Ridley LeDoux

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Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Jun 26

TFW you get convicted for murder and globally mocked for saying a dingo ate your baby, when in fact a dingo did eat your baby all along

Blurry image of Australian Lindy Chamberlain from 1986. She appears to have an expression of frustration and consternation on her face, with a squinting frown, nose wrinkled in displeasure, and her mouth slightly open

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Jun 7

Hmmmm...

Image showing two images side by side. The left portrays Jesse and AC Slater from Saved By the Bell with their faces touching, both smiling at the camera. The right portrays Worf and Jadzia Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in a similar pose, though their faces are not quite touching and only Jadzia is smiling, and only a slight smile at that--Worf has a typical Worfly stern expression. Jesse and Jadzia have similar facial features and their faces are at similar angles toward the camera, suggesting a possibly humorous comparison.

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Apr 6

Whenever I make pizza, it makes me feel like spending all my time making and eating pizza. That would be a satisfying life, right?

Image of thick crust pizza cooked in a round paella pan. Half is cheese and half has pepperoni, jalapeno, and pineapple.

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Mar 10

Petsmart bro, I already buy things from you. You don't have to send me brainwashing emails as well.

Screenshot of an email client, displaying an unopened message from PetSmart, with the subject line "The only pet store you'll ever need"

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Jan 23

I love Quora ragebait

Image of text from a Quora digest email.
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My husband cried after breaking his back in a car accident. I am no longer attracted to him because of this--should I divorce him?

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Jan 20

lol so the term Clarke came up with for people in the future who would be obsessed with filming their every waking moment was "tapeworms". [from: Imperial Earth, 1976]

Text from a book page (Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke):

Cameras and recorders--yes, of course. Use them as much as you like."

There was a general sigh of relief at this. Duncan had noticed that most of his companions were festooned with equipment designed to capture every aspect of their experience. A couple were obviously "tapeworms," those peculiar addicts who went through life accompanied by voice-actuated recorders, so that nothing they said--or heard--was ever lost. Unless they could do this, Duncan had been told, they did not believe that they had really and truly lived...

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Sep 1

Who, indeed :P 📚🪐 (From *The Futurological Congress*, 1971)

Excerpt from *The Futurological Congress*: Spent the whole afternoon ingesting a most remarkable work, *The History of Intellectronics.* Who'd ever have guessed, in my day, that digital machines, reaching a certain level of intelligence, would become unreliable, deceitful, that with wisdom they would also acquire cunning? The textbook of course puts it in more scholarly terms, speaking of Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead to figure some way out of it. Whichever is easier.

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Apr 7

RFK Jr. coming to pull the measles vaccine out of my body

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Mar 5

Nice [fan edit only, but a cringe millennial can dream can't she?]

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Jan 19

Not an alt of a single img but an overall characterization, given here as a screenshot for more characters BUT where the full text of the screenshot is in its own alt text. Hope that's also okay

The overall visual feeling is one of infinite memetic vectors sweeping out to a vanishing point, lying comfortably skew to each other in some n-dimensional space. Kitsch dog pictures cover the fan of a dog-themed room; a comfortable armchair covered in patches of denim offers the weary traveler a waypoint in a mysterious hall; prosaic functionality and declarative labeling of drawers are totally at ease with warm and self-confident whimsy; recursively fine detail plays against broad impressionistic curves; nouveau riche Florida McMansion armor on the outside lovingly holds in the jiggling flesh of the riotous nonlinear New Weird story within (the “scale” of which is cheekily foreshadowed by a large, tacky, but appealing fish-shaped pool).

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Dec 17

This was a fun Easter egg I happened upon in the Portland area

Screenshot of a zoomed-in area of Google Maps depicting SW Kemmer Rd. near Portland, Oregon

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Dec 11

It struck me that birds sitting on deciduous trees must find it odd and disorienting to suddenly see so far after the leaves fall, so I wrote a little poem about it (full text in alt)

Title: November on the Wing

My little perch is sunny now, and now I see
A half a mile at least
Through loose weaves of branches, bare
Of loves and foes of summer past
Of dense lush leaves that breathe and hide
The architecture of this wood;
My tiny prey revealed now to me, and I to it.
How strange this richly curtained world
Burned red gold glory, then was gone.
First with an offering of fruit to Earth,
And then the scaffolding alone.
But as I flit, and as I peck, I taste
How slow and cool both roots and limbs
Seek some unbidden spring.

Ridley LeDoux@ridleyal· Dec 10

umm...