Jan Merta

Jan Merta

@lunruj.bsky.social

Interested in science, especially physics, evolutionary biology, psychology. Hunting fungi mostly not to eat them, a bit of an amateur mycologist. Chess noob. From Czechia.

236 Followers 100 Following 801 Posts Joined Nov 2024
4 days ago

🤑👀 Trumpova parta tuneluje stát tak nevídaným způsobem, že to překvapuje i zkušený novináře.

Pár dní zpátky jsem psal o tom, jak si teď už odvolaná ministryně pro vnitřní bezpečnost Kristi Noem přihrála přes svoje přátele víc jak 200 milionů dolarů. Ty se utratily za v

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5 days ago

I am not sure from the pics if the gills get colored by spores or just from aging/drying. They seems to me getting somewhat reddish pink and if that was a case it might be some Pluteus sp. But I can be completely wrong here.

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1 week ago

Radio Yerevan vibes.

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1 week ago

This look like Auricularia mesenterica but if you check the underside on the previous pic carefully you can spot pores.

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1 week ago

I can't see Auricularia mesenterica, all I see is Bjerkandera adusta

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1 week ago

I déčka mívají málo.

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1 week ago

Congratulations Substack on your new partnership with Polymarket!

And to those publishing on Substack, is this really the tool you want from the folks who take part of your revenue?

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1 week ago

With nazis being A-OK for Substack I wouldn't bet on it ditching Polymarket.

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2 weeks ago
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

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2 weeks ago

VP Vance is falsely claiming the Trump Admin somehow has the “inherent” authority to just unilaterally withhold from MN mandatory federal #Medicaid funding to which the state is entitled.

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3 weeks ago

Hypholoma fasciculare probably.

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3 weeks ago
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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3 weeks ago

First though was young Fomes fomentarius but looking more closely it looks like young Ganoderma applanatum (probably).

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3 weeks ago

Perhaps some Psathyrella like Psathyrella fibrillosa but there are multiple similar looking species.

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1 month ago
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Rep. Beatty to Bessent after he refuses to answer a question about affordable housing: "No no. We're not gonna to do that with me. You get to hear my wrath that you refuse to answer a question under your authority, and yet you've talked about the value of housing and you're not releasing the funds."

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1 month ago
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Indiana’s Lt. Gov. falsely claims every Founding Father would be labeled a "far-right Christian Nationalist" Micah Beckwith’s Christian Nationalist fantasy relies on rewriting America’s secular origins

Every Founding Father "would be labeled a far-right Christian Nationalist," said Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith.

He's rewriting history because facts contradict his theology.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/indianas-l...

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1 month ago

He's right: in light of Republican policies, rural Americans will have decreasing access to real healthcare. They will have to settle for some garbage chatbot selling them snake oil.

It shouldn't be this way, but it absolutely will be this way if Republicans stay in power.

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1 month ago
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Jeffrey Epstein: Pád muže, který otřásl světem mocných — Vladimir Foltan Post by Vladimir Foltan

➡️ Epstein Files

Páteční zveřejnění další části Epstein Files přineslo nové dokumenty a svědectví, která dál rozšiřují mapu vztahů kolem Jeffreyho Epsteina a jeho okolí.

Základní info o tom, co byl tenhle člověk zač, si můžete připomenout tady:

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1 month ago

And there it is. He has no intention of allowing a free and fair midterm.

In a sane world, this would be instantly impeachable.

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1 month ago

Certainly more typical for them. Perhaps H. radicosum is somewhat similar and often produces just single fruiting bodies but it's rareish and I think it typically looks a bit different.

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1 month ago

H. fasciculare can grow on conifers as well, it's rather that H. capnoides grows (almost?) exclusively on conifers. They differ in color with H. fasciculare being more yellow but sometimes it can mimic H. capnoides so you want to check the color of gills or taste a bit without swallowing it.

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1 month ago

I'd say at least the genus seems right. It would be good to see gills, it might be Hypholoma fasciculare or possibly H. capnoides if there were conifers.

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1 month ago
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Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."

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1 month ago

Tak zrovna na SCOTUS, který má roli ústavního soudu, se zaměřili republikáni už před Trumpem a Trump do něj dosadil tři soudce, kteří mají doživotní funkci. A SCOTUS, byť Trumpovi neposvětil úplně všechno, tak mu šel na ruku dost a předvedl hodně podivných rozhodnutí.

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1 month ago

I think that's actually Exidia, if from America it should be Exidia crenata.

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1 month ago

I think with all the yellow on the second pic it's probably some kind of Stereum, often called false turkey tail. The difference is that Trametes versicolor has white underside with pores while Stereum has usually yellow smooth underside (at least those that make prominent caps).

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1 month ago

The last one looks like some kind if Phellinus, if that's on cherry plum tree it might be Phellinus pomaceus.

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1 month ago
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👍

Na výzvě je také důležité, kdo tam NENÍ (nevim proč).
Z velkých redakcí/vydavatelství tam není
👉 Vltava Labe Press
👉CZECH NEWS CENTER
👉MAFRA
👉TV Nova
👉FTV Prima
👉 Media Bohemia (Radio Blaník, …) a vůbec všechna rádia mimo ČRo

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1 month ago
Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders

Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-calls-on-minneapolis-residents-to-stop-obstructing-murders/

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2 months ago
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

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