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A gray-capped amanita mushroom, Amanita constricta.

Two golden-capped Amanitas, Amanita velosa

An amanita with a cream-colored, warty cap, Amanita pantherinoides

Five amanitas with sickly green caps, Amanita phalloides

Here’s a few of the cool Amanita mushrooms I’ve found recently. Some are tasty, some will ruin your day, and some will straight up kill ya!

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Some sparkly small transparent handmade resin dreidels in different colors, gleaming in the sun. They look kinda like marbles.

Look at these dreidels I made!

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I did that with Mastodon and nobody joined and now I have no social capital left, sorry

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Reminder! Don’t forage for amanitas until you’re intimately familiar with your local death caps and destroying angels. This is not a mushroom for beginners because the deadliest mushrooms in the world are its lookalikes.

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A plate of sliced raw mushrooms covered in olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper and dill

Hand holding a mushroom about 20cm or 8 inches long, with a bulbous base and a round red cap with white flecks all over it, against a background of pine and redwood duff.

Amanita calyptroderma (Coccora) carpaccio. It’s good! Not as good as Amanita velosa.

You know what is? Amanita muscaria, boiled vigorously twice for ten minutes w/2 water changes before pan frying. Probably my new favorite edible. Do it wrong & you’ll be um, badly intoxicated & not in a fun way.

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A fat pale thigh wearing glasses, looking kinda like the muppet Dr. Bunsen

Did you know you can just put glasses on anything?

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Circular microscope view showing a larger pinkish purple cell with a dark purple nucleus. A needle pointer in silhouette points at it. There are three smaller pinkish purple cells to the lower right of the large cell with multi-lobed nuclei. There are other smeared cells and pink/purple stuff in the background.

New here, not sure what I’ll be doing but I guess I’ll start with my amateur microscopy photos. This is an alveolar macrophage and some neutrophils from a human sputum sample. Alveolar macrophages are also called “dust cells” because their job is to munch up all the particulates you breathe in.

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