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Roberto Baldwin

@strngwys

SAE International Sustainability Editor. Automotive and tech journalist that sings in far too many bands. Let's be friends. Bad at posting. Good at tamales. Signal: strngwys.01 Drastic Cats: https://drasticcats.bandcamp.com/

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Expressive Cat Drawings Capture Feline Personalities Through Gestural Lines The way this artist turns scribbles into incredibly expressive cat drawings is absolutely amazing!

Artist ShouXin brilliantly captures the range of personalities of cats with his energetic pencil drawings. trib.al/R9wjsog

05.03.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 324 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 8

TBF to Mad Max, it had refineries for gas.

Last man was smart about the nuclear reactors too

11.03.2026 04:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Right!

11.03.2026 04:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy that the show Paradise pointed out that gasoline has a life of about a year before it degrades and becomes useless.

11.03.2026 04:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
JONATHAN RICHMAN - I, JONATHAN (CD)

JONATHAN RICHMAN - I, JONATHAN (CD)

more perfect weather music

10.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

You’re gonna have a great time regardless

10.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Spain is awesome. But Japan is something else. I love both places, but I would choose Japan over Spain any day

10.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tire place: hey, your tire sensor is broken

Me: I know. Leave it alone

Tire place: ok

10.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OMG it's the best. Go to Japan, ride all the trains. Shinkansen will change your life and make you a little sad we don't have it in the US

10.03.2026 19:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you would not believe how excited car journalists get when we get to ride on a train.

10.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

please don't respond, "but you're the car guy."

Yeah, I'm the car guy who realizes that cities don't need cars and need car-free zones and a huge increase in funding to expand public transportation. Also, trains are rad.

10.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We also took the bus to the outdoor mega food pop-up area. They had surprisingly good tacos available.

My wife said we should move there and I could sell tamales

10.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œβ€¦if you want a livable city you put the pedestrians and the bicyclists in the central areas. You put them in the best squares and the best roads. That shows the priority and the future view of traffic in the city.” πŸ‘πŸ» πŸ‘πŸ» πŸ‘πŸ»

10.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've ridden a bike and driven in Copenhagen. Riding a bike is soooo rad. Mostly I just drove out of Copenhagen.

10.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

what's nice is that a whole community can yell across the street at Adobe and tell them to fix their products.

10.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

ohhh snap Nakamichi! that was the god level

10.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my friends and I would spend an enormous amount of time at our small town's car stereo shop.

But yeah, Alpine was the goal. The true rich weirdos had Blaupunkt head units. At the time, Blaupunkt had an in-car cassette deck that they said sounded as good as a CD player. It was like $1,200

10.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Woke up with Janet Jackson's Escapade stuck in my head.

so that's nice

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10.03.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I had to fight with Pacer for legal filings you know I would upload and link those files in the article. Fucking Pacer

10.03.2026 04:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can easily sing a song while playing a full drum kit.

Meanwhile, you set me at the bongos and ask me to do the same thing and my brain gets stuck every few measures.

Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

10.03.2026 04:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Weird to me (I don’t have kids) but my childhood was insanely free range. I could go as far as my bike could take me in a day (10 miles I guess). I would also disappear for days when I was high school so maybe I’m not a good case study.

10.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

most of the time I have no fucking clue what you all are fighting about.

09.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Buy tickets to CONTROVERSY, QUEEN BITCH in San Francisco on April 10, 2026 Friday, April 10NASCUM presentsA TRIBUTE TO PRINCE & BOWIEwith live performances by CONTROVERSY and QUEEN BITCHplus DJ Meikee MagneticDoors 8 pm$15 advance / $20 at door but $5 off if you dress like P

It never feels like a good time to promote any of my bands. But here we goo. If you like Prince and Bowie, this will be a fun show. Also, all ages.

Rickshaw Stop is great because they’re rad people, they let me do all ages shows, and the sound is always top notch

www.eventim.us/event/a-trib...

09.03.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

actual conversation I had with my wife very early in our relationship, "You know, I'm going to be a writer. I won't be making a lot of money."

"Yeah, I know"

09.03.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh no

09.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh a VC is taking over. That's always a good sign.

(digs up friendster acct)

09.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

a good compromise is a Pizza Roll which is a tiny burrito that's pizza but tiny.

09.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the next month or so could be a unique window to snatch up cheap used EVs before everyone else catches on... these posts will help

09.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

see that would require anyone in this administration to be smart instead of powered by greed, power, and a weird mixture of pills and supplements handed to them every morning in smoothie form by RFk jr.

09.03.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now I’m gonna have to explain the reality of journalism to people that come up to me asking why I don’t make $500k a year as a β€œseasoned journalist”

09.03.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0