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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them)

@roblation.bsky.social
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🌈 💕 Nonbinary | hospice chaplain | fungi forager | Padres baseball | UMC | entheogen & consciousness studies | Venmo @roblation

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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Something to chew on other than Peeps in the Great 50 Days of the Easter season. #consciousness #neuroscience #psychedelics #entheogens #mysticism
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Busy bee on rock rose. Seacliff State Beach, CA, USA #Flowers #Bees #Nature #Photography
Bee with pollen on legs on a rock rose flower.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
California Poppies Seacliff State Beach 🏖️
California Poppies in Bloom
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Female achievement overshadowed by boy band in the headline and photo. It's 2026. Do better, Forbes.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This Turkey tail is just gorgeous 🥰 🦃 Location: Blackhawk Trail, Mt. Madonna, Santa Clara County, California, USA #MushroomMonday🍄🗓️ #FungiFriends🍄📷
Turkey tail mushroom Turkey tail mushroom growing on log
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Witch's butter (Dacrymyces chrysospermus) Location: Blackhawk Trail, Mt. Madonna, Santa Clara County, California, USA #MushroomMonday🍄🗓️ #FungiFriends🍄📷
Witch's butter (Dacrymyces chrysospermus)Witch's butter (Dacrymyces chrysospermus)Witch's butter (Dacrymyces chrysospermus)Witch's butter (Dacrymyces chrysospermus)
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Here's a photogenic California newt I met today. Location: Ridge Trail, Mt. Madonna, Santa Clara County, California, USA #NaturePhotography🌱🌳🐦🦎📷
California newt on redwood forest floorCalifornia newt on redwood forest floor
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Check out this chocolate tube slime mold (Stemonitis splendens)! Location: Blackhawk Trail, Mt. Madonna, Santa Clara County, California, USA #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography🌱🌳🐦📷
Chocolate tube slime mold on logChocolate tube slime mold on logChocolate tube slime mold on logChocolate tube slime mold on log
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
These delicate fungi are white Psathyrella/Coprinopis. Location: Ridge Trail, Mt. Madonna, Santa Clara County, California, USA #MushroomMonday🍄🗓️ #FungiFriends🍄📷
Two small white mushrooms One small white mushroom
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Bitter oyster (Panellus stipticus) #MushroomMonday🍄🗓️ #FungiFriends🍄📷 Location: Blackhawk Trail, Mt. Madonna, Santa Clara County, California, USA.
Mushrooms growing out of log.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
My hiking buddy introduced me to Miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) aka California lettuce not long ago and today I found it in abundance. What I foraged today made for a tasty dinner salad. The ancestors would be proud. #Foraging #FreeFood #WildFood #Foodsky
Wild lettuce greens (Claytonia perfoliata) in a blue basket.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
A first time fungi find for me on this #mushroomMonday : Stinking earthfan (Thelephora palmata) Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, California, USA #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography🌱🌳🌼🐦
Stinking earthfan fungus (Thelephora palmata)
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22/02/2026
This is your regular reminder that whenever you watch a medical drama and a chaplain character just, like, never appears, that's weird. Chaplains are a constant presence in hospitals. They're considered part of the care team, and it's super odd that (most) medical shows pretend that isn't the case.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Just look at these sweet little earthfans (Thelephora terrestris) popping up out of season. We've had quite the rain and cold spell this week, so I see why they might be confused on what day or month we're in. Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, California, USA #FungiFriday🍄🗓️ #FungiFriends🍄📸
Earthfan fungus (Thelephora terrestris)Earthfan fungus (Thelephora terrestris)
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
On this #FungiFriday🍄🗓️ I visited an area where I can usually find scaly hedgehog (Sarcodon imbricatus). My finds today were quite old and decaying, but here's one that still had some structural integrity. Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, California, USA #FungiFriends🍄📸 #Foraging🧺
Scaly hedgehog mushroom (Sarcodon imbricatus) topside viewScaly hedgehog mushroom (Sarcodon imbricatus) view of underside.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It's still #FungiFriday🍄🗓️ here on the West Coast, so here are some pine spikes (Chroogomphus vinicolor.) You may look at these photos and say: Robin, these aren't growing in pine duff. And you'd be right. However, this flush is between two pines that have oaks between them. #FungiFriends🍄📷
Pine spike mushroom (Chroogomphus vinicolor) Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, California, USA Pine spike mushroom (Chroogomphus vinicolor) Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, California, USAPine spike mushroom (Chroogomphus vinicolor) Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, California, USACluster of pine spike mushrooms (Chroogomphus vinicolor) Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, California, USA
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I harvested and cleaned this turkey tail to make another tincture. #Foraging🧺 #Mushrooms🍄 #FungiFriday🍄🗓️ #FungiPhile🍄♥️ #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography📸🌱🌳🐦🌼
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Deer shield (Pluteus cervinus) Location: Westland House, Monterey, California, USA #FungiFriday🍄🗓️ #FungiPhile🍄♥️ #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography📸🌱🌳🐦🌼
Deer shield mushroom (Pluteus cervinus)
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This trail marker wants to know if you like his skirt and hat. #Drag💃👑👠💄 #Mushrooms🍄 #FungiFriday🍄🗓️ #FungiPhile🍄♥️ #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography📸🌱🌳🐦🌼
A wood post trail marker with false turkey tail fungus at the base and at the top.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A very handsome Springtime Amanita (A. Velosa) making a solo appearance in Don Dahvee Park. Location: Monterey, California, USA #FungiFriday🍄🗓️ #FungiPhile🍄♥️ #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography📸🌱🌳🐦🌼
Mushroom photo. Springtime Amanita (A. Velosa) Don Dahvee Park, Monterey, California, USA
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Purplepore bracket (Trichaptum abietinum) Location: Don Dahvee Park, Monterey, California, USA #FungiFriday🍄🗓️ #FungiPhile🍄♥️ #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography📸🌱🌳🐦🌼
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I couldn't wait for #FungiFriday🍄📆 to post these false turkey tails in various stages of growth. Location: Don Dahvee Park, Monterey, California, USA #FungiPhile🍄♥️ #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography📸🌱🌳🐦🌼
False turkey tail fungus 
Location: Don Dahvee Park, Monterey, California, USA False turkey tail fungus 
Location: Don Dahvee Park, Monterey, California, USA False turkey tail fungus 
Location: Don Dahvee Park, Monterey, California, USA False turkey tail fungus 
Location: Don Dahvee Park, Monterey, California, USA
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What in the world is this mushroom? *Checks field guide* Could it be Stinking Orange Oyster?(Phyllotopsis nidulans) *Does smell test with immediate regret* Yep. That's a farty-fart-caca mushroom alright. Glad I had on gloves! #MushroomMonday🍄🗓️ #FungiFriends📸🍄
Stinking Orange Oyster on log.
Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, CA, USA Stinking Orange Oyster on log.
Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, CA, USAStinking Orange Oyster on log.
Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, CA, USAStinking Orange Oyster on log.
Location: Ryan Ranch, Monterey, CA, USA
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I found this beautiful fresh turkey tail yesterday and today it became friends with some organic lion's mane, ginger and tumeric in the mushroom and rhizome tincture I'm making. #mushroomMonday🍄 #fungifriends📸🍄
Fresh turkey tail fungus on log.
Location: Santa Clara County, CA, USA Clear jar with ingredients for a rhizome and mushroom tincture (Tumeric, ginger, turkey tail, & lions mane.)
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Still Sunday here, but it's #mushroomMonday somewhere. I found lion's mane in the woods today then sauteed it in butter, garlic, ginger, and salt to top my salad. Location: Monterey County, CA, USA #fungifriends📷🍄 #naturephotograpy📸🌱🐦☀️🌊🌳🐿️
Lion's mane fungus growing on a log.
Monterey County, CA, USA Plate of salad with sauteed lion's mane fungus.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We're getting an early flush of Springtime Amanitas (Amanita velosa) this year. This fun-gui is a smol boi. Location: Monterey County, CA, USA #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography📸🌿🌱
Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushroom in the ground. Grass, blue sky, cloud and trees in background. Location: Monterey County, California, USA.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A fellow forager friend sauteed some chanterelles for me. Butter, garlic and sage. What a tasty gift! #fungifriends🍄📷 #Harvest #Thanksgiving🦃
Cooked chanterelle mushrooms sauteed in butter, garlic, and sage.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I've been away from Bsky for a while, but I'm back with another giant puffball. This one is the size of a softball. FungiFriends🍄📷 #FungiFriday
A giant puffball mushroom. 
Monterey County, CA, USA
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,732,330!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,732,330, Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) ‪@roblation.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 25, 2023"
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Thanks, Joe. And please cancel my student debit. #USA
Text graphic displaying WE heart JOE over HARRIS WALZ
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
Puffball mushroom approximately 5" in diameter. It's gonna be tasty on the grill! #FungiFriends🍄📷 #FungiFriday
Puffball mushroom in grass. 🏐
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Miniature lupine (Lupinus bicolor) Location: coastal Monterey County, CA, USA #NaturePhotography📸🌿🌱🌸🪻🌼📷
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Barometer earthstars after a rain. Location: Monterey County, CA, USA #FungiFriends🍄📷
Barometer earthstar in grassBarometer earthstar in grass with a growing spore.Collage of three barometer earthstarsCollage of four barometer earthstars
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Prickly pear cactus in bloom after a light rain. Location: Monterey County, CA, USA #NaturePhotography📸🌵🌱🌿🌸
Prickly pear cactus in bloom after a light rain.

Location: Monterey County, CA, USA
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
I made a cream of mushroom soup with the springtime Amanitas I foraged today. Springtime Amanitas are basically field calamari. #FungiFriends🍄📷 #cooking🥣🍄
Cut Amanita velosa mushrooms dry cooking in a skillet.Cream of mushroom soup in the pan.Cream of mushroom soup in a bowl on the table
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Some of the Springtime Amanitas (Amanita velosa) evaded the lawnmower. We get rain again tomorrow, so hoping for another flush before the season comes to an end! Location: Monterey County, CA, USA #FungiFriends🍄📷 #NaturePhotography📸🌿🌱
Peach colored Amanita velosa mushroom in the ground with dirt on top next to dry grass.Blue basket of Amanita velosa mushrooms next to a mushroom in ground and a pocket knife.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
1/? Old Methodist yarn ahead. I started tweeting (on the platform now known as X) about #UMCGC way back in 2008 when only tech-savvy kids with cellphones were doing it. There was so much concern from conference folks about the truth-speak and anti-establishment commentary coming from the tweeter.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Offering a non pharmacological psychedelic experience (sound bath) for friends in the psychedelic-assissted therapies and research program. Location: Emeryville, CA Photo credit: S. Rezaie
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Abolish football. #NFL www.sfchronicle.com/sports/colle...
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Late Cal, NFL quarterback Joe Kapp had advanced CTE: ‘His brain was really under siege’
Late Cal and NFL quarterback Joe Kapp was posthumously diagnosed with the most advanced form of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), his family said.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
California poppies at dusk. Monterey County, CA #naturephotography🌿📸 🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼🪷🪻🏵️💐❇️
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atomly @atomly.com · 16/03/2024
one of the worst parts of capitalism is it steals the joy & hope of technology. we should be excited that robots & computers are stealing our terrible, boring, dangerous jobs, because we won't have to do them, but we know capitalism will abandon us. we should all be living comfortable lives by now.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
Take a look at this absolute unit! Did I slide this bad boy into my boo's DMs? Yes. Did my boo admit to being jealous? Also yes. Springtime Amanitas are delicious! #FungiFriday🍄📆 #FungiPhile🍄♥️ #FungiFriends🍄📷
A large springtime Amanita mushroom (Amanita velosa)
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
This is a fungi first time find for me: Bankera violascens aka spruce tooth fungus. The first photo is the most true to the mushroom's violet color. The other photos were taken in low light shortly after being dug up from the leaf bed they were under. Ryan Ranch, Monterey, CA #fungifriends🍄📷
Spruce tooth fungus held in hand over patch of grassUnderside and side views of spruce tooth fungusSpruce tooth fungus in soil.Spruce tooth fungus in soil
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
A flush of young brown elfin saddles Monterey County, CA #mushroomMonday #fungifriends🍄📷
Brown elfin saddle fungusBrown elfin saddle fungusBrown elfin saddle fungus emerging from the soilBrown elfin saddle fungus
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
A tiskit a tasket. I have wild mushrooms in my basket. #MushroomMonday #fungifriends🍄📷
Blue basket with springtime Amanitas (Amanita velosa)
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
More springtime Amanitas in the yard and headed to the table. Monterey County, CA #mushroomMonday #fungifriends🍄📷 #naturephotography📸🌿
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
Today is the 5th year anniversary of my coming out as nonbinary and having my gender identity legally recognized as gender X on my Real ID card. Just like that Sunday 5 years ago, today I celebrated Holy Communion in the United Methodist Church. All means all. Grateful. 🍞 🍷 🕊️ 🌈 #UMC #enby
Minister serving Holy Communion to parishioner.
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms Monterey County, CA, USA #fungifriends🍄📷 #naturephotography📸🌿
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
Finding Springtime Amanitas in their varied growing stages makes me so happy! Location: Monterey County, CA, USA #fungifriends🍄📷#Naturephotography🌿
A young Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushroom "egg" with much of the veil still attached.Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushroomTwo budding springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms
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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) @roblation.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
Finding edible mushrooms gives me such joy! These are springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms. Location: Monterey County, CA.
Cleaned and cut springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms in a white bowl.Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms gathered in a blue basket and placed next to growing springtime Amanitas
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