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I know this isn't ![email protected] but I'm still sad there's no pic of the gills/pores. Especially since these look like Gloeophyllum which have really cool gills.
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Mushroom
I know this isn't ![email protected] but I'm still sad there's no pic of the gills/pores. Especially since these look like Gloeophyllum which have really cool gills.
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Ooooh I'd like that
Doctor Hiriluk was on to something.
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Calvatia gigantea
Nice, I'd love to find one of those some time.
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The Works
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So this?
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What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?
Mycology is full of them which are mostly the result of genetic sequencing and the good old "where do you draw the line between species" question but a recent and high visibility one is the Collybia shift.
Before genetic testing, Collybia was a genus characterized by smallish pale-spored mushrooms with convex caps, no ring, and gills which are broadly attached to the stem (the simplest shape the average person would imagine for a mushroom), this became one of the classic "statures" of mushrooms "Collybioid". As we sequenced Collybia species, they were slowly moved into other Collybioid genera like Collybiopsis and Gymnopus. Eventually this resulted in most of the Collybioid mushrooms being moved out of Collybia, leaving only the earliest-discovered mushrooms in the genus which were tiny parasitic mushrooms that weren't really Collybioid at all.
Here's an average "Collybioid" mushroom Gymnopus sp.
Then things got worse, a recent paper did a study on genus Clitocybe which is another genus which has a classic stature named after it, "Clitocyboid" which refers to smallish pale-spored, funnel-shaped, mushrooms with gills that run down the stem. This paper discovered that nearly everything we had been calling "Clitocybe" actually belonged in Collybia meaning that most mushrooms in Collybia are now Clitocyboid instead of Collybioid. This has resulted utter chaos which has some mycologists considering invoking the "common usage" rules in taxonomy to put the new Collybias back into Clitocybe to make things less confusing. This chaos has been compounded by the fact that iNaturalist has already accepted this name change, but only for the mushrooms explicitly studied in the paper and not their known relatives which has resulted in the Blewits being split between Collybia and Lepista (which itself was a recent name change from Clitocybe that everyone was still adjusting too).
Average nondescript Clitocyboid (no ID because these are nearly impossible):
A Blewit, AKA Clitocybe/Lepista/Collybia nuda:
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TIL there's a fungi that looks like a bird's nest.
There are a bunch, some have the "eggs" attached with little strings to make them fling in different directions, some keep the eggs in jelly until they're ready to be splashed out, some are weird little balls that burst open instead of cups with lids that pop off.
You usually find them on twigs, they're hard to spot because they're all pretty tiny.
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Trump announces 50% tariffs on nations supplying Iran with weapons
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They said he didn't have any justification that the ones he set before actually were necessary for national security. He's actually got a possible justification this time, despite how nonsensical it is to use tariffs for this instead of sanctions.
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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)
I got started with jellyfin and never used Plex but there's a bunch of rough edges:
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What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?
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The drawback to spaces is that people with vision issues or dyslexia lose the ability to make the code more readable in their IDE by adjusting tab size.
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Prepared for this day
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+1 I only keep multiples of commonly used cables and I use ziplock bags to keep cables of the same type together in my cable box so it's easy to tell if I've accumulated too many.
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‘Monsters Inc. 3’ In Early Development; ‘Incredibles 3’ Expected In 2028, ‘Coco 2’ In 2029
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2 was a prequel about Mike and Sulley in college because they couldn't imagine a sequel to Monsters inc either. It was fine but pretty unnecessary, I definitely wouldn't expect a 3 to be any good.
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there's no in-between
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I read it as the main character being so self-deprecating that he extends his self-deprecating attitude to whichever political ideology he adopts.
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Matter matters
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This meme is well contained
It's been forever since I've written C++ at a place that didn't have their own version of STL where they used different names for everything.
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Satya Nadella admits Microsoft needs to "win back" Windows 11 fans, improve performance for low RAM PCs
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I'm sorry to say that's not even on the average person's radar.
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This meme is well contained
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You mean MyCompany::Array, not using the word "vector" has gotta be their primary reason for changing all the names.
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If an American president fixes the healthcare, they can win every other election right? So, why does any of them not fix it?
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Most people get insurance through their employer and most employers at least partially subsidize the cost. This doesn't show up on your paystub like a tax would so the only way you'd ever be aware of the true cost of your plan is if you got laid off and paid for continuation of benefits (COBRA).
It doesn't occur to most Americans that their paycheck might be higher if they had universal healthcare.
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California Democratic Party chair calls for governor candidates without a 'viable path' to drop out
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The problem is if five Democrats who people want to vote for are in a jungle primary with two Republicans who people want to vote for, then there's a decent chance the general election may end up with two Republicans on the ballot.
Jungle primaries are dumb, the only way they would make sense is if they used approval voting or something.
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Let's ask this AI app!
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This is very much not the case with mushrooms, most people who've accidentally eaten a deathcap (Amanita phalloides) have reported that they're delicious. Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) which can be detoxified by boiling it and changing the water multiple times, is pretty darn good. I think it's better than the average grisette (the non-toxic Amanita sect. vaginatae spp.).
Ok the other other hand, the destroying angel (Amanita ocreata) is said to taste pretty bad.
For a non-amanita example, I've spit-tested the toxic Agaricus deardorffensis and I thought it tasted pretty good. That one is an odd case though since some people are unaffected by its poison and it's possible that's correlated with not being able to detect the unpleasant sharpie-like odor it's said to have, but I wasn't willing to give myself the shits for science so it remains a mystery.
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I've occasionally seen some false chanterelles (Hygrophoropsis sp.) do a pretty good chanterelle impression but they're not toxic, just bland and not well-tolerated.