"The Last of Us" irresponsibly promotes a fear of mushrooms

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Beatrix Potter, a rejected mycologist

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And these dudes.
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I came here to say the same. How is this “irresponsible”? Does @pesco think Armageddon or Don’t Look Up irresponsibly promote fear of asteroid impacts?

Nobody is being hurt by the writers’ artistic exaggeration.

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You have to look at the diplomatic implications. Tolerating blatant mycophobic propaganda is going to harm human/fungal relations; and my completely friendly and in no way implicitly threatening advice is that that that would be a poor move on humanity’s part.

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Huh, I always heard that they were being confused for the paddy straw mushroom, Volvariella volvacea, but that article makes a great case for A. princeps makes a lot more sense. In any case, a great reminder that foraging knowledge is very local.

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Whatever you say, @fuzzyfungus :grimacing:

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My only dissapointment is that i don’t seem to have transformed into a super fast hard to kill monster yet, i just keep climbing up high things when i have a headache.

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Them nubbin aliens were horrific and really cool but have never been seen again. A crime in the Star Trek world

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Thank you.
I’m sure it is not.
I have been reading boingboing for years and am a happy mutant but has avoided joining in for ages, Mushrooms made me do it

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You know that you can respond to multiple people within a single comment, yeah?

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Also this is obligatory:

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I have no idea how this how idea any of this works

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Trippy and creepy…

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It does keep the BBS tidy.

@MrBobArcto you can either @ people you are responding like this

or even better you can quote part of the another post you want to reply to like this:

You quote by selecting the text you want to quote and a little quote command should appear at the selection for you to click like this:

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You can use these tools to reply to many messages with one post

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i have so many photos of fungi that look genital that i don’t have to get a life because that is what they look like.

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Mushrooms have at least three genders, maybe more, the way they breed and grow should be studied by us humans way more than they are