Notices by Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 (rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social)

Humorous(?) exchange in class:

Me: "...and Trump asked for advice about whether to invoke the Insurrection Act."

Student A: "What's the Insurrection Act?"

Me: "Well, it's meant to put down a violent uprising and gives the president the power to turn the military on civilians."

Student A looks confused.

Student B: "Like in Star Wars."

Student A: "Oh shit!"

My roommate bought me something to complete the look my ophthalmologist started.

Well, sweet Jesus.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-legal-aid-unaccompanied-children-immigration-court-5b5573cc022ebfdf8dc6b961bfcc0768

I've decided that if the gummint is gonna tell us we can't talk about race, goddamn it, we're gonna fucking read your batshit executive orders and goofball memos in class. Surely THOSE aren't racist and you could not POSSIBLY demonstrate yourself to be an instrument of white supremacy.

Trump's blaming DEI for the crash really should be a "have you no decency" type moment.

@ct_bergstrom What, is this like Twat Glastonbury?

@dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft

Not that it necessarily makes it more likely, just that he has suicide on his mind. (Though I defy you to show me someone who deliberately kills themself without thinking about killing themself.) I mean, who says, "I'm totally not gonna kill myself" out loud? It's like one of those things that is assumed in all social interactions. But did he ever say it? I sort of remember it, but I don't see it.

@dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft

You have every right to be offended. Where did he say that he was not going to kill himself? I didn't see it.

@dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft

Fuck, even his lawyers thought that his testimony triggered him. I don't see anything suggesting that he has a premonition of foul play in the first place. So I retract my speculation. He just killed himself. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-boeing-whistleblower-testified-12-100000958.html

@dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft

Despic it all you like. Most conspiracy theories paper over unknowns with our own fears, projections, and facile cookie-cutter narratives. I think the ready-baked explanations are generally the least plausible. At least my narrative centers on the genuine suffering that whistleblowers face.

@dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft You're right. I apologize. The fact he brought up suicide suggests he had suicide on his mind.

@dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft Nope. Occam's razor says it was an infection.

On the last day of class I tell my students 1) never be worried about asking me for a letter of recommendation, 2) don't hit your kids, and 3) go to that concert/show and get the best seats you can b/c you'll never regret it. Today I added, if the feds turn guns on protesting civilians or the insurrection act is invoked, based on what happened in S. Korea, you have about 2 hours to get everyone you know into the streets before you lose it all.

@georgetakei Also The Count's origin story.

@kaia I can see this working in....life. :)

@AnarchoNinaWrites

On the plus side, they aren't gonna place us in death camps for disagreeing with them. The cup can be 1/24th full.

Tomorrow is gonna be a 3-guitar type of practice. We're trying to out a new drummer. We're gonna have lunch with him and then later have practice. He gave us a song to learn, Friday I'm in Love, by the Cure. There are many guitar lines in there simultaneously, so I am going to embiggen my sound with a 12-string, maybe add a brief delay or strong reverb or... something. Maybe just the 12-string. But we could use another guitarist. Sigh.

If you have dropped your Times sub recently, might I suggest you send a little scratch to The Guardian and to ProPublica, who are doing good work and could use the dough?

@thomasfuchs @spalter_in Yes. That's bad. Blasting your way civilians is never justified. The AP is not reporting it was aid trucks. And MSF is not saying it was aid trucks, and they don't pull punches.

@spalter_in @thomasfuchs ok, good to see other people being suspicious of the claim.