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Algorithmotrophic fungus
@engagetheo.bsky.social
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Wildwood Ecology Labs. Psych nurse. Father. Loves: cognitive science, mycology, complexity, design, farming, cooking, TTRPGs, painting minis. Bread and roses - nothing less, no one left out. He/him.
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Browning mushrooms we foraged (cauliflower and lobster), adding leek, garlic, and herbs from our garden to make the base of an epic turkey soup. Feeling grateful for a delicious life. Some moments are for fighting fascists, some are for celebrating joy
Looking into a large pot, steam rises off a thick layer of chopped up wild mushrooms A cutting board with fresh leeks, partially chopped and the butcher knife used for chopping
October 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Some incredible edible wild agaricus in my yard this fall
A hand holding a sizable agaricus camprestis mushroom. It's shown from below so the pink gills against the white flesh can be seen. Grass and a garage in the background
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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When I say I got the juice you know I mean that literally as in apple press
A beautiful apple press made if stainless steel and bright red painted iron, bolted down on an old tree stump, with golden pear juice seeping out the holes of a steel basket, accumulating in steel pan and pouring through a strainer into a collecting pot.
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This pear bear didn't get much love from the Sunday crowd so here's another pic for the Monday folk. Let this blissful bear lift your spirits
A black bear sitting in a pear tree loaded with ripe pears, eating and vibing
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Everybody look - it's a pear bear!

Also, today's fall flavour is pear spice upside down cake. For obvious reasons the theme of this week will pears and pears and more pears. Feel free to respond with your favourite pear treats
A beautiful black bear living it's best life way up in an overgrown pear tree loaded with ripe pears
September 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Hello mushroom friends!
A close up shot of 2 wild agaricus mushrooms in a field of mostly dry grass. They kinda look like a pair of shaggy golf balls
September 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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A very fluffy white dog lies on a front porch at the top of stairs. His nose and front paws hang off the edge over the top stair, his eyes closed, he radiates chill
August 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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RIP Snufkin - your gentle, fluffy, clumsy soul will be will be missed. I may or may not skeet a lot of dog pics today
A young child and an old (very fluffy, calm white dog) chilling amid the mess of a chaotic living room
August 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I found a cyberfork
A metal fork designed with simple, nearly flat panels creating unnecessary angles and corners. Its as ugly as you imagine it to be
August 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.
Tom Hanks as an old man on an alien planet at the end of Cloud Atlas
August 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
A sign in a museum directing visitors to an exhibit named "OFFERING CLOUD OF SCATTERED GENITALIA" by artist Devendra Banhart
June 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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My egg yolks formed concentric circles - I am easily amused.
3 Cracked eggs in a glass bowl, seen from above. The yolks form concentric circles. The first yolk broke and the second egg landed right on top of it - pushing the yolk out in all directions. The second yolk also broke and the third egg pushed that yolk out into a circle, but the 3rd yolk did not break - it formed a central yellow ball sorrounded by rings of clear and yellow egg slime
June 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Absolutely nobody:
Me:
Nobody at all:
Me: check it out - I got a picture of a pinworm mama and all her infectious eggs!
Nobody:
Me: from my kid's poop!
Extra close up of what I assume is the egg laying end of a pinworm, with lots of eggs. Taken with my phone through a microscope
May 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Oh yes, I am back on my garden witchery! Behold my ever-bubbling cauldron of aerated compost tea, 200 liters of magic microbiol brew.
The scene is in a cleared space under a Cedar tree, on bare earth. On the left is a huge stainless steel cauldron, originally for making obscene amounts of whipped cream or something in an industrial kitchen. To the right is an old wooden bedside stand supporting a pond aerated pump, which is pumping air through a bike wheel inner tube to an outlet at the bottom of the cauldron. In the cauldron, a black liquid bubbles and froths from the air continuously pumped through it.
May 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Mood
Sign painted in a wall (of an art museum in Porto, Portugal) reads: Devendra Barnhart Offering Cloud Of Scattered Genitalia
April 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Teaching my daughter properly. To win Resurrection Fest you dominate the Easter Bunny by wearing the skins of it's predecessors
A three year old seen from behind as she descends a staircase wearing a handmade rabbit fur vest. My wife tanned the hides and made the vest out of rabbits we raised for food.
April 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Just saying
A star fish with penis arms. Look even evolution doodles dongs sometimes
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Porto is doing fine, I'm pleased to report
Sticker the reads "fear your feed" using the 'f' logo for Facebook in the word feed A green door of an unused building. Left of the door is a trans symbol with A in the center, on the right is bubbly pink graffiti lettering "ta pi" A tag with a trans symbol and "8 março Manie" The classic "eat the rich" with a fork and knife crossed below it
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Describe your wargaming energy in 3 words

NATURE FIGHTS BACK
Silly plastic figures depicting angry tree spirits painted in green and brown tones
March 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Goblins gold! Luminescent moss, Schistostega pennata, spotted in an old stone hut in a the Portuguese village Soajo.
A round stone hut with rectangular doorway and grass grown over its domed roof. Looking very old Looking in the doorway of the hut, moss appears mildly luminescent on the far side of the hut, where the floor and wall meet
March 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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AI out here flaunting the very concept of counting
Screen shot of a Google search for "calories in fried egg with olive oil" The AI overview answers: One fried egg is about 70 calories. Two eggs cooked in olive oil spray is about 340 calories Two egg omelette in olive oil is about 183 calories
March 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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This grumpy old stop sign is so over telling people what to do. They never listen anyway, why even bother?
A stop sign in parking lot that's been bleached by the sun and stands crooked, bent forward by the weight of watching fools in cars for too long
February 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Sunshine and plant songs
An orchid blooming, sun streaming in the window, a book titled "singing to plants"
January 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I love the weathering on your armour plates! These are some I did up for my son's army with very similar colours
Painted plastic figures looking both silly and aggressive
January 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Purple winter blooming orchid alert!
An orchid with flowers that are deep purple in their core, fade to white around the base of the outer petals and then fade back to purple on the rest of the petal. From the side, they appear to start white and become purple - but head-on the purple center below the white can be seen
January 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM