Okay figured it out I think. It happens when I either finish the stack in my hand or when I go into my inventory and try to use a random stack of landfill. Also in the placeables's box the landfill is being shown as the wrong item. As 201 rail chain signals. Which I believe I used to have but took them out to start land filling stuff. Now I only have one other item in my inventory other than landfill and its not signals and I have a bunch more landfill than 201. When I click on the rail chain signals in placeables the error also happens.
I went and put the rail chain signals back into my inventory. Now I have two railchain signals in my inventory but landfill is back. The other item (waterfill of the waterfill mod) is now turned into the signals. If I had more items they either get turned into a signal and bump the other item out (I've only ever seen two stacks of signals) or the item just doesn't show up.
And now with the rail chain signals in my inventory I can use either of the signal's listings in placeables to pick up the signals.
So seems like placeables item indexing/tracking somehow got messed up.