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

@selzero Theologians can be real intellectuals. Just saying. Chiropractors are still there. Beat up the chiros.

@georgetakei

I'm working the election in NJ tomorrow. Woot!

This is last night's on-stage mascot, who Eve named "Fluffy." Please remember that I shared the stage with a past president of numerous vertebrate paleontology societies.

@fesshole Are fesshole submissions admissable in court? Asking for a friend.

Went to the store to pick up my Adderall prescription and some allergy meds for Eve. The transaction was done in two parts. First the Adderall. The guy at the counter asked me for my date of birth and fetched the script. I paid, and he got the Zyrtec. "Can I see a driver's license?" he asked.

"Hold on," I said. "I literally just bought amphetamines and you asked for less ID." We both laughed at how absurd the world is.

Anyway, I'm off to make some meth.

Based on the wheezing coming from the front of the rail car, I suspect I am aboard Amtrak's famed Tuberculosis Express.

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.