regular slime guy

Cortical & pseudopodial microtubules seem like a potentially important feature separating "planty" stuff from "animaly" stuff

They evolved in unusual places which seems to have made their genomes equally unusual & difficult to place!

What is most interesting to me is that Diaphoretickes is full of organisms with pseudopodial microtubules, while this feature is absent (or possibly just very rare) in Amorphea

I have 🌈 A U T I S M 😃

And why not, here's plasmodial slime molds!

And here's a "full detail" version of eukaryotes

Fuck yeah this is dope

Here's one I made

Oh no I forgot about that

Fascinating

I think the ibotenic acid is traditionally removed by boiling or converted by drying / heating. I don't have any personal experience but my understanding is they don't really make you high so much as make you feel super weird & confused. But I have no doubt some people like that!

It probably interacts with some medications and health issues, though. Again I would not recommend you eat it (I wouldn't) I'm just passing along the info

I do not use facebook anymore but imo this is one of the best resources available for learning about slime molds

I mean I'm not recommending it but that's what I've read

I wouldn't recommend you eat it, but the toxicity of this species has been exaggerated to a comical degree. Last time I checked the only reports of any deaths were quite old & dubious imo. Many of its relatives will absolutely kill you in the worst ways but this one is not deadly

It is supposed to be quite tasty actually, and my understanding is you can boil out the "toxins"

I think this is a fungus, it kind of looks like a busted up stinkhorn

Gallery - Myxotropic Image gallery of Myxomycetes ordered by genera and species. All the images have been made, through optical microscopes, from the samples obtained by the Myxotropic project and through international collaborations.

Also here is a free key:

www.myxotropic.org/myxo-keys-en...

Image galleries:

www.myxotropic.org/gallery/

And nomenclature / species definitions:

eumycetozoa.com

There are knowledgeable experts and amateurs in this facebook group that could be helpful:

www.facebook.com/groups/Slime...

This is Leocarpus fragilis, a slime mold. Like all slime molds it is harmless to plants & animals

Yeah it looks like Ceratiomyxa

Diderma miniatum by Carlos de Mier

Elaeomyxa cerifera by Sarah Lloyd

Physarum echinosporum by Carlos de Mier

Physarina alboscabra by Carlos de Mier

Because bluesky is
33% politics
33% fetish art
33% fungi / slime molds, and
1% everything else

Here's some more slime molds

The ID is correct

Stemonaria longa by Gim Siew Tan

omg you look just like Stemonaria longa

A simplified tree of eukaryotes showing the 6 kingdoms with multicellular life

An accurate, up to date, non-simplified tree of eukaryotes

A look at where macroscopic life evolved

"Kingdom Protista" was obsolete when Reagan was elected & does not exist in any meaningful way. Decades of molecular & morphological data have definitively placed nearly all eukaryotes into 6 kingdoms: Plants, Harosans (kelp+), Discobans (euglenoids), Amoebozoans (slime molds), Animals, & Fungi.

This looks like Heterotrichia (Arcyria) oerstedii

No zand was just like floam but with sand instead of little foam bits

Yeah exactly

Floam! It wasn't a bootleg brand, it was actually an official... material? There was also green slime & I think something called zand?

They kind of flutter in the breeze I guess?

The bones? Why, do bones normally bounce?

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