Post #1388560
2026-04-17 20:16 UTC
Replies (13)
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@woe2you@beige.party 2026-04-17 20:19
@babe Weird. I'd have thought your quest to fit indicators to a BMW would meet with universal approval.
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@SlatsGrobnik@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 20:20
@babe I enjoy owning a car. Expensive repairs are a bummer. End of "rant". 😀
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@greg_harvey@tooting.ch 2026-04-17 20:21
@babe If it's any consolation, I like cars. And strawberries. So I appreciated all aspects of that thread. 👍
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@diffractie@glitterkitten.co.uk 2026-04-17 20:26
@babe I have a hundred little rants I don't post from seeing people project their own perspective about cars onto other people's personal situations. :ablobcatgrumpy:
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@TheStoneDonkey@beige.party 2026-04-17 20:42
@babe I don't know what's in the water this week but there's been a steady rise in gatekeeping/preaching/negativity in my feed lately. I mean outside of the general world as a whole.
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@cat@fed.cat.scot 2026-04-17 20:45
@babe I am welding a 1997 shit heap back together. Perhaps this is not a car place but it’s a truck place in my hereabouts!
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@mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks 2026-04-17 20:50
@babe 👏 Fuck a purity culture, regardless what it’s on about.
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@IsabelB@mastodon.ie 2026-04-17 21:13
@babe You have a great car, I thoroughly approve! Enjoy it! Anyone who questions that can sod right off...
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@violetmillie@gts.queersynergy.com 2026-04-17 21:42
@babe But it is your social place, and you are free to do whatever you please with it, you're not forcing your views upon anyone by doing your thing, if people think that's so bad, I suppose that they can block you better yet, either enable whitelist federation or disable it entirely, and see only what they want to see
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@jumile@mas.to 2026-04-18 00:41
@babe This evergreen reply is needed too damn much.
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@cazabon@mindly.social 2026-04-18 01:50
@babe "I still get to enjoy things in my life even if they do not align with your personal perspective." is going on my sayings/quotes list. The scolding wankers can piss off.
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@AnthonyJK@mastodon.redgarterclub.com 2026-04-18 09:57
@babe One of the best things about being a disabled sex+ Leftist is your acceptance that other people's personal choices are theirs to have; and that unless their choices directly affects your money or your personal life or directly harm or abuse others, you learn to back your ass away from prejudging then. And, don't get me started on the anti-car fundamentalists and their total ignorance of disabled people's issues. Your car, your rebuild, not their concern. You do you, Babez, as only you can.
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@TeflonTrout@beige.party 2026-04-18 10:08
@babe There are car people here, and motorcycle people too- I am both. I truly love driving, like I really do. Took my test on a snowy day, dad and uncle are very skilled race car drivers, etc. Car people really do tend to own their cars for a long time - mine is a 2014 hybrid that I love and will keep till it dies- and then I will fix it. Its job is to carry me places my motorcycle can't - snow, or places where I need large items. I bought my motorcycle in 2013. I will ride it till I physically can't. I've had the beast 70% disassembled in my living room a couple of times for maintenance. Yeah I love driving, I love cars, I love motors. But I bet you I use less fuel than most, especially most people who commute on fossil fuels like I do. And, I'm fucking broke. I can't afford to replace a vehicle, I can't afford to add one, and I don't want to be runover in this bike-hostile town. So I get where the heat comes from, but some of us are bound to using fuel to travel. Shitting on us isn't going to accomplish anything.