A Curious Maggie

A Curious Maggie

@formulacurious.bsky.social

Writes about F1 and other stuff. Physicist in a previous life. From Aotearoa New Zealand --> Scotland. Casually aiming for world domination through curiosity. Dork. Disabled. she/her https://buttondown.com/FormulaCurious/ https://coff.ee/formulacurious

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Extrapolating from the calm 2016 Baku GP to the chaos of the 2017 Baku GP, the 2027 Madring #SpanishGP will be a safety car red flag montage. And Kimi Raikkonen will somehow still get a drive through penalty. #F1

Is Lando now in the championship hunt? This is the guy who refused to admit defeat even in 2023, the year of Maximum Verstappen, until it was mathematically impossible for him to win. So, yes. #DutchGP #F1 #LandoNorris

hmm Alan Wake 2... Can I choose Watery? Apart from the eternal gloom it doesn't seem that bad and I could learn Finnish. As long as I don't leave the main street the Taken can't attack me!

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Petty reason for disliking flatpak: any update shows as a security update. Specifically, the update icon shows with a red dot, not a blue dot as for regular updates. It makes me think of flatpak as being overdramatic. #flatpak #linux

Unrelated, but I love Arvid Lindblad's aggressive "I'm only here coz they're paying me" vibe; Lance Stroll looks hyped in comparison. Meanwhile, Esteban is in model mode and Alonso is radiating ✨Hero✨

This Is Formula 1@thisisformula1.bsky.social

More than half of Current F1 grid has not driven in Malaysia before: #formula1 #f12026 VIA: [the-race]

This kind of F1 related numerology is improving my life. #F1 #LewisHamilton

Daniel Valente 🏎️@f1guydan.bsky.social

🐐 Here's an insane stat - You have better odds of winning the Hungarian GP if your name is Lewis Hamilton than you do if you start the race from pole position 🤯 Pole to win rate in Hungary: 40% (16/40) Hamilton's win rate in Hungary: 42.1% (8/19)

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If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

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That's not to say climate change is over and we can declare victory but the path to zero carbon is now extremely obvious and achievable and its mostly a matter of time (and how much damage we inflict along the way) rather than an existential danger we might not solve.

I've been told my accent is wrong. But you know what? **It's my native accent** There is no One Correct English Accent. Have accent, will talk.

Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙@caradelaney.bsky.social

"I use AI voiceover because English is my second language and this sounds more natural." Buddy, I clocked ten seconds in that it was AI because it sounds *extremely* unnatural. Because it's AI. I am *begging* ESL Youtubers to stop this shit. Embrace your beautiful accent. I promise it's fine.

I like Guenther, but wtf? Under his leadership Haas manufactured as little as possible to save money, buying everything they possibly could from Ferrari. Be a grown up... #F1 #McLaren

PlanetF1@planetf1com.bsky.social

Guenther Steiner has urged McLaren to be "grown up" and manufacture its own Formula 1 power units. www.planetf1.com/news/guenthe...

The giveaway here is using a Tolkien name for a grand project. Teh Tech Bros didn't get what LoTR was about and just keep telling us they want to be Sauron (the big big bad). (There's more of us than there are of them)

WIRED@wired.com

The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an existential threat,” the European Southern Observatory said. www.wired.com/story/reflec...

In summary: as the UK govt is not a healthcare practitioner, it is enacting conversion therapy on trans folks and should be held accountable with prison time. #transrights #humanrights

PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social

Legislation to ban abusive conversion practices has reached Parliament eight years after it was first promised. Noah Vickers quizzes equalities minister Olivia Bailey on how it will work https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/olivia-bailey-conversion-practices-bill-not-interested-scaremongering

It was actually kind of fun to do, but I know it isn't perfect. Because Bluesky thinks I'm a child my DMs aren't open at all, either message me publicly or email me with problems/suggestions/to whinge about the state of women in racing: hello@formulacurious.com

Climate change isn't just hotter weather--it's state of emergency level flooding happening regularly. This isn't a future problem. It's a now problem. #climate #F1

Kimmy Caulton@kimmycaulton.bsky.social

Anyone wanna guess how many significant flooding events Aotearoa New Zealand has had in 2026? You're wrong it's more it's seven... that have resulted in an SoE at least, the actual number is higher. We're having another one now and it's only June.

It's easy to forget how fast these cars are going, until someone has an off and it takes a lot of tumbling for them to stop #F1 #BritishGP

Chris Medland@chrismedlandf1.bsky.social

And Colapinto swapped ends when flat out at Becketts and flew backwards over the grass, ending his session #F1 #BritishGP