Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@social.cleverlibre.org

@walruslifestyle and a ban should be called a mastectomy.

[mastodon: early 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek mastos ‘breast’ + odous, odont- ‘tooth’ (with reference to nipple-shaped tubercles on the crowns of its molar teeth)]

@CatsOfYore this photo is exceptional.

It's interesting how non-scientists use the word "chemical" for any unfamiliar molecule or element rather than for products of the chemical industry. The term "coding" is another one that's used incorrectly by non-practitioners. Do you know other such terms that immediately identify a speaker as an (unknowingly incompetent) outsider of a field?

This is fog drip: fog from the Pacific Ocean crashing into trees in the Santa Cruz Mountains of northern California. Note how dry it is everywhere except under the tree where it's pouring. These are pretty much the only spots where we can find mushrooms around here in the Summer months.

#mushrooms #fog #california #summer

@jgrg @UP8 @Mushroot yes, they're one of these clavarioid or coral fungi. They come in different colors, always a fun sight.

@swiftidea I view (a * b * c) as (((1 * a) * b) * c).

Updated my /robots.txt to block the big AI image scraping bots: https://martinj.art/robots.txt

@clarkesworld thanks for posting this. I'm concerned about AI-plagiarism of images of my artworks and just updated my robots.txt accordingly.

@UP8 I will find them, I'm not giving up!

@UP8 my main problem is to find them where I live (a drier area in northern California) but I think I found a promising area to explore in the fall.

@UP8 by the way, if you're adventurous and finding many A. muscaria, they can be prepared to be safe to eat by parboiling in plenty of water 5+ min twice and discarding the water each time. (some people are interested in the psychoactive effects but prep and use are trickier)

@UP8 striations on the cap are a key feature for this group of amanitas (section caesareae).

@UP8 you can tell they're amanitas because we can see the edge of the volva on the specimen in the back (the white sac at the base). They should open up unless something goes really wrong for them because that's how amanitas release their spores.

@UP8 it's possibly Amanita jacksonii https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/caesar-mushrooms.html