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Ira Fontaine

@irafontaine.bsky.social
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I love dogs, food, and my family. 🙂 I hate all things MAGA. 😡

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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
episode 019
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Facebook Memories served up a decade old Doodle i'd forgot about.
Spatial and Line doodle from 2015
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 09/10/2026
Hello executive branch employees, both civilian and military. Unless something changes, you have 55 more days during which you can truthfully say "I don't work for an institution that livestreams public firing-squad executions." Savor those days.
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three thoughts: 1. If they truly believed that they have created conscious beings, they should be arrested for enslavement and trafficking. 2. Why think that human morality, very much grounded in bodies, would make sense to conscious AI? 3. Morality is not designed to keep monsters in check.
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meatloaf social @beartape.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i searched for it and started laughing my ass off
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
if i speak
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Plan? Have a deeply autistic man spend 34 days with the most bewildering social experiment of a human that can't not lie, film it all, and become the strangest #1 Box Office in human history.
Nathan Fielder
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 08/10/2026
I'm so tired of the constant cruelty.
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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
sorry, boss, can't come into work today. that's right, I've got diarrhea... (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ...from having sex
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026
"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t want to die I just want to be at peace with dying. Do you understand that? The difference.
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Well yes in retrospect the large heaving beast bounding right by my flank out of nowhere in the woods was statistically speaking always going to have been a deer but you can’t put the shit back in your ass as the famous saying goes. 

Every time I get a little spooked walking out in the woods I kind of hope it's a bear sneaking up behind me but I obviously don't want it to be a bear because I don't want to be mauled. 

But I kind of do want to.

This is what passive suicidal ideation is like.

Then when I want to live I imagine myself fighting it off with the perfect sized stick I've just found on the trail. 

This is what masculinity is like.

I don’t want to die I just want to be at peace with dying. Do you understand that? The difference.
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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
just my opinion but you gotta be in a good movie before you can start talking like this
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Unambiguous in its intent. A shot in the air to remind Left Organizers that Big Brother doesn't sleep and it will come after anyone that dares question the legitimacy of Apartheid Regimes. Whether that be Israel or the one being built in the United States as we speak.
FBI Most Wanted FB Post:

The #FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for info leading to the arrest of Donna Joan Borup, #wanted for her alleged participation in a violent anti-apartheid demonstration at JFK International Airport in Queens, NY, on September 26, 1981. During the event Borup allegedly tossed a caustic substance into the eyes of a Port Authority Police Officer, leving him partially blind.

Below are three mugshot and an attempted 'Aged Recreation' for today
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please please please let it be the october surprise
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lol they're so much better than us at literally everything of value
aljazeera.com
Chinese hackers impersonated AI experts to target US policy minds
TA419 hackers used deceptive tactics to impersonate real figures, such as a former White House AI official.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i think anyone who believes these guys in particular would actually allow “universal high income” should be tested for lead poisoning
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nothing was beautiful and everything hurt
Nothing was beautiful and everything hurt 
Joyce Carol Oates was tearing into Elon Musk and we were all having a good laugh about that. Get his ass etc. The basic gist of it was something I've often said about politics-poisoned posting-addicts. People who have never not even once shared their enthusiasm for a band or a book they like or literally anything they might like at all if such a thing exists. The lamentations of their enemies does not count. 

There are so many people like that. Even people on your side.

Can you imagine – I don't know whatever asshole you're thinking of right now – posting a picture of the ocean or a beautiful landscape that they took? A big game hunting safari also does not count. Or about a movie that they enjoyed? In aesthetic terms I mean not as part of the culture war. 

One of the great pleasures in life is sharing something beautiful with others.
Sharing art isn't quite the same as creating it in the first place but it's akin to it in that you are making it exist for others who might not have known of it otherwise. You are also at the same time making yourself known. It's an act of kindness and generosity and vulnerability. Please look at a photograph of this rushing mountain stream I stumbled across on my hike. You can’t tell at first but if you look really closely I'm in there and so are you.
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Mamdani Announces Plan to Protect New York's Trees, Without Even Discussing the Amazon Rainforest" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Mamdani Announces Plan to Fight Antisemitism, Without Discussing Israel
A report issued by Mayor Zohran Mamdani describes ways that New York City is funding hate crime prevention and celebrating the contributions of Jewish New Yorkers.
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Skippy Granola @skippygranola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've read a lot of good sentences but this is a *good* fucking sentence. Like a captive bolt pistol.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
every lever of power in the so-called American liberal order – from the ostensibly liberal government to the ostensibly liberal media to ostensibly liberal academia – are all laser focused on one single thing...the state of Israel must be allowed to massacre as many Palestinians as they wish
This is one of those moments where I’m overwhelmed and do not feel up to the task of capturing exactly what is happening in words as peaceful college students across the country are being thrown into the carceral grinder by their own administrations for the crime of sitting around and asking for the facilitation of less death but I will tell you one thing which is that we are currently experiencing a period of collective mass hysteria and mass psychosis I haven’t seen since the early 2000s where every lever of power in the so-called American liberal order – from the ostensibly liberal government to the ostensibly liberal media to ostensibly liberal academia – are all laser focused on one single thing: No matter the cost in blood or money, no matter the suffering of innocents, no matter the violations of supposed norms, the state of Israel must be allowed to massacre as many Palestinians as they wish and any effort to forestall that from Boston to Los Angeles to Atlanta to New York City should be met with the full force of the militarized police to “restore the peace.” 

This specific slaughter for some reason – and yes I know a number of the reasons – is worth any price we might have to pay at home in terms of dismantling our own Constitutional rights. It’s madness. People have gone mad. Normal people that we all know not just the easily dismissed as "evil" ones.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our brains are the original data centers. And they don’t take up much space. So why don’t they just build brains? Think about it.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
from Remnants of Hannah by Dara Wier
Prose Poem
For a long time I'd wanted to be in a prose poem and could find no way to do so that I despaired I'd ever get to but here I am now and I will not leave here until my desire to be in a prose poem is satisfied and so I will not stray out of this prose poem even while I don't know what to do in here and though I'm lost when it comes to what could or should be happening in this prose poem I will take up a digression that involves a crazy essay recently read about what hideous prisons paragraphs are and how until writers find new ways around them paragraphs will hold writers hostage and never let them think thoughts other than thoughts paragraphs delimit with their omnipotent paragraph authority. So there. I'm feeling just fine now sticking around in this prose poem giving me a very satisfying prose poem feeling and perhaps some time later long after I've exited this prose poem I can look back with nostalgic poignancy thanking and praising the prose poem for allowing me to spend a short time in its precincts.
I'm now leaving this prose poem.
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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hello, police? I'd like to report a food crime. people.com/hidden-valle...
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Hidden Valley Ranch Gets Spooky Makeover for Halloween with Bold Black Coloring and Glow-in-the-Dark Bottle (Exclusive)
Hidden Valley is embracing the Halloween vibes with the release of its first-ever seasonal product. The salad dressing, which is traditionally a creamy white color when not flavored, is getting a spoo...
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Greg Knauss @eod.com · 23/09/2026
If you're not watching the new Politizane videos, you really need to be. If you're not enraged by them, you _really_ need to be. youtube.com/watch?v=l5wFuZFxu-c
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Income Inequality in America (Part 2 of 2)
YouTube video by politizane
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Melicious @honeybadgermel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Maybe you'll feel better if you stop expecting and start appreciating.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That scene where the comic book villain addresses the United Nations has finally come true.
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✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You smell that?
It's fucking Autumn.
tony soprano quote
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Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A perfectly normal nation with Western values. www.middleeasteye.net/news/far-rig...
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Far-right Israelis call for NAZA co-director to be hanged in protest outside parents' home
Dozens of Israelis amassed outside the family home of Rachel Szor as backlash over Gaza documentary intensifies
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Ira Fontaine @irafontaine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“So the ultimate question is, Do Palestinians have the right to symbolically resist slow death punctuated by periodic massacres, or is it incumbent upon them to lie down and die?” ― Norman G. Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I realize some people might interpret the distinction between the two cases as “bribery” vs. “extortion,” but “you can have an extra $500 from not paying outrageous gas prices” feels functionally the same.
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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
See, Mr. President, you're not the only one who can offer a bribe in exchange for a desirable political outcome.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One think about Piker that goes under-discussed is that he genuinely seems to be pretty dumb.
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Nurse Blackie @ladytaco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is how ass backwards this administration is. There is bacteria in the soap.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
bu.edu
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
madame tussaud has outdone herself
Mitch McConnell in a wheelchair looking waxy and semi-realistic
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
every time i try to break up with capitalism she seduces me all over again
shrek toaster $40 new in box
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hmmm... The Mag7 all went up together... And suddenly they're all willing to slow down together... I wonder if there is some sort of ulterior motive...
cnbc.com
Microsoft sets limits for future AI models as industry throttles frontier development
Microsoft wants to be seen as a responsible AI entity as it ramps up model development alongside partners Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Okay. Ready for a proper... Theory: The 'Western AI Slowdown' serves many purposes. But an undervalued one is that it allows the United States to try and stake "Safety" as their #1 Priority at the exact moment China is objectively pulling ahead of us Now every Chinese 'breakthrough' is 'dangerous'
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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
good morning
comic panel depicting supergirl at a large computer terminal, pushing buttons and saying "I'll save time by questioning the robot-computer!"
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 probably created more Boomer E-Mail / Fax Meme Chains that snowballed into the current MAGA movement than we'll ever fully grasp.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lmao We're losing
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Multiple U.S. military aircraft damaged in Iranian strikes on military base in Jordan, sources say
One A-10 Thunderbolt, an attack aircraft known as the Warthog, was struck and lost a wing, according to sources.
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KILLY krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 10/09/2026
i've never had more fun in a theater than watching sex house with a theater crowd followed by this. hell of a night lol
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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Finally, we created the Pre-Crime Division from the award-winning Phillip K. Dick novel Don't Create A Pre-Crime Division
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Ira Fontaine @irafontaine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stoner thoughts: @kamalaharris.com will serve on the Supreme Court as a Justice one day.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
incredible that wikipedia now has higher ai standards than nearly every school in america
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littlestormcloud.bsky.social @littlestormcloud.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Today is Ron Howard Birthday (observed). My baby is 15! #caturday
tiny orange and white fluffy kitten Ron Howard looks up in the most heartbreaking adorable way from a teal ball track and scratch kitten toy thingy.
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
sometimes, late at night, I'll look up at the stars and wonder if you're also stealing lawn furniture.
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