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LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻
@lorifontanes.bsky.social
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Writer/educator/community advocate. Cats & catastrophe. More better food 4 all. Bewaring billionaires bearing tech.
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some pics from the palace

#Versailles #France #photography
view from a balcony box at the Opera Royal in Versailles Palace—ornate gold trim and chandeliers ablaze, the orchestra seating is modest and in blue view of the ceiling at the Opera Royal in Versailles Palace, with a beautiful painting in the center surrounded by gold-trimmed windows and lots of chandeliers view of the exterior of Versailles Palace with gold fencing illuminated and the impressive classical style building which serves as the entrance for musical events
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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i stayed out extra late to see a ballet at Versailles Palace & now i know how Cinderella was greeted when she got home

#Caturday #cats #Paris #chamedi
A pastel tortie and an American Bobtail give some stern looks to the camera as they sit on a fluffy white comforter on a bed, Christmas lights on a fireplace mantel in the background
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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wow did they send this AI marketing email to the least likely person to want it

also wut the wut: “no topic is too small or too strange” 😳
Screenshot of an email from Microsoft promoting their AI. It reads: Become an AI superstar! Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot can simplify party planning and spark gift ideas. See live demos, get expert insights, and ask your burning questions—no topic is too small or too strange. Join our webinar December 2, 2025 at 9 AM Pacific Time RSVP to be an AI superstar
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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i know this looks fake but it is indeed a real pic of the unbelievably gorgeous sky over #Paris a little while ago 🙀

#France #photography #weather
Late afternoon photo of the Seine River from Ile de la Cité looking at part of the Left Bank and Ile St. Louis. The amazing clouds in the sky are what’s left of a mini snow/sleet event today.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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À gauche, c’est Versailles. À droit, c’est pas Versailles.
Exterior of the palace at Versailles in France, golden fencing and ornate metalwork glowing against the night sky. Formerly, the home of royalty, the entire building and grounds belong to the citizens now. Screenshot of the people’s house in the United States, The White House, taken from the people’s website, showing the building in the spring with flowers in bloom and a water fountain
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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um, were space aliens trying to send us a message this morning in #Paris 🧐

#photography 👽🛸👾
in the blue sky over Ile de la Cité in Paris today, three parallel horizontal white strips likely of cloud or contrail
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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first near-freezing temps of the season in #Paris tonight ❄️

perfect time to read a tiny #book of #cat #crime #fiction, n’est-ce paws 🧐😸

@profilebooks.bsky.social
photo of the cover of a slim hardcover book with a drawing of black cat under a tree with bare branches and in the background a snowy scene with a woman walking through a churchyard the title of the book is “A Case of the Claws, Classic Tales of Feline Crime” and the authors’ names are listed above—Catherine Aird, Edmund Crispin, Patricia Highsmith, Ellis Peters
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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i’m being shadowed 🙀

#cats #Paris #Caturday #chamedi
spooky photo of a cat’s silhouette cast on a large white armoire from the bright glow of a reading light
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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yet another fantastic program from @saloneurope.bsky.social in #Paris last evening! talented readers from all over Europe shared fiction, CNF & poetry—merci @deborahzafer.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social & @norami.bsky.social for hosting 🙏
photo taken through the glass windows of the cozy Feuille Blanche café showing some of the writers chatting between readings A packed house of supportive writers listens to one of the readers share her work.
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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okay @economist.com which is it 🧐

#US #future #AI #gloom
Screenshot of back-to-back stories in my Bluesky feed from The Economist. The top one: that “gloom about America’s future is almost as old as the republic itself, says US editor. The bottom one shows a chart of the S & P 500 as a percentage of US GDP, comparing the 2000 dot-com crash and the current AI boom. It reads: “Our visual guide to how a bust that rivals the dotcom era could wipe out 8% of Americans’ household wealth” and “How much wealth an AI stock market crash could destroy”
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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wait! is it too late for #ToebeansTuesday😸??!

#cats #Paris
Pastel tortie rescue kitty seems disdainful that you want to take a photo of her pink beans
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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just looked them up on duckduckgo & this funny answer happened
screenshot of duckduckgo page for search “perplexity AI” top response is the company’s webpage which describes itself “Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.” [whoa!] and below it is the Merriam-Webster webpage definition of perplexity “the meaning of perplexity is the state of being perplexed: bewilderment”
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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more #weather drama from #Paris yesterday—love #autumn 😁 🍂🎃
picturesque clouds over the Seine River on the Right Bank side of Ile St. Louis Colorful fall leaves frame a view of a bridge connecting Ile St. Louis and the Right Bank over the Seine River
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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‘tis the season to re-read one of my favest spooky collections (edited by @datlow.bsky.social naturellement)
just finished scary & satisfying @garthnix.bsky.social’s micro, “Last Drinks at Bondi Beach” & having been to Sydney at Christmas (& dined at Bondi!), this lands super hard 🙀 🎄🩸
Photo of a softcover book, “Christmas and Other Horrors” edited by Ellen Datlow, with a wintry illo featuring a deer or elk (?) with various ornaments from the winter solstice season handing off the antlers
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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#sky drama over #Paris this evening

#France #photography
Dramatic clouds over the Seine River in Paris and a particularly striking contrail over the tip of Ile St. Louis and Ile de la Cité with the two towers of Notre Dame and newly reconstructed spire in the distance
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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got lucky & saw the fleeting beaver #supermoon this morning in #Paris

#France #photography #sky
photo taken in pre-dawn darkness just as the so-called supermoon is about to set behind the buildings on Ile de la Cité in Paris the towers and steeple of Notre Dame are to the left the buildings and the river Seine are illuminated with golden light and the sky is speckled with scattered clouds
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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message of hope spotted on an ordinary wall in #Paris yesterday

#France #StreetLife #photography
A message in French “le pouvoir de l’amour l’emportera sur l’amour du pouvoir” scrawled in pink letters on a scruffy wall. A couple of pigeons root around on the sidewalk beneath and an empty bottle of what was likely alcohol sits in the burglary-barred window well next to the defiant words.
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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wut wut don’t look at me i didn’t break into the toy drawer okay yeah i did

#Caturday #cats #Paris #chamedi
photo of an American Bobtail rescue kitty on a striped pillow with his eyes slightly narrowed as if acting defiant
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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I brought a book of spooky short stories to dinner last night. It included a super scary one set in #Paris called “No. 252 Rue Monsieur Le Prince”.

Turns out that’s a real street in Paris 😳!!!
photo of a paperback book called “Gothic Short Stories” on a cloth-covered table at a restaurant in Paris Detail of top of the first page of a story in the book called “No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince” by Ralph Adams Cram. Photo of a street sign in Paris for Rue Monsieur Le Prince in the 6th arrondissement. It says in French that this is from the former home of the Princes of Conde. The wall on which the sign is placed is tattered and the sign is next to a typical Parisian downspout and a dirty awning
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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put up a vintage-style #Halloween deco in the window & discovered this spooky advice on the back 🙀
“On Halloween if you hear a noise, don’t stop and look behind you. Because there lots of awful things that would be very glad to find you.” message on the back of a snarling kitty cat head decoration in a window in Paris
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Halloween deco super scary this year in Washington DC
one of many posters on poles in Georgetown featuring this member of the current administration (his name shall not be spoken out loud in case he shall appear) they appear to be from the Save America Movement
October 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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i cannot tell a lie—i slept with George Washington

😜
photo of a gold mirror shaped like what appears to be George Washington’s head, reflecting part of a hotel room in Georgetown (a neighborhood in Washington, DC)
October 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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storm a brewin’ in #Paris today

#meteo #weather #photography
Ominous dark crowds in background, bright autumn light in foreground as a rainstorm approaches over Ile de la Cité and the Seine River in Paris, with Pont St. Louis and a golden leaved horse chestnut tree in the bottom of frame
October 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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hey is that a spider on the ceiling over your bed 🧐

#cats #Caturday #Paris #chats
pastel tortie rescue kitty, whiskers looking magnificent, as she gazes upward at the ceiling while lying on a bed, in the background in soft focus, a large gold mirror and a painting are visible
October 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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just checked the CBS news website & it’s the top story as of 45 min ago or so—which is kind of a relief
not sure we’re ready for such an erasure of reality
screenshot of CBS News website a couple of minutes ago top story is “Crowds gather at anti-Trump No Kings rallies across the U.S., worldwide” photo is of a rally in a major city with a person dressed as the Statue of Liberty holding a sign that reads “No King”
October 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM