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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I finished a new collection of sculptures!!! 6 have sold already, and the remaining 5 will be listed on my online shop next Sunday, June 14th!! 😁💕

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Genel Jumalon 🍉 @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.

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Fungi First @fungifirst.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Fungal textures 🍄😍! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

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mr_coughy @mr-coughy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

#fungifriends 🍄📸

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Libbey White @bifurcations.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Plus a couple #fungifriends

Two mushrooms with tall, skinny white tops that darken to black as they go down

Tiny light brown mushroom on a mossy stump

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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Also I am working on a new collection of sculptures 🤩🤩🤩

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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I got to sell my art again this Sunday in Astoria! 🥰

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Damon Tighe @damontighe.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Chlorociboria aeruginascens seen earlier today at Lake Chabot on some well rotten California Bay Laurel. It’s a mushroom I don’t see much of because it often fruits in the warmer weather, outside our normal mushroom season. #mushroom #Chlorociboria #oakland #citynaturechallenge

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Moody evening light surrounds a beautiful short and dark yellow Amanita #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms #nature #naturephotography #photographersofbluesky #mushroomsofbluesky 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Centered in the frame is a relatively short, semi-stout mushroom. This Amanita has a thick white, very roughly textured stipe. Its cap, which hasn't fully grown, is round and nearly spherical in shape, ans is just barely separated at the margins from the stipe. The cap is a dark yellow color and is covered in many large white pointy bumps.

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/200, ISO 400
Stack of 13 images
11/14/24
Northern Oregon Coast

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te pua o te rēinga @cucumber.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

you guys have a gander at these cool blue mushrooms i saw 😊 werewere-kōkako (entoloma hochstetteri)

two entoloma amongst ferns, and leaf litter

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is the same species of mushroom that I posted yesterday, but all grown up. It stays super slimy! #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

A mushroom standing about three and a half inches tall is surrounded by green moss and orange fir tree duff. Its stipe is white and shiny from the thin layer of slime that coats it. The cap, which is white on the edges, light brown above the white, fading to dark brown at the top, is open and round but has a unique, non-uniform shape. Two large drops of slime hang off the left and back of the cap.

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 28 images
11/13/24
Northern Oregon Coast

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Every part of the lily plant is deadly to cats - even drinking water that lilies were sitting in can kill them. Other popular spring flowers like tulips and daffodils can also make them very sick, but there are plenty of beautiful and safe alternatives.

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

A perfect circle containing the colors of a beautiful sunset contrasted by green sword ferns 🤌🏻🤌🏻 Thanks, Amanita muscaria! 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/2.8, 1/50, ISO 400 Stack of 7 images 11/11/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Centered in this photo, a perfectly circular Amanita muscaria cap stands above green plants on the ground and against the fronds of a green sword fern, which runs at an angle in the top right of the frame. The cap's margins are orange and slowly fade to a brilliant red in the center. Patches of white, the warts on the cap, are spaced evenly but not very far apart throughout the cap.

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Really liked the shine on this wet and slimy Cortinarius. Not sure which species it is, but I think it's really cool 😎🍄 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 400 Stack of 13 images 11/13/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

A relatively small mushroom, which stands about two inches tall, grows out of wet, fir duff-covered ground. Its stipe is white and reflective because of its wet and slimy surface. A ring of rusty, web-like fibers surrounds the stipe just below the cap. Tiny droplets of water cling to the stipe between the rusty ring and the cap. The gills are rusty orange and light brown. The cap, which is thick and flared out, has a slight blue or purple hue to it but is mostly white and shines because of its wet and slimy surface.

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

With some nice light and heavy rain, an already pretty Amanita muscaria gets even prettier 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4.5, 1/20, ISO 400 Stack of 12 images 11/11/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

An Amanita muscaria, a tall mushroom with a thick white stipe and a bright orange-red, dome-like cap, grows on the dark forest floor. Its stipe is covered in small beads of water. A large drop of water hangs from the right side of the skirt-like flesh that hangs down beneath the cap. Its vibrant cap is shining and reflective from the water its covered with. Small separated and bumpy patches of white cover the cap.

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Luke's Mushrooms @lukesmushrooms.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🌍 Mycena renati 🇬🇧 Beautiful bonnet 🇩🇪 Gelbstieliger Nitrat-Helmling 🇨🇿 Helmovka žlutonohá 🇸🇰 Prilbička žltohlúbiková 🇵🇱 Grzybówka złototrzonowa #MushroomMonday #Mushrooms #Closeup

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Some nice fresh scarlet elf cup fungus coming up around the sprouting bluebells 🌱🍄 #MushroomMonday #fungifriends

Crisp looking goblet type mushrooms and the foliage of spring bulbs

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De-Katie and Cat-Boo!-ger @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Cortinarius seidliae or vanduzerensis... unsure which one. Regardless, these are one of my favorite mushrooms to find! 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400 Stack of 15 images 11/11/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Two mushrooms grow side-by-side, their stipes emerging from the same spot in the ground. They have slightly purple but mostly white stipes that are covered in a layer of thick slime. Their light and dark brown caps are also covered in a heavy layer of slime. A large, viscous drip of slime hangs off the front of the cap of the mushroom on the left.

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Molly Burgess Designs @mollyburgess.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A couple floral slugs for the first day of spring. These two ladies are Luciana and Soraya🌸 . . #slug #gastropod #fiberart #softsculpture #slugs

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This Amanita muscaria had a perfectly shaped cap 👌🏼🍄 a nice skirt, too! 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/4, ISO 400 Stack of 14 images 11/9/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Amanita muscaria, a mushroom with a thick stipe - this one off-white in color and standing about 10 inches tall - and a dome-shaped (or Frisbee-shaped, in this case) cap, grows out of dark, fir needle-covered ground. A short, skirt-like ring of flesh hangs from where the stipe and cap meet. The cap is orange in color and covered in many white warts, or patches, that are slightly spaced apart.

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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I got into the Astoria Sunday Market this year 🥺💕 I'm so excited !!! I'll be there with my art on the following days:

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I seriously love Phaeocollybia mushrooms. Pretty sure this is P. piceae. This one reminds me of a witches hat 🧙‍♀️🍄 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400 Stack of 10 images 11/11/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

An entirely orange mushroom with a large pointy cap grows out of dark wet soil. Standing about four inches tall, this mushroom has a smooth stipe with a twisty texture and a large cap that appears just ever so slightly bumpy on the surface and looks almost exactly like the hat of a witch in its shape.

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This weird fungus is Alloclavaria purpurea, better known as purple spindles. They're so tentacley! 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/8, 1/4, ISO 400 Stack of 5 images 11/9/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

A group of about twenty purple and wavy tentacle-like fingers rise from orange fir needles covering the ground. This fungi is named purple spindles for good reason. This group of spindles stands about eight inches tall at its highest.

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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Ok I had to redo this because Diablo 2 deserves a spot on my main. This is a top 9 games thing I've seen going around! These are probably my lifetimes most played games. 😁

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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be. Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5. #mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus

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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Piggybacking on this to say that yes, I'm still planning to release custom figurine slots again this year. Just working on the backend of the ordering process 8)

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Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ) ❤️‍🔥 @amandamakepeace.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Posting this again for reasons 🌲

Meme photo of brown bears on a hill with the forest and mountains behind them. Text reads: the forest told me that we should start a revolution

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This rosy-pink beauty is called plums and custard, Tricholomopsis rutilans. In spite of its yummy name, it's not recommended to eat it 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 400 Stack of 33 images 11/9/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

This mushroom, growing out of dark soil and light green moss, is called plums and custard. The entire mushroom, other than the gills, which we can't see from this straight-on shot, is a light reddish-pink color with occasional spots of soft yellow. It stands about 3 inches tall. Its flesh is covered with extremely short fuzz.

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Love the colors and texture of this bracket mushroom #fungifriends

A fan-shaped shelf fungus with tan, red-brown, and grey stripes, growing on a mossy stump

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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I haven't regularly had top shop on Faire for over a year 🥲 Always short by one order! 🥺👉👈 If you have a brick and mortar shop that loves fun colors, mushrooms, and cheeky humor would you check me out: faire.com/direct/wkdwest

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Funguise Friends by WkdWest Wholesale via Faire

Celebrating the magical world of mycology - with a cheeky twist! WkdWest (Wicked West) is a mushroom artist from the Pacific Northwest. Her characters, the Funguise Friends, not only to provide joy ...

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I love the way Amanita muscaria looks when its surrounded by green 🌱🌿🍄 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400 Stack of 14 images 11/3/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

A large young mushroom emerges from thick moss and tiny plants. Its stipe is a bit roughly textured and is about two inches long and one inch wide. The cap, which is just as tall as the stipe but is more bell-shaped, is bright red and has small yellow-white popcorn-like patches (i.e., warts) all over it.

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Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Here’s a nice bit of Turkey Tail for #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 15/02/2026

the Black Panthers were right

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES.
IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

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Ki @ no online shop this fall~ @gawki.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🖕🖕🖕 Abolish these losers!!

A drawing of a busted up, commercialized ice freezer with a laser loon blasting it with its eyes.

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Slime mold, Craterium minutum on lichen, Parmelia sulcata. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends The slime mold sporangia are only about 2 to 3mm high.

Photo of a dozen or so tiny, bronze coloured slime mold sporangia that look kinda like tiny cups on short stalks…the cups have covers. The slime mold is on a green, leafy lichen.

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Unsure which species of Gliophorus mushrooms these are, but you can tell they're extremely viscid! 📷 Canon 5D Mk III Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/2.8, 1/125, ISO 800 Stack of 73 images 11/26/21 Northern Oregon #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Three mushrooms grow on mossy sloped ground. The farthest back is the largest and bends out from the ground in an almost "s" shape, its cap pointing left and hanging horizontally. The middle and right mushrooms are smaller and grow straight up. The stipe of the three mushrooms starts as yellow near the ground and quickly fade to a slightly transparent white which extends up to the cap. The caps are a yellowish brown and appear striped. Strands of slime hanging from the caps of the two mushrooms in the middle and right.

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Slime mold, Trichia decipiens in front of bright green #moss. NWT, Canada. #myxomycete #fungifriends The slime mold is about 0.5cm high.

Photo of 9 slime mold sporangia that look like tiny, orange hot air balloons lined up in a somewhat disorderly row. The sporangia are on dark coloured, dead wood with bright green moss behind them.

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Funga_Burds @cakebuster.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Really cool Xylaria sp. found decaying wood in Point Reyes, CA. Sample taken. My uneducated assumption is it could be species CA05. www.inaturalist.org/observations... #mushrooms #fungifriends #naturephotography

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Nathan Rohde @pacnorthimages.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“Just the two of us…” 🍄‍🟫 🍄‍🟫 A few Southern #Oregon beauties! 🤩 #mushrooms #fungifriends #fungiphotography #naturephotography

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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

If you're visiting Cannon Beach, Oregon anytime soon, be sure to drop by White Bird Gallery!! I just dropped off 12 sculptures there 🥰

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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I also found some awesome (?)schizophyllum(?) today!! Love finding urban mushrooms in my day to day. 🥰 #fungifriends #mycology #fungus

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Wicked West 🍄 (She/Her) @wkdwest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I found such a good collection of (?)Turkey Tails(?) today!! 😍😍 #fungifriends #mycology #fungus

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Locavite @locavite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Lift each other up #MushroomMonday 🍄‍🟫 #FungiFriends 🍄

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I'm not positive which species of Amanita this is, but I still found it pretty enough to be worthy of a nice portrait 🍄📸 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/5, ISO 400 Stack of 17 images 11/3/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

A light brown and white mushroom grows out of slightly mossy and fir needle-covered ground. Its stipe is white and has a bulbous and ruffled base. Its large, dome-like cap is light brown and is covered in nearly evenly spaced white patches.

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Danny @dannygibson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Scarlet Elf Cups in the woods this afternoon #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends #mycology

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

#resist

An illustration of a hawk holding a banner that says “No one is free until we are all free.

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robinloznak.bsky.social @robinloznak.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Fence Post Still Life: A small mushroom grows from a moss covered wood fence post along a country road in rural southwestern #Oregon #macrophotography #nature #mushrooms

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