I both need this and hate this

I am a baby cultivator so please take what I say with a grain of salt, I still have much to learn myself and welcome any mycological gurus to pop in with their 2 cents c:

I personally love rye, practically everything I have tried on rye has responded well. That said, I also put my A. subru lc to rye about a week ago and still haven't seen anything pop up. I have read that this species shouldn't be refrigerated for long term stoage, but I didn't give that tidbit much credit as I have heard the same about Pink Oyster and had zero issues bringing Pink out of cold storage. Thought this would be similar, but I might be wrong! I am going to keep the bag I inoculated and watch it to see if maybe it's just slow to break out of dormancy. I also kept a grown out agar plate of this in my room-temp workspace on the off chance something like this happened, so gonna do some transfers, try to get another bangin plate, and make a fresh batch of lc out of that in case the cold storage did fuck up this batch of A. subru. Live and learn!

For your situation, it's hard to say if it's a bunk syringe or if it's that A. subru truly can't tolerate being fridged and you got a syringe that had been fridged (I am hoping that the latter isn't the case, hoping I see some activity in my bag sometime soon!!). Fwiw, the culture from my post is from a syringe I got from The Mycelium Emporium, and it RIPPED out of the syringe, so I can highly recommend their product!

Was reading through this thread and wanted to say idk wtf these other people are flipping out about. I have owned cats for 15 years and not once have I ever bothered to trim nails on any cat I have had in my care. It's a pain in the ass for me and for them, and I have never in all those years had any health issues arise from not trimming. The other people are right that trimming is different than declawing. Declawing is indeed very uncool, but trimming is not harmful as long as you don't trim into the quick of the nail. However, maintaining that it's an absolute necessity is simply wrong. At best, it's nice for us humans because they are less likely to scratch you on accident (or on purpose if your cat is an asshole) or less able to fuck up your furniture. And while I haven't ever had a cat who needed trimming for health reasons, I can acknowledge it's not an impossibility so maybe there are specific scenarios where trimming is required.

Also, I kinda thought all cat owners knew this but per the meltdowns of some other people responding to you, apparently not; cats naturally shed their nails. There are layers to each nail, and when the outermost sheath is loose enough, scratching on something pulls it away. It's not bloody or painful, it's totally natural. If you give cats plenty of scratching post toys around the house, the act of scratching on those posts will help them to maintain their own nail health without the stress of me having to restrain them for clipping. Sure my cats have sharp claws, but tbh they know how to control their claws and I almost never get scratches from them. I'd say the only times I get scratched is if one of them is on my lap and something surprises them, like the doorbell ringing or the dogs suddenly barking, causing the cat to launch off my lap, lol.

To start, I am not an expert, just a single 30 year old woman who has had cats for a long time (wait, does that make me an expert??), so this is just my two cents.

I wouldn't call that a full on spat, tho it may have escalated if you hadn't intervened so it's hard to say, but overall I wouldn't worry too much about that specific interaction. My two occasionally get in worse disagreements, often because Hashi is a gremlin (who I love, but fr he has a lot of vinegar) and has a strong inclination to intrude on Ripley's space. Despite Ripley having to occasionally tell Hashi to fuck off, they still get along great like, 97% of the time.

Just reading body language, neither seemed to be too stressed out or upset. I feel like the feeding set up is a great way to give them positive associations with each other while ensuring they both have the ability to retreat if they want to. You could also take one of your resident cat's beds or favorite blankets and place it in the foster's space, ane vice versa, so that they can smell/investigate and get used to the other cat without actually being near each other. This plus time is the way I have introduced new cats to resident cats. The time will depend on how social- or not- either cat is, but more often than not they will acclimate eventually.

They are both adorable, btw 😍

Lazy Susan is also a fierce drag queen

Your title reminded me of Jobie the dog, a classic.

Yee

I noticed, very cool website, will def bookmark it for future use!

For this one, I am thinking it might not be T.versi, but maybe something in Trametes? Some of my answers to the questions on the site don't quite match up;

1. It has a true pore surface (match)

2. Pores are pretty easily visible and large, also at places quite angular (not match)

3. Fuzzy/velvety cap (match)

4. Fresh caps are quite bright creamy white (not match)

5. Cap does have pretty distinct color zones (match)

6. This one is a little hard for me to determine since idk what is considered rigid vs flexible, I am not a very experienced forager and don't have a super vast depth of experience to compare to. I can pretty easily wiggle on the caps and they didn't snap off the stump, so to me they seem pretty thin and flexible? But maybe it's because the cap is still young and supple? (Unsure)

I was thinking it looked turkey-tail-esque! Interesting!

It's growing at the base of a viburnum, though I don't know what specific species in that genus.

Saw UniversalMonk being an ass one day, made this, and alllllllmost posted it, but for some reason didn't. I figure this is a good place for it C:

(Should be obv, but this excludes Zelenskyy)

Edit: wtf why is it so hard to insert gifs

I feel like I am the only person who CAN'T see the counter clockwise spin. Have tried all the tricks people suggest to make the spin reverse, still only clockwise. I feel robbed by my own brain. I WANNA SEE THE COOL SHIT, BRAIN, JUST LET ME SEE HER SPIN THE OTHER WAY (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Jfc that thumbnail of Huffman's face triggered me. How did he manage to make his face look MORE punchable??

Fr, haha, thankfully he is a very patient boy! Only part he hates is his back legs (I call those his pants), I swear that hair is specially designed to dread together

No kidding, they must be related.

Hahaha, I was wondering if it might trick him when he got back in (I let him outside when we were done), but he walked right through it to lay down on his bed 😆

Juneau:

Dog tax: this is Juneau (or June Bug, or Big Bug, or Big Guy)

Mission accomplished