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Me and my boyfriend discovered this wild specimen completely on accident under some shrubs, in a very populated city park btw. I thought the rarer looking mushrooms only spawn in remote wooded areas. It's so beautiful I just wanna be a fairy living in that mushroom ๐ค! Because it's so outlandish looking we could figure out what it's called pretty fast. Its a basket stinkhorn and it only stays this beautiful for about a day though! It had shrivelled up next morning when we came back to check on the area, but so many more of the same species had sprouted in its place in just a night.
So you never know what could spawn after it rains in your local park, get your camera/phone, go get your steps in, fill your lungs with after-rain air and be known as the bog hag that inspects dead wood, shrubs and foliage.
Happy hunting!
Apr 15, 2025
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walking in the woods, looking at the forest floor. bring a pal and marvel at the joy when you spot a patch. i like morels and chanterelles. even if you don't find any, you still got a nice moment in nature. morels look like little brains.
Jan 28, 2024
I love to forage for edible mushrooms, but I also just love learning and identifying as many different species as possible. You begin to recognize certain phenotypes like spore bearing surface, gill attachment, cap morphology, etc and begin to recognize individual species or genera like old friends. They are like magical aliens, except theyโre literally on our planet- literally right under our noses.
May 27, 2025
Jul 21, 2024
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Made the horns out of a cardboard frame, filled with aluminium foil, and wrapped in black duct tape, easy recipe for a last moment DIY prop for a Halloween party. I keep thinking about how I had to throw them away when I was moving out of my student dorm, since I didn't have any room in my briefcase ๐ญ
R.I.P. , Cheap Maleficent Horns, gone but not forgotten. ๐ฅ๐ชฆ
Apr 13, 2025
Custom cursors! Do you guys remember getting the family computer a virus when you were a child because you wanted the pretty cursors that you downloaded from the shadiest pop-ups?
For some reason I thought that those were a gone relic of the Internet, but it turns out there is a legit site for cursor customisation with so many cursors, even animated ones! It's called ๐ก๐ญ๐ญ๐ฉ://๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ.๐ซ๐ฐ-๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐๐ซ.๐๐จ๐ฆ/๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ-๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ซ๐๐ซ๐ฒ and their icon packs are also super cute!
Apr 28, 2025
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Let me post GIFs or short videos and I ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ ๐บ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐น๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐น to spreading he gospel of PI.FYI far and wide ๐ . I know that incorporating moving images into an emerging site is tough and probably not at the top of the list of priorities, but it would be so cool to have the option to post animated stuff in the future, even if it's just videos under 10 seconds or looping GIFs ๐ !
Apr 13, 2025