New fungus just dropped

Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability

https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-seems-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability

Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life.

ScienceAlert
@TheBreadmonkey Ah, a mysterious new mutant species that eats radiation. This is the first scene of a kaiju film. The massive Ukrainian nuclear mushroom monster lurking under the reactor dome turns up in Act 2.

@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey

Would watch s**t out of this!👍

@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey
I predict that by the time this fungus reaches its kaiju stage, it will display Spiderman colors and resemble Tobey Maguire.
@TheBreadmonkey what a terrifying headline
@TheBreadmonkey Radiosynthesis is my next band name.
@whybird @TheBreadmonkey and mine will be Active Melanin, and we may then have to merge...
@DamonHD @whybird @TheBreadmonkey
You and Mark can take turns fronting for each other's bands.
That's S C I E N C E for you!
@Guillotine_Jones @DamonHD @TheBreadmonkey Anyone want Velvet Fungus?
@whybird @Guillotine_Jones @TheBreadmonkey Velvet Underground Fungus?
@DamonHD @whybird @TheBreadmonkey
It was right there, Damon, yet none of the rest of us saw it.
Permission to walk tall and proud today granted

@Guillotine_Jones @DamonHD @TheBreadmonkey I’m now imagining a concert poster:
“LIVE at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone!”
Velvet Underground Fungus
with
Active Melanin
and
Radiosynthesis

🤘

@whybird @DamonHD @TheBreadmonkey
Some of my favorite bands from the '70s, I think.
Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧 (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Fungal Overlord does sound like a good name for a band.

Mastodon
@whybird @Guillotine_Jones @DamonHD @TheBreadmonkey And at the concession stand: funguy steamed buns.
@whybird @TheBreadmonkey
THAT'S an excellent choice for a band name, Mark, and I, for one, encourage you to go for it. I assume that it goes without saying that you are now ready to quit your day job.
@Guillotine_Jones @TheBreadmonkey I didn’t just quit; I went fully nuclear!
@TheBreadmonkey The paper was actually written by the fungus. Other scientists are not impressed by its lack of humility.
@sdarlington @TheBreadmonkey
Funds for additional research are now needed until this fungus becomes humble.

@TheBreadmonkey ... I'm saying it.

The preview image looks like a bunch of Shrek buttholes.

@Akki @TheBreadmonkey
Heather has entered the chat with a ground-breaking observation about radioactive fungus that the men somehow overlooked -- just in time for Women's History Month, celebrated in the US, Germany, and Australia.
Unfortunately, it's not celebrated in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

@Guillotine_Jones @TheBreadmonkey Why the hell is my gender any part of this?

Get a life.

@Akki @TheBreadmonkey
I see why my awkward attempt at humor offended you, Heather, and I apologize for the offense.
The comic nugget that I was aiming for here, but apparently missed, was that in my mind men usually draw attention to body parts (like anuses) and yet in this case it appeared that a woman was doing so -- and during Women's History Month.
I see now that I'm just digging the hole deeper.
I shall follow your advice and go get a life.

@Guillotine_Jones @TheBreadmonkey That is not humour.

You made shit assumptions, especially of scientists being men.

You targeted my gender for a joke. That is wrong.

@Akki @TheBreadmonkey timeline placement
@c0dec0dec0de @Akki @TheBreadmonkey I LOVE / HATE the FEDIVERSE

@wendinoakland @c0dec0dec0de @Akki @TheBreadmonkey

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@TheBreadmonkey
Spoiler alert:
Exposure to this fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's radiation zone does NOT give humans spider powers, Ben.

@Guillotine_Jones @TheBreadmonkey

but it could well very give them Fungus Powers™

@TheBreadmonkey
Radiopharmacologist sounds like a badass job!

@TheBreadmonkey

when the sun begins to shed its outer layers and blasts away earth's atmosphere, the long-waiting fungus spreads its limbs to accept the radiance, growing into majestic black forests crowding the earth with new life . . .

@TheBreadmonkey Footage from the reactor has the Fallout 2 soundtrack as background music. +1
@TheBreadmonkey Blessed are the fungus, for they shall inherit the earth... again.
@TheBreadmonkey Fungal Overlord does sound like a good name for a band.

@TheBreadmonkey

I saw recently that they've discovered a fungus that eats plastic, so it seems fugi are cleaning up the mess we've made.

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/61495/20260318/scientists-discover-plastic-eating-amazon-fungus-offering-hope-pollution-cleanup.htm

Scientists Discover Plastic-Eating Amazon Fungus, Offering Hope for Pollution Cleanup

Pestalotiopsis microspora, the Amazon fungus that eats plastic, offers sustainable bioremediation solutions to global pollution crises.

Science Times
@Shivviness only if they also consume us. Which they no doubt will do without qualms.
@Shivviness @TheBreadmonkey This makes sense. By a very broad definition, plastic is organic material, because it's made from dinosaurs (really, more plants than animals, but you get the idea).

@Shivviness @TheBreadmonkey

Goes well with the radiation-metabolising fungi at Chernobyl.

Let me scroll back, see can I find the link.

The planet will be fine when we are gone!

@Shivviness @TheBreadmonkey

Too funny. That was the post that you were replying to.

Thanks to both of you for the bits of good news. Nature is resilient enough to survive us.

@Shivviness @TheBreadmonkey

Long as they don't discover Mutant 59

@Shivviness @TheBreadmonkey
What we really need is an Amazon eating Fungus.

It would also help reduce the amount of plastic tat, in this world including billionaires and their wives.

@TheBreadmonkey @blabberlicious @Shivviness You will have to define which Amazon you mean!
River
Basin
Company
@jayflo
my joke missed its delivery.
@blabberlicious
No, being the pedantic idiot that i am ..... 😏