Hello my name is Bun. If I don't take photos I'll die. Ask me about my favourite parasite.
🏳🌈I'm armed with the past and the will and a brick🏳️⚧️
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and they all look the same
my favourite type is
Shroud of Death: harmless and delicious, but looks goth
And there are the ones that are harmless and delicious unless you eat it while consuming alcohol at which point it becomes toxic
and the ones that are harmless and delicious to 90% of people but 10% are deadly allergic and there's no way to know in advance if it's you!
and the ones that are harmless and delicious when fully cooked but will turn your liver into soup if they're even a little bit underdone!
and the ones that are psychedelic (chill vibes, deep thoughts) and the ones that are psychedelic (WELCOME TO HELL)!
fungi are a magical kingdom
That was borne of the very experience we had writing this chost, as we identified one as the "lawnmower's mushroom" with a whole bunch of other twee historical names attached, and then we thought
Boy mushrooms are a wild bunch.
We are delighted to have changed your speech for the better though!
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if someone told me there was a mushroom that had the same effects on dna as being blasted with ionizing radiation id believe them
To say nothing of the ways we'd imagine mushrooms in the forests around Chernobyl would affect one's body.
it doesn't affect dna but amanita mushrooms (with such evocative names as "death cap" and "destroying angel") kill cells in basically the same way because they shut down protein production, just by interfering with the translation of dna into rna rather than by destroying the dna
