This 1973 novel did indeeed prove prophetic. We're all driving like this, nowadays. - ThreadSky

adamroberts.bsky.social • 162 days ago

This 1973 novel did indeeed prove prophetic. We're all driving like this, nowadays.

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The Tetsuo: The Iron Man for tots that is Turbo-Teen debuted in 1984 so it tracks…

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benf.org•162 days ago

Ummmm wouldn't he get awful "dangle burn"?

adamroberts.bsky.social•162 days ago

Dangleburn sounds like a picturesque Scottish village.

plashingvole.bsky.social•162 days ago

Loving the look of this new Jaguar.

kardray.bsky.social•162 days ago

“Slaughterhouse Five…. Dune…. and now….”

csclark.bsky.social•162 days ago

Me, looking for a service station I can pull into to get the phoenix poop wiped off my back: Typical, first Slaughterhouse-Five, then Dune and now this...

gwilymeades.bsky.social•161 days ago

that's one of my moves in the gym: "On Wheels now!"

jackbeingbad.bsky.social•162 days ago

The 70s had better drugs than other eras

spacearchaeology.bsky.social•162 days ago

"The United States has become so overpopulated that a tenth of its people have no home. Instead, they spend their lives on the highway."

Should have been called "Make Vroom! Make Vroom!"

adamroberts.bsky.social•162 days ago

spacearchaeology.bsky.social•162 days ago

Also least of his problems but he appears to be entering the exit lane against the flow of traffic.

adamroberts.bsky.social•162 days ago

He might be reversing.

funambulism.com•162 days ago

A lesson in always trusting people with two first names, the second pluralised, Mr Adam Roberts.

adamroberts.bsky.social•162 days ago

"Jakes" means toilet, just saying.

finoreilly.bsky.social•162 days ago

Of course, the tofu-eating wokerati won't let you have proper British hood ornaments like that nowadays.

mrmoth.bsky.social•161 days ago

This is what the cars from Cars look like when you take away their outer casing. That's Lightning McQueen there.

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