Now eat your fungi penis up it’s good for you.
magic beneath the forests
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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herescunty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But sir, why are the trees dancing?
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They’re telling you that life and the universe and everything is dancing the same dance
Neon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I absolutely would if I had any right now.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
m12421k@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Puts the pan on stove. Ignites the flame and adds some olive oil. Everything is in order to sear the heretics.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Mushrooms are near impossible to burn. All you’re doing is giving them a flavorful sauna.
anonymouse@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Is this the outline for Charlie Kaufman’s next film?
quinacridone@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I discovered The CryptoNaturalist over at the other place, and ending up buying ‘Field Guide to the Haunted Forest’ and ‘Love Notes from the Hollow Tree’ by Jarod K. Anderson…
Which is unusual for me as I detest poetry. I think it’s a pile of long-winded, navel gazing wank…Except for haiku, (because they’re short and sweet, and condense things down to their essence, which I like).
I like The CryptoNaturalist though, probably because they write about nature in a weird, beautiful and wonderous way. I want to use the word ‘magical’ to describe it, but am reluctant, for reasons
Also, thanks to this post I just found out there’s a couple of other books available which I’m going to buy tonight 😀
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it’s a pile of long-winded, navel gazing wank
Tell me you’re British, without telling me you’re British . . .
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We are all British on the internet. Just like our use of mate and cunt makes us Strayan ya dig bruv?
quinacridone@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Guilty as charged
Killer_Tree@beehaw.org 11 months ago
What is your favorite haiku that comes to mind?
quinacridone@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I rather like this one…
wearily she waves
the white flag of surrender
cobwebbed butterfly
—Tracy Davidson from here
Pawprints fade, empty
Silence fills the empty space
Love lives on, always
From here
I sometimes feel that the classic haiku are let down by some translations, and the fact there are Japanese words that don’t translate across very well or at all.
I have a soft spot for this one
The old pond,
A frog jumps in:
Plop!
Translated by Alan Watts from here
It’s interesting to see how each translation differs, and tries to put into English something that is probably untranslatable…also…
pond
frog
plop!
Translated by James Kirkup
‘The sound of water’ ‘kerplunk’ ‘splashing the water’ ‘leap, splash’ ‘water note’ …just don’t capture it for me
Do you know any that are decent?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Mushrooms are so fucking cool, and they taste great too.
Shyfer@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Fungi confuse me. I can’t figure out what they are. I think the fact that I thought they were plants my whole life abs then it turns out they aren’t just broke me lol.
pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My Biology teacher put it pretty neatly: “Fungi are Fungi.”
exocrinous@startrek.website 11 months ago
Coral also isn’t plants
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
afaik a decent summary is that they’re sorta like animal cells that specced into a plant lifestyle, but since animals are good at digesting stuff and can’t photosynthesize, they went for eating dead things that no one else eats.
K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
People should look up Paul Stamets. Dude is doing amazing things in the field of mycology and showing the power of mushrooms!
nerfherder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thought this was a Star Trek Discovery joke
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
No, this guy’s who they named the character in Discovery after. Legit.
K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Oh my gosh I’m so dumb I never even put that together. That’s so cool. He does have interesting theories but he’s also saving old growth forests well trying and he’s doing breakthrough research in the medical attributes of mushrooms.
cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Malgas@beehaw.org 11 months ago
TIL the Star Trek Discovery character has a real life namesake.
bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Someone should help him with the page. At least to do a proper one (I’ve just looked the code).
Devi@beehaw.org 11 months ago
I was speaking to a guy that looks after an ancient forest and he was explaining the fungi that allow the trees to communicate and it was fascinating but I thought he might be pulling my leg, so I came home and read everything, it’s fascinating.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Some of them will also make you high, but some will kill you.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 11 months ago
Some will make you high, then kill you.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Sone taste great on pizza, gets you high and then kills you as a bonus.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
and some will taste great on pizza!
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
The American mind cannot comprehend that.
Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So basically… I just ate a bag of fungi dicks?
Gunrigger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Were you hoping for fun guy dicks?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
P. cubensis kinda looks like little circumcised penises anyway. At least before they open up.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Have they got little foreskins in normal countries?
shneancy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
yea
Lamps@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Only kinda related but if anyone wants a good fantasy book with this kind of energy and theme, Gods of the Wyrdwood by RJ Barker is the way to go
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
cryptonaturalist has a few books too iirc. great little account, they are on masto too.
AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Could be fun, I’ll take a gander, thanks!
Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The way so many of them look like genitals makes this so much better
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
They don’t just look like genitals, they are genitals.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
No I mean they aren’t just genitals, but look like them too!
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
That is what people sound like that have taken too many shrooms. Comes a bit too close to newage bullshit. “Life is the universe evolving to experience itself through you” and bullshit like that.
danielbln@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You sound like a sour lemon. I’d rather hang out with a hippie that thinks the universe is conscious than someone who slaps a paper tiger license to their low originality threshold posts. Just sayin.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
Sour lemons are tasty, dunno what your problem is 🤷 I wouldn’t want to hang out with some rando called “balloon” from the internet either. Just sayin.
Retrograde@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I believe you haven’t taken enough shrooms
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
Probably 😅
pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are you giving out a license for all your posts? Are you following up on the usage or is it more of a symbolic act?
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Seems like the actions of a person who took too much acid and warped their own reality.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
I’ll probably determine if it’s symbolic when it turns up in some commercial AI.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
But it’s cool.
Just don’t go thinking it means anything other than nature is awesome.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
I just think there are better ways to say nature is awesome without adding mystics, new age stuff, or fantastical expressions to it. Then it starts turning into non-science.
the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 11 months ago
So we’re eating leviathon reproductive organs? Sexy
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The biggest organism in the world is a fungus which goes miles long. scientificamerican.com/…/strange-but-true-largest…
hilly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This post reminded me of the cracking (though widely misunderstood and reviled) folk horror film “In the Earth”. There’s a lot going on down there in the mud and mycelium.
SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 11 months ago
This reminds me that I’m writing a story about a witch and one of the first things that happens is that she pisses off the mushrooms and they tell the trees not to talk to her. I should get back to that.
mihor@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Ok, that’s sweet, but don’t google ‘zombie funghi’. Really, just don’t. Like, ever.
SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Look up cordyceps instead!
mihor@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
The nasty shrooms. 💀
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s true I’ve spoken to them many times.
Zorque@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah, I saw that X-files episode too.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
That guy probably knows a lot about mushrooms, talking like that.
AscendantSquid@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So mushrooms are Vegan Cthulhu’s boners?
biologyboy@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I’m taking a myco class rn and it’s amazing. Candida aurus is scary tho
wombat@hexbear.net 11 months ago
in the air, too; we live in an ocean of spores.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bruh
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The world’s largest living organism is a 9 square kilometer fungus that’s been growing for about 10,000 years.
vala@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just got surpassed by your mom actually.
(Sorry I couldn’t resist, please no ban)
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No worries mate, it’s why she was a perfect match for my dad who is a fun guy (fungi).
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gottem
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I love how many times they repeated humongous fungus in the article.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Wow, here I was thinking Pando was the biggest. This fungus is a good bit bigger
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pando is the heaviest iirc
vox@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Image
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Accessible from Canada at least.