Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
I got two orthophonic Victrolas and a microphone…
Who that hath a throne, or a gilded privilege not attainable by his neighbor, let him procure his slippers & get ready to dance, for there is going to be music.
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I got two orthophonic Victrolas and a microphone…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
“First they came for the socialists, and then they stopped, because they were being completely reasonable, and honestly, they had a good point.”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Ned
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Connecticut got two enormous casinos 30+ years ago, and I can confirm that they are malignant tumors of human misery masquerading as “fun”. A parasite on the innumerate. But if you avoid the gambling, the free valet parking is nice when seeing touring bands and comics.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
My body is ready.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Jesus, now I’m terrified that “Billy Rabbit” is some kind of horrible slur that I’m unaware of… Is that about the Flemish or something?
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
“I guess I hit rock bottom with my Poster’s Disease when I spent $0.78 each to mail my posts to my followers…”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Next up on “Newsmax After Dark”, Kirk Cameron stars in “Whiplash Samurai: His Honor’s New Hampshire Odyssey”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
The whale represents man's inability to fight his own fate.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Imagine poisoning your brain with something stupid, like software, instead of something fun, like alcohol?
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Putting AI in a Tesla is a 21st Century ouroboros.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Interest rates are set to support the Fed’s twin mandate: reward those who are nice to the President, and punish those who are mean to the President.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
To the sketch artist: “The barrel should have, I think the kids call them, “heavy naturals”…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
No matter what it gets you, for the rest of your life, you’ll know the whole country watched you suck a dick on live TV.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
I loved her very first single “I Go To Bed At 10PM”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagining Chuck Schumer at the crazy John Wick hotel calling down to the front desk to complain about the noise…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
You need a GIF of the kool-aid man with a red siren for a hat calmly putting the bricks back…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Male, female, Lazlo, Nadia, Nandor DeLaurentis, and Colin Robinson
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
brb gonna check this section of OJ’s wiki…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
“another day volunteering at the trump museum. everyone keeps asking me…”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
When Fatherly Pride overcomes Poster’s Disease and you accidentally make a good post
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
3 Tbsp Bain de Soleil 4 Tbsp Formaldehyde 1 Tsp Ostrich Semen
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
“As a Republican consultant who advises Republican candidates based on things only said by their fringe online fans, I can’t stress enough that you should stop calling everyone the c-word and the n-word.” This is how they sound.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
In karate, you use your opponent’s weakness against yourself.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
turning a big dial taht says "impotence" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Took 160 years, but the Confederacy finaly got troops north of Virginia.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
All of Trump’s actions are the Galaxy Brain meme, but every frame is a burnt-out kitchen match.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Thought experiment: what if you invented a technology that, as it climbed the capability curve, was most useful to our dumbest folks first? What would that look like?
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
To be the Platonic ideal, the one run would have to be scored on a balk.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
“Pivoting and pivoting in the widening gyre…”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
“Los Angeles” is Spanish for “The Big Easy”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Garbage-belly Americans want everything savory turned into candy. This Thanksgiving, look out for Mike’s Gravy Honey.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
That’s because left-wing dating advice is “don’t be an asshole”, but that gets coded as “indoctrinating men into woke”, and bro, I don’t know what to tell you.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Someone needs some gender-affirming therapy.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
The Estate Tax should be 120%.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
*only applicable in empowerment zones, subject to work requirements and means testing.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
This is only a crisis if Democrats continue to act as if the Judiciary is a lofty college of untouchable legal clergy, rather than a grubby political clique to be brought to heel by the more-representative branches.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Me, eating an unwashed potato like an apple: “As a Democratic consultant, I have some very specific criticisms about every politician born after 1965.”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Toilets
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
A streaming service showing old tv programs with original ads and station breaks would cause gen x to zero out their 401ks.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Evil dumbfuckorus groupthink can never fail, it can only be failed.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
“The Cleveland Steamer was terrible, and the portion was so small…”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Glad to see A. G. Sulzberger got a side hustle.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
But it’s been the policy, so might it helpfully, if disgustingly, clarifying that he’s too stupid to use euphemisms?
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
And 10 years of private equity, tumescent with free money, spawning a million businesses that are like “uber but for chopping an onion”.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
“… At the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said $230 million dollars of precision ordinance were dropped on the grave of the Iron Sheik.”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Our world is the second act of Back to the Future 2. You wanna be a judge? Sneak into the White House and steal back that sports almanac.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
I bet that road is a lot of fun at the beginning, but gets real sad by the end.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Incel waifu sommelier
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
In fairness, her brother-in-law was equally guilty, and that fat fuck got to die peacefully in his bed.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Aside from her literal treason, her greatest crime was constantly whispering into her husband’s ear about taking a firm stance against a stable constitutional monarchy and (1) condemning France to a decade of chaos and (2) getting his head chopped off.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly, Mike Johnson thinks jazz is a sin.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
The Austrians, famously horney.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, it’s like Elmo says… [touches earpiece] oh my…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Jake Tapper, over his thick spectacles, to an overturned horseshoe crab at the water’s edge: “So you *saw* Joe Biden’s auto-pen?”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
I think there’s something akin to the anthropic principle for people living in late-stage civilizations that make them oblivious to the late-stage civilization.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Thought experiment: say this is our Bronze Age collapse. Who are our “Sea People”? A group with little evidence in the historical record but, for a time at least, universally blamed. Extra credit: NYT OpEd-based answers only.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Is that a mastoid antrum in your pharyngeal pouch or are you just happy to see me?
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
There was one set of footprints when I could claim you as a dependent.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Elon also consulted Jeffery Dahmer, who has expressed provocative ideas about dinner.
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Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Hmm, adding this to Grok’s system prompt turned it into a flaming Nazi: “The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated.” Seems like LLMs understand perfectly well what people mean when they say “politically incorrect”.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
*spins chair around and sits* let me tell you about a real cool girl from this little island called Nantucket
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
They could get pinned down by a quinceañera…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Godspeed You! Gross Gasperor
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
100% on board. I don’t think we need to make our own buns, but I’ll leave that up to you. We even have a pork shoulder in the freezer.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Occam’s Jackboot
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
… searching Article I for the hot-dog guy meme, brb…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t forget the 1996 show-trial of Jeff Bezos by the People’s Commissar of Libraries.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
The Democrats need to offer Americans common-sense solutions, like a refundable tax credit on all bribes paid to ICE concentration camp guards to secure an extra ration of toilet paper.
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If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Kind of cool that all school hot-lunch programs have to be halal now. That what he means, right?
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
S-tier American
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
The new Bond girl is a metallic oblate spheroid.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Can’t wait to hear all those cool bars Jay-Z writes about how awesome… fucking Santa Monica is…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Zombie John Bonham is awake.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Statistically, a significant number of Yankee fans voted for Zorhan. I don’t know how to handle this.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
“Feeling that unsettling “hope” emotion? Ask your doctor if “cable news” is right for you!”
LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 (@lowrhoufo.bsky.social) reposted
This image is now absolutely everywhere over European media lmao
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve deleted three drafts calling him “robo-crop”, “Brie-stone cop”, or “Commandant CPAP”. My civility is failing…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Excellent thread(s), thank you so much.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
As a life-long Red Sox fan, fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, this fucking guy.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Handing out free water to everyone in a BMW 5-series or above…
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree, it’s genuinely useful. (Ugh, I had a dozen draft cynical/sarcastic replies, but going with earnest here…)
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
Trump, from the Oval, 2027: “We had to pay a Latvian teenager 11-billion Fartcoins so he would unlock the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but we paid it very strongly…”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
If I get to be on the jury at Nuremberg 2.0, I’m voting to convict just based on the misused semicolon.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Wonderful thread, thank you.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
dril tweets repeat themselves, first as tragedy, then as farce.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you, Senator.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
I am not tall, nor am I thin. But watching all of these virile 20-somethings turn into Arts Garfunkel gives me more joy than you can imagine.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Tired: Drug tests for welfare. Wired: Drug tests for the mortgage interest deduction.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone recently pointed out that blue-state governors should be having very serious conversations with the leaders of their National Guards.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
DLC Pack II for Wordle costs $75 and just makes every day’s word BONER.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve said before: I’d pay a mortgage payment to see the President explain which characters in Les Misérables are the villains.
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social)
“Millions of Americans believe in astrology. Starting today, Scorpios are ineligible for TSA PreCheck.”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
Medicare for all? “That doesn’t look like anything to me.”
Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent
A double-tap on my left earbud skips thirty seconds. I fear my skull now has a permanent divot.