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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I thought they were more the “Full Body” Latte types.

The ST<A>R8UCKS COFFEE sign from the movie Idiocracy, with the offer of “FULL BODY” LATTE for $50,000.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Here is a blue man. Blue. Blue from ingesting too much Silver. Who’s really at fault here?

Paul Halldor Karason (November 14, 1950 – September 23, 2013) was an American man from Bellingham, Washington, whose skin was a purple-blue color.

Karason was fair skinned and freckled until the early 1990s. His skin turned blue after he began taking a homemade colloidal silver treatment and rubbing a silver preparation on his skin in an attempt to treat problems with his sinuses, dermatitis, acid reflux, and other issues. This caused him to develop argyria.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

It’s not often that I’ll read Cheeto’s blog - this might be even a first. But I clicked through the Wired article. His boss did him dirty posting what appears to be post-assault pic. Big Balls is gonna be Big Nose for a few weeks. (The screenshot has a bit of blood in it, hence the graphic tag)

When contacted by WIRED, Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Tom Lynch could not verify whether or not any of the alleged perpetrators were members of a gang. When WIRED described the picture posted by President Donald Trump on Truth Social that appears to show a bloodied Coristine, Lynch verified that he had seen it. While he said he could not independently verify its authenticity, Lynch did note that the image “was posted by the president of the United States,” and said that “there’s no reason not to believe” it was authentic.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Yes. If 100 babies are born, and half of them day, it lowers the average lifespan of the entire cohort. Average lifespan at birth is the most relevant to this discussion. Pasteurization and vaccines, both a tremendous part of that. Basic stuff. Here’s a picture that might help you:

A graph of life expectancy from 1770 to the present that even an idiot can understand.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Now, "Dude" - that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place so darned interestin'.

A picture of The Stranger from the movie The Big Lebowski.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

That’s kinda the thing. Fish don’t exchange gasses by breathing. They ventilate their respiratory organs (gills) by pumping water over them through their mouths. Just pulled my biology textbook: “Vertebrates ventilate their lungs by breathing, the alternate inhalation and exhalation of air.“

Vertebrates ventilate their lungs by breathing, the alternate inhalation and exhalation of air. Ventilation maintains a maximal oxygen concentration and minimal carbon dioxide concentration within the alveoli.

A frog ventilates its lungs by positive pressure breath-ing, actually pushing air down its windpipe. The animal first lowers the floor of its mouth, enlarging the oral cavity and drawing air in through the open nostrils. Then, with the nostrils and mouth closed, the frog raises the floor of its mouth, which forces air down the trachea. Elastic recoil of the lungs, together with their compression by the muscular body wall, forces air back out of the lungs during exhalation.”

Campbell - 4th edition

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Already getting hit hard by the tariffs here in my neighborhood.

Defunct gas station sign offering anal dong pokes at 2 for $10.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I got lucky to catch a cool candid shot once, after hearing a stirring in abandoned barn I was walking past. This was the second one out.

A vulture taking flight from the broken window of a decrepit shed.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I got to see one in person once during a population study. Peanut isn’t too far off.

The cutest saw-whet owl. Though looking somewhat irked on account of being temporarily detained.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Here are my under-the-deck-wren-family friends yesterday morning before they fledged. They only ventured out of the nest when they were ready for taking off and were gone 30 minutes after. They had a grand time hopping around before they left. The last one needed some coaxing from mom.

Four baby Carolina wrens, anxious to check out the world from beyond beneath the deck.

Four baby Carolina wrens, anxious to check out the world from beyond beneath the deck. With mom letting them know it’s cool.

One last baby wren. Who has hopped atop the nest, far from the edge at the opening where the world awaits. Being assured that it’s safe to leave.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Patent leather beetles are fun. They look wicked mean but are super docile and make a cute squeaking noise when you pick them up.

A picture of a patent leather beetle on my finger.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

Good! Thank you! Here’s a list of cars with the same tech that are capable of doing the same thing:

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

I’m no Tesla apologist. I don’t like misleading stats though. The Pinto ‘killed’ orders of magnitude more people than that. In 2-1/2 years alone, it killed 1,626. I would like to see how the Tesla rate is comparing to other modern manufacturers. Source:

Snip from 1978 NHSTA report showing 1,626 Pinto related deaths from 1975, 1976, and half of 1977.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

If you see this, post something pink.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

This bush league psyche-out stuff. Laughable, man.

Known pederast, Jesus Quinta, pointing a finger towards the camera.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Ooooh! I wonder if they have Logjammin‽ “Now that we're competing with the amateurs, we can't afford to invest that little extra in story, production value, feelings.” And proper signage, apparently.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Drop something yellow from your gallery

Dog vomit slime mold growing on a tree stump.

Not a mushroom. But still a friend =)

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Sort of surprised to see the judge rolling out the Costanza Defense here. (Not really; considering.)

A meme of George Costanza stating, “Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I gotta tell ya, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing.”

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Don’t envy the bus driver. RuPaul may to consider using an Brinks truck instead.

An AI generated rendition of an armored car with a rainbow inspired paint job.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Straight household bleach is 5-8% strength. The CDC says to dilute that down at 1/3 to 1-1/2 cups per gallon of water to kill Norovirus. www.cdc.gov/norovirus/ab...

A screenshot from the CDC detailing the information in this post.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Anal dong pokes are at an all time low as well.

A physically configurable sign board (with movable letters) at a convenience store offering:
ANAL DONG
POKES
2 FOR $10

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

I don’t think I saw this episode of Seinfeld.

A black and white photo of someone who looks like Cosmo Kramer peering into a microscope - from the OP’s initial post.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

The practical use of the scale of my viewpoint is that paper vs. plastic is academic at this point. And has been for centuries. The problem isn’t what we consume. It’s how much and how many.

A graph of human population over time showing 4 million people 12,000 years ago; 200 million people 2,000 years ago; 2 billion people 100 years ago; 4 billion people 50 years ago; 6 billion people 20 years ago; and 8 billion people now. Humans in their present form have been around 140,000 years give or take.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

😆From the Gizmodo article’s comments:

"Others are in favor of their Cybertrucks developing orange stains, saying that they're looking forward to the patina the stainless steel may develop."
Yeah just look at this gorgeous patina! But don't get too jealous Cybertruck owners, your beauty will be looking this good in just a couple more months!

[picture of a 90’s(?) era car with a badly degraded paint job]

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Related/unrelated as skeeting here goes, is this the highest followers to posts ratio? C’mon, @stephenking.bsky.social

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

“Rossiter, who was found to have a similar blood alcohol level, can recall only shreds of the crash: … The driver’s-side door blocked by a fallen tree… he remembers, his friend was screaming inside the burning car.” I don’t see the fallen tree. Getting out of the burning car seems the bigger issue

A burning Tesla, looking mostly intact, with the driver (not visible) trapped inside. There is nothing obviously blocking the opening of the door.

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Mushroom Rogers @rationalmethod.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

I think they took some liberties with Bill’s Ancestors’ surname name at Ellis Island:

Cosmo Kramer stepping out from his car which bears a license plate reading “ASSMAN.”

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