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Michael Delaporta

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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.

created April 20, 2024

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Profile picture Michael Delaporta (@mdelaporta.bsky.social) reply parent

I got two orthophonic Victrolas and a microphone…

2/9/2025, 11:58:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“First they came for the socialists, and then they stopped, because they were being completely reasonable, and honestly, they had a good point.”

2/9/2025, 9:26:22 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ned

2/9/2025, 12:17:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

2/9/2025, 12:15:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My body is ready.

2/9/2025, 12:02:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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?

2/9/2025, 12:00:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“I guess I hit rock bottom with my Poster’s Disease when I spent $0.78 each to mail my posts to my followers…”

1/9/2025, 10:30:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Next up on “Newsmax After Dark”, Kirk Cameron stars in “Whiplash Samurai: His Honor’s New Hampshire Odyssey”

31/8/2025, 9:27:51 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The whale represents man's inability to fight his own fate.

31/8/2025, 2:35:45 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagine poisoning your brain with something stupid, like software, instead of something fun, like alcohol?

30/8/2025, 2:58:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putting AI in a Tesla is a 21st Century ouroboros.

29/8/2025, 4:37:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

29/8/2025, 1:34:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To the sketch artist: “The barrel should have, I think the kids call them, “heavy naturals”…

27/8/2025, 1:36:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

26/8/2025, 10:00:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I loved her very first single “I Go To Bed At 10PM”

26/8/2025, 6:14:36 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagining Chuck Schumer at the crazy John Wick hotel calling down to the front desk to complain about the noise…

26/8/2025, 2:16:38 AM | 43 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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You need a GIF of the kool-aid man with a red siren for a hat calmly putting the bricks back…

26/8/2025, 1:01:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Male, female, Lazlo, Nadia, Nandor DeLaurentis, and Colin Robinson

25/8/2025, 9:53:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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brb gonna check this section of OJ’s wiki…

25/8/2025, 3:56:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“another day volunteering at the trump museum. everyone keeps asking me…”

24/8/2025, 12:20:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When Fatherly Pride overcomes Poster’s Disease and you accidentally make a good post

23/8/2025, 1:18:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3 Tbsp Bain de Soleil 4 Tbsp Formaldehyde 1 Tsp Ostrich Semen

23/8/2025, 1:47:10 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“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.

22/8/2025, 7:32:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In karate, you use your opponent’s weakness against yourself.

21/8/2025, 2:15:18 PM | 26 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

19/8/2025, 3:40:23 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Took 160 years, but the Confederacy finaly got troops north of Virginia.

19/8/2025, 1:48:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All of Trump’s actions are the Galaxy Brain meme, but every frame is a burnt-out kitchen match.

16/8/2025, 3:19:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?

13/8/2025, 9:39:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be the Platonic ideal, the one run would have to be scored on a balk.

13/8/2025, 4:21:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Pivoting and pivoting in the widening gyre…”

11/8/2025, 9:57:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Los Angeles” is Spanish for “The Big Easy”

6/8/2025, 9:16:34 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Garbage-belly Americans want everything savory turned into candy. This Thanksgiving, look out for Mike’s Gravy Honey.

2/8/2025, 12:33:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

1/8/2025, 10:05:38 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone needs some gender-affirming therapy.

31/7/2025, 1:26:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Estate Tax should be 120%.

31/7/2025, 1:07:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*only applicable in empowerment zones, subject to work requirements and means testing.

30/7/2025, 3:20:34 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

30/7/2025, 2:15:23 AM | 67 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me, eating an unwashed potato like an apple: “As a Democratic consultant, I have some very specific criticisms about every politician born after 1965.”

29/7/2025, 10:58:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Toilets

29/7/2025, 9:09:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A streaming service showing old tv programs with original ads and station breaks would cause gen x to zero out their 401ks.

28/7/2025, 3:29:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Evil dumbfuckorus groupthink can never fail, it can only be failed.

28/7/2025, 2:10:10 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“The Cleveland Steamer was terrible, and the portion was so small…”

28/7/2025, 1:33:05 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glad to see A. G. Sulzberger got a side hustle.

27/7/2025, 8:29:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?

26/7/2025, 12:29:54 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And 10 years of private equity, tumescent with free money, spawning a million businesses that are like “uber but for chopping an onion”.

25/7/2025, 3:53:12 AM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“… At the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said $230 million dollars of precision ordinance were dropped on the grave of the Iron Sheik.”

25/7/2025, 12:51:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

24/7/2025, 3:38:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I bet that road is a lot of fun at the beginning, but gets real sad by the end.

22/7/2025, 3:36:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Incel waifu sommelier

21/7/2025, 12:31:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In fairness, her brother-in-law was equally guilty, and that fat fuck got to die peacefully in his bed.

18/7/2025, 5:06:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

18/7/2025, 4:54:45 AM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sadly, Mike Johnson thinks jazz is a sin.

18/7/2025, 4:41:39 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Austrians, famously horney.

18/7/2025, 4:31:55 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, it’s like Elmo says… [touches earpiece] oh my…

18/7/2025, 4:23:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?”

18/7/2025, 1:37:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

15/7/2025, 2:44:29 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

15/7/2025, 12:24:08 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that a mastoid antrum in your pharyngeal pouch or are you just happy to see me?

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12/7/2025, 2:24:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was one set of footprints when I could claim you as a dependent.

10/7/2025, 9:56:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Elon also consulted Jeffery Dahmer, who has expressed provocative ideas about dinner.

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10/7/2025, 8:17:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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9/7/2025, 10:09:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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”.

9/7/2025, 12:40:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*spins chair around and sits* let me tell you about a real cool girl from this little island called Nantucket

8/7/2025, 11:14:40 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They could get pinned down by a quinceañera…

8/7/2025, 3:05:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Godspeed You! Gross Gasperor

5/7/2025, 1:49:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

2/7/2025, 8:02:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Occam’s Jackboot

2/7/2025, 3:06:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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… searching Article I for the hot-dog guy meme, brb…

1/7/2025, 10:00:06 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t forget the 1996 show-trial of Jeff Bezos by the People’s Commissar of Libraries.

1/7/2025, 3:48:06 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

1/7/2025, 3:07:19 AM | 27 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) reposted

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

27/6/2025, 11:01:04 PM | 43545 8209 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kind of cool that all school hot-lunch programs have to be halal now. That what he means, right?

27/6/2025, 7:13:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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S-tier American

27/6/2025, 2:18:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The new Bond girl is a metallic oblate spheroid.

26/6/2025, 12:54:41 PM | 134 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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A meme image of JD Vance
25/6/2025, 1:58:51 PM | 11521 2439 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can’t wait to hear all those cool bars Jay-Z writes about how awesome… fucking Santa Monica is…

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25/6/2025, 7:58:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Zombie John Bonham is awake.

25/6/2025, 12:29:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Statistically, a significant number of Yankee fans voted for Zorhan. I don’t know how to handle this.

25/6/2025, 2:08:48 AM | 25 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Feeling that unsettling “hope” emotion? Ask your doctor if “cable news” is right for you!”

25/6/2025, 1:25:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 (@lowrhoufo.bsky.social) reposted

This image is now absolutely everywhere over European media lmao

24/6/2025, 10:46:17 PM | 25340 7297 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve deleted three drafts calling him “robo-crop”, “Brie-stone cop”, or “Commandant CPAP”. My civility is failing…

20/6/2025, 2:58:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Excellent thread(s), thank you so much.

20/6/2025, 2:05:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a life-long Red Sox fan, fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, this fucking guy.

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20/6/2025, 1:50:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Handing out free water to everyone in a BMW 5-series or above…

19/6/2025, 8:19:32 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I agree, it’s genuinely useful. (Ugh, I had a dozen draft cynical/sarcastic replies, but going with earnest here…)

18/6/2025, 12:42:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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…”

18/6/2025, 12:31:22 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I get to be on the jury at Nuremberg 2.0, I’m voting to convict just based on the misused semicolon.

12/6/2025, 2:52:21 AM | 47 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wonderful thread, thank you.

11/6/2025, 12:08:52 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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dril tweets repeat themselves, first as tragedy, then as farce.

10/6/2025, 10:51:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you, Senator.

10/6/2025, 3:01:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

10/6/2025, 12:55:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Leave, bitch.

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9/6/2025, 9:24:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tired: Drug tests for welfare. Wired: Drug tests for the mortgage interest deduction.

7/6/2025, 2:43:56 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone recently pointed out that blue-state governors should be having very serious conversations with the leaders of their National Guards.

7/6/2025, 12:34:10 PM | 27 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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DLC Pack II for Wordle costs $75 and just makes every day’s word BONER.

7/6/2025, 10:59:18 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve said before: I’d pay a mortgage payment to see the President explain which characters in Les Misérables are the villains.

28/5/2025, 9:49:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Millions of Americans believe in astrology. Starting today, Scorpios are ineligible for TSA PreCheck.”

28/5/2025, 12:33:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Medicare for all? “That doesn’t look like anything to me.”

25/5/2025, 5:54:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A double-tap on my left earbud skips thirty seconds. I fear my skull now has a permanent divot.

17/5/2025, 2:22:53 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Abraham Lincoln died of lead poisoning.

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