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Ludicrous misuse of the language. Bylines at Car and Driver, Road and Track, Hagerty, Autocar, Driving.ca, etc

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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 8h
Fun fun fun
A red T-Bird, probably 57
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just pulled up to the Japanese grocery store and a red AZ-1 drove past.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Merging onto the highway and a 5.0 Mustang with a trailer tried a lane change without checking blind spots and nearly wiped out a BMW. A. Don’t do that B. Mustang with a trailer???
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When you’re excited about dinner.
Happy looking plates
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
As a freelancer, what it’s like to file invoices and then start over on the first of the month again.
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Just Woke Up Phil
Alt: Bill Murray wakes up in Groundhog Day.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
world's largest cubic zirconium takes an L
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
lil guy!
A kei van on the street
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the kind of clear thinking you get from the discerning sort of person who owns a manual Ford Taurus SHO.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I watched Guy Richie's (TM) The Gentlemen S2, and honestly the peak moment was Vinnie Jones having the Beatrix Potter version of Ace Ventura's apartment.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
City is cleaning the leafs off the street outside and I am seized with the desire to come up with some cockamamy plan to drive a streetsweeper.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
boy, it's Been A While
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Had to run kid from school to an appt in an RF and this lady stepping into an RX400 in the parking lot said “Oh that looks fun,” and I said “Yes it is,” and she then said “I’ve just bought an LC500 in blue,” and 🫡🫡🫡🫡
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The horn section.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Europa! Charter member of the Richard-Scarry-ass-lookin' car club.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tired: continuing to drone on about the Choosin Texas song Wired: learning about how Canada's popular music landscape was formed by a CanCon law called MAPL
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Pride Of Alliston. (Although I object slightly as that seems to be electrical tape)
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
portal to Narnia except it has really good ham
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How it feels to me a freelancer who has four overdue things due by Monday:
Homer Simpson on the couch saying, "Ah, I love these lazy Saturdays," then Marge sticks her head in the room and says, "It's Wednesday, Homer."
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me, asking what the job benefits package is like:
Mike Meyers in So I Married An Axe Murderer with a Cup O' Cino
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Heading into the weekend like bottom right
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
what do you mean fully charged that is a catbus
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
didn't get the job because I brought a gourd of magic potion to the interview and was disqualified JUST BECAUSE I FELL INTO THE CAULDRON AS A BABY
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Coupla neat mechanic car spots on the way home.
A blue Legacy STI wagonA gold Mercedes W123 sedan on BBS mesh wheels
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is extra funny because this *is* exactly what Jack's reaction is throughout the books since peacetime means an end to promotions
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All the middleschoolers in the carpool had heard of that Texas song so we listened to it and TLDR it's actually mostly about Tennessee.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
bsky music discourse today:
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Grampa Simpson's Stern Warning
Alt: Grampa Simpson's "And it'll happen to you"
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
IASIP title card "The gang are meat burglars"
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I got one of these AND an Armatron on the same birthday, and didn’t even know I was living the dream.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*Ramses II, patting several of his 400 cats* i'm disrupting gender norms
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Re: Rogue e-Power. I drove a Nismo Note e-Power all over Japan a few years back and the takeaway was very much Why Do They Not Do This in NA yet, it just Works.
A Nismo Note at Daikoku PA
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Update from kid's school: bear at school, pls wait until we have chased it off *sigh* Reset "Days Since Canadian Stereotype* counter to zero
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The early 1950s Japanese auto industry was objectively an era when everything was tinny and disposable and sloth-slow, but it was also very much Busytown and must have been kind of fun to see.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Going through photos from the mountain drift even and Good Grief
Cars drifting on a closed mountain road in BCCars drifting on a closed mountain road in BC - wider shot showing elevationCars drifting on a closed mountain road in BC - reverse route downhillCars drifting on a closed mountain road in BC - downhill hairpin
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good Stuff (TM) inbound.
Delta Integrale following Giulia.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Might as well get in the AM runs before the rain.
An E55 AMG wagon at the local cafe. Bonus -series wagon
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love that feeling of arriving in Tokyo Station and being completely overwhelmed by people going every which way with purpose and you have no idea what you're doing.
A Toyota Century out front of Tokyo central station.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Morning coffee run with a few folks
Intermeccanica, Elise, BRZ, Alfa GiuliaGT3RD, E28 M5, 911Hopped up BRZ ON r-Compounds964 911 with some RUF bits
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Heading into the weekend like
A Formula D pro car drifting a public mountain road in BC
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just spoke to the organizer of this drift event on a full closed public mountain road locally. 40 cars including a Formula D pro car. He was just back from hand sweeping rubber off the road to clean up properly because Canada.
A bunch of cars drifting on a narrow mountain road, white Lexus IS in back.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Utter perfection.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Me, suspiciously giving the Reacher spinoff a chance: 😑 Reacher Spinoff: Mercury Marauder?
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De Niro: You Are Very Good
Alt: De Niro: You Are Very Good
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just a good ol' otokonoko Never meanin' no kigai Beat all you ever saw Been in trouble with the law Since the day they was umareru
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Finally, a Mustang worse than the Eleanor.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Had to stop and tip the ol fedora to this gent: manual RWD GTS
A white Porsche 911 GTS
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Me: boy I hate Ed Sheeran The internet: Did you hear what happened recently? Me: no
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
At this point just posting Mazda Porters to help the TL
A green Mazda Porter kei truck. It's got round headlights and looks slightly like a cartoon bear.A green Mazda Porter kei truck. In this case the front air duct is open and resembles a nose.An early Porter kei truck in black and white. No front air intake.A green Mazda Porter kei truck, front on. There's a yellow kei truck with stacked headlights in back of shot that also looks fun.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New "neutral" color palette Little TikesHayao Miyazaki saying "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We already had a rebooted Point Break. It was called The Fast and the Furious.
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not cheap and a dash of Triumph-riding hipster, but 100% knit dyed sewn in Hoserland.
T-shirt label “Made in Canada”
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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You’ve heard of a 2+2 we’ll check out a 2x2
A JDM Toyota Noah van
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