FunGal Forager
@fungalforager.bsky.social
Sometimes I eat things I find outside. Foraging and Mycology in the Mountain West, USA.
Friday #foraging through brambles to get to some perfect #oystermushrooms #IdahoEscape #boise #mushroomsky
April 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Friday #foraging through brambles to get to some perfect #oystermushrooms #IdahoEscape #boise #mushroomsky
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here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
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Dear US Government,
We mind our ice ❄️. You mind your tariffs 💸
Deal?
— The Penguins of Heard Island 🐧
#PenguinRights
We mind our ice ❄️. You mind your tariffs 💸
Deal?
— The Penguins of Heard Island 🐧
#PenguinRights
April 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Dear US Government,
We mind our ice ❄️. You mind your tariffs 💸
Deal?
— The Penguins of Heard Island 🐧
#PenguinRights
We mind our ice ❄️. You mind your tariffs 💸
Deal?
— The Penguins of Heard Island 🐧
#PenguinRights
First edible #mushrooms of the year for me! 😃 (Never found any Flammulina/enoki over the winter. 😞) These are Collybia brunneocephala (means “brown-headed”). They are related to Blewits which are blue(ish), so we have taken to calling them “Brownits”. They hide! Notes in alt text. #IdahoEscape
April 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
First edible #mushrooms of the year for me! 😃 (Never found any Flammulina/enoki over the winter. 😞) These are Collybia brunneocephala (means “brown-headed”). They are related to Blewits which are blue(ish), so we have taken to calling them “Brownits”. They hide! Notes in alt text. #IdahoEscape
Same. 🐊🐸
April 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Same. 🐊🐸
Re #AprilFools, I’m wondering how anyone can know what’s a joke these days? 🤷♀️ I won’t be posting any “news”, but I did remember this post I wrote a few years ago. A nerdy combo of #mushrooms, #morels, and how or brains can fool us or help us. Enjoy! #Idaho fungalforager.com/morchella-fa...
Morchella fauxrelle ~ AKA the Fools' Morel
Don't get stumped by the Fools' Morel this April Fools' Day! How to hack your brain to find the mushrooms and information you're looking for.
fungalforager.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Re #AprilFools, I’m wondering how anyone can know what’s a joke these days? 🤷♀️ I won’t be posting any “news”, but I did remember this post I wrote a few years ago. A nerdy combo of #mushrooms, #morels, and how or brains can fool us or help us. Enjoy! #Idaho fungalforager.com/morchella-fa...
Like…this is so 🤪 😭😫 right?
Top Trump admin. officials – including the VP, defense secretary and national security adviser – used Signal, a secure messaging app, that is outside of the national security apparatus to discuss plans for military strikes in Yemen that include detailed, sensitive and confidential information. (1/x)
March 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Like…this is so 🤪 😭😫 right?
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Great turnout for the Rally for Idaho Public Lands. We cannot afford to lose our public lands to privatization. Do Not Sell off our Public Lands. We will lose our places where we hike, hunt, fish, camp, raft, and recreate. Privatization will lick out the public, and cost our local economy billions.
March 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Great turnout for the Rally for Idaho Public Lands. We cannot afford to lose our public lands to privatization. Do Not Sell off our Public Lands. We will lose our places where we hike, hunt, fish, camp, raft, and recreate. Privatization will lick out the public, and cost our local economy billions.
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Cat standoff! ⚔️
Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats...
But it's just the opening gambit...
#cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats...
But it's just the opening gambit...
#cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
March 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Cat standoff! ⚔️
Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats...
But it's just the opening gambit...
#cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats...
But it's just the opening gambit...
#cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
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DOGE fired (then rehired) nuclear workers
March 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
DOGE fired (then rehired) nuclear workers
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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.
February 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.
Here’s a #ValentinesDay mushroom heart for all of us eagerly anticipating #morel season. ♥️ 🍄🟫 Eight weeks or so for season start in #Idaho! Morchella sp. found in a riparian area of the Owyhee Mtns. June, 2024. #fungi #nature
February 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Here’s a #ValentinesDay mushroom heart for all of us eagerly anticipating #morel season. ♥️ 🍄🟫 Eight weeks or so for season start in #Idaho! Morchella sp. found in a riparian area of the Owyhee Mtns. June, 2024. #fungi #nature
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looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
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I got a couple messages today asking what I charge for security advice; I probably should have been clearer on that.
February 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I got a couple messages today asking what I charge for security advice; I probably should have been clearer on that.
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Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
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It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are.
"Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is"
"Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is"
February 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are.
"Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is"
"Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is"
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Really good information from The Bulwark if you are watching the markets tomorrow. Source: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
February 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Really good information from The Bulwark if you are watching the markets tomorrow. Source: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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How might the tariff war impact Idaho? We can look to what happened in 2018 for some hints. #Idaho
blog.idahoreports.idahoptv.org/2025/02/01/t...
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Tariffs in place on two of Idaho's largest trade partners - Idaho Reports
By Melissa Davlin, Idaho Reports On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced he had enacted 25%
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February 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
How might the tariff war impact Idaho? We can look to what happened in 2018 for some hints. #Idaho
blog.idahoreports.idahoptv.org/2025/02/01/t...
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.
www.wired.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
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The USAID website is offline. www.usaid.gov
www.usaid.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The USAID website is offline. www.usaid.gov
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OK, some lawyer, represent me.
—Acct is frozen on Xitter.
—As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source.
—This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media
—Acct is frozen on Xitter.
—As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source.
—This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media
Someone with standing should file a lawsuit, too, stat. I don’t know if that’s Bluesky or someone who’s been banned from Twitter, but it needs to be challenged. Make the Supreme Court say Republican presidents can privatize government communications.
The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia.
Instead, all notifications will be made on X.
We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.
Instead, all notifications will be made on X.
We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.
February 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
OK, some lawyer, represent me.
—Acct is frozen on Xitter.
—As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source.
—This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media
—Acct is frozen on Xitter.
—As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source.
—This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media
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Update: he *literally* blames DEI hires in ATC.
1) ATC didn't cause this crash
2) obviously this wasn't caused by DEI
3) blaming DEI hires implies there have been hires.... ATC is critically understaffed.
1) ATC didn't cause this crash
2) obviously this wasn't caused by DEI
3) blaming DEI hires implies there have been hires.... ATC is critically understaffed.
Based on evidence thus far, the American Airlines crew was not at fault.
Additionally, on that same evidence, ATC is highly unlikely to be at fault.
But the GOP are going to blame Dems & DEI then push to privatize the National Airspace -- this will be a huge blow to the safety of our air travel.
Additionally, on that same evidence, ATC is highly unlikely to be at fault.
But the GOP are going to blame Dems & DEI then push to privatize the National Airspace -- this will be a huge blow to the safety of our air travel.
January 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Update: he *literally* blames DEI hires in ATC.
1) ATC didn't cause this crash
2) obviously this wasn't caused by DEI
3) blaming DEI hires implies there have been hires.... ATC is critically understaffed.
1) ATC didn't cause this crash
2) obviously this wasn't caused by DEI
3) blaming DEI hires implies there have been hires.... ATC is critically understaffed.