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*raises hand*
I would like to place a wager on the longevity of Kalshi executives.
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Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱
@rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2Associate 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
Profile pic: Bad Bob is rude and crude.
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Well sign me up!
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Hold on. Hold on.
*hyperventilates on purpose*
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The 4th this year is like celebrating a drug addicted family member's birthday.
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The TV is always on at my parents' house. I spend a lot of time in the other room, when I visit. I have to or I'll chew my own arm off trying to escape. I have books. I'll be fine.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social Tis a brag. Tis a just one. Good on ya.
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@paulh@cloudisland.nz Heroes.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io Best troll I ever did was on a 9/11 truther. I was willing to talk through the evidence once but when we circled back to things we'd already discussed, I started posting kitten pics. He knew I read his posts, but I didn't take the bait. It drove him apeshit. :)
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@trebach@functional.cafe @stux@mstdn.social I mean besides that.
Boosted by @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Needs to be said over and over.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social It's gonna be so low in the sky in New Jersey, 11° from the horizon, I think I'm just gonna enjoy the footage that other folks grab. Unless I go outside just to check and see it and...but I want to sleep. Sorry you had to endure my internal debates in real time. I wonder if other people's streams of consciousness are as boring as mine...
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@fesshole@mastodon.social I'm sorry but epiphanyhole is the next door down.
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Well, I see the turd doesn't fall far from the cow.
That's me being folksy.
Was talking to admin staff today. Her husband is a fisherman. She said he found an object in his net the other day and she showed me a picture and had me guess. I said, rhinoceros tooth. Close. Mastodon tooth. (My tooth guess was sincere because I've seen a lot of Time Team.)
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@quiet@shrike.club
Solar powered ovens will not explode.
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@lerxst @heidilifeldman
I dunno. Seems kind of restrained to me.
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@trebach@functional.cafe @stux@mstdn.social I mean, I would win just by pointing out that they are guarding a puddle instead of being with their families.
In lighter news, the band will be playing at some labor protests should our union negotiations go as they usually go. We've put together a fun version of "For What It's Worth" with a haunting sweep before the delay on my guitar. At the end of one run-through, the guy singing started jumping around shouting FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!! and it kind of stuck. We told the union leader that we could do it without the Rage ending, and she was like, no, we'll need the Rage. Heheh.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
What's wrong with everyone? Jesus.
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@billyjoebowers
I suspect it's a misguided remnant of the Calvinist idea that someone's good fortune reflects whether or not they are saved/good/worthy.
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Not long ago I asked a reference librarian a question and they sent me unhelpful AI word vomit, completely mischaracterizing the person I was looking at. If I had been at the beginning of the project instead of when I was the only expert on this, that horseshit could have derailed my research. AI is just pollution.
I really think that we lost something important when tiny local newspapers died.
My school is facing layoffs in the not too distant future. I spent a little time today talking to a staff member / union leader and conveyed the notion that no matter who the loudest people on faculty are, the rest of us are locking arms with our union siblings and won't allow management to pit one union against another.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io I don't know what is happening but I'm inspired by it. :)
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@lerxst @Klara @heidilifeldman
Hemidermectomy was a word that my brother made up when he was learning classical roots of words in high school. It is the stuff of legend in the Blaskiewicz household.
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@stux@mstdn.social WTF are they going to do if I stroll over and piss in it?
Reason 10,318 I love old newspapers....
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
I've done everything I can to insulate myself from ads. Finding myself blasted with them is so aggravating.
Due to an excellent typo, I offer the world a band name: Inane Asylum
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@GayDeceiver That man is so going to make out with himself.
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@trebach@functional.cafe @stux@mstdn.social That's really what I was wondering. Like if I jumped in or something, would they treat me like a goddamned terrorist? Or if my dog jumped in, like a terrierist?
Alright, so the update on the old man. Still waiting for echo results, I think. However, it may be low BP, which is caused by Parkinson's. The only new thing is that we learned his fainting spell was not the first one recently, though this one was much longer than usual, minutes compared to seconds.
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@adhdeanasl@beige.party I don't know a word of ASL, but I could watch interpreters signing to music all day. It's like 4-dimensional poetry.
I have space nerd colleague. He was an aerospace engineer in a former life and now teaches college math. We were gushing over Artemis in the office today and I mentioned Vera Rubin. He hadn't heard of it. *blink blink* I was like, it surveys the whole southern sky every 3 nights. "To what magnitude? 12? 14?" I looked it up: "24.5, and fainter if you stack the images." And suddenly he got it. Looking for an interview with the folks processing the data now.
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@idoubtit@mstdn.social Oh my God, it's a constant battle for control of the mute button.
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social It's....thoughtful on the topics which it's touching here (I'm in 100 paragraphs atm). I think it's the type of thing that can't be dismissed out of hand.
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@inthehands Legislator contacted. Am now going to start day drinking.
God, swimsuits were so slutty in 1910. I swear, they are a sparrowfart away from inventing the swim pants-suit.
#ILoveOldNewspapers
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@everton137@social.vivaldi.net
Fear is contagious. Reason, not so much.
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@arclight@oldbytes.space "anxious electrified sand" LOL
John Roberts will never have another not-spit-in restaurant meal for the rest of his life.
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@badastro@mastodon.social So what happens to a companion with the mass of 3 suns when Betelgeuse finally stops teasing us and goes supernova like we know it wants to?
I had a really productive morning working on the book. I uncovered a story about an all-Black minstrel troupe/orchestra showing up in a town occupied by the state militia following a race riot. The riot started when a Black man show a white man at a rail yard, and the mob was made up of his fellow railroad workers. The Black troupe pulled up in a lush private Pullman coach. (The response of the paper was Black people are not policed enough to prevent race riots. Sigh.)
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@Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange who is this reporting?