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Jan Merta

@lunruj.bsky.social
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Interested in science, especially physics, evolutionary biology, psychology. Hunting fungi mostly not to eat them, a bit of an amateur mycologist. Chess noob. From Czechia.

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Peer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Springer Nature uses a combination of screening tools, AI-enabled approaches and expert human oversight to identify and assess unethical or fraudulent content, according to director of research integrity Chris Graf. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... AND THEN WE PUBLISH ANYWAYS LOL XD
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Complex? 😱
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How about Phaeolus schweinitzii?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Should be Inocybe sp., don't ask me which one.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That's actually a decently sized brown mushroom.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Megacollybia platyphylla agg.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
OTD in 1939 the Jabłonków incident took place. Units of the German army attacked Poland thinking the original invasion was still scheduled for that day. The Nazis claimed they were "rogue units with nothing to do with Berlin". Imagine lying like that today.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's some lactarius but I'm not going into American species, I am pretty lame even in European ones. Including info about smell, taste, milk color changes (not always quick) and ecology (vague from the vid, sometimes the background can tell) helps. Plus a few well chosen pics are better than vid.
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A fungus photo a day: Multiclavula mucida, taken last February. A few more photos below. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
13 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/08/2026
UPDATE: After the Texas Supreme Court refused to block the GOP-led Galveston County yesterday from changing voting maps after primary ballots have already been cast, the pro-voting plaintiffs challenging those map changes filed an emergency motion with an appeals court later that night.
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Texas Supreme Court refuses to stop GOP-led county from changing voting maps between primary and November election
The county has openly acknowledged the partisan motivation behind the change. In its response to the Texas Supreme Court, Galveston County argued that commissioners could have several reasons to…
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Why not have more time when children are vulnerable, more adjuvants (in certain types of vaccines) injected in children's bodies, more time spent in risky environment for getting an infection disease (not sure how much of an issue in US, here definitely not every doctor reserving separate time)
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 27/06/2026
This is like B-movie level silly but so is every other 2026 villain. This @opendemocracy.net exposé on climate disinfo tinfoil hat 'doomsday cult' AllatRa - and how it has managed to infiltrate COPs, European Parliament, US Capitol, *and the Vatican* - is BEYOND WILD. But wait there's more... 🧵
Investigation
Inside the doomsday ‘cult’ spreading climate disinformation to global leaders
In Parliaments, TikTok and COP summits, AllatRa spread claims that greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis

By Julián Reingold and Ignacio Conese

A photograph taken at the European Parliament. Czech MEP Ondřej Knotek (third from the left), Pastor Mark Burns and AllatRa president, Maryna Ovtsynova, during a conference on nanoplastics at the European Parliament |AllatRa website
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Buddies Online Fighting Allatra (BOFA) @bofa-anticult.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
ITS OFFICIAL I'm in an actual Allatra video. Apparently I'm an "informational hitman" and not just some dipshit Twitch streamer who stumbled onto a cult one day and decided it would be fun to troll them. You can obviously tell they know NOTHING about me besides the fact I allegedly live in AZ
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My deceivers (Laccaria) taken last week.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Phaeolus schweinitzii
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I've heard there are over 20 species in the complex. The one depicted doesn't look like those I commonly find (those may be multiple species), I think I have seen something similar mentioned somewhere as one of the species from the complex mostly recognizable macroscopically but I can't find it.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It looks like somewhat weathered Tapinella atrotomentosa, unfortunately the stipe can't be seen well in the pic. I don't know North American fungi but is should grow in NA as well.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Chrysomphalina grossula?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I think Cantharellus pallens. It's not unusual to find them mixed with C. cibarius which are quite versatile ecologically.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
That's hairy oyster (Panus neostrigosus).
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
some kind of false turkey tail (Stereum sp.)
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Nigel Farage called a by-election to prove he still has the people's support. Instead, the major parties dropped out, leaving his only opponent as Count Binface, a satirical candidate known for mocking British politicians.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The third pic looks like one to me but considering other pics (proportions, cap shape) I think it might be rather some kind of destroying angel (close relatives to death caps), but I am not familiar with those in North America.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Probably not Irpex lacteus, I'd expect more torn pores and probably some caps considering the position. Unfortunately resupinate poroid fungi usually require microscopy for identification.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Some Flammulaster perhaps? It reminds me Flammulaster limulatus but I'm not familiar with NA fungi.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
First set second row first column: I'm wondering if it might be some Lentaria sp.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Interestingly these all look like fungi that can be found here in Central Europe. (I don't claim they are the same fungi but there isn't anything looking obviously different.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/07/2026
New in PN with @juddlegum.bsky.social: How Kalshi infects the news "Since last December, both CNBC & CNN have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of financial ties between the networks & Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently"
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How Kalshi infects the news
CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
That's Artomyces sp.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25–365 DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. BARBARA, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT [June 30, 2026] JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part. Executive Order No. 14160 establishes new exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (2025). The Court today holds that the Order violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. I respectfully disagree with the Court’s constitutional holding. In my view, the Executive Order does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. But the Order does contravene a federal statute, 8 U. S. C. §1401(a). Congress could—consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment—amend §1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. But Congress has not yet done so.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Where is it from? Country/region.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I guess some Leucoagaricus might be an option as well. Most are small but there are species quite similar to Macrolepiota or Chlorophyllum like Leucoagaricus americanus or Leucoagaricus nympharum and I don't know American species.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Weird common name (and it's not just the common name) for that species. They tend get kinda ugly and even in top state they have "another brown mushroom" look for me.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Some Xerocomellus?
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The caps look kinda "Macrolepiotish" but stems look pretty smooth so I think it's some Chlorophyllum species, some can have caps pretty similar to Macrolepiota species. They should have flesh turning reddish or orangeish on cut.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I have found it just once, the color is really intense, pictures don't capture it well.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I think some Chlorophyllum sp. probably.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It might be a pretty weirdly grown Fomitopsis pinicola.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is some Ramaria species.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Just from these pics I'd tend to consider it some Psathyrella but no pic of gills.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This looks like a thin cap rather than a crust to me.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Cool. I'm wondering if it might appear hear in Central Europe with introduced magnolias in parks etc. We have Xylaria carpophila on beech seed pods, usually you have to do a bit of digging in leaves but here I found one growing from seed pod hidding in moss.
Xylaria carpophila
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I can't be sure without seeing the other side but I suspect it's actually Trichaptum sp., perhaps Trichaptum biforme.
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Fakta o klimatu @faktaoklimatu.cz · 18/06/2026
Dalo by se očekávat, že s růstem průměrné globální teploty se bude zvyšuje i četnost vln veder. Co říkají data o změně počtu epizod vln veder v ČR? Od roku 1961 vzrostla průměrná roční teplota v ČR o +2,3 °C, roste i počet vln veder.
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Considering both cap color and stipe appearance I think this is Amanita crocea. Did you check the volva?
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I think Peziza (s. l.), perhaps Otidea, definitely not jelly ears.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/06/2026
⚠️ The DOJ wants to cancel voter registrations across the country in the days leading up to the midterm elections in November. The alarming offensive is emerging in two court cases that could have far-reaching consequences for elections across the country — and SCOTUS could have the final say.
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Trump’s DOJ wants to purge voters right before elections. Will the Supreme Court allow it?
Eligible voters “removed days or weeks before Election Day will likely not be able to correct the State’s errors in time to vote."
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