Steamed 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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The ACA price hikes are going to kill small businesses.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The ACA price hikes are going to kill small businesses.
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Hey, are there any black artists with #ttrpg stock art? Asking for a friend, who is me. (Stock art only please! If I could commission something from an artist specifically, I 100% would.)
June 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hey, are there any black artists with #ttrpg stock art? Asking for a friend, who is me. (Stock art only please! If I could commission something from an artist specifically, I 100% would.)
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And finally, another for our dog peeps. That heeler girl that someone shot in the head? She's out of surgery and at the rescue. They raised most of it, but Emi had to cover the last ~$200. You can help with that here: pawstothewall.org#donate.
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And finally, another for our dog peeps. That heeler girl that someone shot in the head? She's out of surgery and at the rescue. They raised most of it, but Emi had to cover the last ~$200. You can help with that here: pawstothewall.org#donate.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
A question for anyone who'd know (ag, fiber folks?):
Linen uses less water than cotton, correct?
And you'd harvest it not that differently than hay or straw?
So why is cotton preferred? Just historical precedent? Processing? Dye? Outdated perceptions of difficult care?
Linen uses less water than cotton, correct?
And you'd harvest it not that differently than hay or straw?
So why is cotton preferred? Just historical precedent? Processing? Dye? Outdated perceptions of difficult care?
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A question for anyone who'd know (ag, fiber folks?):
Linen uses less water than cotton, correct?
And you'd harvest it not that differently than hay or straw?
So why is cotton preferred? Just historical precedent? Processing? Dye? Outdated perceptions of difficult care?
Linen uses less water than cotton, correct?
And you'd harvest it not that differently than hay or straw?
So why is cotton preferred? Just historical precedent? Processing? Dye? Outdated perceptions of difficult care?
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For those who don't know the history, the tree is an annual gift in commemoration for the aid Boston provided after the 1917 Halifax explosion. It's a truly wonderful story.
Boston Christmas Tree - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
For those who don't know the history, the tree is an annual gift in commemoration for the aid Boston provided after the 1917 Halifax explosion. It's a truly wonderful story.
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If a superhuman intelligence came into being and we said, “how do we end scarcity?” I promise you the people who had one hand on the plug to that superhuman intelligence would pull that plug if the AI gave the actual answer, because they don’t want to end scarcity.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If a superhuman intelligence came into being and we said, “how do we end scarcity?” I promise you the people who had one hand on the plug to that superhuman intelligence would pull that plug if the AI gave the actual answer, because they don’t want to end scarcity.
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Marion County Sheriff's Office is 2nd Iowa agency to agree to help ICE.
They're only deputizing one guy and here's what he says he'll be doing: www.iowapublicradio.org/live-updates...
They're only deputizing one guy and here's what he says he'll be doing: www.iowapublicradio.org/live-updates...
![In Marion County, only one officer was approved to work with ICE. Deputized officers can question people they suspect don’t have legal status while carrying out routine duties, like traffic stops. They can also issue arrest warrants and immigration detainers.
“This isn't something where you put on a mask, kick in a door or something like that,” said Marion County’s deputized officer, Lt. Reed Kious. “This is somebody [that] comes across somebody with a detainer order, or someone commits a bad crime against somebody else.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6qfzh4umm2l255oljj65ttgm/bafkreicjrw2ejnjw3yzllf42ecryfghxdex7qndj7r44deivnd3dgu656m@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Marion County Sheriff's Office is 2nd Iowa agency to agree to help ICE.
They're only deputizing one guy and here's what he says he'll be doing: www.iowapublicradio.org/live-updates...
They're only deputizing one guy and here's what he says he'll be doing: www.iowapublicradio.org/live-updates...
That dot in Iowa: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-08-22/national-guard-immigration-ice-detention-18845767.html?
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
News I can use!
Reminder to never thaw fish in their vacuum sealed packages bc anaerobic bacteria are super not nice!
Cut it open while frozen and place into a different ziplock/container to thaw!!
#AdultingAdvice
Cut it open while frozen and place into a different ziplock/container to thaw!!
#AdultingAdvice
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
News I can use!
I have been there once, I need to go again.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I have been there once, I need to go again.
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Why tf am I just learning this now wtf
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Why tf am I just learning this now wtf
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Furloughed here, also feeling betrayed
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Furloughed here, also feeling betrayed
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He’s the one who said he didn’t want gay people buying his product. I’m straight but haven’t bought a single noodle from him since.
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
He’s the one who said he didn’t want gay people buying his product. I’m straight but haven’t bought a single noodle from him since.
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"Quisling" is going to be replaced by "Democrat" in future vernacular
NY AG JAMES: "I believe that not only was SNAP being used as a political pawn, but also, unfortunately, all of the delays at our airports were also being used as a political pawn, and that's why you had a cadre of Democrats who decided to cede power."
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"Quisling" is going to be replaced by "Democrat" in future vernacular
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A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A Dutch province has asked the US ambassador in the Netherlands to return two panels about African American soldiers to the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery, located in Margraten (Limburg). The two panels were recently removed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
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Yes very much so. I think when the history of this era is written, the pandemic response will be an important inflection point in making a critical group of capital-owners fearful of any kind of rational response to collective problems.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Yes very much so. I think when the history of this era is written, the pandemic response will be an important inflection point in making a critical group of capital-owners fearful of any kind of rational response to collective problems.
Someone ask Schumer if he's familiar with the word "Quisling," please?
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Someone ask Schumer if he's familiar with the word "Quisling," please?
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What idiot called it "being an economist" and not "getting an invisible hand job"?
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What idiot called it "being an economist" and not "getting an invisible hand job"?
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Again, the through-going line is maximizing suffering and death.
The Trump regime is looking for new ways to kill people.
Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Again, the through-going line is maximizing suffering and death.
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A lot of farm families are about to find out that the health insurance that their accountant helped them apply for has been Obama Care all along.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A lot of farm families are about to find out that the health insurance that their accountant helped them apply for has been Obama Care all along.
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this is why the polity should organize itself through professional representatives, capable of memory and coherence, communicating actively with the represented and bound to pursue their interests.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
(the polity does not remember what happened 2 weeks ago. this is why you had VA GOP winning 2021 the same year the GOP attempted a insurrection)
If the polity cannot remember what happened two weeks ago, every two weeks, then they deserve to have the Republic fall
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
this is why the polity should organize itself through professional representatives, capable of memory and coherence, communicating actively with the represented and bound to pursue their interests.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
in the United States we’ve created an institutional environment in which this is impossible, however.
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On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.