We may have to accept that young American men are, in fact, deeply stupid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQxA...

Kids are fun and worth having, and if you regret having your kid, you simply refused to take all the down payments of responsibility and cash them in for hours of Legos and stuffed animals.

It occurred to me that one of the most frustrating things about this moment - and the one that makes finding solutions so difficult - is that there no longer appears to be any cause and effect in the world. How can we get to a better place if consequences are random? For instance:

Why am I forced to change my passwords or passcodes frequently, refusing to let me reuse older ones? I can't remember an infinite number of 15-character passwords that change every three months. It seems like the externalities for the failure to create secure devices is being passed on to consumers.

If we can skip to the part where we let the South go and everyone around the world immediately boycotts the new country as an apartheid state, that would be fantastic.

In my 20s, I wanted most of all to be a novelist. I found that I needed more of two things: money, and experience. I went to law school, commissioned in the JAGC, litigated, did PME, deployed. Now I'm writing again, and it's a very different generation of readers. 1/7

THE DECOMPOSER #QuestPit #Q #A #CO Mozart recruits Salieri to assassinate Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to save the future of music, and his Wikipedia page. 🎵Almost but not really a sequel to Amadeus 🎵Chock full of Texans, few Italians 🎵Best served with a Riesling (pref. Wittman) 🎵69K words

I came home to find Beth at the desk taking dictation. Pages on the floor, red ink, her hand moving past any spec I'd written. I had built that hand for a cup's weight and a door's resistance. It was now fluent in a language I had not installed and could not read. #questpit #W #A #LF #S #U

KNOWING NOTHING #QuestPit #WIP #SFF #U #PR #D The Name of the Rose, but with psychic Buddhist monks in a post-apocalyptic North Korea.

THE DECOMPOSER #QuestPit #Q #A #CO Mozart recruits Salieri to assassinate Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to save the future of music, and his Wikipedia page. 🎵Almost but not really a sequel to Amadeus 🎵Chock full of Texans, few Italians 🎵Best served with a Riesling (pref. Wittman) 🎵69K words

THE DECOMPOSER #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts Mozart does not know how holes in space-time work. Why would you expect him to?

I would argue that, in fact, many people DO recognize that these vehicles are dangerous, wasteful, and incompatible with modern life. We have a problem imposing laws that take dangerous toys away from wealthy white Real Americans. See, e.g., the AR-15.

THE DECOMPOSER #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips Only one type of person recognizes Mozart's habit of acting based on petty grievances rather than logic and reason. See if you can guess what kind of person that is.

The president's approval rating is at 33%, but his party has far more cash than the opposition. America's rich want things to continue this way, the wishes of the American population be damned. politicalwire.com/2026/04/22/t...

THE DECOMPOSER #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity Mozart is adopted by a foster family in Texas, whom he treats with nothing but love and understanding.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

THE DECOMPOSER #PosterPit #CO #A Alternative title: Amadeus II. And in any sequel, you always need to up the body count.

THE DECOMPOSER Mozart and Salieri team up to assassinate Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. If all goes well, Mozart will save the future of music, and most importantly, humble the YouTube comments section. If not, Salieri might kill him. Again. #PosterPit #CO #A

THE DECOMPOSER #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

THE DECOMPOSER: #writesky #wipsnips #writingcommunity Mozart challenges Salieri to name a modern musical artist who is his equal. Saleiri shoots back: Michael Jackson.

Catholic Church vs MAGA is basically like a mosh pit wall of death if the fans were there to be pedophiles instead of to see a band

THE DECOMPOSER: #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

THE DECOMPOSER #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The EEOC is a broken system that is perhaps unfixable, since those most eager to do something about it are conservatives who want discrimination to be legal.

The Only Good Orange King Used to be at 42nd and University Way. #Seattle #NoKings

Pete, boyo: what are you doing here, man? You're going to need a stab-in-the-back myth once everyone realizes this is a shitshow. Don't lock the door to your only way out.

Mozart teams up with Salieri to assassinate Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in modern-day San Antonio: THE DECOMPOSER #W #WSPitWIPs #WSPit #Hu #HI #A #L

Mozart teams up with Salieri to assassinate Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in modern-day San Antonio: THE DECOMPOSER #W #WSPitWIPs #WSPit #Hu #HI #A #L

How am I supposed to provide alt text on images if the "save" button appears directly underneath the "collapse screen" button on my phone? I use a Galaxy S10. This seems like a problem.

Whenever I see some doofus wax poetic about "Western civilization," I am puzzled by what they think they mean. Just looking at them, you can't see any of the elegance of the French, or humor of the British. 1/3

In 2016, I actually screamed at Hillary volunteers to stop harassing me with phone calls. I donated $200. My reward was five calls a day, asking for more.

"Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work."

I know a lovely, kind 80+ woman who believes that illegal immigrants drive up housing costs. It is such a simple formula, she cannot be dissuaded. The logic of "more people = less housing" is so intuitive, arguing otherwise is proof to her you are unwilling to accept politically inconvenient facts.

The through-line of American politics is that only conservative political power is legitimate. 1/4

Not "defunded." Not "abolished." Imprisoned. These fuckers need to be *imprisoned.*

My new pet peeve is people collectively blaming America or Americans for hyper-partisanship and political divides, or radical nihilism. Everything I'm seeing points to this being the deliberate choice of a small number of people. 1/4.

Take all the money, divide by 330 million, redistribute.

Has anybody tried turning America off and then turning it on again?

So much - SO MUCH - of EEOC litigation is hostile-work-environment claims filled with stuff like, "people said I'm a jerk" and told me to "stay in my lane," and "I got investigated for toxic leadership" with "I was ordered to leave Person X alone" plus "I got a bad performance rating."

Remember: the first Trump impeachment was for him withholding weapons to a country under threat unless the newly-elected leader of that country conspired against a potential presidential candidate. That should have been an easy, easy conviction by any standard.

Man, being overweight is tough and losing weight is really, really hard. No judgment. But if you know you take up more than one airline seat, and you choose not to buy yourself a second seat, you are deliberately seizing part of a seat someone else paid for. It's just not fair.

Trump: murders, pardons criminals, tears down White House, sides with Russia, scapegoats minorities, threatens Canada and Greenland, issues demented rants. US voters: What bothers me is that he hasn't made prices go down.

Deeply curious what happened during Hegseth's show-cause board to make him hate law and lawyers so much. He was an officer: he had TDS counsel to rep him (or he paid someone). The trial counsel must have just wrecked his defense.

This seems topical.

Holy crap, yes. One thing I see from both pro se litigants and counsel are terrible arguments made to "beat me" rather than to win. I don't really feel sorry for either, since a pro se litigant is guilty of arrogance, and the lawyer is guilty of showboating.

I have never received a text asking me to phone bank, to distribute flyers, to door-knock, or to let me know when my next district Dem meeting is. I have, however, received roughly 5 million texts asking me to donate money or sign a bullshit poll (so far today). 1/4

Do me a favor and forward this post.This needs to get out to everyone. We need to be unified.