Stef Schrader

@hoonofthe.day

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She of the Puffalumps. Eater of Nuclear Tacos. Porsche Cayenne and Zündapp Janus stan. Native Texan living in CT. Autos reporter for Consumer Reports. All opinions here are my own, not my employer's. Parshtreon: puffalump.de

Screenshot of a man on TV in prayer with the subtitle, "Jesus, I've seen what you've done for Providence, and I want that for Hartford."
Saabvertible street-parked in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, in metallic lime green.
Facebutt post from one of Austin's posters of all time, Evil MoPac: "Hey any y'all on Bluesky...looks like I'm done there. They need my I.D. Lol, nope. NOTE: This is everyone w/o a VPN not just me." Reply from Facebook user Tom Lappin, making fun of Bluesky caving to a bad Texas law: "How is that a 'decentralized' requirement?"
Best Products "Wandering Facade" building, taken fron the SITE homepage: https://sitenewyork.com/portfolio-1/project-one-7tnzy-llznb-83lxp-6xw4p-726sh-k86c6-7l6se
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The tugboat that pushes the Rocky Hill-Glastonbury ferry across the Connecticut River.
Behold, the lack of buttons Mazda refused to adopt for years. You have to go into this menu on the 2026 Mazda CX-5 to turn stop/start off, and no, it doesn't remember that you turned it off after you power cycle the car.
Me, a toddler in red overalls with messy light brown hair who probably handed Dad my Coco Bunny, standing in front of my Dad on sitting on a brown couch. Dad is wearing a blue shirt (as usual) and blue jeans, and is hiding most of his face with Coco Bunny, a pastel purple Puffalump bunny with a puff of white yarn hair on top of her head and pastel pink floppy ears and paws.
black raspberry and peach ice cream sundae with rainbow sprinkles, whipped cream and a cherry on top
sun-dried tomato and basil bagel with cream cheese and lox
Garden salad from The BOP Cafe in downtown Windsor, CT, with chimichurri trout on top and a glass of rosé (all day, baby). Sidenote: This place has a bunch of natural wines that play nicer with my headache-prone head and I'm super happy about it opening up by my house.
"LUMPS" Space Shuttle Columbia Texas license plate on the red Lancer
"Something I Can Never Have" plays softly in the background as I look longingly out my plane window at the one tow vehicle I have always wanted parked outside a gate at the Atlanta airport (in a tasteful medium-blue).
Brown hardtack-in-progress log with added chunks of Slim Jim pepperoni and cheese