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Betsy Sneller

@betsysneller.bsky.social
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Asst prof linguistics @ Michigan state. I like cats, fiber arts, people. I’ll finish the rest of this later.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lol I’d love to partake in such discussion but my body only has so many screen-time-for-fun minutes before it needs to go do anything else
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Caught a glimpse of my local congressional candidate (William Lawrence wutup) gassing up at the local Admiral station, w 3 cameras rolling.
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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At least where I got my PhD, if I wasn't sure what I found, how it worked, if it was useful or significant, nobody pretended I accomplished anything.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Leaf ombré my daughter made 🍁🌼🌿
Breach leaves in autumn arranged on a tree stump so their colour shifts gently round a circle
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is also a masterclass in inclusion - this little girl is not interested in the prime minister of Norway at all. Mamdani keeps redirecting her attention back to include him too (for a handshake, etc). He makes everyone around him feel more charismatic too
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Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Alamode2 @hagenish.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Aht aht as a fiber girl don’t come for us
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Kid's Funny Nope Gesture
ALT: Kid's Funny Nope Gesture
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you don't support trans rights, you are a loser
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.
Close-up of a small wild cat with brown striped fur, large rounded ears, amber eyes, and a dark nose, staring directly at the camera with an intense, slightly irritated expression.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My friends with young kids cry real tears whenever Ms. Rachel once again does not fail them. That’s real. And it matters.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s available as a flash game online!
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
a lot of questions are being raised that should’ve been addressed by my “I am not complicit” shirt
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
my worry about ai isn’t that it will become sentient, it’s that the cognitive impact of outsourcing critical thinking to computers combined with the proliferation of slop making it increasingly challenging to validate information will dissolve society’s already-tenuous grasp on consensus reality
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I mean, the Macatawa River goes through Zeeland too, but I'm only sort of a Hollander by origin.
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
hell yea game recognize game! (I'm actually from Zeeland tho so it's a little bit of a lie)
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wait are you a fellow Hollander?
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RT with your home river Macatawa River, meaning "black water" in Ojibwe, and classified as a "stream in Michigan" lol. But you can kayak along it all the way to the Big Lake, and pass a cute little windmill along the way.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The fixation on college majors continues to be one of the great bait and switches of modern education. Core curriculum classes, distributed across the subjects and comprising the bulk of course credits taught in any given year continue to be *most* of college education.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Missed opportunity
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In the past 2 days, Indy (1;11) switched from Verb-Subject word order (“coming daddy!”) to Subject-Verb (“daddy coming!”) I’m trying to pay attention to whether he’s doing variation between the two options still but so far since hearing S-V I haven’t heard V-S #linguistbabyphotos
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think I noted during the recent Belfast riots that a certain kind of man is not really interested in protecting women & girls; he's interested in protecting the exclusive right of his kind of man to abuse and control women and girls.
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Uri Horesh @urihoresh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Once again, I am raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/uri-hores...
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Follow my journey as I complete 195km (virtually) in one month across Palestine, from Jenin to Gaza, for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The month of October marks the beginning of the olive harve
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しょぼ @shoboyuski.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
やったー
The art book “Other worlds” by Alex Ries
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You can just block the bsky poster vote thing and then it’s done and we can move on
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh yo this is what I used to learn R the summer before I got to Penn
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
cooool
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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every one of those brave and inspiring people you hear about on the news was exhausted and terrified the whole time. They were sad and angry and wanted to crawl into a hole and not come out. They wished they could have stayed in bed. Then they did it anyway. But they did it scared and sad and tired.
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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When the story of Metro Surge is told in media, don't for a moment, through the outpouring of solidarity and community building, despite the heroism, forget that it sucked ass every single day and some days it was like the sun had been blocked from the world
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
shameful to watch people call themselves progressive while fearmongering during historically low crime rates to try to give more money to a police department that goes tens of millions of dollars over budget every year. this is not a subtweet it’s about Alexi www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...
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Mayoral candidates decry Chicago violence ‘crisis,’ even as summer murders hit 61-year low
Chicago had 122 murders in June, July and August, the lowest summer total since 1965, according to city and police data. But in their mayoral quests, candidates keep stoking public anxiety about viole...
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This one is so transporting
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
perfect. lolp.
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
a gestural score
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
But the truth is that society is a construction project and it is not self-executing. Having a shared project to work on collectively is essential. We are living through a time where a number of people aren't bought into the shared project. So here we are.
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Yes. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
whenever I see someone complain about "the excesses of woke," I want to ask them what it means—did some people want ~too much~ equality?
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
animating the larynx again
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The most famous itch in all of literature! Actually one of the only details I remember from reading that book as a kid. Maybe I should re-read
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
come ON, this week! dear lord get your shit together. No more of these please
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Once a month my kids get a book from Dolly Parton. “Mama did Dolly Parton give me another book??” 🥺 A monthly Santa figure
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
just did this, thru the comment button here: www.regulations.gov/document/NSF... Would love to see my #NSFSBE folks + the relevant societies ( @fabbs.org, @cogscisociety.bsky.social, @cogdevsoc.bsky.social, @srcdorg.bsky.social, @infantstudies.bsky.social)comment too. deadline today!
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...
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