David Reiffel
@reiffelmusic.bsky.social
Creator of words, music, and sound for theater. Also, as of the last few years, teacher of same. Listen at soundcloud.com/davidreiffel
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Rattlesnake
Sea cucumber
Bison
Blue heron
Praying mantis
Rattlesnake
Sea cucumber
Bison
Blue heron
Praying mantis
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Roadrunner
Hog-nose snake
Opossum
Harbor seal
Loon
Roadrunner
Hog-nose snake
Opossum
Harbor seal
Loon
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Fox
Puffin
Ibis
Slow Worm
Quokka
Fox
Puffin
Ibis
Slow Worm
Quokka
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Rattlesnake
Sea cucumber
Bison
Blue heron
Praying mantis
Rattlesnake
Sea cucumber
Bison
Blue heron
Praying mantis
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Philip K Dick dystopia novel ass country
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Philip K Dick dystopia novel ass country
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Beth Macy never thought she would run for Congress. But she knows democracy is on the line and couldn't resist the pleas of those who believe she's the only candidate who can beat the awful Ben Cline.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
Update your bingo card
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Beth Macy never thought she would run for Congress. But she knows democracy is on the line and couldn't resist the pleas of those who believe she's the only candidate who can beat the awful Ben Cline.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
I’m not in it, but I just looked up Stephen Sondheim for fun and he’s there. This spreads wide.
1. Great, let's do this
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I’m not in it, but I just looked up Stephen Sondheim for fun and he’s there. This spreads wide.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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No Starbucks 'til workers get more bucks
(and whatever else it is they are striking for)
(and whatever else it is they are striking for)
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
No Starbucks 'til workers get more bucks
(and whatever else it is they are striking for)
(and whatever else it is they are striking for)
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
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Please share: Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t want you to know her opponent’s name. That’s how desperate she is to keep her seat.
I’m Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, and farmer. I’m running against her. Join me live now:
I’m Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, and farmer. I’m running against her. Join me live now:
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October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Please share: Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t want you to know her opponent’s name. That’s how desperate she is to keep her seat.
I’m Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, and farmer. I’m running against her. Join me live now:
I’m Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, and farmer. I’m running against her. Join me live now:
Carmilla.
Yf thou see thys, quote wyth a vampyre that ys not Dracula
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Carmilla.
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After being told for decades that reparations are a non-starter, Trump is about to give himself $230 million because our government tried to apply the law to him.
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
After being told for decades that reparations are a non-starter, Trump is about to give himself $230 million because our government tried to apply the law to him.
TEAR DOWN THAT EAST WING OR I’LL FLY MY POOPBOMBER OVER YOUR MOTHER’S BURTHDAY BARBECUE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
TEAR DOWN THAT EAST WING OR I’LL FLY MY POOPBOMBER OVER YOUR MOTHER’S BURTHDAY BARBECUE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Just (re-)discovered on Spotify the arrangement of Jacques Brel's "The Desperate Ones" I made decades ago for the Harvard Din and Tonics. I think it holds up nicely. open.spotify.com/track/1Gyh3Y...
The Desperate Ones
open.spotify.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Just (re-)discovered on Spotify the arrangement of Jacques Brel's "The Desperate Ones" I made decades ago for the Harvard Din and Tonics. I think it holds up nicely. open.spotify.com/track/1Gyh3Y...
With Mad King Supreme at Boston No Kings!
October 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
With Mad King Supreme at Boston No Kings!
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This is TODAY!
Fenway Health, MA’s “leader in trans care,” without any change of law or direct requirement, has made the choice to abandon trans kids to a sudden discontinuation of care.
We need to see folks out there protesting this cowardly decision today - show up for trans kids, Boston!
Fenway Health, MA’s “leader in trans care,” without any change of law or direct requirement, has made the choice to abandon trans kids to a sudden discontinuation of care.
We need to see folks out there protesting this cowardly decision today - show up for trans kids, Boston!
October 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This is TODAY!
Fenway Health, MA’s “leader in trans care,” without any change of law or direct requirement, has made the choice to abandon trans kids to a sudden discontinuation of care.
We need to see folks out there protesting this cowardly decision today - show up for trans kids, Boston!
Fenway Health, MA’s “leader in trans care,” without any change of law or direct requirement, has made the choice to abandon trans kids to a sudden discontinuation of care.
We need to see folks out there protesting this cowardly decision today - show up for trans kids, Boston!
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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.
October 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.
Can anyone recommend Bluesky threads/folx who are discussing AI/LLM in music? I’m following a lot of threads and reading a lot of articles but it’s all prose or visual arts. I know it must be out there but I’m not finding it. Thanks!
October 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Can anyone recommend Bluesky threads/folx who are discussing AI/LLM in music? I’m following a lot of threads and reading a lot of articles but it’s all prose or visual arts. I know it must be out there but I’m not finding it. Thanks!
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Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
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Who has watched the 24 hour live stream so far that the house Dems are doing on the shutdown?????
This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...
This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...
Stop the Republican Shutdown PT.2
YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Who has watched the 24 hour live stream so far that the house Dems are doing on the shutdown?????
This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...
This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...
“Model companies have successfully convinced everybody that the issue is that users are prompting the models wrong, and that people need to be “trained to use AI,” . . . (Continues, with link)
September 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“Model companies have successfully convinced everybody that the issue is that users are prompting the models wrong, and that people need to be “trained to use AI,” . . . (Continues, with link)
“Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack, a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in”
Happy birthday Leonard Cohen. His memory is a blessing, no “may” about it.
Happy birthday Leonard Cohen. His memory is a blessing, no “may” about it.
September 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack, a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in”
Happy birthday Leonard Cohen. His memory is a blessing, no “may” about it.
Happy birthday Leonard Cohen. His memory is a blessing, no “may” about it.
I just learned the phrase “kitsch Christianity” and will be deploying it in future. Also (unrelated, I suppose): is the product of generative AI kitsch? (See the definition in the linked article.)
"MAGA Christianity is not Christianity in any meaningful sense. It is kitsch Christianity: emotionally loaded symbols stripped of theological depth and deployed as an anxiety management system."
cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/lost-in-th...
cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/lost-in-th...
Lost In the Kingdom of Kitsch
Kitsch, addiction, and the emotional architecture of MAGA
cybelecanterel.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I just learned the phrase “kitsch Christianity” and will be deploying it in future. Also (unrelated, I suppose): is the product of generative AI kitsch? (See the definition in the linked article.)
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“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”
September 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”
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open.substack.com/pub/americas...
When Nazi street thug Horst Wessel got killed in 1930 over a dispute about rent and a woman, Goebbels turned him into a martyr.
When Nazi street thug Horst Wessel got killed in 1930 over a dispute about rent and a woman, Goebbels turned him into a martyr.
American Carnage
The Violence We Accept and The Violence We Don't
open.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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When Nazi street thug Horst Wessel got killed in 1930 over a dispute about rent and a woman, Goebbels turned him into a martyr.
When Nazi street thug Horst Wessel got killed in 1930 over a dispute about rent and a woman, Goebbels turned him into a martyr.