magic beneath the forests

Unless it's been surpassed, the world's largest living organism is a 9 square kilometer fungus that's been growing for about 10,000 years.

Just got surpassed by yo momma actually.
(Sorry I couldn't resist, please no ban)
- No worries friend, it's why she was a perfect match for my dad who is a fun guy (fungi).
- Gottem
I love how many times they repeated humongous fungus in the article.
Wow, here I was thinking Pando was the biggest. This fungus is a good bit bigger
- Pando is the heaviest iirc
it's geoblocked to god knows what country

Now eat your fungi penis up it’s good for you.

But sir, why are the trees dancing?
- They're telling you that life and the universe and everything is dancing the same dance
Don't threaten me with a good time.

Puts the pan on stove. Ignites the flame and adds some olive oil. Everything is in order to sear the heretics.
- Mushrooms are near impossible to burn. All you're doing is giving them a flavorful sauna.

Fungi confuse me. I can't figure out what they are. I think the fact that I thought they were plants my whole life and then it turns out they aren't just broke me lol.

Coral also isn't plants
afaik a decent summary is that they're sorta like animal cells that specced into a plant lifestyle, but since animals are good at digesting stuff and can't photosynthesize, they went for eating dead things that no one else eats.
My Biology teacher put it pretty neatly: "Fungi are Fungi."

I was speaking to a guy that looks after an ancient forest and he was explaining the fungi that allow the trees to communicate and it was fascinating but I thought he might be pulling my leg, so I came home and read everything, it's fascinating.

a guy that looks after an ancient forest
- I'm guessing a park ranger

Some of them will also make you high, but some will kill you.

Some will make you high, then kill you.

I discovered The CryptoNaturalist over at the other place, and ending up buying 'Field Guide to the Haunted Forest' and 'Love Notes from the Hollow Tree' by Jarod K. Anderson....

Which is unusual for me as I detest poetry. I think it's a pile of long-winded, navel gazing wank...Except for haiku, (because they're short and sweet, and condense things down to their essence, which I like).

I like The CryptoNaturalist though, probably because they write about nature in a weird, beautiful and wonderous way. I want to use the word 'magical' to describe it, but am reluctant, for reasons

Also, thanks to this post I just found out there's a couple of other books available which I'm going to buy tonight 😀

Mushrooms are so fucking cool, and they taste great too.

And they make you feel amazing too
- Or dead. Choose wisely.

So basically... I just ate a bag of fungi dicks?

P. cubensis kinda looks like little circumcised penises anyway. At least before they open up.
- Have they got little foreskins in normal countries?

This post reminded me of the cracking (though widely misunderstood and reviled) folk horror film "In the Earth". There's a lot going on down there in the mud and mycelium.

The way so many of them look like genitals makes this so much better

They don’t just look like genitals, they are genitals.
- No I mean they aren't just genitals, but look like them too!

People should look up Paul Stamets. Dude is doing amazing things in the field of mycology and showing the power of mushrooms!

Only kinda related but if anyone wants a good fantasy book with this kind of energy and theme, Gods of the Wyrdwood by RJ Barker is the way to go

Yeah, I saw that X-files episode too.

Ok, that's sweet, but don't google 'zombie funghi'. Really, just don't. Like, ever.

So we're eating leviathon reproductive organs? Sexy

in the air, too; we live in an ocean of spores.

It’s true I’ve spoken to them many times.

That is what people sound like that have taken too many shrooms. Comes a bit too close to newage bullshit. "Life is the universe evolving to experience itself through you" and bullshit like that.

Anti Commercial-AI license

You sound like a sour lemon. I'd rather hang out with a hippie that thinks the universe is conscious than someone who slaps a paper tiger license to their low originality threshold posts. Just sayin.
- Sour lemons are tasty, dunno what your problem is 🤷 I wouldn't want to hang out with some rando called "balloon" from the internet either. Just sayin.
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Are you giving out a license for all your posts? Are you following up on the usage or is it more of a symbolic act?
- Seems like the actions of a person who took too much acid and warped their own reality.
- I'll probably determine if it's symbolic when it turns up in some commercial AI.
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But it's cool.
Just don't go thinking it means anything other than nature is awesome.
- I just think there are better ways to say nature is awesome without adding mystics, new age stuff, or fantastical expressions to it. Then it starts turning into non-science.
  Anti Commercial-AI license
I believe you haven't taken enough shrooms
- Probably 😅