It's mushroom season in the southern hemisphere, and I'm rediscovering just how much *worse* foraging resources are compared to even a few years ago.

There's a terrifying number of LLM-written mushrooming books and guides out there, and they just straight make stuff up.

Fungi are a particular risk to foragers, because humans straight up don't have the ability to taste some of the most deadly toxins. The fungi that cause the most poisonings are the ones that taste good.

As always, do not eat any fungi unless you are absolutely sure what it is, and just as importantly absolutely sure what it is not. Learning to identify dangerous species is even more important than being able to identify edible ones. There are just too many look-alikes.

Stay safe. Be extra cautious of books and guides written in this decade. Happy mushrooming!

#foraging #foragingAustralia #mushrooms #mushrooming

Me: see? He’s just a potato but when we put clothes and stuff on, poof! He has gender, he’s Mr. Potato head. See?

Conservative: show me his potato dick

Reminder to myself that if I have a friend or family member who treats me differently when I don’t meet their very exacting standards, they’re not healthy for me, and trying to meet their standards isn’t, either.

I must meet my own standards and adhere to my own ethics, and do what is within my own capacity as faithfully and consistently as I can.

You might need this reminder, too.

Fuck i cannot take anyone who worries about "echo chambers" serious. I'm aware of what ideas other people hold, and a bunch of them hold ideas that are absolute dogshit. Or outright hateful

We can go find those views if we need, I don't need to have them in every space I go

I also note these people are rarely worried about there not being enough queer trans anarchists included in the discussion

the ironic and annoying thing is that picking fights with everybody works as a fediverse attention-getting strategy

even when the provocation is the claim that it doesn't work

The CDC has a booth at JFK airport arrivals for ‘opt in’ public health screening. You’re supposed to give them a swab if you want

With this administration and this CDC? Absolutely not