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you saying mushrooms could grow up ya asshole???????

well…not up your asshole specifically…thats prob cleaned out too often. HOWEVER:

“Fungi grow on the body of mites, on or between the cells of plants- all plants- in frozen Arctic tundra, on rocks (which may be residual from the days when rock was the primary substrate for ancient fungal lineages), on other fungi, inside insects, and in your lungs (for example, coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection that attacks the lungs, spleen, kidneys, and brain in immune-deficient patients of immunocompetent hosts that have inhaled a sufficient number of spores). There are about a dozen reports of mushrooms, mostly Schizophyllum but a few Coprinus, fruiting in the sinuses or soft palate of small children.” - Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone, pages 61 and 62 (this is an A++++++ book btw 100/10 would mushroom again)

a freaky ass thing about fungi is that they’re actually more closely related to animals than plants. we share a LOT of DNA with them. this is why its harder for our bodies to shake off fungal infections; it’s harder for our immune systems to recognize them as not our own.

so like maybe lmao

also: reminder that the mushrooms in the mushroom towel pic are inky caps. inky caps refer to mushrooms in the Coprinus genus; the ones on the cursed towel are specifically the common inky cap. so they have also fruited in the sinuses of small children and i didnt realize that until i went back in the book to find this quote and it makes me SO nervous like holy shit how did it get worse

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Do not boop Tiny! Protector Gumby Protects!

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I need to send you this relic of the Old Internet- inky caps growing from a bath towel. That towel was so dirty, that when it was nice and moist after a good re-use for god knows what in a teenager’s bathroom, it was quickly colonized and fruited upon. (submitted by @cultivating-echo)

*academic voice* theres a lot to unpack here

this image has such a charged energy i literally cant believe this like look at this shit. like lets break this down. the two mushrooms, in comparison to the apparent size of the towel and the clothing piles around it, are fucking massive. like literally i have never seen a mushroom that tall outside of textbooks and never in my life would i think that i would see mushrooms, like real ass basidiomycetes that size, growing on a fucking bath towel. also, there are TWO of them. this means that these two fungi growing on the towel were like this is too good of an opportunity to pass up we gotta put up TWO sex organs. the shaky camera/slight blur of this makes it looks like a screenshot from a mid-2000s indie slenderman film like u find a flash drive on the street and this is the only image on it and seven days later u wake up and theres a mushroom sprouted ominously in the middle of ur room with a knife taped to it. also i cannot for the life of me figure out how this could have happened like do u know how little. just like how LITTLE we know about how to grow mushrooms. we know NOTHING. the commercial industry funnels SO much money into research and STILL for like 80% of mushroom species (the kind of mushrooms you have on pizza are a notable exception), we do not know how to make commercial farms for them. people put their lives into trying to create the most perfect conditions in which to sprout mushrooms and they just. they do not care at all. this image resonates with me so much because it carries such a strong message about the nature of mushrooms like the sheer nihilism of this image is absolutely astounding like people are really out there with like state of the art equipment and its just like ‘fuck you i shall grow upon this filthy towel you peasants, you fools, you absolute buffoons. you are but ozymandias in the desert compared to me. fetchith me the axe body spray, knave’

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pensive shrimp really is just the biggest fucking mood huh

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Ladies and gentlemen, our national bird!

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it is currently ｒｅａｌｋｉｗｉｈｏｕｒｓ

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animals that evolved with no natural predators are amazing

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go fuckin wild little man

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‘Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind’ by Hayao Miyazaki

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All of you straight people asking how you can support gays this pride month smh like the answer is so easy.. whenever you see a gay person you have to give them all your fucking weed

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If you don’t have weed then empty your pockets

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Best thing you can do as a man is understand on a deep spiritual level that no woman on this earth will ever need you. You are not necessary for the fulfillment of a woman’s life. A woman choosing to have you in her life is a gift, a privilege, that can be revoked at any time and it’s up to you to earn, honor, and maintain that place in that woman’s life. A woman is whole and complete without you and will continue to be whole and complete regardless of her involvement with you. If she wants you in her life, key word “wants”, she is giving you space she’s carved out and is deeming you worthy, so fucking act like it.

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nasturtiums are natures chicken hats

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Scientists see inner workings of enzyme telomerase

Cancer, aging-related diseases and other illnesses are closely tied to an important enzyme called “telomerase.” UCLA researchers report in the journal Cell the deepest scientific understanding yet of this once-mysterious enzyme, whose catalytic core – where most of its activity occurs – can now be seen in near atomic resolution.

“We’re now seeing not just the face of the clock, we’re seeing how the components inside interact to make it work,” said Juli Feigon, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA College and a senior author of the study. “At each step, we zoom in closer and see more and more details, and can now begin to deduce not just what the enzyme looks like, but also how it functions. Knowing that may lead to the development of new drugs that target specific parts of the enzyme.”

Jiansen Jiang, Yaqiang Wang, Lukas Sušac, Henry Chan, Ritwika Basu, Z. Hong Zhou, Juli Feigon. Structure of Telomerase with Telomeric DNA. Cell, 2018; 173 (5): 1179 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.04.038

This is an image of telomerase’s catalytic core.Credit: Juli Feigon, et al./UCLA/Cell