Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 9hYeah, I wonder if there was amateur rocketry going on? 020
Reposted by Angry RutabagaCri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 12hLuine is....not great at figuring out where Binx is 🤣 I see many jump scares in her future. *cat with claws in ceiling* GIF #cats #becurious 1114616
Reposted by Angry RutabagaJenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 9hDHS is simply buying local cops’ support with our tax dollars. Like I’ve been saying, they own a lot of these cops. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi... 0296116
Reposted by Angry RutabagaJoe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wisconsin Central Sand Plain finally wins MinCup. 0163
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 21hSurely we could solve this by telling all those masculinity-obsessed dinguses that mumps can cause infertility? 010
Reposted by Angry RutabagaDr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you miss voting for cool things now that the Mineral Cup is over, and you like Fat Bear Week and Fat Marmot Week, check out... Fat Pika Week. Small, cute, fluffy bracket game to support a long-running community science project. www.mountainstudies.org/events/fat-p...mountainstudies.orgFat Pika Week — Mountain Studies InstituteMSI is happy to annouce Fat Pika Week. Vote for your favorite fat pika using the polls found on our social media pages! 01912
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 22hThis is apparently also a thing at ChikFilA, & yet another reason I refuse to eat there. 030
Reposted by Angry RutabagaJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Burger shaped? So, burger??" 2404
Reposted by Angry RutabagaEllen Kuwana, MS (#SciComm at #SciWri26) @ellenkuwana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, many of the boys are. Girls don’t get to be simply 12. They get sexualized and spoke to and treated inappropriately and touched without being asked. 132
Reposted by Angry RutabagaMineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Congratulations, Quartz! After a decade of #MinCup, this key rock-forming mineral of optical tricks is the #MinCup26 Champion! Due to intense manipulation attempts in the final hours, the exact winning margin is still being audited. Please join us tomorrow for celebration! 18344113
Reposted by Angry RutabagaMika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As a personal note, the absolute audacity involved with writing snark on the Players Survey after being personally responsible for stuffing hundreds of ballots a match using rotating VPNs is making me contemplate the terms of my ethical oaths. 8472
Reposted by Angry RutabagaMika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yeeeeah, the #MinCup26 Final is going to need a detailed audit. When the match closes, I can do the rough-cut enough for provisional results that will hopefully be enough to declare a winner, but the actual finalized vote-count will need to wait until after bedtime stories. 2272
Reposted by Angry RutabagaDavid @archaeomather.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I wrote about rats for @racketmn.com!racketmn.comHow I Accidentally Pinpointed the Arrival of Rats in MN Through Environmental Archaeology - RacketTurns out ‘Steamboat Willie’ was actually a documentary. 424063
Reposted by Angry RutabagaJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Chubmarine so cute. Chubmarine have no cares. 1147778
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hopefully they're not still inserting soup ads, at least? 200
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Out of context I pictured one or both of you pacing around the house, encatted. 120
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There's a reason I also play percussion. Hammers FTW! 050
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yeah, that looks to me like a plot of "did you lose a bunch of millennials when you came out in favor of avowed rapists?" for the Evangelicals & many of the Catholics. Some of the Catholics ended up Mainliners! 010
Reposted by Angry RutabagaOuttaMyLaine @outtamylaine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Head's up for fans of #FatBearWeek and Katmai National Park: Donations to the Otis Fund are being matched by Explore[dot]org until October 3. The Trump Admin made a steep funding cut to Katmai's Sled Dog Kennels, so they could really use the extra help. (👋 #UglyDogs!) No donation is too small!katmaiconservancy.orgKatmai Conservancy | The Otis Fund | Support Conservation TodaySupport Katmai's wildlife and conservation efforts with The Otis Fund, raising funds during Fat Bear Week to protect bears, salmon, and wilderness in Katmai National Park. 1109
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's our scientific duty to take that money before the engineers get a hold of it, so they don't continue their grand asinine tradition of just blowing shit up 270
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As a Lutheran, I'm surprised there wasn't also pressure to drink more coffee! :) 000
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Given seclusion is not from the most likely perpetrators—husbands, fathers, uncles—protection barely *begins.* Except protection of a woman *as a man's property* 1100
Reposted by Angry RutabagaSeason of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy New Year, ya water nerds! From my watershed to yours, may we preserve & protect in-stream flows. My flow this morning? Whites Creek → Steamboat Creek → Truckee River → Pyramid Lake 816820
Reposted by Angry RutabagaCri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Binx "October you say? My time has come!" #cats #becurious 61018
Reposted by Angry RutabagaDr. Sam Anderson @sam-science.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy new water-year! Welcome to hydrological 2027! 05017
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Man, someone figure out how to replicate that so *I* can get stronger while sleeping! 150
Reposted by Angry RutabagaHoney Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Unlike the monarch butterfly that floats, non-poisonous butterflies use erratic flight patterns that combine with wing stripes & spots to send false motion cues - both interfere with birds’ calculations of direction & speed, allowing butterflies to evade bird capture. Razzle dazzle em. 🌱🦋 0238
Reposted by Angry RutabagaAlan Henry @halophoenix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh boy, looks like some fuckass op-ed take is going around again! Allow me to tap the sign: buttondown.com/alanhenry/ar... 1137
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They're the center of the universe! They shouldn't have to lift a finger to get everything they want on a silver plate!! 010
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So that's of course what most profs will opt for, right? 🤪 120
Reposted by Angry RutabagaUrsula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yud is an I Fuckin Love Science-type guy, a guy who fetishizes the appearance of science without any respect for the humility of science. He views LLMs as a divine force, rather than a piece of human-made software, and this is influenced by his love of science fiction more than anything rational. 1266
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Twigs. No, twiggier than you're thinking, you're thinking of a *healthy* twig. Think of a branch that tried to grow in a mm-wide crack. 020
Reposted by Angry Rutabaga(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Removing the tracking of needs means you can underfund and cut off means to meet those needs. If some group suffer specific types of harm, you can hide the pattern of violence. 02921
Reposted by Angry RutabagaADHD Creature @adhd-preacher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My headcanon is that Diogenes was a reformed Bronze Age cryptobro. 011
Reposted by Angry RutabagaDr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The Alberta govt & the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, w/ the Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning 10%. Carney said that Indigenous communities will be offered a minimum 10& ownership stake in the project." Ummm...that's not great mathingcbc.caWest Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC NewsThe federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati... 4167
Reposted by Angry RutabagaJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Will the trials ever cease? First, winter returns; then your human mocks you for being a gigantic baby about it 3131
Reposted by Angry RutabagaU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/10/2026#Recall: Gazelle USA Recalls Urban Arrow Cargo Electric Bikes; The front bolt in the seat post clamping mechanism can break, causing the seat to become loose, posing a fall hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027... 9201125
Reposted by Angry Rutabagafranz @franzanth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy spood month, know your spoods #arachtober #InvertebrateShitposting 426779
Reposted by Angry RutabagaChapps @chapps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The original Mr. Peanut! 🥜 At first glance, this Moche ceramic stirrup-spout bottle looks like a figure wearing a hooded cloak. Amazing details and color. THEN you look at the back … he’s a peanut! Peanuts are native to South America and have been used in their cuisine for millennia. 🏺 1/ 📸 me 110427
Reposted by Angry RutabagaDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Families are STILL fighting for their kids to be returned home, although now this is in the form of repatriation of their remains. The impact of boarding schools is still with us, from broken ties to family & land to intergenerational trauma. #OrangeShirtDay alaskapublic.org/news/communi...alaskapublic.org4 Alaska Native boarding school students to be repatriatedIt’s a big discovery, but there’s a lot more work to be done, said the director of Indigenous research and healing at the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Documentation is limited and there are many chi... 0197
Reposted by Angry RutabagaJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026From a discussion of updating a department website... 934670
Reposted by Angry Rutabagacageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026and DEFINITELY trying not to just start crunching it. So far so good. It is a little rough around the edges but not super spiky like before there were these English ones i used to love, that were kind of a hard jelly (like those "soap candies") but blackcurrant. i need to try & find those again 121
Reposted by Angry RutabagaMika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Things that make me laugh: Every time #Quartz has been in the #MinCup finals, it’s been against a mineral with the composition X₂O. This is particularly funny as ice and #Cuprite are the only two minerals with this composition, & ice took #MinCup19. Win some, lose some? Or history repeats? 13916
Reposted by Angry RutabagaEconomic Policy Institute @epi.org · 10/09/2026IOWA! 📣 Lawmakers intentionally eroded child labor protections to be weaker than federal law. Now, new data show Iowa employers accounted for nearly 10% of federal child labor violations nationwide, even though Iowa has only 1% of the US population. 1/3commongoodiowa.orgChild labor violations in Iowa found at 10 times the national rate in 2025 13923
Angry Rutabaga @streamlass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Whaddya mean? We had da sawmills, not da iron." —a 'Sconnie "educator" thick as cowshit 020