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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I finally saw PROJECT HAIL MARY last night. Thoroughly entertaining, well paced, great cinematography, and a tremendous job on the part of Ryan Gosling holding the whole thing together alone on screen for 80% of the movie. (1/3) #ProjectHailMary

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Pixar’s latest, #HOPPERS, is bananas. It’s incredibly funny, it’s got a manic pace, and you never quite know where it’s going to go next. I really knew very little about the film going in, but I think it would have been even better if I had known absolutely nothing. (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

After the blatant murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by government agents — both captured by multiple cameras and both immediately lied about by the administration — the time for dialogue with these people is over. (1/7)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Here are photos of Virginia’s new Democratic governor, including one where she poses with all of the former living Virginia governors except one. Both Democrats and Republicans, standing side by side peacefully transferring power. (1/4) #Virginia #AbigailSpanberger

Abigail Spanberger posing with former Virginia governors

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

You can tell how darn wonderful I am by the number of morons I refrain from strangling on a daily basis. Today’s tally (so far) is three.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

We should start calling him Orangeymandias.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Consistency like Rian Johnson’s in his KNIVES OUT films is hard to to come by. I’m having a hard time thinking of any trilogy where all three films are legitimately as good as each other. But with WAKE UP DEAD MAN, Johnson’s done it. (1/6) #WakeUpDeadMan #KnivesOut #RianJohnson

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The first time I’ve taken a deep breath in months. Congratulations to Virginia, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, and everywhere else that Democrats surged yesterday. (One of those #Spanberger votes in VA was mine!) Hell, Democrats flipped two state Senate seats in frickin’ MISSISSIPPI.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Jimmy Wales, founder of #Wikipedia: “We’re designing everything for the long haul, and the only way we can last that long is not by pandering to this raging mob…but maintaining our values, maintaining our trustworthiness. We’re just going to do our thing, and we’re going to do it as well as we can.”

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I’ve had an epiphany. Almost every horrible thing Donald #Trump has done to this country thus far has been accomplished via executive order. This means the next president can simply reverse most of it, like Thanos, with a snap of his or her fingers. (1/7)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

What a peacemaker is our president! Finally, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. All it took was 70,000 dead (an estimated 80% civilians and 59% women and children), the destruction of most of Gaza, purposeful starvation… (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Charlie Kirk was a toxic shithead. Doesn’t mean he deserved to get shot in a public forum. The whole thing — everything that the US has become, thanks to MAGA — just makes me sad and depressed. And Kirk’s death will only enrage the Nazis all the more. How about no more killing? #CharlieKirk

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Discovered yesterday that INFOQUAKE has been released in Russia the best way possible: by receiving a fan email from a new reader in Belgorod thanking me for the fantastic book. A nice pick-me-up for the weekend.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I saw #FANTASTICFOUR: FIRST STEPS last night. The theater was surprisingly three-quarters full for a random Tuesday night, but unlike the SUPERMAN screening I attended, surprisingly quiet. No laughter, no cheering, no applause. (1/4)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

#SUPERMAN is colorful, overstuffed, and funny. It’s entertaining. But you know what? If this is the much-ballyhooed new direction for DC superhero flicks, then they’re in serious trouble. (1/7)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We defeated the Nazis once. We’ll do it again.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

A fabulous piece of art I discovered from the Swedish illustrated edition of #TheHobbit. That’s Bilbo confronting Gollum, believe it or not, by #ToveJansson. Apparently this illustration caused #JRRTolkien to amend the book, because he never clarified how big Gollum was in the first edition.

Bilbo confronting Gollum in his cave. Artwork by Tove Jansson.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

For those still keeping track, I am indeed still writing novels, and recently completed a first draft of a new standalone SF novel. The working title: THE TIMEPIECE OF GOD.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Why are we not treating #Trump like the existential threat to this country that he is? (1/13)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Many people have pointed out that AI Jedi Trump is carrying a red lightsaber, which indicates that he's a Sith. Fewer people have mentioned why he's wearing the brown robes. #JediTrump

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

We're about 100 days in. As I predicted (and Hillary Clinton echoed), the byword of the second Trump administration is "stupid." (1/9)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

So, that's it then. If the administration can send masked troops to forcibly kidnap someone off a US street, without judicial review or a warrant or even any accusation of a crime... ignore a judge's ruling that requires him to not be deported... (1/3)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I am running to be the President of the United States of America. Here is my very simple platform. 1. On Day One, I will reverse every single one of Donald Trump's idiotic executive orders. Every. Single. One. (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Let me get this straight. The US needs Greenland from "a security standpoint" as a bulwark against our enemies. But we don't need a strong, independent Ukraine allied with us as a bulwark against Russia? #Greenland #Ukraine

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Today's jaw-dropping statistic, courtesy of the judge who will be ruling shortly on Trump's transgender military ban. The DoD spends $5.2 million annually on medical care for gender dysphoria. It spends $42 million per year on medication for erectile dysfunction.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I keep compiling lists in my head of all the awful, terrible, illegal, immoral, unconstitutional things the Trump administration is doing, with the aim of making a viral social media post. Then I think: why? (1/6)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Today I stand with Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Wholeheartedly, unashamedly, unreservedly. #StandWithUkraine

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A helpful tip for keeping your sanity in these stressful times: Cholula goes on just about everything.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

So it's not ALL bad news in my life. Here is the cover for the upcoming Russian translation of INFOQUAKE, coming soon from Eksmo. I can't read a thing here, but it's some of the best artwork I've seen for my books. So moody and cyberpunk. I love it. #Infoquake

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The amount of stupid happening in the United States right now is staggering. (1/10)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Here's how you can tell that Trump's executive order banning trans people from the military is just pure bigotry. When Obama's Defense Secretary Ashton Carter lifted the trans military ban in 2016, he did so after a year-long study. (1/7)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Exhibit A for why I keep repeating that Trump is stupid and incompetent: the executive order on trans identity. (Actually, it's more like Exhibit ZZ part 4, but we're going to start over with the new administration.) Trump's order outlaws men. Really. No joke, as Joe Biden would say. (1/11)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I guess now we're a country run by traitors, idiots, and criminals, elected by the stupid and the misinformed, governed by malice and revenge, opposed to the judgments of scientists and experts, preying on the disadvantaged, and blaming our problems on immigrants. None of this is hyperbole.

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Just rewatched THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT tonight for the first time in decades. And I was amazed once again how the filmmakers managed to take three no-name actors, a virtually nonexistent script, and a handful of homemade props -- all dirt cheap... (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This is simple. Government should NOT be run like a business. The president is not the CEO, and the people are neither shareholders nor customers. Your taxes are not a way for you to buy goods and services from the government. It's just totally the wrong metaphor. (1/3)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Good on Joe Biden for pardoning his son Hunter. The orange buffoon has shown that the American justice system is broken. If DJT can be convicted of felonies and rape, attempt to steal an election, steal classified documents, and tamper with evidence -- without getting penalized for ANY of it --(1/3)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"Every time someone starts talking about final anythings in politics, that means the atrocities are warming up. Humanity has done amazing things by just muddling through, arguing and complaining and fighting and negotiating. It’s messy and undignified..." (1/3)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The kinds of serious conversations I'm hearing from friends and colleagues before the Stupid Brigade has even taken office: How long will we be safe here as Jews? How long will our black and brown friends and family members be safe? (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I saw that #Trump's people are "vetting" one of his potential cabinet members. And I thought, how does that process work exactly? (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows" -- Leonard Cohen

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

All those worried that #Trump 2.0 will bring about the Third Reich, your fears are misplaced. What's coming isn't 1938 Germany. It's "Idiocracy." Trump is not driven by ideology. He doesn't have a philosophy in his bloviating orange head. All he wants is money and adulation. (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Thinking about #healthcare options in this new American world. Old World: Trump wouldn't just cancel millions of #Obamacare plans without giving us an alternative, would he? That would be political suicide. (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

All I have to offer today is myself. The country may have changed, but I haven't. LGBTQ people, I'm going to continue standing up for your rights. POC and immigrants, I've got your back in whatever ways I can. (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

This is pretty damn simple. Don't shoot him. Don't shoot AT him. Don't hope for his death in any way. Don't cross your fingers and wish that his plane goes down. If he's choking to death and you're walking by, give him the Heimlich maneuver. (1/2)

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

An orange butt was kicked, and an unhinged ex-president's name was taken. #WereNotGoingBack

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David Louis Edelman @davidlouisedelman.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Do zombies poop? (Asking the important questions here.)

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