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Photographer, Amateur Lichenologist/Mycologist
After Wisconsin, Democrats fear ‘MAGA money’ is infiltrating another upcoming race in Pittsburgh. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
13.05.2025 14:29 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
ICE is rounding up dissidents and threatening them with deportation — all because of their protected speech. But the First Amendment protects all of us.
Tell Congress: Defend our constitutional right to dissent.
The Houthis are on the side of justice. People guided by their moral conscience to take action to help 1.5 million people being starved. US terror bombings in Yemen lead to self-defense is an accurate headline. Curious what spin US corporate media puts on this.
17.03.2025 04:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Laura Weiss March 16, 2025 The Vanishing The Pandemic Never Ended. Five years after Covid arrived on these shores, many believe the anxieties of the plague years are in the rearview mirror. But the threat is far from over.
The Pandemic Never Ended.
"5 years later, it is sad to think about what could have been ... For a moment, there was a sense that we cared about the vulnerable. There was a moment of solidarity, somewhere within the trauma."
#COVIDisNotOVER
Source: archive.md/MDXGt
Less than a week ago, Trump said he "brought back free speech." Tell that to Mahmoud Khalil, currently in ICE detention.
Read more: interc.pt/3Dvhxgk
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A pale green dusty crustose lichen covers part of a young sugar maple trunk. The bark of the tree has two lumps in the middle of the patch, and a crack towards the bottom. That combined with the oval shape of the lichen give the appearance of a face. A white margin is visible around the edge of the lichen.
A closeup of the margin of the thallus shows in detail the diffuse soredia covering the central portion of the lichen and the prothallus made of thick white hyphae extending beyond the soredia. At the edge of this white mat is a faint blue-green margin.
Mapledust Lichen - Verseghya thysanophora, formerly in the genus Lecanora, is a common sterile sorediate crustose lichen in eastern North America. What at first look like pale green splotches on trees become breath-taking when viewed up-close.
04.03.2025 15:42 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Graph shows 10 waves of the pandemic. Tables summarized partially in post. Additionally, transmission is higher than during 59% of the pandemic. How Does Risk Increase with More Social Contacts? Number of People | Chances anyone is infectious 1 1.4% 2 2.8% 3 4.1% 4 5.5% 5 6.8% 6 8.1% 7 9.4% 8 10.6% 9 11.9% 10 13.1% 15 19.0% 20 24.5% 25 29.7% 30 34.4% 35 38.9% 40 43.0% 50 50.5% 75 65.2% 100 75.5% 300 98.5%
PMC COVlD Dashboard, Feb 17, 2025 (U.S.)
🔥1 in 72 actively infectious
🔥Sustained high transmission
🔥30 states in high/very high transmission (CDC)
🔥3x the transmission of Feb 2021
🔥668,000 daily infections
🔥Only 1 in 28 cases reported
Hamas has shared a report on the key Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
They list 22 different violations.
a 1:1 lifesize macro photo of a large, gray, leafy, foliose lichen growing tightly to a branch. The branch has been posed in front of a black backdrop and the specimen is lit up artificially, enhancing the visibility of the identifying features. Faint white maculae can be seen making net-like patterns over the lobe tips. The central more wrinkly parts of the lichen are covered in coarse to fine granules called soredia. The margins of the lobes have a slight but distinct dark edge.
The same specimen from the first photo is now illuminated with 365nm ultraviolet light. The soralia and cracks in the cortex reveal the inner tissues of the lichen known as the medulla, which contain the chemical divaricatic acid. This chemical fluoresces under the ultraviolet light and releases bright blue light everywhere the medulla is exposed.
A screenshot of the range map for Canoparmelia texana taken from iNaturalist shows the southeastern part of the US including Mexico. Orange squares are placed on the map where observations of the species have been documented. They range from Maryland, Ohio, and Wisconsin southwest to Texas and Mexico, avoiding more tropical environments.
Texas Shield Lichen - Canoparmelia texana. A more fitting name might be Crinkled Grayshield Lichen. This large, foliose species with an atranorin-gray cortex, maculae, soredia, and UV+ bright blue medulla (from divaricatic acid) is common throughout the southeastern US, now being found in Western PA
11.02.2025 22:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A light gray foliose lichen with narrow, flat, and adnate lobes spreads across bark in a rosette-like pattern. There are dozens of dark brown to black discs with smooth, pale gray margins erupting from the surface of the lichen. The disks vary in size and some are slightly bent or wrinkled.
The Physcia stellaris/pumilior/aipolia group is challenging to distinguish. This lichen has a medulla that turns yellow when a drop of KOH is placed on them, and a thallus that turns bright green when hydrated, which should make them Physcia pumilior aka “Lesser Gray Legs”
08.02.2025 18:59 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Greetings earthlings, branching out into new frontiers. Expect macro photography of fungi & invertebrates, political commentary from a decolonial rustbelt eco-socialist perspective, and other things related to mycology, ecology, climate, Appalachia, & Pittsburgh/Diondega
08.02.2025 18:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hamas released three prisoners of war on Saturday in exchange for 183 Palestinian hostages held captive by the settler-colonial state of Israel, seven of whom were immediately admitted to hospitals due to the abuse and neglect they faced at the hands of their oppressors - fixed it for you
08.02.2025 18:32 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
