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a recreation of how I slept last night (very refreshing!)

that’s not a me problem

Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture. The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forests and is a locally popular food, known for its savory, umami-packed flavor. In Yunnan, L. asiatica is sold in markets, it appears on restaurant menus and is served at home during peak mushroom season between June and August.

str-ngeloop

i love bizzarely specific hallucinogens

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The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forests and is a locally popular food, known for its savory, umami-packed flavor. In Yunnan, L. asiatica is sold in markets, it appears on restaurant menus and is served at home during peak mushroom season between June and August. One must be careful to cook it thoroughly, though, otherwise the hallucinations will set in. "At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, 'Don't eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,'" says Colin Domnauer, a doctoral candidate in biology at the University of Utah and the Natural History Museum of Utah, who is studying L. asiatica. "It seems like very common knowledge in the culture there." [...]

He and his team are still trying to identify the chemical compound responsible for the hallucinations in L. asiatica. Current tests suggest it is not likely related to any other known psychedelic compound. For one, the trips it produces are unusually long, commonly lasting one to three days after an onset of 12 to 24 hours, and in some cases even causing hospital stays of up to a week. Because of the extraordinarily long duration of these trips and the chance for prolonged side effects such as delirium and dizziness, Domnauer has yet to try the raw mushrooms himself. These mega-trips might help to explain why people in China, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea do not seem to have a tradition of purposefully seeking out L. asiatica for its psychoactive effects, according to Domnauer's findings. "It was always just eaten for food," Domnauer says, with hallucinations being an unexpected side-effect. There's another curious factor: other known psychedelic compounds also usually produce idiosyncratic trips that vary not only from person to person but also from one experience to the next within the same individual. With L. asiatica, though, "the perception of little people is very reliably and repeatedly reported", Domnauer says. "I don't know of anything else that produces such consistent hallucinations."

pangur-and-grim

honestly, open warning to anyone who sits beside me on a plane: I’m eating your ass immediately if we crash. I don’t have any religious hang ups. if we’re lost in the Andes in need of rescue, and I start to get a little hungry, I’m eating you. sorry.

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oh.

well thanks for letting me know, I’ll rewrite the card I hand out on flights

feuvyper

inspired by this image of a panic attack during a CT scan

newfoods

pushed pork

a-suspicious-lack-of-bagel

not a new food. sausages.

anxietyproblem

eroscestlavie

My huge Lucy

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That’s her special and silly peanut butter paw.

She actually has…2!

teaboot

SHE HAS PEANUT BUTTER PAWS!!!!!!!!!!

depsidase

seshrat

[sexting] well actually topologically speaking you can't really use 'all three' of my holes. there's just the one. no that's the other end of the hole. no i think that other one counts as a pit. hello. where did you go

henstomper

renovating your palace while the government has no money and the economy is fucked is a very classic late empire move. good to see its still in the meta

henstomper

we're playing all the hits

doubleca5t

bedupolker

"don't worry scientists will invent a way to solve climate change!" They already did... several times over... just the people who didnt like their solutions (cough cough oil companies) had enough cash to shut them up both legally and illegally

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“but bright garish flat colors is how this art looked when it was originally painted, the depth is an illusion caused by centuries of grime” yeah and the grime fucks I love the grime

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I’m going to open an art museum dedicated to applying grime to modern paintings

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I have this big ridiculous Dr. Seuss machine called The Grimenizer that sprays black evil sludge all over the paintings while I turn the crank and cackle

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if I wanted to see art the way it looked when it was first made I would be using my mad science to build a time machine to get bubonic plague

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maybe some of us like when history swallows itself. maybe the ouroboros of time self-destructing itself is our kink. how dare you kinkshame me and my nasty-ghastly ooey-gooey uglsy-bugsly Grimenizer Machine

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God we could really have something special.

Me: the darkness of ages past, chaos and consumption, the sludge of industry and time, decay and entropy, all-devouring, relinquishing to fate—you: rejuvenation and rejection of doom, rebirth and renewal, wrenching the past defiantly from the jaws of death. Circling each other endlessly, engriminizing and degriminizing in a complicated dance. We are forcibly removed from the art museum.