Mushrooms, fungi, mycelium - breaking news, gossip, slander, lies etc.

[Clinamenic]

In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses: How fungi can be used to clean up pollution

In the struggle to combat pollution and fight climate change, a growing number of scientists are beginning to look to one of nature’s oldest biotechnologies: fungi

www.bbc.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses: How fungi can be used to clean up pollution

In the struggle to combat pollution and fight climate change, a growing number of scientists are beginning to look to one of nature’s oldest biotechnologies: fungi

www.bbc.com

Ha, saw this yesterday but you beat me to it. It's pretty cool.

 

[Clinamenic]

 

[Mr. Tea]

Spring has sprung! 1.8 kg.

 

[sus]

They're going to infect your brain they're going to colonize your gray matter with spores

 

[Mr. Tea]

They're going to infect your brain they're going to colonize your gray matter with spores

That's the plan!

 

[vershy versh]

That's the plan!

Is that you speaking or Them?

 

[Clinamenic]

Is that you speaking or Them?

With Tea, its always been Them.

 

[Mr. Tea]

With Tea, its always been Them.

Us.

 

[Turns out HMG was right!]

It has been disclosed to me that two plant groups do not form mycorrhizae: The Cruciferae family (mustards, cabbage, rapeseed) and the Chenopodiaceae family (beet and spinach). Weirdoes

 

[Clinamenic]

(The Last of) Us.

 

[Turns out HMG was right!]

 

[william_kent]

a "heroic" dose

 

[Turns out HMG was right!]

There'd be more psilocybin than brain if you kept it down. I think it would be ok.

 

[william_kent]

There'd be more psilocybin than brain if you kept it down. I think it would be ok.

I'm tempted, what's to lose

 

[Mr. Tea]

Parenting goals:

 

[william_kent]

I found an old hard drive containing my photos from Taiwan 2019 - there were gaptcha machines in an arcade that included this:



In 2023 I encountered the same machine in Narita airport and bought this:



I was hoping to buy more this year but the machine had disappeared from Narita airport

maybe the weirdest gaptcha I saw in Taiwan or Japan was the phone rope bondage / Shibari

 

[vershy versh]

My dad's been banging on for ages about wanting to read this book, The Mushroom at the End of the World, so I picked it up for him for Father's Day.

Reading it myself at the moment as FD's about a week away and it's not what I expected. A lot of talk of assemblages and references to Marx and Donna Haraway and Japanese poetry. Not sure how much he's going to like it.

The Mushroom at the End of the World

"A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian"I'm very grateful to have this book."—Ursula K. Le GuinThe acclaimed and award-winning book about what a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining...

press.princeton.edu

 

[luka]

dad i got you this book you wanted but i think your too thick to read it

 

[Mr. Tea]

I gave my dad one of the two copies of Sheldrake's book I received for Christmas. He says he read about a third of it or something, and then decided he knew quite as much about fungi as he really needed to.