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Allen W Snyder

@allenwsnyder.bsky.social
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He/him/his. Retired computer scientist. #StandWithPlannedParenthood

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
SON: dad, how did you get the nickname “huge gigantic moron”? DAD: well son, it all started when i became a republican
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Now this article is fascinating. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
theguardian.com
The most dangerous delivery truck? How a lorry-load of antimatter will help solve secrets of universe
Fantastically expensive and hard to handle, the substance holds the key to a holy grail of science. And experts at Cern now know how to transport it
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Sure there’s all three Portishead albums, Kate Bush, some early Queen, Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, Milla Jovovich’s only album, Fish-era Marillion, New Pornographers, but if forced to choose absolute favorite album: The Letting Go by Bonnie “Prince” Billy. youtu.be/A6E3VUS7b8k
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No Bad News
YouTube video by Bonnie Prince Billy - Topic
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In general, this is a terrible idea, but in Snyder’s case I doubt anyone could tell the difference. (I will go to my grave saying this: While it’s hardly great cinema, the Whedon cut of Justice League is *vastly* superior to the drudgery of the so-called Snyder cut.)
Director Zack Snyder looking undeservedly smug and claiming that filmmakers should embrace AI
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
For me, nothing else even remotely comes close (though I do like the soundtrack for the first Life Is Strange game, which included great tracks from Amanda Palmer, Alt-J, and others).
Nier: Automata game cover for PS4, with its (European) PEGI18 warning.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m not really a podcast listener usually, but I’ve listened to a lot of these and they’re *really* good. Jess is a fantastic moderator/interviewer imo.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Me voting in 2016 vs me voting in 2024
Agatha Harkness in a colorful 70s getup looking happyAgatha Harkness in full witch gear looking angry
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I’m wearing this shirt until Kamala gets elected, so if Trump wins tomorrow*, things are going to get real stinky real fast. *Not very likely imo
Me in Harris/Walz 2024 t-shirt petting our golden retriever Cedar, so the shirt likely has a lot of dog fur on it already. The shirts yellow though, so the dog fur is not noticeable.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Received the email from MD that my mail-in ballot had been received—I dropped it at a drop box instead of actually mailing it. So here’s all the “I Voted” stickers they sent me.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
To all those cancelling their Los Angeles Times and Washington Post subscriptions: The Philadelphia Inquirer is quite good and can use your dollars, and their stories are fairly well written. (They do tend to be a little provincial, but more dollars equals more reporters they can hire.) 1/2
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
The actor from Resident Alien, etc. is now on Bluesky. Go follow him everyone!
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
I am once again in Safeway having one of the worst experiences possible in a grocery store
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
I warned y’all. Avert your eyes and send kids to other rooms.
Me in bright yellow Harris/Walz 2024 t-shirtMe in bright yellow Harris Walz 2024 t-shirt petting our golden
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mark magark @markedly.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
[moments after installing a new toilet because the old one got ruined when I flushed a potato] ok now let's see how this bad boy does with a potato
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
The plush I picked up from the Disney Pride collection. (I did wait for it to go on sale tbh.)
Disney Stitch plush with rainbow sunglasses and rainbow shirt
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Just ordered this yellow one. Fair warning: I will post a pic of me in it once it arrives. Shield your eyes; send your kids to the other room. It's being sold by award-winning author Michael Chabon. All proceeds go to the Harris/Walz campaign. www.bonfire.com/white-house-...
bonfire.com
White House Rock Shirts | Bonfire
Gen X Knows What It Takes . The day Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz to be her running mate, I felt the call, my generation’s call. To do something, make something, to celebrate...
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a big fan of Obama/Biden, even though it took Obama far too long to realize the republican party are now just pouty children who can’t be negotiated with, but Harris/Walz is the best Presidential ticket this country has ever had.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
I think my favorite Olympic sport is now BMX Freestyle. There are a lot of sports I know I couldn’t do at all (besides all of them), gymnastics rings, figure skating, but good lord. Other than some minor mountain biking, I don’t even like the wheels of my bike to leave the ground at all.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Picking up the RV today for emissions test, a worker at the storage place said, “What have you got, malaria?” Folks, you’ll be proud that I kept myself from saying, “What have you got, stupidity?” I kept to the slightly less aggro, “No, but I’m smarter than those who know nothing about science.”
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
Anyway, check out this muppet.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
Obviously Hunter isn’t on the ballot, so his convictions are irrelevant to who I’ll be voting for, but I’d still vote for Hunter over literally any republican.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
This would be our daughter too, even at 13 (Representative Weinstein is a Democratic US House member from Ohio.)
Grocery list with only the word “cat” on it, checkbox for the item currently unchecked.
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
hey mrs alito here's a new flag for you
a red white and blue graphic of all 34 guilty trump counts presented as a flag on a flagpole
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
I almost forget to post squishy face
Golden retriever laying such that his face is all squished on one side
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Only a good toddler with a gun... (Replies from gun humpers will be blocked.)
News story from The Baltimore Banner about a 2-year-old shot and wounded in Severn, MD
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
“My beautiful blue eyes” made me literally LOL (Remember that tweet where he called Barron “my very tall son”? Same energy.)
A Trump “truth” saying that he doesn’t fall asleep in court but simply closes his “beautiful blue eyes.”

Bwaah, hah, hah, hah, hah…
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Not me grinning throughout this whole column. (Gift article, btw.) wapo.st/3Qh5FSp
wapo.st
Opinion | Trump was going to dominate the courtroom. Instead, he is shrinking.
Trump wrongly thought he might win the presidency on the courtroom steps.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Lisa wanted a bigger microwave plate cover that was less likely to touch the food, so I got this collapsible one. It’s huge. I’ve taken to calling it Sir Topham Hat* *A joke Lisa appreciated enough that she *spoiled* me telling it to Evangeline by telling her on the way home from school.
A large collapsible microwave plate cover for preventing splatters, shown both expanded and collapsed.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
Hey everybody, this is how I want to die
Potato chip bag whose flavor is “Death by Garlic”
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Cedar and his trash collection. His hunting was very successful today.
Golden retriever on leash with several pieces of trash in his mouth that he picked up while going walksies
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
You know what you call a political conference that lets Nazis mingle openly? A meeting of the Nazi Party. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies
The presence of these extremists has been a persistent issue at CPAC, and in previous years conference organizers have ejected well-known Nazis and white supremacists such as Nick Fuentes.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
Doctor: You are taking your blood pressure meds with a glass of water? Me: A few sips of coffee?
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
They lick it with their tongue
CNet headline saying, "The Trick Chefs Use to Tell When Steak Is Perfectly Cooked," along with a picture of a well-seared and delicious looking steak.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Make up your mind, CNet
CNet headlines asking obverse headlines about when you should file your taxes
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
Using one of his toys as a chin rest
Golden retriever with his chin resting on a dog toy
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Next time I injure myself, I’m going to pull up this page and hit the pronunciation button www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/o...
merriam-webster.com
Definition of OWIE
a usually minor injury (such as a bruise or a scratch) —used by or for children or in imitation of children's speech… See the full definition
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Every trip to Safeway reminds me why we almost always go to Wegman’s. (But Safeway is two minutes away, while Wegman’s is 20.)
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
This is why I’m stuck on the couch this morning
Golden retriever sleeping on couch using my foot and leg as pillow
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Cedar surveying his domain over the back of the couch, then pretending he has no idea what “off” means
Golden retriever hanging over back of couch, looking off to the rightGolden retriever hanging over back of couch, looking straight at viewer
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
A tail, er, I mean to say tale, in two parts
Doggie nose poking through slats in deck railThe rest of the doggie, a golden retriever, on the other side of the slats
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Cedar with the baggie of grapes he found on his walk this morning, and did *not* want to give up
Cedar with baggie of grapes, looking to the rightCedar the golden retriever with a baggie of grapes looking backwardsCedar with a baggie of grapes looking off into the distance
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
I’m pretty sure the movie will not be to all of your tastes—it is extremely art-housy—but Emma Stone’s performance in “Poor Things” is astonishing and brilliant, and pretty brave for someone who could stick strictly to mainstream movies if she wishes. My score: 8.0
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Games Played 2023 Witcher 3—Score: 9.7 Ghost of Tsushima (replay)—8.5 Cyberpunk 2077—8.5 Assassin’s Creed Valhalla—8.0 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey—9.5 Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 and Phantom Liberty DLC—8.5 Alan Wake Remastered (replay)—7.0 Alan Wake 2—8.0 (Continued in reply)
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Favorite Games all-time as of 20 Dec 2023 1-Horizon Zero Dawn 2-Horizon Forbidden West 3-Witcher 3 4-Nier: Automata 5, 6 (tie)-Life Is Strange and Life Is Strange: Before the Storm Rest of top 10 are unranked: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Control Doki Doki Literature Club The Longest Journey
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Me watching the fantastic “A Murder at the End of the World,”* set in Iceland: “Ooh, I want to live there!” Me reading this article (gift article for y’all): “Uh, maybe not.” *I will watch anything Brit Marling is involved in writing.
nytimes.com
After Weeks of Warnings, Iceland Volcano Erupts in Plumes of Fire
While Monday’s eruption was not unexpected, it was larger than volcanologists had been predicting and took place not far from an evacuated town and a power plant.
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
We bought and put together a bunk bed for Evangeline when she was much younger, and she slept in the top bunk for many years. Now that she’s too big for the top bunk, this is its use as an Ark.
Bunk bed with the top bunk absolutely stuffed with stuffed animals (and unicorns, and Pokémon, and…)
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
oh no i crashed my cybertruck
a crumpled wad of tinfoil
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
LOL
Email claiming to be from Google where interior text includes the text “Google (Not scam)”
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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Sometimes it’s worth it just to walk around in Spider-Man 2 just to see some of the fake ads, like this movie poster.
Movie poster for “647 Ways to Die,” with the tagline, “The sequel to 646 Ways to Die.”
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