t be that thing that it is. Can it?’

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Streak 5🔥
Total Score 163
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November 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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A wild swing that somehow connected…

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Streak 4🔥
Total Score 157
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November 21, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Thought I’d take the Toyota bZ for a spin to see the Rock Of Gibraltar — scene of the greatest (fictional) Grand Prix of all time.
The new Toyota bZ, on a lonely outcrop, overlooking the Rock of Gibraltar.
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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A series of increasingly luckier guesses.

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Streak 3🔥
Total Score 145
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November 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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As generic as they come…

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Streak 2🔥
Total Score 142
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November 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Should I get a storage battery to go with my EV? via @irishtimes.com

www.irishtimes.com/motors/2025/...
EV Q&A: Is it worth buying a battery to store electricity?
Helping to separate electric-vehicle myths from facts, we are here to answer all your EV questions
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November 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Back on track after yesterday’s debacle.

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Total Score 130
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November 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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therejoineuparty.com
BREXIT is THE TAX no one voted for:
📈 Mortgages Up
🍱 Food Up
🏡 Rent Up
📉 Pound still Down
💸 Holidays cost more
📊 Inflation bites deeper here than Europe

💷 You didn’t vote to be poorer.

So Time to take back what we lost. Support Rejoin!
#BrexitReality #RejoinEU
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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louisevans.bsky.social
Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11d
I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.

F that!
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Really should’ve got that…

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November 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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A ludicrously lucky last gasp guess.

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Streak 4🔥
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November 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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irishtimes.com
Leon Diop: ‘The far right want to turn this into an immigrant problem, but they just don’t like black and brown people’
The founder of advocacy group Black and Irish on the childhood racism he experienced in Tallaght, overcoming his identity crisis, and the recent violence in Citywest
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November 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Went to see The Running Man last night. Hugely recommend it. Enormous fun and a superstar performance from Glenn Powell. My 15-yr old liked it too and he has exquisite good movie taste so that’s a good sign.
a man giving a thumbs up in front of a sign that says running man
Alt: a man giving a thumbs up in front of a sign that says running man
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November 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Warning: not a factory body kit…

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Streak 3🔥
Total Score 117
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November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Special Relationship… With Problems: 10 U.S. Aircraft Britain Didn’t Love: hushkit.substack.com/p/10-america...
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM