Bob Blaskiewicz
@rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies at Stockton University. I hunt quacks and quackery across time and space. He/him. Huzzah: science, pseudoscience, conspiracy theory studies. Harrumph: fakes, frauds, fascists. #U2, #MST3K, #WWII
Hey @gorskon.bsky.social, I gave a lecture today about historical patent medicines. Thought you might like the opening slide:
October 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Hey @gorskon.bsky.social, I gave a lecture today about historical patent medicines. Thought you might like the opening slide:
Meme your dissertation.
Title: The Fiction and Memoirs of American WWII Combat Veterans
#MemeYourDissertation
Title: The Fiction and Memoirs of American WWII Combat Veterans
#MemeYourDissertation
September 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Meme your dissertation.
Title: The Fiction and Memoirs of American WWII Combat Veterans
#MemeYourDissertation
Title: The Fiction and Memoirs of American WWII Combat Veterans
#MemeYourDissertation
Looks like the police already have a sketch of the person who was attacking the CDC:
August 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looks like the police already have a sketch of the person who was attacking the CDC:
Vance: Haitians are eating pets.
Noem: Hold my glass of puppy blood.
Noem: Hold my glass of puppy blood.
July 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Vance: Haitians are eating pets.
Noem: Hold my glass of puppy blood.
Noem: Hold my glass of puppy blood.
He's like Neo but literally every bullet hits him.
May 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
He's like Neo but literally every bullet hits him.
The Vi-Ton-Ka Medicine Show was at the American Place Theatre in 1983. I believe it opened the season there. My understanding is that it was not received with rapturous applause --it was very different from what was usually shown there. Also I have a photo of the artistic director:
May 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The Vi-Ton-Ka Medicine Show was at the American Place Theatre in 1983. I believe it opened the season there. My understanding is that it was not received with rapturous applause --it was very different from what was usually shown there. Also I have a photo of the artistic director:
I've enjoyed backyard astronomy and popular astronomy for over 30 years. Tonight I took my first astrophoto. This is M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. When the light my scope detected tonight left M51 31 million years ago, primates were not yet a thing. It makes you feel small in a great way.
April 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I've enjoyed backyard astronomy and popular astronomy for over 30 years. Tonight I took my first astrophoto. This is M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. When the light my scope detected tonight left M51 31 million years ago, primates were not yet a thing. It makes you feel small in a great way.
I muppified myself. It was time.
April 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I muppified myself. It was time.
That is a disturbing concept.
April 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
That is a disturbing concept.
I told her that I would see her tomorrow. I did, but she did not see me. She was succumbing to pneumonia and was unconscious the next day. She was buried at Jefferson Barracks next to her husband.
April 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I told her that I would see her tomorrow. I did, but she did not see me. She was succumbing to pneumonia and was unconscious the next day. She was buried at Jefferson Barracks next to her husband.
I should say, that Granny and her girlfriends at Monsanto met every month for lunch for over 40 years. They were featured in the newspaper, and there was talk of them going on Oprah. It never happened, but they talked to a producer.
www.newspapers.com/article/st-l...
www.newspapers.com/article/st-l...
April 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I should say, that Granny and her girlfriends at Monsanto met every month for lunch for over 40 years. They were featured in the newspaper, and there was talk of them going on Oprah. It never happened, but they talked to a producer.
www.newspapers.com/article/st-l...
www.newspapers.com/article/st-l...
She did not know what that was until much later. Also, I am suddenly wondering why the Manhattan Project is mentioned in a newspaper in January 1945. Did someone get a visit from the FBI, I wonder?
www.newspapers.com/image/106520...
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April 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
She did not know what that was until much later. Also, I am suddenly wondering why the Manhattan Project is mentioned in a newspaper in January 1945. Did someone get a visit from the FBI, I wonder?
www.newspapers.com/image/106520...
www.newspapers.com/image/106520...
John and Kathleen had kids and built their own house on Minnesota Ave. John dug...digged... excavated the basement himself. His kids helped with their little toy dump trucks.
April 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
John and Kathleen had kids and built their own house on Minnesota Ave. John dug...digged... excavated the basement himself. His kids helped with their little toy dump trucks.
A fun fact about Granny. She had three brothers and a boyfriend who served in World War II.
She was the only one who got shot.
She was the only one who got shot.
April 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A fun fact about Granny. She had three brothers and a boyfriend who served in World War II.
She was the only one who got shot.
She was the only one who got shot.
Charles seems to have been a bit of a hustler, in the sense of the type of travel med show fraud that I study. He sold an "atomic lightning rod" that he claimed pulled electricity from the air, and which was installed on Abe Lincoln's tomb.
April 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Charles seems to have been a bit of a hustler, in the sense of the type of travel med show fraud that I study. He sold an "atomic lightning rod" that he claimed pulled electricity from the air, and which was installed on Abe Lincoln's tomb.
It's the Edge. I don't think it could be Bono because he'd just talk about himself. Adam's seen some shit in his day and would be alright.
December 17, 2024 at 3:55 AM
It's the Edge. I don't think it could be Bono because he'd just talk about himself. Adam's seen some shit in his day and would be alright.
This happened today. And my mom said I'd never amount to anything!
December 7, 2024 at 12:13 AM
This happened today. And my mom said I'd never amount to anything!
And I always to jump up and scream "IT'S BECAUSE I'M WEARING A MASK NOT BECAUSE OF MY IMMUNE SYSTEM!" Sam Kinison is in my head screaming...
November 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM
And I always to jump up and scream "IT'S BECAUSE I'M WEARING A MASK NOT BECAUSE OF MY IMMUNE SYSTEM!" Sam Kinison is in my head screaming...
Welcome, new followers! Here's a bird of paradise.
November 10, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Welcome, new followers! Here's a bird of paradise.
Welcome to the new folks.
My god there are a lot of you.
My god there are a lot of you.
October 18, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Welcome to the new folks.
My god there are a lot of you.
My god there are a lot of you.
Someone is habbin an aseep.
September 28, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Someone is habbin an aseep.