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Autistic Earthling, dog person, I 💚 fungi/nature, standing stones/stone circles, folklore/fairytales, all things weird and wonderful, Michael Sheen, David Tennant & Adam Driver!

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · Jun 27

#loss #bereavement #grief

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 37m

Search engines used to refine their searches by identifying key words in whatever it was asked to search for. The new AI searches don't operate like that. I found this chat really enlightening on the subject of AI. youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?...

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 43m

There's lots of other fungi around as well. #fungifriends

Penny bun or Boletus edulis fungi. A light brown cap with yellowish spongey pores underneath on top of a beige stalk.

These are small brown mushrooms with a cream coloured ring around the edge of the caps with thin brown stems. I don't know what variety they are, but they're growing in abundance among the leaf litter.

Laccaria amethystina, commonly known as the amethyst deceiver, or amethyst laccaria. These are small mushrooms that have gonr a light purple colour with age. The stalk and gills are a deeper purple.

Candlesnuff fungus is very common. It has an erect, stick-like, or forked fruiting body with a black base and white, powdery tip. It is growing on the remains of a rotting tree stump.

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 1h

Fly agaric season continues in abundance. I don't think I've ever seen so many around our local country park. They are popping up all over! 🍄🍄🍄

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 21h

The Halloween Trail turned into more of a fungi trail for me. The place was teeming with mushrooms 🍄 👻🎃

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 21h

We went to Rufford Country Park ostensibly to see their Halloween Trail, but we ended up much more taken with the Abbey ruins, which are now open to the public.

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 2d

It was a proper misty and moisty autumnal day in Castleton. We saw a fabulous Halloween display outside one of the shops.

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, it does look like something out of a folk horror film!

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 4d

It's an owl scarecrow! The guy who lived there used to do a different themed 'scarecrow' display for Halloween. These are the others we saw before he moved house in 2023.

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 4d

FB memories reminding me of a fabulous Halloween display we saw in the Peak District 3 years ago. 🎃

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 4d

This is where I question whether we are living in some kind of Matrix simulation because in what reality are Trump and RFK Jnr qualified to make pronouncements on anything related to health or medicine? Why they’re not being treated like the ill-informed crackpots they are, I will never understand!

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 4d

The focus of the show was primarily on the vampires. The books gave the other supernaturals more depth and plot relevance. I feel like they didn’t know what to do with the non-vampire stuff on the show. I wonder if Ball would’ve cut the fairy plot altogether if it wasn’t so tied up with Sookie.

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 4d

I actually don’t think the show staying closer to the books would have helped past season 3. It’s hard to see how the Fae characters/plots from the books would have worked onscreen. As it was, Alan Ball did a half-assed job with Sookie’s Fairy lineage and it just got more and more ridiculous.

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 4d

I think seasons 1-3 got away with diverging from the source material. There were interesting changes that initially worked like the introduction of Jessica (she’s not in the books) and other plot/character changes based on actor chemistry, etc. But the show lost its way in S4 and never recovered.

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 4d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand…

Pickled onions
American Beauty
Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 4d

I always try to keep an open mind and meet others on common ground. It’s one thing disagreeing over the pronunciation of a word like scone or best biscuit, etc. But when it comes to matters such as prejudices, human rights, and genocide, some differences of opinion are truly irreconcilable.

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 4d

There was lots of fungi out around our local country park today. #fungifriends

Penny bun or boletus edulis. Fresh specimen with a thick beige stalk and a brown cap.

Russula atropurpurea or the Purple Brittlegill. A purple cap with white gills and stalk. This specimen among leaf litter has been nibbled around the edges by creatures unknown.

Coprinus comatus, commonly known as the shaggy ink cap or lawyer's wig. This specimen has black ink visible around the bottom of the shaggy white cap.

Laccaria amethystina, commonly known as the amethyst deceiver. These are small mauve coloured mushrooms with more vibrant purple gills.

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 5d

It continues to be a great year for fly agaric in these parts. 🍄🍄🍄 #fungifriends

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 5d

I did like some of season 4 (mostly Eric), but the rest was pretty dire. I read some of the books, and they were bonkers! There was talk of a remake at some point. But I don't think it would be able to match the horny-craziness of that HBO-era.

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 5d

I was obsessed with the first 3 seasons. But by the time Rutger Hauer turned up as Sookie's fairy grandfather, it was beyond goofy!

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 5d

Fungi spotting again on today's woodland walk 🍄 #fungifriends

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 5d

I had a look to see if I could ID it, but it doesn't appear to fit any of the ink cap varieties. It was quite big and of a similar size/shape to some shaggy ink caps I've seen, but it wasn't shaggy. Sadly, I didn't get a photo of the underside. It was growing in a grazing area covered with cow pats.

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 6d

I thought it was some kind of ink cap because it had black ink around the bottom of the cap. I know it wasn’t the shaggy ink cap, but there are other varieties.

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 6d

Somewhere out there are red deer. We couldn't get too close for fear of getting gored by rutting stags! 🦌🦌🦌

Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 6d

We went out to the Peak District to see and hear the red deer stags bellowing. We did eventually find some on White Edge. But we also found quite a lot of fungi along the way 🦌🍄🦌🍄

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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 7d

Our local woodland is bursting with fungi at the moment 🍄🍄🍄 #fungifriends

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