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

[sus]

Counterpoint: a huge number of fungi are wholly or mainly parasitic in their ecology - take the infamous honey fungus, one known colony of which is well over 2,000 years old and covers over 1,000 hectares of forest - which, if you're the kind of person who loves to see everything as a metaphor for politics, is surely a much better match for colonialism, or the most brutally extractive kinds of capitalism.

Great point tea. Can you "like" my comments on semipermeable boundaries now?

 

[sus]

Tea and I are friends Im gonna visit him next time Im in Londy. Im gonna take a lorry and bring seed pods as gifts.

 

[sus]

We will stomp around the forest together and he will show me the joys of fatherhood

 

[sus]

I was thinking about it recently. How is tea so resilient to having his balls constantly ground to dust. And then I realized, he has the happiest life and family of anyone on the board why would it get to him

 

[sus]

For the first time in my life I enjoyed a mushroom meal. It was in London actually it was part of a vegan full english. I couldn't believe how good the mushrooms were. I never like mushrooms. They were smokey and chewy and crisped

 

[sus]

So it's like I'm on a path. A pilgrimage to Mr Tea and his idyllic family man contentment. And when I see him I'll finally be ready to be a father

 

[Mr. Tea]

Tea and I are friends Im gonna visit him next time Im in Londy. Im gonna take a lorry and bring seed pods as gifts.

I suppose London to Exeter is but a short jaunt if you've already crossed the Atlantic.

 

[sus]

Nowhere is too far Tea. I am a pilgrim

 

[sus]

 

[Mr. Tea]

Great point tea. Can you "like" my comments on semipermeable boundaries now?

Don't cheapen this by making it transactional. Also, I looked but I can't find it.

But you're alright, you are.

 

[Mr. Tea]

And then he will brutally murder you in the woods as you gasp "The long game... he was playing the long game!" and the fungal networks creep across your fading body, dragging you into the musty embrace of the forest floor.

It'll look like time-lapse photography from an Attenborough documentary, but in real time, and it'll make a skin-crawling sound like slurm slurm slurm...

 

[0bleak]

She's focusing on a particular species she claims only grows in forests disturbed by humans. Apparently it was the first thing to grow after Hiroshima too.

Matsutake - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

very commonly eaten here and in Japan (obviously)

 

[Mr. Tea]

She's focusing on a particular species she claims only grows in forests disturbed by humans. Apparently it was the first thing to grow after Hiroshima too.

Matsutake - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Makes me think of the colony of several fungal species found growing in the Reactor #4 vessel at the Chernobyl power station, which were found to be photosynthesizing nuclear radiation the way plants do with sunlight.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Ha! "Stamets"...

 

[0bleak]

also thinking of "The Last of Us" and some artwork of an ep i downloaded today

 

[sus]

@Mr. Tea As the board's foremost liberal, what do you think of the death of liberalism?

 

[Mr. Tea]

@Mr. Tea As the board's foremost liberal, what do you think of the death of liberalism?

As a liberal I'm forbidden from having strong opinions on anything in case it upsets someone, so I guess I don't really mind.

 

[sus]

As a liberal I'm forbidden from having strong opinions on anything in case it upsets someone, so I guess I don't really mind.

This is the paradox of tolerance this is why liberalism is losing

 

[sus]

Tea we need to violently suppress the spread of illiberal beliefs maybe Kissinger was on to something

 

[sus]

Ok probably not but we need really good propaganda