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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 5h

Still holding out for the 551.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

George Saunders: (on.substack.com/p/model-beha...)

Q: Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

Saunders: I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To be fair that price included an equally first-generation Apple Imagewriter. Tucked in my mess of a personal archive I still have a few high school papers that in their dot-matrix approximations of fonts feel like handling the Dead Sea scrolls.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We had a legit first-gen Macintosh, the 128K version, that Dad bought from someone at his machine tool company for what still feels like a disturbingly high number of 1985-1986 dollars. It was used for many school papers and Flight Simulator sessions until the board died in mid-1991.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Monaco Grand Prix, 1981 and 1982.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First thought: soft launch on upcoming acquisition.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

E30 Sport Evolution. Motor punched out to 2.5 liters for 238hp, racing-pattern 5-speed, lots of little Porsche RS-style aero and weight-saving tricks scattered about, more natural-looking 16-inch wheels. 600 built in either red or black. Absurd market value today. Black, please.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Y'know, if we can read "manufacturer" as one multi-division corporation instead of one showroom...

1991 Acura Legend sedan (manual transmission)

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A few bucks to paint that door and then...

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On the line between bobtail coupe and shooting brake: Reliant Scimitar.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Porsche prepped and tuned six 911s for the 1969 rally season. This one won Acropolis and then went to Le Mans three times: sportscardigest.com/ex-works-196...

1969 Porsche 911S racing car, mostly orange with a large number of yellow sponsor stickers.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Complaint: Containers will occupy parking spaces. Counterpoint: Garbage bags making it IMPOSSIBLE TO GET INTO YOUR CAR render the point moot.

The post author's Mazda which is completely walled in on the driver's side by black trash bags, late 2025.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Still an item on their menu! (Leipzig delivery for Panameras and Macans is half the price but still.) Wonder how the export location is arranged.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

(Picked a great time to "oh, just a quick check" here...) Targa 4S, Oak Green metallic, Turbo S Design wheels, PCCB, model designation delete. Club Leather interior in black/cognac, brushed aluminum inlays with silver trim, PDK selector in aluminum, Burmester sound. Zuffenhausen delivery.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I suppose us corrupted limp-wristed sybarites who prefer such unnecessary frivolities as wind-up windows can get a TR4, which also has one of those recklessly modern column switches.

Dashboard (literally a board, and a rather pretty one at that) and primary controls of a Triumph TR4.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yes, blank canvas and all, but would the Slate be more appealing if the base was plain plumber-truck white with unpainted steelies?

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Wth that rundown you need something that scans Weimar/"Cabaret" (although slightly postwar for obvious karma reasons), so:

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My quiet MCM/Camelot-era fixation now extends to the occasional late night on eBay and Etsy browsing vintage Samsonites.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Haven't been with them on-track (lifelong issue, sigh) but managed to be up at Lime Rock a while back with the ex-Maranello Concessionaires GTO and a few other cheerful old lumps. Have to be careful going to vintage races; it gets complicated when I start thinking I should be in there too.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Flexible on the color and early bumpers (matched set, not a '73) would be fine.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If "all-time" means the one that's stuck longest: C3 Corvette with Duraflex bumpers and buttresses. Orange. Because I had one when I was about five or six and even then daydreamed about washing it in the driveway. (Might still be in Mom's attic.)

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Happy 120th to Satchel Paige, still the untouchable baddest to ever do it.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Not quite that much of a joke, but not much better. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_...:

Quote from the Wikipedia entry on Bernie Sanders (footnotes removed for formatting convenience):

While a member of Congress, Sanders sponsored 15 concurrent resolutions and 15 Senate resolutions. Of those he co-sponsored, 218 became law. While he has consistently advocated for progressive causes, Politico wrote that he has "rarely forged actual legislation or left a significant imprint on it". According to The New York Times, "Big legislation largely eludes Mr. Sanders because his ideas are usually far to the left of the majority of the Senate ... Mr. Sanders has largely found ways to press his agenda through appending small provisions to the larger bills of others." During his time in the Senate, he had lower legislative effectiveness than the average senator, as measured by the number of sponsored bills that passed and successful amendments made. Nevertheless, he has sponsored over 500 amendments to bills, many of which became law. The results of these amendments include a ban on imported goods made by child labor; $100 million in funding for community health centers; $10 million for an outreach program for servicemembers who have post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, depression, panic attacks, and other mental disorders; a public database of senior Department of Defense officials seeking employment with defense contractors; and including autism treatment under the military healthcare program Tricare.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Side note: McLaren just released the W1. £2 million. They're building 399 of them. I would imagine a good few of those 399 customers sleep on Hästens mattresses.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We rented a Škoda in Iceland. Pure VW MQB but by that right one of the better cars in the world. And if that's not enough: diesel, manual, AWD, brown (or at least earth-toned) station wagon. Full sweep.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This can still be properly done today with the right approach.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just out of curiosity dug into this a bit more and yeah, this is a '90s Chimaera interior which, I mean, my imagination can go to some gleefully smutty places but this one is just like no:

Interior photo of a TVR Chimaera featuring the extremely high and wide copulation-prohibiting transmission tunnel. The dash infringing on passenger(-on-passenger) space is also no bueno.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The irony is that vintage TVR interiors (this one's a 2500M) are some of the most fuckproof places on the planet.

Interior photo of a TVR 2500M featuring the extremely high copulation-prohibiting transmission tunnel.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It's Juneteenth. Post your favorite Black fictional character.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

White-letter BFG T/As instead of the whitewalls, but still. This.

High rear 3/4 view of a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette coupe in Goodwood Green.

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