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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Get your hand off my penis!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I see you know your fungi quite well

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is mycology manifest!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent mycelium meal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I want to join the Mushroom collective amd trip for all eternity

[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“That is not dead which can eternal lie…”

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"... And in strange aeons, death itself may die."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If the author wasn't such a piece of shit I would love to get that tattooed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"Them fucks who laze about ain't died, just napping. One of those 'the fuck time is it?' naps which feel fucking strange."

There you go, that's a Fooie original for you. And I'm not a piece of shit. Though I was a piece of shit. Sloppy steaks and all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Let's slop em up, boys!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Very likely schizotypal, definitely severe social anxiety, a fuckton of phobias, upbringing and class context which was racist AF but still he managed to have good "salt of the earth" black characters in his stories. That is, he imagined black people, with agency and everything, whom he was not terrified of, that's not being a piece of shit that's conscience and hope shining through more existential terror than you can imagine. Hard enough to find rapport with people when you're schizotypal in the first place (you inevitably, in search for actual connection, start talking to their subconsciousness which often ends in a barrage of projection), doubly and triply so when you're caught up in upper-class ritual.

So, kindly, fuck off with your normie judgements building the exact barriers that cause the persistence of problems you're judging others for not solving.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm only guessing it's Gaiman based on that response.

But remberer that as humans we have the ability to good and bad.

You can like the work while not liking the guy.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I assumed it was HP Lovecraft, who was a white supremacist.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah. True ofc, seeing the context of the post.

My dumb

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Obligatory HP Lovecrafts cat name reference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

As humans in civil society, we're kinda obligated to not do the bad things though. That's the danger with becoming rich and/or famous... I don't believe money corrupts, but reveals our darker impulses, once we feel we could get away with doing them.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just started watching Last Of Us, don't fuck with mushrooms

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fun fact, global climate change is actually changing the temperature ranges that many fungus can exist in. Last of Us probably won't come to pass because the cordyceps fungus evolved to zombify ants and other insects that it existed alongside with over millions of years, and we haven't had any kind of constant contact with a similar fungus strain, so the chances of it being able to interact with our physiology is really, really remote.

But we can absolutely get really harsh strains of Valley Fever in areas where the infectious fungus doesn't usually exist, and fungal infections are incredibly hard to treat.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11034633/

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago

“I am not the guy that gets you high. That’s my cousin

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

"Oh no. Not again."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

We've been trying to reach you about your car insurance

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Let it cook.

Humans need need some dread to take our minds off from all the other dread.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago

One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. And again, and again, and again…”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

So say we all!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Can I have a link to the actual article/paper?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

University of the West of England’s unconventional computing laboratory

The "unconventional computing laboratory" was definitely founded in partnership with Miskatonic U.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reading the introduction of the study (first link), they completely fail to explain why they call this language. Like, first they explain that fungi also have action potentials and that this seems to work like neurons and then they immediately jump to talk about how this could be a language. Am I missing something here? This seems like a legit paper, but why don't they even attempt to explain or discuss this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It just is establishing something is happening that needs further investigation. Language is used because it's the closest possible parallel we have so far. Papers like this present ideas to legitimise further investigations. It's a starting place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

This came from the New York Globe on April 1st, that's all I know.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Usually ends in "wheep ni ni grah". But my universal greeting is rusty. Maybe a regional dialect of universal greeting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

May need Weird Al to confirm with some party music.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

“Humans did their job. Time to finish them.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

"Anyone got a lighter?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Bantha Poodoo

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Too late. It already clicked.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

did it tell them the name of god???

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

There is no god, only Cthulhu

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

For the first few words I thought it was in Klingon.