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https://www.jalopnik.com/2170575/does-ford-easy-fuel-reduce-theft/

Capless fuel fillers are becoming increasingly common, thanks partly to the efforts of Ford. But what has the Blue Oval done to keep thieves away from your gas?

https://www.jalopnik.com/2170575/does-ford-easy-fuel-reduce-theft/

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https://www.jalopnik.com/2169490/difference-between-toyota-highlander-and-grand-highlander/

The Toyota Grand Highlander is 4 inches taller, 2 inches wider, and 6 inches longer than the standard Highlander. Here's what that means for its cabin space.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2169490/difference-between-toyota-highlander-and-grand-highlander/

mab_browne

I like horror a lot but I've never been able to watch it on the big screen. It's too intense, too much, but the word about Sinners was so very good that I got the family to give it to me as a gift.

My immediate impression was very much 'wow!'

My vaguely more considered non-spoilery thoughts are many. Have some. :-)

One of my very first thoughts was the absolutely gorgeous cinematography. When you're watching in your lounge you can talk out loud and I rhetorically asked Coogler who was organising his cameras because OMG.

The beginning scene sets up the horror tone for a film that for its first half is the story of people pushing through an oppressive environment to look for power and purpose and joy and love. There's uneasy dread at what's coming for these people you like.

Music is integral to the whole movie in an amazing way.

The little touches of mysticism are beautiful.

If I'd seen this even six months ago it would have hit differently, speaking as a very white NZ woman noting the recent evil nonsense around voting rights in the US.

The villain is the best of villains in that he doesn't think he is one. All of the cast is amazing but especially Michael B Jordan.

If you can cope with a certain amount of SFX art with the spurty red stuff, it's very well worth a watch.

andrewducker

Gideon picking up language from YouTube is hilarious. I explained to him yesterday that you can use the right trigger to drift in Mario Kart and he replied "Bro! That's sick!"

mickeym

Megan is apparently not speaking to me. I don't know if it's for a limited time, or for the rest of time, or what. No idea. To know these things, she'd have to be asking me.

According to Donnie, who said to me, "don't tell her I said anything, because she'd be SO MAD", Megan has issues with me going back years. Also, apparently, she now feels that Matthew and I took advantage of her. I feel like that's coaching from Donnie, because until about six months ago, Megan had never said, ever, that she felt like we were taking advantage. Not to me, not to Matthew, nothing.

And now she's not speaking to me at all. The girl -- woman -- who used to say "I love you" every day when she left for work. Who would joke and laugh with me, and we'd wish each other a good night at bedtime. Now she can't get out of the room fast enough. In fact tonight, Matthew told me, Donnie called her (from the kitchen to their room), and he heard her say, "Kim's in the bathroom". And she popped out briefly, then back.

And while I know I should initiate the conversation, I don't want to. I'm a punching bag for them when they get angry at me, and I'm not willing to do that anymore. Enough's enough. We expect them to leave by the end of June (and when June gets a bit closer, we're going to tell them this. At least that's the plan.).

I'm going to miss them, sometimes. Megan lived with us for a decade, which is no small amount of time. My relationship with both of them (Donnie in particular, but both of them) is very complicated and complex. I'd love to have a relationship with them after they move out, but I'm not sure that's going to be possible.

And in the meantime, Donnie's talking about the trailer they're moving in to -- both of them, still in the same bedroom, even though they're broken up -- and how two of her male friends, upon hearing they'd broken up, said they would move in, help her with rent and so on. So Donnie talks about how they'll have four contracts on the lease, with each of them paying a quarter of the expenses. And she says that unironically. Like it's perfectly okay to plan that, while still not realizing that that's what WE tried to do with them.

End of June. I'm holding on to that, so very tightly.

x-posted at Livejournal and Dreamwidth; read/comment where you prefer

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260516.html

Like salsa verde on your favorite burrito, a green

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260516.html

mithriltabby

Here are links to the resources I used to figure out how to fill out my ballot. I give my conclusions, and I invite you to come to your own, and I hope this effort saves you a headache. $ means an order of magnitude of money backing a candidate, starting at the thousands, so $$$$ means a candidate has single-digit millions of dollars in their campaign.

I’m not thrilled with some of the candidates, but I keep in mind that a vote is not a valentine. You aren’t confessing your love for the candidate. It’s a chess move to get closer to the world you want to live in. If you would like to have a better choice of candidates, I commend your attention to FairVote and Californians for Electoral Reform. You can try ranking the candidates for governor yourself or try out proportional ranked choice voting.

I will not be linking to Republican candidates’ web sites. The party of Lincoln and liberty has become the party of corruption and chaos, being a member should be disqualifying for any elected office, and the party needs to go the way of the Whigs. Any remaining Republicans with integrity should start putting together the infrastructure for a new party, because the current one does not look salvageable. I have voted for Republicans in the past; I do not expect to ever see a good reason to do so again.

( If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t spend so much on influencing and suppressing it. )

Comments are screened. I’m not in a mood to argue.

Current Mood: tired

princessofgeeks

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https://www.jalopnik.com/2169489/gm-ls7-v8-corvette-engine-defied-small-block-limits/

The LS7's massive displacement and race-bred design completely redefined what a small block could be, and it's still a popular choice among gearheads today.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2169489/gm-ls7-v8-corvette-engine-defied-small-block-limits/

cornerofmadness

I was at the coffee shop for the new latte release. I wanted to try the salted honey rosemary latte. Not enough (read any) rosemary flavor but over all good. However somehow I hit a ctrl button or the touch mouse or something and shut down my document without the save, don't save, cancel options (or it hit it somehow). I lost an hour's work and 2K worth of novel. Gutted.

And then it started storming. Where's my umbrella? in the car. Did not go to the new store opening because it was lightning everywhere. Did go to the library to pick up two hard copies of arcs I failed to read. And Jesus why the fuck did I ask for an arc of this TJ Klune novella? It's depressing AF and I can't get my head around the worldbuilding. The world is ending but someone is still refining oil into gas and people are showing up for their shitty gas station jobs?!? I mean how else is this RV getting across the country (yes, yes I know, it's not the point but weirdly I can't get past it)

My brain is a nest of snakes lately too. Partly because I don't have work distracting me, partly because something has brought up old insecurities, like really old, ingrained ones. I've sorted through dozens of Bourbon City Steam photos, literally hundreds of them and outside of the one picture where I won that trivia trophy, that is the only photo of me from all three days. I didn't see one of me doing my stuff (but I know the camera man was in there). I didn't make the dances but I was there for most things.

It's like high school and college all over. I'm in every play, multiple bands, an officer in my sorority and I barely exist in the yearbook. I know it's just ego talking but it's odd to me that I don't seem to catch anyone's eye. Would anyone even remember me? Other than two people there would anyone notice if I wasn't? I know the answer. No one would. My one friend didn't even realize I had never been to this one before. Maybe he imagined me there. Maybe that's a good thing.

Sadly I can't put I fucking love science links here for science saturday. They've started a paid subscription to read them. So have these.

High-status Roman woman was buried in a lead coffin with jet hairpins and exotic resins, archaeologists find

Homo erectus genetic material sequenced for the first time, and it shows 'deep genetic links' with modern humans

A combination of amazement and horror': Hitchhiker fish hide in manta ray buttholes

Microplastics absorb heat in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming — as if they weren't bad enough

Pollution may fuel depression, anxiety and other mental health problems, emerging research suggests

'I heard gasps' and 'oh my God': Artemis II astronauts reveal inside story of their mind-bending solar eclipse

'Exceptional' drilled tooth reveals Neanderthals practiced dentistry in Siberia 60,000 years ago

Current Mood: sad
Current Music: Hope Street

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https://www.jalopnik.com/2170547/how-hybrid-cars-charge-while-driving/

Depending on the type of electric motor setup, hybrids use several interesting ways to charge and recover battery power while driving to maximize efficiency.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2170547/how-hybrid-cars-charge-while-driving/

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hannah

I know it's odd of me to not do the baby-talk voice to my niece A. when she's around, and I'm sticking with my usual register and cadence just the same.

Her mother didn't show, but she did call once when I was around to hear it - checking in to find out if my brother J. had fed A., and then hanging up. He'd apparently send her a text earlier, but she'd called, and after getting what she wanted, quickly hung up. I don't know her week's schedules, and I don't know what her day looked like. I can only state the events as I witnessed them.

Current Mood: indifferent
Current Music: nothing now

autobotscoutriella

I can't quite tell if this section of broken beaten damned is working or not, and I am unreasonably annoyed by it. It's just Daryan's first conversation with Klavier in prison! I wrote like a dozen of those for until I bring you home, this should not be complicated. (Which might be part of the problem, come to think of it. We've covered some of this ground before.)

( rambling about why this scene isn't working, because if I type it out maybe it'll fix itself )

TL:DR: writing hard, how dare this not simply leap fully formed from my brain to the page

torachan

1. I got my new bike set up today and took it out for a ride. It does seem to be really intuitive. I used it without assist for most of the ride, and turned the assist on for a grade that lead into a medium hill, and then later on a straight section that just had a lot of wind blowing at me, and it was very easy to just switch it on and off. Then I decided to try the big hill that I'd had to walk my bike up yesterday, and was able to get up it just fine, though I had to use the boost mode, which is specifically for hills. I went out again later with Carla, and she wasn't able to get up the hill at all, even with boost mode and had to walk the bike up. I'm not sure if it's just not possible at all because she's out of shape and even with the assist it was too much effort, or if there's some things we can tweak to make it work better.

2. It's been two weeks since Jasper had any pee incidents!

3. The granola bar guy at the farmers market had a new flavor, strawberry, and they're really good. I bought two after trying a sample.

4. We had set this blanket up on the sofa so that Chloe could get under it if she wanted to, and Ollie ended up going in there instead! He actually did this a couple times, even though he usually doesn't like to be under a blanket (unlike Chloe, who would like to spend her whole life under a blanket).

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https://www.jalopnik.com/2169886/toyota-supra-began-as-glorified-celica/

The Supra had a rough start, but Toyota kept refining its engines until it eventually became the legendary sports car we all know and love today.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2169886/toyota-supra-began-as-glorified-celica/

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https://www.jalopnik.com/2167397/can-you-hotwire-modern-car/

The movies make hotwiring a car seem like a quick and easy process that you can perform on any vehicle. However, here's the truth about hotwiring a modern car.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2167397/can-you-hotwire-modern-car/

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https://www.jalopnik.com/2170359/florida-man-shoots-car-after-brake-check/

Several shots were fired, putting holes in the windshield of the victim's car, as well as through the back seat where a child booster seat was located.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2170359/florida-man-shoots-car-after-brake-check/

thawrecka

I finally finished my Yu Yu Hakusho rewatch:

- Yikes, the sexism. It's pretty bad. Yuusuke groping Keiko and flipping her skirt up in public early on is pretty awful.

- My other main takeaway is that everyone wants to kiss Yuusuke. Kurama definitely wants to kiss Yuusuke. Hiei maybe wants to roll around shirtless in the dirt with Yuusuke. Kuwabara wants to make sweet passionate bro love to Yuusuke and pretend he's still straight afterward. Everyone in the last arc all ooh he gets my blood fired up. Yeah, I'll bet.

Anyway, I don't actually ship anything, but I do think Kuwabara's crush on Yukina is pretty cute.

The first time I watched I didn't get why Kurama/Hiei was popular at all, and this time I saw it a little, but I still think they're only mildly shippy, but Kurama is definitely shippier with Yuusuke, and probably even more shippy with Kuwabara than with Hiei.

- LMAO, Kurama getting mistaken for Kuwabara's girlfriend.

- That Hong Kong action cinema influence is so obvious.

- So much of this is that Japanese anxiety about juvenile delinquents that was all over stuff in the 90s and early 00s and that you don't really see in new series. Also, anime just doesn't look like this anymore, so it's not really a surprise it's not as popular as it used to be.

I do think the Dark Tournament doesn't actually get interesting until the semi-finals and there's a lot of dull bits I hadn't remembered. That's probably why newer viewers are underwhelmed by what is always hyped up as the ~best tournament arc ever~. It's okay. Kurama v Karasu is still pretty good, and there's a bunch of great stuff at the end.

- Kurama is still my favourite, just like the first time I watched, but I would say Botan is my second fave now.

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https://www.jalopnik.com/2170021/do-you-need-coolant-filter/

Coolant filters aren't common on passenger vehicles, but they do exist. Here's how to determine whether you should add one to your car or not.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2170021/do-you-need-coolant-filter/

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https://www.jalopnik.com/2169792/1989-corvette-zr-1-values/

1989 Chevy Corvette ZR-1s command prices over five times those of other C4 ZR-1 model years, and it's not just because they are extremely rare.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2169792/1989-corvette-zr-1-values/

mxcatmoon

Just some rambling thoughts as I do the tag-clean up I mentioned in my previous post.

Never been the greatest at mastering the art of tagging (whether it's here, AO3, or Tumblr, especially as they are all slightly different). At least here, the tags are mainly for my own use. At least that's how I use them. I do look at other journal's tags though, when I'm searching for a particular fandom/topic. It makes me sad when I encounter a journal that doesn't use tags. 😢 What's up with that?

I've only got 348 tags. How about y'all, how many do you have? I've got room for lots more, but while I like to make topics easy to find and organized, I also dislike having to add a lot of tags to my entries. Too much work. LOL. Ditto for the longer ones, such as using parent tags. That's why I don't categorize my main fandoms. As soon as I type an m, I want Miami Vice to pop up rather than having to type tv shows: m first.

I'm currently asking myself if I need a 'ship' tag. So far, I've only found one. As a huge shipper, I feel like it's a given that a post under the show tag is 90% probably going to be shippy so why bother? LOL. On the other hand, that one specific one is a rare case and if I wanted to find posts about it on my journal it would mean scrolling through a lot of entries about that show. So, it stays.

Ooh, I might should have a 'fic' parent tag to make it easier to sort each fandom's fic. I do have a master fic list post attached to my side-bar, but that would also catch anything I forget to add. And it won't bring up a list of all the fic entries posted for a particular fandom. Means an extra tag for me when posting, though. I'll have to think on that one.

Current Mood: contemplative

coffeeandink

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There are so many posts I want to write, but this one is easy and also about books, so! I think everyone should do it so I can spy on your bookshelves.

Take five books off your bookshelf.

(I pulled everything from my physical TBR bookcase, in hopes that it will encourage me to read it.)

Book #1 -- first sentence: "Anyone can write about a large city--large cities are open to everyone--but small cities can only be portrayed by people who love them."

(Already ambiguities: I skipped the preface because this line is better.)

Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty: "However, I haven't yet read V.W.'s book."

Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred: "What amazing childishness these old people were content to live in!"

(Unexpected challenge: do I pick the second sentence or the second complete sentence?)

Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty: "'I know.' Verna dropped the packages. A hard, harsh sob pressed at her throat. 'I hate him.' "

(Yes, I am treating one paragraph of dialog plus action as a single sentence for the purposes of the meme. Fight me!)

Book #5 -- final sentence of the book: "Eunice picked up her bag and guitar and closed the door to the storm."

Make the five sentences into a paragraph:

Anyone can write about a large city--large cities are open to everyone--but small cities can only be portrayed by people who love them. However, I haven't yet read V.W.'s book. What amazing childishness these old people were content to live in! 'I know.' Verna dropped the packages. A hard, harsh sob pressed at her throat. 'I hate him.' Eunice picked up her bag and guitar and closed the door to the storm.

I promise it wouldn't make any more sense if I chose another option for step 5.

Book #1: Friendly City by Sofia Samatar
Book #2: The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, ed. Claire Harman
Book #3: Ready or Not by Mary Stolz
Book #4: The Room Opposite and Other Stories by F.M. Mayor
Book #5: Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale by J.J. Phillips

hamsterwoman

Oh right! I completely forgot to post about the FIRST thing I consumed specifically for Hugo homework, which was actually KPop Demon Hunters. I was home alone when the Hugo shortlist came out, and it’s on Netflix, so that seemed like a good way to pass the time. I feel like all my friends have watched KPop Demon Hunters already, but I’ve been low-key avoiding it because, a) I have no interest in KPop and b) anime is basically one of my anti-genres/mediums, where even if it’s about something I like, the anime style makes it more difficult for me to enjoy the story (I know this isn’t anime per se, but it was indeed too anime for me, as friends who know my anime opinions warned me), and that seemed like a bad combination to subject myself to for no reason. But Hugo homework is a reason, and I’ve subjected myself to way worse for its sake.

Honestly, I enjoyed it more than I expected, although to be fair my expectations were quite low. ( More,with spoilers )

I’m sure there were deeper things and also inside jokes I was missing, but I enjoyed it on my level anyway. I haven’t (yet, but I’m not sure if I will, either) watched any of the other nominees, so I have nothing to compare it to, but on its own merits, I wouldn’t be mad if it won.

*

Back to Elis & John. And in my “Retro Oner” journey, I’m working through the Radio X episodes ( May - December 2016 )

And, outside the cut for easy finding: Radio X episode 117, 9:56 – Elis singing in Welsh, which I don’t think I’ve ever heard before, and it is incredibly charming! Not just the singing, but the tiny stumble as he translates it into English for them, including having to switch the noun-adjective order. I mean, I love hearing Elis sing and I love hearing Elis speak Welsh, so it figures I’d love it when he was doing both at once, so no surprise there, but I just really, really love it, out of all proportion to the length of the clip and inanity of the song. (I’ve listened to it so many times XD)

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https://www.jalopnik.com/2173725/2024-fiat-500e-so-good-fixes-itself/

A reliable car is one that starts every time you ask it to, goes into gear without any issues, and drives until you stop; my 500e's got you covered.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2173725/2024-fiat-500e-so-good-fixes-itself/

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How Ford Designed Its Capless Fuel Filler To Reduce Gasoline Theft

How Much Grander Is The Space Inside Toyota's Grand Highlander?

I finally got around to watching Sinners

Life with two kids: Language acquisition

such a smallBIG thing

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Hold Your Nose and Vote by Tuesday, June 2, 2026

TV

GM's LS7 V8: The Corvette Engine That Defied Small-Block Limits

My luck continues to hold

Here's How Hybrid Cars Charge While Driving

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Family gathering.

writing HARD

Daily Happiness

The Toyota Supra Is A Legend Now, But Began As A Glorified Celica

Can You Hotwire A Modern Car?

Florida Man Had 'No Remorse' After Shooting At Car That Brake Checked Him

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Coolant Filters Do Exist, But Do You Need One?

Why Are 1989 Corvette ZR-1s Worth So Much More Than Other C4 ZR-1s?

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3W4DW book meme

KPop Demon Hunters, more Elis & John

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