J. Raasch
@jraasch.bsky.social
Interested in science, natural history, preserving biodiversity. Restoring and protecting a 2-acre prairie remnant for 20+ years 😱 ... I have a lot of questions.
I try to read, but tend to fall asleep when I stop moving.
Wisconsin
I try to read, but tend to fall asleep when I stop moving.
Wisconsin
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Milwaukee was machinist and metalworker to the world. Falk Corporation, Wisconsin Historical Society image 50858.
November 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Milwaukee was machinist and metalworker to the world. Falk Corporation, Wisconsin Historical Society image 50858.
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I have lived through the entire rise and fall of search engines
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Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I have lived through the entire rise and fall of search engines
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Beyond the effects of this fence as a wildlife barrier, I believe this is the former Taylor Ranch, part of the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant and the subject of a decades-long fight over community rights of access for grazing, hunting, wood-cutting, etc. latinohistoryproject.org/primary_sour...
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Beyond the effects of this fence as a wildlife barrier, I believe this is the former Taylor Ranch, part of the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant and the subject of a decades-long fight over community rights of access for grazing, hunting, wood-cutting, etc. latinohistoryproject.org/primary_sour...
Okay … aside from often trying to read late at night and falling asleep, I’m also compelled to look stuff up to learn more when I’m reading. It’s going to require months to get through this book. 🫠
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Okay … aside from often trying to read late at night and falling asleep, I’m also compelled to look stuff up to learn more when I’m reading. It’s going to require months to get through this book. 🫠
Silphium perfoliatum. Carnivorous plants. Significant or just a little extra nitrogen?
The Ohio Naturalist. Vol. XIII, March 1913
The Ohio Naturalist. Vol. XIII, March 1913
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Silphium perfoliatum. Carnivorous plants. Significant or just a little extra nitrogen?
The Ohio Naturalist. Vol. XIII, March 1913
The Ohio Naturalist. Vol. XIII, March 1913
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November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Not political. Just an observation.
Good business people focus on running successful good businesses.
Bad business people run for elected office. Fact.
Good business people focus on running successful good businesses.
Bad business people run for elected office. Fact.
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Not political. Just an observation.
Good business people focus on running successful good businesses.
Bad business people run for elected office. Fact.
Good business people focus on running successful good businesses.
Bad business people run for elected office. Fact.
If you want to run government like a business, please vote for someone who’s actually built and run a successful respected sustainable business for a few decades next time. Thanks.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If you want to run government like a business, please vote for someone who’s actually built and run a successful respected sustainable business for a few decades next time. Thanks.
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When consuming the world through a 6 inch piece glass and metal, it’s hard to discern what’s AI made.
Instead, actively participate in physical reality (sans device) and connect with the makers of the things you buy directly.
This deepens our bonds to each other and is often fun as hell.
Instead, actively participate in physical reality (sans device) and connect with the makers of the things you buy directly.
This deepens our bonds to each other and is often fun as hell.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
When consuming the world through a 6 inch piece glass and metal, it’s hard to discern what’s AI made.
Instead, actively participate in physical reality (sans device) and connect with the makers of the things you buy directly.
This deepens our bonds to each other and is often fun as hell.
Instead, actively participate in physical reality (sans device) and connect with the makers of the things you buy directly.
This deepens our bonds to each other and is often fun as hell.
Hi. I hope you’re okay and everything goes better today.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Hi. I hope you’re okay and everything goes better today.
Palaeocast episode from 2015 covering Pterosaur aerodynamics and engineering. 😎🤓
I ❤️ this podcast. Fortunately, still working through 2015. Lots of good stuff to look forward to!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
I ❤️ this podcast. Fortunately, still working through 2015. Lots of good stuff to look forward to!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Episode 42: Pterosaur aerodynamics
Podcast Episode · Palaeocast · 04/01/2015 · 46m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Palaeocast episode from 2015 covering Pterosaur aerodynamics and engineering. 😎🤓
I ❤️ this podcast. Fortunately, still working through 2015. Lots of good stuff to look forward to!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
I ❤️ this podcast. Fortunately, still working through 2015. Lots of good stuff to look forward to!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
just a photo of Red Clover seed
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
just a photo of Red Clover seed
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hone, refine, release what doesn't serve you
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
hone, refine, release what doesn't serve you
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increasingly thinking about how we live in a world in which a lot of people are getting information from chatbots that scrape the public internet and a lot of truth (good reporting) is tucked behind paywalls and the publicly available websites (the CDC lol) are are spreading mis/disinfo
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
increasingly thinking about how we live in a world in which a lot of people are getting information from chatbots that scrape the public internet and a lot of truth (good reporting) is tucked behind paywalls and the publicly available websites (the CDC lol) are are spreading mis/disinfo
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80 years ago today, "the Major War Crimes Trial against 24 high-ranking representatives of the Nazi state began in Nuremberg. Over the next 218 days, more than 230 witnesses were questioned, 300,000 statements were read out, leading to 16,000 pages of transcripts." DW
www.dw.com/en/prosecuti...
www.dw.com/en/prosecuti...
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials – DW – 11/20/2025
After World War II, the Allies brought the Nazis to trial. For the first time, representatives of a state had to answer for their crimes before an international tribunal.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
80 years ago today, "the Major War Crimes Trial against 24 high-ranking representatives of the Nazi state began in Nuremberg. Over the next 218 days, more than 230 witnesses were questioned, 300,000 statements were read out, leading to 16,000 pages of transcripts." DW
www.dw.com/en/prosecuti...
www.dw.com/en/prosecuti...
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A few recent foraminifera. These are amoeboid protists that have little shells!
#marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky
#marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A few recent foraminifera. These are amoeboid protists that have little shells!
#marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky
#marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky
Now that #tariffs are in place to protect US businesses, when will a few US businesses start selling affordable cool antique and vintage #microscope slides … diatoms, fossils, thin sections, et cetera?
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November 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Now that #tariffs are in place to protect US businesses, when will a few US businesses start selling affordable cool antique and vintage #microscope slides … diatoms, fossils, thin sections, et cetera?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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unlike many leading posters here, I believe that humans are essentially gooden retrievers. Most of us need to go walkies, preferably in nature, even if we aren’t doing it.
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
unlike many leading posters here, I believe that humans are essentially gooden retrievers. Most of us need to go walkies, preferably in nature, even if we aren’t doing it.
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So Epstein and Maxwell trafficked little girls as young as 14. This is a well established fact.
But what I wanna know is, WHERE THE FUCK WERE ALL OF THOSE LITTLE GIRLS' PARENTS?
But what I wanna know is, WHERE THE FUCK WERE ALL OF THOSE LITTLE GIRLS' PARENTS?
November 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So Epstein and Maxwell trafficked little girls as young as 14. This is a well established fact.
But what I wanna know is, WHERE THE FUCK WERE ALL OF THOSE LITTLE GIRLS' PARENTS?
But what I wanna know is, WHERE THE FUCK WERE ALL OF THOSE LITTLE GIRLS' PARENTS?
old enough to remember … okay just old … i guess
pretty sure elite once referred, not too long ago, to the best of the best, not the self-appointed scum pretending they’re better than the rest of us
pretty sure elite once referred, not too long ago, to the best of the best, not the self-appointed scum pretending they’re better than the rest of us
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
old enough to remember … okay just old … i guess
pretty sure elite once referred, not too long ago, to the best of the best, not the self-appointed scum pretending they’re better than the rest of us
pretty sure elite once referred, not too long ago, to the best of the best, not the self-appointed scum pretending they’re better than the rest of us
make elite elite again
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
make elite elite again
The Border Collie decided I needed to see the sunrise — outside, not through window — today. She was right.
I think she’s trying to turn me into a morning person.
I think she’s trying to turn me into a morning person.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Border Collie decided I needed to see the sunrise — outside, not through window — today. She was right.
I think she’s trying to turn me into a morning person.
I think she’s trying to turn me into a morning person.
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Another way to phrase it is "without wholesale theft, we don't have a viable business model."
If every author in the class action filed a claim it would financially ruin the entire industry! 😊
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Another way to phrase it is "without wholesale theft, we don't have a viable business model."