Dave Chapman
@madcapdave.bsky.social
Writer of plays and middle grade fiction.
How many days until we get reports of people deliberately eating the radioactive shrimp?
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
How many days until we get reports of people deliberately eating the radioactive shrimp?
I'm just glad Joe Lieberman isn't here to see this. He'd be so happy.
June 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I'm just glad Joe Lieberman isn't here to see this. He'd be so happy.
Valerian flowers look like a person made out of balloons.
May 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Valerian flowers look like a person made out of balloons.
"Dancing in the Sheets" by Shalamar is arguably the most successful song about inviting someone to a Klan rally.
May 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Dancing in the Sheets" by Shalamar is arguably the most successful song about inviting someone to a Klan rally.
I'd think I was too old to be radicalized, but it's one thing on top of another right now. None of this can be allowed to stand.
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I'd think I was too old to be radicalized, but it's one thing on top of another right now. None of this can be allowed to stand.
I know a lot has gone down over the last week, but this is as important as any of them. Trans rights are not a distraction. This is a matter of life and death.
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order threatening to override families with transgender youth and shut down access to gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 nationwide.
This order will not take immediate effect, and we will not allow this policy to stand.
This order will not take immediate effect, and we will not allow this policy to stand.
January 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I know a lot has gone down over the last week, but this is as important as any of them. Trans rights are not a distraction. This is a matter of life and death.
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“Just keep your kids off social media and the internet entirely” is an easy out for parents but impractical, socially bad for kids, and it doesn’t work. It’s like abstinence only sex ed. They’re going to encounter these things with or without your permission and better to prepare them.
January 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“Just keep your kids off social media and the internet entirely” is an easy out for parents but impractical, socially bad for kids, and it doesn’t work. It’s like abstinence only sex ed. They’re going to encounter these things with or without your permission and better to prepare them.
Reposted by Dave Chapman
Things that used to be common problems, according to 1980s television:
** Having all your money stolen while traveling abroad
** Having your body catch fire
** Having your dental work ruined because you chewed gum
** Static cling
** Having all your money stolen while traveling abroad
** Having your body catch fire
** Having your dental work ruined because you chewed gum
** Static cling
January 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Things that used to be common problems, according to 1980s television:
** Having all your money stolen while traveling abroad
** Having your body catch fire
** Having your dental work ruined because you chewed gum
** Static cling
** Having all your money stolen while traveling abroad
** Having your body catch fire
** Having your dental work ruined because you chewed gum
** Static cling
George and Lorraine McFly would be 88 years old this year. #BackInTime
January 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
George and Lorraine McFly would be 88 years old this year. #BackInTime
I have adored "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" since I was a wee lad. I wrote this several years ago, but after a re-watch this week, I've been thinking about it again. (1/x)
December 27, 2024 at 6:36 PM
I have adored "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" since I was a wee lad. I wrote this several years ago, but after a re-watch this week, I've been thinking about it again. (1/x)
According to my son, a "baker's few" is four.
December 21, 2024 at 5:11 PM
According to my son, a "baker's few" is four.
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid.
December 13, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid.
Kids today have no idea how prevalent cocaine was in the '80s. It was everywhere, even schools. It was in every classroom. Teachers kept it on the little tray underneath the chalkboard. It was wild.
December 11, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Kids today have no idea how prevalent cocaine was in the '80s. It was everywhere, even schools. It was in every classroom. Teachers kept it on the little tray underneath the chalkboard. It was wild.
Reposted by Dave Chapman
We surely didn’t have the money to promote my book the way the GOP promoted anti-trans rhetoric, but if you’re interested, I hope you’ll take the time to read the stories of these trans kids and the research examining trans-inclusive policies: a.co/d/fUVm5zh
November 24, 2024 at 5:33 PM
We surely didn’t have the money to promote my book the way the GOP promoted anti-trans rhetoric, but if you’re interested, I hope you’ll take the time to read the stories of these trans kids and the research examining trans-inclusive policies: a.co/d/fUVm5zh
I just donated $100 to Pizza to the Polls to help keep Democracy Delicious this year - you should too! #democracyisdelicious polls.pizza/donate
November 2, 2024 at 11:30 PM
I just donated $100 to Pizza to the Polls to help keep Democracy Delicious this year - you should too! #democracyisdelicious polls.pizza/donate
It would be cool if humans could fly, but I imagine it would be a lot like swimming. And then when your kids want to fly, you've got to be in the air with them for safety reasons. They'll want to jump off roofs and have you catch them. It sounds exhausting.
October 17, 2024 at 12:09 AM
It would be cool if humans could fly, but I imagine it would be a lot like swimming. And then when your kids want to fly, you've got to be in the air with them for safety reasons. They'll want to jump off roofs and have you catch them. It sounds exhausting.
I haven't seen the "Wild Robot" movie, but our family loves the book series. I'd put the first one on a list of all-time great books for children. (1/x)
October 10, 2024 at 9:03 PM
I haven't seen the "Wild Robot" movie, but our family loves the book series. I'd put the first one on a list of all-time great books for children. (1/x)
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that*.
*Be photographed in one of those enormous novelty chairs that makes a person appear comically small.
*Be photographed in one of those enormous novelty chairs that makes a person appear comically small.
September 3, 2024 at 3:40 AM
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that*.
*Be photographed in one of those enormous novelty chairs that makes a person appear comically small.
*Be photographed in one of those enormous novelty chairs that makes a person appear comically small.
We should all aspire to make our kids as proud of us as Gus Walz is proud of his dad.
August 22, 2024 at 8:15 PM
We should all aspire to make our kids as proud of us as Gus Walz is proud of his dad.
I don't wanna be a tiger
'cause tigers play too rough.
I don't wanna be a lion,
not for reasons related to their fierceness (similar to tigers), but rather because I am led to believe you simply don't like them.
'cause tigers play too rough.
I don't wanna be a lion,
not for reasons related to their fierceness (similar to tigers), but rather because I am led to believe you simply don't like them.
August 11, 2024 at 4:08 AM
I don't wanna be a tiger
'cause tigers play too rough.
I don't wanna be a lion,
not for reasons related to their fierceness (similar to tigers), but rather because I am led to believe you simply don't like them.
'cause tigers play too rough.
I don't wanna be a lion,
not for reasons related to their fierceness (similar to tigers), but rather because I am led to believe you simply don't like them.
Diet Mountain Dew is sure having a moment.
August 7, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Diet Mountain Dew is sure having a moment.
Trump: "No other other candidate will ever be more unhinged than me. I will say the most bizarre things you've ever heard, and you won't even know what I'm talking about."
Kennedy: "Hold my bear."
Kennedy: "Hold my bear."
August 5, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Trump: "No other other candidate will ever be more unhinged than me. I will say the most bizarre things you've ever heard, and you won't even know what I'm talking about."
Kennedy: "Hold my bear."
Kennedy: "Hold my bear."
One of the strangest realizations of my adult life has been that, while I like chocolate, I really prefer vanilla.
July 27, 2024 at 9:57 PM
One of the strangest realizations of my adult life has been that, while I like chocolate, I really prefer vanilla.
"The Heart of Rock and Roll" is a song about accepting the conventional wisdom.
July 22, 2024 at 11:24 PM
"The Heart of Rock and Roll" is a song about accepting the conventional wisdom.