Reposted by aravensgracemahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026We didn't deserve this day. 3992804055
Reposted by aravensgraceBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.idahostatesman.comBoise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost“The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said. 6197072712
Reposted by aravensgraceCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026> @covie93.bsky.social 237257015397
Reposted by aravensgraceEncephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped. 3954111448
Reposted by aravensgraceChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2026In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years oldcbsnews.comOfficial concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final daysThe parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination. 1225751185
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 31/01/2026two millennials have a dramatic dance-off to the windoooooow, to the wallll—that is called a skeeted rivalry. 0186
Reposted by aravensgracetaylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis 327233467736
Reposted by aravensgraceEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026THREAD: ICE violence is powered by millions of dollars in funding for surveillance. ICE is buying cell phone location data, leveraging Flock and Ring cameras and playing with terrifying spy toys from Palantir. We have a rare chance this week to fight back. Plz share punchbowl.news/article/hous...punchbowl.newsAfter ICE outcry, Dems turn on DHS funding billHouse Dems are turning against the Homeland Security funding bill en masse in the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good. 5366242
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 19/01/2026When Trees Testify is required reading for students of botany or anyone interested Black botanical expertise and the lives of trees. An era-defining work! Buy it tomorrow! 0147
Reposted by aravensgraceBeronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Thanks @aravensgrace.bsky.social for your review of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy" coming Tuesday 1/20 fir @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... If you haven't read Maria's "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless", I highly recommend you do so!science.orgThe branching legacies of America’s pastPlants serve as witnesses to the country’s history in a primer that celebrates Black botanical knowledge 195
Reposted by aravensgraceUNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 16/01/2026"I made a conscious decision not to do chapters. . . . I wanted to feel like each hunt had finished, and we’d left the woodland with our baskets in between them." Check out this fascinating Q&A with @aravensgrace.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🍄 lareviewofbooks.org/article/mush...lareviewofbooks.orgMushrooms Are Not a Metaphor | Los Angeles Review of BooksMaria Pinto finds climate futures hidden among wild mushrooms. 0105
Reposted by aravensgraceEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I spoke with @wired.com about how if local elected officials want to protect their community from ICE attacks, one of the most important things they can do is roll back city-level surveillance programs and restrict law enforcement use of Flock, facial recognition, etc www.wired.com/story/what-t...wired.comWhat to Do if ICE Invades Your NeighborhoodWith federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there’s no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact. 2252104
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 31/12/2025may we know what is nourishment and what is poison in the new year 0283
Reposted by aravensgraceScience Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 31/12/2025🍄 Mushroom hunting is increasingly popular. Now, a wave of foraging groups by and for people of color could also help close the “nature gap”: buff.ly/PvRIV53 111417
Reposted by aravensgraceUNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 24/07/2025"A treat for nature lovers and mushroom aficionados." First pre-pub review for FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social is in from @publisherswkly.bsky.social 🤩🍄 www.publishersweekly.com/9781469689791publishersweekly.comFearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me About Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria PintoNaturalist Pinto celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world in this joyful mix of memoir, science, history, and adve... 042
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 02/05/2025my book of essays inspired by the hunt for mushrooms is available for pre-order, y’all! 🥳 uncpress.org/book/9781469... i put everything into FSD, and hope you’ll find some of that everything in its pages when you hold it in your hands in October 🖤🐦⬛🍄🟫🐦⬛🖤 share widely & message for discount code 1196
Reposted by aravensgraceRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 26/03/2025THE BIRDING DICTIONARY, a small and dare I say very funny book, comes out May 6. Preorder it wherever you love to buy books. I think this will make a good gift for any birder, funny person, or parrot who enjoys shredding things. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem.... 331099175
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 25/03/2025are you northeast loves ready with your food thermometers to check ground temps daily in anticipation of the arrival of these weirdos? #morchella #whoelsearewefightingfor 2585
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 13/03/2025this is your trickster exposure therapy channel tricks are for kids and adults and the dead this hedgehog mushroom makes a fragrant ceiling for anansi’s drama can you get down with the shenanigan? the future is a prank. both jumpscare and rich, psychological thriller. are you a prankster? #hydnum 2253
Reposted by aravensgraceBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”thebetter.newsFinland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.meIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness. 8534277514038
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 06/03/2025some Oudemansiella species can look like they’re growing right from the soil, but all it takes is determined digging to see that what you’ve got is an iceberg among mushrooms, and it’s growing from buried deadwood sometimes as deep as a 6 inches beneath the surface! 2392
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 06/03/2025who else are we fighting for? ‘bleeding tooth’ fungi i encountered in Oaxaca a couple augusts ago. these mushrooms are know for their blood red guttation, that is, the excess liquid they exude as a metabolic byproduct (like when we sweat!) #hydnellum 1283
Reposted by aravensgraceDr. Gordon Walker @fascinatedbyfungi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025What nature and science podcasts should I interview with? 16829
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 27/02/2025what else are we fighting for? that every creature should decompose nobly rather than being snuffed by the preventable 0181
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025who else are we fighting for? insect pathogens, who keep the balance here Cordyceps militaris appears as orange clubs periscoping from hawk moth pupae in New Hampshire #cordycepsmilitaris 0302
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025who else are we fighting for? lion’s mane. these beautiful saprobes/ weak parasites might be mistaken for a tribble or your cheerleader sibling’s pom pom, but they’re mushies found last month when i delivered the keynote at Sonoma County Mycological Association’s annual camp! #hericiumerinaceus 0280
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025low-key obsessed that O. sinensis can do both, that is-- live on a plant as an endophyte till it gets munched by its eventual lepidopteran host!🥰 if you're impatient for season two of The Last Of US in April, peep my pinned post to read about how everything is clearer viewed through a fungal lens 180
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 18/02/2025the first time my mom saw a cybertruck, she was wracked by instant nausea, hurried home & googled “ugly car” as she gagged. despite the enshittification of google that first page knew exactly what she meant 4182
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 18/02/2025all the shock and awe distraction they’re using to keep us confused & give us whiplash, under the assumption we’ll be too stunned, do too much infighting to move as a unit—as several units, as makeshift assemblages? remember how well it works when when planning ~your~ actions #apioperdonpyrifrome 1555
Reposted by aravensgracejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky 24957820114338
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 17/02/2025i wrote about “The Last of Us” and how moving past mycophobia here in the US could heal a lot of shit needs healingorionmagazine.orgDon't Fear the Fungus - Orion MagazineWhat 'The Last of Us' got wrong and how fungi can teach us to see 1242
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 17/02/2025in honor of “president’s day,”Craterellus, Strobilomyces, Ramaria, and Lactifluus mycelium ask how much we’re really gonna let them get away with this notion, this illusion, of absolute, centralized, discrete power even old man of the woods is like whut 2411
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 17/02/2025who else are we fighting for? the milky charm of latex-producing milk cap mushrooms. this “milk” is similar in chemical composition to what issues from a rubber tree upon tissue damage and is thought to be an attempt to deter those who would monch #corrugatedmilkcap #lactifluushygrophoroides 1180
Reposted by aravensgraceRead the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 16/02/2025For too long the rage that sits, simmering within people across the United States has been stuffed down, delegitimized, squashed. But we need it. We need it now. And we need vehicles to allow its unleashing to topple oligarchs and help usher in a new era. My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/your-anger...jphilll.comYour anger is legitimateDon't let anyone tell you otherwise 7713169
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 16/02/2025that look we give when we’re about to poison a 𝚏̶𝚊̶𝚜̶𝚌̶𝚒̶𝚜̶𝚝̶ ::ahem:: chanterelle hunter jack-o-lantern mushrooms glow in the dark, just like this hat they only look like chanterelles to overeager eyes #omphalotusilludens 6687
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 13/02/2025who else are we fighting for? Berkeley’s polypore, whose mycelia break down the roots and basal heartwood of hardwoods they smell strongly of anise—i know of a tree that was cut down and the stump, though it no longer makes mushrooms, still radiates the scent in early summer #bondarzewiaberkeleyi 2784
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 13/02/2025who else are we fighting for? the under-cap shock of the red-gilled cort #cortinariussemisanguineus 1460
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 12/02/2025who else are we fighting for? hygroscopic earthstars clinging to pine needles like ectomycorrhizal gymnasts or frightened sea stars #astraeus 2508
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 11/02/2025imagine 2001: A Space Odyssey/ Also Sprach Zarathustra levels of auditory bombast as you enjoy this loving graphic caress of 🐓 of the 🌲🌲🌲 may that soundtrack follow you today as you fuck shit up and are ungovernable out in the streets and in your care for one another #laetiporussulphureus 0271
Reposted by aravensgraceChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it 662820760
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 09/02/2025been thinking a lot about the Cottingley Fairies and what it has meant to believe one’s eyes shit’s never been more fraught anyway, here’s Phallus duplicatus, the netted stinkhorn, as Ziwe 1651
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 09/02/2025topical/oblique sporting event reference/ mushroom post alert: Pseudoboletus parasiticus only occurs with the poison ~pigskin~ puffball, Scleroderma citrinum eh? eh? 🏈 the cap and stem mushroom is parasitizing the lil puff nugget cos if it’s one thing a fungus’ll do it’s get in where it fits in 0250
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 09/02/2025when it’s time to pack it in, they auto-deliquesce/ self digest turn to literal ink to spread their spores like—the first scribe was biting Coprinus comatus’ style, probably 3896
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 08/02/2025found this beaut on a technicolor october day under misting rain. was ‘supposed’ to be working, not biking to the woods she had an almondy aroma and i called her Agaricus sylvicola and isn’t she gorgeous with her perfectly pressed skirt and balletic grace 2692
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 08/02/2025migrating some favorites from the other place: dusky salamander flanked by hedgehogs 1332
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social · 08/02/2025it would be nice to share the living ground with you, too 1018810
