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Fred Smith

@fredsmith.bsky.social
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Car and racing writer with too many hobbies and not nearly enough vintage Mercedes sedans

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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 16h
I love the Sab Diego Padres, Joe Musgrove, and the sport of baseball
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 19h
B A S E B A L L
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Graham MacAree @grahammacaree.com · 23h
if the atlanta hawks don't find some way to turn this into a promo night what are we even doing here
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are we really suggesting that Brad Keselowski wrecked 6 cars, including other playoff cars, on a restart to get revenge on Carson Hocevar
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can’t find WEC on cable even though it’s supposed to be on cable again, I blame Zaslav
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Haven’t heard that song, or more likely have 200 times and never registered it much. I hear very little top 40 anything because music listening has never been more segmented and so many businesses choose 80s-90s playlists for their inoffensive background noise. I’m sure it’s fine.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Walking into a haircut place and seeing empty gun-shaped liquor bottles on the walls is what you might call a red flag for cut quality
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Eh, yeah, good enough. Not sure why the New York Times is doing certified Grantland bits, but I've seen worse lists.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Three Houses/Fortune’s Weave setting is so good. An insane flex to both ratchet up the sci fi stuff and the Dragon Pantheon stuff in the same game, but it all works for me so far.
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Immortan Joe Mazzulla @fremenjake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Packers fans should storm the field but in the bad way
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i often think of him
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Houton Atro @danielhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The F1 industry one weekend a year for some reason
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Saul Goodman in Azerbaijan (Breaking Bad)
ALT: Saul Goodman in Azerbaijan (Breaking Bad)
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is why we won. Almost didn’t get them all down but I remembered the Tempo at the last second.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seeing the Iowa guy crashing out on here a lot but I think we should've spent more time yesterday on Matt Gaetz going with "bro we need your vote" in public in September
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What year are we all getting our heavily depreciated Bentley Torcals? I’m hoping like 2037
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No, go back. It would have been exceptionally funny for Robert Eggers to rewrite Romeo and Juliet in a dead language. It is not particularly interesting for Robert Eggers to make a straight adaptation of the play Romeo and Juliet exactly as written.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shannon Sharpe Accuses At Least One Sports Agency Of Being Good At Its Job
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is some pretty wild stuff to say about a country that has pretty famously been conquered and populated by different continental powers for 2000 years
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Man this country sure loves bringing up the evil they did this decade as close to its one global event as possible, huh
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Velodus✨ @velodus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I love that if you only saw the image of Herro on the left, you'd think it's gotta be a parody - like that's gotta be an exaggeration of TJ Ford's fit. And yet if anything Herro's shorts aren't long enough.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Okay Bluesky you see why it's worrying when you write it like that right
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Ella Langley thing is really just a lesson in how data kind of loses meaning over eras when you constantly evolve it to keep up with the times. We're a solid decade into records falling simply because how people listen to music, and how we record that they have, are both moving targets.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
All three of these are basketball players that I thought were good at one point. I thought that about Ryan Nembhard as recently as 40 games into his rookie season last year! Now all of them are in a shuffling chairs on the deck of the titanic type deal.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We continue apace
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That McLaren logo is pretty bad but I guess it fits the company making shockingly little money building a huge volume of truly exceptional supercars sold mostly to the most annoying people you've ever met.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry but I refuse to believe that this is the main thing happening on this website today
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Mearn (postseason) @mearn.me · 22/09/2026
1. Acquire half of your industry. 2.0Adopt the streaming model except instead of TV shows you have video games that cost $500 million to make. 3. Run at a loss due to the obvious math issue above, just like the streaming model. 4. Consolidate your previously valued IP under your biggest acquisition.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's still hard to comprehend that Microsoft promoted someone to do all this, but let her start her run in the job with a series of tiny pandering "REAL gamer" moves like declaring that the company was going to say "XBOX" in caps again. Lingering culture war misunderstanding from 2024, I guess?
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking at the latest wave of Xbox consolidations and thinking that maybe it is not good for consumer interest when a single company buys a lot of competitors it could conceivably vertically integrate into its existing business
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Elizabeth Blackstock @elizablackstock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
IT'S NEW DPTJ EPISODE DAY!!! This month, we're revisiting the Can-Am Series — specifically, the Porsche/Penske operation that may very well have killed the sport.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Missed the big guy finally crossing over into doubled up in Reuters/Ipsos. Post-Gobert Utah Jazz numbers.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spent both Saturday and Sunday playing video games to such an extent that a hours played milestone scared me when I saw it. Spending my Monday off at the DMV, at the post office, fixing various important things, etc. so I can still feel like a member of society before the next time I talk to anyone.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bluesky is so funny. The site as a group has no idea what a big car is, but they know it’s bad for cats to be big. If a compact crossover shows up on the discover feed, surely that’s one of those notorious big cars!
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway I never got the argument that drivers would start crashing less if someone beat them up for it because frankly you absolutely could not stop me from doing something I think is good by punching me a few times. Let’s just use penalties like it’s a real series run in a functional society.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Carson Hocevar and Ryan Blaney trying to flex how much hair they have on Joey Logano by flopping around out there while Logano celebrates. Rude!
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Joey Logano got tired of watching that restart five times and simply opted to pass all the guys fucking around. Good strategy, more people should try that.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Man that timing loop rule is bad
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yeah man I don’t care for that
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Both games utilize one of my favorite storytelling concepts: recurring antagonists who do evil but are also chill guys that are best friends
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yeah Fortune’s Weave is pretty clearly going to pass Metaphor as my favorite game of the decade to date at this rate
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Finally getting to start this, you're all forgiven.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The FIA genuinely brings nothing useful to the table at all. Let them make whatever "world championship" they want with whatever rule set they want; relaunch WEC exactly as it exists as ILMC again. Le Mans entries for one, no Le Mans entries for the other. That'll end the FIA's power trip instantly.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is going to be the biggest thing in uncle/nephew relationships since LMFAO
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Daniel Golson @dsgolson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Because I'm focused on this www.jalopnik.com/2261457/scie...
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Scientists Discover T. Rex Blood Was As Hot As Human Blood, Suggesting They Were Fast-Running Predators - Jalopnik
Despite being extinct for over 65 million years, the T. rex could be studied because the team discovered a power beyond time, beyond death: dentistry.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wtf why is anyone talking about anything else it's NEW CAT DAY
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James @joc1991.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some very interesting names for an Indy NXT evaluation test next week
WHO:

AJ Foyt Racing: Teddy Musella

Andretti Global: G3 Argyros, Abbi Pulling, Alex Powell

Cape Motorsports Powered by ECR: Nikita Bedrin, Jose Garfias

Chip Ganassi Racing: Souta Arao

HMD Motorsports: Bruno Del Pino, Leonardo Escorpioni, Patricio Gonzalez, Rodrigo Gonzalez
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There is something beautiful about AF Corse's ability to put a factory Ferrari anywhere at any time. The class basically doesn't exist, the car isn't available to anyone else, and AF Corse still has a locked in entry with a real bronze signed on.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you’re playing fortune’s weave before me know that I envy you but hope to one day forgive you
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is going around Twitter again and I am again mad at the complete nonsense of it. Classic case of an “advanced stat” that just doesn’t adequately capture impact at all.
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