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Jack-o-Rutabaga

@streamlass.bsky.social

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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

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 5h

I was thinking Horta...

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 5h

A vendor at the farmers market accidentally grew zucchini-summer squash hybrids, those suckers were *massive.*
10lbs of squash might constitute a deadly weapon, tho...

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 6h

Also upside down is fun 🙃

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 6h

It WAS a real adult party, all along!

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 8h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/b...

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 6h

Time to practice your one-legged jumprope?

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 6h

And when that's gone, insurers have no competition on jacking prices as high as they can. We know they collude.
Anyone who lives long enough stops being healthy...Rs think they should just die when they no longer increase shareholder value.

Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 6h

Not my great uncle's kid, but hard to know before that--great-great grandpa arrived in the 1860s.

Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 6h

Those senators *want* this. They have the mindset of an unreconstructed Ebenezer Scrooge: the poor should live in misery, work for sub-subsistence pay, & die young "to decrease surplus population".

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 6h

*blink*
I don't *think* Dad had any distant cousins in Cali, but now I have to ask.
Grandpa's brother was a game warden, & Radke isn't exactly a common surname. Yet it seems like a lot of us, close kin or not, end up in environmental work!

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 7h

"Attack of the Gastropods!
You can run, but you...eh, you probably can outrun them & if you've got some salt (like the tons for road treatment) or it snows you'll be fine..."

Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 7h

Also mentioned elsewhere, Lucille Ball!

Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 10h

EARS!
And the mask just accentuates them

Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 10h

I'd be looking at buying out my dad's farm so I could force him to freaking retire already...

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lisettebrodey @lisettebrodey.bsky.social · 15h

Saturday #squirrel wishes everyone a happy weekend.

#squirrels #sqrlpix 🥜 🐿️ 🌳

The back of a squirrel on a low wooden bench. We see the squirrel's big puffy round tail.

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 10h

my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
and they're like, "there's not enough room"
damn right, there's too many of you
how 'bout, form an orderly queue

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 11h

New kitten comes home 😸 @talleryne.bsky.social

A spotty black and white kitten in a cat carrier being held by a woman in a car

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, if I had those kind of funds, I would not be stressing over this damn furlough.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

hey so for once there's an actual happy update to something

our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 1d

Sexy...Des Moines farmers' market?

compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1d

sexy aws outage

lacey, infested with bears @byelacey.bsky.social · Sep 23

bringing back my most viral tweet for spooky season

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 1d

Several acres of prime Iowa farm ground, with a greenhouse... I'm guessing at least 7 figures?

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 1d

I'd also like an explanation of how percussionists are neurotic and drummers are infuriatingly unconcerned about anything...(from which you can divine which one I identify as!)

Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 1d

If only I had that kind of money!

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 1d

...well, a whole lot of feds with plant expertise are looking around for part-time work... 😈

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Jack-o-Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 1d

Someone watching out for you so *you're* not the one with a pending assault charge.

Also that bar sounds like a good 'un.

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