Bob Blaskiewicz

It's a police sketch of RFK, Jr.

Looks like the police already have a sketch of the person who was attacking the CDC:

When I have something worth showing I'll send you a draft. I'm currently writing up an... exceedingly weird historical incident.

The people getting teeth yanked on stage by the woman I'm looking at (in around 1880, when I'm guessing anesthesia would have been available) reported broken teeth, retained roots, and broken jaws because of her. I'm gonna write an article. Audacity + incompetency = entertainment, apparently.

My favorite artefact is a prescription for medical alcohol that was written during Prohibition. The students like the glowing purple tube and the phrenology head.

I'm looking at these instruments now. Eek!
www.ebay.com/itm/11663115... One of the first activities I have my quackery class do is to take antique (bogus) medical items that are out of context and research them. The idea is that the texts we read are the artifacts. Keys would make a great one!

This.

Extortion.
Gaining something through threats.

NOT the same thing as a deal.
Don’t normalize it.

Hey, @grantritchey.bsky.social, you ever extract a tooth with a "turn key"? I'm currently writing about "painless dentists" performing extractions on the street and, uh, it sounds absolutely fucking excruciating.

HA. You think Dick Durbin is real.

I had a good two days of research. I need to do some serious writing before the semester starts, but I have been a damned research machine this summer.

New research dispels myth of conspiracy theorists as isolated outsiders A five-year study dispels the stereotype of conspiracy theorists as angry loners or keyboard warriors. Rather, social and emotional connections provided by conspiracy theorists are recruiting diverse ...

Community key driver! 👇

New research dispels myth of conspiracy theorists as isolated outsiders www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

“Conspiracy theories provide reassuringly simple answers, but more than just solving problems, they create shared emotions, belonging and community."

OMG THE PARENTS PUT THEIR BABY IN A CRAWLING CONTEST AND NOW THEY HAVE A LITERAL PLAY-BY-PLAY OF THEIR BABY’S FIRST STEPS 😭😭😭

this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this.

we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.

Eat Pant Bart

This is better than any art AI has ever made

I think disenfranchised Texans should get real fucking rambunctious.

Every day the news is like “the US government announces that meat can be sold without saying what animal it is & they are also mandating a return to mercury thermometers,” followed by “RFK Jr. has removed the coloring from Twizzlers in a major win for everyday Americans & their health & pocketbooks”

30.

OMG. They cannot have NOT known the literal most famous headline from The Onion.

Histmed job!!

If you speak out against government suppression of speech, the government will investigate your speech.

So that was fun.

It was a "songster", a lyric book published by one of my quacks, and which were sung by one of his performers. It was pretty delicate. Next to it on the shelves was a songster by a rival showman whose advance team was beaten up by my quack's men when they started posting bills on his rented lot.

Good research day, given I only had a half hour. I spent it at Washington U St Louis, in their music library. On a whim, I did a search of the WashU databases to see if they had anything relevant to my current project and, holy crap, did they. ...

I use it daily. A professional-life-changing research tool. Love it.

i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots

Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked ... This report describes a Salmonella outbreak linked to ...

🧫 Raw milk outbreak sickens 171 people

A new CDC report links raw milk from one California dairy to a multistate Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak. 70% of cases were in children.

Raw dairy can carry serious health risks, especially for kids.

🔗 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

#RawMilk #SciComm 🧪

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

In the 1980s, images of starving children in Africa inspired musicians and concerts and lots of donations. How do we help now?

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

To be fair to the authors, they are misguided dipshits.

Literally belly laughing

The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett