David Lee Zweifler

It's my goal that, one day in the not-too-distant future, authors will be scammed by someone claiming to be me.

If you have no education debt, your kids are grown, your mortgage is paid on a property with thirty years of low-interest-rate equity built in, and your healthcare is provided free by the government, please understand why I view your optimism about the future with a certain degree of skepticism.

In my sophomore year of high school, I received a lower-than-expected grade on my final exam from a teacher.

I was recently shocked to learn that this woman is a narco terrorist.

Who can I contact about this? 🤣

The physics that explains why I gain weight when I work from home.

Until I get the melanoma removed, I'm going to make it super, super uncomfortable for anyone trying to trick me with the "Does your face hurt? Well, it's killing me!" joke. ("Well, it's killing me also! Are you happy now?!")

Sauron is working at Cheesecake Factory now

Amsterdam Joins Paris, Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Budapest, Rome, And Other Premier European Cities In Imposing Stricter Tourist Tax To Regulate Visitor Numbers And Enhance Urban Livability - Travel An... Amsterdam joins Paris, Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Budapest, Rome, and other premier European cities in imposing stricter tourist tax to regulate visitor numbers and enhance urban livability.

Say what you want about our current administration, we're not going to have to pass Draconian measures to bring down tourism in the US this year: European Cities In Imposing Stricter Tourist Tax To Regulate Visitor Numbers share.google/CIWTVupb09IF...

Did she also get sent to prison for creating shareholder value?

Why private equity is stuck with 'zombie companies' it can't sell Private equity firms are facing a new reality: a growing crop of companies that can neither thrive nor die, lingering in portfolios like the undead.

CNBC buries the lede a bit when they get a private equity expert to admit that the "retailization" of private equity is designed to tranfer their unsellable assets to individuals... in the last few paragraphs of the story. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/w...

Conservation body asks Israel to protect rodent vulnerable to extinction International Union for Conservation of Nature asks Israel Nature and Parks Authority to protect endemic Buxton's jird in sandy area set for development in central Rishon Lezion

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The chilling final chapter to Y'All Go Die Now, Y'Hear and Bless Your Disembodied Heart.

If you only read one stereotypical Southern horror novel this year... let it be... Author's Name's, The Monsters In Them There Woods.

Canada’s premier speculative fiction magazine calls it a day after 35 years | CBC Arts Edmonton-based On Spec, which showcased authors like Julie E. Czerneda, Tony Pi and a young Cory Doctorow, will publish its final issue in December

Heartbroken to see this. www.cbc.ca/arts/on-spec...

James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

Watson given attention for another discovery that was first made by Rosalind Franklin. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

Thank you for the kind words about my story.

To paraphrase Big Daddy Kane, foraging ain't easy.

Why I'm glad Second Amendment rights don't apply to pets.

My dog barks when anyone walks through the front door.

Had a dream last night that she was spending her time alone in the house watching Fox News. When I got home and walked through the door, she was yelling, in dog language, "It's like they said! The squirrels are coming! They're here!"

a bald man is laughing with his mouth open while wearing a robe . ALT: a bald man is laughing with his mouth open while wearing a robe .

(Intrusive thoughts as I prepare foraged puffball mushrooms for dinner.)

The latter always tells me that they fall all the time and they don't need care and they're correct until the last call from a friend or neighborwhen I'm doing a wellness check.

I can't remember the last time I tried to coerce a healthy person into an ambulance for a ride which makes absolutely no difference for my income. I do recall dozens of calls from folks with repeated falls due to serious health issues who have me help them up and then refuse medical care. #emt

Analog: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise Analog 5-6/25 “Isolate” by Tom R. Pike opens the May/June issue of Analog with a thoughtful reflection on language and colonialism. Sister Arzhana is a linguist sent to study the language of the Ga…

I definitely have to make some noise about the awesome @acwise.bsky.social calling Ronan's my recent story in Analog "effective... quiet science fiction."

Thanks for giving it a read A.C.! locusmag.com/2025/09/anal...

Generally speaking, digital transformation is the relentless pursuit of converting fairly priced things that we like and need into poor counterfeits that can be produced at scale for low- or no cost.

I'm pleased I had the opportunity to experience a pre-AI world, but I grieve for my children.

Philly road trip. (We're halfway there. 🤣)

Got paid today

Unfortunately this strategy also keeps people from reading my work, but you take the good with the bad I guess.

USCSS Maginot, eh?

Someone at Weyland Yutani in charge of ship naming is sooooo fired.

PSA: Don't fondle wheat if you ever plan on seeing your family again.

Well partner, I'm afraid that this here town ain't big enough for two emergent medical professionals

If you're in a workplace that has a pack of these sitting next to the phone, let's grab a beer sometime.

Snoopy: Woodstock! What is good in life?

Woodstock: ||||!!!!!!''''''