Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org), page 41

I've had a hard time finding info on the best way to fruit P. adiposa, so I'm doing a bake-off. The top row is "cased" with moist coconut coir, the bottom row is left bare. The right column has been cold shocked in the refrigerator for ~10 hours and the left was kept at room temp. Other than that, they were inoculated at the same time, from the same culture and they're in the same environment, so this is fairly close to actual science :P

#mushrooms #fungi #experiment

The little DIY stir plate I made works great, but it can take a week or more to grow out a liquid culture, so I want to be able to have a bunch going at once. Hence, my next project: a quad-plate. With this, plus the one I already built, I'll be able to have 5 cultures going at once.

#mushrooms #fungi #mycology #diy

In anticipation of spring, I decided to get some plug spawn prepped so I can make more mushroom logs. These pegs are a little on the large side, but they were the cheapest I could find in any quantity on Amazon. If anyone knows a good place to get them, let me know.

#mushrooms #fungi #diy

I just saw a third season of Occupied (Okupert) was released on Netflix. It's been so long since I watched it that I decided to go back and start from the beginning rather than try to remember everything that happened. I recall really enjoying the first two seasons. It's refreshing when a European TV show isn't about a cop who returns to the small town he grew up in, where everyone has a dark secret 😜

#occupied #netflix #norway

My phone is finally getting laid to rest, and I have a new one arriving this afternoon. I already plan to use F-Droid as much as possible, and Aurora Store for stuff I have to install for work that isn't FOSS. Aside from that, does anyone have any tips on things to do to secure/privatize it as much as possible? I'm assuming I won't be able to root it.

#phones #android #fdroid #privacy

From an operations perspective, the Empire and/or First Order's biggest weakness has always been lack of redundancy.

#starwars

AHAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣

https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Burlington-mayor-names-4th-police-chief-in-a-week-566384451.html

#police #cops #vermont

I put tissue samples of the three "forest medley" mushrooms on agar plates, but just in case those don't work for whatever reason I also chopped up the butts and rolled them up in wet cardboard "burritos" as a backup.
🌯

#mushrooms #fungi #mycology #cloning #food

#it #pennywise #gretathunberg

I need to read this.

Kaufman's debut novel, Antkind, is currently due for release in 2020. Kaufman stated in a 2016 interview that the novel was being written so as to be unfilmable, and is itself about "an impossible movie".

#charliekaufman #fiction #literature

I was at the supermarket and I peeked at what they had for mushrooms out of curiosity. I found a small packaged "forest medley" that contained P. adiposa, lion's mane, and (what I think is) king oyster. I only have one of those in my culture library so I bought them to clone. I've been wanting to get my hands on some P. adiposa for a while now, so this is perfect.

#mushrooms #fungi #mycology #food

I watched season 4 of The Expanse this weekend, which I'd been anticipating highly. I'll try to summarize my thoughts without getting into specifics. I know some people's definition of "spoiler" is a lot more severe than others. If you're an extremist, you should probably stop reading this now.

First, a comment on the changes to the show now that it's on Amazon: We were told that being off basic cable meant that they didn't need to censor the content, or fit inside a 60 minutes-minus-commercials time frame for each episode. That said, the episodes were still pretty much 45-50 minutes each, and not censoring means they just said "fuck" a lot more. No real huge departures here in terms of format. Also of note: The weird kind of cheap-looking hydroponic thing in the Roci's galley has been replaced by something that looks less like a flimsy prop with plastic plants and more like something functional. I guess Amazon let them spend a few extra bucks :P

The season is broken down into four plot-lines: The Roci crew on Ilus/New Terra, Bobbie on Mars, Ashford and Drummer in the Belt, and Avasarala on Earth. Aside from the first one, none of these are really in book four. Bobbie's story was her side adventure from Gods of Risk, but greatly expanded, but the others were pretty much original material. On the whole, I thought those three side-plots were kind of dull. Having read the whole series to date and knowing what's going to happen, it's clear they're designed to set stuff up for the events of season 5. Besides moving pieces on the board and laying some groundwork for the future, they didn't bring much to the table. They'll pay off next season, but I would have liked a little less in favor of more of the main story.

I thought the main plotline on Ilus was done very well. They could have taken their time on it a bit more, but I was happy overall. The look of the planet, the settlement, and the alien structures was very close to the way I'd pictured it when reading. Almost uncannily so. The only place where it fell a little flat was at the big climax, which seemed like it was down-scaled for no other reason than to contain the CGI costs. Disappointing, but forgivable.

Overall, I liked it. Not as much as previous seasons, but the book it's based on is kind of an outlier in the series and was probably tricky to adapt. After three seasons with an ensemble cast jumping all around the solar system, this season's main action took place with a small group of characters telling a small story in a single location. It didn't have the same energy or intensity as previous seasons, but neither did the source material. I expect season 5 will get us back to The Expanse we're more familiar with, and holy shit it's going to blow people's minds.

#theexpanse #jamessacorey #scifi #television #amazon

Enjoying season 4. It's minor, but I really dislike the re-cast for Arjun Avasarala 😒

#theexpanse #jamessacorey #scifi

I put my last two bag blocks in a super low-tech "shotgun" fruiting chamber (a plastic tote with 5" of moist perlite and a lot of 1/4" holes drilled in it), and I got the best yield thus far. I'm not sure if it was the fact that these blocks were a full 3 months old, or if it was the change of scenery, but they averaged 1 pound each. They have really nice size and color too. I may have to make few more of these totes.

#mushrooms #fungi #shiitake #food #diy

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Y8F9bqttmg

#theexpanse #scifi #jamessacorey #adamsavage

Apparently the chief of police of Burlington, Vermont has a "medical condition" that caused him to create a sock-puppet Twitter account to mock critics. Said "medical condition", however, does not affect his fitness to serve as chief. That's a very oddly specific medical condition.

#police #policing #twitter #socialmedia #vermont

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vvCGZEqk8Ak

#tmbg #theymightbegiants #music

I was kind of thrown off that this podcast starts off with the reporter basically claiming her childhood home was literally haunted.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-happy-face-29791709/

#truecrime #podcast #hauntings

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=meU8GVaAYoA

Home stretch.

#theexpanse #tv #jamessacorey #altshiftx #scifi

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xnwb-KpPv2M

#mushrooms #fungi #biology #nematodes #learnyourland #educational