iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I think this one is in genus cortinarius … I misplaced my northeast field guide so my identifications are not quite stretching to full species specifics just yet

strombilomyces — old man of the woods — if I remember correctly this mushroom has a high degree of as-yet undescribed species variation so DNA barcoding has a decent chance of turning up something new

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a jewel-toned coral fungus (genus ramaria)

a pink and orange toned mushroom in the genus ramaria (coral fungi) emerges from leaf litter on the forest floor — seen close up

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Mushroom-spotting update 🍄 I know this is a milk cap — maybe volemus? It’s shaping up to be a very shroomy year in the Catskills

up-close shot at moss height of a milkcap mushroom with textured stipe, gills, and partial view of the cap

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lilac-brown bolete or burger bun? (sutorius eximius) #🍄 #fungi

a lilac-brown bolete emerging from the soil beside ferns and other understory plants

Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

a fresh and enormous hemlock varnish shelf (ganoderma tsugae) from a short trip to Vermont #🍄 #VT #fungi #📷

a vertical photograph with a large, glistening hemlock varnish shelf mushroom in the middle third of the frame; there are three big horizontal sections protruding from a tree trunk

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wildfire smoke settling in the Catskills afternoon #hudsonvalley

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

an insightful read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Screenshot of an article that reads: “This is what distinguishes hyperpolitics from the mass democracy of the mid-zoth century. Symbolic political gestures are now commonplace, but paid membership of organisations and parties has plummeted. The left has failed to find a replacement for trade unions as a basis for collective action in civil society. Political movements are easy to join, and just as easy to leave. The chasm between politics and policy widens, as the former becomes a fruitless stream of outrage with little or no practical consequence.

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I’ve been going to the gym where I’m staying & thought ‘I have to take a #gay #selfie and say hi to the #humpday guys’ so, hi 👋

a man in glasses and a tank top, shorts, and sneakers takes a mirror selfie in the gym while holding the camera at chest height with his left hand and flexing his right bicep with the hand clenched into a fist

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

hello from this wet & sticky brooklyn blizzard here’s a #gay little #selfie for you

a selfie of guy wearing a winter coat with glasses, hat, and coat called in snow as a blizzard swirls behind

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

and as a little treat here is me as a happy #gayguy taking a selfie with an amanita in the warmer times. what do you see ? #gay #selfie #lol #🍄

a smiling gay guy with a mustache takes a selfie from the ground up also capturing nearly the entire underside of the cap of an amanita mushroom on a warm and sunny day

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

i mean, this was probably the most perfect bolete i have ever seen. what are some good resources for identifying american boletaceae? i would love to learn more about ways to identify boletaceae if anyone has good resources for that. #🍄 🍄‍🟫 #bolete #mushrooms

a cartoonishly plump brown bolete springs from the ground with a two tiny additional fruitings including one popping out seemingly from underneath the large main subject

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

going through old photos - a grey-green russula from a few seasons ago - i know enough now to know russula can be a tough identification and there are definitely many species growing in the catskills. #🍄 #mushrooms #russula

a flush of three plump grey-green colored russula sprouting from soil near elka park, new york.

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

my first time seeing a venomous eastern copperhead — it was coiled and not moving at all and definitely not a mushroom. spotted in the mohonk preserve a week ago. #🐍

an eastern copperhead wrapped in a tight coil just off a trail and tucked into a thicket of poison ivy

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

a nice pair of lactifluus or lactarius of some kind. I’m still searching for a positive ID. any ideas? I think maybe L. piperatus or L. vellereus. Do you know these July-emerging #🍄 in a deciduous New York forest that ooze a whitish liquid from broken gills ?

two white mushrooms with pale yellowish gills poking out of a deciduous forest floor

Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

saw @blackforager.bsky.social making a fab looking pate with a black-staining polypore right after seeing this GIANT specimen at the base of a big old oak tree. this was another new-to-me sighting this season. shaping up to be a wet and bountiful mushroom summer in the Hudson Valley #🍄

a large black-staining polypore pokes out of grass at the base of a huge old oak tree - a puffy tangle of whitish bands

Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

in other #🍄 finds recently, this singular long-stalked gray cup was a new mushroom for me - a thin stipe and a cap shaped like a bowl with an irregular rim

a small grayish mushroom with a thin stipe and a cap shaped like a bowl with an irregular rim emerging from the forest floor

Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

a friend asked about a favorite mushroom & my first thought was these red chanterelles, which fruit gregariously, are so smol & brilliantly carmine, a sign of summer starting to appear in july, and pack a kind of white peppery perfume on top of the typical stewed apricot chanterelle smell #🍄

a cluster of tiny red chanterelle mushrooms emerging from a mossy forest floor and some decayed leaf litter

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hi ! just a shamelessly #thirsty little sunday night post for #pride . i love being #gay — what’s going on my gaysky guys ? plz follow & send mail #🏳️‍🌈

a selfie of a guy named Ian without glasses or a shirt

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this is what it’s like to try to take a walk with me (ty for the 📸 @alextestere.bsky.social)

a person crouched on a mossy forest floor and partially out of frame who is photographing two small mushrooms emerging from moss

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cute pair of boletes popping out of some moss #🍄‍🟫 #fungi #boletes #mushrooms

a close up of two polypore mushrooms, likely some kind of boletes, emerging from a bed of moss with forest out of focus visible in the background

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two years ago a stranger on @inaturalist.bsky.social told me that most North American coral fungi — like this beauty — are undescribed to science most info about the genus comes from european specimens & DNA typing reveals many in North America to be discrete, novel species #🍄 #fungi #mycology #🧬

close up photo of an off-white coral fungus sprouting from the side of decayed wood

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a gregarious little cluster of collared parachutes / marasmius rotula #🍄 #fungi #mushrooms #mycology

a gregarious flush of collared parachute mushrooms, marasmius rotula, emerging next to a decayed log on the forest floor

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nicely fanned out hemlock varnish shelf / ganoderma tsugae. i know this guy is a relative of what’s called reishi or lingzhi & I’ve often wondered about whether this has used similar to other ganoderma species if anyone has places to point me or info to share #🍄 #fungi #reishi

A photo looking down at the wrinkled surface of a hemlock varnish shelf mushroom

lately noticing exidia saccharina / pine jelly on branches knocked out of the canopy during windy days #🍄 #fungi

a gelatinous and translucent brown jelly fungus emerging from a pince branch

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me & some kind of solo bolete

photo of the underside of a polypore mushroom, likely a bolete, and included in the lower part is an out of focus selfie

Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

a photo of pink camellias from april using a#nikonfe2 on #35mm #kodak #portra160

a 35mm photograph of mature, blooming, pink camellia blossoms against their deep green foliage with a shallow depth of field

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Another great #🍄 book is Michael Hathaway’s ‘What a Mushroom Lives For’ about mushroom picking transforming lives and economies in the Himalayas. It's great to read alongside Anna Tsing’s ‘The Mushroom at the End of the World’ which is similar and focused on the Pacific Northwest. #booksky 📚💙

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This is my favorite book about mushrooms, and really just one of the best books I’ve ever read. Anna Tsing’s ethnography of matsutake foragers extends so far beyond that subject. It took me weeks to read the first time, but because I really had to sit with what each section revealed. #booksky 📚💙 #🍄

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Among my favorite books of the past few years — Daisy Hildyard’s ‘The Second Body’ from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is a lyric essay that threads together ecology, economics, human connection, nonhuman interactions. I think about it often. I return to it a lot. #booksky 📚💙

a photograph of Daisy Hildyard’s book ‘The Second Body’ white with spare blue type, all capital letters, on the cover

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

happy friday from me, a fun gay guy who lives in the woods

a selfie using the wide angle on the front facing camera of a fun gay guy standing on a gravel driveway in the woods

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some clustered bonnets / Mycena inclinata #🍄 (that’s my best guess anyways)

a close up shot of an emerging group of several clustered bonnet mushrooms

Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

this emerging amanita mushroom looks like a scoop of ice cream #🍄

a spongy, yellow-and-beige amanita mushroom cap emerges from moss

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

And another view looking down at the caps.

a flush of small white mushrooms on the side of a log