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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Crow fledgling exploring the world on June 30th. Parents above went mildly berserk when it moved too close to me, literally tearing off twigs and stomping on branches. They calmed down when their blue-eyed one hopped to a sheltered garden spot. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #corvidae #BlueSkyEye #CheatCode

Crow fledgling on a garden trellis surrounded by food plants. Ragged new feathers and baby blue right eye visible as it takes in its surroundings.

Frantic crow couple hollering left and right in a cedar tree, protesting their fledgling's impertinent hops towards your humble photographer, who was seated on a chair and posing no threat. They know me well as a friendly supplier of tasty snacks, so their furious posturing was primarily directed at their youngster, because humans are best avoided.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 12/06/2026

Your 'doom quote' for today: "This is a true predicament, not a solvable problem. In this light, it makes no sense to try to save the modern world. We are living a madness and must let it go." reeswilliame.substack.com/p/mything-ou...

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Mything out on ‘sustainable development’— why it ain’t happening

And where to go from here

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Surprise visitor at the pond park. Hung around for a week or so. #grebe #BirdOfTheDay #MurkyHorrors #Podicipedidae

Pied-billed grebe coasting down toward photo centre atop murky green waters, belting out a lusty rendition of [pick your favourite aria from a Wagner opera], with a backdrop of reflected haunted stumps.

Pied-billed grebe contemplating a near-hallucinatory green pond

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/05/2026

CNN put together a montage of Trump officials, including Trump himself, saying over and over again for nearly three months now that gas prices are about to drop, any day now

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Ladies of Anatidae. Mallard skiing in the landing from high-speed flight, wigeon leisurely pursuing a grainy handout. #birds #BirdOfTheDay #nature #feathers #kindness #photography #Canon #athletes #evolution

Female mallard water-skiing to photo right, wings extended, green trees and herself reflected in the lightly rippled water.

Tight shot of baby-blue-billed female wigeon following her ripples down to photo left.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My Mallard buddy leading her 'lings across the pond to hang out with a man she knows to be trustworthy, so she could nosh on the grass in peace. Mallard bro also attended 💞 #LockedOn #Birds #Peace #Love #Cute #babies #Photography #duck #grounding #relationships #trust #art #cluster #mother #kids

A multitude of fluffy ducklings are locked on to their mom's rear while she plows blue waves through waters reflecting the variably green trees in the unseen background. A haggard year-old cattail points up just right of the best duck-mom a duckling could ask for.

The multitude of dappled fuzzy brown and yellow ducklings cluster tightly near mom, who pecks away beneath the thick grasses at food they do not yet understand.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

While lining up a shot of a heron, I glanced to my left and was astonished that this Cooper's had landed on the fence not 10 ft away! It lingered long enough for several photos, and then flew up into a tree for a better view of potential prey. #BirdOfTheDay #raptors #chance #deadly #avian #dinosaur

Young Cooper's hawk looking straight ahead to photo left. Subject is perched atop a lichened rustic fence rail between two posts.

Zoom in on scaly yellow feet and shiny black talons clutching the crude fence rail, with armored lower legs, black-streaked white belly, and left lower wing feathers above and to photo right.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Male hooded merganser with half-ingested goldfish, a situation that persisted for several minutes. It looked about as pleasant as eating a raw oyster, shell and all. Second photo shows him heading for a stump in the water to rest on, with some tail still protruding. #BirdOfTheDay #ComeEatWithMe

Murky pond with male merganser facing left, head tilted back with half of a goldfish protruding from his open beak.

Slightly motion-blurred closeup of merganser facing other direction, throat distended, with a section of fish tail projecting out and above his closed beak.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Great Blue Heron ~15 metres up a tree at Newton Pond Park, Surrey BC. Spots another heron and begins to unfurl its flight surfaces... Seen from below, the face is, um, 'alternatively beautiful'. #BirdOfTheDay #heron #photography #nature #predator #primeval #birds #peace #LongNecked #horror

Heron, looking to photo left to display its dagger beak to best effect, standing atop a horizontal branch in a budding tree against a blue sky backdrop.

Our heron begins to unfurl its wings, now looking forward, which shows its unsettling one-higher-than-the-other yellow eyes and long grey neck feathers.

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Repost this one for me please

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"Headline Newds: An eight-part series fronted by different OnlyFans creators. Each film will use sexual, direct-to-camera addresses to bring clear and memorable explanations of hot-button issues relating to climate change."

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'Skins’ star Megan Prescott teams up with Adam McKay for NSFW climate change series

Skins star Megan Prescott has teamed up with director Adam McKay for an NSFW series of short films that will tackle the climate crisis.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I spoke with Betty. She was very emotional and asked me to tell you that “she would love to give each one of you a great big hug.” We’re so close to changing her life. If you can give $5 or $10, it would be awesome. If not, I completely understand, but a repost is free. Thanks very much.

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Snail traveling via salamander express — specifically, a Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra) — not something you see every day. 📷 harukano on iNaturalist 📍 Bulgaria 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

A brown snail with a cone-shaped shell sits on the head of a black salamander with yellow spots.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Wood duck youngsters basking sleepily in the morning sun despite the proximity of an alien creature, namely a red-eared slider turtle. #nature #photography #peace #birds #turtle #BirdOfTheDay #DuckOutOfWater

Wood ducklings snoozing atop a slightly mossy log, against a backdrop of brilliant green reeds. A non-snoozing duckling at left has noticed the photographer, and gazes calmly in his direction.

A monster from the depths shares the log with the ducklings, bright yellow stripes and red ear-patch held well away from its shell.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Trump is right, there is a war on Christians. He's the one doing it.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Local pond with non-local turtle inhabitants. The Ouachita map turtle to left and Mississippi map turtle to right 'belong' in the southeastern USA, and were likely dumped after their appeal as pets wore off. Having no one to breed with = not invasive. #nature #turtle #photography #art #reflections

Rippled green pond surrounding the flat top of a stump, which is populated by a diminutive Ouachita map turtle at left, and several times larger Mississippi map turtle dominating the stump to the right.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

A tree swallow fledgling awaiting its BeakDash® breakfast delivery, and receiving the goods from the 'driver'. The landing/feeding took less than a second, so I was mighty happy to capture that moment. #birds #nest #insects #photography #emotions #nature #luck #beauty #SurreyParks

Seen from behind and left, a grey and white tree sparrow youngling with brilliant yellow beak sits atop a lichen-encrusted wooden nest-box, looking glumly at the photographer, who is clearly a waste of breath with respect to supplying tasty insects.

A white-bellied tree swallow clings to the top edge of the nest-box, stuffing an unseen insect into the fledgling's mouth in a high-tempo docking maneuver.

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Joshua Ellis @jzellis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This post went viral on FB today, I thought maybe y'all would appreciate it too.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The Democrats are lucky to have a politician like @aoc.bsky.social in this moment.

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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

C'mon, followers of this humble broken brainiac, LISTEN to this:

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Plight of the Plunger Sometimes, you can find yourself in over your head, yet it all turns out just fine! Join me and my friends for a sweaty-palmed adventure on a granite monolith in Squamish BC. #climbing #fear #humor #drama #teamwork #gripping #writer #fun open.substack.com/pub/billkipp...

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Plight of the Plunger

A Big-Wall Climbing Anti-Primer

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Why is most US media still treating recent events as "normal"? Here's my take: "Day after passing day, it was clear that even if the US and its $27 trillion economy was not exactly tipping post-coup into a full authoritarian state, then it had at least firmly slipped into banana republic territory."

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14/02/2025

In January, I tested the waters with Citizens' Climate Lobby and I: 1) created a Blue Sky account for them (please follow). bsky.app/profile/ccls... 2) helped arrange for CCL to be featured on the next Climate Chat. (please help get this one a lot of views/likes) www.youtube.com/live/aTLORkH...

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Citizens' Climate Lobby: What Now? with Dana Nuccitelli

YouTube video by Climate Chat

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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

for anyone who's interested, that quote is from this Jan '25 article by Cory Doctorow also given the state of <frustratingly shakes fists at 2025 whilst trying not to dissolve into a puddle of despair> basically the entire world, billionaire-proofing is even more critical/urgent! #enshittification

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Pluralistic: Billionaire-proofing the internet; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5) (14 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 13/02/2025

I signed the pledge for Canada alongside tens of thousands of others. Join us. engagement-canada-pledge.ca

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Pledge for Canada | Engagement pour le Canada

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Straight talk from Will Westmoreland. Compassion, sincerity, and a bunch of other things soon to disappear from the good ol' US of A. #liars #Project25 #WTFamerica #indoctrination #hunger #farmers youtu.be/O4CRk0J7ZPo

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From One Farmer to Another

YouTube video by The Back Forty

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government

Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Have they released the witch-burnings schedule yet?

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory Today in history, 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree. Geneva Medical College let the 150 male students vote on whether to admit her. They all voted “yes” as a joke, but the joke was on them. /1

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

He's eagerly awaiting Trump's million dollar a bullet reboot of 'Atrocity Week', where his sons will lead hunts of 'illegals' across the southwest, or wherever the desperately disenfranchised can be cornered for juicy shots and consequence-free carnage. #atrocity #KillMe #WeToldYou #VotingFail

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Elon Musk biographer here. The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now. Publicly. Daily. The Post either knows this or should not be in business.

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | The missing context from the Elon Musk salute

We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people..." Seems that hasn't changed for the better, going on 50 years now. #MLK #oppression #prescient #America #Greed #Hypocrisy #DosesOfViolence

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Don't think I know anyone in the LA area, but if so, you've been advised.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

1) Surely these jellies taste like Tang, the cleverly marketed beverage of the US manned space program! 2) Mountaineers of the Tilted Darkling Plain 3) Pyxidata radar dishes beaming their coordinates to the Motherlich above... 4) Lichens who voted for peaceful coexistence #lichen #peace #natural

A row of slime-jellies getting some sun on a substrate of lichen crusted fence plank, with poorly focused same lower in the frame, and total blurrosity below of mysterious greens and Samsung-fabricated bokeh.
The most perfect of our orange gumdrops has a photo-bombing purple critter atop, catching the rays before heading over to our second image...

Your basic science-fiction landscape, only tiny, and on Earth.
A triangle of lichen-annoyed wood trends down from roughly 1/3rd height left to bottom right, supporting a pale green foliose lichen on the first rank of blackened wood-grain above.
To image right from said lichen, the first of the 'cute' lichen bunny globular springtails is traversing a woody terrace in search of a rottener way of life. Slightly left, a pair of inscrutably tiny purple springers are nibble-browsing their way up a minor fault.
Following the trend of the grain left, we arrive at a minor sunburst lichen, above and right of which we hit the last of the lichen trio, another foliacal blip, where the real horror(fun) begins.
A trio of globulars seem to be navigating the dark topo-map ridges to gain the upper slopes, where another quartet are making their way up to the summit of Mount Fence-Post. Our heroic trio below need to avoid a sinuous crevasse, not least because a pair of purples lurk on the nearby crevasse wall, ready to spring a surprise.

Thriving Cladonia pyxidata thicket of trumpety cups rising from their typical lettucy undergrowth, roughly image centre, with dark and decaying wet wood above, a minor infestation of trumpets to left, chasm to right, and recognizably woody grain below, which is slightly besmirched by a couple of slime molds and dotted with cladonial daughters.

Wall of Profusion, featuring a steeply-banked left-upward trending wooden slope of moderately unfocused wood and lichens pointing to the primary subject: an upright wall of cladonia and pals exploiting the gap behind a detached wood flake, and other details described below.
The tallest trumpet just touches the weird, white-puckered rib that leads into leafy lichen above, and left of Puckerville one finds a classic maritime sunburst cup-set and pale blue-green leafy lichen.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

THE MAN IN THE RIVER Once there was a wise man, who travelled to strange lands, and as he travelled, he came to the bank of a winding river. Edging the bank were houses, set at distances from one another. The wise man walked upstream, watching the slow current carry leaves and twigs past him.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Lichens enlivening pits of deadwood despair. So much beauty in such tiny homes. Still can't believe I walked past these things for years without pausing to look closely. THEY LIVE AMONGST US!!! #nature #art #lichen #miniatures #roswell #justkidding #aliens #unseen #breathe #fungus #algae

Cladonia-bro and pals sprouting inside a lumberous eye, with bro the mostest emerging from the wee-est sprig of mossy bedness. The upper eyeball is dominated by a single stunted pyxidata 'bloom' that looms out of the darkness.

You fit into me like a hook into an eye: a cladonia hook; a wooden eye.
Seems appropriate as the whackjobs push Atwood's novel into a disturbed, enworsened Handmaid's Tale.
Hooky cladonia lashes rise from the bottom of a knothole eye, curving down and left, framed against lumpy black rot above

Imagine Jupiter's great red spot, wooden cloud streamers splitting around it, only the spot is black, and a pit, with a few tiny lichens establishing a toehold within. One day, this pit will be a great green spot, if we don't Venusify our gorgeous globe first.

Another wooden eye, with a few trumpettes des cladonias popping from the pupil, teeny patch of maritime sunburst below them, a minuscule oakmoss antler below that, and a rim dominated by some foliose lichens. A few strands of mist-dotted spider silk tie the scene together

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Well, this ice fog is getting me down, so while my puffed up junco buddies nibble finch food out of the frosty lawn, howzabout a reminder or two of summer? #summer #winter #blah #flowers #dahlia #bee #pollinator #resist #frigid #PolarVortex #sighBeerian #CoffeeFilledBoots

Bumblebee making a right old polleny mess of a defenseless and pinwheeled Dahlia, an otherwise lovely Verrone's Obsidian.

Gorgeous deep purple velvety petaled dahlia with a brilliant yellow center, and no bee. The 7 o'clock petal partially conceals an unknown self-locomoting life-form. Background is lush green garden foliage.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Last birding shots of 2024, featuring odder ducks than usual, being carnivorous divers with nasty pointy beaks, namely common and hooded mergansers, who I'm always thrilled to see return to our humble pond park each winter. #birds #newyears #aquatic #nature #willdiveforfood #StayPuft

Common Merganser, cruising through the pond, to Hooded Merganser on collision course: bruh! what's with the marshmallow in yer head!
Hooded: head envy's a bad look, and oh SNAP! who's 'common', again?!
Meanwhile, back in photo composition land, a stalk poking from the water points at hooded bro, and with its reflection frames common dude, who is also pointed out by an off-kilter curved blade.

Otherwise still waters disturbed by passage of wild-ass aquatic birds.

Swimming to image left, a Hooded Merganser female at bottom left, male version at top, common merganser between them but slightly back, with a second common entering the frame at right. Flotilla. Armada. Etc.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Wanted to post something clever about a Newton's third law but with the terms switched to knowledge and ignorance, but now I'm just depressed.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Helvella Vespertina, which associates with conifers, arborvitae in this case. Found this flush after learning to look for weird black lumps that aren't cones or dung, combined with my typical doggedness. Truly the fairy circle from hell, this lot. #fungus #mushrooms #beauty #nature #presence #hell

Huge screef in a suburban lawn, with an off-kilter pruning victim identifying as a white cedar, or arborvitae if you prefer, in the center of the raised hump. Black lumps surround said uber-screef, moving in for the kill! but not really, as they're a symbiotic pair (or more!) in a mycorrhizal love-fest of horny hyphae.

Closer view of the insidious black peril moving in for the kill through the moss-tortured lawn, which is held at bay by heartless humans called 'gardeners' or 'lawn-care specialists' etc, who've hacked out a circle around our besieged cedar.

The monolith monster is revealed! A horrifying, rain-moistened black glob of doom suspended on a dismayingly gnarly stem has glorped its way out of a mossy substrate, showing our sensibilities absolutely no mercy.

I captured one of the monsters, and present it here for your grisly fascination. Mounted on a humiliating toilet paper blotter, the velvety black (none more black!) beret encloses the death-pallored and far too ornate stem/stalk/stipe/pedestal of horror.

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Bill Kipper @billkipper.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Learned about these uglies courtesy of Aaron Hilliard's foraging walks with his canine companion Gunnar in the PNW on YouTube. Edible, maybe, but the lack of enthusiasm suggests they taste like they look, which is cool yet ugh. Go ALT for info. www.youtube.com/@mushroomwon... #fungus #mushroom

Helvella dryophila is a species of fungus in the family Helvellaceae. It is found in western North America, where it associates with oak. - Wikipedia

Warped black parasol on a fluted grey/ivory stem (stipe, to please myco-fascists, and just kidding, cuz love me some mycological correctness), growing out of a mossy bed in close proximity to a log of filthy retaining wall wood.

Helvella cap of lumpy black oddness (surprisingly high albedo, as shown by relative brightness) is now dead-centre, supported by its peculiar I-beam-like grey stipe, with near-field amber oak leaf and oh so dirty wood dominating the right half of frame. Moss keeps lawn at bay to image left, as it should.

Trio presentation of Helvella, small one poking out from behind blades of grass, several times larger big-daddy shroom looming above it and some moss, with a mid-size 4-seater shroom just left and amidships of Hella McVelladaddy. Lower image left features a capless stalk, showing the characteristic hollow nature of this species' lower portion.
Stipe of Daddio is unusually white, but has expressed no anti-cap sentiments.

Dog-stomped Helvella duo, upper one clearly snapped from its base as evidenced by the fluted 'stem to nowhere', lower truffly-looking unit bearing battle scars and possibly separated from the stipe remnants crying out for justice to its immediate left. All lawn here, with type-evidence oak leaf at image top, and a partial midway up image right.

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