Angry Rutabaga
@streamlass.bsky.social
Geologist (MSc), percussionist, general hammer-wielding troublemaker; hydrologic modeler.
ELCA. She/her. Ace.
Walking SW Wisconsin stereotype, flatlanded in Iowa.
Avatar: Functionally unidentifiable in snow gear
Banner: Hailstones and engineering ruler
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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god, there’s apparently ICE agents in Bemidji, in northern MN. Bemidji is between my reservation and two others. there is very little diversity besides the Indigenous population.
truly terrifying with how vulnerable Native women especially already are.
truly terrifying with how vulnerable Native women especially already are.
January 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
god, there’s apparently ICE agents in Bemidji, in northern MN. Bemidji is between my reservation and two others. there is very little diversity besides the Indigenous population.
truly terrifying with how vulnerable Native women especially already are.
truly terrifying with how vulnerable Native women especially already are.
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Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location.
Download, mirror, and reshare.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Download, mirror, and reshare.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Gravy-Venntel_apps
docs.google.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location.
Download, mirror, and reshare.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Download, mirror, and reshare.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Huh! I read years ago about using cattail fluff for life vests, but as a down alternative? Very cool (or warm, rather)!
January 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Huh! I read years ago about using cattail fluff for life vests, but as a down alternative? Very cool (or warm, rather)!
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Mousecow would very much like these cheesy snacks thankyouverymuch.
#EverybodyLovesMousecow
#EverybodyLovesMousecow
January 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Mousecow would very much like these cheesy snacks thankyouverymuch.
#EverybodyLovesMousecow
#EverybodyLovesMousecow
"Wonderfully bloopy" is just the perfect description!
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
"Wonderfully bloopy" is just the perfect description!
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At some point someone recommended Redact for deleting Twitter posts—anyone have thoughts?
Not as easy as just nuking my account but I want to avoid handle-theft
Not as easy as just nuking my account but I want to avoid handle-theft
January 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
At some point someone recommended Redact for deleting Twitter posts—anyone have thoughts?
Not as easy as just nuking my account but I want to avoid handle-theft
Not as easy as just nuking my account but I want to avoid handle-theft
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Same thing in the BWCAW and Alaska. The northwoods in general are totally wild.
Lol hell, did you know there are 31 types of forested wetland up there!? I didnt until i started working as a forester in the northwoods
Lol hell, did you know there are 31 types of forested wetland up there!? I didnt until i started working as a forester in the northwoods
January 10, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Same thing in the BWCAW and Alaska. The northwoods in general are totally wild.
Lol hell, did you know there are 31 types of forested wetland up there!? I didnt until i started working as a forester in the northwoods
Lol hell, did you know there are 31 types of forested wetland up there!? I didnt until i started working as a forester in the northwoods
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“She Blinded Me With Science” is a catchy tune but also a cautionary tale of not having an eyewash station
December 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“She Blinded Me With Science” is a catchy tune but also a cautionary tale of not having an eyewash station
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It fixes nothing, but maybe you need to see this right now.
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
It fixes nothing, but maybe you need to see this right now.
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I'm really proud of this article. Quyanakpuq @redped.bsky.social for including me on this project. In this discussion between 5 Indigenous academic women, we discuss the intersection between feminism and Indigenous studies, with lots of suggested readings that shaped our thinking in this area.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:08 PM
I'm really proud of this article. Quyanakpuq @redped.bsky.social for including me on this project. In this discussion between 5 Indigenous academic women, we discuss the intersection between feminism and Indigenous studies, with lots of suggested readings that shaped our thinking in this area.
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The alt label will not show up on the video created from your uploaded animated GIF and there will be no clickable button to show the "alt text" (figcaption text) on command.
My best guess for why is that it's about the video player UI.
My best guess for why is that it's about the video player UI.
As for why they can't just have the video sort of do the same popout thing with their "alt text" that still images do...
My best guess is it's to do with the video player UI itself. It might be difficult to put the alt badge on the video player, let alone have it be a button.
My best guess is it's to do with the video player UI itself. It might be difficult to put the alt badge on the video player, let alone have it be a button.
December 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The alt label will not show up on the video created from your uploaded animated GIF and there will be no clickable button to show the "alt text" (figcaption text) on command.
My best guess for why is that it's about the video player UI.
My best guess for why is that it's about the video player UI.
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Many people don't know that video files cannot support the alt attribute and cannot have alt text. There are other tools for making videos accessible.
The way Bluesky's dev team has done things falsely indicates otherwise and confuses a lot of people, but if you look at the code, it's obvious.
The way Bluesky's dev team has done things falsely indicates otherwise and confuses a lot of people, but if you look at the code, it's obvious.
Someone once got extremely angry at being told that alt text for videos isn't a thing and was like "it seems like the argument is just that traditionally it hasn't been" and I was like "no, actual alt attribute will not work except on a few specific tags and video isn't one of them."
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Many people don't know that video files cannot support the alt attribute and cannot have alt text. There are other tools for making videos accessible.
The way Bluesky's dev team has done things falsely indicates otherwise and confuses a lot of people, but if you look at the code, it's obvious.
The way Bluesky's dev team has done things falsely indicates otherwise and confuses a lot of people, but if you look at the code, it's obvious.
At some point someone recommended Redact for deleting Twitter posts—anyone have thoughts?
Not as easy as just nuking my account but I want to avoid handle-theft
Not as easy as just nuking my account but I want to avoid handle-theft
January 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
At some point someone recommended Redact for deleting Twitter posts—anyone have thoughts?
Not as easy as just nuking my account but I want to avoid handle-theft
Not as easy as just nuking my account but I want to avoid handle-theft
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I believed that this was the plan all along. They are never going to give anything to their mouth-breathing, booger-eating slack-jawed base. They will just turn them loose on their neighbors with the suggestion that they won't be prosecuted for taking what they want.
just really demonstrative of the fact that trump thinks of blue states as being colonial holdings from which real americans may brutalize and extract tribute from
I kind of think the most revealing thing about Trump and his advisors’ view of the economy are the (false) “it’s fine, the economy is doing well in red states” lines from the CEA report that he posted on Truth Social
January 9, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I believed that this was the plan all along. They are never going to give anything to their mouth-breathing, booger-eating slack-jawed base. They will just turn them loose on their neighbors with the suggestion that they won't be prosecuted for taking what they want.
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Shout out to this box elder bug making some questionable choices in the office pitcherplants. Definitely elevating the excitement of the morning zoom meetings
January 9, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Shout out to this box elder bug making some questionable choices in the office pitcherplants. Definitely elevating the excitement of the morning zoom meetings
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Boar's Head, again. Listeria, again. Pecorino cheese
January 9, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Boar's Head, again. Listeria, again. Pecorino cheese
I've got the physique down, just need to work on the chill.
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
I've got the physique down, just need to work on the chill.
The perils of a southerly populace!
I have an "atlas of northern Wisconsin" clearly published in Chicago. "Nothern" Wisconsin starts, according to it, in the northern suburbs of Milwaukee.
That's 3/4 of the state! That's absurd!
I have an "atlas of northern Wisconsin" clearly published in Chicago. "Nothern" Wisconsin starts, according to it, in the northern suburbs of Milwaukee.
That's 3/4 of the state! That's absurd!
This would mean I'm from the North, which I am not.
Where do the North and South of England begin?
Based on the answers of 46,000 English people about where they live, the southern border of “the North” is a line roughly from Shrewsbury to Grimsby, while the northern border of “the South” is a line roughly from the Severn to Great Yarmouth
Based on the answers of 46,000 English people about where they live, the southern border of “the North” is a line roughly from Shrewsbury to Grimsby, while the northern border of “the South” is a line roughly from the Severn to Great Yarmouth
January 9, 2026 at 3:37 PM
The perils of a southerly populace!
I have an "atlas of northern Wisconsin" clearly published in Chicago. "Nothern" Wisconsin starts, according to it, in the northern suburbs of Milwaukee.
That's 3/4 of the state! That's absurd!
I have an "atlas of northern Wisconsin" clearly published in Chicago. "Nothern" Wisconsin starts, according to it, in the northern suburbs of Milwaukee.
That's 3/4 of the state! That's absurd!
Had an interesting discussion with a retired pastor I know that, without the plenary indulgences of the Crusades, you might not have Protestants ~500 years later.
Specifically, Urban pledges that all men taking part in a crusade were absolved of all sins.
Back in the day, you were supposed to do a 40-day penance for killing in a war. But now you can kill with no penance and in fact the act of murdering heathens cleanses your soul of sin
Back in the day, you were supposed to do a 40-day penance for killing in a war. But now you can kill with no penance and in fact the act of murdering heathens cleanses your soul of sin
January 9, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Had an interesting discussion with a retired pastor I know that, without the plenary indulgences of the Crusades, you might not have Protestants ~500 years later.
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but that’s why the worst person you know loves the crusades. because it lets them perceive doing violence to people they disagree with or are different from them as a sinless, even purifying act
January 9, 2026 at 12:25 AM
but that’s why the worst person you know loves the crusades. because it lets them perceive doing violence to people they disagree with or are different from them as a sinless, even purifying act
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Speaking of the zoo - while I was there one of the sand cats was sleeping in a hammock and another tried to climb the branch above them and fell into said hammock. The sleeping one was like WTF bro and batted the other on the face. I got a great pic of his expression after but it was out of focus 😭😭
January 7, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Speaking of the zoo - while I was there one of the sand cats was sleeping in a hammock and another tried to climb the branch above them and fell into said hammock. The sleeping one was like WTF bro and batted the other on the face. I got a great pic of his expression after but it was out of focus 😭😭
Huh.
My rain-attraction powers seem to have expanded to include my hometown AND my usual route to my undergrad college.
And it rained here, too.
My rain-attraction powers seem to have expanded to include my hometown AND my usual route to my undergrad college.
And it rained here, too.
This is wet for any time of the year, but for January 8 this is soaking.
January 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Huh.
My rain-attraction powers seem to have expanded to include my hometown AND my usual route to my undergrad college.
And it rained here, too.
My rain-attraction powers seem to have expanded to include my hometown AND my usual route to my undergrad college.
And it rained here, too.
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Ishmael taking bold new taxonomic stances 🐋
January 9, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Ishmael taking bold new taxonomic stances 🐋
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www.opb.org/article/2026... Very little information so far, including victims' conditions, nor agency(ies) involved.
Federal agents shoot 2 people in East Portland
Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers operating in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The victims were transported to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear th...
www.opb.org
January 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
www.opb.org/article/2026... Very little information so far, including victims' conditions, nor agency(ies) involved.