I see no more need to announce I don't believe in the Christian god than there I see need to announce I don't believe in Zeus. Both questions are completely irrelevant to my life

PA has "Altoona style" and "Old Forge style", both hailing from miserable coal bust towns and consisting more or less of a slice of american "cheese" and red sauce on a sheet crust, I think one has a green pepper under it.

Nice to see the real thing! Lots of people recently down south here in the states posting Verbesina and similar "frost flowers" producing plants during the freeze

Compare to Pleurotus, growing from buried wood. The ones to rule out here would be the worrisome Clitocybe dealbata group

You'll have more luck checking Trichaptum - I've never found them on Trametes yet. There's also a similar looking species, Gliocladium polyporicola, which grows on Stereum hirsutum, so may as well check all the small shelf fungi!

Why are there so many "webcomics" that look exactly like this? AI generated?

To your second point, no they don't. Coprinus comatus does not contain any benzocoprines, and does not interact with alcohol. Coprinopsis atramentaria is the one you are referring to. Completely different genus - and not one I'd recommend eating anyways, besides the alcohol interaction they have been found to cause testicular lesions!

Check Apioperdon pyriforme 🍄

Good question - I don't think they're damaging to the host, but it is hard to find good info

Your ID is correct. Maybe don't eat stuff if you only "think" you know it though haha

They also said Cantharellus only grow on trees in their print issue, likely AI generated text. Their last video on fungi was full of errors as well. They have really gone downhill

Mycophobic nonsense.

What's your general location? Assuming you're in the US, we have several muscarioids but A. muscaria s.s. doesn't really occur here outside of the extreme PNW (barring the rare hitchhiker on conifer transplants)

These are an Agaricus species

Other fungi

The goo is edible too! Flavor intensifies with this process. Some folks like to use it for pasta or sauces, kind of like a vegan squid ink

Jersey maybe? Idk. It feels like an Italian American thing, despite it being something Italian Americans would hate if anyone else had come up with it

Nice! They're fun to toss in soups or make gummies

Yes, but not very tasty

Pezizales, at least haha Ascomycetes, especially cups, terrify me. There are so many that look macroscopically identical