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A. Radke
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Boo. That's the best part of the state for outcrops!
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Geologist, percussionist, general all-around troublemaker. Probably swearing at a hydrologic model. Ace. She/they Walking SW Wisconsin stereotype, now flatlanded.
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A. Radke
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Boo. That's the best part of the state for outcrops!
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A. Radke
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Eep! Being a mail carrier must be...exciting...some days.
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A. Radke
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I think if you chip in financially, it's fine regardless of age. But I'm a cheap weirdo.
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A. Radke
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Alas, I do not have any such fun work stories to share & my serious ones all boil down to "why are all you lot farming in the most foolish way possible?" so. No joy in Mudville.
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A. Radke
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Heh. Cousin dipshit hasn't even gotten our invitations from one farm to another, so I may have a valid* excuse to not attend that wedding... *it won't work. Dad will do The Whiiiining at me. Sigh.
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A. Radke
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I have no suggestions, I've avoided such talk mostly by NOT being the oldest unmarried cousin on Dad's side & Mom's side having the sense to not be rudeniks.
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A. Radke
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Fake tattoo sleeves?
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A. Radke
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These people like to talk up the "old days" when most people were farmers--well I sure as hell knew what a placenta was courtesy of growing up on a farm! You can't be that big of an ignorant fuck & succeed in raising livestock...
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A. Radke
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Hi, that's me! 9 am to midnight, and 9 hours of sleep is required regardless.
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Rainy Erika
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Subsidizing bottling local groundwater to ship out of state for only a possible but not promised 59 local jobs.
minnesotareformer.com/2024/07/09/m...
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A. Radke
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Hello, huge flight of pelicans! ...why are you HERE?
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A. Radke
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...but BOY did BOTH of them have opinions about my weight. I'm built like my grandpa, so it's the more critical one's fault to a large extent!
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A. Radke
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Little old ladies still need to learn to keep their asinine opinions to themselves, it seems from my childhood. My other grandma had been a teacher & "weirdly" never cared about my dating life...
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A. Radke
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"Well hopefully the 'boys' will have grown up by the time they're marrying," says this hearer of "boys seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." 🙄 (What the hell was I supposed to do about that & WHY would I CARE, in 4th grade?!)
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A. Radke
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There's a reason I live where the air hurts my face 1/3 of the year...(Ideally; this year was only 3 weeks & I hate it)
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A. Radke
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Clinging to my sanity by a thread here...
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A. Radke
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Eh, I'd be more concerned by the asbestos--any bacteria on the roaches should be very dead after the fryer!
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A. Radke
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This guy was from western PA, tho--their mountains aren't much more impressive! I've got a geology of WI book that mentions old tourist ads comparing the Porkies to the Tetons--flatteringly!--which is a hilarious exaggeration!
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A. Radke
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I didn't learn to ice-skate until college! It's a very odd place for the Midwest. Also why I got v. Annoyed about people calling me a Flatlander when I went to grad school out west. Someone suggested I'd never seen hills before! No, buddy, it's not all Kansas...
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A. Radke
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The really weird thing is, parts of it DO have very ancient glacial drift in small remnants--so it wasn't completely missed (WI north of the Black River & the parts in IA & MN). Not a single erratic where I grew up, though, & no natural lakes either.
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A. Radke
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Nonetheless, it is exceedingly weird! Have you heard of algific talus slopes? If not, they're pretty cool (pun intended)!
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A. Radke
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Current running theory is that the dome of granite in central WI split the glaciers since it was a high, resistant point. And probably after the first time that happened, it became easier for subsequent glaciers to just go around the bumpy bit rather than through.
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HereBeSpiders11
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Oh man, clam common names are incredible. #wildlife 🧪🌿
Highlights: Snuffbox, False Spike, Sheepnose, Heelsplitter, Fatmucket, Cumberland Bean, Longsolid, Appalachian Monkeyface, Guadalupe Orb, Fuzzy Pigtoe, Texas Pimpleback, Fat Pocketbook. -via USFWS
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A. Radke
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Heh, I grew up there, so I think about it a bit more frequently than most people :)
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A. Radke
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Really hoping the Encyclopedia Brittanica isn't investing in the hallucinatory engines.
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A. Radke
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Do you realize Conservative Judaism is in no way the same thing as the "conservative movement" in US politics?
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
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"Do you know anything about this ma'am?"
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Dr. Stephanie
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Speaking of “don’t drink raw milk”, a timely reminder that it’s not just flu that makes pasteurization the lifesaving innovation that it is.
Also that if you let manufacturers ignore safety, they will, and they’ll *keep* doing it.
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www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...
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A. Radke
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You cannot ship a slow cooker except by slow ship transport, I suppose...
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A. Radke
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Superior, too, at least in its current form. There's suspicion that there's still glacial meltwater in it, given how slowly water cycles through!
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Sarah "Jeff Compass" Cady
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Can I get a shoutout for the Laurentide Ice Sheet!
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A. Radke
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Granite, yup! Not sure if it's the *same* granite, but the erosion will be similar.
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A. Radke
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I'd have to double check about what really ancient glaciations might've done, but this part of the continent wasn't under oceans during the Pleistocene ice ages. The limestone was deposited much longer ago--Silurian at latest, IIRC.
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A. Radke
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Same boat, here. Funny how said neighbors all attend prosperity-gospel churches...hypocrisy as a faith practice!
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A. Radke
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Apologies if you don't want a random stranger's suggestion: can you get it lanced? Mine looked like that after a car wreck, & urgent care was able to drain some of the fluid which helped. And yes, it was more annoying than the cracked vertebrae!
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A. Radke
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Lawn work! ...do not tell my sensei I suggested that, I will be banned from katana work for the next six months...
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A. Radke
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Bet they taste like shrimp!
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Ben Iuliano
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Another chapter from my diss now published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social ! More seminatual habitat = more predation and more ladybugs 🐞
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A. Radke
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Then the till is what we dig basements into, so Rn escapes into those spaces. So we can blame Canada, or northern WI. Arsenic came from the granites up there, too; but also the St. Peter sandstone, which does exist in IA.
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A. Radke
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Hm. My understanding was that the recent glaciers brought granite down from Canada etc., which has U in it from its formation. The till is the source, which is why radon isn't a concern in the Driftless (the limestone predates the glaciers).
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A. Radke
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I'm sure if they'd used stitches I'd be complaining about those!
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A. Radke
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Grumble, brrumble, grouse... "Don't pick at the surgical glue," they said. "It will make it harder to heal," they said. They didn't mention how ITCHY it would be. Grrr... <This has been my silly little whinge for the day.>
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A. Radke
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Scariest words are "I'm your boss, fuck safety, do it NOW" IMO
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A. Radke
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I seem to recall that being one of the perks of research professorship for every prof I had: "whoops, I *have to* go out to the field today instead of looking at emails, so sad, so sorry, BYELEMMEOUTTAHERE!!"
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A. Radke
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Betting Blue Ghost wouldn't like it if we applied his "cure" to his assholery now... ("Funny" how they're never in favor of corporal punishment for adults who are deliberate shitheels, just kids being kids.)
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A. Radke
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I think, upon zooming, I can even see the end of its wee stripey tail.
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RedwoodGirl (she/her) 💖💜💙
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Goddammit, people should not be fucking DYING from HEAT in a place that they cannot leave or where they cannot control their environment. Air conditioning in California's Central Valley should be BASIC, like food, water, and shelter. I'm not sure how this doesn't constitute at least manslaughter.
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A. Radke
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"To Build a Fire," I recall that one, too. When you're in a life-or-death situation, it makes sense! But most people aren't going to be able to sleep when full of adrenaline, anyway, so... And in any emergency where you're not in imminent danger, sleeping while you can becomes a priority anyway.
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A. Radke
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That trite little piece of shite is really only applicable in an emergency, but too many shithead egoists on this planet thinks "the font is the wrong color in my marketing email!" IS an emergency.
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A. Radke
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Honest Q: Sawyer's website has a comparison matrix which appears to show that none of those filters remove heavy metals, either. Is there a different method to use if that's a big concern?
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