Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱

Associate Prof of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies in S. Jersey. I study conspiracy theories, historical quackery, WWII, and paranormal beliefs. he/him.
Turn-offs: fascism, fraud, and fakery.
Guitarist for the Monsters of Academia.
https://newsofthebob.blogspot.com #CriticalThinking #astronomy #scicomm #WWII #academia #history #skepticism #conspiracytheories #paranormal #guitar #U2 #mst3k #TimeTeam

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2026-05-11 12:43:51 UTC

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How is mildly positive a category? They're actually and really infected.

2026-04-20 09:30:17 UTC

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Oh my god. I know what job I want!

2026-04-19 20:11:55 UTC

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So who killed Olaf Palme?

2026-04-14 12:31:47 UTC

OK, I'm going to LA in just over a month. How should I plan to get around the city? It looks like there are a few cross town trips I'll need to take. I'm thinking Metro across town and Uber the last little bit.

2026-04-14 00:51:44 UTC

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Hell, he's lucky if his IQ surpasses his shoe size.

2026-04-12 20:45:08 UTC

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There is hope.

2026-04-09 00:58:01 UTC

Cancelled my recurring payment to propublica. You get to tell them why, and I said I'd return when they came to terms with their writers' union.

2026-03-30 18:54:26 UTC

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It's uncanny how much this sounds like Elon Musk's account. Mostly because he is a gullible fuckwit.

2026-03-27 22:41:55 UTC

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Maybe they need to meet a few more lefties! :)
What is it with farmers?

2026-03-27 22:38:41 UTC

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local party officials can get you involved.

2026-03-07 19:15:38 UTC

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fuckers.

2026-02-27 12:16:35 UTC

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This sounds like they are in...Spain, maybe?

2026-02-09 19:31:30 UTC

Fucking scum.
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/042/329/048/820/408/original/2857f96ae46a98e9.png

2026-02-06 17:31:51 UTC

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Agreed. He's just a botched person.

2026-02-06 17:30:53 UTC

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He has not positive qualities. Really quite an achievement for someone so stupid.

2026-02-01 22:23:35 UTC

CBP Agents Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez ID’d in Alex Pretti Shooting %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez

2026-01-14 19:02:25 UTC

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"Tufted titmice are a favorite among a select group of bird enthusiasts."
By which you mean "anyone who's ever met one of the charming little guys"?

2026-01-13 08:03:48 UTC

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This is why I've invested entirely in canned food and shotguns.

2026-01-03 20:06:50 UTC

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next protest?

2025-12-20 00:51:13 UTC

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oh I was thinkIng they did it in front of a camera.

2025-12-19 21:09:36 UTC

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Vandalism.

2025-12-10 20:57:16 UTC

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That's...entirely possible.

2025-12-10 20:48:55 UTC

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The student, a first-year student in my seminar, even made the leap that if she went to the school's special collections, she'd probably get more info. Most students don't know that those archives exist.

2025-12-10 20:45:51 UTC

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Yep. An Indian medicine man/med show performer. Died in the early 1930s.

2025-12-10 20:40:04 UTC

I want to publicly recognize a student, who I can't name for FERPA reasons, that they totally rocked my universe today in class when they proved a med show performer I was studying was the relative of a former administrator at my university. Kiddo, you're a talent, the real deal. I've been impressed all semester, and you stuck the landing in a big way. You are getting mentioned in my book.

2025-11-29 18:17:59 UTC

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Oh that's too bad. He was a great one.

2025-11-14 22:03:41 UTC

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Playing slot machines is as much fun as dropping money into someone else's bucket.

2025-11-12 12:28:45 UTC

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Hey, I was young once.

2025-11-06 15:36:10 UTC

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Nope. I'm an American. Not worth the risk right now.

2025-11-04 09:56:45 UTC

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Oh, China, shut the fuck up, you student-slaughtering fucks. Climb in the bin and set yourself on fire.

2025-10-30 23:21:47 UTC

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But that last two percent...

2025-10-29 10:47:27 UTC

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Where did you find it?

2025-10-27 09:32:22 UTC

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When I survey my students and I have a bunch of business majors in a class, I sometimes ask, "When you were a kid, did you always dream of one day spending most of your waking hours in an office earning money for someone else?" I feel it is my duty as General Studies faculty at a small liberal arts college to ask this.

2025-10-14 02:14:33 UTC

I ordered a froggy shirt for this weekend.

2025-10-09 20:59:18 UTC

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I thought the Pope was sitting behind a cutout of himself with his head peaking over.

2025-09-11 18:17:17 UTC

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I asked my students what was up on our class GroupMe chat. Shooting off campus, but the person fled onto campus.

2025-09-11 17:46:32 UTC

My school is locked down right now. "Police activity" the alert says.

2025-08-15 20:42:55 UTC

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What a load of bullshit. I totally saw it.

2025-08-15 17:29:23 UTC

If Trump wants the Peace Prize he ahould arrest Putin.

2025-08-11 18:57:30 UTC

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Can you come and pick me up?

2025-08-04 14:41:41 UTC

I'm at the age where I am excited about free office supplies, apparently.
ALL YOUR BINDERS IS BELONG TO US!

2025-07-07 09:56:44 UTC

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With a rather gaudy baroque church in the middle of it, if I remember correctly.

2025-07-06 21:28:04 UTC

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And to think he used to be a cop. Meth: not even once.
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/808/405/376/650/545/original/718939213e15ef19.jpg

2025-06-28 14:58:37 UTC

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you called it a warning letter. You said you were literally scared shitless.
Sorry for caring.

2025-06-28 14:52:08 UTC

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Tax them humble.

2025-06-28 14:47:44 UTC

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I don't understand. Is this a warning letter?

2025-06-28 14:44:13 UTC

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where do you see musk mentioned?

2025-06-28 02:56:26 UTC

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...this idea that there was a prelapsarian state purged of outside influences is not something that's borne out in, say, archaeology...there's movement and cultural exchange constantly everywhere, influence and adoption. I'm not sure the Celts even thought of themselves as Celts or that it would mean the same thing to them as it does to else. And Germanic longing for true heritage...oh dear. ...

2025-06-28 02:51:31 UTC

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How do we know this music has any relationship to lost music. I mean, opera was meant to recover Greek theater, but who the heck knows? Certainly all the instruments are unrelated.
I don't want to go all Eeyor or anything but decolonization is, I think, an illusion for a few reasons. And I've thought this since my grad student days reading Irish lit. The Celtic revival, for instance, a desire to get to a true, pre-English Irish identity--and the various nationalisms at the same time..

2025-06-27 12:37:17 UTC

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I prefer "Noxema-smeared corpse" myself.

2025-06-20 18:36:57 UTC

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He does it once.

2025-06-20 18:36:29 UTC

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When he pulls his eyes back in a slanted way.

2025-06-20 18:24:38 UTC

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No, but the video is.

2025-06-20 00:10:37 UTC

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King John. LOL

2025-06-19 00:01:26 UTC

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Did she swell up? I thought that was filler.

2025-06-17 17:22:03 UTC

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But he at least does not have the capacity to improve himself as a human.

2025-06-17 17:19:46 UTC

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(I was having a sarcastic because of the tourrette's-like ambiguity. Of course, I find that jokes that need to be explained are by far the funniest.)

2025-06-17 17:12:05 UTC

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Did he also just surrender unconditionally?

2025-06-12 15:58:00 UTC

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Just staggeringly dumb.

2025-06-09 13:12:35 UTC

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I have recently been in chats with people I disagree with on many things and they've never heard of Project 2025. Some are actually surprised. Our media is a wasteland in a toilet in hell on crack.

2025-06-09 13:09:35 UTC

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I'm honestly trying to not have a panic attack. In fact, I'm taking a nap. It's my stress response.

2025-06-09 12:48:21 UTC

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I gotta keep the faith. And most people didn't vote. I find it hard to forgive them.

2025-06-09 08:54:10 UTC

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Writing, with a chance of protests in Philadelphia.

2025-05-26 10:18:42 UTC

I had a weird dream, where I used a portable dial to adjust how much attention was paid to me by the people around me. I turned it down all the way and walked into a room where my mom was. She didn't notice me. Stood in front of her, jumped, and turned the knob and popped into existence in front of her. I did not figure out the rules of that universe, however. Would it work on people who saw me on TV when I cheated in a bike race on a motorcycle, for instance? We may never know.

2025-05-16 19:41:36 UTC

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Is it bad for the guitar? I've always had the impression that guitars are designed to have the appropriate tension in the strings. I want to give it a try. (Always trying to learn something.) I'd probably at least need it to be set up again.

2025-05-16 19:34:34 UTC

I was looking at the tab to Rock Lobster today and it looked like it was played only on the top and bottom 2 strings. So I went to the video, and I'll be damned if Ricky's not playing on a 4-string(-ed) guitar. Everything is tuned low (CF--FF). Would stringing a #guitar like this cause damage?

2025-05-12 16:35:28 UTC

F--- it. I'm making afternoon pancakes.

2025-05-09 13:40:11 UTC

Opened the first final paper of my WWII class and it's clearly plagiarized from AI. All the text appears at once, expressly forbidden repeatedly. Sigh. Fuck this. This makes my job miserable.

2025-05-09 13:05:25 UTC

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Is that, like, a warning?

2025-05-03 14:36:39 UTC

The resin shed is almost done. I got the replacement part yesterday and put it on. We did not understand how the doors were supposed to be attached and when I went to see YouTube vids about how it was supposed to fit together, everyone said, "This part sucks." Uh oh.

2025-05-02 02:37:24 UTC

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OH I FUCKING KNEW HE WOULD GO THERE. What a trouser dumpling.

2025-04-21 15:53:31 UTC

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0:25 Gary, you're in the shot.
0:44 Gary, damn it, pay attention. We're filming here.
0:56 Gary, how are they going to take me seriously if you are just wandering back and forth? Anda yaba soka yipa likke...
1:07 That was completely unnecessary, Gary.
1:19 You know what, Gary, make yourself useful and go welcome the angelic reinforcements.
1:30 Gary, seriously what the the fuck is wrong with you?

2025-04-18 17:12:47 UTC

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He can scowl while white. Is that not enough?

2025-04-15 10:46:17 UTC

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I learned a new word: knacker.

2025-04-09 15:29:45 UTC

It's kind of mad watching the US fly itself into a skyscraper like this.

2025-04-09 15:26:59 UTC

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Dehumanization. A step along the path to mass murder.

2025-04-05 20:45:13 UTC

Protesters, I love you all.

2025-04-01 19:06:10 UTC

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This is important. More of this, please.

2025-03-26 16:05:37 UTC

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Source?

2025-03-26 02:56:06 UTC

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That can't be legal. Me giving my cats subpoena power is just as legally binding.

2025-03-24 21:54:29 UTC

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I sometimes think that we'd be better just drawing lots instead of electing ambitious nitwits.

2025-03-24 21:49:41 UTC

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I absolutely agree.

2025-03-24 21:39:43 UTC

I just got an email titled: In re: this week's landing in Normandy

2025-03-24 21:31:40 UTC

So guys, about this Manhattan project where we are developing a nuclear bomb, should we go out for pizza after the test tomorrow evening? Don't invite our British allies. They are always stiffing us on the bill.
Fuck this is a stupid fucking timeline.

2025-03-24 21:15:53 UTC

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These people are fucking idiots. I mean, we're gonna lose the war with Greenland for sure. Sigh.

2025-03-22 16:25:41 UTC

2025 is the 2020 of 2016s.

2025-03-02 22:27:53 UTC

So, we got home at around 330am with a plan to see the eye surgeons on Monday morning. Don't yet know what my treatment will be. Today, I went to band practice, which was nice. Tonight I am going to square away some things and chill out. Sigh.

2025-03-02 01:33:44 UTC

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That's exactly what I've got. Had it for 3 months or so. I'm planning to set up an appointment for Tuesday to have this taken care of, if at all possible. That will let me coordinate my classes and also go to band practice in the morning. ;) The first doc I saw said I should take care of it this week.

2025-03-01 21:41:17 UTC

Retina apparently detaching in a way I haven't noticed anything. Heading to ER. Hoping for lasers, not cutty cutty.

2025-02-25 01:05:39 UTC

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I'm disgusted with my government. Furious. Embarassed.

2025-02-19 14:42:15 UTC

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source?

2025-02-18 04:07:41 UTC

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.

2025-02-13 16:56:36 UTC

America, you are an idiot.

2025-02-11 12:33:12 UTC

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So it's showing the fake name abroad? Rats.

2025-02-03 22:52:56 UTC

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Check Stockton University's masters program in genocide prevention. They are in NJ.

2025-02-01 04:08:42 UTC

I honestly can't go to Bluesky. Everything there is exploding all the time. The tempo of resistance here is tolerable. Pick your issue (or two or three). Dwell on that. Work on that. Bluesky is a firehouse of doom.

2025-01-30 20:39:04 UTC

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

2025-01-26 04:24:49 UTC

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What, is this like Twat Glastonbury?

2025-01-24 16:20:26 UTC

So what fresh horror awaits me now?

2025-01-12 12:21:05 UTC

Well, I'm awake. For now. Today I am heading to campus for band practice. As far as I know, only one other person will be there, the drummer. Not sure what we're gonna practice. We don't have a gig coming up or anything, at least not for a while. We'll just fart around I imagine. Farting around can be productive. Did you see Get Back? The sheer amount of farting around in that documentary was staggering. Farting around was clearly the Beatles' superpower.