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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Neko Case we’ve seen in concert twice (and the New Pornographers four times), but Scritti Politti. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone else talk about them. I still have the vinyl that I bought in the 80s of their album with their only US hit.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I’ll probably get a PS6 whenever it arrives, but honestly, at 59 years old I don’t know how many more gaming years I have in me. (And there always seem to be innovative games coming out that I hadn’t expected to be. E.g., in the past year I played Immortality and both AI: The Somnium Files games.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I almost said that 7yo me would be disgusted at the number of socks, towels, and bars of soap I enthusiastically buy, but then I remember how happy I was buying soap when I was ~10. (Then, as now, my name is germaphobe.)

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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 · 15/12/2024

Broil them in olive oil with their new bigness, they sexy af

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I’d try any of their zero sugar flavors, though I doubt any will replace zero sugar cherry as my favorite.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I’m saved by my introvertedness. I don’t want to “chat” with anyone, so chatting with some rando is a no go. (Plus, given the deets, sounds like a scammer.)

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I used a Burley trailer when Evangeline was a toddler too. I remember once I had to pick her up from Kinder Care in my car, and she started crying as soon as we stepped out of the building and she saw that the bike/trailer weren’t there.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I distinctly remember the Turf Valley Country Club being in the news for a racist incident when I moved to MD in the late 80s, and I found this article from back then (gift link). His dad sounds like a real winner. 👌🏻 wapo.st/3DaMC8I

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CONTROVERSY COURTS TURF VALLEY OWNER

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ha, ha, their replies to themselves

Two replies to their own post, the first saying, “Say AI art again. Say it one more time,” and the second saying, “They haven’t invented an AI that can do what we do as poorly as we do it.”

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I also like the Inquirer (Philly). It’s very local focused, but has some good national news coverage. (Plus Philly is my wife’s birthplace and she has a lot of relatives in the area.) For local news to me, The Baltimore Banner was a great replacement once the fascist Sinclair owner bought the Sun.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The Guardian is great. And for those missing the (really) old Time or Newsweek, their mailed Guardian Weekly covers a lot of ground news-wise, and covers a sub to their website for regular daily news too.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

(Also, the director’s The Black Phone is one of my favorite movies of the last five years.)

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I literally want to see it now. (And Apple TV+ continues to be the streaming network with the highest wheat-to-chaff ratio.)

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The last 30 seconds or so of the posted track—“Hey, little bird”—is so beautiful it gives me goose bumps.

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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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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Not excusing them even if the particular quip was clever, but I can honestly say I’ve never seen one that was even remotely clever.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Have you ever tried their BLT? OMG. *I had a heart attack—my very first—about three weeks ago, and had three Five Guys’ BLTs in the prior month. But remember: Correlation does not prove causation.

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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 · 03/12/2024

I always thought I was a weirdo for loving split pea soup, because nobody I know IRL even likes it. I just had a heart attack a couple weeks back—stent now inserted—so I have to ask: What’s the sodium content on that delicious looking soup?

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

All classes deserve…the meats!

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

C’mon, I know how to spell your last name…sort of…well, I know it doesn’t have a “u” in it.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Richard Roeper has a 3-1/2 (of four) star review of a Yacht Rock documentary on HBO. It has this quote: “Director Price gets the reclusive Donald Fagen on the phone and explains the subject of his documentary, Fagen says, ‘Oh, Yacht Rock. Well, I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you go f- - - yourself?’”

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The Pink Moon spot is incredible. Introduced me and a whole lot of others to the late, incredibly brilliant Nick Drake. Plus the whole storyline and mood of the ad is awe inspiring. (Still never inspired me to buy a VW, though we do like that new electric VW van.)

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

You could just play them Arlo’s The Motorcycle Song today to make up for it.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

You and Keith Edwards right next to each other in my timeline, with exactly the same complaint about “Wicked.”

Two posts next to each other, each with the only complaint about “Wicked” being that Defying Gravity is “effed up,” basically.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

As long as it doesn’t have raindrops covering the lenses of half the cameras, it’s a step up. *I’m being forced to watch Macys’. Please save me.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The question would be if it’s in print at this time, but a used copy would certainly work. Also, her Marianne trilogy is one of the best fantasy works I’ve ever read. It’s definitely out of print, but I think the used book prices for it have come down from when I paid $80 for the final volume.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I know you didn’t care for one of Sheri S. Tepper’s books, but her earlier “Grass” is one of the best sci-fi books I’ve ever read (and as far as I can remember is not post-apocalyptic and features neither of the things you mention). It also received basically a rave review from the NY Times.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Sometimes you just need to let things gestate. I remember writing the 1st page of a poli sci paper in college and thinking it was horrible. Let it sit for several days, re-read it, and thought, “Wow, this is pretty good.” I’m sure I did some editing, but I finished the paper and ended up with an A.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

And I had a heart attack just two weeks ago. Either of those events alone would have made it the worst month of my entire life. (To be clear, the two events are probably unrelated, though there was certainly plenty of stress from the election that might have been a contributing factor. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

TFW you get to read the same sentence three times in a row* *NOT a complaint

ceeks post uses a sentence in a meme, repeating a vineyville post she quote posted with the meme, immediately followed in my timeline by the original vineyville post.

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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 · 24/11/2024

Completely understand why anyone famous doesn’t follow-back everyone. They would never see what I posted anyway. My most famous follow was that Allison Tolman followed me for many years on Twitter (until I quit it), and she followed me even though I wasn’t following her. I followed back, of course.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I don’t remember the actual names: —Homer goes to clown college —“Lisa needs braces” “Dental plan” (Strike at the nuclear plant) —The nerds episode. (Homer causes a real meltdown with a simulator and has to go back to college)

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

“All the Young Girls Love Alice,” or maybe “Grey Seal.”

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Just to make sure any potential conflicts-of-interest are revealed, my wife also works for the Union of Concerned Scientists. My wife wouldn’t get any extra money no matter how many of you listened to Jess’s podcast, so my real conflict-of-interest is in promoting science and solving climate change.

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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 · 13/11/2024

Fine in general, on an existential level, terrible. :-)

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

That’s why I’m looking at Ireland—which has retiree visas—New Zealand, and even Japan. I haven’t researched the latter two yet, plus Japan still has a misogyny problem…but at least they’re polite about it!

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

You’re famous enough—at least Twitter famous enough—that many will probably look for you. Certainly, I did when I left Twitter ~1 year ago.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I'm an OG from way back in the Twitter days, but I'm old and my memory is shot. (So post them all is what I'm saying.) How about that one with instructions for flossing?

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I love analog clocks. We have them throughout our house, and I usually have an analog face showing on my Apple Watch.

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Sci-fi author John Scalzi just said the same thing (in different words, of course): bsky.app/profile/scal...

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Allen W Snyder @allenwsnyder.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

On the plus side* for me on my weight loss quest: The eternal queasy feeling in my stomach since late Tuesday night is keeping me from eating more than the required number of calories. *Literally the only plus side in this whole debacle.

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