Notices by Bob Blaskiewicz (rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social)

@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.

Sweet fucking fuck these fuckers are fucking deranged.

@maskedscheduler walk down a slight incline?

@StillIRise1963

Nah, people will still use it to mean to look for things in general. "I googled my house for scissors. I know I had some, but for the life of me I can't find them. Oh well, I guess I'll go to the store and bitcoin some more."

Divert arms for Israel to Ukraine.

You know, actually, there's an entire right wing militia movement who is armed and believes in Jewish space lasers and the great replacement theory and chants "Jews will not replace us," but the real threat to Jews is....people who read and understand nuance. New York Times, you are a sucker.

@robertnorlyn I think that's gonna be the takeaway from this.

I genuinely think that a student used ChatGPT for a poem they turned in. I have absolutely no way to prove it.

Well, I could go to them and ask them to write a version of it in my presence. Sigh. Do I care so much to risk insulting my student like that. My suspicions arose when they could not pronounce one of the words they used while reading it aloud in class.

I just saw a poll suggesting that Trump is tied with Biden or one point behind on protecting democracy. This is an absolutely damning indictment of the press and democratic messaging. Absolutely no way this should be the case.

@robertnorlyn Found it. Yeah. I like how you can only choose one category at a time to complain about. What I saw was so wrong on so many levels.

How do I complain about the ads that are being fed to me by YouTube? Clearly I just had one that was using an AI voice of Trump, clumsily imitating his many deficiencies, and banging away at some prepper horseshit. Please someone enlighten me, because this shit happens way too often and is poisoning the public discourse. For a prepper scam. Goddamn.

Cheers: I just had a reassuring talk with my department chair.

Jeers: When I was buying coffee, the cashier looked at me quizzically for a second and then added a senior discount.

Thomas the Tank Engine fought a personal battle with addiction and lost.

#FictionalCharactersInRetirement
#HashTagGames

@Popehat

Was that the fifth seal I broke? Oops. My bad.

@inthehands

I know.