Mr French Fries

Mr French Fries

@mrfrenchfries.bsky.social

Green couch potato. Substitute comedian. Starve the bots.

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“Now that we’ve given our hearts away with the bric-a-brac, we want them back. Now we look for them secondhand, someone else’s, in the old songs, the slowly unfolding novels we never had time for.”

Responding to this #liselmueller observation from the late 20th century with #vintage or #physicalmedia ? Seems forced. My #readoutloud moment was too clumsy to be forced, but there are more where this came from.

Anyway. My #Halloween spirit needs the #1980s #cartoons we COULD have been watching instead of GiJoe. Or Voltron. Not that those shows didn’t occasionally get respectably dark 🖤

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Godzilla Minus One was great, and Godzilla Minus Zero looks amazing... But I am more excited for the movie where he goes to a birthday party Godzilla + 1

I’ve never been in the back of a #police car before. The guy just turned 40 this year, but he seemed so much younger when he snatched the phone out of my hand for taking a picture of his plate after he drove straight at me and my dog like a maniac.

Hearing John Cleese read The Screwtape Letters will not make me accept forgiveness or offer up gratitude, but it is a good way to bring up that it’s pronunced ‘Clease like Cheese.’ 🧀 🫓🍷

I just listened to a children’s book that had the same title as a Neil deGrasse Tyson book because why not. There’s something in it about an astronaut saying “release the swarm“ and the kid picking this up on their ham radio. The astronaut is talking about atmospheric mini satellites.

I’ve been reading #liselmueller enough to recognize something that only SEEMS like Hallmark card accessibility. Things aren’t ‘easy’ to #readoutloud just because they’re relatively direct.

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In #OCTOBER 1940 ‘Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico’ Color transparency by Russell Lee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration October 1940 #PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #farming #farmers #FarmLife #RussellLee #colorphotography

Color photos from “the great war” hit differently these days. I want us to be less like the people who still don’t know that the #atomicage changed everything. We can’t just keep expecting someone ELSE to be culled because we feel entitled to a legacy. #nuclearfamily

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In #OCTOBER 1940 ‘Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico’ Color transparency by Russell Lee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration October 1940 #PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #farming #farmers #FarmLife #RussellLee #colorphotography

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For #OCTOBER 2002 ‘The Pillars of the Kings’ Ted Nasmith (b. 1956) Gouache on illustration board. *Tolkien Calendar 2002* (HarperCollins) for October. #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #TedNasmith #JRRTolkien #TheLordOfTheRings #LOTR

Even 15 year old games don’t feel ‘old’ when they feel like art. The new generation of #gaming developers telling us they feel as surplus as writers? Their talents as undersold by meme bots? It hurts worse than tendonitis clamping down WAY before retirement. #ai #aislop

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There's a guy sat in front of me on the bus watching some vertical fully-AI hospital drama. This is a glimpse into our dystopian future, isn't it