There is nothing happy about this 4th. We are an insane, self-delusional country. This is proven almost every day now. #guncontrol

Someone should make a pie with a cake inside.

“You’re never as safe as you believe you are.” ancient proverb I just made up

Let’s just all call it a week already and have a 9 day weekend.

Ideas aren’t always good. But they need to be acknowledged or they will fester and die.

“Good to see you, John. It’s been years. How many?” “About 7.” “Wow! That long? You look better than when you were dead.” #writing #throwawayline

Plans for tomorrow: get back to iOS get back to Python get back to practicing sending Morse read plan/write errands

Cool cool. Someone just asked me about my book. Another copy sold. That makes 4? Lol. I don’t write for the money ;) #writing

American English is bizarre. At a restaurant you ask for a check instead of a bill, as if you’re expecting to get paid instead of paying. Even born here, I find the language illogical. #marketing #english #failure

The rain is polluted. The air is polluted. The land is polluted. We tried to remake the planet in our own image. We succeeded. #writing #life

The sky above, and the ground beneath my feet are all artificial. #civilization #future #failure

“Chance didn’t need a rapper. It had a comedian, Andrew Dice Clay.” #writing #throwawayline

“He wheezed, coughing phlegm. Years of licking his cats clean had taken their toll.” #writing #throwawayline

It’s not enough to want a better world. You have to work to get one. #life #success

What if an intelligent zombie evolved and realizing zombies are inherently dumb, started a zombie college, only to discover no one applied because, you know, zombies are dumb. Which begs the question, how do zombies procreate and evolve? @JonathanMaberry #writing #prompt #cult

“Feel your heart beat against mine. Wait–yours isn’t beating.” #writing #throwawayline

“AI companions will be smart enough to target ads without you knowing about it while making love to you. That’s how you control a species.” Harry Seldon

The problem with the world today is people never get their comeuppance. #life

It’s nice when someone does something nice for you. Do something nice for someone. #life #success

Haters and users believe that if they are in a group of like-minded people that they are among friends. Haters and users tend to turn on one another. #fascist #life #failure

Hm. No traffic today. It must be the end of the world. Maybe we can get a fresh start and clean up the mess that was left by haters and users.

You are a bacon of hope.

Just because it’s July 4th don’t forget that it is actually Independence Day here, and this year whole swaths of citizens have lost a lot of independence due to SCOTUS. #july4

Time to switch it up. Sailor Compass Transparent Blue/Silver (MF) w/ Sailor Shirley Souten. #fountainpen @gouletpens

OK. I just submitted my short story “Hookup” to the Creatures, Crime, and Creativity anthology. Time for a break, then on to editing “The Singular Case of the Dead Cowboy” (tentative title), my Watsonian novel. #mdc3con #writing #holmes