Mr French Fries
@mrfrenchfries.bsky.social
Green couch potato.
Substitute comedian.
Starve the bots.
Substitute comedian.
Starve the bots.
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🎬 "THE WAYBACK MACHINE" by Diego Diaz & Can Sark earned an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2025 Public Domain Day Film Contest.
What kind of film can YOU make for the 2026 contest?
📆 Deadline: Jan 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#PublicDomain
What kind of film can YOU make for the 2026 contest?
📆 Deadline: Jan 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#PublicDomain
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🎬 "THE WAYBACK MACHINE" by Diego Diaz & Can Sark earned an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2025 Public Domain Day Film Contest.
What kind of film can YOU make for the 2026 contest?
📆 Deadline: Jan 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#PublicDomain
What kind of film can YOU make for the 2026 contest?
📆 Deadline: Jan 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#PublicDomain
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*a letter from the front lines of the War on Christmas*
Dear Mother,
Cold is bearable. We have greeting cards to burn from a recent raid on a drugstore.
A soldier from our squad was heard to hum a bar of “O Tannenbaum.” He claimed it was an accident. He was shot as a spy. We can’t be too careful.
Dear Mother,
Cold is bearable. We have greeting cards to burn from a recent raid on a drugstore.
A soldier from our squad was heard to hum a bar of “O Tannenbaum.” He claimed it was an accident. He was shot as a spy. We can’t be too careful.
December 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
*a letter from the front lines of the War on Christmas*
Dear Mother,
Cold is bearable. We have greeting cards to burn from a recent raid on a drugstore.
A soldier from our squad was heard to hum a bar of “O Tannenbaum.” He claimed it was an accident. He was shot as a spy. We can’t be too careful.
Dear Mother,
Cold is bearable. We have greeting cards to burn from a recent raid on a drugstore.
A soldier from our squad was heard to hum a bar of “O Tannenbaum.” He claimed it was an accident. He was shot as a spy. We can’t be too careful.
“God, do all these shooters just think I’m annoying? I especially got weird vibes from that last one—the way he glared at me as I was clamoring past my dying classmates toward the supply closet it was like he hated me or something.” — theonion.com/student-whos... #education #targetaudience
Student Who’s Been In 3 School Shootings Starting To Think This Might Be About Him
MACKINSHAW, NE—Emphasizing that he didn’t want to seem paranoid but it was the only way he could make sense of it all, high school senior Geoffrey Lesseder stated Monday that he was starting to suspec...
theonion.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“God, do all these shooters just think I’m annoying? I especially got weird vibes from that last one—the way he glared at me as I was clamoring past my dying classmates toward the supply closet it was like he hated me or something.” — theonion.com/student-whos... #education #targetaudience
Thisbish for chrismiss 🤦♂️🥰
December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Thisbish for chrismiss 🤦♂️🥰
The longest night is not the longest ‘shadow,’ but our longest moment to contemplate the gravity of Gravity. #solstice #wintersolstice #witchtok #tarot #moon
December 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The longest night is not the longest ‘shadow,’ but our longest moment to contemplate the gravity of Gravity. #solstice #wintersolstice #witchtok #tarot #moon
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Fun fact: the fax machine predates the telephone by several decades
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fun fact: the fax machine predates the telephone by several decades
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'Fac simile’ is a Latin phrase meaning “make alike.”
1600s: ‘facsimile’ was used to mean "an exact copy."
1800s: people developed facsimile technology that could reproduce printed material via telegraph.
We shortened ‘facsimile,’ and now call them ‘fax’ machines.
1600s: ‘facsimile’ was used to mean "an exact copy."
1800s: people developed facsimile technology that could reproduce printed material via telegraph.
We shortened ‘facsimile,’ and now call them ‘fax’ machines.
December 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
'Fac simile’ is a Latin phrase meaning “make alike.”
1600s: ‘facsimile’ was used to mean "an exact copy."
1800s: people developed facsimile technology that could reproduce printed material via telegraph.
We shortened ‘facsimile,’ and now call them ‘fax’ machines.
1600s: ‘facsimile’ was used to mean "an exact copy."
1800s: people developed facsimile technology that could reproduce printed material via telegraph.
We shortened ‘facsimile,’ and now call them ‘fax’ machines.
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The White House says it’s looking into how a YouTube creator’s livestream appeared to take over a White House website. https://to.pbs.org/4s7eXla
White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator
The livestream sharing commentary on investing appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking.
to.pbs.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The White House says it’s looking into how a YouTube creator’s livestream appeared to take over a White House website. https://to.pbs.org/4s7eXla
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I know some people get excited when they find an onion ring in their fries.
I just found a fry in the sauce with my wings.
Beat THAT!
I just found a fry in the sauce with my wings.
Beat THAT!
December 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I know some people get excited when they find an onion ring in their fries.
I just found a fry in the sauce with my wings.
Beat THAT!
I just found a fry in the sauce with my wings.
Beat THAT!
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www.imdb.com/title/tt1421... use #fawsome for no commercials and a look into the minds of every #genx person who learned to get their life from the web instead of the tv. The exposition is painfully amateur, of course, but the gags are surprisingly, joyfully bold.
A Christmas Karen (2022) ⭐ 5.2 | Comedy
1h 38m
www.imdb.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
www.imdb.com/title/tt1421... use #fawsome for no commercials and a look into the minds of every #genx person who learned to get their life from the web instead of the tv. The exposition is painfully amateur, of course, but the gags are surprisingly, joyfully bold.
It’s kinda nice not to first grumble about how other people ‘should’ want to see more of ‘this kind of’ content. First and foremost I experience entirely justified murderous rage at the un-humans making me wonder if this is actually a human uploading footage of actual reality.
December 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s kinda nice not to first grumble about how other people ‘should’ want to see more of ‘this kind of’ content. First and foremost I experience entirely justified murderous rage at the un-humans making me wonder if this is actually a human uploading footage of actual reality.
www.imdb.com/title/tt9214... Rent via Amazon? 4$ to RENT when a 15$ monthly gets me more than I could ever watch? Maybe I’ll watch it on prime if Amazon doesn’t want me to find it on an Indian server.
Monkey Man (2024) ⭐ 6.8 | Action, Crime, Thriller
2h 1m | R
www.imdb.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
www.imdb.com/title/tt9214... Rent via Amazon? 4$ to RENT when a 15$ monthly gets me more than I could ever watch? Maybe I’ll watch it on prime if Amazon doesn’t want me to find it on an Indian server.
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That’s right, I said it!
Let’s make 2025 the year we officially embrace the pigeon, writes @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social.
"Pigeons might have been the first birds we domesticated, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia. For a bird that’s stuck with us that long, it’s the least we could do."
"Pigeons might have been the first birds we domesticated, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia. For a bird that’s stuck with us that long, it’s the least we could do."
Hero of 2025: plucky pigeons
It's about time someone showed them a little appreciation.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
That’s right, I said it!
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Update: the ACM DL is being updated so that author-provided abstracts are the default view again, and AI summaries are more explicitly labeled with "AI-Summary". These changes should be visible worldwide by sometime tomorrow.
December 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Update: the ACM DL is being updated so that author-provided abstracts are the default view again, and AI summaries are more explicitly labeled with "AI-Summary". These changes should be visible worldwide by sometime tomorrow.
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
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After Warner Bros. announced they were selling to Netflix, Paramount launched a hostile takeover bid. Trump is trying to insert himself where he doesn't belong and suggesting CNN needs to be sold off. #Trump #Paramount #Netflix #WarnerBros #HostileTakeover
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
After Warner Bros. announced they were selling to Netflix, Paramount launched a hostile takeover bid. Trump is trying to insert himself where he doesn't belong and suggesting CNN needs to be sold off. #Trump #Paramount #Netflix #WarnerBros #HostileTakeover
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Amazon once “pulled a book off your library shelf”—internet pioneer Vint Cerf calls it shocking.
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast.
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futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
#OpenWeb
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
#OpenWeb
December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Amazon once “pulled a book off your library shelf”—internet pioneer Vint Cerf calls it shocking.
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
#OpenWeb
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
#OpenWeb
The pimps at #hbo #warnerbros (#warnerhobos) have at LEAST enough sense to sell to Netflix and not the OVERT maga cult? Not sure how this will affect what (not Amazon/googletube) software Verizon/Att will include with their hardware.
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The pimps at #hbo #warnerbros (#warnerhobos) have at LEAST enough sense to sell to Netflix and not the OVERT maga cult? Not sure how this will affect what (not Amazon/googletube) software Verizon/Att will include with their hardware.
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#AmericanArt #MabelDwight #Christmas #Natale #Holidays #christmastrees #lithograph #lithography #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject
December 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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at any previous Christmas . . . In this ever-memorable year of 1945, peace is a dearly won and precious acquisition we know we must treasure vigilantly . . . ‘
LIFE, 17 Dec. 1945
#illustrationart #AmericanArt #FredericTellander #ChristmasTrees #Christmas #Studebaker #WW2
LIFE, 17 Dec. 1945
#illustrationart #AmericanArt #FredericTellander #ChristmasTrees #Christmas #Studebaker #WW2
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
at any previous Christmas . . . In this ever-memorable year of 1945, peace is a dearly won and precious acquisition we know we must treasure vigilantly . . . ‘
LIFE, 17 Dec. 1945
#illustrationart #AmericanArt #FredericTellander #ChristmasTrees #Christmas #Studebaker #WW2
LIFE, 17 Dec. 1945
#illustrationart #AmericanArt #FredericTellander #ChristmasTrees #Christmas #Studebaker #WW2
music.apple.com/us/album/bee... Eff your ‘year in music’ and eff the streaming pimps and eff you if your top ten2twenty albums don’t contain a ‘perfect if you cut out the beginning and end.’
Beers, Steers + Queers (Deluxe Edition) by Revolting Cocks on Apple Music
Album · 1990 · 13 Songs
music.apple.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
music.apple.com/us/album/bee... Eff your ‘year in music’ and eff the streaming pimps and eff you if your top ten2twenty albums don’t contain a ‘perfect if you cut out the beginning and end.’