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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 7h

Raffi Asdourian, ladies and gentlemen

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 11h

Proof of marriage! Or of wearing a suit, anyway. Fun fact: I was not aware the groom and groomsmen were wearing purple ties when I chose my purple tie. I ruin everything.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This bastard, Raffi (not the one you’ve heard of), is getting married — to a woman! Some sort of … opposite-sex marriage, I guess. Whatever. He’s not even on Bluesky so who cares.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What it reminded me of finally clicked

"Lars and the Real Girl," but with the creepy lady from the Trump photo instead of the sex doll

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

unclear, but this is the last thing he saw

that creepy plastic lady in the red dress who was standing next to a sleeping Trump at a press conference

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I discovered an important book about my people.

Book cover: “Uncles.” Picture of a man and a boy, presumably nephew and uncle though there is zero resemblance

Table of contents:

Uncles
Uncles, nieces, and nephews
What uncles do

“Some uncles hike.” Picture of the man and boy from the cover, joined by a girl on a hike

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All this DIGGER talk reminds me of the last Iñárritu movie I saw, BARDO — not the movie (feh) but the text conversation I had with Luke Mullen just as the screening was about to start. We were working out whether I'd be able to stay in his guest room, which was occupied at the time:

Screenshot of text messages

SENDER: Hey I think we've got this worked out, Wampler is going to stay with our two friends while you're in town, no worries.

SENDER: Speaking of, have you spoken to them recently?

ME: To whom?

SENDER: (Extremely Wampler voice) my balls

ME: Good grief

ME: He's a bad influence on you

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Emotionologist”: not a thing, right?

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The sort of text you get from the apartment manager when you live in Utah. (It's not me. I'm pretty sure I know who it is, but I'm no narc.)

3rd Floor Residents – Important Reminder

We have received a report of a strong smoke/odor on the 3rd floor that appears to be coming from marijuana, incense, or another type of smoke.

Please remember that ALL smoking is strictly prohibited at [REDACTED], including smoking of any substance. Smoking anywhere on the property is a lease violation and may be grounds for eviction.

We do not know which apartment the odor is coming from, so this message is being sent to all 3rd floor residents. Please be considerate of your neighbors and make sure that no smoking is taking place in your apartment or on the property.
Thank you for your cooperation.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

MAD sure had this movie’s number!

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve never seen this. I guess it’s based on an old TV show?

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I haven't sold anything on ebay in a while. They've made it harder (of course). It said I couldn't sell something for $200 unless I first sold something for $10, and that I can only sell one thing a month. Then I had this chat with an agent (not AI, AI would have been faster and more coherent).

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I almost forgot! There's a part in THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN where the girl eats a Kit Kat bar in the manner shown here, gnawing across the four sticks like a savage instead of breaking them off and eating them one at a time. @ldmullen.bsky.social had to pause the movie so I could process this.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Weezer will be here imminently. To handle the weezing.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Did anyone catch the NIGHT OF THE HUNTER visual reference in BUDDY? I happened to have seen NOTH a few days before, so it was fresh in my mind. There's a shot when the children are hiding from Buddy that mirrors this one:

Shot from The Night of the Hunter with the children in a barn loft watching as their pursuer, in silhouette, rides across the horizon.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Utah's right-wing Mormon newspaper has gotten new marching orders:

ANALYSIS
Are Americans victims of an anti-data center manipulation campaign?
By Jay Evensen

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trump reserves his "low I.Q." insult for Black people; ergo, "high I.Q." probably just means "white." We need a white president.

"Trump says AI doesn't need guardrails, only a 'high IQ' president"

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This really is insane (the drink wasn’t mine). With tip it was an even $50. Airports are lawless places. (I am grateful for my privilege, we are on stolen land, etc.)

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The local right-wing church newspaper has been dreaming about today's front page for approximately 364 days.

Screenshot of Deseret News homepage, all stories about the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

She posted this today (Wednesday).

Graph: "Am I ready for Monday?" Blue portion is NO; yellow portion is NO BUT IN YELLOW

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Jennifer Graham (a Boston Catholic who for some reason is the Utah Mormon newspaper's main opinionist) has one job: support Trump. She can't stop doing that no matter what. So when he does something truly inexcusable, she acts baffled, lightly scolds him, and continues to support him. Every. Day.

PERSPECTIVE
Trump has taken the side of
the 20 in an 80-20 issue.
What was he thinking?

By Jennifer Graham

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hey, what's this I'm being hoisted by?? It better not be my own petard!

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

OH HEY I BET NO ONE NOTICED THIS YET

Screenshots of dozens of Blueksy users noticing that the new Great Lakes acronym is SHAME instead of HOMES.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've gotten this a few times recently! I never saw a resemblance before, but his current look is doing it. (Here I am with @jennydye.bsky.social and @jetset.bsky.social at our office.)

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just remembered this from The Federalist and hoping Ericka Andersen is having a bad week all over again.

Screenshot of a headline:
There's Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton's False Gospel
By: Ericka Andersen
June 06, 2024

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What makes Dolly's letter to Eminem so great is that she doesn't just pay him professional compliments. She goes out of her way to tell him something personal: "you are special and people love you." Someone like Eminem gets complimented all the time. How often does someone tell him he's special?

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm skeptical that anyone else will come close to Dolly because even Dolly was only loved by 70% of Americans. Not 100! Not even 95! 5% had a negative opinion, and presumably the other 25% had no opinion or hadn't heard of her. America is HUGE and diverse and there are bubbles everywhere.

For the US public, the feeling that Dolly Parton expressed in her country music chart-topping 1974 classic I Will Always Love You is clearly mutual.

A poll of Americans’ opinions about more than 20 international luminaries established as much, with the 11-time Grammy winner and philanthropist leaving her two closest competitors – Barack Obama and Volodymyr Zelenskyy – in the dust by more than 50 percentage points.

Of 1,000 people surveyed by the University of Massachusetts and the market research firm YouGov heading into April, 70% of them had a favorable impression of Parton, an 11-time Grammy winner. Only 5% had an unfavorable impression of her, giving her a net favorability of 65%.

Obama, the US president from 2009 to 2017, had the poll’s next highest net favorability at 14%. He scored 50% favorability and 36% unfavorability among those surveyed.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I went to Twitter, the website for idiots, and found an idiot. Why does this keep happening??

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

FACT: Elon Musk is a white supremacist. FACT: Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) agrees with almost everything Elon Musk says. CONCLUSION: Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is a white supremacist.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Look at my monstrous nephews! The one on the right is 19, the one on the left just turned 15. I am 5'9". They have been going around smashing up villages and eating people. The 19-year-old has a shirt quoting a viral video, because that's something we do now.

The author flanked by two very tall, slender white boys.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The “Minute Men” (ICE), who are given big cash incentives to join. (All Americans were promised $5,000 [100K in 2026 dollars], which contributed to Windrip’s victory, but post-inauguration they’re having trouble working out the particulars.)

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is in the lead-up to the election. The details are different, but you see how it relates. (Doremus Jessup is our newspaperman protagonist; Windrip is the fascist candidate.)

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Horrific new misspelling of “ditto” just dropped

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Is it good when the president is saying things that make him sound like Mr. Burns?

Trending topic: Trump orders Navy to use steam catapults

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I assumed Letterboxd most watched counted multiple viewings — that the 75 for Samuel L. Jackson included 4 viewings of Jurassic Park, 3 of Do the Right Thing, etc. But NO. It's 75 DIFFERENT MOVIES. I'm not surprised he's been in that many (169, actually), but I wouldn't have guessed Matt Damon had.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A package of 8 of these — which taste exactly the same as they did when I lived on them 25 years ago — costs $5.99, which I feel like was how much they cost back then, too. Am I wrong? Who besides Pepperidge Farms remembers?

Package of El Monterey Beef & Bean Burritos, package of 8, frozen.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Watching Marvel movies where there are new characters who have always been there

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We are closely monitoring the situation with our neighbors writing notes to each other

Handwritten note posted on someone’s door says:

Turn Down The Noise

Reply under it says:

FUCK OFF IT’S 2PM

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