David D. Levine
@daviddlevine.com
Hugo- and Nebula-winning writer of THE KUIPER BELT JOB, the ARABELLA OF MARS trilogy, and over 60 science fiction and fantasy stories. He/him.
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David D. Levine
@daviddlevine.com
· Nov 16
My most recent novel is space opera caper novel THE KUIPER BELT JOB and you can learn all about it, including where to buy it, here: daviddlevine.com/story/the-ku...
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Commercial for Sunsweet pitted prunes, from the 1960s, featuring Ray Bradbury. Written, I gather, by Stan Freberg.
(1-min video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Nx...
(1-min video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Nx...
Ray Bradbury Prunes Commercial
YouTube video by Thessair
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Commercial for Sunsweet pitted prunes, from the 1960s, featuring Ray Bradbury. Written, I gather, by Stan Freberg.
(1-min video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Nx...
(1-min video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Nx...
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Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?
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Overpass Visibility Brigade joins “We Ain’t Buying It “ and says no to Target, Home Depot and Amazon on Black Friday thru Cyber Monday #WeAintBuyingIt weaintbuyingit.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Overpass Visibility Brigade joins “We Ain’t Buying It “ and says no to Target, Home Depot and Amazon on Black Friday thru Cyber Monday #WeAintBuyingIt weaintbuyingit.com
This #longread helped me understand the "middle class's" anger and frustration with those less well off. The real poverty line—the threshold where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation—isn’t $31,200. It’s ~$140,000.
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This #longread helped me understand the "middle class's" anger and frustration with those less well off. The real poverty line—the threshold where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation—isn’t $31,200. It’s ~$140,000.
A Portland theater with a tawdry past will reopen as a burlesque venue
A Portland theater with a tawdry past will reopen as a burlesque venue
The renovated Can Can’s Paris Theatre will accommodate 100-140 people in a combination of theater seating, table seating and standing room space.
www.oregonlive.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A Portland theater with a tawdry past will reopen as a burlesque venue
“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.”
November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.”
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What's your favorite way to prepare yams?
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What's your favorite way to prepare yams?
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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I've said since Trump picked on Mahmoud Khalil that he was picking his political martyrs poorly.
But this one...
But this one...
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I've said since Trump picked on Mahmoud Khalil that he was picking his political martyrs poorly.
But this one...
But this one...
Mike Johnson seems bound and determined to invoke the Streisand Effect on Trump's illegal orders.
The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Mike Johnson seems bound and determined to invoke the Streisand Effect on Trump's illegal orders.
I just heard about the "Frieran angle" thing and I thought at first it was something like a "Dutch angle." Haha yeah no.
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I just heard about the "Frieran angle" thing and I thought at first it was something like a "Dutch angle." Haha yeah no.
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Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
From Thanksgiving to "Cyber Monday," boycott Amazon, Target, and Home Depot. Hit the fascists where it hurts…in the wallet. #WeAintBuyingIt
Between Thursday and next Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
From Thanksgiving to "Cyber Monday," boycott Amazon, Target, and Home Depot. Hit the fascists where it hurts…in the wallet. #WeAintBuyingIt
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This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
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New blog post. :) Short version: "We are on the cusp of an age of unreality, and the danger it poses to us, and to the planet we inhabit, is enormous."
theodoragoss.com/2025/11/23/t...
theodoragoss.com/2025/11/23/t...
The Real and the Unreal: A Manifesto
When I was in college, the task of the researcher was to find information. When I was in graduate school, it was to sort through information. This spring, when my students arrive at the university,…
theodoragoss.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New blog post. :) Short version: "We are on the cusp of an age of unreality, and the danger it poses to us, and to the planet we inhabit, is enormous."
theodoragoss.com/2025/11/23/t...
theodoragoss.com/2025/11/23/t...
This thoughtful thread from the always-brilliant Derek Guy discusses how we ought to strive to behave in society, via Christianity, chastity, propriety, and fashion.
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This thoughtful thread from the always-brilliant Derek Guy discusses how we ought to strive to behave in society, via Christianity, chastity, propriety, and fashion.
I'm not even sure where I'm "from." Where I was born? Where I grew up? Where I live now?
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I'm not even sure where I'm "from." Where I was born? Where I grew up? Where I live now?
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Good news, and the culmination of years of research into preventing food allergies.
The article doesn’t mention it, but the original impetus for this research came from an alumnus of my high school, Gideon Lack. 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
The article doesn’t mention it, but the original impetus for this research came from an alumnus of my high school, Gideon Lack. 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good news, and the culmination of years of research into preventing food allergies.
The article doesn’t mention it, but the original impetus for this research came from an alumnus of my high school, Gideon Lack. 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
The article doesn’t mention it, but the original impetus for this research came from an alumnus of my high school, Gideon Lack. 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
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Right now, talking to Copilot in Windows 11 is an exercise in pure frustration — a stark reminder that the reality of AI is nowhere close to the hype.
Read more from @superantonio64.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/82244...
Read more from @superantonio64.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/82244...
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Right now, talking to Copilot in Windows 11 is an exercise in pure frustration — a stark reminder that the reality of AI is nowhere close to the hype.
Read more from @superantonio64.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/82244...
Read more from @superantonio64.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/82244...