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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Recursive alert: I am looking at these pics but rather than a bucket hat, I am wearing a Kangol

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh for god’s sake Stop with this. Please just stop.

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Whaddaya want from me, dad? Damn machines taking all our kitty jobs away…”

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OK, you’re making me want to check the bot traffic to the sites we manage. Lately, the “Google Search” hits which had been up to 84% were down … but Amazon and Microsoft (??) are now hammering us Time to look into deploying AI tarpits like Nepenthes or Iocaine?

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Underpinning this is the general assumption that MSM is nothing but lies and the real truth is found via loons on social media

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My dude. I would rather spend every waking moment having the DRE exam than listen to this blatherskite

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thedailybeast.com/fuming-trump... Leopards. Faces. As always, it was ok as long as someone else, they didn’t like who was gay or Muslim or some fancy pants college professor that got hurt

We are experiencing higher than average call volumes. Please know your face is important to us and a leopard will be with you as soon as possible.

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Three years ago this might’ve been true. But these days with Trump, groveling to both Putin and Xi, I think the appetite might’ve switched.

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Like a video game” “It’s so insanely fun.” There is no excusing this, no possible justification

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Blood diamonds. Poison gold. There is a horrific body count in Venezuela

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Panel at #ISOJ talking about how transparency for indie news producers like @bryanmvance.com is such a critical advantage for young users You can see it here on Stumptown Savings-the value prop is right there, in your face, top o' fold Design🤝Messaging master class here

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“There’s a switch from fame to authority - GenAlpha wants to be a doctor, professor or ‘unidentifiable tech founder’ “ #ISOJ #ISOJ2026

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wonder how the billionaires feel about Trump openly threatening them because he has more power than them and can make them beg for mercy on a whim

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He was just such a good and loving boy. I miss him every day. Also: a little fruitcake

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He could be a bit of a copycat …

White cat gives side-eye seating in front of salad like the famous shot of Smudge that has become an internet icon

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This knucklehead thinks he’s the Lion King Then a plane flies overhead and he cries and hides in my arms

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My sweet, wounded, loving boy Siber was a goofball. Hope he and Toddy are prowling together

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Back when I was doing research for the NAA, I told the TV guys that the Internet monster was coming for them as soon as it was done eating newspapers. They all laughed and said no way.

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are in peak bird migration season right now, and there are some weird & unfamiliar guys showing up in our back yard to take a breather on their way south Native garden plants a big hit it seems

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#Weimar Republic #hyperinflation: from 0.15 to 80billion to mail a letter in post-WWI Germany; overview and detail Shape of things to come for America because of the absurd $40 trillion deficit @planetmoney.bsky.social

detail showing Weimar Republic of Germany hyperinflation from 15 Pfennigs (cents) to 80 billion marks just to mail a letter

overview of postage stamps - an indicator showing Weimar Republic of Germany hyperinflation from 15 Pfennigs (cents) to 80 billion marks just to mail a letter

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Both my guys are gone now I used a joke that they were the very embodiment of ceiling cat, and basement cat I miss them a lot

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Exception: Trump's little blonde cultist "human printer" who posted this Too stupid to realize that "Mission Accomplished" is a razor-edged punchline since 2003; signals an out-of-touch President who blunders into a Forever War

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For a time, I escorted women to family court - so yeah, the "made dinner after getting the shit kicked out of you" is common enough to be a cliché Check out Netflix show "Maid" to see how abuse manifests & how it results in self-blame & coping strategies to try to, as said above, "not get dead"

poster image for netflix series maid showing young mom cuddling her sleeping daughter at a boat landing with her vacuum and cleaning supplies next to her

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In Venezuela, the army used to drive around poor neighborhoods in convoy, a school buses, stopping young men on the street and asking for their ID papers. If they didn’t have them, they grabbed them, stuck them on the bus and they were in the army now. thedailybeast.com/putins-despe...

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Succinct, to the point and utterly terrifying and infuriating in equal measure This is what being covered by a mobster feels like Verdict first. Trial later (but it’s a sham) open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Everything is sucky and weird so here are my cats on leashes in the yard, looking up and enjoying a relatively livable summer day

An orange and gray cat on harnesses wander around a yard

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I think that actually might be the name of this outdoor sculpture in Wausau

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

More than a decade ago, my Chinese students talked about how in Beijing there was a robot air quality monitor, whose ultimate setting was, “just lie down and die already.” I think we blew past that setting here in Chicago

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And in the end … what did it serve him? Or us? He goes to his grave mocked by the man he groveled before, disdained as a fag by his party, and despised by the public he betrayed

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

(Record scratch) “Yep. That’s me. You’re probably wondering how I went from screwing around with a buffalo to pinwheeling through the air at Yellowstone … “

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Worse. As you can see here - the yellow region is Google BTW - they are swamping news sites with so many scraping bots that they represent in some cases 84% of traffic on servers. Then they block you from seeing that traffic in industry-standard Google analytics.

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Siber the cat looking glam at our old house

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In response, a shirtless Jones recently appeared online, saying of The Onion’s Infowars grab (the “w” was lowercase when Jones ran it): “They are body snatchers, they are skin walkers. They literally take your skin. This is going to backfire bigtime!”

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

News deserts cause people to vote for stupid, simplistic lies that then bite them in the ass

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is how the Romanov family wound up getting marched into the coal mine by hard-eyed NKVD officers in 1917, never to emerge

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Long before we had incels falling in love with their AI girlfriends, we had this avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Rober...

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is information that we should all be sharing as much as we possibly can Amazing to have it all under one roof!

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The last month has seen the rollout of multiple publishing technologies, all with AI coming at you every time you click on the interface with the mouse

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Shape of things to cone for the US? apple.news/AnxXxcRqxQnG...

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is describing a lot more political influence to total fruitcakes like Clavicular than I think exists. Or am I wrong? I think there might be another explanation

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My fellow dudes: stop with this already. Is there a German word for “unutterably sad and yet also ridiculous and harmful to the entire planet?” archive.ph/2026.05.26-0...

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Tucker Carlson blasts Trump for living in a fantasy world where he's got 99% approval in Israel, while he is taking in the U.S. Wow. Would be nice to see ANY senator or House rep lay it out like this:

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"Eleven years of Party dictatorship, eleven years of daily taking orders about presentation of articles, regulation of speech, and prohibited subjects wear a person down, no matter how good his intentions underneath." Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, German journalist and resistance member

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It took me a year to be ready to bring these two little dingbats into my life.

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Yeah, the photo retrospective is both a comfort and a source of sadness to me. It reminds me what a great life I gave to my little guys and it also reminds me how much I miss the little doofuses

White cat giving epic side eye, and sticking out his tongue

Big guy, hugging and kissing a somewhat alarmed white cat

Useless black cat I’m looking down at the rat. He was supposed to catch that was instead caught by a trap.

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Lost this bright eyed officer assistant to a broken tummy. He was my fierce yard panther; self-deputized to defend the avocado trees at all costs I hugged him for hours before we took him in. He was so far gone but he purred and licked my hand and I felt so guilty and awful

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Oh man. I closed my poor boys eyes the last time and struggled to open the car door and finally had to just lean on the roof for a bit I miss him every day.

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