Angry Rutabaga

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Geologist (MSc), hydrologic modeler. ELCA. She/her. Ace. Walking SW Wisconsin stereotype, flatlanded in Iowa. Avatar: Functionally unidentifiable in snow gear Banner: Hailstones and engineering ruler

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Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· 29d

A photo of a great blue heron with a stringy sort of fish in its beak (stock image by Veronika Andrews from Pixabay) captioned "Perfectionist lamprey? Eat it for dinner!"

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· 29d

Oh no, how do I pick? Here's a piece of vein opal from Reynolds Mountain, Idaho. It's sun-baked but one corner broke to show clear layers. So maybe more agate than opal?

A chalky-looking white rock with a clear center that has very faint white horizontal layers. It's about the size of two of the fingertips it's held in.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Jun 25

I finally picked up a couple short-story anthologies by favorite authors and…this is funny. (Left is Kristen Britain & the story is from 2002; Ann Leckie's is from 2024) They are…very different, to put it mildly!

A book open to a title page: "Linked, on the Lake of Souls" & the cover of another book titled "Lake of Souls"

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Jun 18

Bread lamé: a razor blade stuck on a metal post, so that it's curved a bit. The handle on this one looks like a baguette. It's for making the slashes on top of a loaf, if you're fancy.

An ulu, a traditional knife of various Alaskan Native groups. It's got a curved, semi-circular blade with a grip mounted above it so you can make long, sweeping cuts in two directions. Very like a pastry cutter in shape but meant for meat.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Jun 9

T@dzio Mueller, whom I'd never heard of before but who seems like his whole thing is his "don't believe the hopium" bull. No, it's not all great but he doesn't seem to be doing anything to make it better, so…

Taddy-boy insisting that green energy buildout means nothing because banks have still invested in fossil fuels too

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Jun 8

Huh, perhaps yours went through German to get to English? Though I'm going to have to look up "lickworms"!

Translation from Finnish, above a picture of a very handsome black and tan dog with a stuffed koala: "It was my birthday today 🐶 I turned 4 years old. I got two koalas as a gift, even though my mom says the other one is Mint's. But it's mine.
We didn't get to go to the park because it was too hot, but we got to eat some lickworms and they said there would be cake for dinner 🎂
-Santtu"

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· May 23

Can't possibly relate (secondary consideration: local winery)

A bottle of red wine from Turtle Crossing winery, featuring what I think is a wood turtle in a bunch of red poppies.
Wood turtles are A Thing in my part of Wisco.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· May 20

Timeline did a thing:

Andrew's skeet right above ceej @ceej.online saying "one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway"

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· May 16

There, I have my garden* in. * I live in an apartment, therefore my plants also get smaller accommodations

Two tall skinny ground cherry seedlings, one in a round terracotta pot & the other in a long gray plastic pot.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· May 6

My coworkers think they are HILARIOUS. (No one was hurt & I fixed the broken parts, but also geez this happened YESTERDAY!)

Sticker on my office door with a quadcopter UAV & the words "I don't just fly drones, I crash them too"

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Apr 24

Bear corn!

A small shaggy brown thing that sort of looks like someone opened up a fir cone & shoved peeled almonds between the scales. It's growing out of some brown fallen oak leaves.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Apr 16

"Help, I've fallen and I ca-ENT get up!"

Crop of landslide photo, the bottom most shrub of a thicket appears to have arms & legs & be sliding downhill.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Apr 1

"Bologna, approved by the Sturgeon General":

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Apr 1

Today's horrible pun

A post-it note with a poorly-drawn gar. Around it is written "En GARde, c'est le poisson d'Avril."
Yes I know they aren't called gar in French.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Mar 31

…or not. Satellite shows a perfectly circular cloud!

Satellite view of North America at night, there is a perfectly circular bright white cloud over Iowa which is currently raining on me.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Mar 31

Well that's odd

Screenshot of weather radar showing a tadpole-shaped storm with a perfect halo of cloud around it

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Mar 25

Noticed milk starting to go sour, so thought I'd scald it & then make yoghurt. Instead it made a big curd. So, and @sjgochenour.bsky.social I blame you, I made my first tiny batch of mozzarella at 9:00 pm:

A bowl with two dessert spoons in it; sitting on one is a white ball of cheese roughly the size of a walnut.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Mar 19

I've got some loop hooks that take the pressure off my ears, though I'm not sure that would help?

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Feb 8

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Jan 28

Last 2 panels of a Calvin & Hobbes strip where Calvin has just given a report on bats to his class, calling them bugs. The entire class, seated at their desks, shouts "Bats aren't bugs!!" Calvin, standing in front of the blackboard, scowls "look, who's giving the report? You chowderheads…or ME?!"
From off panel, his teacher says "Calvin, I'd like to see you a moment."

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Jan 20

Also, I got a brainwave & just made it in my tupperware instead of transferring it later!

Tiramisu in a small food storage container. There is cocoa powder on top of 3 layers of brown biscuits & cream-colored cheese & meringue.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Jan 18

I'm running Graysky & while it's got some annoying quirks, O get no logo:

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Dec 24

This afternoon, looking over the Turkey River valley from the Chicken Ridge scenic overlook:

Panoramic view of approx. 270 degrees from W to SE across a ridgetop and over wooded valleys and snow-covered fields, blue sky above

View up-valley, ridgetops, wooded slopes, snowy fields on terraces

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Dec 21

Calvin & Hobbes comic. Calvin has a paper mask on the back of his head & says to Hobbes: "Now you can't tell which way I'm facing, so you can't sneak up from behind! I've finally thwarted your murderous recreation!"
Hobbes, unimpressed, simply stuffs Calvin's entire head in his mouth. Calvin: "No fair! You didn't even sneak up!:

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Dec 12

A friend's phone is set to French for practice purposes & now I get this when they send me a thumbs-up.

Message app.
Me: "Yep! Would 2 work?"
Friend: "A ajouté un «J'aime» à «Yep! Would 2 work?»
Which was apparently a thumbs-up on IOS in French sent to an Android set to English

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Nov 30

I require poutine! And cider! Luckily I had the fixings.

A white plate with green decoration on a red placemat. On the plate is a rather unappatizing-looking pile of fried potato wedges, white cheddar cheese curds, and leftover turkey gravy.
Tasted good, though

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Nov 27

Yup.

Screenshot of a skeet from me: "I used it to save characters once & some tankie fuckwit called me a 'USincel'"

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Nov 27

Ok, this was too perfect. Don't eat unidentified berries, kids! (I did not. I took the photo IN ORDER TO identify these)

4 pink fingers poking out of a green fingerless glove are steadying a spindly branch from which small black berries on long stalks sprout singly.

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Nov 16

She's also got a ton of these cut-glass trifle cups, which as you see go for a staggering buck-forty...but surely they're worth at least $10 each! (Not when literally everyone's grandma has a set, no...)

Cut-glass footed cups, about 4"l inches deep on a short stem. A tag says the store wants $1.40 each

Angry Rutabaga@streamlass· Nov 5

"How hard could it be?" I thought. "Mei Mei le Squoofins is mostly black, & JL has a ton of reference photos..." ...yeah, harder than that. But, despite that, may I present One Art!