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I'm just a person who does mycology for fun.

  • I haven't seen Thunderbolts.

    Superman was really good, particularly at setting up emotional stakes. I felt visceral disgust at how awful Lex Luthor was. Lois's relationship with Superman was complex and they challenged each other's ideals. The plot also felt topical without being too hamfisted, characters and situations were reminiscent of real people and situations while still feeling like they had their own identity instead of being cheap stand ins.

    Fantastic Four was ok, it doesn't do anything wrong but I didn't find anything about it particularly memorable or groundbreaking. Acting, direction, effects, and writing were all competent and it's definitely the best F4 movie ever made but that's not enough for me to recommend it unless you're a huge F4 fan.

  • Looks like they're starting to open up so probably just a little too late to eat them.

  • "Latex" is a botany term for any milky liquid exuded by a damaged plant, mushrooms kept the term from back when they were considered plants but it not the same substance. A "latex allergy" is specifically an allergy to rubber tree latex because that's the only kind of latex that's widely used by humans, it doesn't mean you're allergic to dandelion latex or mushroom latex.

  • Neither, they're bitter and insubstantial but not poison or psychedelic.

  • I don't put too much faith in iNat's computer vision algorithm, it frequently IDs anything orange as Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca even if it's a polypore. It also thinks most Amanitas are Inocybe albodisca which is a misapplied name for the PNW in the first place.

    This looks like part of the Russula brevipes complex to me. I'm not the most experienced with this complex but nothing about it looks out of the ordinary for brevipes so I see no reason to think it might be anything else.

    I've never heard of a Lactarius taking more than a few seconds to bleed (though I once missed the latex on Lactarius pseudomucidus and had no idea what the mushroom was until I finally noticed it when I was going through photos months later).

  • Agreed, the "shit I'm old" beer coozie in the foreground is a dead giveaway it's a Spencer's.

  • Boletes

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  • Any idea why you're getting mutations?

  • Fair point haha.

  • Fungi only got its own kingdom in 1969, before that they were a phylum in Plantae. There are tons of people still around who learned "mushrooms are plants" in school, so it's not surprising downstream vocabulary hasn't caught up.

  • Mostly only tourists and suburbanites who followed bad advice from Google maps would actually attempt to drive through it. There's so many pedestrians around that you would end up spending ten minutes to drive a single block if you tried.

  • It's got a Pluteus vibe but it looks like it's growing on the ground, there could be a buried piece of wood there or it could be Volvopluteus or Volvariela. The only way to tell would be to carefully dig out the base and see if it has a volva or if it's growing out of wood.

  • I've never seen such a small Suillus, I'm used to them being pretty sizeable.

  • Not sure where you're at but in the PNW they peak in the fall but they can also be found year-round.

  • They were popping up on the peninsula in June but I didn't see any on this side of the sound and now it's been a while since we've had any rain so not much is growing period.

  • I knew the black chantrelles don't have many veins but we don't get any of the smooth orange species up in WA.

  • The most athletic part is if you're beach diving and have to swim out/back in from the shallows.

  • TIL that "smooth chanterelles" are a thing.

  • They didn't collaborate with CA, they just had gaping security holes in their API that allowed CA (or anyone) to easily grab tons of data on people's friends. FB patched those holes up right away when they found out, not because they were concerned with what CA was doing, but because CA did all this without paying them for targeted advertising.