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

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!"
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.
A book open to a title page: "Linked, on the Lake of Souls" & the cover of another book titled "Lake of Souls"
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.
Taddy-boy insisting that green energy buildout means nothing because banks have still invested in fossil fuels too
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"
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.
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"
Two tall skinny ground cherry seedlings, one in a round terracotta pot & the other in a long gray plastic pot.
Sticker on my office door with a quadcopter UAV & the words "I don't just fly drones, I crash them too"
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.
Crop of landslide photo, the bottom most shrub of a thicket appears to have arms & legs & be sliding downhill.
Billboard for Valley Fish & Cheese (Prairie du Chein, WI): Seafood Turtle Gator Sausage Jerky Bologna Approved by the Sturgeon General Smaller sign beneath: Gator Jerky, Catfish Bologna
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.
Satellite view of North America at night, there is a perfectly circular bright white cloud over Iowa which is currently raining on me.
Screenshot of weather radar showing a tadpole-shaped storm with a perfect halo of cloud around it
A bowl with two dessert spoons in it; sitting on one is a white ball of cheese roughly the size of a walnut.
6 inch long blue rubber strap with 4 double-sided hooks on each end & the brand "Armbrust" stamped in the middle. You hook ear loops for a mask over the ends & it holds them behind your head.
"My Canadian lovebird is the snowy owl," above a cartoon of said owl scrolling "Breeed" on their phone, looking at a profile labeled "Bryan" & making a little heart word bubble. The owl is labeled "looking for a nesting partner."
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."
Tiramisu in a small food storage container. There is cocoa powder on top of 3 layers of brown biscuits & cream-colored cheese & meringue.
Screenshot of this thread, no logo watermark.
Panoramic view of approx. 270 degrees from W to SE across a ridgetop and over wooded valleys and snow-covered fields, blue sky above
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!:
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
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
Screenshot of a skeet from me: "I used it to save characters once & some tankie fuckwit called me a 'USincel'"
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.
Cut-glass footed cups, about 4"l inches deep on a short stem. A tag says the store wants $1.40 each
A mostly-black tortie cat with a split brown face, one white toe, & a rear foot white sock, is drawn hunched over in Snoopy vulture pose. She is wearing a white supervisor's hardhat & a green lanyard with a picture ID reading "SQUOOF cat in charge of JL & house." In front of her is a clipboard with a checklist containing: "JL, bed, füd, litr, toyz, mous in cubbrd"
Hand sample of white chert, with a big round divot in the top where a chunk broke off. (Written therein: "Wyoming? Bighorns if so" because I found it in my car after the end of field season)
A very pale pink arm on a gray armrest. A piece of medical tubing is taped at wrist and elbow, where it disappears under a piece of gauze. There is blood in the tubing & a red stress ball in the hand: the owner of the arm is donating blood.
A pair of shiny burgindy(ish) chukka boots, one standing & one on its side. The leather is comfortably creased & the welted soles are just starting to wear down on the outer heels.
A large red-purple mushroom with upturned rim viewed from above, surrounded by soil & corn stubble
A dark brown millipede with reddish-brown bands between segments is curles into a shape like a letter p, about an inch above the water line on a rock. It was quite large
One shockingly pale leg & sandaled foot in a creek, lined up to give a sense of scale to the massive chert boulder the photographer is standing on. It's as wide as the foot & twice as long, & you can see some red & yellow banding near the toes.
Medium and large lidded glass bowls, full of coleslaw, next to the mayonnaise & yogurt I used to make the dressing.
A dark brown isopod (sowbug/rolly-polly/woodlouse) with tan markings. It is sitting on a very pink & somewhat fuzzy arm right above a gray watch strap.
A medium-sized flight feather (secondary?) in mottled white & brown. The backdrop is the prairie I found & left it in
Radar map over Iowa with text box indicating it's from 12:45am this morning. In the middle is a red and white blob of storms surrounded by green. A blue arrow drawn over it indicates general storm motion from west to east. A narrow band of red extends south from the storm, and a blue circle near the end indicates a large area just north of Des Moines
A black-and-white photo of a bunch of white men in 1940s suits & hats, in front of a refrigerated railcar. On the side of the car is written "74000 lbs Iowa lard for the hungry overseas sent by Iowa LWR appeal"
"T track" for a table saw--a metal strip with a two-level cutout down its length, where a hex-head screw or a washer can slide along beneath a lip that keeps it in place after it's slid in at one end. Below is a hex-head bolt sliding down the track. The image is from the McMaster Carr website so it's got dimensions listed on the side, they're irrelevant to the idea here.
A bedrock geology map of Michigan, with a blue mark on the NW part of the lower peninsula in a zone marked "gypsum-bearing rocks in shale"
Roughly squarish, sparkly teal-and-pink rock
Skeet from @marga-rita.bsky.social: "The immigrants in the US, especially the ones coming from across the southern US border work very hard. Sometimes 2 jobs. The ones in Europe get subsidies for everything which discourages them from working and assimilating. 4 generations later they still don’t give their kids European names…"
Prairie hillslope flowers from near the ground: purple leadplant (maybe?), yellow echinacea/black-eyed suasns, white Queen Anne's lace, and pale violet beebalm/bergamot. There are many green and reddish leaves & grass blades; in the distance are some trees & a bright blue sky.
A low hill across a field, both covered in snow. The hill slopes up to the right, & a row of pine trees along its base also increase in height from left to right. They are all heavily laden with snow. Deciduous trees in the background have a coating of rime on every twig. At the base of the hill, below the pines, a creek has cut a small cliff. Everything is either white or nearly black, though the trees are usually deep green and the rocks a buffy tan.
"His and hers" wine and beer glassware. "Hers" has a pink lipstick smooch on it with the words "Beauty and," his has an unkempt pile of facial hair and the words "the Beard." ...or perhaps they should be reversed, gender-wise, given a woman married to a gay man for his camouflage was known as his "beard"...
A pint glass with an illustration of a beard & mustache, and the words "Beards: They grow on you"
Green sky glow with maybe a band of red. Trees take up the left side & bottom, and a red light from a cell tower is in the lower right.
A silver bag labelled "freeze dried eggplant"
A tan rock that looks vaguely like something's skull, but isn't. The indent that looks like an orbital is full of tiny brown-yellow quartz crystals, shiny & sparkly.
DnD class test: 45% barbarian, 55% bard, 45% cleric, 55% druid, 45% fighter, 70% monk, 60% paladin, 70% ranger, 65% rogue, 45% sorcerer, 40% warlock, 70% wizard
Blue-green preception test result at hue 168, greener than 85% of people tested. I categorize turquoise as blue.
A circle of small, mostly rounded rocks. Clockwise from bottom left: shiny banded reddish sandstone, grey and tan chert, red-brown mudstone, white quartz, more white quartz (more opaque), two mottled grey and red chert chunks, a translucent white stone, & a tan-and-red chert piece. In the center is an unweathered basalt chip with lots of bubbles showing.
Screenshot from an allergy app showing dust allergens are very high now & will stay so for the next 4 hours, with the primary constituent being "irregular plastic particles"
Left to right: a tube of Tecnu urushiol remover, a bottle of Solarcaine aloe with lidocaine, & a tube of Benedryl anti-itch gel. The aloe is half gone because I have the albedo of a hailstone.
Small clear plastic tackle box insert, with a variety of colorful spinner lures. One small square compartment holds a sample vial of blue ink (Kakimori 07), a double-length compartment holds a larger vial of green (Teranshi saishiki green)
Small black snake with 3 yellow-orange longitudinal stripes & tiny, insectivorous head raised; its front half on short green grass & its tail on a gray irregular stepping-stone.