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Todd Snider
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A collection of non-detached linguist parts.
Currently an Assistant Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
(he/him)
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English speaker? Ten minutes to spare?
Help a BA student collect some data!
Specifically, data on reactions to mental health messaging in social media posts

www.soscisurvey.de/presupp-study/

thank you bonus: otter cuddle pile!
a photograph of 4 otters all cuddled up together on a large flat rock
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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some quick estimates, I don't think 1-in-3 is average for PhD holders in the general population

(there's lots of literature out there on IQ, you can look into it yourself)
A mobile screenshot of the open letter's signatories, with the phone's Search function highlighting all 447 instances of the word "professor" on the page A mobile screenshot of the open letter's signatories, with the phone's Search function highlighting all 115 instances of the word "lecturer" on the page
October 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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In honor of The Adventure Zone using Neal.fun's Infinite Craft to create their Evokemon, some of my own first discoveries from back in the day
A screenshot of Infinite Craft, with a graph of networked nodes above an inventory of discovered 'elements'. At the top of the screen, highlighted as a "First Discovery", is "Guilt-tripping" accompanied by a sad emoji. It is connected to the nearby nodes Ratatouille & Piece of Sushi, and only more distantly to Oreo Pizza, Dragon Schnitzel, and Count Mathzilla A screenshot of Infinite Craft, with a graph of networked nodes above an inventory of discovered 'elements'. The entire visible part of the graph is all nodes with "Garfield" and some extremely large numbers, like "Garfield 1651012546" and "Garfield 24464046“. Every single node is flagged with the "First Discovery " tag. The entire visible inventory is also Garfields
September 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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lots of thoughts about last night's charlie kirk tribute
screengrab of the movie Weapons, with five children running away from the camera, with their arms creepily out at their sides as they run down a suburban street
September 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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They call this 'catnip for todds'
(instant purchase)
A small vinyl sticker, with a purple bear/cat/? creature, with arms in a wide shrug, underneath the words "tell me your pronouns" in a handwritten script
September 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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now try this one
A sign with green text on white background, reading: 1401 North Versailles Township Municipal Building Administrative Offices Police The surprising-to-non-locals thing would be how "North Versailles" is pronounced
September 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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a bumble (dating app) profile picture, with name and employer redacted. the young woman (half of whose face is also redacted) is pictured facing the camera and smiling, underneath a gate with words welded into it: "Arbeit macht frei". This is the gate to Auschwitz.
July 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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[This whole opinion is disgusting and will kill children. Reading the dissent for the righteous indignation, even if it won't make a difference.]

Shots fired!
footnote text from Sotomayor's dissent: "...Indeed, even Justice Thomas seems to recognize that some scientific and medical evidence (at least that which is consistent with his view of the merits) is relevant to the questions this case presents."
June 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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this is semantics erasure
a screenshot of the NYT spelling bee game, in which the word "MONOTONIC" is rejected as "Not in word list" The central letter is N, and the surrounding letters are: T O N I M C L
May 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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An amazing and invigorating two day workshop on background beliefs, held in a castle: what more could you want?
Thank you to organizers @aachimova.bsky.social @elinm.bsky.social @danielwharris.bsky.social & Ivan Rygaev!
The stone gate entrance to the castle at Schloss Hohentübingen A large room with tables set up in a large U shape, with tall windows, a chandelier, and an ornate wooden door frame A view from the castle looking out onto Tübingen and the surrounding tree-filled hills & river, against a light blue sky with a few clouds
January 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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y'all making me so hungry rn
two skeets by Jesse Sheidlower (@jessesword.com) about a family of Texans ordering bagels at a bagel store, followed by two skeets by CJ (@bayesfordays.bsky.social) about wanting a bagel
December 30, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Geordie LaForge meme, with Geordie rejecting "Finding a new Bluesky button to match my existing website buttons" and preferring "just making the Twitter button direct to Bluesky"
November 24, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Playmobil is captured, indoctrinating the children with woke farming
a children's farm set, consisting of a large barn, which features (among many other things) solar panels on the roof and an electric car charging station
November 23, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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what they meant to say
The original quote, with red ink crossing out words and replacing them, so it now reads: One media exec I know put it this way: "If the RNC announced tomorrow that its primary strategy going forward would be to put $100 billion into a disinformation machine designed to convince people they live in a fictitious hellscape of airliners falling out of the sky because of DEI, we would report that bullshit verbatim on an everyday basis as the biggest political story in America. That machine exists. It's called the American media."
November 8, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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I'm as concerned about aliens scrying us as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure how casting Non-detection planet-wide is going to help us solve climate change
A tweet by @NewsfromScience: "Scientists report that shooting 5 million tons of diamond dust into the stratosphere each year could cool the planet by 1.6°C–enough to stave off the worst consequences of global warming"
October 31, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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They didn't have any stickers at the post office, so I had to make my own
Me, with a yellow post-it stuck to my shirt, on which I've written "I VOTED! (absentee, by mail)", and (poorly) drawn an American flag
September 26, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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What hath America wrought
From the freezer section of a supermarket: a box of DiGiorno brand "Croissant Pizza", a full-size round pizza with a "flaky & buttery" laminated croissant-style crust Two boxes of (limited edition) Pumpkin Spice Cheerios
August 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Back in Germany where summers are totally normal
A display of packages of ice pops, which feature a cartoon bear, wearing a bandana around its neck, and licking its lips while happily holding an ice pop. The name of the brand written on the package is "BUSSY MIX"
August 3, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Last day of #EGG2024! I'm excited to finally learn what a subject is
The top page of a handout, entitled "What is a subject? Austronesian pivots: topics vs. subjects", with the name of the presenter, Magdalena Lohninger
August 2, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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Great app you've got here
November 17, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Handshake meme, with the arms "Joshua's ideas" and "bread dough" uniting in "good things bubbling up"
January 30, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Proud to be part of the 100,000 who turned out!
Many demonstrators with signs on the bridge in the foreground, and the eventual gathering point on the far side of the bridge visible in the background Many demonstrators with signs visible in the foreground, with the bridge and TV tower in the skyline in the background
January 27, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Düsseldorf coming out today against AfD
Many demonstrators with signs Many demonstrators with signs Here, two signs are visible with the word NO, though the O is stylized with a hair part and lip moustache reminiscent of the most prominent Nazi Many demonstrators with signs on the bridge
January 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Köln coming out today against AfD
Demonstrators at today's protest. Many people are seen, in winter hats and jackets, several carrying signs, e.g., "Rassismus ist keine Alternative" Two signs here: one, a "nein-horn" (a unicorn with a speech bubble, saying "AfD NEIN!"), and one festooned with multicolored ribbons which reads "Der Fuchs ist schlau + stellt sich dumm, bei Nazis ist es Andersrum" Signs here include: "FCK" above the musical notes on a treble clef for A, F, and D; "Ich liebe unsere Demokratie"; "Nein zur AfD"; "Liberté, Egalité, FCK AfDeé" Many demonstrators along the bank of the Rhine, many flags and signs (and colorful hats) visible
January 21, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Always love bragging about insanely talented friends 😎
November 17, 2024 at 10:12 PM