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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ian Hislop on 40 years as Private Eye editor and why Britain “isn’t” broken #Newsnight youtu.be/TCOdomjE0dw?...

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Ian Hislop on 40 years as Private Eye editor and why Britain "isn't" broken

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This #lichen on boulders lined up along a roadside to stop boy~racers tearing up nature more than humans normally do. Here we see similar defences on a mini scale as boundaries are marked, lines are drawn, tiny boulders placed #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have difficulty understanding the thrill I feel and the time I have devoted to finding common #lichen on boulders at the side of a road. It was fun and I gained a moment of pleasure from it #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This #lichen on quarried rock placed to stop boy racers from carving up the wilderness #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

For bot read boy (hand slapping head)

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

To stop bot racers carving up the green belt these rocks now #lichen haven #fungifriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We have a green belt that circles our city. In the 2000s young adults with cheap cars and subsidised petrol would carve up the green space. So quarries boulders were placed as tactical barriers. This #lichen found a home there #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

These #lichen growing on a log in the deep forest. The squamules covered the log and climbed up the podetia very powdery. A wet days walk made marvellous #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This #lichen a green mop with healthy squamulous stems and branches ##FungiFriends #TeWaiPounamu #Aotearoa

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

As close I can get with my phone. This #lichen ’s fingers reaching out and launch pads ready for rain drop ignition. #fungifriends ice cold today and very wet down here #pounamu #aotearoa #nz

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Like a firework. Kaboom. I’ve taken this #lichen before in the summer the light was perfect and it looks like conditions are perfect on frosty winter mornings too. It was wet dark cold and these were thriving #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This #lichen on a bin on a road to nowhere running parallel to the waves of the Pacific Ocean which lick at this volcanic island until it smooths. The colours and shapes reflecting the landscape, a miniature history of origin - on a bin! #FungiFriends #NZ #Ōtipoti #Aotearoa #TeWaipounamu

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This #lichen on a fence post. Tiny tiny tiny and only looking like boiling surface of sun when your eyeball gets dangerously close roiling surface #FungiFriends #Ōtipoti #Aotearoa #NZ #Dunedin

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This #lichen on a curb by the sea. Taken quite some time ago when, here in the Southern Hemisphere spring was racing towards summer #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This #lichen taken in Spring. Now in autumn. A bit of time has just slipped by #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This pretty #lichen Teloschites Chrysopthalmus (with caution) in partnership with a Ramalina sp. and some little red mites. I haven’t posted for a while. I’ve been told to consider my medication might be working. I no longer seek a dopamine hit from maintaining this social : ( #FungiFriends #Otipoti

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Here it is the duty sock #lichen. Looking very fluffy. But if you touch it feels wiry and unforgiving #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Made post at end of day - so tired - am in mountains - cycling (mostly down hill) - overcome with sleep I wrote nonsense - no alcohol involved. This #lichen looks like a furry sock wrapped around a tree trunk not in my garden but in a park where I walk my dog #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

#lichen a Ramalina Sp found a furry sock thing on a round tree in my garden #FungiFrieb

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This #lichen taken almost six months ago. The start of an NZ spring. A Ramalina sp. growing out from a Xanthoria parietina. on a concrete curb not far from the misty spray of the Pacific Ocean. It’s got a little grabby hand #FungiFriends #Dunedin #Ōtipoti #NZ

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

One half of the Mānatu tree covered in a green foliose #lichen with yellow apothecia the other covered in this. White crustose thallus with rimmed matchi mocha apothecia #Fungifriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A close up of this #lichen green with yellow apothecia in some instances. Splendid #fungifriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This #lichen on the tree(Mānatu a Ribbon Wood) I posted earlier. A lovely colour transition from yellow to green with interesting lighter (more yellow) extremities on some #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Not far from the last post there is this tree. In spring the #lichen were flourishing on its trunk. I thought I would take note as I couldn’t really identify the tree at the time and so I post here and will follow with posts of the lichen it hosts #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This #lichen an chaoticly fanged firework. The last of a spring walk behind the tennis courts. #FunghiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

These #lichen on this particular morning were so photogenic. The sun was just right and there colours and apothecia were expressing a healthy demeanour. Again Ramalina sp. growing in,around,with Chrysopthalmus teloschites #FungiFriends pretty pretty pretty

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I like to think there are but I don’t have the science, yet - So I believe all are new discoveries : ).There are two lichenologists I know of who worked in Dunners- Dr Allison Knight (she wrote the field guide) and DJ Galloway (flora of NZ: Lichens) - I bet they’ve found a few new species.

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

So here I am snapping pics of Teloschites Chrysopthalmus and Ramalina sp. co-mingling so tightly, it’s hard t see where one stops and t other begins. And in same area I found this #lichen #FungiFriends looking like a Frankenstein made up from parts of each. Not that it means much, I just got fizzed

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Zoomed out a little bit more - I like how ‘egg-yokey’ it looks plus all the spindly jaggedly claw teeth things.

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

A #lichen close up. These two lichen seem to be in each other’s pockets. I think they might have something special going on #Fungifriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

More of this #lichen again we find it alongside a Ramalina sp. #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Two #lichen here. Teloschites Chrysopthalmus and a Ramalina sp. sharing space on a bush that I have found on a hidden path on a new morning dog walk route that H and I started in Spring. I think these two have a special relationship and I’ll post a few more pics of the same for a while #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Every now and again I post a pic of my handsome and patient dog (this time after dip in harbour) here he is sitting by a dry sculpture, Kuri (Māori for dog) close to where I took lichen photos. Also, another photo, wider shot, of similar lichen from same location

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The end of harbour-side lunch hour. Dog now soaking wet, staring at me from a boat access ramp. This #lichen making me scratch head. Are the apothecia old, blown out w hidden rim or are they rimless? I have three in mind which may be likely but I can save ID for another day. Pretty pic #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

#lichen yellows are fantastic. Take a minute to find lichen and appreciate the colours and shapes. This one doing its own thing next to sea lettuce. Yellow with cilia at base that rise up and turn into ‘sails’ or ‘hooded sails’ not my words. I think they look like flames flickering #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This #lichen very hairy. Cilia tendrils reaching out out from blue green thallus tangled and tied up. The surface of the blue green tube-like lobes has a crystallised salt like texture. Similar to a pretzel’s. #FungiFriends also brown apothecia on their own #otago #nz #Ōtipoti #Dunedin

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Here more photos of same. Showing their intertidal capability

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The tide comes in, washes, the tide goes out and this #lichen loves it. Crowded together, apothecia with dark yoke centres so tightly packed their shapes are squished and irregular as if pushed in to a tube train at rush hour. Thallus is ghost-like no lobes but a hint. A pale shadow #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Iocation: once the base of a massive shield volcano. Millions of years of erosion carved out a 22km natural harbour, where we find this #lichen #fungifriends squamulous and hanging out with moss. Looking like the squamules found with Cladonia podetia. I wish I had a better photo. Will go back

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

More crustose #lichen the ones with black raisins, which my mind thinks look like demons emerging out of rocks back first, limbs and head yet to follow Many lichen own these demon apothecia I’m leaving the knowing til later Blue green foliose shield lichen top right with burnt edges #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A pale green #lichen manoeuvres, it seems, into another’s (crustose areolate white) space. atop the other lichen the pale green seems to change from green towards yellow. surrounding top and right, going unnoticed a black areolate lichen and yet more to the left of the green #FungiFriends #Otago

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This #lichen everywhere and here also - the very harbour’s edge - thriving. If I am right with identification, one of the lay terms for this lichen is stone flower. A quick search on the net and you can buy these in sealed packs to flavour your curry #FungiFriends I’ll leave this one here though

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This #lichen on rocks that are washed at high tide. Thick white thallus crusty. Lirallae (fruiting bodies)with no particular directional objective or design (dashes, y shapes, x shapes and s shapes) I have read that this is a native NZ species common on our coasts #NZ #Otago #Dunedin #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Yes, I’ve read that too. This lichen is, I think, a Stereocaulon sp. a rock foam, and likes to live in barren areas and on nutrient poor substrates - I think it looks like sea spray. Not sure if chemically it handles the salt in the same way as Xanthoria parietina but it seems to be doing well here.

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This #lichen perhaps not totally submerged by the tide but close enough to get a good licking from its salty spray when it is high. A branched lichen looking like a miniature garden shrub; blue green fingers reaching out from its branches holding brown squishy fruit bags #FungiFriends #Otago

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Same lichen but zoomed out. The tide will cover all these rocks when in. The next few post I do will be taken from this area.

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This #lichen drying out at low tide. Saxicolous. The whole thing is lichen looking like rock. I love that. I read that parts of this lichen are deeply embedded into its substrate. It gives off a weak acid and thrives on the minerals released by the slow chemical erosion #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

When I post #lichen I search for it in my beginners guide or on the internet. If desperate, I will ask for help. This one is areolate, yellow to orange yellow. apothecia - yellow orange slightly darker than rim and thallus. On rock by pacific harbour looks like stars #FungiFriends

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