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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 1d

The American govt shutdown is hindering my ability to access 2 of my favourite databases (genbank and the USDA fungal collection db) and I'm grumpy about it. Sucks that this kind of (internationally relevant) infrastructure is dependent on us govt funding

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa apparently this species (Plethodon cinereus, eastern red backed salamander) breeds in the fall on warm rainy nights...... How romantic 😍

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 1d

Can you spot all 3 salamanders in my 2nd pic?

Just went to grab something from my car in the rain/dark and there were 4 wee salamanders hanging out on the front stoop!!!!! 🥹🥰 Maybe they live underneath the boards with the chipmunks ??

Crappy photo of 3 tiny salamanders on a wet front stoop. One is on the mat, one is off near the end of the stoop, and the third is coming up from the crack between two boards

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

I take no pleasure in this but going to a different city with your dumb buddies and getting badly injured because you antagonized a bunch of strangers and fell down twice chasing the 110lb teenager who stole your sunglasses actually is North Jersey Excellence, of a sort.

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 1d

Oops made a mistake here but I don't wanna redo the whole skeet

Chalciporus piperatus is not a hardwood associated bolete, it is thought to be mycoparasitic on an Amanita and is found with mixed conifers and birch (I found it in a swampy mixed woods anyways)

LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 1d

I had to spend most of my time indoors but I did find a few old friends in the woods

Chalciporus piperatus, a smallish bolete found under hardwoods that has bright yellow basal mycelium

Pachyella clypeata (Copper Penny, a good common name!)

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 1d

I had to spend most of my time indoors but I did find a few old friends in the woods

Chalciporus piperatus, a smallish bolete found under hardwoods that has bright yellow basal mycelium

Pachyella clypeata (Copper Penny, a good common name!)

Lee holds a brownish orangey Bolete (Chalciporus piperatus) in their hand, bright yellow mycelium visible at its base where it attaches to maple leaf litter.

A bunch of round dark brown fungi grow on a very well rotted log

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 2d

Today I collected an entire mushroom basket full of golf balls and a solid 20% had been gnawed in some capacity

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 2d

Abolish golf

LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 2d

Now that I have the knowledge squirrels will chew through the entire outer layer of the Forbidden Nut* only to be disappointed by the equally terrible interior, I will never know peace 😭 😭 😭

*forgotten golf ball....

Lee holds up a muddy old golf ball that has been gnawed through the multiple mm wide outer white layer and a bit into the inner yellow layer, the tooth marks of a medium rodent clearly evident in the hard plastic or whatever they're made of idc golf fucking sucks

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 2d

Now that I have the knowledge squirrels will chew through the entire outer layer of the Forbidden Nut* only to be disappointed by the equally terrible interior, I will never know peace 😭 😭 😭

*forgotten golf ball....

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing that would make this cuter is alt text

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hi Bluesky! I just launched my Big Cartel fabric art shop, and I was wondering if you could help spread the word?

All of my creations are designed, hand-sewn, and hand-embroidered by me. Any sales are colossally appreciated.

jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, a strawberry ghost bag, and a black creature with sharp teeth. There's a white egg with yellow embroidered flowers and purple eyeshadow and purple lips. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background. The watermelon creature and the watermelon ghost are sitting on metal doll chairs.

Here's a lovely photo of the cosmic ghost bag. She's a black ghost with various stars and planets embroidered on her body. There are little white stars, larger white stars, yellow stars, purple stars, a dark purple planet, a light purple planet, a red planet with a yellow ring. She has a gray moon-like face with large sparkly black eyes and a little frown. She's wearing a black fabric witch hat. She's resting on my palm and there's green fur in the background of the pic.

Here's a lovely photo of three fabric art eggs watching the tiny witch homunculus balancing on one foot on a small broom. The eggs are purple, pink and white, and they're covered with embroidered flowers. The eggs have mouths with lip colors that match their flowers. They have two flat teeth poking out of their mouths. The pink egg is wearing a small sun hat. The tiny witch homunculus is green with large sparkly red eyes and a little frown. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

Here's a photo of fabric art creatures with a white fabric background. There's a cute and creepy mothman with a black body and a gray face with twinkly red eyes and sharp teeth. There's a green Kentucky goblin with a lighter green face and large pointy ears. He has twinkly yellow eyes and he's wearing a black party hat covered with red googly eyes and a big red poof at the top. There's also a red death worm with nine cream-colored eyes and sharp teeth. The tiny homunculus witch is sitting on the worm's head. She's very small, with large twinkly red eyes and a green body. She's wearing a small version of the party hat the goblin's wearing.

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 2d

Forgot to mention I am happily identifying mushrooms all weekend with a bunch of cool and interesting people! 🍄📸

If anybody requires beggartick seeds, I have about a thousand attached to my pants

To the squirrel whose king bolete I stole: sorry, I'll return it tomorrow!!

A view of Lee's wet and muddy rubber boots where they stand on bright green sphagnum moss. Their pants and boot string are utterly caked in little beggartick seeds

An enormous red belted polypore (Fomitopsis mounceae, named for Canadian mycological Irene Mounce) on a dead tree, sunny forest around it

A pinky red Lactarius subg Russularia pops out of moss (liverwort?) on a sunny boggy forest floor

A North American king Bolete (Boletus chippawaensis) sits on a rotting log. Lee did not place it there....a squirrel did!!! I love squirrels.

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 2d

Breastfeeding in the middle of the library parking lot!!! Does she have no shame???

(I am double kidding here, breastfeeding is very fine and normal)

A small doe stands alert in the middle of an empty parking lot at dawn, two smaller deer on either side of her, furiously sucking off her teats

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 3d

Jeremy I am losing my MIND over here, absolutely delighted to learn that Canada geese hybridize. What a beautiful piece of knowledge. What a weird bunch of birds!!!!

Screenshot of Google results for "Canada geese hybrids" showing 4 images: a greylag Goose x Canada Goose, a snow Goose x Canada Goose, and two other variations I couldn't begin to describe. The snow Goose is the funniest, it looks like someone crammed a snow Goose head on a Canada Goose body.

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 7d

I remain unconvinced a human even wrote these grossly biased survey questions but...

PLEASE consider filling this out if you are a Canadian and oppose the government spending a single cent on AI hype garbage.

mcc @dryad.technology · 7d

If you are a Canadian citizen or resident, and you hate "AI"¹, please fill out this survey.

ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

The survey questions are *extremely* biased, so this will not be a fun experience, but I think it is worth it.

¹ (And if you like "AI"… how have I not blocked you yet?)

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 7d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 8d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 8d

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 8d

A lot of white people are mourning this woman which is funny since she was a stalwart defender of a sexual abuser. And Annie Hall was boring as fuck
It’s funny how people gloss over the truth for the performance of morality in death
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/d...

Diane Keaton says ‘victim culture’ is a ‘horrible shame’

The star also spoke gushingly about controversial filmmaker Woody Allen

www.independent.co.uk

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 7d

Kinda rich, isn't it? Grammar advice coming from somebody whose prose sounds like terrible beat poetry

Go away, Mary

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🦌 @3freedoms.bsky.social · 8d

These 3 guys say hi, they’re quite extroverted, just out there floofing out. Of course you can’t tell they’re like 125 ft tall and over 100 yrs old from the pic! 3 majesties on my lil “useless” land lol. I love them.

3 huge pines pictured from below, looking happy and robust and floofy, South Shore of Gitchigami in Wisconsin

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 8d

What kind of modding 👀👀

I really enjoyed the few times I got to play it! The movie aesthetic was perfectly suited to a pinball adaptation.

..then again, LOTR wasn't something I would have expected would make a wicked pinball and yet it did

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 10d

it's because the pinball machine turned out so good looking

(disclaimer this one is modded)

bright glowy neon cyan and orange lit tron legacy pinball machine, shows battling light cycle art on table. ramps have added lights along the edges.

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 8d

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My only comment on fixating on this tree in particular is that there are beautiful trees all over the place, it just takes someone (You!) to appreciate them.

I've met so many beautiful old trees in my wandering, it's always a pleasure 🥰🥰

The Killbear "windswept pine" at sunset, a woman lifting a baby out of a stroller is silhouetted against the glowing orange of the sky

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 9d

Sorry I was enjoying myself so much I forgot to share the mushrooms I found :)

🍄📸 So many boletes!! And fungal diversity 😍

A wonky Bolete is falling over on the colourful forest floor. It has black scabers on the stalk, and small creamy coloured pores that stain a reddish brown

A weird little fat fungal creature sits on the forest floor. Likely an Amanita "egg", it sorta looks like a yellowy beige sphere on a platform.

Top down view of a stump with a series of cracks in it stained a deep blue-green colour, likely indicative of the presence of Chlorociboria

Three spindly black fungal appendages (Geoglossum I believe) emerge from the lush green moss

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